DOVE. The dove is by the eommon law one of the wild animals (fer• noturm), and, as such, not the subject of larceny, unless at the time of the taking in the custody of the person asserting ownership. An escaped pigeon is, like other wild things, common property; hut if it be domesticat ed, or if found in a dovecot, it partakes of the status of domestic animals and is protected like other personal property. The right of erecting or keeping dovecots was in England. as well as in Scotland. in Normandy. and elsewhere, an ex clusive privilege of the feudal lords, and Was rigorously protected by law. hut such exceptional privileges have long liecti abolished. See FEILE NATER.E.
DOVE, (Wye, ALFRED (1844—). A German historian. He was born in Berlin, a son of Hein rich Wilhelm Dove (q.v.). After studying medicine and the physical sciences at Ireblelberg and Ber lin (1861-66), Inc Meanie a journalist, and was successively the editor of the Grcnzboten• (1870) and of the publieation Im X ellen Reich. During the period 1874-91 he was professor of his tory at Breslau (1874-811 and Bonn (1884-91). Returning to his journalistic activity in the lat ter year, he became for a time editor of the nfi-ine Zeitung in Munich. Ile published the posthunmus manuscripts of Von Ranke. complet ing both the •eltycschichte and the editing of the Samt/iche Wyrkc of that celebrated author in 1890, after an arduous labor of four years. Among his own publications may be mentioned: Kaiser Wilhelms gesehiehtliehe Gestalt (1SSS); Nationalprinzip in der ll'cligeschichte (1890).
DOVE, HD:Nitwit WiLiti•3.m (1803-79). A German physicist and meteorologist, born at Liegnitz, in Silesia. He studied at Breslau and Berlin. lle was successively privat-docent and assistant professor of natural philosophy in Konigsberg. He was transferred to the Univer sity of Berlin in 1829. and in 1837 was elected to a seat in the Academy of Sciences. His writings, which are very numerous, are to be found for the most part in the memoirs of that academy, and in Poggendorff's Anna/en. His works include re
searches dealing with meteorology, climatology, induced electricity, and circularly polarized light. Among his works may be mentioned: ('giber llass mid 'lessen (1835), a treatise on the art of measuring, and the origin and comparison of the metrical standards of different nations: .1Ie1eo rologische Untersuchungen (1837); Ueber die nicht periodisehen Aenderungcn der Temperatur vcrtheilung auf der Oberfluehe der Erde (1840 47) : Untersuchungen bit Gebiete der Inductions electricitiit (1843). In his capacity of director of the Royal Observatory, he published annu ally an account of his labors and observations. The treatise on the Distribution of Heat on the Surface of the Globe, which was published in 1853 by the British Association, is also a work of importance. In this work he enters fully into the causes of periodic variations of temperature at different parts of the globe. and lays down in admirable charts the monthly and annual isothernml and isalmormal lines, thus traeing the variations in form and position of the differ ent isothermals throughout the year. Des Guist 1z der Stiirtne (4th ed.. 1874) has also been trans lated (The Late of Storms). Other works are: I Teber (1848) ; Opt ischc St ( 1859 ) ; Eiszcit, Pan und Sirocco (1867); Klitnatologic con Yorddt•utsehland (1871).
DOVE, (16'vc. Ilicunto Wit.um.Nt (1833—). A German jurist, son of the preceding. He was horn in Berlin. studied both ecclesiastical and civil law at Berlin and Heidelberg. and was ap pointed professor successively in the universities of Tiibingcn, Kiel. and Giitlingen. In 1873 he was nominated a member of the Prussian Court of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Most of his writings have been in the Zt ilsch•ift fiir Kirche»reebt, a leading European organ of eccle siastical law. Which he established and began to edit in 180.