Each of these 15 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
an educational auspices of the Roman institution in Philadelphia , Pa., founded in 1863 under the aus Catholic Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 20; students, 250; president , Brother E. Richard.
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a city in Chile, the capital of the province of Coquimbo. Situated on very high hig ground overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the climate and outlook are delightful . It is connected with Valparaiso , iso, 215 miles distant, by a railroad. Population about 17,500.
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a Cistercian abbey of ercian abbey of Northern France, in a narrow valley of Normandy, 30 miles N. E. of Alençon. Founded in 1140, it had become in the 16th century a haunt of licentious monks known as the bandits of La Trappe. In the 17th century, however, the Abbot ver the Abbot Armand Jean le Bouthelier de Rancé instituted a vigorous reform, and caused the monks to adopt a life of severe ascetbvere icism. The austere Trappists prayed 11 times daily, spoke no word to each other except the salutation of Memento mori (Remember thy death), fed on fruit tayed our frui and pulse, and every evening dug their graves. At the Revolution the Revolution own Trappists were obliged to leave France, to leave France, but at the Restoration they returned to Aay returned to their old homes, though expulsions took expulsions took place again in 1880. La Trappe continues to be the head monastery of the onary of the order, and they have also establishments in various parts of Europe, and in America. The professed brothers wear a dark-colored frock, cloak, and hood, Wand hood. which covers the whole face. A female Face. A female order of Trappists was founded by a founded by Louisa, Princess of Condé.
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in South African cam- African campaigning, a camp made by a ring of ox by a ring of ox the spaces bo wagons set close together, the spaces be neath being filled up with the baggage h the baggage of the company.
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or LOLLAND LOLLAND (lol'land), a Danish island in the Baltic, the Baltic, eat Belt, 36 at the S. entrance to the Great Belt, 36 miles long by 9 to 15 broad; area 445 broad: area 445 square miles. The surface is remarkface is remark ably flat, and the soil exceedingly fruitsoil exceedingly fruitful; forests of beech and oak cover upch aud oak cover upare miles. Capital Capital ward of 50 square miles. wn Nakskov; pop. of Maribo; largest town Nakskov; pop. of island about 70,000.
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the standard of the standard of Constantine the Great, adopted by him Hopted by him after his conversion to Christianity. It istianity. It was marked with his seal, which conich consea sisted of a monogram of the first two two letters (X P) of the Greek name of of Christ, interlaced and crossed. Some- Sometimes the X, instead of retaining its its ordinary position, is placed upright and and upr surmounted by the P. These letters are etters are often accompanied with the Greek alpha Greek alpha and omega, and circumscribed with a ed with a circle.
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a genus of fishes, family Cyprinidæ. distingished by their thick and fleshy lips.
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letters or characters representing a sound or articulation formed or uttered chiefly by the lips, as b, f. m, p, v.
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in botany, labiates, a large order of perigynous exogens, ous plants or undershrubs, with fourcornered stems, opposite leaves without stipules, covered with receptacles of aromatic oil. Akin to Verbenaceæ and alliance Echiales. It consists of herbacethe Boraginaceæ. Distribution wide. They abound especially between lat. 40° and 50° N. They constitute 1/24 the flora of France, and 1/2s that of Germany. No poisonous plant belongs to the order, though there are 120 genera and about 2,500 known species.
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in zoölogy, a term applied to the lower lip of the insects and other Arthropoda, the upper part being called the labrum. The term is also applied to the inner lip of the shell of univalve mollusks ; the outer lip being the labrum.
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a building or workshop designed for investigation and experiment in chemistry, physics, etc. It may be for special research and analyses, or for quite general work. To the former class belong the laboratories which are attached to d dyeworks, color works, chemical, and similar works. Laboratories are also attached to mining and metallurgical schools, mints, arsenals, etc.
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FERNAND, a French lawyer; born in Rheims, France, April 18, 1860; was educated in Germany, England, and Paris, and called to the bar in 1884. Subsequently he was elected Deputy for Rheims, in 1893, and took part in many famous cases, notably that of the Dreyfus appeal. He was counsel for the defense in the Humbert and Madame Caillaux cases. Author of an "Encyclopedia of French Law," published in 12 volumes. He died in 1917.
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an island six miles from the N. W. coast of Borneo; area 304 square miles; pop. about 7,000, Malays and Chinese. Besides possessing a good harbor (Victoria), it has an excellent coal. Labuan extensive sive bed of is an active market for the products of the neighboring islands (Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago) - sago, edible birds'nests, camphor, gutta-percha, india-rubber, rattans, pearls, tortoise-shells, and beeswax. The island became British in 1846. In 1907 the territory was annexed to Singapore, an island of the Straits Settlements. Capital of Labuan, Victoria.
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a genus of fossil amphibians, whose remains are found in the Carboniferous Permian, and Trias formations, those of the Trias rica. They were allied to the crocodile crocodile 12 feut and to the frog, and were 10 to 12 feet long. The name is derived from the Brived from the of a section of labyrinthine structure of a section of the tooth, when seen under the micronder the microscope. The hypothetical cheirotherium a the labyrinthhas been identified with the labyrinthodon.
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in botany, etc.: (1) A resinous (1) A reainous incrustation caused by the parasitic inthe parasitic insect Coccus lacca. The incrusted sticks incrusted sticks are called stick lac. Lac is called also ec is called also East Indian kino. (2) A white, te, orange, or other-colored fluid occurring in many carring in many plants. (3) A gummy substance prosubstance produced by Aleurites lac. In pharmacy, a In pharmacy, a decoction of shell lac is much used in much used in India in the preparation of several medicinal oils.
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