Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . okorders in 1861, and from 1855 to 1881was mathematical lecturer. Under thename of Lewis Carroll he issued in 1865Alices Adventures in Wonderland,which, with its continuation Throughthe Looking-Glass (1872), has becomea nursery classic. He also publishedsome poems and parodies entitledPhantasmagoria (1869); Hunting ofthe Snark (1876); Doublets (1879);Rhyme? and Reason? (1883); Euclidand His Modern Rivals (1879); ATangled Tale (1886) ; Game of Logic(1887) ; and Mathematica C
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . okorders in 1861, and from 1855 to 1881was mathematical lecturer. Under thename of Lewis Carroll he issued in 1865Alices Adventures in Wonderland,which, with its continuation Throughthe Looking-Glass (1872), has becomea nursery classic. He also publishedsome poems and parodies entitledPhantasmagoria (1869); Hunting ofthe Snark (1876); Doublets (1879);Rhyme? and Reason? (1883); Euclidand His Modern Rivals (1879); ATangled Tale (1886) ; Game of Logic(1887) ; and Mathematica Curiosa(1888), the last a valuable contributionto mathematics. He died Jan. 14, 1898. DODO, a large bird, belonging to theorder Columhidse, or pigeons, that in-habited Mauritius in great numbers whenthat island was colonized in 1644 by theDutch, but which was totally exter-minated within 50 years from that dodo was a heavy bird, bigger than DODONA 390 DOG DAYS a turkey, and incapable of flight. Thewings were rudimentary, the legs shortand stout, and the tail a tuft of softplumes. The beak was strongly arched. C- DODO toward the end, and the upper mandiblehad a hooked point like that of a bird ofprey. DODONA (do-dona), a town ofThesprotia in Epirus (or Thessaly), inthe midst of vast forests. It was thesanctuary of the Pelagic worship, andpossessed an oracle of Jupiter, one ofthe most celebrated and most ancient ofGreece. The oracles were given by anoak, called the prophetic tree; thepriestess interpreted sometimes the rust-ling of the branches, sometimes the soundgiven out by copper vases suspended tothe sacred tree; and, at others, the sing-ing of doves hidden in its foliage or themurmur of a neighboring spring. DODSLEY, ROBERT, an English poetand dramatist; born at Mansfield, Notts.,in 1703. He was a noted bookseller andpublisher in London, and had close re-lations with the authors of the time:Pope, Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, first volume of verses, The Musein
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