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 DAWES DAWSON 721 1868. After taking his degree of M. D. at the university of Edinburgh in 1814, he was attached to the English army, and travelled extensively in the East. He was the author of several works, the principal of which are : " Life and Works of Sir Humphry Davy " (9 vols., London, 1839-'40, the life constituting vol. i.) ; " An Account of the Interior of Cey- lon and of its Inhabitants, with Travels in that Island " (4to, London, 1821), especially valu- able for its details on the natural history of Ceylon ; " Researches, Physiological and Ana- tomical 1 ' (2 vols. 8vo, London, 1839); "Notes and Observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta, with some Remarks on Constantinople and Turkey " (2 vols. 8vo, 1842) ; and " Dis- eases of the Army " (1863). He spent most of his life in the foreign army service, but was the travelling companion and physician of his illustrious brother during the last period of his life. He published many important papers in the "Philosophical Transactions," several of which are collected with illustrations in his " Researches." In 1858 he published " The Fragmentary Remains of Sir Humphry Davy." DAWES, Kufus, an American poet, born in Boston, Jan. 26, 1803, died in Washington, Nov. 30, 1859. He entered Harvard college in 1820, but did not graduate, on account of a charge of participating in some disturbance. The charge was afterward disproved, and fur- nished the occasion for his first published poem, directed against the Harvard faculty. He was admitted to the bar, but never practised. He was a contributor to the " United States Liter- ary Gazette," and conducted for a time "The Emerald," a journal printed at Baltimore. He published in 1830 " The Valley of the Nasha- vay, and other Poems;" and in 1839, " Ger- aldine, Athenia of Damascus, and Miscellane- ous Poems," comprising descriptions of natural scenery, songs, and odes. The next year he published " Nix's Mate," a historical romance. He was a Swedenborgian, and frequently preached. DAVVIS01V, Bogumil (i. e., Theophilus), a Polish actor, born in Warsaw, May 15, 1818, died in Dresden, Feb. 2, 1872. His parents were poor Jews, and his attainments were due to his own exertions. He first appeared on the stage in Warsaw in 1837, and subsequently in Wilna and Lemberg. He .afterward travelled in Germany, and in 1847 became connected with the Thalia theatre in Hamburg. Two years later he went to Vienna, where his great talent became manifest in his classical person- ations. He was soon recognized as one of the greatest actors of his age, and received an engagement for life at the royal theatre in Dresden, where he remained from 1854 to 1864, subsequently appearing on the principal stages of Europe. In 1866 he visited the United States, and played for two years in the principal cities to enthusiastic audiences. After his return to Europe he became insane, in which condition he remained till his death. DAWSOff. I. A N. county of Georgia, bounded S. E. by the Chestatee river, and drained by the Etowah ; area, 200 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 4,369, of whom 337 were col- ored. The surface is hilly, and the soil in parts fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 22,313 bushels of wheat, 102,066 of In- dian corn, and 19,690 bales of cotton. The value of live stock was $105,282. Capital, Dawsonville. II. A S. central county of Ne- braska, bounded S. W. by the Platte river, and intersected by the S. branch of Loup fork ; area, 1,450 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 103. The surface is level and the soil in some parts ster- ile. The Union Pacific railroad passes through the S. part. Capital, Dawson. III. The N. E. county of Montana, bounded N. by British America, and E. by Dakota; area, about 30,- 000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 177. It is inter- sected by the Missouri river, and watered by Milk river, Mussel Shell river, and other trib- utaries of the Missouri. The Yellowstone crosses the S. E. corner. Little Rocky moun- tains are in the W. part. The Northern Pa- cific railroad is to cross the S. E. corner. DAWSON, John William, a Canadian geologist and naturalist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in October, 1820. He completed his studies at the university of Edinburgh, and on his return home devoted himself to the study of the nat- ural history and geology of the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The re- sults of these investigations are combined in his " Acadian Geology " (2d ed., 8vo, 1868). Since 1843 he has contributed largely to the proceed- ings of the geological society of London, and to various American and Canadian periodicals. He has written also monographs on special sub- jects connected with geology, such as his re- searches on the anatomy of the reptiles of the carboniferous series, entitled "Air-Breathers of the Coal Period," on "The Postpliocene Deposits of the St. Lawrence Valley," and their relations to the rival theories of the gla- cial period, and especially his studies in fossil botany. His two volumes on the Devonian and the carboniferous flora of eastern North America, published recently by the geological survey of Canada, illustrated with drawings by his daughter, are the most important con- tributions yet made to the palaeozoic botany of North America. His studies in the lower forms of animal life, both recent and fossil, have been numerous and valuable, and he is the discoverer of that oldest known form of ani- mal life, the eozoon Canadense of the Lauren- tian limestones, in the investigation of which he was associated with Logan, Carpenter, and Sterry Hunt. He is the author also of ^Ar- chaia, or Studies on the Cosmogony and Natu- ral History of the Hebrew Scriptures'' (1858), and " The Story of the Earth and Man " (1872), in the latter of which he combats the theory of the origin of species commonly called Darwin- ism. In 1850 he was appointed superintendent of education for Nova Scotia, in which position