DAMASCUS STEEL, VI. 793. Persian, XXIII. 208, 210; manufacture | of, at Dunfermline, Scotland, vII. 542. DAMASKEENING, or Damascening (q.v.), VI. 793. DAMASK STEEL, VI. 793. DAMASUS I., pope, VI. 793; XIII. 630; XIX. 490. II., pope, VI. 793. DAMAUN, town, India, vI. 793. DAMAVAND, mountain, Persia, XV. 651; XVIII. 619. DANBY, Earl of, minister of Charles II., | DANILOVGRAD, town, Montenegro, XVI. VIII. 349. Francis, English painter, VI. 797. DANCE, VI. 798. -, George (d. 1768), English architect, VI. 801. George (d. 1825), English architect and painter, VI. 801. 781. DANISH DRAMA, VII. 444. DANISH LANGUAGE, VII. 89; XXI. 373; dictionaries of, VII. 186. -,Nathaniel, English painter, VI. 801. DANKOFF, town, Russia, XXI. 116. OF DEATH, V. 104; XII. 55. DANCING, as branch of education, VI. 801. MASTER, English ballad collection, XVII. 88. DANNECKER, Johann Heinrich von, DANNEWERK, entrenchments, Schleswig, D'AMBOISE, George, French cardinal, DANCOURT, Florent Carton, French | DANTE (Dante Alighieri), Italian poet, 14. DAMDAMA (Dumdum), town, India, VII. 525; XXIII. 673. DAMI, Giuliano, Florentine courtier, XV. 793. DAMIAT (Damietta), town, Egypt, VI. 794. DAMIENS, Robert François, assailant of Louis XV. of France, VI. 794. DAMIETTA, town, Egypt, vi. 794; VII. 768; siege of (1219), XXIII. 162. DAMIRI, Arabian naturalist, VI. 794; XVI. 597. DANDHU PANTH (Nana Sahib), XII. 810; XVII. 170, 345. VI. 809; XIII. 502; his influence on the Renaissance, XX. 384; Cary's translation of the Divina Commedia, V. 170. DANDOLO, patrician family of Venice, DANTON, George Jacques, French Revolutionist, VI. 815; IX. 602, 603; XX. 603. VI. 802. Andrea, Venetian admiral, vI. 803; XIX. 406. Enrico, doge of Venice, VI. 802; XXIV. 143; his relations with the crusaders, VI. 629. Vincenzo, Count, Italian scientist, VI. 803. DANEGELD, English land tax, VIII. 294, 567. DANELAGE, district, England, XIV. 656. DAMIRON, Jean Philibert, French philo- DANES, The, VII. 84; their invasions of sophical writer, VI. 795. DAMMAR, or Dammer, resin, VI. 795. DAMME, Thomas, Longevity of, XIV. 858. DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA, in law, VI. 789. DAMOCLES, courtier of Dionysius, VI. 795. England, I. 506; VIII. 283, 568; xvii. 570; invasions of Ireland, XIII. 252; in Lincolnshire, XIV. 656; their influence on English literature, VIII. 404. DANEWERK, or Dannewerk, entrenchments, Schleswig, VII. 89; XXI. 414. DANEWORT, or dwarf elder tree, VII. 828. DAMODAR, coal and ironstone fields, DANICHICH, Dyuro, Servian philologist, India, XII. 737. DAMON, friend of Pythias, VI. 795. DAMPNESS, Measure of, XII. 569. Tribe of, XIII. 401. DANA, river, Africa, I. 255. family of eminent Americans, vi. XXI. 691. DANIEL, of Scripture, VI. 803. Book of, VI. 803; III. 640. of Salah, Syriac writer, XXII. 841. of Tahal, Syriac writer, XXII. 849. Arnaud, troubadour, XX. 649. Gabriel, French Jesuit historian, VI. 807. DANTONISTS, French Revolutionary party, IX. 606. DANTZIC, or Danzig, town, Germany, vi. 818; XX. 16; siege of (1807), IX. 459. DEAL, timber, IX. 223. DANUBE, river, Europe, VI. 819; III. 116; XII. 362; XXI. 14; delta of, xx. 580; mouths of, III. 795. DANUM (Doncaster), ancient town, England, VII. 361. DANVERS, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A., VI. 820. DANVILLE, town, Illinois, U.S.A., vi. 820. 