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Index. 



Art, alleged barrenness of, during 

 1870, 73 ; books on, issued in, 

 1870, 82 ; proposed gallery of, in 

 Albany, 30. 



Art Thoughts, Jarvis's, 82. 



Artesian Wells, 222. 



Ascidians, classification of, 138. 



Assaying, methods of, 60, 65. 



Atlantic Coast, 158, 170, 171. 



Atlantic Ocean, 169. 



Atlantic plains, of Tehuantepec, 157, 

 169. 



Atlantic slope, of Tehuantepec, 

 161. 



Atlantic Telegraph, 88. 

 Atoms, 264, 281, 



Atomic theory, 249 ; truth of, ques- 

 tioned, 145. 

 Atomicities, doctrine of, 145, 148. 

 Augstrdm, 210. 

 Aye-aye, the, 52. 

 Ayrolles, Secretary, 120. 

 Aztecs, the ancient, 152, 162, 169. 



Bacon, Lord, 143. 



Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 102. 



Barbadoes, 121. 



Bard, Samuel, 8. 



Barker, Prof. G. W., 282. 



Barnard, Daniel D., 24. 



Barnstable, 119. 



Bastian, Dr. H. Chareton, 49, 140. 

 Bats, 52. 



Beale, Professor, 140, 328. 

 Beck, Dr. Lewis C, 14. 

 Beck, Dr. Theodoric Romeyn, 13, 14, 

 18. 20, 21. 



Becquerel, , 328. 



Bediford, 119. 

 Bell, , 332. 



Belles Lettres, volumes of, issued in 

 1870, 83. 



Benton's History of Herkimer Co., 

 130. 



Berkeley, M. J., 37, 188. 



Berkeley's Outlines, etc., 213. 



Berks County, 129 ; Rupp's, 123. 



Bern, canton of, 123. 



Bern, New, 124. 



Berzelius, J. J., 173, 174, 183. 



Bichat, F. H., 327. 



Binney, J. A., 134. 



Biot, M., 240. 



Black, J., 251. 



Black heath, 114, 119. 



Black-knot, investigation concern- 

 ing, 193 ; regarded as of fungoid 

 origin, 196. 



Blasting, by gunpowder and nitro- 



glycerine, compared, 102. 



Bleecker reservoir, 221, 224. 



Bloodgood, Simeon De Witt, 14. 



Blowpipe, new method of assaying 

 by the, described by L. C. Cooley, 

 60-65. 



Boca del Barro, 158. 



Bode's series, 147. 



Bodleian Portrait Gallery, 30. 



Bohemia, 109. 



Boletus, edulis, 39. 



Book trade, stagnation of, 78. 



Books, as such, estimate, of, 73. 



Boscovich, , 249. 



Botanical Bulletin, 186. 



Botanical Club of N. Y. City, 36. 



Botanist and Florist, Wood's, 35. 



Botany, growing interest in, 40 ; new 

 publications on, 35, 43, 186 ; re- 

 ports on, by Charles H. Peck, 35- 

 43, 186-204; synopsis of New 

 York Uncinulae, by C. H. Peck, 

 213-217. 



Boyle, Mr. Secretary, 113. 



Brachiopods, not mollusks, 137. 



Braddon, , 78. 



Bravley's Middlesex, 121. 



Brazil, 88. 



Brief historical relation of state 

 affairs, 118. 



Brill, The, near Rotterdam, 114. 



Bristol cabbage, 189. 



British America, 129, 191. 



British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, 39, 90, 139, 

 145. 



British colonies, in America, 108. 

 British Fungi, 37. 



British government, 111 ; see also 

 England and Great Britain. 



British Museum, 27, 32, 75 ; origin 

 and growth of, 27. 



British National Gallery, 89. 



Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 145, 184. 



Brontes, the, 77. 



Brougham, Henry, 77. 



Brown's Sketch of Schoharie. 128. 



Bryan gallery of old pictures, 30. 



Bryant, William C, 77. 



Buckland, Dr., 135. 



Bulletin, Monthly, (of Botany), 36. 



Bulwer, Edward Lytton, 77. 



Bunsen, M., 149, 150; 209, 210, 211. 



Bunsen's blow-pipe, etc., 65. 



Burgoyne, General , 10. 



Burnet, Bishop, 111. 



Burnet, Dr., 194, 195. 



Burnet's Own Time, 111, 116, 118. 



Bushmen, 57. 



