Convocation
an assembly of the clergy. Specifically the name given to either of two such gatherings, the one termed the Convocation of Canterbury, or simply Convocation, the other the Convocation of York. In theory the Church of England is governed by means of the convocations of its bishops and clergy. Each of the two ecclesiastical provinces of Canterbury and York has its Convocation consisting of two houses, the upper composed of Bishops presided over by the Archbishop, and the lower being made up of the deans of Cathedrals, archdeacons, and proctors elected from the Cathedral chapters, with two additional proctors elected by clergy at large in the province of Canterbury and by the archdeacons in the province of York. The life of the Convocation is coincident with that of Parliament.
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Convoy
a fleet of merchantmen under the protection of a ship or ships of war, or the ship or ships appointed to conduct and defend them from attack and capture by an enemy. In military language it is used for escort. Convoys were largely employed by the Allies in moving troop ships in the World War (1914-1918), as they supplied the best protection against submarine attacks. The transport of United States troops to Europe in 1917-1918 was under convoy, and not a ship was lost.
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Conway
SIR WILLIAM MARTIN, an English explorer; born in Rochester in 1865. He was educated at Cambridge and was made Professor of Art at University College, Liverpool , soon after his graduation. In 1889 he explored Egypt; in 1892 the Himalayas ; in 1894 the Alps; in 1898 the western slope of the Andes; and in 1900 the eastern slope of the Andes. He has published "Early Flemish Artists," "The Alps from End to End," "Climbing and Exploration in the Bolivian Andes," etc. He also wrote "Great Masters" (1904); "No Man's Land" (1906); "The Crowd, in Peace and War" (1915).
MONCURE DANIEL, an American author; born in Stafford county, Va., March 17, 1832. He was graduated at Dickinson College in 1849 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1854, affiliating first with the Methodists and later with the Unitarians. From 1863 to 1884 he was minister at South Place Chapel, in London. He has written lives of Thomas Paine, Edmund Randolph, Hawthorne, and Thomas Carlisle, and also "Emerson at Home and Abroad," " Demonology and Devil Lore," etc. He died Nov. 16, 1907.
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Conwell
RUSSELL HERMAN, a Baptist clergyman and educator. He was born at Worthington , Mass., in 1843 and graduated from the Yale Law School in 1860. From 1862 to 1865 he served in the Union armies in the Civil War, after which he practiced law at Minneapolis. From 1869 to 1871 he was the foreign correspondent of the New York "Tribune" and the Boston "Traveler." Returning from abroad he practiced law in Boston until 1879. In that year he was ordained a Baptist minister and two years later was called to Grace Church, Philadelphia . Dr. Conwell founded and became president of Temple University, Philadelphia , and was the author of a number of books on religious and moral subjects .
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Cooch-Behar
or KUCH-BEHAR, a native state in India, in political relation with the government of Bengal. It forms a level plain of triangular shape, intersected by numerous rivers, and is entirely surrounded by British territory. The greater portion of the soil is fertile and well-cultivated . Area, 1307 square miles; pop. 593,000 . The chief town, Cooch-Behar, contains handsome public buildings and a splendid new palace of the Maharajah. an
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Cook Inlet
a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the south coast of Alaska, about 200 miles in length and 60 miles at its greatest breadth. It is partially blocked with ice during the winter months, and in summer the rough coast line is subject to frequent sto storms, but navigation is being rendered less dangerous every year. It contains several islands, the largest being Augustine Island, which has a volcanic mountain. The Sushitna and other rivers flow into it, and several active volcanoes are on the coast, among them Mt. Iliamna, 12,066 feet high. The chief harbor is Seldonia, and there are a number of other growing towns overlooking the bay.
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Cook Islands
otherwise known as the Hervey Archipelago, lie about midway between the Society and Navigator groups, near 20° S. lat., and 158° W. lon., and are some volcanic, some coralline. The principal members of the cluster are Mangaia, Atiou, and Raratonga. The natives number about 7,000, mainly the brown Polynesian of stock. merly cannibals, they are now all Christians, and dress after the European fashion. The islands were annexed by Great Britain in 1888. COOK, MOUNT, the highest peak of Australasia; is one of the southern Alps near the center of the range, on the W. side of the South Island of New Zealand. It is 12,349 feet high, is covered with perpetual snow (the snow-line being 3,500 feet lower than in Switzerland), is difficult of access, and was scaled for the first time by the Rev. W. S. Green on March 2, 1882.
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Cook Strait
discovered by Captain Cook on his first voyage, separates the N. and S. islands of the New Zealand group, and varies from 20 to 80 miles in width.
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Cook, Florence
An English medium, the first to present the phenomenon of materialisation in its complete form. In the production of the crowning physical manifestation, she was associated at the outset of her mediumistic careerat the beginning of the decade 1870-80-with the medium Herne, but ere long dispensed with his assistance. So that she might not be under the necessity of taking fees for her services, a wealthy Manchester spiritualist, Mr. Charles Blackburn, paid her a sum of money annually. She was thus practically a private medium, and for the most part, her séances were held in her own home. Her principal control was the now famous spirit Katie King. Mr.now Sir William - Crookes, who investigated the phenomena produced in Miss Cook's presence, declared his conviction that Katie and the medium were two separate entities, and was satisfied of the supernormal nature of the former. Not all the sitters, however, were equally convinced. Many persons traced a resemblance in form and feature between medium and control, and it has been suggested that the apparent differences were achieved by a change in the mode of hair-dressing, by tip-toeing, and other mechanical means.
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