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INDEX. 



the 'Brotherhood of Truth,' 229; 

 becomes candidate for Chemistry 

 Chair in Edinburgh University, 310 ; 

 experiments on transmutation, 310. 



Brown, Eev. Dr. John, 295. 



Brown, Dr. John, 5 ; critique of ' Life 

 of Cavendish,' 341 ; suggestion of, 

 483 ; biographical sketch of Dr. Wil- 

 son, 497. 



Brown, Mr. J. C., 362, 511. 



Buckland, Dr., 41. 



Building materials, lecture on chemistry 

 of, 406. 



Bulwer, 59, 61. 



Burns' centenary meeting, 465. 



Bute, holidays spent in, 73-75. 



CAIRNS, Dr. John, 231, 248, 275, 278, 

 280, 294; letters to, 310, 314, 315, 

 317, 321, 344, 353, 360, 361, 364, 370, 

 378, 392, 407, 459, 465, 475, 486, 

 remarks on chemical lecture, 275 ; 

 reminiscences of Dr. AVilson's conver- 

 sion, 295; remarks on his gifts of ex- 

 position and illustration, 439 ; present 

 at the closing scene, 488, 489. 



Calculi, composition and mode of analys- 

 ing, 272. 



Calton Burial-ground, 523. 



Camera Obscura : verses on the Sick- 

 room, 381. 



Campbell, Mr., of Kothesay, 72, 74, 100, 

 101. 



Candle, chemistry of a, 329. 



Capping of young doctors described, 200. 



Cauchy, Baron, 497. 



Cavendish, Life of, 340, 415. 



Chalmers, Dr., 320. 



Chemia, the Virgin, 243. 



Chemical papers, 81, 232, 314, 336, 337. 



Chemistry, juvenile researches in, 39 ; 

 enters Professor Hope's class, 39 ; rapid 

 advance of chemistry from 1830 to 1855, 

 40, 41 ; studies under Professor Chris- 

 tison, 70; under Mr. K. Kemp, 79; 

 enters laboratory of Professor Graham 

 in London, 164 ; search for lecture- 

 room in Edinburgh, 241 ; first course of 

 lectures, 253 ; second session, 262 ; 

 course on animal chemistry, 274 ; popu- 

 lar lectures, 324-330 ; various scientific 

 papers, 337 ; pamphlet on Glasgow 

 professorship, 349 ; proposed as candi- 

 date for Edinburgh chair, 454 ; -with- 

 draws from canvass, 457. 



Cherriman, Professor, 332. 



Children, love for, 382-384. 



Christison, Professor, 42, 70, 115-118, 

 245, 478 ; incidents in laboratory, 97, 

 100, 10, 112. 



Chromato-pseudopsis. See Colour-blind- 

 ness. 



Clark, Professor, of Aberdeen, 215. 



Cogswell, Dr., 81. 



College philosophers, 109. 



Colour-blindness, researches on, 331-336 ; 

 statistics of, 335. See APPENDIX A. 



Comet of 1858, 458. 



1 Confessions of an Opium-eater,' reflec- 

 tions on reading, 48-50, 54, 62. 



Cooper, Mr. White, his critique of ' Ee- 

 searches on Colour-blindness,' 333-336. 



Cowper's poetry, early admiration of, 14. 



Creed, advantage of a, 368. 



Crum, Mr. Walter, 469. 



Crystal Palace, visit to, 377. 



Crystallography, speculations on, 132-331. 



Cumbernauld, school holidays spent at, 

 18, 23. 



Curtain lectures, 391. 



Cuvier, 109. 



DA COSTA, Signer, 266, 267. 



Dalton, Life of, 332 ; paper on, in 'British 



Quarterly,' 338, 339, 439. 

 Dassauville, Mr. Philip, 15. 

 David, the French sculptor, 109, 118. 

 Day, Professor G. E., of St. Andrews, 



231, 337,457. 

 Dependants, love of, 493. 

 De Quincey, 48, 62. 

 Diagnostic Society, 80. 

 Diary, intention expressed of keeping a, 



47 ; first entries, 53-64 ; reflections on 



the anxiety felt at examination for 



Surgeon's Degree, 88, 89; troubles 



come thickly, 103. 

 Dick, Mr. Maxwell, of Irvine, 28, 33, 41 ; 



letter to, 29. 

 Dick, Professor, 350. 

 ' Dies Tree, 1 the, 438. 

 Dispensary practice, 145. 

 Dobbie, Mr., 104, 105, 109, 118. 

 ' Doctor, where 's your shirt ? ' 198. 

 Domestic pets, 8. 

 Dreams, remarks on, 50, 54. 

 Druidic remains in Bute, visited, 75. 

 Dublin, visit to, 445, 446. 

 Duncan, Dr.'J. Matthews, 484-487. 

 Dying, feelings of the, 89. 



EDUCATIONAL Institute of Scotland, lec- 

 ture to, 442. 



