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Bouley, Henri (1814-1885). French veterinarian and comparative 

 pathologist. Member of the Institute. President of the Academy 

 of Sciences in 1885. Champion of Pasteur. For a portrait see 

 Rec. MeU V6t., 7 s6r., Tome II, No. 23, 15 dec., 1885. 



Boullay, Polydore (1806-1835). French chemist. Wrote "Mdmoire 

 sur la formation de I'e'ther sulfurique" (1827), " Me'moire sur les 

 Others composes" (1828). 



Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Dieudonne (1802-1887). French 

 analytical and agricultural chemist. Fought under Bolivar in 

 South America. Climbed Chimborazo (1831). Professor in Lyons 

 and in Paris. Member of the Academy of Sciences; Member of the 

 National Assembly (1848). Grand officer of the Legion of Honor. 

 He showed that ordinary plants cannot assimilate free nitrogen. 

 One of the founders of the Science of Agronomy (see his "Traite" 

 d'Economie rurale" and his "Agronomic, chimie agricole, et 

 physiologic"). For portraits see Wittrock II, Tan. 58, and Pop. Sci. 

 Monthly, Oct., 1888. 



Boutron, Charlard Antoine Francois (1796-1878). French chemist. 



Boyle, Robert (1627-1691). English chemist and physicist. Brother 

 of the statesman. Discovered Boyle's law. Wrote his "Sceptical 

 chymist" in 1661. Used vegetable colors for determining acidity 

 and alkalinity of solutions; invented a freezing mixture. Founded 

 a lectureship on the Evidences of Christianity. For portrait 

 see Pop. Sci. Monthly, Feb., 1893. 



Brauell, J. Fr. ( ). German veterinarian at Dorpat. Brauell's 



first communication appears to have been in Virchow's Archiv, 

 1857. Wrote also on rinderpest (1862). 



Bremer, Gustav Jacob Wilhelm (1847-1909). Dutch chemist. Taught 

 in Rotterdam. Published in Dutch a paper on malic acid (Een 

 rechtsdraaiend appelzuur) in 1875. 



Broussais, Fran$ois Joseph Victor (1772-1838). French physician and 

 pathologist. Founder of a school of medicine called "the physio- 

 logical school," which for a time had an enormous following in 

 France. Broussais was a great believer in the value of starvation 

 and blood-letting. He would cover a patient with leeches. For 

 portraits see Garrison, p. 416, and Pagel, p. 29. 



Briicke, Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von (1819-1892). German anatomist and 

 physiologist. Professor in Koenigsberg and Vienna. Author of 

 numerous papers on physiology of speech, physiology of colors, 

 etc. For portraits see Garrison, p. 489, and Pagel, p. 259. 



Buffon, George Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788). French naturalist. 

 Celebrated for the style of his books, which were translated into 

 many languages but are of slight value now. It was he who said: 



