DONAL 382 DONALDSONVILLE. outlet of the Mekong. Saigon, the capital of CocUin-China, is on its banks. DON'ALDSON, Edw.kr (1816-89). An AnuTiian naval ollU-er. Ho was liorn in Balti- more, entered tlio navy as uiidsliipnian in 1835, and became lieutenant in 1847. In 1862, as commander of the Scioto, lie took part in the bombardment of I'ort* .lai-kson and Saint Pliilip, in Farra','it's ea|)tiire of New Orleans, and was raised to the rank nf oomniandor. lie also par- ticipated in the battle of Mobile Bay. He became a captain in 18(i(i, a commodore in 1871, and a rear-admiral in 187l>, when he was retired from the service. DONALDSON, jA>fES ( 1831 — ) . A Scottish educator and author, ile was born at Aberdeen, was educated at .berdcen I'nivcrsity, Xew Col- lege. London, and llcrlin University, and was ap- pointed tutor of Grei'U at l^dlnburi;li University in 1852. He afterwards became rector of the hiph schools of Stirlinj; (1S54-5C) and Edin- burgh (1866-81) after having previously been connected vith the latter instituti<m as classical master for ten years, and five years later l)ecame vice-chancellor and principal of the I'niversity of Saint Andrews and principal of the United College of Saint Salvator and Saint Leonard. His publications include the following: .4 Mod- ern Greek finimmiir for the T'se of Classical Students (IS.i:!); Lpra Grccca (1884); Critical History of Christian Literature and Doctrine from the Death of the Apostles to the .Yicciic Coii»ici7 (1864-66): The Ante-yicene Christian Lihrary, in collaboration with Professor Rob- erts (24 vols., 1867-72) ; Expiatory and Svb- stitulory f<iierifh-es of the Greeks (1875). DONALDSON, .T.mes Lowrv (1814-85). An .■ icrican Mildicr. He was 1)orn in Baltimore,
- Md.: graduated at West Point in 1830. and
served with distinction in the Florida and Mexi- can wars. He was chief quartermaster succes- sively of the Department of the Cumberland and of the Military Division of Tennessee during the Civil War. and at its close was brevetted major- general in the regular army. He retired from active servic-e in 186!) and resigned from the armv in 187'.). He wTote Sergeant Atkins (1871), a talc of the I'lorida War. DONALDSON, .Jonx Wii.i.i.m (1811-61). An English classical philologist, bom in London. He was educated at the University of London, and afterwards at Trinity College. Cambridge, from which he received the degree of B.A. in 1S34. The year following he was elected fellow. His first "work was as reviser of Buckham's The Theatre of the Greeks, which passed through eight editions, but is now anticpiated. In 183!) he published his .Vcio Cratylus. which is remark- able as being the first attempt, on a large scale, to familiarize Englishmen with the principles of comparative philologj% as established by Pott, Bopp. Criiiini. and others in Oermany. Donald- son in 1841 accepted the post of head-master of the grammar sctiool at Bury Saint Edmunds, having previously taken orders. Xotwilhslanding his duties as headmaster, he found lime to prosecute his linguistic studies, embracing Hebrew and .rahic, ami m:iny of the languages of modem Europe. In his i'arronianus. of which the first edition appeared in 1844, he undertook to accom- plish for Latin philology what he had done for (ircek in the .Vcir Cratylus. Anumg his other works of this period are an edition of Pindar, of the Antigone of Sophocles (with a verse transla- tion), ilaxkil Ic Sopher (a treatise on Hebrew grammar), and finally Josliar in 1854, a Imok written in Latin, and published at Berlin, the ob- ject of which was. by critical tests, to distinguish the remains of curly Hebrew songs imbedded in the Masoretic text of the Old Testament. This book was violently assailed by the religious press but reached a second edition. He resigned his place at Bury Saint Edmunds, in 1855, and returned to Cambridge, where he gave a course of le<'turcs on Latin synonyms, and occupied himself with teaching. Hi-ie he wrote a voliuue entitled I'hristian Orthodoxy, in answer to the critics of Jashar. This also was violently attacked. A smaller volume on classical scholarship followed. He had pre- viously issue<l a Greek Grammar and a Latin Grammar for the use of schools. These, during his residence at Cambridge, he recast and en- larged. In 1856 he was appointed one of the classical examiners in the I'niversity of Lon- don, an honor which he owed ch icily to Mr. (.jrote, the historian of Greece. In ISjS a|)peared his History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, in three volumes, the first two of which are a translation from the German of K. O. Miiller. He was engaged iu su])erinteuding the compilation of a new Greek J^exieon, when his health began to show .symptoms of failure. A tour in (ier- many during the suminer of 1800 did not produce any change for the better, and he dicil in his mother's house in London. Ecbruary 10. 1861. Consult Garnctt in Dictionary of yatural lliog- raphy, xv. (1SS8). DONALDSON. TnoM.v.s Lr-krton (1705- ISS5). .
English architect and writer, born in
L(mdon. He was engaged in nicrcantilc pursuits for a time at the Cape of Good Hope, studied architecture, traveled in Italy and Greece for the purpose of architectural and archirological re- searches, and in 1822 was elected to the Academy of Saint Luke, Rome. He was one of the founders of the Institute of Architects, of wjiicli he was in 1864 elected president, and from 1S41 to 1864 was emeritus professor of architecture at T"ni- versity College (London). Structures designed by him include University H:ill. Gordon Square, London: the Libriry and Laboratory of Univer- sity College: and the Scottish Corporation Hall. He publislied I'ompeii (2 vols., 1,S27): .4 Col- lection of the Most Approved Snmiiles of Door- irays from Ancient and Modern l!uildings in Greece and Italy (1833) ; Handbook of Specifica- tions for Practical Guide to the Architects (2 vols.. IS.")!!), .-iiid other works. DON'ALDSONVILLE. A town and the county-seat of Ascension Parish. La., 64 miles above New Orleans; on the Mississippi River, at the commencement of the Bayou Lafourche, and on the Texas and Pacific Railroad (Map: Louisiana, E 3). It is primarily a commercial centre, with extensive sugar, rice, and cotton interests. Under a charter of 1!)00. the govern nient is administered by n mayor and a council elected biennially. The town owns and operates the waterworks and electric lichl plant. Don- aldsonville was settled about 1700. and was in- corporated in 1806. Population, in 1890, 3121 : in 11100, 4105.