820. town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., VI. town, Virginia, U.S.A., XXIV. 259. D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste, French geographer, VI. 820; his map of India, X. 188. DANZIG (Dantzic, q.v.), town, Germany, -, genus of plants, XIV. 349. AND APOLLO, Max Müller's theory of, XVII. 138. 796. James Dwight, on amber in America, 1. 659; on the Atlantic basin, III. 16. 855. BAR MOSES, Syriac writer, XXII. 841. DANAE, mother of Perseus, VI. 797; XVIII. DANIELE DA VOLTERRA (Ricciarelli), 560. DANALITE, mineral, XVI. 411. DANAPRIS (Dnieper), river, Russia, VII. 306; XXI. 73. DANAUS, in Greek legend, VI. 797. DANBURITE, mineral, XVI. 411. DANBURY, town, Connecticut, U.S.A., VI. 797. Italian painter and sculptor, XX. 537. DANIELL, John Frederick, English chemist, VI. 808; his electric cell, VIII. 93; his hygrometer, XII. 570; his pyrometer, XX. 133. Samuel, Thomas, and William, English painters, VI. 808. DANILOFF, town, Russia, XXIV. 731. romance, XIV. 868; xx. 635. DARABJIRD, or Darab-Gherd, town, Persia, VI. 821. D'ARANDA, Count, Spanish minister, D'ARANTHON, Bishop, his relations with DAR-BANDA, group of Negroes, XVII. 319. DARBOY, Georges, archbishop of Paris, | DARO, mountain, Senegambia, XXI. 661. VI. 822. XXII. 256. DAROSHA PHARSAYA, Syriac writer, XXII. 832. DARBY, J. N., founder of community of DARODE, Somali tribes, Central Africa, D'ARREST'S COMET, VI. 192. DARDANIA (Dacia), ancient district, DARTMOOR, Devonshire, England, VII. Europe, VI. 758. DARDANUS, in Greek mythology, VI. 823; XXIII. 583. DARDS, people, India and Tibet, x. 598; DARE (Dace, q.v.), fish, VI. 758. DARFUR, country, Central Africa, vi. DARIC, ancient Persian coin, XVII. 659. DARIEL, Pass of, Caucasus, V. 255. DARIEN, isthmus and district, South America, VI. 824; crossed by Balbao, III. 274; proposed canal at, IV. 793; Scottish settlement of, XXI. 518. SCHEME, Paterson's, XVIII. 360. DARINGAMBADI, town, India, XXI. 210. DARIORIGUM (Vannes), ancient town, France, XXIV. 68. 139. DARTMOUTH, town, England, vi. 829. DARU, Pierre Antoine, Comte de, French writer and statesman, VI. 829. DARWAZ, state, Central Asia, XVIII. 104. DARWEN, Over, town, England, xvIII. 77. DARWIN, Charles, his doctrine of organic evolution, VIII. 764, 769; xxiv. 801; on adaptation of animals, 1. 86; on birds, XVIII. 32; on the descent of man, II. 110; on the expression of emotions, XIX.5; geological researches in the Argentine Republic, II. 488; on hybridism, XII. 423; on morphology, XVI. 840; on the origin of species, III. 689; his work, The Origin of Species, VIII. 749, 764; XXIV. 77, 81; on the curvature of rootlets of plants, XIX. 60. DASYU, Punjab tribe, India, XX. 110. DASYURIDÆ, family of marsupial mammals, XV. 379, 380. DATAMES, satrap of Cappadocia, XVIII. 579. DATE, fruit, VI. 831. PALM, VI. 831; 1.258; XVIII. 