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DE LA WARR.  Privy Council in 1602. In 1609 he became a member of the Council of Virginia; and in February, 1610, was appointed first Governor and Captain-General of Virginia, arriving at Jamestown on June 10, just in time to prevent the original colonists from abandoning the settlement. Though he lived with ridiculous pomp, he was an able and energetic officer, and infused new life into the previously mismanaged colony. He planted a small settlement on the site of the present Hampton, and built two forts, Henry and Charles, named in honor of King James's sons. In March, 1611, he sailed for the West Indies to restore his health, but was driven by a storm into the river which now bears his name. He never returned to Jamestown, though he remained the nominal Governor and contributed large sums of money to the enterprise. In 1618, in answer to the urgent request of the colonists, then smarting under Argall's oppression, he sailed again for America, but died on the voyage. His ''The Relation of. . . Lord De La Warr'' . . . to the Council of Virginia, originally published in 1611, was republished in 1858.  DELBŒUF, , (1831-96). A Belgian philosopher, born in Liège. In 1860 he became an instructor in the Normal School of his native town, in 1863-66 was professor of philosophy in Ghent, and from 1866 held a chair in Liège. His works include: De la moralité en littérature (1861); De la psychologie comme science naturelle, son présent et son avenir (1875); and Le sommeil et les rêves (1885).  DELBRÜCK,, (1842—). A German comparative philologist and Sanskrit scholar, born in Putbus. He studied at the universities of Halle and Berlin, and was appointed professor of comparative philology and Sanskrit in Jena in 1869. He made important additions to the literature of comparative philology in his Grundfragen der Sprachforschung (1901). His other works include: Einleitung in das Sprachstudium (3d ed., 1893; English trans., 1882); Syntaktische Forschungen, vols. i.-v. (1871-88); and Vergleichende Syntax der indogermanischen Sprachen, which forms volumes iii., iv., and v. of Brugmann and Delbrück's Grundriss der indogermanischen Sprachen (Strassburg, 1893-1900).  DELBRÜCK, (1848—). A German historian and politician. He was born in Bergen, on the island of Rügen, and was educated in Heidelberg, Greifswald, and Bonn, where his studies were interrupted by the Franco-German War, in which he served as officer. In 1874 he became preceptor of Prince Waldemar of Prussia, a brother of Emperor William II. After lecturing at the University of Berlin and serving as Deputy in the Reichstag, in 1883 he became an editor of the Preussische Jahrbücher, of which publication he assumed charge in 1889. In 1885 he was appointed to the chair of history at the University of Berlin, where his lectures attained great popularity. His principal works include: Die Perserkriege und die Burgunderkriege (1887); Die Strategie des Perikles erläutert durch die Strategie Friedrichs des Grossen (1890); ''Friedrich, Napoleon, Moltke. Aeltere'' und neuere Strategie (1892); and Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte (1900).  DELBRÜCK, (1817-1903). A German statesman, born in Berlin. He came of a distinguished family, his father, Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Delbrück (died 1830), having been preceptor of the two Prussian princes afterwards respectively known as King William IV. and Emperor William I. He studied in Halle, Bonn, and Berlin. After an association of fifteen years with the Prussian Bureau of Commerce (organized as the Ministry of Commerce in 1848), he became in 1859 director of the Department of Commerce and Industry, in which capacity he skillfully consolidated the German Zollverein and negotiated important treaties with France (1862), and subsequently with England, Belgium, Italy, and other European States. In August, 1867, Bismarck secured his advancement to the presidency of the Chancery of the North-German Confederation. He also became a Prussian Minister of State in 1868, and in both positions, in which he was virtually the representative of the &lsquo;Iron Chancellor,&rsquo; he displayed a strict adherence to constitutional principles, notwithstanding the great difficulties frequently encountered in the defense of the measures advocated by Bismarck. In October, 1870, he was sent on diplomatic missions to the various courts of South Germany, in order to promote the unification of the country, and the ultimate conclusion of the treaties at Versailles (November 15, 23, and 25, 1870) was directly due to the skill and tact with which Delbrück had discharged this important mission. He was president of the Imperial Chancellery until 1876, when Bismarck began to inaugurate that protective policy which Delbrück as the representative of free trade had ever strenuously opposed. His literary productions include the anonymous monograph Der Zollverein und das Tabaksmonopol (1857) and the legal treatise entitled Der Artikel 46 der Reichsverfassung.  DELBRÜCK, (1850&mdash;). A German chemist, brother of Hans Delbrück, born in Bergen. He studied chemistry in Berlin and in Greifswald. In 1872 he was made assistant at the Academy of Trades in Berlin; in 1887 he was appointed instructor at the Agricultural College, and in 1899 was given a full professorship. The researches, carried out in part by Delbrück himself, in part under his guidance, have resulted in technical contributions of the highest value to the fermentation industries. He is one of the editors of the Zeitschrift für Spiritusindustrie (1867), and of the Wochenschrift für Brauerei.  DELCASSÉ,, (1852—). A French statesman, born at Pamiers. He became known by his able articles on foreign polities, published in Le Jour, La République Française, and various other journals. He served several times in the Chamber of Deputies, and became Under-Secretary and Minister of the Colonies in 1894. In this capacity he contributed greatly to economic progress in the foreign possessions of France. He was Foreign Minister in the Brisson, Dupuy, Waldeck-Rousseau, and Combes Cabinets. He adjusted the differences with England arising from the occupation of Fashoda by Marchand, and was instrumental in determining the eastern frontier of the French possessions in the Sudan. As Minister of the Colonies, his services in behalf of economic 