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INDEX. 



Becker on mortality statistics, ii. 566. 

 Becquerel, E., phenomenon of fluor- 

 escence, ii. 52. 

 Bedson, Prof., 'Memorial Lecture' on 



Lothar Meyer, i. 427. 

 Beer, physics, i. 44 ; ' Einleitung in 



die Elektrostatik,' ii. 76. 

 Bell, Henry, built the "Comet," i. 303. 

 Bell, John, i. 293. 



Bell, Sir Charles, discovery of the two 

 kinds of nerves, i. 193, 292, 293 ; ii. 

 481 ; physiological discovery of, 230 ; 

 and German universities, i. 251 ; of 

 Edinburgh University, 272 ; Bridge- 

 water Treatise, ii. 325 ; experimental 

 physiology, 384 ; ' Anatomy of Ex- 

 pression,' 477. 



Bell, Sir Lowthian, phosphorus as fer- 

 tiliser, i. 93. 



Beltrami, the pseudosphere, ii. 635 ; 

 supplements Kiemann's work, 713 ; 

 717. 



Bence Jones, 'Life and Letters of Fara- 

 day,' i. 246 ; Royal Institution, 246, 

 248. 

 Beneden, Van, on fertilisation, ii. 227 ; 



discovery of, 448. 



Beneke, psychologist, influenced by 

 school of Fries, i. 209; "faculty- 

 psychology," ii. 495 ; introspective 

 method, 527. 

 Benfey, Theodor, ' Geschichte der 



Sprachwissenschaft,' ii. 245, 537. 

 Bentham, Jeremy, school of, i. 84. 

 Bentley, Richard, i. 169 ; influence of, 

 on German thought and literature, 

 212 ; services to classical learning 

 and criticism, 222 ; his theories, 251 ; 

 Newton's philosophy and atheism, 

 337 ; Newton's letter to, 340. 

 Bergmann, i. 117 ; forerunner of Ber- 

 zelius, 391 ; doctrine of chemical 

 affinities, 392 ; theory of chemical 

 affinity, 452 ; chemical theory of, ii. 

 176. 



Berkeley, and Hume, i. 47 ; ' Theory of 

 Vision, ' ii. 472 ; space perception, 

 504 ; genetic view, 506 ; psycho- 

 physical view, 531. 

 Berlin Academy, language, ii. 536. 

 Berlin, foundation of University of, i. 



38. 



Berlin school of mathematicians, ii. 693. 

 Bernard, Claude, "Association Fran- 

 9aise," i. 298 ; on identity of Animal 

 and Vegetable Morphology, ii. 219 ; 

 quoted, 223, 410 ; ' Phenomenes de la 

 Vie ' quoted, 224, 239, 370, 438 ; De 

 Blainville, 247 ; ' La Science Experi- 



mentale ' quoted, 373, 376, 379, 384, 

 385, 386 ; change of ideas in medical 

 schools of Paris, 396 ; 406, 409 ; 

 'Rapport,' 419; "organisation et 

 disorganisation," 421 ; ' Rapport ' 

 quoted, 426 ; 429 ; school of, 431 ; 

 the "internal medium," 432 ; chem- 

 istry of the living being, 433 ; school 

 of " organicists," 436; rationale of 

 the mental process, 441; 442; "or- 

 ganicisme," 455, 467, 481, 504, 549 ; 

 quoted by Darwin, 610. 

 Bernard, Thomas, associated with Rum- 

 ford's philanthropic schemes, i. 249. 

 Bernoulli, Daniel, the theory of prob- 

 abilities, i. 120, ii. 570 ; i. 135 ; hypo- 

 thesis of, 314 ; on gravitation, quoted, 

 351 ; ' Hydrodynamica ' (the kinetic 

 theory of gases), 433 ; motion of par- 

 ticles of gaseous matter, 434 ; on 

 Euler's theory of the continuity of the 

 ether, ii. 8 ; psychophysics, 474 ; 

 572, 590, 694. ' 



Bernoulli, James, took up the calculus, 

 i. 101 ; the theory of probabilities, 

 120 ; ii. 569 ; ' De Arte conjectandi,' 

 570 ; 572 ; theory of error, 575 ; doc- 

 trine of chances, 678. 

 Bernoulli, John, took up the calculus, 

 i. 101 ; the conservation of energy, 

 ii. 99. 



Bernstorff, Minister von, i. 158. 

 Berry, A., ' History of Astronomy,' ii. 



282, 357, 362. 



Berthelot quoted on crystallography, i. 

 117; 'La Synthese chimique,' 418; 

 ' Chimie organique fondee sur la Syn- 

 these,' 454 ; ' La Synthese chimique ' 

 quoted, 455, 457 ; a founder of physi- 

 cal chemistry, ii. 152; third law in 

 thermo - chemistry, 157 ; chemical 

 affinity, 171, 177 ; quoted, 361 ; 

 chemistry of organic compounds, 425. 

 Berthollet issued ' Annales de Chimie,' 

 i. 41 ; ' Essai de Statique chimique, ' 

 83, 116 ; chemistry at the Ecole nor- 

 male, 112 ; practical discoveries of, 

 147 ; gunpowder, iron, steel, 148 ; 

 152, 200 ; chemical saturation, 347 ; 

 influenced by Laplace, 380 ; chem- 

 ical equilibrium, 392 ; quoted, 416 ; 

 heat a material substance, 433 ; 

 theory of chemical affinity, 452 ; ii. 

 154 ; law of mass-action, 157 ; (see 

 Ostwald), 176. 

 Bertholon quoted, i. 327. 

 Bertin, M., ' Rapport sur le Progres 

 de la Thermodynamique en France,' 

 ii. 118. 



