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DEMOSTHENES, Greek orator, vII. 67; XI. 103, 142; his ridicule of Alexander, I. 481; his connexion with Isæus, XIII. 376.

DEMOTICA, town, European Turkey, VII. 74.

DEMOTIC WRITING, in Egypt, XI. 794. DEMPO, mountain, Sumatra, XXII. 638. DEMPSTER, Thomas, Scottish scholar,

VII. 74.

DEMTER (Deventer), town, Holland, VII. 135.

DEMURRAGE, in maritime law, vII. 75.
DEMURRER, in law, VII. 75.
DENAIN, town, France, VII. 75; XVII.
535.

DENAIR, town, Asia Minor, II. 147. DENARIUS, Roman coin, XVII. 652, 655. DENBIGH, county, Wales, VII. 76; population and representation, XXIII. 727; coalfield, VI. 52.

Railway, XX. 234.

532, 549; literature, VII. 89; national | DEPÔTS, Military, XXIV. 353.
debt, XVII. 246; newspapers, XVII. 430;
observatories, XVII. 714; oyster culture,
XVIII. 108; periodical literature, XVIII.
5435 prison system, XIX. 759; railways,
XX. 251; Reformation in, XX. 336;
weights and measures, XXIV. 490.
DENNEWITZ, Prussia, Battle of (1813),

XVII. 220.

DEPRÈS, Josquin, Flemish musical composer, VII. IOI; XVII. 83; XVIII. 180. DEPRESSION, in insanity, XIII. 105. DEPTFORD, town, England, VII. 101; dockyard, VII. 310; Trinity House at, XXIII. 574.

DEPULSOR, epithet of Jupiter, XIII. 780.

DENNIS, John, English critic and poet, DE QUATREFAGES, J. L. A., on silkworm disease, XXII. 59; on Teredo, XXIII. 185.

VII. 94.

DENNY, town, Scotland, XXII. 554. DENON, Baron de, French artist and archæologist, VII. 95.

DENSITY, of bodies, defined, xv. 698; unit of, VII. 241; determination of, XII. 536; tables of, XII. 541; of water of Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, XVIII.

120.

DE QUINCEY, Thomas, English writer,

VII. IOI.

DERA, river, Morocco, XVI. 832.

GHAZI KHAN, district, India, VII. 104; XX. 109.

ISMAIL KHAN, district, India, VII. 105; XX. 109.

DENT, Alfred, English settler, North DERAJAT, division, India, VII. 105; XX.
Borneo, XXI. 124.

396.

DENDERAH, or Dendarah, village, Upper, E. J., English watchmaker, XXIV.
Egypt, VII. 77; temple of, VII. 776.
DENDERMONDE, town, Belgium, vII.
78.

DENDROCOPUS, genus of birds, xxiv. 652.

DENDROCA, genus of birds, XXIV. 367. DENDROHYRAX, genus of ungulate mammals, XII. 599; XV. 423. DENDROLAGUS, genus of marsupial mammals, XIII. 840. DENDROPHIDAE, family of snakes, XXII. 192, 195.

DENESHKIN (or DENEZHKIN) KAMEN,

mountain, Russia, XVIII. 549; XXIV. 4. D'ENGHIEN, Duc, French Royalist, VIII. 214; his execution, XVII. 207. DENGHIZ (Balkash, q.v.), lake, Central Asia, XXI. 640.

DENHA, Syriac writer, XXII. 848. DENHAM, Dixon, African traveller, 1.

246; v. 801.

Sir John, English poet, VII. 78; VIII. 424.

DENIER, mediæval coin, XVII. 654. DENINA, Carlo Giovanni Maria, Italian historian, VII. 79.

DENIS, St, patron saint of France, VII. 79; XVIII. 286.

king of Portugal, XIX. 542, 555. island, Seychelles, XXI. 725. DENISON, town, Texas, U.S.A., XXIII. 205.

DENIZ, Ak, lake, Syria, XXII. 821.
DENIZEN, in law, VII. 79.

DENTALIUM, genus of Mollusca, XVI. 663.

DENTIFRICES, XVIII. 526.

109.

DE RANCÉ, Armand J. B., abbot of La Trappe, XXIII. 523.

DERAVA, or Dereyeh, town, Arabia, vII. 113.

DERBE, town, Asia Minor, XV. 92.

