INDEX 



469 



Besant, Mrs., exclusion from Uni- 

 versity College, ii. 343 



Besant, Sir W., Huxley's face, iii. 

 411 n. 



Bible-reading in elementary schools, 

 ii. 26, 31-37, 273 ; iii. 214 



Biological teaching, revolutionised, 

 ii. 81 sqq. ; Darwin on, 87 



Biology, on the study of, ii. 214 



Birds, distension of air-cells in 

 flight, i. 309 .'7. ; investigations 

 into the structure of, 328 ; classi- 

 fication of, 411, 412 

 toothed, proposed lecture on, ii. 

 214 ; geological history of, 218 



Birds and reptiles, relations of, i. 

 424, 437 ; ii. 23 



Birmingham, address on Priestley, 

 ii. 127, 130 ; opens Mason 

 College, 280 



Blackie, Professor, goes with, to 

 Skelton's, ii. 225 



Blaythwayt, B., " The Uses of 

 Sentiment," iii. 375 



Body, "a machine of the nature of 

 an army," ii. 308 



BoUaert, i. 292 



Book, a good, and fools, i. 433 



Booth, General, "Darkest England" 

 scheme, iii. 176 ; compared to 

 Law's Mississippi scheme, 177 



Bowman, Sir William, retiring from 

 King's College, i. 156 

 death of, iii. 262 



Bradlaugh, Charles, view of, ii. 343 ; 

 cp. ii. 2 



Bradlaugh, Miss, exclusion from Uni- 

 versity College, ii. 343 



Bramwell, Sir F., on technical educa- 

 tion, ii. 221 



Brewster, Sir David, criticism of 

 Darwin, i. 282 



Bright, .Tohn, speeches, ii. 226 



Bristol Channel, report on the recent 

 changes of level in, i. 207 



British Association, at Southamp- 

 ton : Huxley's first paper, i. 

 40 

 at Ipswich, i. 104 

 at Belfast, 1852, i. 115 

 at Liverpool, 1853, i. 165 

 at Aberdeen, i. 224 

 at Oxford, 1860, i. 259 sqq. 

 at Cambridge, 1S62, i. 259, 274, 



287 sq. 

 at Nottingham, i. 399 ; science in 

 public schools ; President Sec- 

 tion D, ib. 

 at Dundee : working men's lecture 

 delivered by Tyndall, i. 420 



British Association, at Norwich : 

 Bathybius, i. 425 sq. ; "A Piece 

 of Chalk," 428 ; Darwinism, ib. 

 at Exeter, i. 450 

 at Liverpool : Huxley President, 



ii. 14 sq. 

 at Edinburgh, ii. 52 

 at Belfast, ii. 133 sqq. ; address on 

 Animal Automatism, ib., 135 ; 

 paper on Columella auris, 136 

 committee on vivisection, ii. 166 

 at Dublin, ii. 250 ; address on An- 

 thropology, ib. 

 at Sheffield: Huxley "eats the 

 leek " about Batliybius, ii. 268 sq. 

 at York : address on " Else and 

 Progress of Paleontology,"ii. 309 

 at Plymouth, invitation for, iii. 73 

 at Oxford, 1894 : speech on growing 

 acceptance of evolution, iii. 324- 

 331 

 British Museum, Natural History 

 Collections, i. 231 

 ex officio Trustee, ii. 356 

 Broca, P., advice as to anthropologi- 

 cal scheme, i. 396 

 language and race, iii. 174 

 Brodie, Sir Benjamin, i. 206, 272 

 Brodie, Professor (afterwards the 



second Sir B.), i. 263 

 Brodie, Kev. P., letter to — local 



museums, i. 197 

 Brodrick, Hon. G., letter to, on 

 Linacre chair, ii. 304 

 visit to, iii. 331 



letter to — reason for accepting 

 P.R.S., ii. 337 

 Brooks, Mr. and Mrs., meeting with, 



ii. 206 

 Brown, Alfred, South African geolo- 

 gist, i. 397 

 Brown Sequard at Oxford, i. 284 

 Browning, his music, iii. 270 

 Bruce, John, visit to, ii. 177 ; in 



Edinburgh, 225 

 Bruny Island, i. 73 

 Bryson, Dr., i. 139 

 Buchner, L., i. 292 

 Buckland, Frank, succeeds as Fish- 

 ery Inspector, ii. 2S9 

 Buckland, Mrs., discovers an 



Ecliinoderm, i. 183 

 Buffon, on style, i. 429 



appreciation of, ii. 317 ; iii. 371 

 Buubury, Sir C, i. 245 

 Bunsen, i. 150 



Burnett, Sir William, Director- 

 General Navy Medical Ser\'ice, 

 interviews with, i. 33, 36, 85; 

 letter to, 107 



