=Buchanan, James.= _Pa._, 1791-1868. The fifteenth president of the United States. Mr. Buchanan’s Administration (1866) is his own defence of his policy as President. _See Life of, by G. T. Curtis, infra._ =Buchanan, Joseph.= _Va._, 1785-1829. A once noted mechanical inventor of Kentucky who published The Philosophy of Human Nature. =Buchanan, Joseph Rodes.= _Ky._, 1814-1899. Son of J. Buchanan, _supra_. A Boston physician who claimed to have invented the sciences of sarcognomy and psychometry. He published Buchanan’s Journal of Medicine, 1849-56, and wrote Outlines of Lectures on the Neurological System of Anthropology; Eclectric Practice of Medicine and Surgery; The New Education; Therapeutic Sarcognomy; Manual of Psychometry. _See One of a Thousand._ =Buck, Dudley.= _Ct._, 1839- ----. A composer and organist of Brooklyn. Dictionary of Musical Terms; The Influence of the Organ in History. =Buck, Gurdon.= _N. Y._, 1807-1877. An eminent surgeon of New York city. He wrote much for medical journals and a treatise on Contributions to Reparative Surgery. =Buckingham, Joseph Tinker.= _Ct._, 1779-1861. A Boston journalist of note who published, 1831-34, The New England Magazine, in which Dr. Holmes began his famous “Autocrat,” and The Boston Courier, 1828-48. Specimens of Newspaper Literature; Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life. =Buckley, James Monroe.= _N. J._, 1836- ----. A Methodist clergyman, editor since 1881 of the New York Christian Advocate. Two Weeks in the Yosemite Valley; Supposed Miracles; Christians and the Theatre; Oats or Wild Oats; The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist; Faith-Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred Phenomena; Travels in Three Continents, Europe, Africa, Asia. _Cent. Har. Lo. Meth._ =Buckminster, Joseph Stevens.= _N. H._, 1784-1812. A talented Unitarian clergyman of Boston, the first appointed lecturer on biblical criticism at Harvard University. Sermons, with Memoir by S. C. Thacher, 1814. =Buel, Jesse.= _Ct._, 1778-1839. A noted agriculturist of Albany who effected many reforms in farming. He established the Albany Argus, The Cultivator, and published The Farmer’s Instructor, in ten volumes; and also The Farmer’s Companion, or Essays in Husbandry. _Har._ =Buel, Samuel.= _N. Y._, 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of High Church proclivities, who was professor of divinity at the General Theological Seminary of New York from 1871. The Apostolic System Defended; Eucharistic Presence, Sacrifice, and Adoration; A Treatise on Dogmatic Theology. _Wh._ =Buell, Richard Hooker.= _Md._, 1842- ----. A United States civil engineer. The Cadet Engineer; Safety Valves; The Compound Steam-Engine and its Steam-Generating Plant. =Bulfinch, Ellen Susan.= _Ms._, 1844- ----. An artist of Cambridge. Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, Architect. _Hou._