Basilius

See Basil. Basilius (ba-sil'i-us), Val ent in us. A noted German alchemist, who lived about the beginning of the 15th century. He made important discoveries in chemistry, notably those of antimony and muriatic acid. Author of "Currus triumphal is An tim on i i." Basilius. The lover of Quiteria in Cervantes's "Don Quixote." He gets her away from Camacho by a stratagem. See Camacho . Basilius. The Prince of Arcadia, in love with Zelmane, in Sidney's romance "Arcadia." Basing, Baron. See Sclater -Booth, George. varre is also comprised in the district of the Basques. The Basque district in France comprises the arrondi e ments of Bayonne and Mauléon, in the department of Ba es-Pyrénées. See Basques . Basques (baskz). A race of unknown origin inhabiting the Basque Provinces and other parts of Spain in the neighborhood of the Pyrenees, Ba im Venice, 1623. An Italian portrait-painter, third son of Jacopo Ba ano. Ba ant in (bas'an-tin), James. Died 1568. A Scotch astronomer and mathematician: author of an "Astronomique Discours" (1557), etc. nées, France. The singular Basque Euskarian language, spoken on both slopes of the Pyrenees, forms a sort or inguistic ish and in the great Aryan ocean. It must represent the speech of one of the neolithic races, either that of the people we call uvergnats of Lig uri achy cephalic dolichocephalic Iberians, or that of the brachycephalic pology throws some light on this question. It is now known that the Basques are not all of one type, as was supposed by Retzius and the early anthropologists, who were only acquainted with the skulls of the French Basques. Broca has now shown that the Spanish Basques are largely dolichocephalic. The mean index of the people of Zarous in Guipuzcoa is 77.62. Of the French Basques a considerable proportion (37 per cent.) are brachycephalic, with indices from 80 to 83. The mean index obtained from the measurements of fifty-seven skulls of French Basques from an old graveyard at St. Jean de Luz is 80.25. The skull shape of the French Basques is therefore intermediate between that of the Auvergnats on the north, and that of the Spanish Basques on the south.