DENTINE, or Ivory, VII. 233; XIII. 520; DERBEND, town, Hissar, Central Asia,

XV. 349.

DENTISTRY, VII. 95; artificial teeth, XIII. 523; in relation to medicine, XV. 797. DENTITION, of man, VII. 96, 232; of fishes, XII. 654; of mammals, XV. 349 (and article Mammalia throughout); of the horse, XII. 178; of the vole, XXIV. 277; of the walrus, XXIV. 337. D'ENTRECASTEAUX, J. A. Bruni, French navigator, VIII. 454; X. 190.

ISLANDS, New Guinea, XVII. 386. DENUDATION, in geology, X. 372. DEOBAND, town, India, XXI. 152. DEODAND, in English law, VII. 100. DEODAR, tree, v. 286; IX. 405; culture of, II. 319.

DEODATUS, St, of Nevers, XXI. 161. DEOGAN, chief god of the Kafirs, Asia, XIII. 822.

DEOGHAR, town, India, XXI. 297. DEOGURH (Dowletabad), fortress, India, VII. 382.

DEOR'S COMPLAINT, Anglo-Saxon poem, VIII. 403.

DÉPARCIEUX, Antoine, his mortality tables, II. 76.

DEPARTMENT, French administrative division, IX. 509, 600.

DENMAN, Lord, chief-justice of England, DEPARTURE, in navigation, XVII. 264.
D'ÉPINAY, Madame, French authoress,
VIII. 482; as patroness of Rousseau,

VII. 79. DENMARK, VII. 80; union with Norway, XVII. 589; union with Sweden (1397), XXII. 746; seizure of fleet by England (1807), XVII. 212; Prussian and Austrian invasion (1864), III. 139; IX. 625; academy, I. 73; army, II. 615; birds, XVIII. 17; church, VIII. 491; coins, XVII. 658; drama, VII. 444; forests, IX. 400; language, XXI. 373; libraries, XIV.

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or Derbent, town, Russia, VII. 105. DERBY, County, England, VII. 106; population and representation, XXIII. 727; coalfield, VI. 51.

-, town, England, VII. 108; porcelain factory at, XIX. 641.

horse race, England, XII. 201.

Earls of, their connexion with Isle of Man, xv. 454; fourteenth earl, English statesman, VII. 109; VIII. 366.

DERBYSHIRE NECK, disease, X. 739.
DEREHAM, town, England, XVII. 536.
DE RETZ, Cardinal, leader of Fronde,
XX. 488; IX. 572.
DEREVERAGH, Lough, Ireland, xxiv.
512.

DEREYEH, town, Arabia, VII. 113.
DERG, Lough, Ireland, vII. 362.
DERHAM, William, English divine and
man of science, VII. 113.
D'ERLON, Count Drouet, French
general, VII. 473.

DERMATEMYS, genus of chelonian reptiles, XXIII. 457.

DERMATINE, mineral, XVI. 415. DERMATOCHELYS, genus of chelonian reptiles, XXIII. 457. DERMATOGEN, primary epidermis of plants, XII. 15.

DERMATOLOGY, in relation to medicine,
XV. 797.

DERMATOPHYTA, group of vegetable
parasites, XXIV. 206.
DERMATOZOA, group of animal parasites,
XXIV. 206.
DERMOD MACMURROUGH, king of
Leinster, Ireland, XIII. 258.
DERMOID CYST, disease, XVIII. 372.

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Hebrew Bible, III. 647.

DERRY, or Londonderry (q.v.), town,
Ireland, XIV. 853.

DERTONA (Tortona), ancient town, Italy,
XXIII. 460.

DERTOSA (Tortosa), ancient town, Spain,
XXIII. 460.

DERVISH, DERVISHES, VII. 113; XXII.
662, 665; Egyptian, VII. 726; dancing
(Maulawi), XXI. 59.

DESERTED VILLAGE, Goldsmith's poem,
X. 762.

DESERTION, in military law, XVI. 298.
of a wife, VII. 301; XXIV. 643.
DESFONTAINES, René Louiche, French
botanist, VII. 129.

DESFUL (Dizful), town, Persia, VII. 305;
XVIII. 627.

DESHOULIÈRES, Antoinette, French
poetess, VII. 129.

DESPREZ (Deprès, q.v.), Josquin, Flemish composer, VII. IOI.

DESSAIX, Joseph Maria, Count, French general, VII. 132.

