Inns of Court
an English name for a college or building in which law students are lodged and taught. It is now restricted to the four inns of court in London. These establishments appear to combine the characteristics of law schools and regular fraternities. They appear to have been originally inns for students who desired to be near the courts of law. The four inns are Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple, and Inner Temple. Each one consists of a governing body known as benchers, of barristers, or lawyers who have been admitted to the bar, and students. They have extensive buildings, with chambers, lecture rooms, large halls of assembly, and dining halls. Students are required to pay fees. After three years' residence they are entitled to an examination for admission to the bar. The exclusive right to examine students and admit them to the bar is given to these four inns. A student may, of course, choose his inn, as he would choose his law school; but he cannot be admitted to the bar in London without joining one of the inns.
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Innsbruck
the capital of , 109 miles from Munich. The Franciscan Tyrol Church, or Hofkirche, built in the Renaissance style in 1553-1563, contains a beautiful monument to the Emperor Maximilian I. and monuments to Andreas Hofer and his comrades Speckbacher and Haspinger, and to the Tyrolese who fell in the wars against France (1796- 1809). The university (founded in 1677) is rich in Alpine flora, and the usual museums, laboratories, etc. Among the eight monasteries of Innsbruck is the first that the Capuchins founded in Germany (1594). Innsbruck carries on manufactures of woolen cloth, machines, and glass, and glass-painting. Pop. about 50,000, including suburbs.
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Innuit
the native name of the people occupying the entire coast line of Alaska, with the outlying islands along the Arctic coast to Bering Strait, S. to the Alaska Peninsula, E. and N. along the Pacific coast to Mount St. Elias, with the exception of a small territory on Cook's Inlet and at the mouth of Copper river, where the Tinneh from the interior have forced their way to the coast. They are tall and muscular, have small black eyes, high cheek bones, large mouths, thick lips, coarse brown hair, and fresh yellow complexions. Occupying the coast line, they are bold navigators and skilled fishermen and sea hunters.
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Inorganic Chemisty
the chemistry of inorganic or unorganized bodies. In general terms it may be said that inorganic chemistry treats of the metals, or of the metals in combination with one or more of the non-metallic bodies. A metal in combination with oxygen produces an oxide, while a metal in combination with an acid produces a salt, both being inorganic compounds. The aim of inorganic chemistry is to examine into the general laws or rules which regulate the formation of such metallic bodies, and to determine the action of one upon another.
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Inosite
(in'ō-sīt), in chemistry, Co- H12O62H2O, a non-fermentable substance, isomeric with glucose discovered by Scherer in the muscular substance of the heart of the ox. It has since been found to exist in the lungs, kidneys, liver, spleen, and brain, and in the urine during some diseases of the kidney. It is obtained from the mother liquor of the creatine crystals, by acidulating with sulphuric acid, and then gradually adding alcohol till a turbidity begins to appear. Inosite is also found in many plants, especially in green beans, the shells of peas, in the leaves of the vine, in asparagus, etc. IN PARTIBUS, the usual contracted form of the Latin phrase, in partibus infidelium = in countries belonging to unbelievers. Bishop in partibus, a bishop consecrated to a see formerly formerly existing, but which, owing chiefly to the rise of Mohammedanism, has long been lost to the Roman Church. Bishops in partibus date from the Reformation. Catholic affairs in England were managed by Vicars-Apostolic, having titular sees in partibus, from 1623 to the erection of the hierarchy in 1850. Besides Vicars- Apostolic, in a non-Catholic country, the Vicars of Cardinal-bishops, Suffraganbishops, and Papal Nuncios usually have their sees in partibus infidelium.
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Inquisitor
in church history, a person appointed to search out latent heresy. The name first appears in the Theodosian Code, A. D. 382; their search being chiefly directed against the Manichæans. During the crusade against the Albigenses, early in the 13th century, Innocent III. had sent out legates to search out and punish these separatists. These were called inquisitors. Specifically, a functionary of the ecclesiastical ally, a functionary called the Holy Office of the INQUISITION (q. v.).
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Insecticide
one who or that which kills insects. Also a substance or preparation used to kill insects.
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Insectivora
an order of Mammalia established by Cuvier, who made it a family of his Carnassiers (Carnivora). is of higher organization than the Carnivora proper. Huxley arranges it under his Mammals which have a discoidal deciduate placenta, placing it between the Primates and the Cheiroptera. There are usually more than four incisors in each jaw, and the molars have sharp and pointed cusps; the hallux possesses a claw, and has no marked freedom of adduction and abduction. Excepting in one genus, there are welldeveloped clavicles. The chief families are: (a) Talpidæ, (b) Potamogalidæ, (c) Soricida, (d) Erinaceidæ, (e) Centetidæ, (f) Macroscelidæ, and (g) Galeopithecidæ. Also section of a Cheiroptera (bats), containing the families Vespertilionidæ, Rhinolophidæ, Noctilionidæ, and Phyllostomidæ.
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Insignia
the name given to all outward marks of power and dignity, such as the golden crown, the ivory chair, and the 12 lictors with their axes in the time of the Roman kings; the crowns and scepters of European monarchs; the pallium, the infula, the staff, and ring of the higher ord orders of the Roman Catholic priesthood. The name of insignia is also applied to the decorations worn by the different orders of merit.
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Insolation
a synonym for sunstroke; also a mode of treatment which consists in exposing the patient to the rays of the sun, and which is had recourse to with a view of rousing the vital forces when languishing, or of producing irritation of the skin. In pharmacy, the drying of chemical and pharmaceutical substances. INSOLVENCY. See BANKRUPTCY LAWS.
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