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Rh and worship for Americans in China, and Chinese in America; for joint efforts against the cooly trade; for the enjoyment by Chinese in America and Americans in China of all rights in respect to travel and residence accorded to citizens of the most favored nation; for similar reciprocal rights in the matter of the public educational institutions of the two countries, and for the right of establishing schools by citizens of either country in the other. The concluding article disclaims, on the part of the United States, the right of interference with the domestic administration of China in the matter of railroads, telegraphs, and internal improvements, but agrees that the United States will furnish assistance in these points on proper conditions, when requested by the Chinese government. From America Mr. Burlingame proceeded in the latter part of 1868 to England, and thence to France (1869), Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and Prussia, in all of which countries he was favorably received, and in all of which, but France, to which he intended returning, he negotiated important treaties or articles of agreement. He reached St. Petersburg early in 1870, and had just entered upon the business of his mission when he died of pneumonia, after an illness of only a few days. &mdash; His son, Edward Livermore, b. in Boston, Mass., 30 May, 1848, entered Harvard, but left before graduation, accompanying his father to China as his private secretary. He studied at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1867-'9, taking the degree of Ph. D., and afterward at Berlin. He travelled extensively in Japan and China in 1866, and afterward in Europe. He was on the editorial staff of the New York &ldquo;Tribune&rdquo; in 1871, and on that for the revision of the &ldquo;American Cyclopaedia&rdquo; in 1872-'6, has been a contributor to periodical literature, and associated in the preparation of several histories and other works. In 1879 he became connected editorially with the publishing-house of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appointed editor of its new magazine. He has translated and edited &ldquo;Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner&rdquo; (New York, 1875).

BURMEISTER, Karl Hermann Konrad, zoölogist, b. in Stralsund, Germany, 15 Jan., 1807; d. in Buenos Ayres, 1 May, 1891. He became professor of zoölogy at Halle in 1842; in 1848, during the revolutionary excitement, he was sent by the city of Halle as deputy to the national assembly, and subsequently by the town of Leibnitz to the first Prussian chamber. At the close of the session he travelled for two years in Brazil, and in 1861 was appointed director of the Museum of natural history at Buenos Ayres. He was also at the head of the academy of sciences, formed from the scientific faculty of the national university of Cordoba, Argentine Republic. Among his works are a &ldquo;Treatise on Natural History&rdquo; (Halle, 1830); &ldquo;Manual of Entomology&rdquo; (4 vols., 1832-4); &ldquo;Natural History of the Calandra Species&rdquo; (1837); &ldquo;The History of Creation&rdquo; (Leipsic, 1843); &ldquo;Geological Pictures of the History of the Earth and its Inhabitants&rdquo; (1851); and &ldquo;The Animals of Brazil&rdquo; (2 vols., 1854-'6). Dr. Burmeister has also published the &ldquo;Anales del Museo Publico,&rdquo; a scientific periodical which contained detailed descriptions of many new species, the originals of which are in the museum at Buenos Ayres. The huge edentates and other mammalia, which have rendered that museum, which was established by him, so famous, are described and pictured in this work.

BURNABY, Andrew, English clergyman, b. in Asfordby, Leicestershire, in 1732 ; d. 9 March, 1812. He was educated at Westminster and Cambridge, receiving the degree of M. A. in 1757. He published, in 1776, "Travels through the Middle Settlements of North America in 1759-'60," and in 1786 was made archdeacon of Leicester.

BURNAP, George Washington, clergyman, b. in Merrimack, N. H., 30 Nov., 1802; d. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 8 Sept., 1859. He was graduated at Harvard in 1824, and on 23 April, 1828, was or- dained pastor of the 1st Congregational church of Baltimore. Among his published works are " Lec- tures on the Doctrines of Controversy between Uni- tarians and other Denominations of Christians" (1835) ; " Lectures to Young Men " (Baltimore, 1840) ; " Lectures on the Sphere and Duty of Wom- an " (1840) ; " Lectures on the History of Christian- ity " (1842) ; " Biography of Henry A. Ingalls " (1845) ; " Expository Lectures on the Principal Texts which relate to the Doctrine of the Trinity " (1845); "Miscellaneous Writings" (Philadelphia); " Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity Con- sidered and Answered " (Boston, 1848) ; " What is Unitarianism ? " (1848) ; " Lectures on Doctrines of Christianity " (1848) ; " Discourses on the Rectitude of Human Nature " (1850) ; " Christianity, its Es- sence and Evidence, or an Analysis of the New Testament," a compendious and lucid statement of the biblical theology of the author's particular school of Unitarianism (1855).

BURNET, Robert, Canadian clergyman, b. in Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland, in June, 1823. He was educated at Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and received ordination as a Presbyterian minister in 1852. Soon afterward he went to Canada as a mis- sionary, was stationed at Hamilton, and called to the pastorate of St. Andrew's church there. Here he remained for twenty-five years, and established a flourishing congregation. In 1876 he took charge of St. Stephen's church, London, and remained in connection with it for three years, when he accepted a call from the Pictou, N. S., Presbyte- rian church. As a preacher, Mr. Burnet is dis- tinguished for his clear, well-arranged sermons, which are often eloquent in the highest degree, and always delivered extemporaneously. He is also well known in a widely different sphere of ac- tion, being regarded as an authority on the subjects of scientific agriculture and fruit-culture. While a resident of Ontario he was a member of the Do- minion and Provincial boards of agriculture, of the Entomological society, and the Fruit-growers' asso- ciation. Papers by him on scientific subjects have been published in the "Transactions" of the American pomological society.

BURNET, William, colonial governor, b. at the Hague, Holland, in March, 1688 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 7 Sept., 1728. He was the eldest son of Bishop Burnet, and had for his godfather William of Orange, afterward king of England. Having lost his fortune by speculation in the shares of Law's South Sea company, he obtained the appointment of governor of the colonies of New York and New Jersey, relinquishing the post of comptroller-general of customs in England, in which he was succeeded by Robert Hunter, the retiring governor of New York. He arrived, 17 Sept., 1720, and instituted a vigorous policy to frustrate French schemes of aggrandizement, and to acquire the interior for Great Britain. In 1722 he established a trading-post at Oswego, where, in 1696, Frontenac, French governor of Canada, had built a stockade fort, and in 1727 he erected there and armed, at his own expense, a small fort, planting the English standard for the first time on the great lakes, though the friendly Senecas and Oneidas objected, and Beauharnois, governor of Canada, protested vigorously. He convened a congress of governors