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D E M D E R

DEMOSTHENES, Greek orator, vn. 67; XL 103, 142 ; his ridicule of Alex ander, I. 481 ; liis connexion with Isseus, xni. 376.

DEMOTICA, town, European Turkey, vii.

74-

DEMOTIC WRITING, in Egypt, xi. 794. DEMPO, mountain, Sumatra, xxil. 638. DEMPSTER, Thomas, Scottish scholar,

vii. 74. DEMTER (Deventer), town, Holland, vn.

i35-

DEMURRAGE, in maritime law, vn. 75. DEMURRER, in law, vn. 75. DENAIN, town, France, vii. 75; xvn.

535-

DENAIR, town, Asia Minor, n. 147. DENARIUS, Roman coin, xvn. 652, 655. DENBIGH, county, Wales, vn. 76; popu lation and representation, xxni. 727;

coalfield, vi. 52. DENDERAH, or Dendarah, village, Upper

Egypt, vn. 77; temple of, vn. 776. DENDERMONDE, town, Belgium, vn.

78. DENDROCOPUS, genus of birds, xxiv.

652.

DENDRCECA, genus of birds, xxiv. 367. DENDROHYRAX, genus of ungulate

mammals, xn. 599; xv. 423. DENDROLAGUS, genus of marsupial

mammals, xin, 840. DENDROPHID^E, family of snakes, xxn.

192, 195. DENESHKIN (or DENEZHKIN) KAMEN,

mountain, Russia, xvin. 549; xxiv. 4. D ENGHiEN, Due, French Royalist, vin.

214; his execution, xvn. 207. DENGHIZ (Balkash, q.v.), lake, Central

Asia, xxi. 640.

DENHA, Syriac writer, xxn. 848. DENHAM, Dixon, African traveller, I.

246; v. 801.

, Sir John, English poet, VII. 78;

vin. 424.

DENIER, medioeval coin, xvn. 654. DEN IN A, Carlo Giovanni Maria, Italian

historian, vn. 79. DENIS, St, patron saint of France, vn.

79; xvin. 286.

, king of Portugal, XIX. 542, 555.

, island, Seychelles, XXI. 725.

DENISON, town, Texas, U.S.A., xxni.

205.

DENIZ, Ak, lake, Syria, xxn. 821. DENIZEN, in law, vn. 79. DENMAN, Lord, chief-justice of England,

vn. 79.

DENMARK, vn. 80; union with Nor way, XVII. 589; union with Sweden

(1397), xxn. 746; seizure of fleet by

England (1807), xvn. 212; Prussian

and Austrian invasion ( 1 864), in. 139;

IX. 625; academy, I. 73; army, 11.615;

birds, xvin. 17; church, vin. 491 ; coins,

xvn. 658; drama, vn. 444; forests, IX.

400; language, xxi. 373; libraries, xiv.

532, 549; literature, vn. 89; national

debt, xvn. 246; newspapers, xvn. 430;

observatories, XVII. 714; oyster culture,

xvin. 108; periodical literature, xvin.

543; prison system, xix. 759; railways,

XX. 251; Reformation in, XX. 336;

weights and measures, xxiv. 490. DENNEWITZ, Prussia, Battle of (1813),

xvn. 220. DENNIS, John, English critic and poet,

vn. 94.

DENNY, town, Scotland, xxn. 554. DENON, Baron de, French artist and

archaeologist, vn. 95. DENSITY, of bodies, defined, xv. 698;

unit of, vii. 241 ; determination of, xn.

536; tables of, xn. 541; of water of

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, xvin.

1 20. DENT, Alfred, English settler, North

Borneo, xxi. 124. , E. J., English watchmaker, xxiv.

396. DENTALIUM, genus of Mollusca, xvi.

663.

DENTIFRICES, xvin. 526. DENTINE, or Ivory, vn. 233; xin. 520;

xv. 349. DENTISTRY, vn. 95; artificial teeth, xin.

523 ; in relation to medicine, xv.

797- DENTITION, of man, vn. 96, 232; of

fishes, xn. 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, vin. 454; x. 190.

ISLANDS, New Guinea, xvn. 386.

DENUDATION, in geology, x. 372. DEOBAND, town, India, xxi. 152. DEODAND, in English law, vn. 100. DEODAR, tree, v. 286; ix. 405; culture

of, n. 319.

DEODATUS, St, of Nevers, xxi. 161. DEOGAN, chief god of the Kafirs, Asia,

xin. 822.

DEOGHAR, town, India, xxi. 297. DEOGURH (Dowletabad), fortress, India,

vn. 382. DEOR S COMPLAINT, Anglo-Saxon poem,

vin. 403. DPARCIEUX, Antoine, his mortality

tables, n. 76. DEPARTMENT, French administrative

division, ix. 509, 600. DEPARTURE, in navigation, xvn. 264. D EPINAY, Madame, French authoress,

vin. 482; as patroness of Rousseau,

xxi. 25.

DEPLOYMENT, of an army, xxiv. 352. DEPOSITS, geological, x. 276; in North

Sea, XVII. 563; in Norwegian Sea,

xvn. 593; in Pacific Ocean, xvin.

121. , in savings banks, xix. 573; XXI.

DEPOTS, Military, xxiv. 353. -, Railway, xx. 234.

DEPRES, Josquin, Flemish musical com poser, vn. 101; xvn. 83; xvin. 180.

DEPRESSION, in insanity, xin. 105.

DEPTFORD, town, England, vn. 101; dockyard, vn. 310; Trinity House at, xxni. 574.

DEPULSOR, epithet of Jupiter, xin. 780.

DE QUATREFAGES, J. L. A., on silk worm disease, XXIL 59; on Teredo, xxni. 185.

DE QUINCEY, Thomas, English writer,

VII. 101.

DERA, river, Morocco, xvi. 832.

GHAZI KHAN, district, India, vn.

104; xx. 109. ISMAIL KHAN, district, India, vn.

105; xx. 109. DERAJAT, division, India, vn. 105; xx.

109. DE RANC, Armand J. B., abbot of La

Trappe, xxni. 523. DERAYA, or Dereyeh, town, Arabia, vn.

113-

DERBE, town, Asia Minor, xv. 92. DERBEND, town, Hissar, Central Asia, xn. 3. -, or Derbent, town, Russia, vn. 105.

DERBY, county, England, vn. 106; popu lation and representation, xxni. 727; coalfield, vi. 51.

, town, England, vn. 108; porcelain

factory at, xix. 641. , horse race, England, xn. 201. -, Earls of, their connexion with Isle

of Man, XV. 454; fourteenth carl,

English statesman, VII. 109; vin.

366.

DERBYSHIRE NECK, disease, x. 739. DEREHAM, town, England, xvn. 536. DE RETZ, Cardinal, leader of Fronde,

xx. 488; ix. 572. DEREVERAGH, Lough, Ireland, xxiv.

512.

DEREYEH, town, Arabia, vn. 113. DERG, Lough, Ireland, vn. 362. DERHAM, William, English divine and

man of science, vn. 113. D ERLON, Count Drouet, French

general, vii. 473. DERMATEMYS, genus of chelonian

reptiles, xxni. 457. DERMATINE, mineral, xvi. 415. DERMATOCHELYS, genus of chelonian

reptiles, XXIII. 457. DERMATOGEN, primary epidermis of

plants, xn. 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, xin. 258.