730 INDEX. 



Pag& 



Austrian Arctic expedition - 325 



Auzout, invented astronomical instrument - - - 96 



Avery, Robert Stanton, acceptance of beqiiest of xii 



Ayrton, Professor - - - - - 141 , 153 



B. 



Babylonia, chronological data of 596 



Bacillus, colon, destruction of 451 



Bacteria, sunlight destructive to 451 



Bahama Islands, characteristics of sea bottom at . . 363 



Bailey, H. B. , & Co. , coitrtesies from 65 



Baird, Secretary S. F. , statue of 21 



Baker, Dr. Frank _ 41 



report on Zoological Park 74 



Balboa's South Sea, on early chart 286 



Ball, Sir Robert, cited 311 



Balland, John, donation to Zoological Park 71 



Balloons, develo^jment of 668 



Baltazzi, X. , courtesies from 65 



Baltzly, E. E. , donation to Zoological Park. _ 72 



Barlow declares telegraph impossible 143 



Barnum & Bailey Shows, loan to Zoological Park 73 



Barth, T. A., cited 724 



Basel University, publications from 79 



Basque language, survival of - _ 600 



pilot, Juan de la Casa 283 



Basques as cartographers 283 



Bates, cited 426 



Bateson, William, on variation 414 



Baudouin, M. , method of rainmaking 260 



Beall, J. E. , donation to Zoological Park 71 



Bean, Dr. Tarleton H 9, 42, 531 



Beaumont, Elie de, French geologist 155 



Behaim's globe 282 



Belgium, exchange agency 64 



Bell, Dr. Alexander Graham, gift of _ 3 



Bell, Charles, discoveries by 392 



Bell, G. H., cited 269 



Bell, James, donation to Zoological Park 72 



Ballet, Daniel, cited.. 269 



Bells, Japanese 611, 620 



Bendire, Maj. Charles, on North American birds 42 



Bent, Mr. and Mrs. , travels by. 388 



Berber origin of Guanches 542 



Berbers, origin of 600 



Bergen, F. D. , mentioned 255, 256 



Bering Sea, food sujjiily in _ 531 



Berlin Academy of Arts and Science, founding of 686 



Zoological Garden, area of - . 36 



University, address by rector of 653, 681 



publications from - 79 



Virchow on founding of. 681 



