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INDEX. 



Bolyai, i. 161 ; a pupil of Gauss, 181 ; 

 father and son, and Gauss, ii. 652 ; 

 710, 713. 



Bolzano, Bernhard, on undulatory 

 theory of light, ii. 10 ; on the infinite 

 and couvergency, 709 ; and Cauchy 

 compared, ib.; Stol.^ on, ih. 



Boniare, Valmont de, tirst course of 

 natural history at Paris, i. 106. 



Bonald, De, on origin of language, i. 23. 



Bond, Dr, ii. 565. 



Bonnet, Charles, regular a,rrangement 

 of leaves, ii. 223 ; ' Echelle des 

 etres,' 238; "evolutionist," 278; 

 279 ; epigenesis, 298 ; 322, 519. 



Bonnet, Ossian, ii. 704. 



Boole, George, neglect of, in England, 

 i, 247 ; 272 ; and modern school of 

 mathematics, ii. 676 ; Stanley Jevous 

 on, 68-4. 



Bopp, language, ii. 540, 542. 



Borda, i. 113, 148. 



Bordeu, vitalist, i. 126 ; vital force, ii. 

 503. , 



Borel, Emil, his lectures, ii. 704. 



Borelli, medicine in alliance with 

 physics, i. 126. 



Boscovich, Roger, theories of molecular 

 attraction and repulsion, i. 357 ; 

 metaphysical theorist, 371 ; 416 ; on 

 the nature of matter, 419 ; applica- 

 tion of theory of gravitation to mole- 

 cular physics, ii. 28 ; gravitation as a 

 general physical theory, 351. 



Bossut, i. 107. 



Bougainville, pupil of the Ecole nor- 

 male,i. 112; 113. 



Boiiillier, M., quoted, i. 107, 108 ; 

 'Eloges de Fontenelle,' 135. 



Boulton, use of the term "horse- 

 power," ii. 99. 



Boussinesq quoted on transmission of 

 vibrations of ether to ponderable 

 bodies, ii. 54. 



Boussingault, agricultural chemistry, 

 ii. 393 ; 406 ; bacteriological work, 

 415 ; quoted, 441. 



Bowen, criticism of ' Vestiges,' ii. 319. 



Boyle Lectures, Bentley's, i. 169. 



Boyle, Hon. Robert, Newton to, i. 342 ; 

 and Lavoisier, 386 ; atoms and mass- 

 idce, 398 ; law of pressures, 425 ; 

 427 ; law of, 429 ; ii. 592. 



Boys, Prof., determination of force of 

 gravitation, i. 320. 



Bradley, i. 158 ; observations of, utilised 

 by Bessel, 177 ; 238 ; aberration of 

 light, ii. 10 ; astronomical aberration, 

 194. 



Brandt, Sebastian, i. 163. 



Braun, Alex., sjjiral theory, ii. 223 ; 268 ; 



quoted, 269. 

 Bravais, 'Etudes crystallographiques,' 



i. 443. 

 Breal, educationalist, ou Rousseau, i. 



259 ; 260. 

 Brewster, Sir D., 'Life of Newton,' 



i. 98, 321, 342 ; experiments of, 230 ; 



quoted on foundation of suggested 



"British Association," 238; never 



adopted theories of Young, 244 ; 



Scottish university professor, 272 ; 



opposed to undulatory theory of 



light, ii. 16 ; letter from Young, 27 ; 



theory of undulations, 37 ; experi- 

 mental work of, 45 ; adherence to 



projectile theory, 46 ; observed the 



phenomenon of fluorescence, 52 ; 245 ; 



criticism of ' Vestiges,' 319 ; 482 ; 



stereoscope, 506. 

 Brianchon, ii. 660. 

 Bridgewater Treatises, ii. 324. 

 Briggs, Henry, ' Logarithmorum Chilias 



prima,' i. 269. 

 Bright, i. 272. 

 Brill and Nother, ' Theory of Functions,' 



i. 308 : ' Bericht ' quoted, ii. 657 ; 



700, 701. 

 Brioschi and invariants, ii. 685. 

 Brisseau, a pioneer of the cellular 



theory, ii. 262. 

 British Association, i. 42, 236 ; founded, 



89, 238 ; suggested by Brewster, ib. ; 



successful work of, 239 ; Sir Charles 



Lyell on, 240 ; reports, ii. 54 ; 55, 58, 



73 ; meeting, 163. 

 ' British Quarterly Review ' quoted on 



the two older universities, i. 254. 

 Brix, Walter, ii. 734. 

 Broca, .speech, ii. 478, 479, .539. 

 Brockhaus, 'Conversations-Lexicon,' i. 



273. 

 Brodie, ii. 362. 

 Brongniart (see Cuvier), associated with 



Cuvier in palajontological work, i. 



139 ; excavations, ii. 248 ; exploration 



of Paris basin, 294. 

 Bronn, translation of ' Origin of 



Species,' ii. 322. 

 Brougham, Lord, unfair criticism of 



Young, i. 244; ' Edinburgh Review,' 



273; on Dr Young, ii. 9, 19. 

 Broussais, French medical science, i. 



208 ; phrenology, ii. 477. 

 Brown, Crum, and Tait, Memoir of 



Thomas Andrews, ii. 162 ; on Sainte 



Claire Deville and "dissociation," 



163 ; 438. 



