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LEFT BOANEBOES 78 BOAS BOANEBGES, a Greek word trans- lated in Mark iii: 17, "sons of thunder." It is of doubtful etymology, but is prob- ably the Aramaic pronunciation of He- brew beni regesh, regesh in Hebrew meaning tumult or uproar, but in Arabic and Aramasan thunder. It is an ap- pellation given by Christ to two of His disciples, the brothers James and John, apparently on account of their fiery zeal. BOAB, the uncastrated male of the ewine (sus scrofa), or of any other spe- cies of the genus. The wild boar is the male of a swine either aboriginally wild or whose ancestors have escaped from domestication. The common wild boar through the Middle States till 1774, and then, returning to England, continued his itinerant ministry. He is known as one of the founders of Methodism in the United States. He died in Cork, Ire- land, Oct. 4, 1782. BOAB FISH Ccapros), a genus of fishes in the carangidss or horse mack- erel family of acanthopta-ygii or bony fishes with spinous rays. The protrus- ible mouth presents a resemblance to a hog's snout, as the name suggests. The body has an oval compressed form like that of the related John Dory. The com- mon boar fish (C. aper) is a well-known inhabitant of the Mediterranean, rarely WILD BOAR is sus scrofa; variety, aper. It is of a brownish black color; but the young are white or fawn colored, with brown stripes. It is wild in Europe, Asia and Africa, living in forests. Sus larvatus is the masked boar. BOABDMAN, GEOBGE DANA, an American clergyman and author, born in Tavoy, British Burma, Aug. 18, 1828; son of the American Baptist missionary of the same name. He Tvas educated in the United States, graduating at Brown University in 1852, and at Newton Theo- logical Institution in 1855. He became pastor at Barnwell, S. C; Rochester, N. Y., and of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. His chief works are "Studies in the Creative Week"; "Studies in the Model Prayer"; "Epiphanies of the Risen Lord"; "Studies in the Moun- tain Instruction." He died in 1903. BOABDMAN, BICHABD, an English missionary, born in 1738. He became a member of Wesley's conference in 1763, and volunteered for service in America in 1769. He preached in New York and caught on the coasts of England. The eyes are very large, and placed far for- ward; the body is of a carmine color lighter below, and with seven transverse orange bands on the back. BOAS, FBANZ (bo'az), a German ethnologist, born in Minden, Westphalia, July 9, 1858; studied at Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel Universities, in 1877- 1882; traveled in the Arctic regions in 1883-1884; was assistant in the Royal Ethnographical Museum in Berlin, and privat docent in geography at the Uni- versity in 1885-1886; and teacher of an- thropology in Clark University, Worces- ter, Mass., in 1888-1892; Columbia, 1899-1901; curator American Museum Natural History, 1907-1908; President American Anthropological Society, 1910, and N. Y. Academy of Science. He spent much time among various American In- dian tribes, and, among other works, has published "Baffin Land" (1885); "The Central Eskimo" (1888) ; "Indians of British Columbia" (1888-1892); "Mind of Primitive Man" (1911).