Amide

or AMINE, in chemistry, a substance is derived from ammonia by replacing one its hydrogen atons by a monovalent acid radical. acetamide NC,H,OH,.] The amides are usually substances, with characteristic melting points, to litmus, but combine readily with acids. Amiens (Lat. Ambiani), formerly the capital of and now the chief town of the department the Somme, France, stands on the banks of the VIEW IN AMIENS, Somme about 40 miles from Boulogne. The Railway of France has a large junction works here. It is an ancient city, occupying site of the Roman Soma rob riva. Joining the in 1588, it was reduced in 1592, and 5 years was captured by the Spanish to be retaken imby Henry IV. The famous Treaty of was signed here in 1802. The older quarters dirty and cramped, being intersected by canals; new part is well laid out and handsomely built, glory of the city is the magnificent Gothic (1220-1288), the proportions of which are 126 (114) Amines. most effective, the length of the nave being 442 feet And its height 140 feet, whilst the spire is 420 feet high. The Hdtel de Ville is a fine building, and there are a valuable library, a museum, a high court, a college, and a bishop’s palace. Many industries are carried on, the principal being cotton spinning and weaving, the manufacture of cotton-velvets, kerseymeres, woollen and linen fabrics, and leather. Amines. [AMIDF.] Amiot, Josernu, a French Jesuit. mi ionary, born in 1718, who went out to China in 1740, and spent over 50 years in Pekin, dying there in 1794. He wrote many instructive works on the language, manners, and arts of the Chinese, including a Life of Confucius. Amirante Islands, 2 group lying about 300 miles N.N.E. of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, almost connected with the Seychelles, and dependent, like them, on the Government of Mauritius. They were ceded to England in 1814. The islands are smull, averaging from 1} to 2} miles in length, and not rising more than 25 feet above sea level. Amlweh, 4 small scaport town in the I. of Angle sea, N. Wales, 15 miles from Beau mar is, on the Chester and Holy head Railway. 1t has a fair harbour. Extensive copper mines are worked in its vicinity. Ammianus Mar cell in us, a Latinised Greek, who, after serving as a soldier under Const an tine and Julian, settled in Rome, and wrote his great work Rerum Gestarum Libri XX XJ, covering the poriod from Nerva's acce ion to the death of Valens (96-378 A.D.). Only 18 books are extant. Gibbon praises the author for accuracy, and his moderation in dealing with the development of Christianity is remarkable. He died about 390, Ammocete, the larval form of the small Lampern (Letromyzon branchial is), formerly made a separate genus (Ammocates). [LAMPREY, FisHys. ]: Ammon (Phen. The hidden deity), the name of the chief god of the Egyptians, identified by the Greeks with Zeus, and by the Romans with Jupiter. He was personified in Egyptian art as a human being with a ram's head, but sometimes the body of a beast of prey is substituted for the human element. Thebes seems to have been the original centre of his worship, but his great temple and oracle were in the Titbyan oasis of Siwah, which Alexander visited when he caused himself to be proclaimed the son of Jupiter Ammon.