KEY AND INDEX 



1888. German botanist. Studied at Heidelberg, 

 Marburg, and Berlin. Professor at Freiburg, 

 Halle, and Strasburg. He made a special study 

 of fungi and was editor of the "Botanische Zei- 

 tung" from 1866 until his death. 



De Forest, Lee, viii, 65. Born at Council 

 Bluffs, Iowa, August 26, 1873. One of the pio- 

 neers of the development of wireless telegraphy 

 and telephony in America. His system of wire- 

 less telegraphy was used extensively in the Rus- 

 sian-Japanese War. 



Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph, iii, 16. Born 

 at Amiens, 1749; died at Paris, 1822. French 

 astronomer. Studied under Delisle and Lalande. 

 Worked out tables of motion by Uranus after 

 its discovery by Herschel (1781). He and Me- 

 chain superintended the measurement of the arc 

 of the meridian (1792-99), for the base of the 

 metric system. 1807, was made Professor of 

 Astronomy in the College de France. Left nu- 

 merous writings on astronomical subjects. 



Delitzsch, Frederick, i, 96. Born at Erlangen, 

 1850; German assyriologist. Professor at Leip- 

 sic (1877), Breslau (1893), and Berlin (1899). 

 Has written much on Assyriology and his works 

 have attained a high degree of popularity. 



Democedes, i, 172. Born at Crotona, Italy, 

 middle Sixth Century B.C. Greek physician. 

 Went to Greece, where he was taken prisoner by 

 the Persians and carried to court, when he be- 

 came physician to Darius I. Afterward he re- 

 turned to Greece and to Crotona. 



Democritus, i, 161. Born at Abdera, Thrace, 

 cir. 470-460 B.C. Lived to a great age. Greek 

 philosopher. Traveled extensively and was the 



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