190; of Arabia, II. 237; of Fezzan, Tunis, IX. 129. DATES, of principal events from earliest plant, XVII. 231. DAUBENTON, Louis Jean Marie, French naturalist, VI. 832; on birds, XVIII. 6; his connexion with Buffon's natural history, IV. 444. DAUBENY, Charles Giles Bridle, English man of science, VI. 832. D'AUBIGNÉ, Françoise, Madame de Maintenon, XV. 304; IX. 578; xxi. 378. Jean Henri Merle, historian of the Reformation, VI. 833. Théodore Agrippa, French historian and poet, VI. 833; IX. 651. D'AUBUSSON, Pierre, grand-master of Knights of St John, vi. 834; his defence of Rhodes (1480), XXI. 174. DAUDIN, F. M., on reptiles, XX. 434. DAUGLISH APPARATUS, for manufacture of aerated bread, III. 255. DAULIAS LUSCINIA, species of birds, XVII. 499. DAUMAT, Jean, French jurisconsult, VII. 346. Erasmus, English poet and scientist, VI. 830; xv. 816; on evolution, VIII. 748. Mount, Tierra del Fuego, XXIII. DAUN, Count von, Austrian general, vi. 834; III. 128. DAUNIANS, ancient Italian tribe, XIII. 446. II., Ochus or Nothus, of Persia, VI. DARWINISM, VIII. 769; in relation to DAUPHIN, French title, IX. 546; XIX. DARIUS I., king of Persia, VI. 825; xvIII. 568; XI. 98; in Egypt, VII. 744; tomb 384. of, XVIII. 558. Port, town, South Australia, XXII. 284. DARWINITE, mineral, XVI. 393. DASA, tribe, North Central Africa, XXIII. 334. 738. DAUPHINÉ, old province, France, vi. 835. ALPS, I. 624. DARJILING, or Darjeeling, district and DASE, Zacharias, German logarithmist, DAURAT, Jean, French poet, VI. 835; town, India, vI. 827; its trade with Tibet, XXIII. 343. DARLEY ARABIAN, progenitor of race horses, XII. 183, 184. DARLING, river, Australia, XVII. 62; XVII. 408. MOUNTAINS, Western Australia, XXIV. 507. DARLINGTON, town, England, vi. 828. DARLINGTONIA, genus of insectivorous plants, XIII. 138. DARMSTADT, town, Germany, VI. 828; libraries of, XIV. 527, 546. -, Hesse-, grand-duchy, Germany, XI. 780. DARNÉTAL, town, France, VI. 829. DARNLEY, Lord, husband of Mary, queen of Scots, XV. 595; XXI. 504; murder of, IV. 164. DASHKOFF, Catherina R. W., Russian DAURIANS, Tungus tribe, Siberia, XXIII. DASHOUR, Egypt, Pyramids of, 11. 386; D'AUVERGNE, Henri de la Tour DASH-WHEEL, bleaching apparatus, III. 813. (Turenne), French marshal, XXIII. 626; IX. 571. DAUW, Burchell's zebra, XII. 175. DASS, Petter or Peder, Norwegian poet, DAVAO, town, Philippine Islands, XVIII. DASSEE SILKWORM, XXII. 60. DASSERAH, Hindu festival, XV. 290. DASYPELTIS, genus of snakes, XXII. 194. DASYPODIDÆ, family of Edentata, XV. 386. DASYPROCTIDE, family of Rodentia, 750. DAVENANT, Charles, on the balance of trade, XIX. 357. Sir William, English poet and dramatist, VI. 835; VII. 434. DAVENPORT, town, Iowa, U.S.A., vi. 836. Horace, English amateur champion swimmer, XXII. 771. John, founder of New Haven, Conn., U.S.A., xvII. 395. St, patron saint of Wales, VI. 842. Jewish pretender, XX. 269. of Beth Rabban, Syriac writer, XXII. 844. of Dinant, French scholastic philosopher, VI. 844; XXI. 426. Christian, leader of Moravian Brethren, xvI. 812. Félicien César, French musical composer, vi. 842. Francis, Transylvanian bishop, XXII. 230; XXIII. 