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INDEX. 



Becker on mortality statistics, iL 566. 

 Becquerel, ., phenomenon of fluor- 

 escence, iL 52. 

 Bedson, Prof., ' Memorial Lecture ' on 



Lothar Meyer, L 427. 

 Beer, physics, L 44 ; ' Einleitung in 



die ElektrosUtik,' iL 76. 

 Bell, Henry, built the " Comet," i. 303. 

 Bell, John, i. 293. 



Bell, Sir Charles, discovery of the two 

 kinds of nerves, L 193, 292, 293 ; iL 

 481 ; physiological discovery of, 230 ; 

 and German universities, i. 251 ; of 

 Edinburgh University, 272 ; Bridge- 

 water Treatise, iL 325; experimental 

 physiology, 384 ; ' Anatomy of Ex- 

 pression,' 477. 



Bell, Sir Lowthian, phosphorus as fer- 

 tiliser, L 93. 



Beltrami, the pseudosphere, iL 635 ; 

 supplements Riemann's work, 713 ; 

 717. 



Bence Jones, ' Life and Letters of Fara- 

 day,' i. 246 ; Royal Institution, 246, 

 248. 

 Beneden, Van, on fertilisation, iL 227 ; 



discovery of, 448. 



Beneke, psychologist, influenced by 

 school of Fries, i. 209; "faculty- 

 psychology," iL 495 ; introspective 

 method, 527. 

 Benfey, Theodor, ' Geschichte der 



Sprachwissenschaft,' ii. 245, 537. 

 Bentham, Jeremy, school of, L 84 

 Bentley, Richard, L 169 ; influence of, 

 on German thought and literature, 

 212 ; services to classical learning 

 and criticism, 222 ; his theories, 251 ; 

 Newton's philosophy and atheism, 

 337 ; Newton's letter to, 340. 

 Bergmann, L 117 ; forerunner of Ber- 

 zelius, 391 ; doctrine of chemical 

 affinities, 392 ; theory of chemical 

 affinity, 452 ; chemical theory of, ii. 

 176. 



Berkeley, and Hume, L 47 ; ' Theory of 

 Vision," iL 472; space perception, 

 504 ; genetic view, 506 ; psycho- 

 physical view, 531. 

 Berlin Academy, language, ii. 536. 

 Berlin, foundation of University of, L 



38. 



Berlin school of mathematicians, iL 693. 

 Bernard, Claude, "Association Fran- 

 eaise," L 298 ; on identity of Animal 

 and Vegetable Morphology, iL 219 ; 

 quoted, 223, 410 ; ' Phenomenes de la 

 Vie' quoted, 224, 239, 370, 438 ; De 

 Blainville, 247 ; ' La Science Experi- 



mentale' quoted, 373, 376, 379, 384, 

 385, 386 ; change of ideas in medical 

 schools of Paris, 396; 406, 409; 

 ' Rapport,' 419 ; " organisation et 

 desorganisation," 421; 'Rapport' 

 quoted, 426 ; 429 ; school of, 431 ; 

 tile "internal medium," 432 ; chem- 

 istry of the living being, 433 ; school 

 of " organicists," 436; rationale of 

 the mental process, 441; 442; "or- 

 ganicisme," 455, 467, 481, 504, 549 ; 

 quoted by Darwin, 610. 



Bernard, Thomas, associated with Rum- 

 ford's philanthropic schemes, L 249. 



Bernoulli, Daniel, the theory of prob- 

 abilities, L 120, ii. 570 ; L 135 ; hypo- 

 thesis of, 314 ; on gravitation, quoted, 

 351 ; ' Hydrodynamica ' (the kinetic 

 theory of gases), 433 ; motion of par- 

 ticles of gaseous matter, 434 ; on 

 Baler's theory of the continuity of the 

 ether, ii. 8 ; psychophysics, 474 ; 

 572, 590, 694. 



Bernoulli, James, took up the calculus, 

 L 101 ; the theory of probabilities, 

 120 ; ii. 569 ; ' De Arte conjectandi," 

 570 ; 572 ; theory of error, 575 ; doc- 

 trine of chances, 678. 



Bernoulli, John, took up the calculus, 

 L 101 ; the conservation of energy, 

 iL99. 



Bernstorff, Minister von, i. 158. 



Berrv, A., ' History of Astronomy,' ii. 

 282, 357, 362. 



Berthelot quoted on crystallography, L 

 117; 'La Synthese chimique,' 418; 

 ' Chimie organique fondee sur la Syn- 

 these,' 454 ; ' La Synthese chimique ' 

 quoted, 455, 457 ; a founder of physi- 

 cal chemistry, ii. 152; third law in 

 thenno - chemistry, 157 ; chemical 

 affinity, 171, 177 ; quoted, 361 ; 

 chemistry of organic compounds. 425. 



Berthollet issued ' Annales de Chimie,' 

 i. 41 ; ' Essai de Statique chimique,' 

 83, 116 ; chemistry at the Ecole nor- 

 male, 112 ; practical discoveries of, 

 147 ; gunpowder, iron, steel, 148 ; 

 152, 200 ; chemical saturation, 347 ; 

 influenced by Laplace, 380 ; chem- 

 ical equilibrium, 392 ; quoted, 416 ; 

 heat a material substance, 433 ; 

 theory of chemical affinity. 452 ; iL 

 154 ; law of mass-action, 157 ; (see 

 Ostwald), 176. 



Bertholon quoted, L 327. 



Bertin, M., 'Rapport sur le Progres 

 de la Thennodynamique en France,' 

 iL 118. 



