BUITENZORG  , a

hill station in the residency of Batavia, island of Java, Dutch East Indies . It is beautifully situated among the hills at the foot of the Salak volcano, about 86o ft. above sea-level, and has a cool and healthy climate . Buitenzorg is the usual residence of the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, and is further remarkable on account of its splendid botanical garden and for its popularity as a health resort . The botanic gardens are among the finest in the world; they origin-ally formed a part of the park attached to the palace of the governor-general, and were established in 1817 . Under J . S . Teysmann, who became hortulanus in 1830, the collection was extended, and in 1868 was recognized as a government institution with a director . Between this and 188o a museum, a school of agriculture, and a culture garden were added, and since then library, botanical, chemical, and pharmacological laboratories, and a herbarium have been established . The palace of the governor-general was founded by Governor-General van Imhoff in 1744, and rebuilt after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1834 . Buitenzorg is also the seat of the general secretary of the state railway and of the department of mines . Buitenzorg, which is called Bogor by the natives, was once the capital of the princess of Pajajaram . Close by, at Bata Tulis (" inscribed stone "), are some Hindu remains .

The

district of Buitenzorg (till 1866 an assistant residency) forms the southern part of the residency of Batavia, with an area of 1447 sq. m . It occupies the northern slopes of a range of hills separating it from Preanger, and has a fertile soil . Tea, coffee, cinchona, sugar-cane, rice, nutmegs, cloves and pepper are cultivated . BUJNURp, a town of Persia, in the province of Khorasan, in a fertile plain encompassed by hills, in 370 29' N., 570 21' E., at an elevation of 3600 ft . Pop. about 8000 . Its old name was Buzinjird, and thus it still appears in official registers . It is the chief place of the district of same name, which extends in the west to the borders of Shahrud and Astarabad; in the north it is bounded by Russian Transcaspia, in the east by Kuchan, and in the south by Jovain . The greater part of the population consists of Shadillu Kurds, the remainder being Zafranlu Kurds, Garaili Turks, Goklan Turkomans and Persians .