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WILLIAM BOOT. Born at Boston, June 15, 1805. Died at 
Boston, May 16, 1887. Biographical notice in American Journal 
of Science and Arts, XXXIV (October, 1887). Published: — 
Cariees in Report upon United States G-eographical Surveys West of 
the 100th Meridian in charge of First Lieutenant Geo. M. Wheeler. 
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Cariees in S. Watson’s Botany of California. Vol. ii, Cambridge, Mass. 
1880. 4to. 
Notes on Cyperaceae, Bot. Gaz. IX (1884). 
JEAW BAPTISTE BOUSSOTGAULT. Born at Paris, February 2, 
1802. Died at Paris, May 11, 1887. Educated at the School 
of Mines, St. Etienne, 1822. Professor at the School of Mines, 
Bogota (South America). Officer in the army of Columbia 
during the War of Independence of this State. Professor at the 
Facultd des Sciences, Lyon, 1835. Professor at Paris, 1837. 
Member of the French Academy, 1839. Professor of Agriculture 
at the Conservatoire des arts et metiers, 1845 (he held this appoint- 
ment until his death, but only as an honorary post during the 
later years). Biographical notice by Pringsheim in Berichte der 
deutschen bot. Gesellschaft, Generalversammlungsheft, 1887. 
Published : — 
Agronomie, Chimie Agricole et Physiologie, Vols. 1-6, Gauthier- Villars, 
Paris, 1860-78. 
Economie rurale, 1844. 
Reeherches sur la composition de 1 ’ atmosphere, I er memoire : Sur la 
possibility de constater la presence des miasmes. Sur la presence 
d’un principe hydrogend dans 1’air. Ann. de Chimie, LVII (1834) ; 
Erdmann’s Joum. f. prakt. Chemie, III (1834); Journ. de Pharm. XXI 
(1835); PInstitut, II (1834), III (1835); Poggendorfs Ann. XXXVI 
(1835). 
Examen comparatif des circonstances mdtyorologiques sous lesquelles 
v^getent eertaines plantes alimentaires l’dquateur el sous la zone 
tempdree. Ann. de Chimie, LXIII (1836) ; Frorieps’s Notizen, II (1837) > 
Bibl. Univ. VII (1837). 
Des influences meteorologiques sur la culture de la vigne. Comptes 
Rendus, Paris, IV (1837); Ann. de Chimie, LXIV (1837). 
Reeherches ehimiques sur la vegetation entreprises dans le but d’examiner 
si les plantes prennent de l’azote de Patmosphere. Comptes Rendus, 
Paris, VI (1838), VII (1838); Ann. de Chimie, LXVII (1838), LXIX 
(1838); Ann. Sci. Nat. X (1838) ; Erdmann’s Journ. f. prakt. Chemie, XIV 
(1838), XVI (1839); Frorieps’s Notizen, V (1838). 
Reeherches sur la quantite de l’azote contenu dans les fourrages et sur 
leurs equivalents. Comptes Rendus, Paris, III (1836), VI (1838) ; 
Ann. de Chimie, LXIII (1836), LXVII (1838) ; Dingler’s Polytechn. Joum. 
LXIV (1837) ; Erdmann’s Journ. f. prakt. Chemie, XI (1837), XV (1838) ; 
Bibl. Univ. VI (1836) ; Liebig’s Ann., XXIII (1837). 
