408 INDEX. 



Page. 



Baffin's Bay 92 



Bagdad to Damascus, Mails carried by Dromedary from, in seven days Ill 



Baird, Mr., Encampment near Residence of. 296 



Baird's Lake 88 



Baird, S. F 16, 31, 38, 42, 79, 87, 94, 317 



Balloon Ascent by John Wise 224 



Balloon Ascent by Mr. Walsh 196 



Banded Drum-Fish 332 



Banded Sun-Fish 324 



Baptist Mission, Kansas 86 



Barker, Dr. S. W 38, 43 



Barometer at Bombay 220 



Barometer, Cause of Fall in Tropical Storms 210 



Barometer, Cause of Fluctuation • 204 



Barometer, During Storm of 12th 210 



Barometer, Fluctuations of, from 7th to IGlh November, 1854 207, 209, 210 



Barometer, invention of 182 



Barometer, two Maxima and Minima of. 218 



Barometer, Variations of 218 



Barometrical Observations at Sacramento, California 264 



Barnacle, Growth and Ravages of, and Protection against 39, 45 



Barnard, Major J. G 39, 43 



Baron de Zach 137 



Barranca, Indian Chief 315 



Bartlett, Jno. Russell 96 



Bartlett, Professor, Photographs of Eclipse by 17 



Barry, Rev. A. C IC, 37, 38,43,87 



Basrah ,. Ill 



Bashee Islands 89 



Bass of Beaver Islands 287 



Bass Sun-Fish 325 



Batrachus variegatus ( Toad-Fish, Oyster-Fish) 340 



Batoseagachic, Rich Mining Place 278 



Batrachia , 43 



Battery Employed in Boston Firo-Alarm Telegraph 154 



Bay of Monterey 84 



Bay of San Francisco 242 



Beale, Lieutenant E. F 85, 96 



Bear creek 88 



Beaumont, Elie de 274 



Beaver Islands, Michigan, Natural History of 282 



Beckv^ith, Lieutenant E. G 37, 82, 96 



Beckwith's Cut 86 



Bedouin Arab, the only Race that retains Original Mode of Life 101 



Beesley's Point, New Jersey IG, 42, 43, 88, 317, 318 



Bejuco dc Menacure 127 



Belcourt, Rev. S. A., Dictionary of Chippewa Language by 14 



Belfast 212 



Belgium 39, 44 



Bell, Jno. G 88, 318, 342 



