John, a physician and surgeon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was educated at Oxford. In 1573 he took the degree of bachelor of physic; and obtaining a li- sense from the university to practise, settled at Nottingham. The time of his death is not known. His works were collected and published in 8vo and 4to in 1633.

BANJARMASSIN, a town and district of Borneo on the south-eastern coast, situated on a river of the same name, which has a shallow bar at the entrance. Lat. 3° S. Long. 114° 55' E. Many Chinese reside in this place, and carry on a considerable trade with China, exporting pepper, camphor, gold-dust, spices, wax, rattans, edible bird-nests, and biche-de-mer; and importing opium, piece-goods, coarse cutlery, gunpowder, and fire arms. In 1703 the English established a factory here; but the place was found to be extremely unhealthy, and the company's servants were finally attacked by the natives, whom they repulsed with great difficulty. The settlement was afterwards abandoned. The sultan of the district is subject to the Dutch, who established a factory here in 1848. The coal discovered in 1846 is extensively wrought by the Dutch government.