DESSALINES, Negro chief, Hayti, XI.
545.

DESSAU, town, Germany, VII. 132.
DESSAUER, Der Alte, Leopold, duke of
Anhalt-Dessau, XIV. 467.

DESSLER, Wolfgang C., German hymn-
writer, XII. 587.

DE STAEL, Madame, French writer,
XXII. 439; IX. 672.
D'ESTE, princely house, Italy, vIII. 558;
IX. 108; XVI. 542; XX. 341.
Leonora, friend of Tasso, XXIII.

76.

DERWENT, river, Derbyshire, England, DESIDERI, P. Ipolito, traveller in Tibet, DE STENDHAL (M. H. Beyle), French

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Isaac Louis Le Maître, Port DESIRE, Psychological analysis of, XX. Royalist, XXI. 141.

DESAGULIERS, Jean Théophile, his electrical experiments, VIII. 4.

74.

writer, III. 621.

DESTERRO, town, Brazil, VII. 132.
DESTINY, Oriental ideas of, I. 464.

novel, by Miss Ferrier, IX. III.
DESTRUCTION OF THE PHILOSOPHERS,
Al-Gazali's treatise, 1. 510.
DESTRUCTIVENESS, in phrenology,
XVIII. 845.

Destutt de TRACY, A. L. C., French philosopher, XXIII. 497.

DETECTIVES, Police, XIX. 337

DES LOGES (F. Villon), French poet, DETERMINANTS, in algebra, I. 516;
XXIV. 232.

DESAIX DE VOYGOUX, Louis C. A., DESMAREST, Anselme, on birds, XVIII.
French general, VII. 114.

II.

DE SALLO, Denis, French man of letters, DESMIDIEÆ, division of Algæ, I. 508;
XVIII. 539.

VII. 170.

DESARGUE'S THEOREM, of projections, DESMODUS RUFUS, blood-sucking bat,
XIX. 794.

DESAUGIERS, Marc Antoine Madeleine,

French dramatist, VII. 114. DESAULT, Pierre Joseph, French French anatomist, VII. 115; Bichat's connexion with, III. 664.

DE SAUSSURE, Horace Bénédict, XXI.
323; on glaciers, X. 629.

DE SAUSSURE, Nicolas T., XXI. 324.
DE SAUTY, his electric telegraph test,
XXIII. 118.

XV. 415; XXIV. 52.
DESMOGNATHOUS TYPE, of birds, III.

711.

DES MOINES, town, Iowa, U.S.A., vII.
130.

DESMOND, Earls of, Ireland, VI. 404;
XIV. 52; their rebellions, XIII. 264,
265; first earl (Maurice Fitzgerald),
XIII. 260.
DESMOTHORACA, order of Protozoa,
XIX. 845.

DESMOULINS, Camille, French journal-
ist and Revolutionist, VII. 130; IX.
673.

VIII. 497; Spottiswoode on, XXII.

432.

DETERMINISM, in philosophy, XXIII.
234.

DE THOU, Jacques A., French historian,
XXIII. 315; IX. 659.
DETMOLD, town, Germany, VII. 133;
XIV. 683.

DE TOCQUEVILLE, A. H. C. Chérel,
Comte, French writer, XXIII. 430;
IX. 675.

DETONATION, of explosives, VIII. 809.
DETROIT, town, Michigan, U.S.A., vii.
133; population, XXIII. 822.
DETTINGEN, Bavaria, Battle of (1743),
IX. 586.

DEUCALION, in Greek legend, VII. 134.
DEULWARA, India, Temples of, 1. 59.
D'EUSE, Jacques (Pope John XXII.),

XIII. 712.

Roger, grand-master of Knights of DEUTERONOMY, Book of, III. 637; XIII. St John, XXI. 174.

415; XVIII. 505.

DES MURS, M. A. P. E., on birds, DEUTSCH, use of the word, X. 473; as
XVIII. 13, 32.

DESCANT, musical, XVII. 81.
DESCARTES, René, French philosopher,
VII. 115; his application of algebra to
geometry, I. 514; XIII. 6; on axioms,
III. 159; on evolution, VIII. 747, 759; on
the extension of matter, III. 37; his
logic, XIV. 791; his metaphysic, XVI.
91; on squaring the circle, XXII. 435;
his influence on French literature, IX.
660; his connexion with Pascal, XVIII.
334; Leibnitz's criticism of, XIV. 421.
DESCENT, in law, XIII. 77; rules of, in |
aboriginal tribes, XXIII. 473.
DESCHAMPS, Eustache, French poet, DESPEÑAPERROS, pass, Spain, XXII. 294.