725. —, Jacques Louis, French painter, VI. 842. Jean Pierre (David d'Angers), French sculptor, VI. 843; XXI. 564. BAR PAUL, Syriac writer, XXII. 852. COPPERFIELD, Dickens's novel, DAVY LAMP, for mining, VI. 72. DEAL, town, England, VII. 13; XIV. 39. DAWES, W. R., his observatory, England, DEAN, ecclesiastical dignitary, VII. 13; XVII. 711. DAWLEY, town, England, xxI. 848. SALMON, fish, XII. 686. V. 228. DEANE, Sir Anthony, English ship builder, XVII. 283. DEAN'S ISLANDS, South Pacific, XXIII. DEARBORN OBSERVATORY, Chicago, DAX, town, France, VI. 848; mineral| DEARG, Loughs, Ireland, XIII. 217. DAY, in the calendar, IV. 664; sidereal, -, Alfred, English writer on harmony, XVII. 100. DEATH, Causes of, XVII. 686; of Entero- BOOK, in book-keeping, IV. 46. OF THE SPURS, battle at Courtrai, by suicide, XXII. 629. DEAUVILLE, town, France, XXIII. 589. DE BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre A. C., DE BENNEVILLE, George, American DAYTON, town, Ohio, U.S.A., vi. 848; | DE BLAINVILLE, H. M. D., on birds, XVIII. 20. DAZA (Maximinus), Roman emperor, XV. DÉBONNAIRE, Le, Louis (Louis the statesman, III. 167; XIII. 487, 489. DEACON, Office of, in the church, VII. 1; in primitive church, VIII. 484; XIX. 674; in Presbyterian churches, XIX. 677. John, of Hereford, English poet, Henrico Caterino, Italian historian, DAVINE, mineral, XVI. 412. Pious, q.v.), emperor, XV. 15. DEB RAJA, ruler of Bhutan, India, III. 632. DEBRA TABOR, town, Abyssinia, 1. 64. DEBRECZYN, or Debretzn, town, Hungary, VII. 15; university of, XXIII. 852. DEACONESSES' HOMES, at Kaiserswerth, DE BROSSES, Charles, on mythology, Germany, IX. 307. DEAD, Resurrection of the, VIII. 535. DEA DIA, Roman goddess, II. 671. DAVIS, Andrew Jackson, American DEAD-RECKONING, in navigation, XVII. spiritualist, XXII. 405. Edward, buccaneer, IV. 410. Jefferson, president, Confederate States, North America, XXIII. 773. —, John, English navigator, VI. 845; X. 184; XVII. 254; his Arctic explorations, XIX. 317. STRAIT WHALE FISHERY, XXIV. 527. DAVOS, district, Switzerland, XI. 205. DAVY, Sir Humphrey, English man of science, VI. 845; on electro-chemical science, v. 466; Gay-Lussac's relations with, X. 122. 264. DEAD SEA, Palestine, VII. I; XIV. 217; XVII. 137. DEBT, Law of, VII. 15. See also Bankruptcy, III. 341. National, XVII. 243. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR, XVIII. 440; DECAMERON, Boccaccio's work, 111. 845; DECAMPS, Alexander Gabriel, French DE CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus, strate, VII. 14; XV. 217. DEAF AND DUMB MAN'S TUTOR, by DECAPODA, suborder of Mollusca, XVI. Dalgarno, VI. 776. DEÁK, Franz, Hungarian statesman, VII. 669. DECAPOLIS, district, Palestine, VII. 18; DECARBONIZATION, of iron, XIII. 318. DECATUR, town, Illinois, U.S.A., VII. 18. DECURIO, Roman cavalry officer, VII. 22. DEI FILIUS, constitution passed by Stephen, American naval officer, DEDUCTION, in logic, I. 797; XIV. 785, DEIFR (Deira, q.v.), Celtic kingdom, XXIII. 760. 790. England, XVII. 568. DE CAUS, Solomon, inventor of a steam- DEE, river, England and Wales, v. 589; DEIOCES, Median king, XVIII. 