INDEX 



523 



Bhomsong, i. 276 



Bhoteas, i. 270 sq., 280, 312 



Bible, Smith's Dictionary of the, ii. 18 



Bigelowia, ii. 214 



Bird, Lieut., i. 89 



Birds, Antarctic, i. 103 sq., and 



music, 103 ; H.'s specimens, ii. 



353 ; Wilson's drawings of, 457 

 Bischoff, ii. 420 

 Biscoe, i. 51 

 Bismarck, ii. 325 

 Blainville, i. 58 



Blanford, H. F., ii. 125 and note 

 Blume, Carl Ludwig (1796-1862), 



i. 186, 188 

 Blytt, Axel, ii. 22 

 Boissier, E., ii. 278 and note 

 Bolus, H., ii. 4 n., 10 



Letters to : The Linnean,a gallant 



society, i. 411 and note 



Orchid cultivation at Kew, ii. 8, 



S. African specimens, 10, British 



subspecies and varieties, 236 n. ; 



progress at Kew, 246 ; S. African 



flora, 249, 250 bis ; regions of, cp. 



with Indian, 394 

 Bonaparte, L., on the Basque 



language, ii. 31 



Bonney, Canon, ii. 342 and note 

 Bon wick, J., ii. 346 

 Books, Napier's Penins. War, i. 223 ; 



with uncut pages, ii. 181 n. ; sends 



on to friends, 319, 328, 337; an 



old man's reading, 327 sq. 

 Boott, Dr. F., i. 80 n., 159, 509; 



Carices finished by H., ii. 15 



Letter to, i. 60 

 Boott, Mrs., Letters to : Fuegia, i. 



138 ; taste for Art, 153 

 Borassus, ii. 390 

 Borneo, projected visit to, i. 216, 



218 and note, falls through, 329; 



economic botany in, ii. 5 

 Bory de St. Vincent, i. 173 and note, 



439, 445 

 Boswell, ii. 337 

 Botanical excursions, i. 13, 23, 30 ; 



to Ireland, 32^t, 35 

 Botanical Gardens, relation to Kew, 



ii. 7 sq. 



Chelsea, jubilee, ii. 449 

 Edinburgh, i. 30, ii. 445 

 Glasgow, i. 3, ii. 446 

 Manchester, i. 30 

 See also Calcutta, Cape, Jamaica, 

 Mauritius 



Botanical Gardens, Foreign, visited , 

 ii. 88 



Boston, the Arnold Arboretum , 

 ii. 207 



Brussels, i. 187 



Cairo, i. 226 sq. 



Florence, ii. 252 



Harvard, ii. 207 



Herrenhausen, ii. 89 



Leyden, i. 188 



Paris, i. 181, 188- 



Rome, ii. 252 



Vallombrosa, ii. 251 

 Botanical Gardens, Colonial, need of 

 laboratories in, ii. 477 



Indian, ii. 249 bis ; aid from, 378 



Calcutta, 378, 398 and note, 216, 

 234, 235 sq. 



Madras, 378 



Saharunpur, 281, 378, 397 



Hong Kong, 251 



Australia, 477 



Cape Town, ii. 476 sq. 

 Botanical Magazine (Curtis'), ii. 242 

 and note, 174, 275; 'jerky work,' 

 277 ; in danger, 370, continues, 

 378, 383, 386, 444 

 Botanical names, English, i. 394, 



395 n., 479 



Botany, inherited taste for, i. 3, 6, 

 ii. 108 ; always stands first, i. 60, 

 114, 161, 262; early work, 3, 5, 

 22, 24, 25, 32; first publication, 

 5, 22 ; practical study, by ex- 

 cursions, 13 ; resents slight on, 

 35 ; at sea, alternates with zoo- 

 logy, 57, 63, 68 sq., 100, 113, 

 114, difficulties of, 71, compared 

 with land, 73-4 ; interest of moun- 

 tains, 65 ; and a natural system, 

 84; its position and prospects in 

 the fifties, 366 sq. ; at Oxford 

 and Cambridge in 1852, 382 sq. ; 

 is a knowledge of plants, 390, 

 399, and a science of observation, 

 399 ; the old style of system- 

 atists (Heer), 402 ; physiological 

 specialisation of, 403 ; the younger 

 men do not know their plants, 403 ; 

 little recognition of by R. S. , 41 6 sq. ; 

 no standard of peculiar floras, 438, 

 species, q.v., also Subjective Species 



Teaching of, ii. 279-80 (see 

 Science, W. J. Hooker, Henslow, 

 Huxley, Dyer) ; the new, a ' casual 

 grin at,' 279 bis, 280 ; how to learn, 



