Abraham, LapIsLas

LL.D., K.C.S.G., university Grammar Schools, St. Francis Xavier College, New profe or, b. at Sambor, Galicia, Austria, 10 October, York; Wood stock College, Maryland; Ma achusetts 1860. Education: Gymnasium, Sambor; Universities Institute of Technology; Innsbruck University, Ausof Cracow and Berlin. Began career in a solicitor’s tri a. Entered the Society of Jesus, 1896; profe or office in Cracow; lecturer in canon law at the Univerof chemistry, geology and mechanics, Boston College, sity of Cracow 1886; profe or of canon law (1888—_), Boston, Ma ., 1902-1906; profe or of mathematics, dean of the faculty of law (1895) and Rector (1900), geology and mathematical astronomy, Wood stock University of Lemberg. Director of Polish Scientific College, Maryland, 1906-1907; ordained 1910; pro- Expedition of the Academy of Cracow at Rome; memfe or of chemistry and geology, Can is i us College, ber of the Academy of Science in Cracow and of other Buffalo, 1911-1914; stationed at St. Andrew-on scientific a ociations in Austria; Austrian Court Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1914-1915; profe or Councillor; Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown of chemistry and geology, Boston College, 1915-. (Austria); Commander of the Papal Order of St. Member of the American A ociation for the Advance- Gregory. Author of numerous treatises and books in ment of Science, of the American Chemical Society, Polish on canon law and the ecclesiastical history of of the Boston Society of Natural History, of the 14 AHERNE ALDASY Seismological Society of America, of the Appal a chi an of the administrative board of the Historical and Mountain Club and of the Geological Society of Archeological Society of the Province of Limburg. Boston. Conducted the Scientific Chronicle of the Author of: ‘‘Het Herstel der Hierarchie in de Neder- “American Catholic Quarterly Review’’, 1903-1906; landen’’, in 2 parts (Nimwegen, 1903-1904); ‘‘ Hand contributor to: “‘The Me enger”; ‘‘America’’. boek der Algemeene Kerkgeschiedenis’’, in 2 parts ARTICLES: Innspruck University; Lurcer, Karu. (Nimwegen, 1905-1907), translated into French, Latin, Italian, Spanish, and English; and ‘“Levens-