562. engine, XXII. 473. DECAY, Animal, XVII. 686; XIX. 9. DECCAN, territory, India, VII. 18; XII. DECEMVIRI, Roman magistrates, VII. 19; XX. 737. VII. 76; XVI. 38. rivers, Scotland, I. 44; XIV. 97. , John, English mathematician and DEEDS, Registration of, XX. 342. 272. DEEMSTER, judge, Isle of Man, XV. 452. DECEPTION ISLAND, Antarctic Ocean, DEEP-SEA THERMOMETER, XXIII. 291. XVII. 407. DE CHARPENTIER, Jean, on glaciers, X. DECHENITE, mineral, XVI. 404. DECIUS, Roman emperor, XX. 773, 776. DECIZE, town, France, XVII. 496. DECKENDORF, or Deggendorf, town, Bavaria, VII. 32. DECLAMATIONS, Scholastic, XX. 515. DECLARATION, in law, VII. 21; XIX. 218. OF INDEPENDENCE, American, XIII. 614; XXIII. 743, 754; XVIII. 741. OF PARIS (1856), VII. 21; XVII. 290. OF RIGHTS, English (1689), xx. 555; accepted by William III., XXIV. 579. OF SPORTS, of James I., XXII. 431. DECLARATOR, in Scots law, VII. 22. DECLINATION, in astronomy, II. 765. or Variation, Magnetic, XV. 220, 238; XVI. 163; table of values of, XVI. 166. DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN DECLINOMETER, Bond's, astronomical DEER, ungulate mammal, VII. 23; XV. DEIPNOSOPHISTE, Athenæus's work, II. DEIRA, Celtic kingdom, England, v. DIERMEN TEPE, hill, near Smyrna, XXI. 734; Tindal's, XXIII. 404; SHORT AND EASY METHOD WITH DE JUSSIEU, French family of botanists, FORESTS, Scotland, XXI. 532. DEFOE, Daniel, English writer, VII. 26; DEFORMITIES, Surgical treatment of, DEGAID, Irish clan, XIII. 245. DE GEER, Charles, Swedish entomo- DE GÉRANDO, Marie Joseph, French DEGGENDORF, town, Bavaria, VII. 32. DEGRADATION, from knighthood, XIV. DEGREE, angular magnitude, XXIII. 9, DEGREES, Academical, VIII. 777; origin DECORATION, Mural, XVII. 34. DE HERBERAY, Nicolas, French trans- DUN, district, India, VII. 32. DEKABRISTS, Rebellion of, in Russia, XXI. IOI. Thomas, English dramatist, VII. 37, 432. DE LA BADIE, Jean, French Pietist, XIV. DE LA BASTIE, Sieur, French envoy in DE LA BECHE, Henry Thomas, English DE LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie, DE LA GARDIE, Count, Swedish general DE LA RUE, W., on sun spots, II. 786; | DELLA VALLE, Pietro, Italian traveller, his observatory, at Cranford, England, XVII. 711. XXIV. 43. DELLMAN'S ELECTROMETER, VIII. 119. DELAUNAY, Charles, on the lunar DEL MONTE, Gian Maria (Pope Julius theory, XVI. 801. Charles, assumed name of Madame Girardin, French writer, X. 621. Marguérite Jeanne Cordier, Baronne de Staal, XXII. 439. DELAVIGNE, Jean François Casimir, French poet and dramatist, VII. 43, 427; IX. 672. III.), XIII. 772. DELOLME, Jean Louis, Swiss jurist, VII. 51. DE LONG, Lieut., Arctic explorer, XIX. 326. DELOS, island, Greece, VII. 51; II. 185; amphictyony of, I. 773; XI. 100; worship of Latona in, XIV. 345. DELAWARE, river, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., DE LOUTHERBOURG, Philip James, VII. 44; XVIII. 500, 736. State, U.S.A., VII. 44; population, XXIII. 802; colony of, XXIII. 730. town, Ohio, U.S.A., vII. 45. DELAWARES, American-Indian tribe, XII. 831. painter, VII. 52. DELPHI, town, Greece, VII. 52; II. 185; amphictyony of, I. 772; oracle and temple at, XVII. 808; vII. 53; XI. 98; XIV. 345. Mount, Euboea, Greece, VIII. 647. DE LA WARR, Peter, speaker of House DELPHINAPTERUS, genus of cetacean of Commons, XVIII. 