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BORNU, or Bornon, kingdom, Central

Africa, iv. 60; I. 271; xxn. 279. BOROCALCITE, mineral, xvi. 396. BORODINO, Russia, Battle of (1812), IX.

616; xvn. 217; xxi. 101. BORON, chemical element, v. 520, 532;

modifications of, xxiv. 627. BORONATROCALCITE, mineral, iv. 50. BORO-POOLOO, silkworm of Bengal,

xxn. 60. BOROUGH, iv. 62; municipal, xvn. 27.

, The, Crabbe s poem, VI. 540.

BOROUGH-ENGLISH, succession custom,

iv. 64; xix. 733.

BOROVICHI, town, Eussia, iv. 64. BOROVSK, town, Russia, iv. 64. BORROMEAN ISLANDS, Lago Maggiore,

Italy, iv. 64; xv. 198. BORROMEO, Carlo, saint and cardinal,

iv. 65; xxii. 791; his treatment of the

Jesuits, xin. 650. BORROMINI, Francesco, Italian architect,

iv. 65. BORRON, Helie de, French ruinancist,

XX. 645. , Robert de, French romancist, xx.

644. BORROWING, Ancient conditions of,

xxiv. 18. BoRROWSTOUNNESS, or Bo ness, town,

Scotland, iv. 65.

BORSIPPA, suburb of Babylon, ill. 183. BORSO, duke of Modena, patron of

literature, vill. 558; xvi. 542. BORULWASKI, Polish dwarf, vn. 568. BORUSSIANS, tribes, Lithuania, xiv.

701. BORY DE SAINT - VINCENT, French

naturalist, IV. 66. BORYSTHENES (Dnieper), river, Russia,

vil. 306. BORYSTHENIS, Greek colony, Scythia,

xvn. 753.

BORZNA, town, Russia, xxm. 96. BOSA, town, Sardinia, IV. 66. Bosc, Louis Augustine Guillaume,

French naturalist, IV. 66. BOSCAN, Juan, Spanish poet, iv. 66;

xxii. 357, 363. BOSCAWEN, Edward, British admiral,

iv. 66. BOSCH, Johannes van den, governor of

Dutch East Indies, XII. 820; his cul ture system in Java, XIII. 604. BOSCHETTO, architect of Pisa cathedral,

xix. 122. BOSCH VELD, bush country, Transvaal,

xxm. 518. BOSCOVICH, Roger Joseph, Italian

mathematician, iv. 67; his theory of

atoms, in. 37. BOSELAPHUS, genus of antelopes, xvn.

688. Bos GRUNNIENS, ruminant mammal,

xxiv. 725. BOSHETH, for Baal, in Hebrew proper

names, in. 175.

BosiO, Antonio, on the Catacombs of Rome, v. 207. -, Joseph, French sculptor, xxi. 564.

BOSJESMANS (Bushmen), African race, iv. 575; i. 264.

BOSNA SERAI, town, European Turkey, iv. 68.

BOSNIA, province, Turkey, IV. 68; ac quired by Austria, xxm. 652.

BOSPHORUS, strait, IV. 68; ill. 797; xv. 820. -, Kingdom of the, XIV. 52; coins

of, xvn. 645. BOSS, in architecture, 1 1. 461. Bossi, Giuseppe, Italian painter and

critic, iv. 69. -, Giuseppe Carlo Aurelio, Baron de,

Italian poet, IV. 69.

BOSSU, Rene le, French critic, IV. 69.

BOSSUET, Jacques Benigne, French ecclesiastic and orator, iv. 70; ix. 662; his four propositions, IX. 578.

BOSTON, town, England, iv. 72. , town, Massachusetts, U.S.A., iv. 72; xxm. 822; revolutionary move ment at (1768-70), vni. 358; xxm. 738; institution for the blind, III. 830; libraries, xiv. 535, 550; newspapers, xvn. 433. -, Thomas, Scottish divine, IV. 77.

BOSTROM, Kristofer Jakob, Swedish philosopher, xxn. 757.

BOSWELL, James, biographer of John son, iv. 77; xin. 726; Croker s edition of his life of Johnson, vi. 595.

