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444 eompanied Columbus on his second voyage to the New World, bringing with him several priests. In consequence of differences with Columbus respecting the treatment of the natives of Hispaniola, he returned to Spain, supported the charges that brought about the downfall of the admiral, and died abbot of the convent at Cuxa. An account of what he did in America, entitled "Nova Typis transacta navigatione Novi Orbis Indiae occidentalis," published in 1021 under the name of Franciscus Honorius Philoponus, is supposed to have been written by Buil himself.

BUIST, George, clergyman, b. in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1770 ; d. in Charleston, S. C, 31 Aug., 1808. He was educated at Edinburgh university, attained great proficiency in philology, was called to a church in Charleston in 1793, and in 1805 became principal of the college in that city. He published an abridgment of Hume's "History" for schools (1792) and a version of the Psalms (1796), and contributed to the "British Encyclopædia." A volume of his sermons, with a memoir, was published in 1809.

BULFINCH, Charles, architect, b. 8 Aug., 1763; d. in Boston, 15 April, 1844. He was a son of Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, an eminent physician, who attempted to establish a small-pox hospital in Boston in 1763, was graduated at Harvard in 1781, and acquired, by travel in Europe, a knowledge of architecture. On his return from Europe in 1786, he devoted himself to architecture as a profession. In 1793 he built the first theatre in Boston. He drew the plans for the state-house and city-hall in Boston, for the capitol at Washington, for Faneuil hall, and designed as many as forty churches and other buildings in New England cities. He was the architect of the national capitol from 1817 until it was completed in 1830.—His son, Stephen Greenleaf, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 18 June, 1809 ; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 12 Oct., 1870. He accompanied his father to Washington at the age of nine, and was graduated at Columbian college in 1826. After studying at the Cambridge divinity school, he was, from 1830 till 1837, a Unitarian clergyman at Augusta, Ga. He taught school and preached in Pittsburg, Pa., and was similarly engaged in Washington, D. C, for six years. In 1845 he was settled in Nashua, N. H., and in 1852 removed to Boston. He published "Contemplations of the Saviour" (Boston, 1832); a volume of "Poems" (Charleston, 1834); "The Holy Land and its Inhabitants" (Boston, 1834); "Lays of the Gospel" (1835); "Communion Thoughts" (1852); "The Harp and the Cross" (1857); "Plonor, or the Slave Dealer's Daughter" (1864); "Manual of the Evidences of Christianity" (1866); and "Studies in the Evidences of Christianity" (1869). He was a contributor to the collection of Unitarian hymns.

BULFINCH, Thomas, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 15 July, 1796; d. there, 27 May, 1867. He studied in the Latin school and at Phillips Exeter academy, and was graduated at Harvard in 1814. He was in mercantile business until 1837, and a clerk in the Boston merchants' bank during the rest of his life. His leisure hours were devoted to literary pursuits. He published "Hebrew Lyrical History" (Boston, 1853); "The Age of Fable" (1855); "The Age of Chivalry" (1858); the "Boy Inventor" (1860): "Legends of Charlemagne" (1863); "Poetry of the Age of Fable" (1863); and "Oregon and Eldorado; or, Bomance of the Rivers" (1866).

BULKELEY, Eliphalet Adams, lawyer, b. in Colchester, Conn., 29 June, 1803; d. in Hartford, 13 Feb., 1872. He was graduated at Yale in 1824, studied law, and admitted to the bar in Lebanon, Conn. Later he settled in East Haddam, where he followed his profession and became president of the bank. While residing in this district he was elected to the lower branch of the state legislature, and afterward twice to the senate. In 1847 he removed to Hartford, where he was appointed school-fund commissioner, and in 1857 again elected to the state legislature, becoming speaker of the house. For many years he was associated in law business with Judge Henry Perkins, under the firm-name of Bulkeley & Perkins. During the latter portion of his life he was interested in the business of life insurance, and associated in the organizing of both the Connecticut mutual company, becoming its first president, and the Ætna life insurance company, of which he was president from 1850 till his death.—His son, Morgan Gardiner, financier, b. in East Haddam, Conn., 26 Dec, 1838, was educated in Hartford, and subsequently entered upon a mercantile career in Brooklyn. On the death of his father he returned to Hartford and became president of the United States bank, and later was elected to the presidency of the Ætna life insurance company. He is prominent in Connecticut politics as a republican, and has four times been elected mayor of Hartford.

BULKELEY, Peter, clergyman, b. in Odell, Bedfordshire, England, 31 Jan., 1583; d. in Concord, Mass., 9 March, 1659. He was educated at Cambridge, where he afterward became a fellow. Later he took orders, and succeeded to the living of his father in Odell, where he remained for twenty-one years, when he was removed by Archbishop Laud for non-conformity. In 1635 he sold his estates and came to this country with other settlers. He remained for some time at Cambridge, Mass., but pushed farther inland and founded Concord, where he lived until his death. Mr. Bulkeley was an excellent scholar. He wrote Latin verses, some of which have been preserved in Cotton Mather's &ldquo;History of New England&rdquo;; an elegy on the Rev. Thomas Hooker; and &ldquo;The Gospel Covenant; or, the Covenant of Grace Opened&rdquo; (London, 1646). He contributed a large part of his own valuable collection to establish the library of Harvard college.

BULKLEY, Henry Daggett, physician, b. in New Haven, Conn., 20 April, 1803; d. in New York city, 4 Jan., 1872. He was graduated at Yale in 1820, and spent several years in New York, engaged in business, after which he returned to New Haven and studied medicine under Dr. Knight, receiving his medical degree in 1830. lie spent some time in the study of cutaneous diseases in the hospitals of Paris, and in November, 1832, settled in New York and devoted his attention principally to that specialty, in which he became a recognized authority. He delivered several courses of lectures on this subject in the college of physicians and surgeons, and was the first to establish a dispensary in New York for skin diseases. In 1848 he was appointed attending physician to the New York Hospital, a post which he occupied until his death. He was a member of medical societies and some time president of the New York County Medical Society and of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Bulkley edited the American editions of Cazenave and Schedel's "Manual of Diseases of the Skin" (New York, 1846), and Gregory's "Eruptive Fevers " (1851).

BULL, Henry, governor of Rhode Island, b. in South Wales in 1609; d. in Rhode Island in 1693. He early emigrated to America, and after a short