William Ingraham Kip, an American bishop, born in New York city, Oct. 3, 1811. He studied at Rutgers college, 1ST. J., and graduated at Yale in 1831. He first studied law, and then theology at the general theological seminary of the Episcopal church in New York, and was ordained a deacon in 1835. After some ministerial work in Morristown, N. J., and New York city, he became in 1838 rector of St. Peter's church in Albany, N. Y. In October, 1853, he was consecrated missionary bishop of the Pacific coast, and soon after bishop of the diocese of California, which post he still retains (1874). Besides numerous contributions to church periodicals, he has published "The Lenten Fast" (1843); "The Double Witness of the Church" (1844); "Christmas Holidays in Rome" (1845); "Early Jesuit Missions in North America" (1846); "Early Conflicts of Christianity" (1850); " The Catacombs of Rome" (1854); and "Unnoticed Things of Scripture" (1868). Most of these works have passed through several editions and been republished in England.