INDEX 



459 



Botany, science of, in America dur- 

 ing Gray's early life, 213-217; 

 systematization, 218; see also 

 Gray, Asa 



Bowdich, Thomas Edward, 188 



Bowen, Miss Susan, 163 



Bowen, Prof. Francis, 174 



Braun, Dr. August Emil, 150, 151 



Brazil, report on the fishes of, 153 



Brewer, Thomas Mayo, 272 



Brewster, Sir David, 101 



Brewster, James, 109 



Brief and True Report of the New 

 Found Land of Virginia, by 

 Thomas Harriot, 313 



Brinton, Dr. John H., 181 note 



Brongniart, Alexander, 105, 114 



Brontotheridae, 299 



Brooks, William Keith, birth, 427; 

 maternal influence, 428, 4555 an- 

 cestry, 428; education, 430, 432; 

 influence of Bishop Berkeley, 432; 

 teaching, 433; student under 

 Agassiz, 433; assistant in Boston 

 Society of Natural History, 434; 

 summer school in Cleveland es- 

 tablished, 434; work on Salpa, 

 435-437; fellow and professor at 

 Johns Hopkins, 437, 438; marine 

 laboratories, 440, 441; study of 

 the oyster, 440, 447, 454; expedi- 

 tions to the Bahamas, 442, 443; at 

 Woods Hole, 443; researches in 

 animal morphology, 444; techni- 

 cal and popular papers, 445; pub- 

 lic lectures, 446; physical handi- 

 caps, 448; personal characteris- 

 tics, 448; methods as lecturer, 450; 

 domestic life, 452; honors, 454; 

 editorial work, 454; also 163 



Brougham, Henry, Lord, and the 

 cell of the bee, 197 



Brown, Dr. Francis H., 181 note 



Brown, Thomas, 98 



Bruce, Dr. Archibald, 109 



Bruce gold medal, 384 



Brush, Prof. George Jarvis, 236, 408 



Bryce, Hon. James, 387 



Buch, Leopold Von, 154, 262 



Buchan, Earl of, 101 



Buckland, Francis Trevelyan, 155 



Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, 

 Chevalier, 290 



Burnett, Waldo Irving, 202, 205 



Calhoun, John Caldwell, 96 

 Calorimeter, experiments with a, 26, 



32, 49 



Cambrian time, 258, 262 

 Canby, W. M., 220 

 Canino, Prince of, see Bonaparte, 



Charles Lucien 

 Cannibalism Among the American 



Aborigines, by Jeffries Wyman, 182 

 Cape of Good Hope, observatory at, 



376 



Carnegie, Institution, 377 

 Carnot, Sadi, 347 

 Case, Leonard, 435 

 Cassin, John, 80 

 Catastrophism, system of, 256 

 Catesby, Mark, 51, 61, 68 

 Cavendish, Henry, 97 

 Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 



Eng., 350 



Cayley, Prof. Arthur, 381 

 Cenozoic time, mountain-making 



in, 256 



Cephalization, principle of, 246 

 Challenger Expedition, 401, 454 

 Challenger medal, 454 

 Chamberlin, Thomas Crowder, 254 

 Chamisso, Louis Charles Adelaide 



de, 260, 436 

 Champlain group, 262 

 Characteristics of Volcanoes, by J. D. 



Dana, 242 

 Chemistry, as a study at Yale, 93; at 



Edinburgh, 98-101; advances in 



the science, 349; see also Gibbs, 



Chesapeake Zo5logical Laboratory, 



440, 443, 444 



Chicago, World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition, 1893, 394 

 Chimpanzee, paper on, by Savage 



and Wyman, 186; sec also Gorilla 

 Chiriqui, Province of, antiquities 



from, 306 



Choate, Hon. Rufus, 132 

 Clarence, Prince William Henry, 



Duke of, 19 



Clapham circle, The, 97 

 Clark, Alvan, and Sons, makers of 



Washington telescope, 378, 379 

 Clark telescope at Yale, 104 

 Clarke, Dr. S. F., 446 

 Classification, Mineralogical, basis 



of, 244 