BOSWELLIA, genus of gum-yielding trees, ix. 709.

BoszoRMENY, Hajdu, town, Hungary, XI. 377.

BOTANICAL SOCIETIES, xxn. 225.

BOTANIC GARDENS, their institution, IV. So; at Kew, England, xiv. 55.

BOTANY, iv. 79 (index, 162); xix. 43; XX. 423; xxiv. 124; scope of the science, xxiv. 799; of America, I. 684; European, vni. 690; of Himalayas, XL 831; Civsalpinus s work on, iv. 633; Brown s contributions to, IV. 386; De Candolle s, vn. 18; Jussieu s, xin. 788; Linnjeus s, xiv. 673; Lindley s, xiv. 663; Ray s, xx. 301; Sprengel s, xxn. 432 ; Theophrastus s, xxm. 277.

BAY, settlement, New South Wales,

iv. 164; xxn. 806.

BOTAURUS, genus of birds, XI. 761.

BOT-FLY, vn. 256; its larva parasitic, xxiv. 205.

BOTH, Pieter, governor of Dutch East Indies, xil. 820.

BOTHKAMP, Germany, observatory at, xvii. 712.

BOTHNIA, province, Sweden, iv. 164. , Gulf of, in. 294; xxn. 738.

BOTHRIOCEPHALUS, genus of tape- worms, XXIII. 54 ; spermatozoon of, xx. 411.

BOTHWELL, village, Scotland, IV. 164. -, Earl of, IV. 164; xv. 595; his re

lations with Mary, queen of Scots, xxi. 504.

- BRIDGE, Scotland, Battle of (1679), xiv. 251; xxi. 516.

BOTHY SYSTEM, in Scotland, i. 409.

BOTTA, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo, Italian historian, iv. 164; Xin. 514. , Paul Emile, his Assyrian re searches, iv. 165.

BOTTGER, Frederick, discoverer of porce lain, xix. 639; xxi. 355.

BOTTICELLI, Sandro, Italian painter, iv. 165.

BOTTIGER, Karl August, German arch aeologist, iv. 167.

BOTTLE, iv. 167; manufacture, x. 664.

BOTTLENOSE, bird, XX. IOI.

, or True Dolphin, vn. 346; xv. 399-

- WHALE, xxiv. 525, 528. See also xv. 397.

BOTTOM FISHING, in angling, n. 32. BOTTOM-ICE, in the Baltic, in. 295. BOTTOMRY, maritime contract, iv. 167;

in. 148. BOTRYLLID/E, family of Tunicata, xxm.

617.

BOTRYOGENE, mineral, XVI. 402. BOTRYOLITE, mineral, xvi. 409. BOTY S LAMP, for coal-mines, vi. 73. BOTZEN, town, Austria, iv. 169. BOUALI, town, Africa, IV. 1 78. BOUCHES - DU - RHONE, department,

France, IV. 169.

BOUCHET, Jean, French poet, XX. 194. BOUCNEMIA (Elephantiasis), disease,

vni. 126.

BOUFARIK, town, Algeria, iv. 169. BOUFLERS, Due de, marshal of France,

iv. 169; ix. 581. BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de,

French circumnavigator, IV. 169;

explorer of Tahiti, xxm. 24.

- ISLAND, South Pacific, xxn. 252.

BOUGIE, town, Algeria, iv. 170.

BOUGUER, Pierre, French mathe matician, IV. 170; n. 757; VIL 598; his wind-pressure guage, II. 24.

BOUHOURS, Dominique, French critic,

iv. 170. BOUILLON, Godfrey de, crusader, IV.

171; vi. 624. BOULAINVILLIERS, Henri de, French

writer, iv. 171; ix. 667. BOULANGERITE, mineral, xvi. 395. BOULDER-CLAY, geological formation,

x. 367- BOULDERS, x. 368; in the Baltic, in.

295; x. 367. See also x. 281, 285. BOULE, Andre Charles, inventor of buhl- work, iv. 446. BOULENGER, G. A., his classification of

reptiles, xx. 439. BOULEUTERION, council-hall at Olym-