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 110 DILL published in " Greater Britain : a Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries during 1866-7" (2 vols., 1868). In 1868 he was elected to parliament from Chelsea, by a ma- jority of two to one over Dr. W. H. Russell. On the death of his father he became editor of the " AthenaBum." In politics he is a repub- lican, and has attracted much attention by his attacks on the monarchical system. DILL, the common name of the anethum graveolens (Linn.), an annual plant of the nat- ural order umbellifera, a native of Spain, but naturalized in the south of France and Ger- many, and cultivated in gardens in the United States. It has an upright smooth stem, much dissected leaves, yellow flowers, and small ob- long seeds, with sharp, filiform dorsal ridges. The seeds and oil distilled from them are aro- matic, but have no properties to distinguish Dill (Anethum graveolens). them from many other members of the same class of substances. The seeds are imported in large quantities from the south of France into England, where they are employed in the manufacture of British gin. In Germany they are used in pickling cucumbers and in the flavoring of sour crout. DILLEXIUS, Johann Jakob, a German botanist, born in Darmstadt in 1687, died in Oxford, April 2, 1747. His grandfather was called Dill and his father Dillen, which the son Latin- ized into Dillenius. He studied at the univer- sity of Giessen, and was received into the so- ciety of " Inquirers into Nature," under whose auspices he published a " Dissertation upon the Plants of America naturalized in Europe ;" a "Treatise upon Coffee," with an account of the substances which might displace it, giving tin- ]) reference to burnt rice; and a volume of " Observations upon the Mode of Development of Ferns and Mosses," in which he confirmed the theory of different sexes in plants. He first obtained a reputation among naturalists by his Catalogue Plantarum circa Gissam nascentium, DILLON published in 1719. William Sherard, a scien- tific English traveller, persuaded Dillenius to leave Germany for England. He arrived in London in 1721, and had a fine garden at El- tham placed at his disposition by James She- rard, a brother of William. He edited an enlarged edition of Ray's " Synopsis of British Plants," with engravings of his own. In 1728 William Sherard died, and founded by his will a chair of botany at Oxford, to which Dillenius was appointed, who in 1732 published his Hortus Elthamensis, containing not only de- scriptions of plants arranged in alphabetical order, but also 324 plates engraved by himself. This work was enthusiastically received by his contemporaries, among others by Linnseus, then commencing his labors. In 1741 he published his Historia Muscorum, which places him in the first rank of the botanists of the last cen- tury. He was more than 20 years in collecting the materials of this work. The plates (num- bering 85) and the descriptions were all by his own hand. He published no subsequent work, but many of his drawings and collections are preserved in the Sherardian museum at Oxford. Linnaus dedicated to him a magnificent genus of plants of tropical India, which is the type of the family of the Dilleniacece. DILLINGEN, a town of Bavaria, in the circl of Swabia, on the Danube, 22 m. N. W. Augsburg ; pop. about 5,500. The universit founded in 1549, and from 1564 to 1773 un< the management of the Jesuits, was abolish* in 1804. There is now a lyceuin with a librs of 75,000 volumes. Other conspicuous builc ings are the Jesuit college, the palace of tl bishops of Augsburg, and a royal castle. It has an asylum for the deaf and dumb. A new bridge has recently been thrown over the Danube, and a canal to Lauingen has been constructed to avoid the windings of the river between the two places. The town belonged to the bishop of Augsburg till 1803, when he was deprived of his secular estates. DILLMANN, Christian Friedrich Angnst, a Ger- man orientalist, born at Illingen, Wurtemberg, April 25, 1823. He studied at Tubingen, and after a visit to the oriental museums of Paris and London resided for several years at the university as a private teacher. In 1854 he became professor of oriental languages at Kiel, and in 1864 professor of Old Testament ex- egesis at Giessen. In 1869 he succeeded Hengstenberg at the university of Berlin. His fame rests mainly on his great labors in behalf of the Ethiopic language. His princi- pal works are : Grammatik der athiopiscJien Sprache (Leipsic, 1857) ; Lexicon Lingua j*Eihi~ 0/ncee(1862-'6); and Chrestomathia sEthiopica, edita et Glossario explanata (1866). DILLON, Peter, a British navigator, born about 1755, died in 1847. He early entered the merchant service, and barely escaped be- ing murdered by the Feejee islanders while lieutenant of an East Indian ship. In 1826 he met three of his former companions on an