Lipsos, and others near Rhodes. Italy agreed to restore the islands to Turkey, but was prevented from carrying out the agreement by the breaking out of the Balkan War. The Treaty of Peace with Turkey (11th May, 1920) allotted these islands to Italy, who ceded them again to Greece (with the exception of Rhodes).
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See Carroll, Lewis.
Dodo (Didus ineptus), an extinct genus of birds once abundant on the Island of Mauritius, and assigned by naturalists to the ord. Columbæ or pigeons, though an extreme modification of the type. It was a massive clumsy bird, larger than a swan, covered with down instead of feathers, with short ill-shaped legs, a strong bulky hooked beak, and wings and tail so short as to be useless for flight. Its extinction was due to its organization not being adapted to the new conditions which colonization and cultivation introduced. It probably became extinct soon after 1681.
Dodo´na, a celebrated locality of ancient Greece, in Epirus, where was one of the most ancient Greek oracles. It was a seat of Zeus (surnamed the Pelasgian), whose communications were announced to the priestesses in the rustling of the leaves on its oak tree, and the murmuring of water which gushed forth from the earth.
Dods, Marcus, theologian, born at Belford, Northumberland, in 1834, his father being minister of the Scottish Church there, died in 1909. He was educated in Edinburgh, where he took his M.A. degree at the age of twenty. In 1858 he was licensed as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and eight years afterwards was ordained to Renfield Free Church, Glasgow, where he remained until his appointment in 1889 to the chair of New Testament Exegesis in New College, Edinburgh. Of his works some of the most important are: The Prayer that Teaches to Pray (1863, 6th edition, 1889); Epistles to the Seven Churches (1865); Israel's Iron Age (1874); Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ (1877); The Book of Genesis (1882); Parables of Our Lord (1883 and 1885); How to become like Christ (1897); Forerunners of Dante (1903); The Bible: its Origin and Nature (1905); and articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dodsley, Robert, English poet, dramatist, and publisher, born in 1703, died in 1764. His first volume of verses, The Muse in Livery, appeared in 1732. The Toy Shop was performed at Covent Garden in 1735. In 1737 his King and the Miller of Mansfield was performed at Drury Lane, and met with an enthusiastic reception. He also wrote a tragedy, entitled Cleone, which had an extraordinary success on the stage. A selection of Fables in Prose, with an Essay on Fables prefixed, was one of his latest productions. He planned the Annual Register (commenced in 1758); the Collection of Old Plays (12 vols. 12mo), which now chiefly sustains his name as a publisher; and the Collection of Poems by Different Hands (6 vols. 12mo).
Doe, John, and Richard Roe, two fictitious personages of the English law who formerly appeared in a suit of ejectment. This fictitious form of procedure was abolished in 1852.
m, Molars. pm, Premolars. cl, Carnassial. can, Canines. i, Incisors.