VII. 128; IX. 644.

DESCHAPPELLES, A. L. H. L., French
chessplayer, v. 601.

DES CHUTES, river, Oregon, U.S.A.,
XVII. 822.

DESCLOIZITE, mineral, XVI. 406.

DESOLATION ISLAND, Southern Ocean,
XIV. 48.

applied to language, X. 514.

Emanuel Oscar Menahem, German Orientalist, VII. 134.

DESOLATION LAND, Tierra del Fuego, DEUTSCHE THEOLOGIE, mystical book
South America, XXIII. 384.
DE SOTO, Ferdinando, Spanish explorer,

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DEVA, in Hindu theology, XXIV. 821.
DEVANAGARI, the current Sanskrit
character, XXI. 272; numerals in,
XVII. 626.

DEVAPRAYAGA, town, India, VII. 135.
DEVASTAVIT, in law, XXIV. 394.
DEVELOPMENT, Animal, Doctrine of,
VIII. 745; XX. 420; XXIV. 815, 801;
in relation to ethnology, VIII. 616,
618; Lamarck's theory of, XIV. 232.

Embryonic, VIII. 163; in human anatomy, I. 830, 842, 850, 853, 855, 858, 863, 908; of Mollusca, XVI. 637, 682; of tapeworms, XXIII. 52; of trematode worms, XXIII. 537. DEVENTER, town, Holland, VII. 135; XVIII. 78; educationists of, VII. 672; mediæval college of, XIV. 31.

D'EWES, Sir Simonds, English chronic- | DIADOCHITE, mineral, XVI. 408.
ler, VII. 143.

DE WETTE, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht,

German theologian, VII. 144; on the
Pentateuch, XVIII. 505; on German
rationalism, XX. 290.

DE WINTER, Jan Willem, Dutch
admiral, VII. 144.

DE WITT, Cornelius, Dutch burgomaster,
VII. 145.

John, Dutch statesman, VII. 145;
XII. 80.
DEW-POINT, VIII. 727; XII. 570.
DEWSBURY, town, England, VII. 146;
population and representation, XXIV.
748.

DEXTRIN, or British gum, VII. 146; xv.
338.

DEVEREUX, Walter and Robert, earls of DEXTROGLUCOSE, in honey, XII. 136.

Essex, VIII. 555, 556.

DE VICO'S COMET, VI. 192, 193.

DE VIGNY, Alfred Victor, Comte, French poet and novelist, VII. 135.

DEXTROSE, or Grape Sugar, IX. 96; xv.
338; XXII. 623.

DEY, governor of Algiers, 1. 566; of
Tunis, XXIII. 621.

DEVIL, VII. 136, 60; in miracle plays, DEYRSIMLIS, Kurdish tribe, XIV. 157.
VII. 415.
DHAKA (Dacca), district and town,
India, VI. 756.

FISH, VII. 138; XII. 686; xx. 300.
DE VILLE, Antoine, French military
engineer, IX. 441.
DEVILLE, Étienne Henri Sainte-Claire,
French chemist, XXI. 165; on alu-
minium, I. 647; on chemical dissocia-
tion, v. 475; on platinum, XIX. 190;
his pyrometer, XX. 131.

DE VILLIERS, John, grand-master of
Knights of St John, XXI. 174.
DEVIL'S DARNING NEEDLE, insect,
VII. 385.

DEVIL'S DUST, adulterant of cloth, I. 176.
DEVIL'S DYKE, Sussex, England, XXII.

723.

DHAMMASAT, Burmese code of law, IV.
553.

DHAMRA, river, India, V. 243.
DHAR, native state, India, VII. 146.
DHARMA, doctrine or laws, in Tibet and
India, XXI. 287; XIV. 227.
DHARMASUTRAS, Sanskrit laws, XXI.

288.

DHARMNATH, India, Temple at, I. 423.
DHARM RAJA, Spiritual ruler of Bhutan,
III. 632.

DHARNA, Hindu custom, XIV. 360.
DHARWAR, district, India, vII. 146.
DHAWALAGIRI, or Diwalgiri, mountain,
Himalayas, XI. 825.

