KEY AND INDEX 



keeper of the Bulak collection. Director of the 

 Egyptian Museum, Berlin. Wrote valuable His- 

 tory of Egypt. 



Brunei, Isambard K., vii, 77. Born at Ports- 

 mouth, 1806; died at London, 1859. English en- 

 gineer, son of Sir M. I. Designer of the "Great 

 Western," first steamer built to cross Atlantic, 

 and "Great Britain" (first iron ocean steam- 

 ship). Also "Great Eastern." 1833, appointed 

 chief engineer Great Western Railway, and de- 

 signed a large part of the road. Engineer of 

 many famous constructions. 



Budge, Dr. Ernest A. Wallis, i, 28. Contempo- 

 rary English archaeologist. Keeper of the Egyp- 

 tian and Assyrian antiquities, British Museum. 

 Educated at Cambridge, gave special attention to 

 Semitic languages. Has conducted excavations 

 in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and has written a 

 great deal on the history and inscriptions of 

 those countries. 



Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de, iv, 

 149. Born at Montbard, Burgundy, 1707; died 

 at Paris, 1788. Studied law at Dijon, but gave 

 it up for science. Interested at first in astron- 

 omy and mathematics, but finally his talents 

 turned definitely toward zoology, and he set to 

 work at a collection and systematization of all 

 the facts of physical nature. He was not quite 

 equal to the task, but his "Natural History" 

 marks an epoch in the study of natural science, 

 although it has no scientific value, as most of his 

 views and theories have been shown to be false. 



Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm, iv, 69. Born at Got- 

 tingen, 1811; died at Heidelberg, 1899. German 

 chemist. Educated Gottingen, where he devoted 



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