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years minister to Athens, he was appointed to 

 Portugal, where he remained for three years. 

 In 1866 M. Bouree was sent as an ambassador 

 to Constantinople, and to him is awarded the 

 merit of having persuaded Sultan Abdul- Aziz 

 to visit Europe, this being reputed the first 

 occasion when an Ottoman Sultan had visited 

 European capitals. M. Bouree retired from the 

 embassy at Constantinople in 1870, since which 

 time he had occupied various offices at home. 

 Latterly he was brought into notice by his un- 

 successful negotiation with China in reference 

 to the proposed treaty in 1882-'83, the failure 

 of which was the signal for the vigorous re- 

 newal of hostilities. 



Bourgeoise, Baron Charles Arthur, a French 

 sculptor, born in Dijon in 1838; died in Paris, 

 Dec. 14, 1886. He was the pupil of Duret and 

 Gnillaume, and in 1863 obtained the Prix de 

 Rome for his group u Nisus and Euryalus." 

 His principal works are : " The Serpent-Charm- 

 er " (1864) ; u La Pythie de Delphes " ; " Un 

 Esclave"; "La Religion"; " Circe "; and 

 " Hero and Leander." 



Boyer, Leon, a French engineer, born in 1850 ; 

 died in Panama, May 1, 1886. He succeeded 

 M. Dinglers as engineer of the Panama Canal, 

 and went into that fatal climate contrary to 

 the advice of his physicians. 



Bnrgess, Henry, an English editor, born in 

 1808; died in London, in February, 1886. He 

 received a collegiate education, studied for the 

 ministry, and was ordained in 1851. In 1861 

 he settled in the vicarage of Whittlesey, St. 

 Andrew, Cambridgeshire, where he remained 

 for twenty-five years. He was for many years 

 editor of the " Clerical Journal," and of the 

 "Journal of Sacred Literature." He was also 

 the author of theological and other works, 

 among which are " The Bible Society vindi- 

 cated in its Decision respecting the Bengali 

 New Testament," " The Power of Personal 

 Godliness in Evangelizing Mankind," " The 

 Reformed Church of England in its Principles 

 and their Legitimate Development," " Essays, 

 Biblical and Ecclesiastical, relating Chiefly to 

 the Authority and Interpretation of Holy Script- 

 ures,'" and "Disestablishment and Disendow- 

 ment." 



Borstal, Edward, an English engineer, born in 

 Stoke, England, in 1818; died in Ramsgate, 

 July 13, 1886. He entered the navy in 1833, 

 became a midshipman in 1840; was promoted 

 in 1846 to the rank of lieutenant ; and engaged 

 in 1852 in laying the first submarine telegraph 

 cable from Dover to Calais, for which he re- 

 ceived a present of plate. He subsequently 

 laid the cable from Orfordness to the Hague. 

 During the war with Russia, he was engaged 

 in operations in the Baltic, and was at the tak- 

 ing of Bomarsund, and at that time was espe- 

 cially mentioned in the dispatches for valuable 

 services in taking up the combined English 

 and French fleets when the lights and buoys 

 had been removed or misplaced by the Rus- 

 sians. For this service he was promoted to 



commander. In 1857 he was made Secretary 

 to the Conservators of the River Thames. 

 His opinion was often in request in connection 

 with marine engineering questions, especially 

 with reference to harbors, docks, bridge-foun- 

 dations, and sea-defenses. 



Busk, George, an English naturalist and sur- 

 geon, born in St. Petersburg, in 1808; died in 

 London, Aug. 16, 1886. At an early age he 

 was brought to England, and became a member 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1830. He 

 was appointed surgeon to the Seamen's Hos- 

 pital-ship Grampus, where he had the oppor- 

 tunity of studying diseases from all parts of 

 the world, and distinguished himself by papers 

 on scurvy, parasites that infest tropical food, 

 and malignant diseases of pestilential climates. 

 In 1855 he abandoned surgery and devoted 

 himself to science, especially to the study of 

 the polyzoa, and wrote several works en this 

 class of marine animals. Actuated by his sym- 

 pathies for the lower animals, he accepted the 

 post of official inspector to prevent needless 

 vivisection. 



Caldecott, Randolph, an English artist, born in 

 Chester, England, in 1846 ; died in St. Augus- 

 tine, Fla., Feb. 12, 1886. When only six years 

 old he attracted attention by his cleverness in 

 carving familiar animals from wood, and mak- 

 ing clay models from them, and during his 

 school-days he was mostly given to loitering 

 in the woods, and sketching whatever pleased 

 his fancy. On leaving school he was placed 

 in a bank in Chester, and subsequently in one 

 in Manchester. In the latter city he received 

 the first encouragement in his art-studies, and, 

 after a service of five years in the bank, he 

 withdrew and devoted himself wholly to his 

 pencil and brush. His first published drawings 

 appeared in the " Sphinx," a serio-comic paper, 

 supported by the Brasenose Club, which era- 

 braced the leading literary, artistic, and scien- 

 tific men of the city. While contributing 

 sketches to this and the society and illustrated 

 papers of London, he took a course of instruc- 

 tion at the Slade School of Art, London, and 

 then began his career as an illustrator of books. 

 In 1873 he represented the " Graphic " at the 

 Vienna Exposition, and illustrated Henry 

 Blackburn's "Harz Mountains"; in 1875-'76 

 he illustrated a number of Christmas-books, 

 and Washington Irving's "Old Christmas," 

 and " Bracebridge Hall " ; in 1878 he produced 

 his version of "John Gilpin " 'and "The 

 House that Jack Built"; in 1879 "The Babes 

 in the Woods." " The Song of Sixpence," and 

 " The Three Jovial Huntsmen " ; besides illus- 

 trating Mrs. Comyns-Carr's "North Italian 

 Folk " and Henry Blackburn's " Breton Folk," 

 and in 1883 he published "A Sketch-Book," 

 and "Some of ^Esop's Fables, with Modern 

 Instances" Although his reputation rests 

 upon his book illustrations, he executed some 

 choice decorative work, and exhibited occa- 

 sionally at the Grosvenor Gallery on canvas, 

 and in metal and plaster. 



