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DAWES. for the western district from 1853 to 1857. He then served in Congress from 1857 to 1873, and in the Senate from 1875 to 1893. During this time he was active on several committees, particularly on that of Indian Affairs.  DAWES, (1708-66). An English Greek scholar. He was born probably in Stapleton, Leicestershire, matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1726, took his degree in 1729-30, became fellow of his college in October, 1731, and received the M.A. in 1733. Five years later he was made master of Saint Mary's Hospital at Newcastle, where he continued for ten years. But his mastership was not successful; the school declined under him; he was frequently involved in unfortunate quarrels with the governors of the school and his neighbors, and was apparently disliked by his pupils. In 1749 he resigned and retired to Heworth, where he died, March 21, 1766. His last years were clouded by incipient insanity. Dawes is best known for his Miscellanea Critica, first published at Cambridge (1745). The best edition is by Kidd (Cambridge, 1817, 1827). This is a work of genuine worth, but contains some unfortunate attacks on Bentley. It embraces emendations on Terentianus Maurus, Aristophanes, and the Greek tragedians; discussions of the correct pronunciation of Greek, the use of the subjunctive and optative moods, the digamma, ictus, etc. Consult: Luard, in Dictionary of National Biography, vol. xiv. (London, 1888); Monk, Life of Bentley, vol. ii. (London, 1830); and Hodgson, Archæologia Æliana, vol. ii. (Newcastle, 1832).  DAWISON,, (1818-72). A Polish-German actor, born at Warsaw, of Jewish parents. He began his career on the Polish stage in his native city, then played for two years at Vilna, taking prominent parts, and entered upon an engagement at Lemberg. Inspired there by the acting of two distinguished members of the Vienna Court Theatre, he resolved to identify himself henceforth with the German stage, applied himself assiduously to the study of the German language, and soon appeared with success in principal parts of standard dramas. In 1847 he played for the first time in Germany at Hamburg, was invited to Vienna in 1849, and there won great applause, especially in Shakespearean parts. In 1852 he became connected with the Court Theatre at Dresden, where he remained until 1864, interrupting his engagement only by traveling tours to the principal cities of Germany, Through his great talent and by his own exertions he had attained such eminence on the German stage as to be deemed by many the greatest actor of his time. In 1866 he came to America, where he appeared with great success during two years. Soon after his return to Dresden in 1869 he became insane, and never recovered.  DAW′KINS,. See.  DAWKINS, (1838—). An English geologist and paleontologist, appointed professor at Owens College in 1874, He was born at Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales, and after graduating at Jesus College. Oxford (1860). became assistant geologist (1862), and later geologist (1867), to the Geological Survey of Great Britain. He was a member of the Channel Tunnel Committee (1882), and, after making a geological survey of the French and English coasts, laid down the line for a tunnel under the Humber (1883-84), His principal scientific work relates to the investigations of cave faunas. In addition to his papers on fossil mammalia contributed to the Proceedings of the Geological, Anthropological, and Royal societies, he published: Cave Hunting (1874); Researches on the Evidences of Caves Respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe (1874); Early Man in Britain (1880); British Pleistocene Mammalia (1866-87), He was made examiner at the University of London in 1885.  DAW′LISH. An attractive and popular seaside resort in Devonshire, England (Map: England, C 6), It is situated in a sheltered valley opening on the English Channel, 12 miles southwest of Exeter. Population, in 1891, 4200; in 1901, 4000.  DAW′SON. A river port, the capital of Yukon Territory, in the northwestern part of Canada. It is situated on the right bank of the Yukon River, at its confluence with the Klondike, in about latitude 64° 5′ N., longitude 139° 30′ W., 330 miles direct north-northwest of Skagway, and about 1500 miles above the mouth of the Yukon River. It lies at an elevation of about 1400 feet above the sea, and near the site of old Fort Reliance (Map: Canada, C 4). It is the distributing and receiving centre of the Klondike gold-mining region, and has a United States consulate, banks, and several large trading ware- houses. The town dates from shortly after the discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek, August 16, 1896. It is now a busy and fully equipped municipality, notwithstanding two large conflagrations which wrought great destruction in 1899. It is connected by a fleet of river steamers with the posts and stations on both the lower and upper Yukon, and with telegraph lines to the coast. Population, in 1901, 9142.  DAWSON, (1871—). An English novelist. He was born at Wandsworth, near London. When very young he left the grammar school and was apprenticed to a Glasgow shipping company. After three years at sea he ran away while in Australia, and began a life of adventure, traveling in the South Sea Islands, New Zealand, India, Mauritius, South America, West Africa, Morocco, Portugal, California, and all parts of Europe. In 1894 he settled in London, but he has continued to vary his life with occasional Oriental wanderings as special correspondent for the Daily Express. After considerable experimental work in fiction, he won attention with a collection of West Africa stories entitled In the Bight of Benim (1897), which was followed by the still more widely read African Nights' Entertainments, a series of fiery stories of love and adventure in Northern Africa, where Eastern and Western civilization touch each other and conventionalities are swept away. Among his other novels are: Mere Sentiment (1897); Middle Greyness (1897): Bismillah, a Romance (1898): God's Foundlinq (1898); Story of Ronald Kestrel (1900); and The Half Caste (1901). <section end="Dawson, Alec John" /> <section begin="Dawson, George Mercer" />DAWSON, (1849-1901). A Canadian geologist, son of Sir .John William Dawson. He was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, and educated at McGill University and at the Royal School of Mines in London. In 1873<section end="Dawson, George Mercer" />