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study of the elasticity of air, 

 iv. 1 1 ; discovery of the prop- 

 erties of carbonic - acid gas, 

 i v. 1 2 ; studies continued by 

 Cavendish, -ibid. 



Blood corpuscles, functions of, 

 iv. 135; important role played 

 by, iv. 136. 



Boerhaave, Hermann, fame of, 

 iv. 182; his classification of 

 the different branches of medi- 

 cine, iv. 183; his doctrines 

 arranged into a "system" by 

 Hoffmann, iv. 184. 



Bond, W. C., discoverer of the 

 inner or crape ring of Saturn, 

 iii. 44. 



Books, preservation of ancient, 

 ii. 6. 



Borelli, "On the Motive of 

 Animals," ii. 188. 



Boscovich, Roger Joseph, the 

 ultimate constitution of mat- 

 ter as conceived by, iii. 293. 



Bose, George Matthias, inventor 

 of an electric machine, ii. 274; 

 explanation of aurora borealis, 

 ii. 277. 



Boulevard Pasteur, the, v. 179. 



Boyle, Robert, ii. 204; ex- 

 periments on air, ii. 205; 

 calculation of atmospheric 

 pressure, ii. 206; views on 

 color, ii. 208; work in electric- 

 ity, ii. 209; his theories as to 

 the composition of the at- 

 mosphere, iv. 4-6; detected 

 the existence of glands in the 

 mucous membrane, iv. 129. 



Bradley, Dr. James, discovers 

 the libratory motion of the 

 earth's axis, iii. 12. 



Brahe, Tycho, a celebrated 

 astronomer who declined to 

 accept the heliocentric idea 

 concerning the earth, i. 217. 



Braid, Dr. James, investigation 

 of the phenomena of hypno- 

 tism, iv. 269. 



Brain, studies of the, iv. 245- 

 249, 270-286; localization of, 

 centres, iv. 272-274; minute 



structures of the, iv. 276- 

 286. 



Brewster, Dr. David, sugges- 

 tions to improve the micro- 

 scope, iv. no. 



Bridge, Dr., an Egyptologist, i. 

 28. 



British museum, the, founding 

 of, v. 3; Sloan's collection 

 purchased for, v. 4; acquisi- 

 tion of Hamilton's treasures 

 for, v. 5 ; Egyptian antiquities 

 for, ibid.; erection of present 

 building, v. 6; statue of Dar- 

 win in, v. 9; arrangement 

 of specimens in, v. 10, n; 

 public interest in, v. 12. 



Broca, Dr. Paul, and localiza- 

 tion of speech, iv. 272. 



Brown, Robert, discovery of the 

 nuclei of plant cells, iv. 115. 



Brugsch, an Egyptologist, i. 28. 



"Brunonian" system, iv. 187. 



Buffon and the transmutation of 

 species, iv. 149. 



Bunsen, with Kirchhpff, perfected 

 the spectroscope, iv. 69. 



Burnham, S. W., discovers one 

 thousand new clusters of stars, 

 iii. 59. 



CAJAL, DR. S. RAMON Y, demon- 

 stration of independent nerve 

 filaments, iv. 283; importance 

 of discovery, iv. 285. 



Calmette, discoverer of the 

 serum treatment for serpent- 

 poisoning, v. 184. 



Calvin withholds the document 

 of Serve tus, ii. 168. 



Canton, John, produces both 

 positive and negative elec- 

 tricity on the same substance, 

 ii. 295. 



Carbonic gas liquefied, v. 40. 



Carnot, Sadi, demonstrated that 

 a definite quantity of work 

 could be transformed into a 

 definite quantity of heat, iii. 



2 55- 



Carpenter, William B., studies 

 in embryology, iv. 1^2. 



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