758 INDEX. 



Bolyai, i. 161 ; a pupil of Gauss, 181 ; Brandt, Sebastian, i. 163. 



father and son, and Gauss, ii. 652; Braun, Alex., spiral theory, ii. 223; 268; 



710, 713. quoted, 269. 



Bolzano, Bernhard, on undulatory Bravais, 'Etudes crystallographiques,' 



theory of light, ii. 10 ; on the infinite i. 443. 



and convergency, 709 ; and Cauchy Breal, educationalist, oil Rousseau, i. 



compared, ib.; Stolz on, ib. 259 ; 260. 



Bomare, Valmont de, first course of Brewster, Sir D., 'Life of Newton,' 



natural history at Paris, i. 106. i. 98, 321, 342 ; experiments of, 230 ; 



Bonald, De, on origin of language, i. 23. quoted on foundation of suggested 



Bond, Dr, ii. 565. "British Association," 238; never 



Bonnet, Charles, regular arrangement adopted theories of Young, 244 ; 



of leaves, ii. 223 ; ' Echelle des Scottish university professor, 272 ; 



etres,' 233; "evolutionist," 278; opposed to undulatory theory of 



279 ; epigenesis/ 298 ; 322, 519. light, ii. 16 ; letter from Young, 27 ; 



Bonnet, Ossian, ii. 704. theory of undulations, 37 ; experi- 



Boole, George, neglect of, in England, mental work of, 45 ; adherence to 



i. 247 ; 272 ; and modern school of projectile theory, 46 ; observed the 



mathematics, ii. 676 ; Stanley Jevons phenomenon of fluorescence, 52 ; 245 ; 



on, 684. criticism of ' Vestiges,' 319 ; 482 ; 



Bopp, language, ii. 540, 542. stereoscope, 506. 



Borda, i. 113, 148. Brianchon, ii. 660. 



Bordeu, vitalist, i. 126 ; vital force, ii. Bridgewater Treatises, ii. 324. 



503. , Briggs, Henry, ' Logarithmorum Chilias 



Borel, Emil, his lectures, ii. 704. prima,' i. 269. 



Borelli, medicine in alliance with Bright, i. 272. 



physics, i. 126. Brill and Nother, 'Theory of Functions,' 



Boscovich, Roger, theories of molecular i. 308 ; ' Bericht ' quoted, ii. 657 ; 



attraction and repulsion, i. 357 ; 700, 701. 



metaphysical theorist, 371 ; 416 ; on Brioschi and invariants, ii. 685. 



the nature of matter, 419 ; applica- Brisseau, a pioneer of the cellular 



tion of theory of gravitation to mole- theory, ii. 262. 



cular physics, ii. 28 ; gravitation as a British Association, i. 42, 236 ; founded, 



general physical theory, 351. 89, 238 ; suggested by Brewster, ib. ; 



Bossut, i. 107. successful work of, 239 ; Sir Charles 



Bougainville, pupil of the Ecole nor- Lyell on, 240 ; reports, ii. 54 ; 55, 58, 



male, i. 112; 113. 73 ; meeting, 163. 



Bouillier, M., quoted, i. 107, 108 ; ' British Quarterly Review ' quoted on 



'Eloges de Fontenelle," 135. the two older universities, i. 254. 



Boulton, use of the term " horse- Brix, Walter, ii. 734. 



power," ii. 99. Broca, speech, ii. 478, 479, 539. 



Boussinesq quoted on transmission of Brockhaus, ' Conversations-Lexicon,' i. 



vibrations of ether to ponderable 273. 



bodies, ii. 54. Brodie, ii. 362. 



Boussingault, agricultural chemistry, Brongniart (see Cuvier), associated with 



ii. 393 ; 406 ; bacteriological work, Cuvier in palfeontological work, i. 



415 ; quoted, 441. 139 ; excavations, ii. 248 ; exploration 



Bowen, criticism of ' Vestiges,' ii. 319. of Paris basin, 294. 



Boyle Lectures, Bentley's, i. 169. Bronn, translation of ' Origin of 



Boyle, Hon. Robert, Newton to, i. 342 ; Species,' ii. 322. 



and Lavoisier, 386 ; atoms and mass- Brougham, Lord, unfair criticism of 



idee, 398 ; law of pressures, 425 ; Young, i. 244 ; ' Edinburgh Review,' 



427 ; law of, 429 ; ii. 592. 273 ; on Dr Young, ii. 9, 19. 



Boys, Prof., determination of force of Broussais, French medical science, i. 



gravitation, i. 320. 208 ; phrenology, ii. 477. 



Bradley, i. 158 ; observations of, utilised Brown, Crum, and Tait, Memoir of 



by Bessel, 177; 238; aberration of Thomas Andrews, ii. 162; on Sainte 



light, ii. 10 ; astronomical aberration, Claire Deville and "dissociation," 



194. 163 ; 438. 



