INDEX 



521 



Australia, economic botany in, ii. 6 

 Auvergne, travel in, ii. 185 sq. 

 Avenaceae, ii. 288 

 Ayrton, Acton Smee, struggle with, 



ii. 131, 148, described, 159-177; 



Treasury rebuke to, 173 ; curious 



speech in the House, 176 

 Azores, a Lycopodium and the hot 



springs, i. 443, cp. Ischia, 447; 



flora, ii. 101 



B.'s, the four, ii. 38 sq. 



Baalbek, i. 529 



Baber, ii. 251 



Babington, C. C., i. 389 n. ; book- 

 work for examinations, 389 ; makes 

 many species, 455; on Norwich 

 Address, ii. 121 



Baccaurea, ii. 280 



Back, Sir G., i. 50 



Baker, J. G., ii. 84, 215; house at 

 Kew, 137; services, 138; Bot. 

 Mag., 243 . 



Bain, Prof., x Club guest, i. 544 



Balanophoreae, i. 259 and note; A. 

 Gray on, 480 ; ii. 422 



Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., speech at 

 the Darwin Centenary, ii. 467, 468 



Balfour, Prof. I. Bayley, ii. 293 

 n. ; botanical tour and discussion 

 with, i. 466 ; on Pachytheca, ii. 293 ; 

 visit to, 445 n. ; 446 



Balfour, J. Hutton, elected to Edin- 

 burgh chair, i. 202 and note, 205 ; 

 opposes Darwin, 515 



Ball, John, ii. 90 n. ; companion 

 in Marocco, i. 6, ii. 90 sq. ; as 

 botaniser, 92 ; completes the book, 

 95, 231 sq. 



Letter to : ii. 95 



Balleny, i. 51, 52 



Ballia Brunonii, i. 132 ; Hombroniana, 

 i. 175, 190 



Balsams, work on the Indian, ii. 

 377 sq., 383-8, 394-7, 398-9 ; 

 few drawn save by himself, 386 ; 

 epitome, 378, 396 ; object in, 388 ; 

 African, 400 ; Chinese, 401 



Special difficulties of, 377, 383-6, 

 ' terrifying,' 394, 395 sqq., ' deceit- 

 ful above all plants,' 396, worse 

 than orchids, 400 



Bambuseae, ii. 289 sqq. 



Bananas, ii. 403, 409 



Banks, Sir J., i. 10 and note, 47 n., 



48, 78 n. ; plans Herbarium for 

 Kew, 346 sq. ; his experience of 

 Fuegia, i. 138, 139 



AtKew,ii. 229; Journal of, 275, 

 312-14 ; visit to Iceland, 347 n. ; 

 Wedgwood cameo of, 437; Life 

 of, 475; meets Jorgensen, under 

 Flinders, 483, and interest in, 346, 

 484 



Baobab tree, i. 92 



Barbarous binomials, ii. 20, 174, 175 n. 

 Barber, C. A., ii. 293 n. ; on Pachy- 

 theca, 293 



Barber, Mrs., ii. 158 

 Barkly, Sir H., ii. 4 n., 10 sq., 475 



Letters to : Cinchona at the 

 Cape, ii. 4 ; forests, 7 bis ; 

 Mauritius Herbarium, 11, 12 

 Barkly, Lady, ii. 10 sq. 

 Barnard, Mrs., Bot. Mag., ii. 243 n. 

 Barnes, Charles, i. 248, 257, 266 

 Barrier, the Great, i. 117 sq., 124 sq., 

 127 ; retrocession of, ii. 442, 479 ; 

 picture of, 477 



Barrow, Sir John, i. 39 and note ; 

 Ross' b&te noire, ii. 443 ; his name 

 on Ross' chart, ib. 

 Basques, a parallel to Arctic plants, 



ii. 31 



Bates, H. W., i. 498 n. ; new edition 

 of the ' Amazon,' ii. 460 



Letter to : On Natural Selection, 

 i. 498 n. 



Bauer, F., botanical draughtsman, 

 i. 10 n., 61 and note; H.'s model, 

 65, 326 



Bauhinia, ii. 244 



Beagle, Voyage of the, i. 66 and note, 

 134, 136, 188, 216 ; discussed with 

 Hodgson, 261, 487 sq. 

 Beaufort, Sir F., i. 42 and note 

 Beccari, ii. 398 n. 

 Beddome, i. 238 sq.,ii. 394 

 Bedford, sixth Duke of, i. 39 and note 

 Beechey, Rear -Admiral F. W., i. 15, 



105 n., 106 



Beechey, Sir W., R.A., possesses in- 

 teresting picture by, 435 

 Bees, and leguminosae, i. 452 sq. ; 



Humble-, and small flowers, 453 

 Begonia frigida, sport and natural 

 selection, i. 515; phyllomaniaca, 

 ii. 113 



Begonia leaves, ii. 153 

 Bell, Dr., i. 230 

 Bell, Dr., ii. 208 



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