INDEX 



ACETYLENE, synthesis of, 175. 



Actinians, 202. 



Adams, 85. 



Affinity, chemical, 182. 



Alexandria, founding of, 3. 



Alexandrian Library, 4. 



Alexandrian Museum, 5. 



Allotropism, 182. 



Arago, 134. 



Archimedes, 14, 16, 18, 23, 24, 

 26, 29. 



Archytas, 20. 



Arco and Slaby, 314. 



Aristarchus, 7. 



Aristotle, 22, 26, 103. 



Arnold, Matthew, 252. 



Arrhenius, 162, 208. 



Association-fibres, 268. 



Athens, 18. 



Atom, evidence for reality, 91 ; 

 what is an, 124-161 ; elec- 

 trical, 137. 



BACON, ROGER, 28. 

 Barus, 91. 

 Bi-cquerel, 295. 

 Becquerel rays, 154. 

 Behring, 30, 276. 

 Bcilstein, dictionary of or- 

 ganic chemistry, 340. 

 Belfast address, Tyndall's, 



quoted, 198. 



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Bill, Graham, 333. 

 Bernard, Claude, 254. 

 B< rthelot, 30, 169, 192. 

 Bcrtrand, Gabriel, 234. 



Berzelius, 174. 



Bjerknes, Professor, 82. 



Blondlot, Professor, 80. 



Body, the, as a battery, 214. 



Bordet, 278. 



Bose, Jagadis Chunder, 52, 



270,313,323- 

 Brain, beginnings of, 255 ; 



weight of, 258; structure of, 



260. 



Brain-cells, number of, 257. 

 Branly, Edward, 304, 313. 

 Bredig, 238. 

 Bruno, 21. 

 Buchner, 231, 233. 

 Buckle quoted, 37. 

 Buffon, 17. 

 Byron, brain weight of, 258. 



CALMETTE, DR., 275. 

 Campanularia, 240. 

 Capillary attraction, 118. 

 Catalytic action, 183. 

 Cathode rays, 47, 94, 150. 

 Cauchy, 117. 

 Centigrade scale, 53. 

 Cerianthus, 205. 

 Chemical mechanics, 180. 

 Chemistry, synthetic, 169. 

 Chemo-tactism, 202. 

 Chloroform, action of, 223. 

 Christian science, 307. 

 Clausius, 341. 

 Clerk-Maxwell, 50,79; quoted, 



102, 115. 

 Coherer, 320. 



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