DHEBAR, artificial lake, India, XXIII.
716.

DEVIL'S SONATA, Tartini's, XXIII. 71.
DEVIL'S TOWER, natural pillar, Rocky
Mountains, U.S.A., XXIII. 797.
DEVIL-WORSHIP, by Rais (or Retz), XX. DHOLIBA, name of the Niger, river,
258.
Africa, XVII. 496.

XX. 260.

DE VISÉ, Donneau, French journalist, DHOLPUR, native state, India, VII. 147;
XVII. 424.
DEVIZES, town, England, VII. 138; D'HOZIER, Pierre, French genealogist
population, XXIV. 594.

DEVOLUTION WAR, between England and the Netherlands, IX. 575.

and journalist, XVII. 424.

DHU HEARTACH ROCK LIGHTHOUSE,
Scotland, XIV. 616.

DEVON (Devonshire, q.v.), county, Eng- DHULIP SINH, or Dhalip Singh, Sikh

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DIAGORAS, Greek poet, VII. 148.
DIAGRAMS, geometrical figures, VII. 149.
DIAL, or Gnomon, sun-dial, VII. 153; first
construction of, II. 746.

of a clock, VI. 31.

American magazine, I. 729.
DIALECTIC, in logic, XIV. 785, 786;
Zeno's invention of, XXIV. 778; in
ancient Greece, II. 516; Socrates's
use of, XXII. 236.
DIALECTICIANS, school of Greek philo-
sophy, XXII. 562.
DIALECTS, XVIII. 776.

DIALLAGE, mineral, X. 235; XVI. 416.
DIALLING, VII. 153.

DIALOGITE, mineral, XVI. 398.
DIALOGUE ON ORATORS, by Tacitus,

XXIII. 20.

DIALOGUES, Plato's, XIX. 195.

ON NATURAL RELIGION, Hume's,
XII. 355.

DIALYSIS, in physics, VII. 217.
DIAMAGNETIC BODIES, XV. 244, 262.
DIAMAGNETISM, of flames, IX. 285.
DIAMANTE, Fra, Italian painter, VII.
162.
DIAMANTINA, district, Queensland, xx.
171.

or Tejuco, town, Brazil, vII. 162.
DIAMANTINO, town, Brazil, VII. 162.
DIAMASTIGOSIS, flogging of youths,
Spartan custom, IX. 280.
DIAMETER, of circle, ratio of circum-
ference to, XXIII. 563.
DIAMOND, precious stone, VII. 162;
XVI. 381; as carbon, v. 86; cutting of,
XIV. 298; 1. 780; mining, XVI. 455;
of Brazil, IV. 224; of India, XII. 766;
of South Africa, V. 42, 46; XI. 204;
XXIII. 518; tools, XI. 439; XVI. 443.
BEETLE, VI. 133.

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DEVONPORT, town, England, VII. 138; DIABETES, disease, VII. 147; XVII. 681; DIAPASON, organ pipe, XVII. 830.

XIX. 236; dockyard, VII. 318.
DEVONS, North, breed of cattle, 1. 388.
DEVONSHIRE, county, England, VII.
139; population and representation,
XXIII. 727; fisheries of, IX. 253.

First Duke of, VII. 143.
DEVR, dance of the dervishes, VII. 114.
DEW, XVI. 120.

DE WARVILLE, Jean Pierre Brissot,
French Revolutionist, IV. 347.
DEWBERRY, plant, VII. 143.

XVIII. 386; diet in, VII. 207.
DIABLE BOITEUX, Le Sage's work, XIV.
472.

DIABLERETS, mountain, Vaud, Switzer-
land, XXIV. 115.

DIABLO, Monte, California, U.S.A.,
XXIII. 801.

DIACRIOI, Athenian political party, XIX.
130.

DIADEM, crown, VI. 619; ancient, XIII.
676.

DIAPER, in architecture, II. 463.

kind of cloth, XXIII. 210; Japanese,
XIII. 590.
DIAPHANEITY, transparency, in mine-
rals, XVI. 373.
DIAPHONOMETER, Saussure's invention,
XXI. 324.

DIAPHONY, in music, XVII. 81.
DIAPHORETICS, in medicine, VII. 167.
DIAPHRAGM, of mammals, XV. 365; in
human anatomy, XX. 476.

