INDEX. 



757 



Bertrand, Joseph, quoted, i. 121, 134 ; 

 ' Calcul lies Probabilites,' 325 ; his 

 ' Calcul ditterentiel ' referred to, ii. 

 646. 



Berzelius, Reports, i. 42 ; chemistry, 44 ; 

 discoveries published, 83 : services to 

 chemistry of, 188 ; biographical, 189 ; 

 ' Jahresbericht,' 190; organic analy- 

 sis, 190 ; 191 ; influence on German 

 science, 208 ; mechanical view in bi- 

 ology, '219 ; 220, 238 ; experimentally 

 proved Dalton's atomic theory, 245 ; 

 and Faraday, 365 ; electrical action 

 in chemical processes, 366 ; chemical 

 combinations, 396 ; elaborated Dal- 

 ton's theory, 399 ; 400 ; disproves 

 Prout's hypothesis, 402 ; 403 ; electro- 

 chemical theory, 404 ; organic chem- 

 istry, 407; 409; "radicle" theory, 

 411 ; death of the binary theory, 412 ; 

 413, 414; atomic theory, 416, 417; 

 426 ; characteristic of hydrogen 

 atoms, 430 ; theories of chemical 

 affinity, 452 ; ii. 154 ; chemical re- 

 search, 159, 403. 



Bessel, Priedr. Wilh., services to as- 

 tronomy of, i. 177 ; correspondence 

 with Gauss, 185, ii. 652 ; i. 199 ; 

 measurements of, 322 ; taught at 

 Konigsberg, with Neumann and Rich- 

 elot. ii. 54 ; popular work of, 149 ; 

 on Gauss, 636 ; functions of, 696. 



Bessel-Sellmeier hypothesis, ii. 54. 



Beutb founded industrial schools in 

 Prussia, i. 166. 



Bevenvijck, i. 282. 



Bewick, wood engraver, ' British Birds,' 

 i. 289. 



Bichat, works of, i. 83 ; not among the 

 academicians, 126 ; biological labours 

 of, 194, ii. 313 ; i. 195, 200 ; morpho- 

 logical study of natural objects, ii. 

 231 ; the science of biology, 381 ; 

 "Vitalism," 383, 384; 386, 387; on 

 life, 394 ; doctrine of energy, 399 ; 

 402 ; quoted, 406 ; school of " organi- 

 cism," 436 ; vital force, 503. 



Billroth, Prof., ' Lehren und Lernen der 

 medicinischen Wissenschaften,'i. 197; 

 193 ; influence of English science on 

 medical studies in Germany, 208 ; 

 quoted on services of Kant to Ger- 

 man science, 219. 



Biogenesis, ii. 451. 



Biology a German science, i. 193 ; grew 

 out of science and philosophy com- 

 bined, 216 ; essential unity of sciences 

 of, not yet recognised in Germany, 

 220 ; British contributions to, 282 ; ii. 



208, 312 ; vagueness of theories ef, 

 370 ; oscillation of thought, 374 ; 

 415. 



Biot, experimental physics, i. 44, 200 ; 

 fall of stones at 1'Aigle, 328 ; his dis- 

 covery, 431 ; opposed to undulatory 

 theory of light, ii. 16, 21 ; member 

 of Commission of Paris Academy of 

 Sciences competition, 1819, 25 ; 

 "laterality," 27; influenced German 

 thought, 101 : 193, 508. 



Biran, Maine de, ' Memoire sur 1'habi- 

 tude, i. 83. 



Bischoff, Theod., embryology, ii. 227; 

 300; quoted, 381, 387; address on 

 Liebig, 391. 



Bjerknes, A., on Abel, i. 184, 185, ii. 637. 



Black, Joseph, discovered carbonic acid, 

 i. 115 ; on latent heat, 229, 399, ii. 

 102 ; Scottish university professor, i. 

 272; and Lavoisier, 386, 387; 391, 

 400 ; formulae of, 436 ; biographical, 

 ii. 102 ; attitude to science that of a 

 medical man, 103. 



' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine ' 

 published, i. 273. 



Blair, Hugh, i. 273. 



Blennerhasset, Lady, on De Stae'l, i. 17. 



Block, statistics, ii. 557, 563 ; quoted, 

 561, 566 : 'Statistique morale,' 579. 



Blomstrand, 'Die Chemie der Jetztzeit,' 

 i. 430. 



Blumenbach of Gottingen University, 

 i. 165, 194, ii. 247; fossil collec- 

 tions, 248 ; influences Herder, 532. 



Bockh, science for its own sake, i. 211 ; 

 212 ; classical learning of, 222 ; 

 'Logos epitaphios' on Wilhelm von 

 Humboldt quoted, 263. 



Bode's law, i. 422. 



Bodenhausen, i. 104. 



Bodenstedt, 'Mirza Schaffy,' i. 213. 



Boehmer, Dr Heinrich, 'Gesch. d. 

 Entwick. d. Naturwissenschaftlichen 

 Weltanschauung in Deutschland,' ii. 

 531. 



Boerhaave, i. 144, 175 ; and the medi- 

 cal schools of Germany, 208 ; 268 ; 

 atoms and massulce, 398 ; epigenesis, 

 ii. 298. 



Bohmer, "libertas docendi," i. 164. 



Bohn, ii. 107. 



Bohnenberger's gyroscopic instrument, 

 ii. 61. 



Boileau referred to by Voltaire, i. 105. 



Holt/maim, Ludwig, lectures on Max- 

 well's theories, i. 251 ; quoted, ii. 90 ; 

 176, 186, 188, 595; "availability," 

 597. 



