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LEFT DEWAS 342 DEWEY University and became president of the Chemical Society in 1897. He has made many discoveries in chemistry and has been a member of the Government Explo- sive Committee. He was awarded the Rum- ford Medal of the Royal Society, 1894, and has received medals from scientific societies in many countries. He is F.R.S.; M.A.; LL.D., and president of the British Association. His literary works include: "Collected Paperr. on Spectros- copy," numerous papers contributed to the proceedings of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, the Royal Institution, the British Association, the Chemical Society, etc. DEWAS, a native state of central India under British protection, held con- jointly by two Rajput chiefs. Area under both chiefs, 290 square miles ; pop. 152,100. The capital, Dewas. 20 miles N. E. of Indore, is a straggling town, with a population of about 12,000. DEWBERRY (Rubus csesius), a plant distinguished from the common bramble by its weaker and more prostrate glau- cous stem, with scattered prickles, but without bristles, also by the few large drupes, which make up its fruit, and which have a characteristic dew-like bloom, whence the name arises. The fruit Is very sweet and agreeable, and makes an excellent wine. The dewberry of North America {R. procumbens), abundant in the forests of Canada, is a delicious fruit. DS WET, CHRISTIAN, 9 Boer mili- tary officer; bom in Smithfield, Orange Free State (now Orange River State), in October, 1859. He was bred a farmer and made a small fortune. He became a rnember of the Volksraad. Though prac- tically without military experience, he served ably in the Boer-British War of 1899-1900^ attaining the rank of general and outwitting the pursuit of Kitchener and Roberts in the summer of 1900, and of the former in the early part of 1901. His stand at Sanna's Post was highly praised by military experts. In 1907 he was a member of the first Parliament of the Orange River Colony and Minister of Agriculture. In October, 1914, he led an insurrection and surrendered to Gen- eral Louis Botha on Dec. 2, 1914. He was sentenced to six years' imprison- ment and to pay a fine of $10,000, but within a short time was pardoned. He published "Three Years of War" <1902). DEWEY, GEORGE, an Aa -rican naval officer; bom in Montpeh^^r, Vt., Dec. 26, 1837. He came of New England stock, his father being Dr. Julius Y. Dewey, one of the first authorities on life insurance in his day. At the age of 17, after a preparatory course in the Northfield Military School, young Dewey was appointed a cadet at Annapolis, in the class which graduated in 1858. A practice cruise on the "Wabash" fol- lowed, and he was resting at home when the Civil War broke out. At once he was commissioned a lieutenant and assigned to the "Mississippi," a 17-gun steam- sloop of the old side-wheel type, under Commander Melanchthon Smith. His first serious taste of war was when the West Gulf squadron, early in 1862, forced a passage up the Mississippi river ahead of Farragut. A later enterprise resulted in the grounding of the "Mis- sissippi," in the middle of the night, while attempting to run the batteries of Port Hudson. Here she was riddled with ADMIRAL DEWEY shot and set afire by the enemy's bat- teries, so that officers and crew had to abandon her. Other notable engagements in which Dewey figured during the Civil War were at Donaldsonville in 1863, where he was on one of the gunboats, and at Forf Fisher in the winter of 1864-1865, as an officer of the "Agawam." Receiving his commission as lieutenant-commander in March, 1865, he served for two years on the "Kearsarge" and the "Colorado," and was then attached to the Naval