DIARBEKIR, or Diarbekr, town, Asiatic | DICKINSONITE, mineral, XVI. 405.

Turkey, VII. 168; province, XXIII. 653.

DIARMAIT, Irish king, XIII. 250.

DIARRHŒA, disease, VII. 168.

DIARTHRODIAL JOINTS, 1. 833.

DICKSON, David, Scottish hymn-writer,

XII. 591.

DICKSONIA, genus of tree-ferns, XXIII. 534.

DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN, by DICKSON'S GLACIER, Spitzbergen, XXII. S. Warren, XXIV. 373.

DIAS, Antonio Gonçalves, Brazilian poet and historian, VII. 168.

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Bartolommeo, Portuguese navigator, VII. 169; X. 180. DIASPORA, the Jewish dispersion, XIII. 429.

DIASPORE, mineral, XVI. 387.

408.

DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS, IV. 92. DICOTYLEDONS, subclass of plants, XXIV. 131.

DICOTYLES, genus of ungulate mammals, XVIII. 449; XXII. 775.

DICTATOR, in the Roman republic, VII. 179.

DIASTALTIC SPINAL SYSTEM, of Mar- DICTIONARY, DICTIONARIES, VII. 179; shall Hall, XI. 390.

DIASTASE, nitrogenous ferment, IX. 96; IV. 267; XV. 338.

DIATESSARON, Tatian's, XXII. 824; XXIII. 81.

DIATHERMANCY, of air, III. 33.

DIATOMACEÆ, subdivision of Algæ, vii. 169; I. 508; hæmatite deposits formed by, XIII. 286. DIATOM OOZE, of North Sea, XVII. 563; of Norwegian Sea, XVII. 593; of Pacific Ocean, XVIII. 123. DIATONIC SCALE, in music, I. 108; XVII. 79, 91.

DIAZ, Rodrigo, The Cid (q.v.), V. 773

DE LA PEÑA, Narcisse Virgile, French painter, VII. 171. DIAZO-BODIES, nitrogenous carbon compounds, XVII. 519. DIBDIN, Charles, English song-writer and composer, VII. 171.

172.

Thomas, English dramatist, VII.

Thomas Frognall, English bibliographer, VII. 172. DIBRANCHIATA, order of Mollusca, XVI. 669.

DIBRUGARH, station, Assam, India, XIV. 225.

DIBUTADES (Butades), Greek modeller in clay, IV. 579.

bibliographical, III. 659; historical and critical (Bayle's), III. 458; Arabic, XVI. 595; English (Johnson's), XIII. 723; English (Webster's), XXIV. 474; French (Furetière's), IX. 839; French (Littré's), XIV. 706; Sanskrit, XXI. 293.

DICTYONINA, order of sponges, XXII.

422.

DICTYOPTERA, order of insects, XIII. 152.

DICTYS CRETENSIS, early Greek historian, VII. 193; on the legends of Troy, xx. 637.

DICYEMIDA, group of parasites, XVIII. 259; embryology of, XX. 419. DIDASCALOCOPHUS, Dalgarno's work, VI. 776.

DIDELPHIA, subclass of Mammalia, xv. 371, 378.

DIDELPHYS, genus of marsupial mammals, XV. 380; XVII. 796. DIDEMNIDE, family of Tunicata, XXIII. 617.

DIDEROT, Denis, French Encyclopedist, VII. 193; VIII. 197; IX. 666, 668; his connexion with Raynal, XX. 302; his relations with Rousseau, XXI. 25. DIDIAN LAW, Roman, XXII. 644. DIDIUS JULIANUS, Roman emperor, XXI. 699.

DICEARCHIA (Pozzuoli), ancient town, DIDO, legendary founder of Carthage, Italy, XIX. 651.

DICEARCHUS, Greek philosopher and geographer, VII. 172; XVIII. 545; XXII.

20.

DICHOPSIS GUTTA, species of trees, XI. 337.

VII. 196.

Caucasian tribe, XIV. 475. AND ÆNEAS, Purcell's opera, XX. 113.

DIDOT, family of French printers and publishers, VII. 196.

DICHOTOMY, Law of, in psychology, XX. DIDRON, Adolphe Napoléon, French

79.

DICHROISM, in mineralogy, XVI. 375. DICHROITE, mineral, XVI. 418.

DI-CHU, river, Tibet, XXIII. 339.

