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DERMOPTERA, suborder of insectivorous mammals, XV. 401.

DERNA (Darnis), seaport, Tripoli, North Africa, XXIII. 575.

DE Rossi, Gian Battista, on the Cata combs, v. 207.

DE ROSSI, J. B., his edition of the Hebrew Bible, ill. 647.

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

DERTONA (Tortona), ancient town, Italy,

XXIII. 460.

DERTOSA (Tortosa), ancient town, Spain,

xxm. 460. DERVISH, DERVISHES, vn. 113; xxn.

662,665; Egyptian, VII. 726; dancing

(Maulawi), xxi. 59. DERWENT, river, Derbyshire, England,

VII. 1 06.

, river, Northumberland, England,

XVII. 565.

, river, Tasmania, xxm. 72. DERWENTWATER, lake, England, vi. 699. DERZHAVIN, Gabriel, Russian poet,

xxi. 1 06. DE SACY, Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre,

French Orientalist, xxi. 140.

, Isaac Louis Le Maitre, Port

Royalist, xxi. 141. DESAGULIERS, Jean Theophile, his

electrical experiments, vill. 4. DESAIX DE VOYGOUX, Louis C. A.,

French general, VII. 114. DE SALLO, Denis, French man of letters,

xvin. 539. DESARGUE S THEOREM, of projections,

xix. 794. DESAUGIERS, Marc Antoine Madeleine,

French dramatist, vu. 114. DESAULT, Pierre Joseph, French

anatomist, VII. 115; Bichat s connexion

with, in. 664. DE SAUSSURE, Horace Benedict, xxi.

323; on glaciers, x. 629. DE SAUSSURE, Nicolas T., xxi. 324. DE SAUTY, his electric telegraph test,

xxm. 118.

DESCANT, musical, xvn. 81. DESCARTES, Rene, French philosopher,

vu. 115; his application of algebra to

geometry, I. 514; xm. 6; on axioms,

111.159; on evolution, vill. 747, 759; on

the extension of matter, ill. 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, xm. 77; rules of, in

aboriginal tribes, xxm. 473. DESCHAMPS, Eustache, French poet,

vn. 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.

DES CLOT, Bernat, Catalan chronicler,

xxii. 363.

DESEADO, river, Patagonia, xvin. 353. DESERT, DESERTS, Oases in, xvn. 695;

of Arabia, n. 239; Gobi, Central Asia,

x. 712; Sahara, Africa, xxi. 149. DESERTAS, islands, Madeira, xv. 181. DESERTED VILLAGE, Goldsmith s poem,

x. 762. DESERTION, in military law, xvi. 298.

of a wife, vu. 301 ; xxiv. 643. DESFONTAINES, Rene Louiche, French

botanist, vn. 129. DESFUL (Dizful), town, Persia, vu. 305;

xviii. 627. DESHOULIERES, Antoinette, French

poetess, vil. 129. DESIDERI, P. Ipolito, traveller in Tibet,

xiv. 503. DESIDERIO DA SETTIGNANO, Italian

sculptor, vil. 129. DESIGN, Artistic, vil. 446; copyright in,

vi. 364. , Doctrine of (Teleology), xviii. 182;

xx. 301; xxm. 248; xxiv. 802. DESIGNATIONS, Abbreviations of, i. 28. DESIMA, island, Japan, xvn. 164. DESIRE, Psychological analysis of, xx.

74- DES LOGES (F. Villon), French poet,

xxiv. 232. DESMAREST, Anselme, on birds, xviii.

n. DESMIDIE^E, division of Alga?, I. 508;

vu. 170. DESMODUS RUFUS, blood-sticking bat,

xv. 415; xxiv. 52. DESMOGNATHOUS TYPE, of birds, in.

711. DES MoiNES, town, Iowa, U.S.A., vn.

ISO- DESMOND, Earls of, Ireland, vi. 404; xiv. 52; their rebellions, XIII. 264, 265 ; first earl (Maurice Fitzgerald), Xlll. 260. DESMOTHORACA, order of Protozoa,

xix. 845.

DESMOULINS, Camille, French journal ist and Revolutionist, vn. 130; ix.

673- , Roger, grand-master of Knights of

St John, xxi. 174. DES MURS, M. A. P. CE., on birds,

xvin. 13, 32. DESOLATION ISLAND, Southern Ocean,

xiv. 48. DESOLATION LAND, Tierra del Fuego,

South America, xxm. 384. DE SOTO, Ferdinando, Spanish explorer,

VIL 131.

DESPENAPERROS, pass, Spain, xxn. 294. DESPENSER, Hugh, minister of Edward

II. of England, vn. 683. DES PERIERS, Bonaventure, French

writer, IX. 653. DESPORTES, Abbe, French poet, xx.

347-

DESPREZ (Depres, q.v.), Josquin, Flemish

composer, vil. 101. DESSAIX, Joseph Maria, Count, French

general, vn. 132. DESSALINES, Negro chief, Hayti, XL

545-

DESSAU, town, Germany, vn. 132. DESSAUER, Der Alte, Leopold, duke of

Anhalt-Dessau, xiv. 467. DESSLER, Wolfgang C., German hymn- writer, xil. 587. DE STAEL, Madame, French writer,

xxii. 439; ix. 672. D ESTE, princely house, Italy, vill. 558;

IX. 108; xvi. 542; xx. 341. , Leonora, friend of Tasso, xxm.

76. DE STENDHAL (M. H. Beyle), French

writer, ill. 621.

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

, novel, by Miss Ferrier, IX. 111.

DESTRUCTION OF THE PHILOSOPHERS,

Al-Gazali s treatise, I. 510. DESTRUCTIVENESS, in phrenology,

xviii. 845. DESTUTT DE TRACY, A. L. C., French

philosopher, XXIII. 497. DETECTIVES, Police, xix. 337. DETERMINANTS, in algebra, i. 516;

vill. 497; Spottiswoode on, xxn.

432. DETERMINISM, in philosophy, xxm.

234- DE THOU, Jacques A., French historian,

XXIII. 315; IX. 659. DETMOLD, town, Germany, vn. 133;

xiv. 683. DE TOCQUEVILLE, A. H. C. ChereV

Comte, French writer, xxm. 430;

IX. 675.

DETONATION, of explosives, vin. 809. DETROIT, town, Michigan, U.S.A., vn.

133; population, XXIII. 822. DETTINGEN, Bavaria, Battle of (1743),

ix. 586.

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

xm. 712. DEUTERONOMY, Book of, in. 637; XIIL

415; xvin. 505. DEUTSCH, use of the word, x. 473; as

applied to language, x. 514. , Emanuel Oscar Menahem, German

Orientalist, vil. 134. DEUTSCHE THEOLOGIE, mystical book

of devotion, xv 1 1. 133. DEUTSCHKATHOLIKEN, or German

Catholics, x. 444. DEUTSCHKRONE, town, Prussia, vn.

134-

DEUTZ, town, Rhenish Prussia, VI I. 134. DEUX FONTS (Zweibriicken), town,

Bavarian Palatinate, VII. 134. DEUX SEVRES, department, France, xxi. 710.