_Office and Duties of Coroners_ (6th ed., 1898);
R. H. Wellington, _The King's Coroner_ (2 vols., 1905-1906). In 1908 a
committee was appointed to inquire into the law relating to coroners
and coroners' inquests and into the practice in coroners' courts.
(T. A. I.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] _Coroner of the Verge._--The verge comprised a circuit of 12 m.
round the king's court, and the coroner of the king's house, called
the coroner of the verge, has jurisdiction within this radius. By the
Coroners Act 1887 the jurisdiction of the verge was abolished and
became absorbed in that of the county, but the appointment of the
king's coroner was left with the lord steward, while his jurisdiction
was limited to the precincts of the palace.

CORONIUM, that constituent (otherwise unknown) of the sun's corona,
which emits the characteristic green coronal ray, of which the
wave-length is 5303.

COROT, JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE (1796-1875), French landscape painter, was
born in Paris, in a house on the Quai by the rue du Bac, now demolished,
on the 26th of July 1796. His family were well-to-do bourgeois people,
and whatever may have been the experience of some of his artistic
colleagues, he never, throughout his life, felt the want of money. He
was educated at Rouen and was afterwards apprenticed to a draper, but
hated commercial life and despised what he called its "business tricks,"
yet he faithfully remained in it until he was twenty-six, when his
father at last consented to his adopting the profession of art. Corot
learned little from his masters. He visited Italy on three occasions:
two of his Roman studies are now in the Louvre. He was a regular
contributor to the Salon during his lifetime, and in 1846 was
"decorated" with the cross of the Legion of Honour. He was promoted to
be officer in 1867. His many friends considered nevertheless that he was
officially neglected, and in 1874, only a short time before his death,
they presented him with a gold medal. He died in Paris, on the 22nd of
February 1875, and was buried at Pere Lachaise.

Of the painters classed in the Barbizon school it is probable that
Corot will live the longest, and will continue to occupy the highest
position. His art is more individual than Rousseau's, whose works are
more strictly traditional; more poetic than that of Daubigny, who is,
however, Corot's greatest contemporary rival; and in every sense more
beautiful