DICK, Thomas, Scottish writer, VII. 173.

William, Scottish veterinarian,

XXIV. 199.

BEQUEST, for schools in North of Scotland, I. 45.

archæologist, VII. 196. DIDUNCULUS, genus of birds, XIX. 420. DIDYMIUM, chemical element, V. 542; XIV. 291; spectrum of, XXII. 376. DIDYMUS, of Alexandria, ecclesiastical writer, VII. 195.

DIE, in architecture, II. 463.

for stamping medals, VII. 197. town, France, VII. 197. DICKENS, Charles, English novelist, VII. DIEBITSCH-SABALKANSKI, Ivan K. F.A., DIEBITSCH-SABALKANSKI, Ivan K. F. A., 173. Count, Russian general, VII. 197.

DICKENSON, John, English pastoral DIECI DI LIBERTÀ E PACE, state poet, XVIII. 346.

officers, Florence, XV. 146.

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DIE SINKING, II. 64; vII. 197; Greek,
II. 362.

DIES IRÆ, hymn, XII. 583; XXIII. 308;
XXIV. 781.
DIESPITER (Jupiter), Roman god, XIII.
780.

DIEST, town, Belgium, VII. 199.
DIET, German state assembly, VII. 199;
X. 463; history of, X. 501, 505, 508,
513; of Augsburg, q.v. (1530), V. 414;
of Roncaglia (1154), XIII. 472; (1158),
XIII. 473; of Worms (1521), V. 414.
DIETETICS, VII. 200; Lord Combermere's
rules of, VI. 181; Plutarch on, XIX. 234;
water in, XXIV. 399.
DIETRICH, Christian Wilhelm Ernst,
German painter, VII. 213.
DIETRICHITE, mineral, XVI. 402.
DIEZ, Friedrich Christian, German
philologist, VII. 214; XX. 668.
DIFFERENCE, Mental perception of,
XX. 49, 80.

DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS, XIII. II, 13. DIFFERENTIATION, in biology, XVI. 79. in psychology, XX. 45. DIFFRACTION, of light, XXIV. 430, 442, 454.

DIFFUSION, in physics, VII. 214; of

gases, XVI. 617.

- Psychological, XX. 46.

DIFFUSIVITY, Thermal, XI. 581, 586. DIGAMBARAS, division of the Jains, India, XIII. 544.

DIGARCHI, town, Tibet, XXIII. 340. DIGBY, Sir Kenelm, English physicist,

VII. 221.

DIGENEA, group of trematode worms,
XXIII. 539.

DIGENIS ACRITAS, Exploits of, modern
Greek poem, XI. 148, 150.
DIGEST, of Justinian, XIII. 793; XX.
712.

DIGESTER, Steam, Papin's, XVIII. 228. DIGESTION, VII. 207; XVII. 667. DIGESTIVE ORGANS, VII. 221; of Amphibia, I. 762; of birds, III. 725; of fishes, XII. 654; of mammals, xv. 361;

of reptiles, XX. 457; of trematode | DINDINGS, territory and islands, Straits | DIONEA MUSCIPULA, insectivorous worms, XXIII. 536.

DIGGES, Leonard, his connexion with invention of the telescope, XXIII. 135. DIGIT, measure of length, XXIV. 483. DIGITALIS, genus of plants, VII. 237. DIGITATA, group of chelonian reptiles, XXIII. 457.

DIGITS, in the skeleton, 1. 828; XXII. 118; of mammals, XV. 359. DIGNE, town, France, VII. 238.

La, island, Seychelles, Indian Ocean, XXI. 725.

Settlements, Asia, XXII. 586, 587. DINGAAN, or Dingane, Zulu chief, XXIII. 518; XXIV. 828.

DINGISWAYO, Zulu chief, XXIV. 828. DINGO, wild dog of Australia, III. 112; VII. 325; XV. 438.

plant, XIII. 136.

DION CASSIUS COCCEIANUS, historian of Rome, VII. 246.

DION CHRYSOSTOM, Greek writer, VII. 247; XX. 634; on Indian epic poetry, XXI. 281.

DINGWALL, town, Scotland, VII. 243; DIONIS, Peter, his lectures on anatomy,

XX. 854.

DINGY, kind of boat, XXI. 825. DINIFERA, order of Protozoa, XIX. 859. DINIZ, king of Portugal, XIX. 542, 555.

