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but his masque shows Slavic features. He was born in Bonn on 

 the Rhine. His father's father came from the low countries 

 (Antwerp), and his mother's maiden name was Maria Magdelena 

 Kewerich. He was an upright, democratic man, passionately fond 

 of nature and what is best in music, literature and art. He wrote 

 German badly, but in music he was a god! He spent most of his 

 mature life in Vienna and died there. For portraits see "Beethoven" 

 by Vincent d'Indy in "Les Musiciens Celebres" Paris, Renouard, 

 and "Beethoven, the man and the artist as revealed in his own 

 words," by Fr. Kerst (Tr. by Krehbiel. N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, but 

 without the portraits). 

 Bellamy, 



Bellotti, Cristoforo ( ). Italian student of silk- worm diseases 



in the Museo Civico of Milan. Published several papers in Milan 

 (1863-1879). Wrote also on the fossil fish of Lombardy. 

 Berkeley, Rev. Miles Joseph (1803-1889). English microscopist and 

 cryptogamic botanist. Author of "British Fungi," "Decades of 

 Fungi," "Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany," "Handbook of 

 British Mosses," etc. Wrote also on diseases of plants for "The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle." For portraits see Wittrock II, Tafl. 145, 

 and Whetzel's History of Phytopathology, p. 56. 



Bernard, Claude (1813-1878). Distinguished French physiologist. 

 Magendie's assistant. Professor in Paris. Member of the 

 Academy of Sciences and of the Academic Francaise. Senator. 

 Discovered action of the pancreas in the digestion of fat, storage of 

 glycogen in the liver, existence of nervous centers acting independ- 

 ently of the brain and cord (sympathetic system), and sugar in 

 the urine as a result of wounding the fourth ventricle of the brain. 

 Author of many books and papers. His "Lecons sur les phenomenes 

 de la vie commune aux animaux et aux veg6taux" appeared in 

 Paris in 1879. For portraits see Garrison, p. 576, Pagel, p. 147, 

 Abry, p. 589 and Pop. Sci. Monthly, Oct. 1878. 



Bert, Paul (1833-1886). French politician (Republican) and physi- 

 ologist. Student of Claude Bernard. Professor in Bordeaux and 

 in Paris. Received 20,000 francs reward for barometric investiga- 

 tions in relation to life processes. Member of Gambetta's ministry. 

 Pasteur's friend. Wrote "Lecons sur la physiologic comparee 

 de la respiration," 8vo, pp. xxxv, 588. Paris, 1870. Dedicated 

 to Claude Bernard. For portraits see Harper's Mag., 1882, p. 560, 

 and Pop. Sci. Monthly, July, 1888. 



Berthelot, Marcelin Pierre Eugene (1827-1907). French chemist. 

 Senator. Remarkable for his studies of organic substances: 

 polyatomic alcohols; synthesis of organic substances; thermo- 

 chemistry; explosives. Assistant of Balard. Professor in School of 



