INDEX 



ABRAHAM, MAX, 1 1 1 



Absolute zero, 47 



Absorption, spectrum, 171 



Actinium, 76 



Actinometer, 155 



Action of poisons, 286 



Affinity, 36, 38 



Alcohol, 28 



Alcyone, 230, 236 



Aldebaran, 235 



Algol, 247 



Algol, dark companion of, 248 



Ampere's classification of sciences, 



295 



Anaesthetics, 286 



Anaxagoras, 151 



Anaximander, 151 



Andromeda, 241 



Apparent mass, 109 



Apparent mass of electron, no- 1 12 



Arago, Francois, 207 



Argon, 30, 65, 82 



Artificial cells, 274$ , 



eye, 288 



,, parthenogenesis, 277 

 Atom, structure of, 105 

 Atomic weights, 66, 67 



BACTERIOLOGY, 304 



Becquerel, 100 



Beginnings of the sciences, 296 



Benard, 269 



Bergmann, 36, 37 



Berthelot, 23, 34, 126, 260, 302 



Berthollet, 37, 48, 49 



Bertrand, 262 



Berzelius, 260 



Bessel, 254 



Birth of a crystal, 265, 266 



Boerhaave, 36 



Boring, 128 



Bose, Jagadis Chunder, 280 



Bouillaud, 247 



Bredig, 263 



Brillouin, 98 



Brownian movement, 93 



Buchner, 262 



Bunsen, 169 



Burke, 278 



Butschli, 269 



CALORIE, 126 



Cavendish's experiment, 120, 153 



Cellular physics, 306 



Central heat of earth, 126 



,, sun, 236 

 Chaldean period, 195 

 Chemical equilibrium, 48, 54 



reaction, 27, 36, 39, 43, 



51,55 



species, 25^, 67 

 statics, 37 

 Chemistry, organic, 32 

 inorganic, 32 

 growth of, 56 

 object of, 33, 302 

 Chevreul, 302 



Chromosphere, 177.$, 209, 210 

 Classical chemistry, 33, 37 

 Classification of the sciences, 59, 



294 

 Classification of sciences, French 



official, 298 

 Coast-line, movements of, 



315 



