INDEX. 



755 



Averages, doctrine of, i. 440 ; ii. 561. 

 Avogadro, "mechanical theory of 



gases." i. 310 ; 313 ; law of, 415, ii. 



165, 592 ; hypothesis of, i. 427 ; 428 ; 



hypothesis of, revived by Canniz- 



zaro, 445. 



Babbage, Charles, i. 18 ; ' Decline of 

 Science in England,' 127 ; history of 

 his calculating engine, 248 ; educa- 

 tional movement begun by, 261 ; 

 formed the Analytical Society, 271 ; 

 criticisms of science in Britain, 233 ; 

 236; Prof. Moll's reply to, ib. ; 

 English replies to, 238 ; not a univer- 

 sity man, '239 ; ii. 327. 



Babeuf, co-operation, ii. 566. 



Bacharach, History of Potential Theory, 

 ii. 698 ; on Klein's Tract, 699. 



Bacon, Lord, his influence on the 

 Encyclopaedists, i. 34 ; his interpre- 

 tation of the word "science," 90; 

 unscientific, 93 ; his philosophical 

 status, 94, 311 ; and Newton com- 

 pared, 96 ; influence in new Univer- 

 sity of Halle, 160 ; 215 ; schemes of, re- 

 alised by the ' Encyclopedic, ' &c. , '250 ; 

 appreciated educational work of the 

 "Order of Jesus," 256 ; Harvey, and 

 Napier, 282 ; on the study of natural 

 phenomena, 285 ; 311 ; his philos- 

 ophy, 385 ; system of philosophy, ii. 

 205, 344 ; " method of instances," 

 557. 



Bacon, Roger, i. 249, 403. 



Baconian philosophy, decay of, i. 306. 



Baden-Powell, radiant heat, ii. 105 ; 

 apologetic writings, 3'27. 



Baer, Karl Ernst von, his opinion on 

 the Saturphilosopkie, i. 207 ; em- 

 bryologist, ii. 278 : his labours, 299 ; 

 quoted. 306, 417 ; Lamarck and, 316 et 

 seq. ; Huxley on, 322 ; genetic view 

 in embryology, 330 ; 341 ; law of 

 biogenesis, 349 ; and Schelling, 354 ; 

 idea of life, 409 ; embryological re- 

 searches, 418 ; on "diffusion of life," 

 451; "organicism," 455; 467, 533, 

 607. 



Bagehot, Walter, quoted, ii. 558. 



Bailie. Matthew, English medical 

 science, i. 208. 



Bailly guillotined, i. 147. 



Baily on Greenwich Observatory and 

 the Rev. J. Flamsteed, i. 98. 



Bain, ' The Senses and the Intellect,' ii. 

 511 ; 512 ; on psychology, 527 ; 608. 



Baker, H. F., on differential equations, 

 i. 692. 



Balbi, ii. 579. 



Balfour, Francis M., organic mor- 

 phology, ii. 214 ; 349. 



Ball, Sir R. S., 'Gravitation,' i. 320; 

 memoir of Helmholtz, ii. 63 ; gto- 

 metrical mechanics, 101 ; his theory 

 of screws, 655 ; on Grassmann, 656 ; 

 on generalised notion of distance, 

 718. 



Ball, W. Rouse, 'A History of the 

 Study of Mathematics at Cambridge,' 

 i. 275, 321 ; history of mathematics, 

 ii. 680. 



Banks, Sir Joseph, i. 83, 155 ; travels 

 of, ii. 247. 



Barenbach, ' Herder als Vorganger Bar- 

 wins," ii. 533. 



Barensprung, von, medical thermom- 

 etry, ii. 389. 



Barere, foundation of Ecoles normales 

 proposed, &c., i. 112. 



Barlow, not member of any university, 

 i. 239. 



Barry, Martin, embryological observa- 

 tions, ii. 227, 228. 



Bartels, friend of Gauss, ii. 653. 



Barthez, vitalist, i. 126. 



Barycentric Calculus of Mobius, ii. 655, 

 681. 



Basedow, "philanthropinism," i. 166; 

 educational work of, 256 ; 257 ; was 

 inspired by Rousseau, 259. 



Bates, H. W., "mimicry," ii. 339. 



Bateson, William, ' Materials for the 

 Study of Variations,' ii. 364 ; study 

 of variation, 614 ; 622 ; and Karl 

 Pearson, 623 ; agrees with Huxley 

 against Darwin, ib. 



Bathybius, ii. 388. 



Bauer, G., on Otto Hesse, ii. 677. 



Baumes, J. P. T., ' Essai d'un systeme 

 chimique de la science de 1'honime,' 

 ii. 390. 



Baumgartner, i. 44 ; printed Mohr's 

 ' Ueber die Natur der Wa'rme,' ii 107. 



Baumhauer, ii. 565. 



Baur, ii. 109. 



Bavaria, Elector of, and Count Rum- 

 ford, i. 248. 



Bayes, ii. 572. 



Bayle, value of work of, i. 93 ; followed 

 Newton, 96 ; French medical science, 

 208. 



Bayne, Peter, ' Life and Letters of Hugh 

 Miller,' i. 288. 



Beaumont, Elie de, doctrine of descent, 

 ii. 322. 



Becker, G. F., on Kant's theory, ii. 

 282 ; 284. 



