INDEX 



Abel, Dr. C., naturalist, 277, 298 



Abercorn, Lord, 262 



Aberdeen, 96 



Abernethy, Dr, 287 



Abyssinia, 174, 283, 284 



Acad&mie Franpaise, 82, 84 



Adams, Thomas, Captain, R.N., 10 



Aerostation, 71 



Africa, 142, 145-53 



African Association, 145-52, 302 



Afzelius, Adam, botanist, 153-5 



Agriculture : Distemper among 

 horned Cattle, 4 



Agriculture, as a branch of botani- 

 cal science, 12. v. "Farming" 



Aiton, William, at Kew Gardens, 



93 



Aiton, W. T., 209, 260, 277 



D'Alembert, Jean, quoted, 73 



Aleppo, 116 



Allen, Dr., gout specialist, 166 



Allen, John, 230, 235 



Almack's, 176 n 



America, 140, 141, 211, 214 



American Declaration of Inde- 

 pendence, 81, 82 



Amherst, Lord, 271, 277 



Amiens, truce of, 149, 208 



Anderson, Dr. Alexander, botanist, 

 121, 122 



Anderson, Alexander, traveller, 

 I5L 152 



Anderson, William, surgeon, 40, 49 



Angling, in Lincolnshire, 307 



Anguish, T., 76 



Antiquities the handmaid of 

 history, 67 



Apothecaries' Garden, Chelsea, 6, 

 93 



Apple (Spring Grove Codling), 321 

 Arabic language, 150, 152 

 Arabs, 147 

 Arbitration, 263-4 

 Archaeology, 3, 13, 314, 315 

 Archery at Revesby, 307 

 Arcot, India, 114 

 Arenberg, Duke of, 61 

 Ashby, Rev. George, 21, 53, 62 

 Astronomers, on the transit of 



Venus, 14 



Astronomical Society, 258 

 Astronomy at Court, 63, 64 

 Aubert, Alexander, 56, 71, 78, 91 

 Auckland, Lord, 136, 207 

 Austin Friars, 56 

 Australia, 30, 217 et seq. t 226, 229 

 Ayrshire, 114 

 Azores, 297 



Babbage, Charles, 175, 256 

 Bacstrom, Sigismund, M.D., 26 n, 



167, 168 



Baily, F. H., 256 

 Ballooning, 71 



Bankes, of Kingston Lacy, 1 3 

 Banks, Joseph (d. 1727), notice 



of him, 3, 4 



Banks, Joseph (d. 1736), 4 

 Banks, Sir Joseph, b. 1743, 3 ; 

 left Oxford University, 1763, 8 ; 

 Society of Arts, 1764, 121 ; 

 voyage to Newfoundland, 1766, 

 ii ; F.R.S. 1766, 10 ; circum- 

 navigated the world with Cap- 

 tain Cook, 1768, 14 et seq. \ 

 voyage to Iceland, 1772, 32 ; 

 Soho Square, 1777, 62 ; Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Society, 



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