I. 811.

DIONYSIA, Greek festivals, VII. 247. DIONYSIACA, poem of Nonnus, XVII. 533. DIONYSIAC RITES, Phrygia, XVII. 839; XVIII. 853.

DINKEL, delineator of Agassiz's fossils, DIONYSIAN PERIOD, in the calendar,
I. 275.

DIGNITY, or Precedence, Order of, XIX. 660. DIHANG, or Dihong, river, India and DINKELSBÜHL, town, Bavaria, VII. 243.

Tibet, II. 718; XXIII. 341. DIHYRITE, mineral, XVI. 406.

DIIPOLIA, Greek festival, IV. 531; XXI.

137.

DIJON, town, France, VII. 238.

DIKA BUTTER, vegetable fat, XVII. 744, 746.

DIKA NUT, XVII. 664.

DIKRAN (Tigranes), Armenian kings, XVIII. 595, 600, 602; XXIII. 386. DILAPIDATIONS, in English law, VII.

239.

DINOCRATES, or Dinochares, Greek

architect, VII. 243. DINOFLAGELLATA, class of Protozoa, XIX. 859.

DINOMYIDÆ, family of rodent mammals, XV. 420.

DINOPHIDE, family of snakes, XXII. 193, 197.

DINORNIS, genus of extinct birds, VII. 243; III. 731.

DINOSAURIA, order of fossil reptiles, XX. 442.

DILI, Megali and Mikri (Delos), islands, DINOTHERIUM, extinct ungulate mamGreece, VII. 51.

DILIGENCE, in law, VII. 239; in Scots

law, XXIV. 697.

mal, VII. 244; XV. 425.

DIN-TIR, name for Babylon, III. 182. DIOCESE, VII. 244; III. 787.

801.

DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth, English DIOCLES, of Carystus, on anatomy, I.
art organizer, VII. 240.
DILL, plant, VII. 240; II. 57; XII. 289.
DILLEN, or Dillenius, Johann Jakob,
German botanist, VII. 240.
DILLINGEN, town, Bavaria, VII. 240.
DILLON, Wentworth, earl of Roscommon,
XX. 850.

DILUVIAN EPOCH, II. 335.

DILUVIUM, distinguished from alluvium, 1. 589.

DIMENSIONS, in geometry, VII. 240.
DIMETHYL, in chemistry, XVI. 194.
DIMLAH, town, India, XX. 272.
DIMMA, Book of, Irish MS., XVIII. 158.
DIMORPHISM, sexual specialization, XXI.
721.

DIMORPHITE, mineral, XVI. 394. DIMORPHODON, genus of fossil reptiles, xx. 87.

DINA CHARIYAWA, manual of Buddhism,

IV. 436.

DINAJPUR, district and town, India, vII.

241.

DINAN, town, France, VII. 242. DINANDERIE, copper wares of Dinant, Belgium, VII. 242.

DINANT, town, Belgium, VII. 242; destruction of, by Charles the Bold (1466), V. 424.

DINAPUR, town, India, VII. 242; XVIII.
409.
DINARCHUS, Greek orator, VII. 242.
DINAWARI, Arab historian, XXIII. 3.
DINDIGAL, town, India, XV. 192.

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IV. 670.

DIONYSIUS, St (Denis), patron saint of France, VII. 79; XVIII. 286.

the Areopagite, VII. 248; his work on mysticism, XVII. 131; on the heavenly hierarchy, XI. 792.

the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, VII. 247; XXII. 18, 815; coins of, XVII. 638.

the Younger, tyrant of Syracuse, VII. 247; XXII. 19, 816.

of Halicarnassus, Greek writer, VII. 247; XI. 144.

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EXIGUUS, chronologist, VII. 248; XIX. 492; his collection of the canons, V. 16.

PERIEGETES, Greek geographical writer, VII. 248.

THRAX, Roman grammarian, XI.

37. DIONYSUS, Greek divinity (the Roman Bacchus), VII. 248; XVII. 128; orgies of, XVII. 839. DIOPHANTUS, Greek writer on algebra, 1. 511; on porisms, XIX. 520. DIOPSIDE, mineral, XVI. 416. DIOPTASE, mineral, XVI. 411.

DIOPTRIC, unit for measurement of lenses, XXII. 373.

DIOPTRICS, Descartes's treatise on, VII.

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