DORKING (7), a market-town picturesquely situated in the heart of Surrey, 24 m.  SW. of London; gives name to a breed of fowls; contains a number of fashionable villas.

DORN, a distinguished German orientalist; wrote a History of the Afghans, and on their language (1805-1881).

DORNER, ISAAK AUGUST, a German theologian, born at Wuertemberg; studied at Tuebingen; became professor of Theology in Berlin, after having held a similar post in several other German universities; his principal works were the “History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ,” and the “History of Protestant Theology” (1809-1884).

DORNOCH, the county town of Sutherland, a small place, but a royal burgh; has a good golf course.

DOROS, a son of Helen and grandson of Deucalion, the father of the Dorians, as his brother AEolis was of the AEolians.

DOROTHEA, ST., a virgin of Alexandria, suffered martyrdom by being beheaded in 311.  Festival, Feb. 6.

DORPAT (38), a town on the Embach, in Livonia, Russia, 150 m.  NE. of Riga, with a celebrated university founded by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632; it has a well-equipped staff, and is well attended; the majority of the population is German.

D’ORSAY, COUNT, a man of fashion, born in Paris; entered the French army; forsook it for the society of Lord and Lady Blessington; married Lady B.’s daughter by a former marriage; came to England with her ladyship on her husband’s death; started a joint establishment in London, which became a rendezvous for all the literary people and artists about town; was “Phoebus Apollo of Dandyism”; paid homage to Carlyle at Chelsea one day in 1839; “came whirling hither in a chariot that struck all Chelsea into mute amazement with splendour,” says Carlyle, who thus describes him, “a tall fellow of six feet three, built like a tower, with floods of dark auburn hair, with a beauty, with an adornment unsurpassable on this planet:  withal a rather substantial fellow at bottom, by no means without insight, without fun, and a sort of rough sarcasm, rather striking out of such a porcelain figure”; having shown kindness to Louis Napoleon when in London, the Prince did not forget him, and after the coup d’etat appointed him to a well-salaried post, but he did not live to enjoy it (1798-1852).

DORSET (194), maritime county in the S. of England, with a deeply indented coast; it consists of a plain between two eastward and westward reaching belts of downs; is mainly a pastoral county; rears sheep and cattle, and produces butter and cheese.

DORT, or DORDRECHT (34), a town on an island in the Maas, in the province of South Holland, 12 m.  SE. of Rotterdam; admirably situated for trade, connected as it is with the Rhine as well, on which rafts of wood are sent floating down to it; is famous for a Synod held here in 1618-19, at which the tenets of Arminius were condemned, and the doctrines of Calvin approved of and endorsed as the doctrines of the Reformed Church.