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LEFT DELAWARE COLLEGE 310 DELHI DELAWARE COLLEGE, an institu- tion for hip;her education at Newark, Del., founded in 1833. In 1919 there were in attendance 296 students. The faculty numbered 52. President, S. C. Mitchell, Ph. D. DELAWARE INDIANS. See Len- APES. DELAWARE, or DELAWARR, THOMAS WEST, an American colonial governor, born in England. He suc- ceeded his father as third Lord Delaware in 1602 and some years later was ap- pointed governor of Virginia. He ar- rived at his post in June, 1610, but was prostrated by sickness the following year. He died at sea, June 7, 1618. DELBRUCK, MARTIN FRIEDRICH RUDOLF VON, a Prussian statesman, born in 1817. After serving for 15 years with the Prussian Bureau of Commerce, he became, in 1859, Director of the De- partment of Commerce and Industry, in which capacity he consolidated German industry and negotiated important trea- ties with France, England, Belgium, and other countries. In 1867 he was ap- pointed president of the Chancery of the North-German Confederation, and in the following year was appointed a Prussian minister of state. He was strongly under the influence of Bismarck and was in reality a representative of that states- man. He carried out several important missions to foreign courts. He had much to do with the conclusion of the treaties of Versailles in November, 1870. Until 1876 he was President of the Imperial Chancellery, when he came in conflict with Bismarck over the policy of state railway ownership. In 1881 he retired to private life and died in 1903. DELEB PALM, the Borassus ^thi- ofnim, a native of the interior and W. of Africa, allied to he Palmyra palm. Its leaves and fruits are used by the Afri- cans for the same purposes as those of the Palmyra by the Asiatics, and the tender roots produced by the young plant are extensively used as an article of food. DELEGATE, a person appointed and sent by another or by others, with po%/ers to transact business as his or their repre- sentative. The title was given to mem- bers of the first Continental Congress in America, 1774. Representatives from United States territories are so desig- nated. DELENDA, things to be erased or ex- punged. Delenda est CartJutgo is the celebrated sentence with which Cato the elder was accustomed to conclude all his speeches in the Roman Senate. His hatred of Carthage arose from a jealousy of its flourishing state, and the conse- quent danger to Rome, and eventually led to its destruction in 146 B. C. (named after M. Ben- a French patron of of florideous algae, the sub-order Delesseriex. a flat membranaceous . The one best known Its fruit ripens in DELESSERIA jarain Delessert, botany), a genus typical one of the The species have rose-colored frond is D. sanguinea. winter. i'ELESSERIEJE, a sub-order of algse, order Ceramiaceae (rose-tangles). The frond is cellular, the coccidia inclosing closely-packed oblong granules arising from the base, v/ithin a spherical cellular envelope which finally bursts; tetraspores in definite heaps or collected in sporo- phylls. DELET, one of the most ancient towns of South Holland, on the Schie, 8 miles N. W. of Rotterdam; is intersected by numerous canals. Delft was noted from the 16th to the 18th century for its delft- ware, but has now entirely lost its high reputation for this manufacture, and not more than a few dozen persons are en- gaged in making earthenware. Of sev- eral interesting buildings, one, the town- hall (1618) is a picturesque and richly adorned edifice. The New Church (1476) contains a monument, more ornr'c than tasteful, to the memory of William I. of Orange, who was assassinated here, July 10, 1584. It also contains the tomb of Grotius, and the burial-vaults of the present royal family of Holland. The Old Church, a building of some note, contains the tomb of the naturalist, Leeuwenhoek, and of the great admiral, Van Tromp. Delft has also a State arsenal, an East Indian college, a poly- technic, and several hospitals. There are some manufactures of fine carpets, casks, baskets. Pop. about 35,000. DELFTWARE. a kind of pottery orig- inally manufactured at Delft, in Holland, in the 14th century. It was among the best of its day, being considered equal to the Italian in quality, but somewhat in- ferior in its ornamentation. DELHI (del'i), a city of Hindustan, in the Punjab, anciently capital of the Patan and Mogul Empires, about 954 miles N. W. of Calcutta. It was at one time the largest city in Hindustan, cover- ing a space of 20 square miles, and hav- ing a population of 2,000,000. A vast tract covered with the ruins of palaces, pavilions, baths, gardens, mausoleums, etc., marks the extent of the ancient metropolis. The present city abuts on the right bank of the Jumna, and is surrounded on three sides by a lofty