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A disposition in certain women to imitate the actions and characteristic habits of men. -(Med.). The same as NYMPHOMANIA ( q. v.) Anem'ograph, n. ( Physics.) An instrument that makes, by tracing a curved line, an automatic record of the force, direction, and velocity of the wind. Anemometer, Electrical. ( Meteor.) A form of anemometer, invented by Mr. J. E. H. Gordon. It consists of an ordinary pair of Beckley fans and a set of revolving cups, fixed in any convenient situation, and connected by insulated wires with a galvanic battery and with a recording apparatus. There is no limit to the length of the connecting wires. The recording instrument itself consists of a clock, a wind dial, a reel of paper, and an endle band carrying a carbon paste for printing. The dial indicates the direction of the wind, and the printing band prints this direction every half hour. The same band records every quarter of an hour of time and every completed mile that the wind has traversed. The slip of paper i ued by the machine is about an inch broad, and it receives the time on its left-hand margin, the direction of the wind on its right-hand margin, and a dot for each mile on a central line, so arranged as to be comparable with the time record. The number of dots marked on the 1857 enabled him to return to his native country. Be-paper between 10 and 11, for example, indicate the ve ing elected a member of the Hungarian Diet in 1860, he locity of the wind during that period of time, and the farther apart as it decreases. The battery is composed of zinc and carbon elements with dilute sulphuric acid, and will work for six months without attention. The gave a hearty support to the Deak party, and was nom i-dots become crowded as the velocity increases, and stand nated Vice-President. On the reorganization of the Austrian Empire, and the constitution of an Hungarian ministry in 1867, he was appointed Prime Minister of Hungary, and charged with the department of the de-reel of recording paper holds a supply for three months, fence of the country. Among the principal events of his administration were the civil and political emanci- pation of the Jews, and the raising of a large sum of money to extend and complete the railway system in Hungary. At the general election of 1869 he was unanimously returned by the electors of Pesth to the Hungarian Chamber of Representatives. Count An- dra y succeeded Count Beust as Minister for Foreign Affairs in Nov., 1871, when he retired from the post of President of the Ministry at Pesth. D. 1890. Andrée, S. A. A distinguished Swedish civil eng i- neer and scientific aëronaut, who has made himself famous by his effort to reach the North Pole in a bal- loon. His plan, which was first made public in 1895, was to construct a balloon sufficiently impervious in texture to hold gas without serious lo for 3 months, with provision to manufacture new gas, and refill, if nece ary, in the Arctic Circle. He proposed to make it buoyant enough to carry 3 persons, with provisions and apparatus, the whole to weigh 3 tons. Though trusting to the winds, M. Andrée hoped to gain some steerage power by the aid of guide ropes dragging on the ground, and attached to different points around the circumfer- ence of the car. A sail attached to the balloon aided in this result. Experiments made with this end in view proved that he could turn 27° aside from the direction of the wind. The balloon being constructed and all arrangements made, M. Andrée conveyed it, in the sum- mer of 1896, to one of the small islands north of Spitz- bergen, hoping to avail himself of the southerly winds which often blow for a long time together over that region, and by their aid to reach the polar district in a brief journey. Unluckily for his project, the winds proved adverse and the effort was not made. In the summer of 1897, he repeated the attempt, and this time found the winds favorable to his daring enterprise. Cutting loose on July 11, the bold aeronaut, with his 2 companions, floated north at a speed of 22 miles an hour, before a southwest wind, and soon disappeared from sight. The outcome of the perilous enterprise is at this writing undetermined. For details regarding it, see POLAR RESEARCH. Andrew, JOHN ALBION, lawyer and statesman, born at Windham, Maine, 1818, graduated at Bowdoin College, and became a member of the Boston bar in 1840. He early distinguished himself by his anti-slavery views, and in 1860 was chosen governor of Ma achusetts, and 4 and the clock can be made to run this length of time without winding; so that the whole apparatus would be as nearly as po ible self-acting. Ordinarily, however, it would be desirable for the attendant in charge of it to date the recording slip every 24 hours, and an eight-day clock would be sufficient for the requirements of most observers. The great advantage of the instrument is in the character of its records, and in the fact that the electrical communication does away with the use of cranks and shafting, which are not only costly and heavy and far le delicate, but which also render it nece ary that the recording instrument should be in the immediate neighborhood of the fans. Anem'oscope, n. An instrument to indicate the direction of the wind, as a weather-cock. Anemo's is, n. [From Gr. anemos , wind.] ( Bot . ) The condition known in timber by the name of wind-shaken, A runk vhich is apparently sound externally, proves, wnen feiled, to have given way in the direction of the concentric layers of which it is composed, so that the connection between them is more or le completely broken. This occurs in many kinds of exogenous timbers, and is no le common in foreign woods than in those of native growth. Some have supposed it to be due to the pre ure of extremely violent gales. This, however, is very doubtful, the effect being more probably due to frost or lightning. Wind, however, may be injurious to trees without producing absolute fractures or separation of parts, by causing too rapid evaporation and in consequence chilling the ti ues to such a degre as to retard development, or induce an unhealthy condition, or temporary sterility.