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Britisli Provinces, Efforts to obtain co-operation of, with tlie Thirteen Colonies .... 172, 173 



British Rule repug'nant to Dutch , 175 



Brooke, Lieut. J. M. 89 



Brooklyn, New York 42, 317 



Brown Coal Beds of Vermont 39, 43 



Brownsville 86 



Brussels, Belgium 212, 213 



Buckland, D 39, 43 



Buckhardt Ill 



Buenos Ayres 90 



Building, Amount expended on 70 



Building, cause of Delay in completing 27 



Building Committee, Authority to use Punds on deposit 76 



Building Committee, Report of. 69 



Building Committee, Jno. T. Towers elected to 76 



Building, Description of. 27, 69 



Building Materials collected in Europe 44 



Building Materials, Commission on 18 



Building Material, Specimens of, from Europe 39 



Buist, Dr., Observations by 215 



Bureau of Yards and Docks 39 



Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America , 165 



Button Snake-Root, used for Serpent Poison 133 



Burlington, Vermont, has smallest annual Fall of Rain 244 



Burnett, Dr. J. W. , Observations on Blood-Globules, by 130 



Cabot, commission to 159 



Cabot's Voyages, result of. 163 



Cacique of Quivira, statenient by, respecting Treasure in New Mexico 313 



Cactus consumed by Camel 108 



Cadet's Pass 82 



Cairo 110, 111 



Cajava , 119 



Cajon Pass 84 



Calcasieu, Louisiana 46 



Caledonia bay 93 



Caliente Pass 84 



California Academy of Natural Sciences, instruments for 16 



California 37, 38, 39, 46, 51, 83, 84, 87 



California, general remarks on Climate of. 231 



Winds of 197, 236 



Sea-breeze of 240 



Rain, Storms, Clouds, and Mists of. 243, 248 



Review of Weather for 1853 251 



of Weather for February, 1854 254 



of Weather for 1854 255 



Calliope, Orbit of 144 



Calmucks 117, 122 



Calvert county, Maryland 44 



Camel, lecture on, 98 ; as an animal of war, 116 ; age of, 113 ; accounts of the power 

 of, 117 ; Arabian, indifferent to heat, 115 ; appropriate home of, 100 ; advan- 



