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xvili. 389; diet for reduction of, vil. 204. CORPUS CHRISTI, church festival, vi.

436. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, Cambridge,

iv. 731- CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, Oxford,

xvin. 96.

CORPUSCLES, Blood, i. 845. , Ultramundane, in Le Sage s atomic

theory, ill. 46. CORPUSCULAR THEORY, of light, xiv.

580, 598.

CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM GR^CARUM, XIII. 122.

CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM LATINARUM,

XIIL 127.

CORPUS JURIS, of Justinian, XIII. 794. CORPUS JURIS CANONICI, v. 18. CORREA, greenhouse plant, xn. 263. DA SERRA, Jose Francisco, Portu guese politician and scientist, vi. 436. CORRECTION, Houses of, xix. 748. CORREGGIO, Antonio Allegri, Italian

painter, VI. 437; xxi. 437, 443. CORRESPONDENCE, in geometry, x.

392.

CORREZE, department, France, vi. 438. CORRIB, Lough, Ireland, x. 55; xill.

216; xv. 650. CORRICHIE, Scotland, Battle of (1562),

xv. 595.

CORRIE, mountain recess, xxi. 525. CORRIENTES, town, Argentine Republic,

vi. 439. CORRIEVRECKAN, whirlpool, Scotland,

xxiv. 542. CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, a chloride of

mercury, xvi. 33 ; as poison, XIX.

277. CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION

ACT (1854), iv. 278. CORRY, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., vi.

439- CORSICA, island, Mediterranean, vi.

439; xill. 440; xv. 820; dialect of,

XIIL 494; ceded to ancient Rome, XX.

748; its connexion with France, XVII.

193; under Theodore I., xvn. 362. CORSINI, Lorenzo (Pope Clement XII.),

v. 823. , Marietta, wife of Machiavelli, xv.

147. CORSINIE^E, class of liverworts, xvn.

69.

CORSLET, defensive armour, vi. 692. CORSOTHE, town, Mesopotamia, xvi.

48.

CORSSEN, Wilhelm Paul, German philo logist, vi. 440. CORT, Cornelius, Dutch engraver, vi.

441. CORTAILLOD, town, Switzerland, xvii.

362.

CORTE NOVA, town, Italy, xvn. 608. CORTE-REAL, family of Portuguese

navigators, vi. 441.

CORTES, Spanish legislature, XXII. 303. , Hernan, conqueror of Mexico, VI.

441; I. 707; X. 182. , Martin, his Art of Navigation,

xvii. 252. CORTHOL, musical instrument, xvii.

705. CORTI, Rods of, in the ear, I. 894 ; vn.

593- CORTICATA, division of Protozoa, xix.

852.

CORTICINE, floorcloth, xiv. 676. CORTICIUM CANDELABRUM, species of

sponge, xxil. 414. CORTONA, town, Italy, vi. 442 ; vin.

635.

, Luca da, Italian painter, xxn.

50.

CORTOREAL, Gaspar, explorer of New foundland, xvn. 385.

CORUISK, Loch, Skye, Scotland, xxil. 127.

CORUNA, province, Spain, xxil. 298 ; town, VI. 443.

CORUNDOPHYLLITE, mineral, XVI. 414.

CORUNDUM, mineral, xvi. 385 ; xxi. 47 ; deposits of, in North Carolina, U.S.A., xvii. 560.

CORUNNA, or Coruua, town, Spain, vi. 443; battle of (1809), XVI. 805; Lord Paget at, 1 1. 31.

CORVARA, Pietro di (Nicholas V., anti- pope), xvii. 484.

CORVEY, Benedictine abbey, Saxony, vi. 443; library of, XIV. 513.

CORVID.E, family of birds, vi. 617 ;

XVIII. 48.

CORVINUS, John Hunyady, king of Hungary, xn. 367, 368; xxin. 642. -, Marcus Valerius Messala, friend

and patron of Tibullus, xxi 1 1. 348. -, Matthias, of Hungary, XII. 367,

368; xv. 634; library of, xiv. 515. CORVISART-DESMARETS, Baron de,

French physician, VI. 443; xv. 816. CORVO, island, Azores, in. 172. CORVUS, genus of birds, VI. 617; XIII.

532; XX. 295, 842. , M. Valerius, Roman general, VI.

444. CORY, Giles, executed for witchcraft, in

U.S.A., xxiv. 622. CORYATT, Thomas, English writer, vi.

444- CORYBANTES, in Greek mythology, vi.

444.

CORYLUS, genus of trees, XL 548. CORYPHAEUS, leader of chorus, in Greek

tragedy, VI. 444. CORYPHODON, fossil ungulate mammal,

xv. 426. CORYTH^EOLA, genus of birds, xxin.

487. CORYTHUS, or Cortona, ancient town,

Italy, vi. 443. Cos, island, Asia Minor, vi. 444; ancient

aqueduct at, n. 219; coins of, xvn.

647; Greek school of medicine at, xv.

800.

COSCAROBA, bird, xxn. 732. COSCINOMANCY, divining with a sieve,

VIL 293; xvn. 818.

COSECANT, in trigonometry, xxin. 563. COSEGUINA, volcano, Nicaragua, xvn.

477- COSENZA, town, Italy, VI. 445; province,

iv. 651. COSIMO I. (dei Medici), grand-duke of

Tuscany, xv. 789.

II., of Tuscany, xv. 792.

III., of Tuscany, xv. 793.

DEI MEDICI (the Elder), ruler of

Florence, xv. 784; ix. 138. COSIN, John, bishop of Durham, VI. 445;

as hymn-writer, XII. 592. COSINE, in trigonometry, XXJIL 563. COSLIN, town, Prussia, xiv. 143. COSMAS, Byzantine hymn-writer, XL 146. , surnamed Indicopleustes, ancient

geographer, vi. 445; x. 177. of Prague, Bohemian historian, vi.

446. COSMATI, family of architects and

sculptors, Rome, XX. 834. COSMO DE MEDICI. See Cosimo. COSMOGONY, vi. 446; Chaldean, in.

193; myths of, I. 460; XVII. 143, 156;

of the Stoics, xxn. 564. COSMOGRAPHY, Heylin s, XL 785.

COSMOLOGICAL THEISM, XXIII. 248.

COSMOLOGY, Parmenides s, xvin. 315; Philo s, XVIII. 762; Pythagorean, XX.

139-

COSMOS, Humboldt s work, XII. 345. , Anaxagoras s theory of the, II. i;

Kepler s, xiv. 47. COSNE, town, France, vi. 448; xvn.

496. COSSA, Balthasar (Pope John XXIII.),

xin. 712.

, Luigi, Italian economist, xix. 394.

COSSACKS, Russian tribes, VI. 448; V.

263; xxi. 79; origin of the name, xiv.

95; in Russian army, n. 610. COSSIMBAZAR, town, India, xiv. 14. COSSYA HILLS (Khasi Hills), district,

India, xiv. 58. COSSYRA, island, Mediterranean, xvin.

214. COSTA, Lorenzo, Italian painter, xxi.

437, 443-

COST/E, or Ribs, Anatomy of, I. 822. COSTAL JOINTS, Anatomy of, i. 835. CoSTAMBONE(Kastamuni), town, Asiatic

Turkey, xiv. 14. COSTANZO, Angelo di, Italian historian,

vi. 451. COSTA RICA, republic, Central America,

VI. 449; Indian tribes in, xn. 828,"

newspapers, xvn. 437. COSTE, Jean J. C. V., on embryology,

vin. 166, 167. COSTELLO, Dudley, English journalist,

VI. 451.

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