Theiner
AUGUSTIN, a German canonist; born in Breslau, Silesia, April 11, 1804; was appointed prefect of the Vatican archives, 1855; but was deprived of that office during the Vatican Council on the charge of giving to certain oppositionist bishops secret documents of the curia. His first notable work was a tractate in opposition to the rule of clerical celibacy, "The Introduction of Obligatory Celibacy" (2 vols. 1828). His other principal works are: "History of the Return of the Reigning Houses of Brunswick and Saxony to the Bosom of the Catholic Church" (1843); an edition of Balonius's "Church Annals," with a continuation (1856-1857); "Diplomatic Code of the Temporal Dominion of the Holy See" (1863); "Temporal Sovereignty of the cils of Lyons and Constance" (1867). He 1874. bifurcate head; limbs ambulatory, femur Holy See Judged by the General Counwith a third trochanter; teeth with the crown more or less compressed, pointed, died in Civita Vecchia, Italy, Aug. 10, with trenchant and finely-serrate margins, implanted in distinct sockets. Two genera, Thecodontosaurus and Palæosaurus, from the Trias, near Bristol. Huxley regards them as Dinosaurian.