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'''Bogle, George'''. Scottish diplomat, b. Nov. 26, 1746; d. at Calcutta, April 3, 1781. Educated at Haddington, Glasgow and the Univ, of Edinburgh. After a few years in his eldest brother’s countinghouse, obtained, 1769, an appointment in the service of the East India Company. Having won by his abilities and character the {{Page aside|535}}special approval of Warren Hastings, then Governor of Bengal, was selected in 1772 to act as envoy to the Tashi-Lama of Tibet, with a view of opening up commercial and friendly intercourse between that country and India. Bogle and his companions were the first Englishmen to cross the Tsanpu in its upper range. The mission was entirely successful, and Bogle formed a strong personal friendship with the Tashi-Lama, with whom he continued to correspond in later years. After his return to India, 1775, and a period of unemployment, was appointed, 1779, collector of Rangpur, where he established a fair which was frequented for years by Bhutan merchants. His death prevented him from carrying out a second mission to Tibet which had been planned for him by Hastings. The MS. of Bogie’s Journal concerning his trip to Lhassa, after many vicissitudes, was finally acquired by the British Museum {Add. MS. 19283). Sir Clements Roberts Markham, using Bogie’s journals and data supplied by his family in Scotland, compiled a work entitled Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa, London, 1876.
'''Bogle, George'''. Scottish diplomat, b. Nov. 26, 1746; d. at Calcutta, April 3, 1781. Educated at Haddington, Glasgow and the Univ, of Edinburgh. After a few years in his eldest brother’s countinghouse, obtained, 1769, an appointment in the service of the East India Company. Having won by his abilities and character the {{Page aside|535}}special approval of Warren Hastings, then Governor of Bengal, was selected in 1772 to act as envoy to the Tashi-Lama of Tibet, with a view of opening up commercial and friendly intercourse between that country and India. Bogle and his companions were the first Englishmen to cross the Tsanpu in its upper range. The mission was entirely successful, and Bogle formed a strong personal friendship with the Tashi-Lama, with whom he continued to correspond in later years. After his return to India, 1775, and a period of unemployment, was appointed, 1779, collector of Rangpur, where he established a fair which was frequented for years by Bhutan merchants. His death prevented him from carrying out a second mission to Tibet which had been planned for him by Hastings. The MS. of Bogie’s Journal concerning his trip to Lhassa, after many vicissitudes, was finally acquired by the British Museum {Add. MS. 19283). Sir Clements Roberts Markham, using Bogie’s journals and data supplied by his family in Scotland, compiled a work entitled Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa, London, 1876.
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'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Book of Changes (Yi King)'''. Translated by James Legge (1815-97) in his Chinese Classics, 1861-86; new ed., 1893; also by Richard Wilhelm, with English rendering by Cary Baynes and a Foreword by Jung. New York: Pantheon Books, 1950.
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'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Book of the Arhats'''. No information available.
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'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Book of the Dead'''. See Appendix to Volume X of the present Series, pp. 413-14, for comprehensive bibliographical data.
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'''Boscovich, Roger Joseph'''. Italian mathematician and natural philosopher, b. at Ragusa, Dalmatia, May 18, 1711 (?); d. in 1787. When fifteen, entered the Society of Jesus, and studied at the Collegium Romanum, where he was appointed, 1740, professor of mathematics. Published a great many dissertations on problems of physics and astronomy, and a famous work, Theoria philosophiae naturalis, etc., Vienna, 1771, containing his atomic theory. In 1764 was called to the chair of mathematics at Univ, of Pavia. On the suppression of his Order in Italy, 1773, accepted an invitation from the King of France to Paris, where he was naturalized and became director of optics for the navy; returned, 1783, to Italy. He was one of the earliest of foreign savants to adopt Newton’s gravitational theory.
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'''Bouillaud, Jean-Baptiste B'''., French physician, b. at Angoulême, Sept. 16, 1796; d. October 29, 1881. Became M.D. in 1823, and was appointed, 1831, to the Chair of Medicine at La Charité. Engaged in considerable research along physiological and psychological lines, and wrote a large number of scientific papers, some of which have been translated into other European languages. Became, 1868, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences at Paris.
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