392 
Beach, Frederick C., elected mem- 
ber, xv., 147 
Beach, singing, at Manchester, ii., 
147, 148 
Beaver Pond and cut sticks found 
in it, xiii., 177 
Pond at Plainfield, N. H., xiii., 
115 
Bees and other hoarding insects, iii., 
103 
Beet sugar, cultivation of, ili., 5, 6 
Behavior of steam in steam-engine 
cylinder, i., 111-114 
Belemnitella mucronata, ii., 10 
Belgium, human remains in, viii., 
132-135 
quaternary, fanna of, vili., 132-134 
Bell, Dr. Clark, elected resident 
member, xi., 25 
Bell mountain of the, viii., 182, 183 
slope, Seitzen’s, ix., 22 
Bolton’s, ix., 23 
Benzine, v., 195 
group, 196 
ring, 195 
Benzoic acid, v., 195 
Berberidacez, vii., 7 
Berberis aquifolium, i., 8 
repens, vill., 79 
trifoliata, ii., 92; vil., 7 
Bergen Hill, N. J., indurated shales 
at ili., 7 
Bergeronia articephalis, xiv., 146 
elegans, xiv., 146 
Berlandiera lyrata, ix., 184 
Bertrandite, vili., 11, 12 
Beryl, i., 101-105; ii., 25; iii., 2, S8—- 
107; vii., 48, 140, 212, 224-228; 
Vili., 2, 7, 8, 12, 152-160 
blue, from Mt. Anteros, Colorado, 
iv., 80 
from New York Island, v., 75, 223 
from Stoneham, Maine, v., 132 
from Connecticut, vi., 40 
from New York, vi., 130 
Berzelian notation, ii., 105, 106 
Bessemer steel, v., 147, 148-152 
Beyrichona papilio,tenea, planata,xiv., 
134 
triangula, 
135, 136 
Bible times, chemical arts in, xi., 
20 
rotundata, ovata, xiv., 
Bibliographical compilation, xv., 39 
INDEX. 
Bibliography of natural history, ete., 
2 ane (ll 
of chemistry, xi., 131 
Biceps flexor cubiti, morphology and 
variations, xiii., 132 
insertion of, xiii., 234 
morphology of, xiv., 230 
origin of, xiv., 234 
Bignonia tomentosa, ix., 12 
Bill of Hudsonian Godwit, ix., 30 
Bilobites, iv., 78 
Binocular perspective, i., 9-15 
Biological Section, xv., 66, 148 
Biotite, ili., 49; v., 232; vii., 212-227; 
vili., 50-54 
altered from Franklin Furnace, 
xiii., 181 
Bioplasson doctrine, i., 31-46 
structure of, ii., 79-84 
Birds, desc. of (title), v., 111, 139 
flight of, xii., 20, 21, 75-78, 80-87, 
89-100 
Bird life in the West Indies, Origin 
of, xii., 50 
Birds, new species, i., 176; ii., 151 
supposed new species of, iv., 34 
Birmingham, England, viii., 18, 23, 
24 
philosophers, viii, 194-211 
Bismuth, in San Juan Mts., v., 128 
Bitterns, ix., 43 
Bitumen of Dead Sea, vii., 177; vili., 
26, 28 
Bituminous shales, carbon in, ii., 
110-111 
Bland, Mr. Thomas, death of, v., 29, 
278 
Blende, ii., 90-94 
Blind fish in caves, i., 59, 64-67 
Bliss, Charles B., elected member, 
SAY. JW bel 
Block Island, geology of, xv., 16 
Blocks of conglomerate, separation 
of, iii., 23, 29, 30 
Blood corpuscle, structure of, ii., 80- 
82 
Blue-beach ( voleanie breccia) of Vir- 
oiniiss We weds ol 
Bluestone, durability of, ii., 126, 136 
Boas, Dr. Franz, elected member, 
Xv., AY 
Boat-racing, vi., 114-118. 
Bodley, Dr. R. L., death of, viii., 9 
Boerhaavia linearifolia, ix., 185 
