DILLENirrS. 252 DILUVIUM. he reniaincil until his death. His work on niosse.-i, iMitilleil Ilisloria Miiscorum in t/ua air- citcr Sijrcvnta' impedes Vcteres et Novcr ad sua Oenera llelnla: Describuntur (1741; reprinted, 1811), was long accepted as the standard au- thority on the subject. It was profusely and handsomely illustrated, and treated the subject in a most comprehensive manner. Consult Schillinj;, Johann Jakob Dillcuius (Hamburg, 1888). DILLENBURG, dil'lcn-bijorr,. The capital of the circle of Dill, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, pic- turesquely situated on the Dill, 21 miles south- west of Marburg. It has interesting associations with William of Orange, the liberator of the Netherlands, in the Wilhelmsthurm, 130 feet high, occupying the site of Dillenburg Castle, in whicii he was born in 1533. A statue of Bismarck, erected in 1898. is also a feature of the town. Iron-mining is the chief industry and a mining school is one of the principal eihicational institu- tions. Population, in 1900, 4470. DILLINGEN, d!l'ling-cn. A town of Bavaria, on the Danube. 14 miles northwest of Augsburg. Its principal buildings are the palace, the royal gymnasium and Latin school, a Capuchin mon- astery, a Franciscan nunnery, a deaf and dumb asylum, and several hospitals (Map: Germany, D 4). The university, founded in 1540. and one of the chief seats of the Jesuits, was suppressed in 1S04. There are manufactures of cutlery and twine. Population, in 1890. .=)775: in 1000. (1077. In the Middle Ages the town was the seat of the counts of Dillingen, and from 128(i imtil 180", when it came into the possession of Bavaria, it belonged to and was the residence of the bishops of Augsburg. DILLINGHAM. William Pail (1843-). An .meriian lawyer and politician, born at Waterburv, 't. He was admitted to the bar in 1807, was Secretary of Civil and Military .MTairs of Vermont from 1874 to 1876, a member of the Lower House of the Vermont Legislature in 1870 and 1884, and of the Senate in 1878 and 1880. In 1888-90 he was Governor of the State, and in 1900 was elected to the L'nited States Senate to take the seat of .Justin S. Morrill (q.v.). de- ceased. DILLMANN, dil'nian. Christian FRrenRicn Ai'GiST (1823-94). A German Orientalist and theologian. He was born at lllingen. Wiirttem- berg, and educated at Tiibingen, where, in 1852. he became lecturer. In 1854 he became professor of Oriental languages at Kiel, and in 1804 accepted a call to a professorship of Old Testament exe<;esis at Giessen. He succeeded Hengstenberg as profes- sor of Old Testament exegesis at the University of Berlin in 1809, and in 1877 was elected a mem- ber of the Royal .Academy of Sciences. He is noted chiefly for res<'arehes in the Ethiopic lan- guage, nf which he published a grammar (1857) and a dictionary- (1805). His other publications include a commentary on Exodus and Leviticus (3d ed. 1.897) and " one on Genesis (fith ed. 1892). He was president of the Fifth Interna- tional Oriental Congress of 1881, whose proceed- ings he published (1882). DILT/ON, Toiix n851 — ). An Iri-h politi- cian anil aj;itator. He was bom in Dublin, the son of .Tohn Blake Dillon (ISlO-fifi). who was a prominent member of the Young Ireland Party. Dillon was educated at the Catholic Univer- sity of Dublin and the Royal College of Sur- geons of Ireland. He early identified himself with the Parncllite moveiiient. and in 1880 was returned for Tipperary. In Parliament he soon became proiliinenl for the violence of his language, while his connection with the 'Plan of Campaign', inciting the Irish tenants to lawless- ness, led to his iniprisonmciil in 1888 and 1891. From 1883 to 1885 he sulVered from ill health: but in the latter year he was elected for East Mayo, and was reelected in 1892, 1895, 1897. and 1900. He succeeded .Justin McCartliy as chair- man of the Irish Nationalist Party in 1896, and held this position until 1899. DILLON, John- Forrest (1831 — ). An -Vmerican lawyer. He was born at Northampton, -Montgomery County, N. Y.. and early in life set- tled in Iowa, where he successively became State Prosecuting Attorney (1852-58)," judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa (1803-09), and judge of the L'nited States Circuit Court. Eighth Judicial District (1809-79). In 1879 he came to .New York City, where he was appointed professor of real estate and equity jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, with which institution he remained for three years. During the past fifteen years he has become prominently known as a railroad lawyer, and is now associated as general or con- sulting counsel with the Manhattan Elevated and Union Paeitic railroail companies, and with the Western Union Telegraph Company. His works include: Itcmuval uf Causes fvoin State to rederal Courts ; and Laws and Jurisprudence of England and .imcricn. DILOLO. di'-lo'lA. Lake. A small lake in Por- tuguese est Africa, near the southern boundary of the Congo Free State, situated in latitude 11° 30' S., longitude 22° 30' E. Its altitude is about 4700 feet. It lies on the watershed lietwecn the river systems of the Congo and the yCambezi. with both of which it nniy be connected. Lake Diloln was discovered by Livingstone in the beginning of 1854. It abounds in hippopotamuses and fish. DILTHEY, diM'tt. AVimiixmi (1834—). A (Jcrman ])liilosopher. He was born at Biebrich on tlie Rhine, anil was educated at Heidelberg and Berlin, lie occupied the chairs of philosophy at Basel in 1800, Kiel in 1808. Breslau in 1871, and Berlin in 1882. In his principal work. A'la- Icituni) in die (Icistcsic-isscnsrhaftrn (1883), he endeavors to furnish a rational basis for the soc-iological and historical sciences, by elimi- nating the element of metaphysics and siihsti- tutin>.' tlierefor psychology as a primary factor. DILTJENTS (from Lat. dilurrc. to wash away, from rfi'-, apart 4- lucre, to wash). Medi- cines whose purpose is to dilute the blood and increase the quantity of the excretions generally, riie simplest and best of ililuents is pure water; but all watery fluids, such as lemonade, so<ln- water, beer, infusions, tea, etc., may be regarded as eoniiu!,' under this designation. DILU'VIUM (Lat. flood, from diluerv, to wash awayl. . name formerly rrjven by geolo- gists to those strata which they believed to have Ix-cn formed by the deluce, and more particularl.v to the boulder clay, ^^^len the adjective — di- luvial — i< employed by modern writers, it is to characterize those accumulations of gravel or angular stones formed during the Pleistocene
