DORE, LOUIS AUGUSTE GUS

TAVE (1833-83), a book illustrator, drew first for the Journal Pour Rire, 1848, and later for the Journal Pour Tous. His drawings show genius for grotesque and humorous illustration as also fertility of invention and preference for the fantastic. Among the works he illustrated were: Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques, 1855; Dante’s Inferno, 1863; Purgatorio and Paradiso, 1865-66; The Bible and Paradise Lost, 1866; Tennyson's Idylls, 186768; La Fontaine’s Fables, 1867, and Rabelais’ work. In the Luxembourg hangs his ‘Tobit and the Angel,’ whilst the Doré Gallery in London was long decorated with his huge canvases depicting ‘Christ leaving the Prztorium,’ 1867-72, etc. (1824-1906), profe or of chemistry, b. New York City. He studied at New York University, fro me which he graduated in 1842, and later lived in Paris as a student of chemistry. In 1848 he returned to New York, where he established a laboratory and became profe or at the College of ‘Pharmacy. After serving, 1843 to 1861, as profe or of natural history at the Free Academy, now the College of the City of New York, he headed the department of chemistry and toxicology at Bellevue Hospital, of whose Medical College he was one of the founders. Afterwards he was profe or of chemistry and physics of the College of the City of New York. He devised methods of fire extinguishing by chemical proce es and patented other scientific discoveries. He acquired considerable fame as a chemical specialist in New York criminal cases. oese admiral; served both Charles V. and Francis I.; fought for Genoa, 1503 onwards; drove French from Genoa, and became censor, 1528; famous for naval exploits against Turkish Corsairs.