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 D'EWES DEWEY 63 before his death. He published " Inaugural Essays/' "Medical Essays," "System of Mid- wifery," " A Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children," and " A Trea- tise on Diseases of Females." His last syste- matic work was his "Practice of Medicine," published in 1830. D'EWES, Sir Symonds, an English antiquary, born in Coxden, Dorsetshire, Dec. 18, 1602, died April 18, 1650. He graduated at Cam- bridge, and was admitted to the bar, but never practised, and lived on his property at Stow Hall in Suffolk. He was high sheriff of Suf- folk in 1639, was elected to parliament for Sudbury in 1640, and was one of the Puritan members expelled from the house of commons by "Pride's purge." He c6mmenced collect- ing materials for a history of England at the age of 18, and though the fruits of his research were not published by him, they were of great use to Selden and other writers. After his death his "Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth " (folio, London, 1682) was published by his nephew. His " Autobiography and Correspondence," edited by J. 0. Halliwell (4 vols. 8vo, London, 1845), contains some interesting pictures of his times and contemporaries, intermixed with much that is useless and with a comical dis- play of vanity. DE WETTE, Wilhclm Martin Leberecht, a Ger- man theologian, born at Ulla, near Weimar, Jan. 14, 1780, died in Basel, June 16, 1849. Having studied at Weimar and Jena, he was appointed professor of philosophy, and subse- quently of theology, at Heidelberg, and re- ceived in 1810 a professorship at the universi- ty of Berlin, where he rapidly acquired great reputation both as a teacher and as a writer. This situation he lost in 1819, in consequence of a letter of consolation written to the mother of Sand, the murderer of Kotzebue, which was regarded by the government as e*xtenua- ting that political murder. He was afterward elected professor of theology in the university of Basel. His works are among the most re- markable productions of German theological science and criticism. The most important of them are : Beitrdge zur Einleitung in das Alte Testament (2 vols., 1806-'7) ; Commentar uber die Psalmen (1811); Lehrbuch der he- brdisch-judischen Archaologie (1814) ; Ueber Religion un'l Theologie (1815); Lelirbuch der christlichen Dogmatik (2 vols., 1813-' 16) ; "Critical and Historical Introduction to the Old and New Testaments " (2 vols., 18l7-'26 ; the Introduction to the Old Testament was translated and enlarged by Theodore Parker, Boston, 1843, and that to the New by Frederick Frothingham, Boston, 1858); Christliche Sit- tenlehre (3 vols., 1819-'21); "Theodore, or the Skeptic's Conversion" (1822; translated by James F. Clarke, Boston, 1841) ; "Lectures on Practical Ethics" (1823 ; translated by Samuel Osgood, Boston, 1842); Opuscula Theologica (1830) ; Das Wesen des christlichen Glau- 261 VOL. vi. 5 "bens (1846) ; a new translation of the Bible, executed together with Augusti, in 6 vols. (1809-'14) ; and an edition of Luther's works. DEWEY, Chester, D. D., an American clergy- man, born at Sheffield, Mass., Oct. 25, 1784, died in Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1867. He graduated at Williams college in 1806, was licensed to preach in 1808, and during the latter half of that year officiated in Tyring- ham, Mass. The same year he accepted a tutorship in Williams college, and in 1810 was appointed to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy, and occupied it 17 years. From 1827 to 1836 he was principal of the gymnasium at Pittsfield, Mass., and was also professor of chemistry in the medical colleges there and at Woodstock, Vt. In 1836 he be- came principal of the collegiate institute at Rochester, N. Y., and in 1850, on the establish- ment of the university of Rochester, he was elected professor of chemistry and natural history, from which position he retired in 1860. He was active in efforts for the ad- vancement of public schools, and was for a time president of the teachers' institute. He made the study of grasses a specialty, and discovered and described several new species. In the class of carices he was a recognized authority, and his writings on this subject make an elaborate monograph, patiently pros- ecuted for more than 40 years. He was an extensive contributor to the "American Jour- nal of Science and Arts," and wrote numerous papers on botany, and a " History of the Her- baceous Plants of Massachusetts," which was published by the state. His latest publications were two review articles, " The true Place of Man in Zoology," and "An Examination of some Reasonings against the Unity of Man- kind." For nearly 50 years of his active life Prof. Dewey delivered an average of 70 ser- mons a year, though he was never a pastor. DEWEY, Orville, D.D.,an American clergyman, born at Sheffield, Mass., March 28, 1794. He graduated at Williams college in 1814, studied divinity at Andover from 1816 to 1819, was for eight months agent for the American education society, and declined an immediate and per- manent settlement on account of unfixed opin- ions in theology, but accepted a temporary call at Gloucester, Cape Ann, with a candid ex- planation of his unsettled views, and here be- came a Unitarian. He was soon after appoint- ed assistant of Dr. Channing, preached two years in his pulpit, and formed with him an intimacy that lasted during Channing's life. In 1823 he accepted the pastorate of the Unitari- an church in New Bedford, where he remained ten years, until, broken in health, he sought restoration in a voyage to Europe, June, 1833. " The Old World and the New " (2 vols., 1836) contains the history of his two years' absence. In 1835 he was called to the second Unitarian church in New York, which during his minis- try built the " church of the Messiah," and be- came a very large and prosperous society. In