Index. 



503 



Bosc, I,. A. G., botanist, 432. 



Bossu, Captain N., traveler, 382. 



"Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts," 



441. 

 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 201. 

 Boston Society of Natural Science, 442. 

 Botanic Garden, 122 n, 285 See National Botanic 



Garden. 

 Botanical Club, of the American Association, 



313- 

 Bourke, John G., 369 n. 

 Bowditch, Nathaniel, mathematician, 446. 

 Bowdoin College, 273. 



Bowdoin, James, 265; President American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, 26S n-269 n. 

 Boyle, Robert, 265, 435. 

 Brace, L. P., geologist, 438. 

 Brackenridge, William D., botanist, 120 n, 122, 



161, 162, 165; director Botanic Garden, 311. 

 Bradley, James, astronomer royal, 306, 359. 

 Branch, John, Secretary of the Navy, urges 



establishment of an observatory, 308. 

 Brandenburg Museum, Berlin, 210. 

 Brazil, specimens from, 165. 



Breckenridge, John C, Regent Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 322. 

 Brent, J. C, 184. 

 Brereton, Dr. John A., 285 n. 

 Brice, Capt. J. J., United States Commissioner of 



Fish and Fisheries, 35, 44. 

 Brisson, Mathurin J., 397. 

 Bristol, Charles I,., 35. 

 British Association for the Advancement of 



Science, 323. 

 British Museum, 74, 76, 80, 8t, 102, 115, 150, 199, 218, 

 229, 239, 250,253,386; Christy collection, 78, 211, 

 258; founded, 68, 69 n, 246. 

 British Museum of Natural Histoi^y, 212, 221. 

 Brock, R. A., 271 u. 

 Brongniart, Adolphe T., 256. 

 Brooklyn, scientificrnen in, 463. 

 Brooklyn Institute, 243 n, 252, 256; Goode's lec- 

 ture before, 55. 

 Brown, G., collaborator of Goode, 22. 

 Brown, Mrs. John Crosby, 259. 

 Brown, Rev. Obadiah B., 285 n. 

 Brown, Robert, 167. 

 Brown University, 273. 

 Browne, Peter Anell, 472. 

 Browne, Sir Thoma.s, quoted, 4<56. 

 Bruce, Archibald, mineralogist, 403, 431; founder 



"American Mineralogical Journal," 441. 

 Brush, George J., chemist, 457. 

 Bru.ssels, museums of, 210, 211, 213. 

 Bry, Theodore de, 362. 

 Bryant, William, ichthyologist, 430. 

 Bryant, William Cullen, 2S1, 396. 

 Buchan, Earl of, President Society of Scottish 



Antiquaries, 273, 419. 

 Buck, M.C., 167. 



Buckingham, Duke of, 6g n, 377. 

 Buckley, D. A., 167. 

 Biirger, W., 212, 261. 

 Buffon and Jefferson, 394, 421. 

 IJullen, Christian, traveler, 384. 

 Bullivant, Benjamin, 376. 

 Bulwer, IJdward I^ytton, I,ord, 68, 



Buonarotti Museum, Florence, 210. 



Burchard, F<. L., 34- 



Bureau of Topographical Engineers, 298. 



Burke, Edanus, 278. 



Burnett, Waldo I., 457. 



Burr, Aaron, 28. 



Burroughs, John, 419. 



Butler, Benjamin P., 186. 



Byrd, Col. William, of Westover, naturalist, 265, 



274, 388. 

 Byzantium, 67, 246. 

 Cadwalader, I.,ambert, 278. 

 Cadwallader, Thomas, physician, 413. 

 Csesar, 65, 66, 244, 245. 

 Cairo, museum of, 210. 

 Calhoun, John C, 285 n, 471. 

 California, colleges and learned societies, 346; 



scientific men in, 464; specimens from, 165, 173. 

 California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 



315,346. 

 Cambridge, American students in, 272. 

 Cambridge, Ma.ss., niuiseums of, 77, 259; scientific 



men in, 463. 

 Campbell, R. G., 162. 

 " Canadian Entomologist," 273 n. 

 Canis azara, 405. 

 Cap Cod, fisherj' census of, 20. 

 Cape de Verde Islands, specimens from, 165, 166, 



174- 



Cape of Good Hope, specimens from, 165, 166. 



Cape Town, specimens from, 174. 



Capron, Horace L., CommLssionerof Agriculture, 

 316. 



Carr, Holwell, 239. 



Carroll, Charles, 278. 



Carter, Col. Landon, entomologist, 429. 



Carus, Victor, 36S, 384. 



Carver. Capt. Jonathan, 427. 



Casco Bay, Goode at, 20. 



Cass, Gen. Lewis, expedition under, 114,447; Re- 

 gent Smithsonian Institution, 143,322; Senator, 



137- 

 Cassin, John, and Baird, 458. 

 Cassinis, the four, 306. 

 Castiglioni, Count Luigi, 432. 

 Ca.stillejo, a historical writer, 371. 

 Castillo, Bernal Diaz del, 368. 

 Castleneau, C. F., naturalist, 158, 162. 

 Ca.swell, Alexis, 1S6. 

 Catesby, Mark, naturalist, 389-390, 397. 

 Catlin, George, 78. 

 Caustin, Dr. J. H., 167. 

 Centennial Exposition, 71,247; relation to U. S. 



National Mu.seum, 27, 312. 

 Central America, specimens from, 170. 

 Chalmers, Dr. Lionel, 427. 

 Chaloner, Dr. A. D., 186,473. 

 Chaniisso, Adalbert von 384, 397. 

 Champlain, Samuel de, voyages, 361 11,372 n,3So- 



381. 

 Chapin, Stephen, recouimendation respecting 



use of Smithsonian fund, 94. 

 Charles I, King of ICngland, 69 n, 247, 377. 

 Charles II, King of F^ngland, 265, 266 n. 

 Charles V, King of Spain, 363. 

 Charleston Museum of Natural History, founded, 



458. 



