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Corcoran

WILLIAM WILSON, an American banker; born in Georgetown, CORDELE D. C., Dec. 27, 1798. He engaged in the large fortune. His charities are estimated to exceed $5,000,000. He founded the Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington, where he died Feb. 24, 1888. CORCYRA. See CORFU.

Cordiacee

an order or sub-order of perigynous exogens, alliance Solanales. It is most closely akin to the boraginaceæ, and next to the convolvulacea. The species are found in the tropics of both hemispheres, in South America straggling into more temperate latitudes.

Two hundred species of cordia itself are now known.

Cordierite

DICHROITE, or IOLITE, a natural silicate of magnesia, alumina, and ferric oxide. It crystallizes in stout orthorhombic prisms, and is of various shades of blue, sometimes with a tinge of gray or brown.

Cordoba

a town of Mexico, 66 miles S. W. of Vera Cruz; in a fruitful Forvalley, 3,045 feet above the sea. merly important, it sank greatly after the revolution; but in later years it has recovered its trade. It is surrounded by rich coffee-plantations. Pop. about 9,000.

Coregonus

a genus of abdominal fishes, family Salmonidæ. The teeth are very small or wanting, the scales very large, the height or front of the first dorsal greater than its breadth.

Coriander

an umbelliferous plant, taking of Constantinople it fell into the hands of the Turks, from whom it was taking of Constantinople it fell into the the Venetians. In 1715 it was again pos- 1823. Pop. about 5,000. sessed by the Turks , who held it till 1823. Pop. about 5,000. linois Central, and Mobile and Ohio_rail-

Corinthians

EPISTLES TO THE, two epistles addressed to the Church at Corinth about A. D. 57 or 58, which have been admitted as genuine writings of St.

Paul by even the most critical assailants of the New Testament canon.

Cork

the outer layer of bark of the cork oak. It is a very elastic tissue consisting of thin-walled nearly cubical cells. It does not peel off, but often contains long clefts. It forms a protection to the subjacent cells from injurious influences.

Cork

FOSSIL, a kind of mineral, a species of asbestos.

Cork

EARL OF. Real name, R. Doyle, an English artist.

Corking Pin

a pin of a large size, formerly used for fixing a lady's headdress.

Corleone

town, province of Palermo, Sicily, 42 miles S. of Palermo, and nearly 2,000 feet above the sea-level.

The town was of chief importance in mediæval times, when the Saracens occupied it, the Lombards entering in the 12th century. The vine is cultivated in the vicinity, and there are interesting churches and castles. Pop. about 15,000.