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258 latter in 1865. He first practised at Westmoreland, N. H., but removed to Keene, in the same state, in 1876. He was examining surgeon for pensions on the board from April, 1882, to June, 1885, and is now (1887) medical director of the Granite state mutual aid association. He has been a member of the Connecticut river valley medical society, and also its president. He is the author of '• Theory of Medical Science : The Doctrine of an Inherent Power in Medicine a Fallacy," which claims that a revolution in medical philosophy is imperative in order to harmonize with the correct theory of vital force. He is skilled in the science of astronomy, and has invented an ingenious contrivance ex- planatory of some of its problems.

DUNKIN, Christopher, Canadian statesman, b. 24 Sept., 1811 ; d. in Montreal, 6 Jan., 1880. He was educated at the universities of London and Glasgow, emigrated to the United States, and be- came a teacher of Greek at Harvard in 1834. In 1835 he gave up his tutorship and removed to Canada. He edited the Montreal " Morning Chroni- cle " from May, 1837, until the following summer, and on the consummation of the union of Upper and Lower Canada he received an appointment un- der the government, which he retained until May, 1847. Pie also studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1846. In 1857 he was elected to parliament for DruraiTiond and Artha- baska, which he represented until 1861, when he was defeated; In 1862 he was elected for Brome, and was re-elected by acclamation at the general election in 1868. In 1867 he became provincial treasurer of Quebec, and in 1869 entered the Do- minion cabinet as minister of agriculture and sta- tistics, holding this portfolio until 1871, when he was appointed puisne judge of the superior court of Quebec. He was a member of the council of public instruction from 1856 till 1859, and was also a lieutenant-colonel in the Montreal light infantry. During his parliamentary career he was the means of securing much beneficial legislation, but the measure with which he was most intimately con- nected bears his name, and is known as the •' Dunkin Temperance Act of 1864."

DUNLAP, Alexander, physician, b. in Brown county, Ohio, 12 Jan., 1815. He was graduated at Miami university in 1836, and at Cincinnati medi- cal college in 1839, and practised in Greenfield, Ripley, and Springfield, Ohio. He was one of the first surgeons in the country to perform the dilfi- cult operation of ovariotomy, and since 1843 has performed it over 100 times, successfully in seventy- five per cent, of his cases. He was a member of the International medical congress in Philadelphia in 1876, vice-president of the American medical asso- ciation in 1877, and has contributed to the litera- ture of his profession.

DUNLAP, Andrew, lawyer, b. in Salem, Mass., in 1794; d. there in 1835. He was graduated at Harvard in 1813, studied law in Salem, was ad- mitted to the bar there, becoming distinguished in his profession. He removed to Boston in 1820, and was U. S. district attorney for Massachusetts from 1829 till just before his death. He published two fourth-of-July orations (1819 and 1822), his speech in defence of Abner Kneeland (Boston, 1834), and " Admiralty Practice in Civil Cases of Maritime Jurisdiction" (Philadelphia, 1836; 2d ed., New York, 1850), which was " pronounced by competent judges to be learned, accurate, and well digested." — His son, Samuel Fales, lawyer, b. in Boston, Mass., in 1825, was graduated at Harvard in 1845, and has published " Origin of Ancient Names " (Cambridge, 1856) and " Vestiges of the Spii'it- History of Man " (New York, 1858) ; and edited, with notes, his father's " Admiralty Practice."

DUNLAP, George Washington, congressman, b. near Lexington, Ivy., 22 Feb., 1813 ; d. in Lancaster, Ky., 6 June, 1880. He was graduated at Transylvania university in 1834, and at the law-school in 1837. He began pi'actice at Lancaster, Ky., in 1838, and was master commissioner of the circuit court from 1843 till 1874, was a member of the legislature in 1853, and of the famous Frankfort border-state convention of May, 1861, where he used his influence to avert the civil war. He was elected to congress as a Unionist, and served one terra, in 1861-'3, voting men and money for the support of the government. He was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1864.

DUNLAP, James, educator, b. in Chester county. Pa., in 1744 ; d. in Abington, near Philadelphia, Pa., 22 Nov., 1818. He was graduated at Princeton in 1773, and was a tutor there in 1775-'7, at the same time studying theology. He was ordained by Newcastle presbytery on 21 Aug., 1781, went to western Pennsylvania, and, after holding several pastorates, became in 1803 president of Jefferson college, Cannonsburg, Pa., holding also the chairs of languages and moral philosophy. He resigned in 1812, and in 1813-'16 had charge of the academy (now Madison college) at Uniontovvn, Pa. He was a thorough and accurate classical scholar, and much respected by his pupils, who " called him Neptune, because his presence quelled the waves of noisy merriment among them."

DUNLAP, John, printer, b. in Strabane, Ireland, in 1747 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 27 Nov., 1812. While a boy he went to live with an uncle, William Dunlap, a printer and publisher in Philadelphia, at the age of eighteen entered the business, and in November, 1771. began the publication of the Pennsylvania " Packet." This paper was changed into a daily in 1784, the first in the United States, and afterward became the " North American and United States Gazette." Mr. Dunlap was appointed printer to congress, and first printed the "Declaration of Independence." He was an officer in the first troop of Philadelphia cavalry, which became the body-guard of Washington at Trenton and Princeton, "in 1780 he gave £4,000 to supply provisions to the Revolutionary army.

DUNLAP, John A., author, b. about 1793; d. in New York city about 1858. He was little known, except as an accurate and painstaking legal compiler, somewhat given to intemperance, which increased in his later years, and ultimately caused his death. He published a digest of the laws relating to justices of the peace in New York, an "Abridgment of the 12th and 13th Books of Coke's Reports " (New York, 1813) ; " Practice of the Superior Court of New York in Civil Actions in 1821-'3 " (2 vols., Albany, 1841) ; and edited the 3d American edition of Paley's " Agency " (New York, 1847) and about fifteen volumes of the American edition of the English chancery reports.

DUNLAP, Robert Pinckney, governor of Maine, b. in Brunswick, Me., 15 Aug., 1796; d. there, 20 Oct., 1859. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1815, admitted to the bar in 1818, and began practice in his native town, but soon abandoned it, having inherited a fortune. He was a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1821-'2, of the senate in 1823, and its president in 1827-'9 and 1831-'3. He was chosen to the executive council in 1833, was governor of the state in 1834-'8, and was elected to congress as a Democrat in 1842, and served two terms, in 1843-'7. He was for many years president of the board of overseers of Bow-