De Vinne

Theodore Low, an American printer; born in Stamford, Conn., Dee. 25, 1828. He learned the printer’s trade and became an employe and later partner of Francis Hart, upon whose death he founded the firm of Theodore L. De Vinne and Company in New York city. He has written many works on typography, including “Invention of Printing’ and “ Historic Types.” Devonian System, a name in geology originally given to the rocks of Devons hire and Cornwall, England. Devonian rocks occupy a _e area in the United States, Eastern Canada, Nova Scotia, and Central Europe. In the United States they are found in New York and Pennsylvania, and in elude sand and. limestone, used in building material. Devonian rocks appear in some regions of the Appal a chi an Mountains. In the middle part of Michigan, they surround the coal basin; and are also found in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Eastern Iowa, and Nevada. In Maine they are in a metamorphic condition. In the Upper Groups of the Devonian System they are carbonaceous shales, which by natural distillation give much of the petroleum of natural gas found in the sandstones of Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Devonport (before 1824 called PrymoutH Dock), a parliamentary and municipal borough, maritime town, and naval arsenal, in the S. W. of Devons hire, England; two miles W. N. W. of Plymouth. It owes its existence to the dockyard established here by William III. in 1689, and is one of the chief naval arsenals in Great Britain.