BURSIAN, bMr'se-nn. KoNnAn (1830-83). A German archaeologist and classical philologist. Ile was born at Slut•schen, in Saxony, was edu cated in Leipzig, and held professorships in the universities of Leipzig, Tfibingen, Zurich, Jona, and 'Munich. His chief works are Geographic von Grie•henland (1862,-72) and Gesehichte der klassisrhen Philologic in Deutschland (1883). Ile also founded (1873) and edited the Jahrcs bcricht iiber die Portschritte der •lassisehon .11 terthu m issensseha ft.
BURS'LEM(Burward's dwelling on the loam, AS. Gann• Ger. Lehm, clay). A town of Stafford shire, England, on the Trent and Mersey Canal. about 2(1 miles north-northwest of Stallonl. is in the pottery district (Slap: England, D :3). Its two principal buildings are the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, opened in 1870, and contain ing an art school, a library, and a museum; and a tine town hall, erected ill 1865. The town was incorporated in 1878. The abundance of coal and
the variety of clays have made Burslem, since the Seventeenth Century, one of the chief seats of the fickle manufacture. Porcelain and pottery of all kinds—Parian, iron, and stone ware, etc.— are produced on a large scale, as well as encaus tic tiles. There is also a glass manufactory here. The town's sewage is disposed of by irrigation and the refuse by a destructor. It owns its gas works, on which it makes a small annual profit; and its markets, which net about $5000 annually. There are public baths. At Birche's Head. a mile and a half from Burslem, stands a large service reservoir of the Staffordshire Waterworks Com pany, from which the town and neighborhood are supplied with excellent water. Population, in 1891, 32,000; in 1901, 3S,S00. Burslem was the native place of .Josiah Wedgwood (q.v.).