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 164 DOANE and the Chenanb. The Doab is a large tract reaching from Allahabad in the south to Saha- runpoor in the north, and forming the finest and most fertile part of the province of Agra. It contains many thriving towns, and the whole territory has been brought into a highly pro- ductive state by a system of irrigation. It has a British military station and a strong fort. DOANE, George Washington, an American bish- op, born at Trenton, N. J., May 27, 1799, died at Burlington, N. J., April 27, 1859. He graduated at Union college in 1818, was ad- mitted to holy orders in 1821, officiated for three years in Trinity church, New York, and in 1824 was appointed the first professor in Washington (now Trinity) college, Hartford. In 1828 he became assistant minister, and afterward rector of Trinity church, Boston, where he remained till 1832, when he was elected bishop of New Jersey, whereupon he removed to Burlington, and became rector of St. Mary's church in that city. Here he de- voted his energies to the establishment of a comprehensive system of Christian education for females, and opened in 1837 St. Mary's hall, a boarding school for girls, beautifully situated on the shore of the Delaware. In consequence of the great success of this enter- prise, he founded Burlington college in 1846. Under his episcopate the church in New Jersey experienced an unexampled increase in the number of its communicants, from 801 in 1832 to 4,500 in 1858, while the clergy increased from 14 to 90 in the same period, and the num- ber of parishes from 31 to 79. In 1824 he pub- lished a volume of poems entitled u Songs by the "Way." A volume of his sermons was is- sued in London in 1842. His life has been written by his son, W. C. Doane, who has also edited his "Poetical Works, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Writings" (4 vols., 1860). DOBBERAN, or Doberan, a watering place of Germany, in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, on the Baltic, 9 m. W. N". W. of Rostock; pop. about 4,000. It contains two palaces, with fine pleasure grounds, a theatre and other places of recreation, and one of the most remarkable Gothic churches of northern Germany. The bathing establishment is three miles from the town, at the Heilige Dam, a huge embankment said to have been thrown up by the sea in a single night. DOBELL, Sydney, an English poet, born at Peckham Rye, near London, April 5, 1824. In 1835 his father, a wine merchant in London, removed his business to Cheltenham. At the age of 12 he entered the counting room of his father, with whom he remained as a clerk for 12 years, devoting his leisure hours to literary pursuits. In 1848 he removed to Leckhamp- ton, Gloucestershire, where he wrote his dra- matic poem, " The Roman," published in 1850 under the nom de plume of " Sydney Yendys " In 1854 he published " Balder." These poems found many admirers, who hailed the author as the originator of a new era in English poetry. DOBRIZHOFFER They were, however, severely criticised, and were travestied by Aytoun in his " Fermilian." In 1855 Mr. Dobell united with Alexander Smith in a volume of " Sonnets on the War," and in 1856 in a series of poems under the title of "England in Time of War." In 1865 he wrote a pamphlet on " Parliamentary Re- form," advocating a graduated suffrage and the system of a plurality of votes. In 1871 he produced "England's Day," a volume of lyrics against what he regarded as the hostile attitude of Germany, Russia, and the United States. DOBELN, a town of Saxony, on the Mulde and on the railway from Chemnitz to Riesa, 36 m. S. E. of Leipsic; pop. in 1871, 10,078. It has a high school, two churches, a hospital, and manufactories of cloth, leather, brassware, and hats. It is also the centre of a considerable trade in cattle and grain, and has three annual fairs. The town is well built, on an island formed by the Mulde and Muhlgraben. DOBEREINER, Joliann Wolfgang, a German chemist, born near Hof, Dec. 15, 1780, died in Jena, March 24, 1849. He was professor of pharmacy and chemistry in the university of Jena from 1810 till his death, and had intimate relations with Goethe and the grand duke Charles Augustus of Weimar ; their correspon- dence with him was published in 1856. H made several chemical discoveries, among th the combustibility of platinum, the appara for suddenly producing light by directing a of hydrogen upon a piece of platinum spo: being known as Dobereiner's lamp. His pri cipal works are : Zur pneumatischen Chemie (5 vols., Jena, 1821-'5), Zur Gahrungschemie (1822), and Zur Chemie des Platins (Stuttgart, 1836). With his son FRANZ, the author of Kameralchemie (Dessau, 1851), he published Deutsches ApotTiekerbuck (3 vols., Stuttgart, 1840-'44). DOBRMTEI, GSbor, a Hungarian author, born at Nagy-Szollos in 1786, died in 1851. He studied at Wittenberg and Leipsic, and in 1810 established the " Transylvanian Museum," a periodical which exercised considerable in- fluence upon the Hungarian literature of the period. In 1820 he removed to Pesth, and in 1827 was one of 22 savants invited to assemble at Buda to devise a plan and constitution for the Hungarian academy. Of the great work of his life, the "Ancient Monuments of the Hungarian Language," four volumes were pub- lished by him and a fifth was left nearly com- pleted. His poems, which consist of odes, epi- grams, and elegies, have been translated into several languages. He translated some of Shakespeare's plays, Moliere's Avare, and sev- eral tragedies of Schiller into Hungarian. DOBRIZHOFFER, Martin, a Jesuit missionary, born at Gratz, Styria, in 1717, died in Vienna, July 17, 1791. He was sent to South America in 1749, and passed 18 years among the Indians inhabiting the W. bank of the Paraguay rivei 1 and the interior of Paraguay. When the Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish colonies he went ion- 1 I rin- mie I