306. DEL CHIARO, on Walachia, XXI. 17. DEL CIMENTO, Florentine academy, I. 70; XV. 793. DELCOURT, Dupuis, aeronaut, 1. 193. DEL CREDERE AGENT, in commerce, VII. 45. DE L'ÉPÉE, Abbé, VIII. 457; his labours on behalf of deaf-mutes, VII. 7. DELESSITE, mineral, X. 228; XVI. 414. DELFICO, Melchiorre, Italian jurist, VII. 45. DELFT, town, Holland, VII. 45. mammals, XV. 398; XXIV. 525. DELPHIN EDITIONS, of the classics, III. 657. DELPHINIA, Greek festival, VII. 53. DELPHINIDÆ, family of Cetacea, XV. 398. DELPHINIUM, Greek harbour, XVIII. 50. plant, XII. 255. DEL RIO, Ercole, Italian chessplayer, v. 601. DELRIO, Martin, on demoniacal possession, VII. 62. DELTA, at mouth of a river, X. 278, 319; XX. 580; formation of, XII. 504; of the Nile, VII. 768. territory, Venezuela, XXIV. 140. assumed name of David Macbeth Moir, Scottish poet, XVI. 608. DELUC, Jean André, Swiss geologist, VII. 53; XXII. 799. DELUGE, in primitive cosmogonies, VII. 54; XVII. 143. DELUSION, in insanity, XIII. 105. DELILLE, Jacques, French poet, VII. 49; DEMAGNETIZATION, XV. 254. DELINEATION, in drawing, VII. 447. DELIRIUM, mental disorder, VII. 50; XIII. 106. TREMENS, VII. 50. DE MAILLET, Benoît, his evolutionist views, VIII. 748. DE MAISTRE, Joseph, French diplomatist and polemical writer, XV. 306. DELISLE, Guillaume, his map of the DE MAISTRE, Xavier, French writer, Old World, x. 188. Joseph Nicolas, on astronomy, II. 757; his thermometer, XXIII. 289. -, Romé, on crystals, VI. 672. DELITZSCH, town, Prussia, VII. 51. DELLA CHIAJE, Italian naturalist, XXIV. 806. DELLA PORTA, Giacomo, Italian architect, II. 439. DELLA PORTA, Giovanni Battista, Italian natural philosopher, XIX. 525; his steam-engine, XXII. 473; his connexion with the telescope, XXIII. 135. DELLA ROBBIA, Florentine family of artists, XX. 588. XV. 307; IX. 672. DEMAK, town, Java, XIII. 606. DEMATOPHORA NECATRIX, vine fungus, DEMBINSKI, Henry, Hungarian general, (Thesmophoria), XXIII. 295; mysteries of, VIII. 126. DEMETRIA, Greek festival, VII. 57. DEMETRIAS, ancient town, Thessaly, Greece, XXIII. 299; XXIV. 282. DEMETRIUS, Bactrian king, XVIII. 590. I., Poliorcetes, king of Macedonia, VII. 57. II., of Macedonia, VII. 58. I., Soter, king of Persia and Syria, VII. 58; XIII. 422; XVIII. 590. II., Nicator, of Persia and Syria, VII. 58; XIII. 423; XVIII. 591. III., Euergetes, of Syria, VII. 58; XVIII. 595. bishop of Alexandria, his relations with Origen, XVII. 840. Greek Cynic philosopher, VII. 58. ·(Dmitri, q.v.), Russian pretender, XXI. 108. of Scepsis, ancient writer on the Trojans, XXIII. 581. PHALEREUS, Greek Peripatetic philosopher, VII. 58. DEMIDOFF, Russian noble family, VII. 59. DEMIDOWITE, mineral, XVI. 411. DEMIURGE, in Gnosticism, X. 704; Christianus, assumed name of J. C. Dippel, German theologian and alchemist, VII. 255. DEMOGRAPHY, or Statistics, XXII. 463. DEMON, VII. 60. See Dæmon. DEMONOLOGY, VII. 60; XV. 199. DE MONTE, G. B. (Montanus), Italian physician, XV. 809. DE MONTS, French settler, Maine, U.S.A., XV. 300. DE MORGAN, Augustus, English mathe- DEMOSPONGIÆ, subclass of sponges, |