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DE LA RUE, W., on sun spots, n. 786

his observatory, at Cranford, England xvn. 711. DELAUNAY, Charles, on the lunar

theory, xvi. 80 1. , Charles, assumed name of Madame

Girardin, French writer, x. 621. , Marguerite Jeanne Cordier, Baronne

cle Staal, xxn. 439. DELAVIGNE, Jean Francois Casimir,

French poet and dramatist, VII. 43,

427; IX. 672. DELAWARE, river, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,

vn. 44; xviii. 500, 736. , State, U.S.A., vn. 44; population,

xxm. 802; colony of, xxm. 730.

, town, Ohio, U.S.A., vn. 45, DELA WARES, American -Indian tribe,

xii. 831. DE LA WARR, Peter, speaker of House

of Commons, XVIIL 306. DEL CHIARO, on Walachia, xxi. 17. DEL ClMENTO, Florentine academy, I.

70; xv. 793.

DELCOURT, Dupuis, aeronaut, I. 193. DEL CREDERE AGENT, in commerce,

vn. 45. DE L EPEE, Abbe, vm. 457; his labours

on behalf of deaf-mutes, vn. 7. DELESSITE, mineral, x. 228; xvi. 414. DELFICO, Melchiorre, Italian jurist, vn.

45- DELFT, town, Holland, vn. 45.

WARE, xix. 631.

DELHI, district, India, vn. 45; xx. 109. , or Dehli, town, India, VII. 46;

siege of (1857), xii. Sio; school of

poets at, XI. 848.

DELI, district, Sumatra, xxn. 639. , island, Java, xm. 600.

, town, Timor, Indian Archipelago,

xxm. 398. DELIA, Greek festival, vn. 49.

, Tibullus s love, xxm. 349.

DELICT, in law, xxm. 454.

DELILLE, Jacques, French poet, VII. 49;

IX. 665.

DELINEATION, in drawing, vn. 447. DELIRIUM, mental disorder, vn. 50;

xm. 106.

TREMENS, vn. 50.

DELISLE, Guillaume, his map of the

Old World, x. 1 88.

, Joseph Nicolas, on astronomy, n.

757; his thermometer, xxm. 289.

, Rome, on crystals, VI. 672. DELITZSCH, town, Prussia, vn. 51. DELLA CHIAJE, Italian naturalist,

xxiv. 806.

DELLA PORT A, Giacomo, Italian archi tect, II. 439. DELLA PORTA, Giovanni Battista,

Italian natural philosopher, xix. 525;

his steam-engine, xxn. 473; his con nexion with the telescope, xxm. 135. DELLA ROBBIA, Florentine family of

artists, xx. 588.

DELLA VALLE, Pietro, Italian traveller xxiv. 43.

DELLMAN S ELECTROMETER, vm. 119

DEL MONTE, Gian Maria (Pope Julius- Ill.), xm. 772.

DELOLME, Jean Louis, Swiss jurist, vn

SI DE LONG, Lieut., Arctic explorer, XIX.

326. DELOS, island, Greece, yii. 51; 11. 185;

amphictyony of, I. 773; XI. 100;

worship of Latona in, xiv. 345. DE LOUTHERBOURG, Philip James,

painter, vn. 52. DELPHI, town, Greece, vn. 52; II. 185;

amphictyony of, I. 772; oracle and

temple at, xvn. 808; vn. 53; XL 98;

xiv. 345.

, Mount, Euboea, Greece, Vin. 647.

DELPHINAPTERUS, genus of cetacean

mammals, xv. 398; xxiv. 525. DELPHIN EDITIONS, of the classics, in.

657.

DELPHINIA, Greek festival, vn. 53. DELPHINID/E, family of Cetacea, xv.

398. DELPHINIUM, Greek harbour, xvin.

50.

, plant, Xii. 255. DEL Rio, Ercole, Italian chessplayer, v.

601.

