BRIEF INDEX 



OP THE PRINCIPAL NAMES CITED 



BASTIAN, HENRY CHARLTON, English physician, 

 born at Truro, Cornwall, April 26, 1837. Author 

 of numerous works, among others, The Modes of 

 Origin of Lowest Organisms; The Beginnings of 

 Life; Clinical Lectures on the Common Forms of 

 Paralysis from Brain Disease. 



BERT, PAUL, French physiologist and statesman, 

 born at Auxerre in 1833, died at Hanoi in 1886. 



BIOT, JEAN BAPTISTE, astronomer, mathematician, 

 physicist, and chemist, born at Paris in 1774, 

 died at Paris in 1862. He participated in efforts 

 undertaken in Spain to measure the meridian, 

 and has left important writings on polarisation, 

 stellar astronomy, etc. 



BUFFON, GEORGES Louis LECLERC, Comte de, 

 naturalist and one of the greatest of French 

 writers, born at Montbard, Cote-d'Or, in 1707, 

 died at Paris in 1788. Author of a Natural His- 

 tory and a Treatise on the Epochs of Nature. 

 Member of the Academic Franchise. 



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