DO MINI AN, LEON

(1880), geographer; b. Constantinople, Turkey. Educated at Robert College, an American institution in Constantinople, where he received the B.A. degree in 1898, he studied geography and geology for two years thereafter at Liége University. Later he traveled in Turkey, joined the U.S. Geological Survey, taught in the New Mexico School of Mines and traveled in the Southwest and in Mexico. From 1912 to 1917 he was a geographer and editorial writer for the American Geographical Society and became engaged in the solution of Latin-American boundary questions for the U.S. State Department. He was with the American Peace Commi ion in Paris in 1918. The next year he was appointed a special a istant to the State Department. His publications include Hurope at Turkey’s Door and The Frontiers of Languages and Nationality in Hurope. of Dominican Order; canon of Osma in Old Castile, 1195. From 1205-15 D. devoted himself to the Albigensian heretics of Langue doc, preaching and teaching and not resorting to violence of later Inquisition; closing years occupied in establishing his order; canonized by Gregory IV., 1234. N., 61° 20’ W.), island, Leeward group, Brit. W. Indies; surface mountainous; well covered with timber; fertile valleys, watered by numerous streams; of volcanic origin; contains sulphurous and thermal springs and famous ‘Boiling Lake’; principal harbor, Portsmouth, on St. Rupert's Bay on N.W. coast; capital, Roseau; exports sugar, coffee, cocoa, limes, oils, fruit. D. was discovered by Columbus on a Sunday (Dies Dominica) in 1493. In 1761 Britain took the island from France, and by the Peace of Paris, 1763, it was recognized as British. Fr. settlers again seized D., 1778, but in 1782 Rodney won a naval victory in the neighborhood, and Britain again acquired the island. In 1805 a Fr. army plundered the island. Area, 291 sq. miles. Pop. 1921, 37,000. See Map West InpvI£Es.