DELRIO, Martin, on demoniacal posses sion, vn. 62. DELTA, at mouth of a river, x. 278, 319;

XX. 580; formation of, xn. 504; of

the Nile, VII. 768.

, territory, Venezuela, xxiv. 140.

, assumed name of David Macbeth

Moir, Scottish poet, xvi. 608. DELUC, Jean Andre, Swiss geologist,

vn. 53; xxn. 799. DELUGE, in primitive cosmogonies, vn.

54; xvn. 143. DELUSION, in insanity, xin. 105. DEMADES, Greek orator, vn. 57. DEMAGNETIZATION, xv. 254. DE MAILLET, Benoit, his evolutionist

views, vm. 748.

DE MAISTRE, Joseph, French dip lomatist and polemical writer, xv.

306. DE MAISTRE, Xavier, French writer,

xv. 307; IX. 672. DEMAK, town, Java, xin. 606. DEMAND AND SUPPLY, in economics,

xxiv. 47. DEMATOPHORA NECATRIX, vine fungus,

xxiv. 240. DEMBINSKI, Henry, Hungarian general,

xn. 372. D EM BOWS K I, Baron, his observatory

at Gallarate, Italy, xvn. 714. DEMENTIA, mental disease, xin. 107. DEMERARA, county, British Guiana, XL

249; river, XL 250. DEMETER, Greek goddess (the Roman

Ceres), v. 345; xvn. 127; festival of

(Thesmophoria), XXIII. 295; mysteries

of, vm. 126.

DEMETRIA, Greek festival, vn. 57. DEMETRIAS, ancient town, Thessaly,

Greece, xxm. 299; xxiv. 282. DEMETRIUS, Bactrian king, xvin. 590. L, Poliorcetes, king of Macedonia,

vn. 57.

II., of Macedonia, vn. 58.

L, Soter, king of Persia and Syria,

vn. 58; xin. 422; xvin. 590. II., Nicator, of Persia and Syria,

vn. 58; xin. 423; xvin. 591. III., Euergetes, of Syria, vn. 58;

xvin. 595. , bishop of Alexandria, his relations

with Origen, xvn. 840.

, Greek Cynic philosopher, vn. 58.

(Dmitri, q.v.), Russian pretender,

xxi. 108. of Scepsis, ancient writer on the

Trojans, xxm. 581. PHALEREUS, Greek Peripatetic

philosopher, vn. 58. DEMIDOFF, Russian noble family, vn.

59-

DEMIDOWITE, mineral, xvi. 411. DEMISE, in law, xiv. 273. DEMIURGE, in Gnosticism, x. 704;

Marcion s doctrine of the, xv. 534. DEMMIN, town, Prussia, vn. 59. DEMOCRACY, Government by, xi. u;

in France (1789), IX. 597; in relation

to socialism, xxil. 221. DEMOCRATIC PARTY, United States,

xxm. 755, 764, 771. DEMOCRITUS, Greek philosopher, vn.

59- , Christianus, assumed name of J. C.

Dippel, German theologian and al chemist, vn. 255.

DEMOGRAPHY, or Statistics, xxn. 463. DEMOIVRE, Abraham, mathematician,

vn. 60; his law of mortality, n. 76;

on probability, xix. 769. DEMOIVRE S THEOREM, in analytical

trigonometry, XXin. 568. DEMON, vn. 60. See Daemon. DEMONESI, or Demonnesi, islands, Sea

of Marmora, xix. 742. DEMONIACAL POSSESSION, Theories of.

11. 56; vn. 61. DEMONOLOGY, vn. 60; xv. 199. DE MONTCORBIER (F. Villon), French

poet, xxiv. 232. DE MONTE, G. B. (Montanus), Italian

physician, xv. 809. DE MONTS, French settler, Maine,

U.S.A., XV. 300. DE MORGAN, Augustus, English mathe matician and logician, vii. 64. DEMOS, Athenian, compared with Roman

plebs, xvn. 526. 3EMOSPONGlyE, subclass of sponges,

xxn. 421, 425. DEMOSTHENES, Athenian general in