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of each to Great Britain), with paper, ice and some cobalt and nickel ore. The chief imports are British coal and German machinery. Salmon are taken in the upper reaches of the Drammen. DRANE, AUGUSTA THEODOSIA (1823-1894), English writer, was born at Bromley, near Bow, on the 29th of December 1823. Brought up in the Anglican creed, she fell under the influence of Tractarian teaching at Torquay, and joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1850. She wrote, and published anonymously, an essay questioning the _Morality of Tractarianism_, which was attributed to John Henry Newman. In 1852, after a prolonged stay in Rome, she joined the third order of St Dominic, to which she belonged for over forty years. She was prioress (1872-1881) of the Stone convent in Staffordshire, where she died on the 29th of April 1894. Her chief works in prose and verse are: _The History of Saint Dominic_ (1857; enlarged edition, 1891); _The Life of St Catherine of Siena_ (1880; 2nd ed., 1899); _Christian Schools and Scholars_ (1867); _The Knights of St John_ (1858); _Songs in the Night_ (1876); and the _Three Chancellors_ (1859), a sketch of the lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and Sir Thomas More. A complete list of her writings is given in the _Memoir of Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D., Augusta Theodosia Drane_, edited by B. Wilberforce, O.P. (London, 1895). DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM (1811-1882), American scientist, was born at St Helen's, near Liverpool, on the 5th of May 1811. He studied at Woodhouse Grove, at the University of London, and, after removing to America in 1832, at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1835-1836. In 1837 he was elected professor of chemistry in the University of the City of New York, and was a professor in its school of medicine in 1840-1850, president of that school in 1850-1873, and professor of chemistry until 1881. He died at Hastings, New York, on the 4th of January 1882. He made important researches in photo-chemistry, made portrait photography possible by his improvements (1839) on Daguerre's process, and published a _Text-book on Chemistry_ (1846), _Text-book on Natural Philosophy_ (1847), _Text-book on Physiology_ (1866), and _Scientific Memoirs_ (1878) on radiant energy. He is well known also as the author of _The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe_ (1862), applying the methods of physical science to history, a _History of the American Ci
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