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BBYCE 212 BUBO studied at Heidelberg, and subsequently practiced law in London. From 1870 till 1893 he was Regius Professor of Civil Law in Oxford, and had a distinguished political career. He has supported Home Rule, city reforms, and international } copyright. Chief Secretary for Ireland , 1905-1906. He was ambassador to the United States 1907-1912, and was cre- ated Viscount Bryce of Dechmont in 1914. His chief works are "The Holy Roman Empire" (1864); "Transcaucasia and Ararat" (1877); "The American Commonwealth" (1888) ; "Studies in Contemporary Biography" (1903) ; "South America" (1912); "Addresses" (1913). BRYCE, LLOYD, an American editor and novelist, born in Long Island, N. Y., in 1852. He was editor of the "North American Review" from 1889 to 1896. His works are "Paradise," "A Dream of Conquest," "The Romance of an Alter Ego," "Friends in Exile," "The Literary Duet," etc. He died in 1917. BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, an institu- tion for the higher education of women, located at Bryn Mawr, Pa. It was founded in 1880. The President is Miss M. Carey Thomas. The faculty numbers 67, and there were 458 students enrolled in 1919. Productive endowment funds amount to over $2,000,000. The library contains 94,000 volumes. BRYONY, or BRYONIA, a plant, lyryonia dioica. It has a large root, white and branched. Its stem is long and weak, with tendrils which enable it readily to cling to bushes in the hedges and thickets where it grows. The in- florescence consists of short axillary racemes of whitish dioeciovis flowers with green veins. The berries are red. The plant abounds in a fetid and acrid juice. Also a genus of plants belonging to the order cucurhitacex (cucurbits). B. alba, or blackberried bryony, which grows on the continent of Europe, is by some be- lieved to be only a variety of the dioica. Several other species are found in the East Indies. BRYOPHYLLTJM:, a genus of plants belonging to the order crassulacex (houseleeks). There are eight stamina and four ovaries. B. calycinum, the large cupped bryophyllum, has succulent, oval, crenate leaves and long, pendulous, cyl- indrical flowers. Its native country is the East Indies, whence it has been cari-ied to other places. In Bermuda, where it is naturalized and grows abun- dantly, it is called life plant. BRYOZOA, the name given by Ehren- berg to a class of molluscoid animals, the peculiarities of which had been pre- viously observed by J. V. Thompson, who had called them polyzoa. BRYUM, a genus of mosses, the typi- cal one of the family Bryace^ (g. v.) BUBALIS, a genus in the antelope division of hollow-horned, even toed ruminants, not to be confused with the genus bubalus — the Buffalo {q. v.). The species of bubalis are among the more oxlike antelopes, and one of them is supposed to be the bubalus of the ancients. In this genus the head is elongated, the snout broad, the horns twisted and present in both sexes, the tear pits small, the back sloping off be- hind, the teate two in number. The bubaline of the north African deserts {B. 7nauretanica=antilope bubalis) is a handsome animal of a reddish brown color, standing about 5 feet high at the shoulder, living in herds, and readily tamed. It is figured on Egyptian monu- ments. The hartebeest {B. caama) is found in the S., is perhaps slightly larger, has a general gray brown color (black on the outside of the legs and on middle of forehead, with large white spots on haunches), and is at home on the mountains. The sassaby {B. Iwiata), the bastard hartebeest of the Cape Colonists, is slightly smaller, and is dif- ferently colored. The bontebok (B. pygarga) is a smaller and more beauti- fully colored form of the S. interior, where another species, the violet colored blesbok, is also abundant. BTJBASTIS, an ancient Egyptian town, so named from the goddess Bast, sup- posed to answer to the Greek Ai'temis or Diana. The cat was sacred to her, and the bubasteia or festivals of the goddess were the largest and most important of the Egyptian festivals. BUBO, hardening and enlargement of lymphatic glands, generally the inguinal, as in the Oriental or Levantine plague, syphiloid, gonorrhoea, etc., always, un- less dissipated by medical interference, followed by suppuration. In cases of true infecting syphilis a suppurating bubo is a rare complication, although in- duration of the glands in the later forms of the disease is almost invariably pres- ent. BUBO, a genus of birds belonging to the family strigidse, or owls. They have a small ear aperture, two large feathered tufts like horns on the sides of the head, and the legs feathered to the toes. B. maximus is the eagle owl, or great owl. It is a native of Europe. The corresponding American species is B. virginianus.