Doremus
ROBERT OGDEN, an American chemist; born in New York City, Jan. 11, 1824. He was graduated at New York University in 1842, and from its medical department nt in 1850, having established his chemical laboratory in New York in 1848. He has filled the chair of chemistry at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and at the College of the City of New York. He patented noted chemical processes and fire extinguishers and was a noted expert in toxicology. He died March 22, 1906.
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Dorian Mode
or DORIC MOOD, the first of the authentic church tones or modes, from D to D, with its dominant A.
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Doric Land
Greece, Doris being an important part of it.
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Dorking
a town in Surrey, England, 22 miles S. W. of London, noted for the its breed of fowls. It is the scene of fictitious "Battle of Dorking," an imagi- Dorking nary narrative of invasions and conquest of England by a foreign army, written by Gen. Sir George T. Chesney in 1871.
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Dorkings
an English breed of silver and gray domestic fowls. They originated in the vicinity of Dorking, a town of Surrey, twenty-two miles southwest of London. The Dorkings are not so popular with poultry raisers as they once were. See Chickens
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Dormant
in heraldry, in a sleeping posture.
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Dormer Window
a window piercing a sloping roof, and having a vertical frame and gable of its own. The gable is sometimes in the plane of the wall, or is founded on the rafters; sometimes a succession of stories on the roof are provided with dormers.
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Dornick
a species of figured linen, named from Tournay or Doornik in Flanders. The "mystery," introduced into England, was long confined by law to inhabitants of Norwich and Pulham.
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Dorpat
or DERPT, a town of Esthonia. The university, founded in 1632, by Gustavus Adolphus, was re-established by Alexander I. in 1802, and since May, 1887, has been thoroughly Russianized, the final reorganization of the law faculty taking effect in 1889. Dorpat was a Hanse town in the 14th and 15th centuries, and was alternately captured by the Swedes, Poles, and Russians till 1704. Now called Yuriev. Pop. about 45,000.
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Dorranceton
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Luzerne co. It is opposite Wilkes-Barre, and on the Susquehanna river, and on the Delaware, Lackaw Lackawanna and Western railroad. It is entirely a residential city. Pop. (1910) 4,046; (1920) 6,334.
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Dorsanes
the Indian Hercules.
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Dorse
a fish of the cod genus, called also Baltic cod.
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Dorset
EARLS OF. See SACK- VILLE.
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Dorset
or DORSETSHIRE, a county of England, in the southern part. It is situated on the English Channel, between Devonshire and Hampshire, and has an area of 987.9 square miles. The chief industries are agriculture and stock-raising. Along the coast are many of the most popular watering places of England, including Lyme Regis, Bridport, and Lulworth. The capital is Dorchester. Population of the county, about 225,000.
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Dorsetian Downs
THE, the uplands of Dorsetshire, England. DORSTENIA (named after Dr. T. Dorsten, a German botanist), a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Urticaceæ. The receptacle is slightly concave and broad, bearing numerous naked flowers. D. contrayerva, D. houstoni, and D. brasiliensis furnish the contrayerva root of commerce. They are natives of tropical America. The rhizome is used as a stimulant tonic, and diaphoretic.
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Dort
or DORDRECHT, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland; on an island formed by the Maas, 10 miles S. E. of Rotterdam. An inundation in 1421, in which upward of 70 villages were destroyed and 100,000 people drowned, separated the site on which Dort stands from the mainland. It is one of the oldest, as in the Middle Ages it was the richest of the trading towns of Holland; and its trade is still considerable. Among its chief buildings are a Gothic cathedral (1363) and a handsome town hall (1339). The town is traversed by canals, and the largest ships are accommodated in its roomy harbor. Close by are a large number of shipyards, corn and saw mills, and manufactories of oil, sugar, ironwares, and machinery. Dort was founded in 1013. Here, in 1572, the states of Holland, after the revolt from Spain, held their first assembly; and sat from Nov. 13, 1618, to May 19, 1619, the conclave of Protestant divines known as the Synod of Dort, which condemned the doctrines of Arminius as heretical, and affirmed those of Calvin. Dort is the birthplace of the brothers De Witt, of Cuyp, and Ary Scheffer; to the last a statue was erected in the market-place in 1862. Pop. (1918) 53,828.
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Dortmund
a city of Prussia, province of Westphalia; on the Ems, 47 miles N. N. E. of Cologne. Its prosperity is due to its becoming the center of several important railway systems, to the extensive coal mines in the vicinity, and to the active manufactures of iron, steel , machinery, railway plant, etc. There are also a number of breweries, potteries, tobacco factories, es, chemical works, etc. It was once a free imperial Hanseatic town, and the seat of the chief tribunal of the Vehme . Pop . about 215,000.
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Dorus
the eponymous ancestor of the Dorians.
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Dory
a popular name for Zeus Faber, an acanthopterygious fish, the typical one of the family Zeidæ. It is found at times on the North Atlantic coasts and is much esteemed for eating. It is very commonly called John Dory, which is a corruption of the French Jaune-dorée = golden-yellow . Also a small two-oared boat used by fishermen and 'longshoremen. DOSITHEANS (from their founder, Dositheus), a sect founded by Dositheus, whose life and labors were in Samaria. The popular belief is that he was the first Christian "heretic." He is said to have been very rigid in his Sabbatarianism. His other opinions were partly Samaritan, partly Sadducean.
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Dostoevsky
FEODOR MICHAIL- OVITCH (dōs-to-yev'skē) a Russian novelist; born in Moscow , Nov. 11, 1821. His first book, "Poor Folk" (1846) is an example of his talent for psychological analysis. He was condemned to the Siberian mines in 1849 for a socialist conspiracy, but in 1859 returned to St. Petersburg and resumed literary work. Dead The thrilling "Memoirs of House," describes penal life in Siberia. His most celebrated novel is "Crime and Punishment" dramatized in France and the United States. "Complete Works," 14 volumes. There are translations of all of his works. He died in St. Petersburg, Feb. 8, 1881. a
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