Bourse ( boors )

[rr. bourse, purse, exchange; Sp. and Port, bolsa; from L. Lat. bursa, skin, purses being originally made from skin.] A public edifice, containing offices, display rooms and a embly halls, for the use of merchants, manufacturers, bankers, .; a general commercial exchange, as in Bru els, Paris, Philadelphia, . Bourtange, or BOURTANG, ( boor'tawng,) a Dutch town and fortre in Gröningen, in an extensive mora , 12 m. from Winschoten. In 1593 it was taken by the Spaniards, and in 1795 retaken by the French. Bouse, v. i. See BOOZE. Bous'sa, a province of Interior Africa, Lat. 10° 14′ N., Lon. 6° 11' E., extending about 50 m. N. of the River Niger. Surface . Level, and wooded. Soil . Very fertile, producing corn, rice, cotton, yams, . B. abounds with the usual wild animals of Africa. It is considered, politically, a part of the great kingdom of Borgoo, of which it forms the largest, most powerful, and populous State. Cap . Bou a. BOUSSA, a city, and cap. of the above prov., is situate on an island of the same name in the Niger, Lat. 10° 14′ N., Lon. 5° 20 E. It presents the appearance of several small villages, and po e es a melancholy interest from its being the spot where the celebrated African traveller Mungo Park (q. v.) met his death. Pop . Estimated at 18,000. Bou ingault, (bōōs'in-go,) JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DIEUDONNE, an eminent French chemist, and member of the Institute; в. in Paris, 1802. After finishing his education in the Mining School of St. Etienne, he accepted the offer made to him by an English company, of proceeding to S. America, to recover and work certain ancient mines which had been for many years neglected. All went well at first: but when the Spanish colonies declared their independence, an end was put to the enterprise. It was at this time that B. made the acquaintance of Humboldt, who was exploring the New World. B. having nothing better to do, entered the ranks of the insurrectionary army, and was attached to Gen. Bolivar's staff, more, however, as a savant than a soldier; and pa ed through Bolivia, Venezuela, and the countries situated between Carthagena and the mouth of the Orinoco. Soon after his return to France, he was appointed to a profe orship of chemistry at Lyons. In 1839, he was appointed profe or of agriculture in the Conservatory of Arts and Trades. Chemistry, applied to agriculture and the rearing of cattle, owes much to the labors of B. , especially his indications as to the quality of manures, and on the nutritive properties of the aliments destined for herbivorous animals. His principal works are, Mémoires de Chimie Agricole et de Physio logie , (Paris, 1854); Traité d' Economie Rurale ; and Annales de Physique and Chimie. Died May 12, 1887.