Baring-Gould, Rev. S., 5

Bass, George, 53

Batten, Emelia, 74
  George, 65

Bateson, xlii

“Beagle, Voyage of,” 18

“Beduins, With the,” 33

Belper, Lord, 24

Bell’s “British Quadrupeds,” 71

Bentham, Samuel, 24

Berlin waterworks, 24

Bernard, Charles B., Bishop of Tuam, 61

Bewick, 37

“Biography, Dictionary of National,” xiv

Blanford, H.F., 6
  William, 5
  W.T., 5

Blood, Professor W. Bindon, 62
  General Sir Bindon, 62

Bohemianism and artistic temperament, xv

Bonamy Price, Professor, xvi

Booth, Right Hon. Charles, 6, 57
  Henry, 6
  James, 6
  Thomas, 6

Bosanquet, Bernard, 7
  C.B.P., 7
  Vice-Admiral Day Hort, 7
  Sir John Bernard, 7
  Robert C., 7
  R.H.M., 7

“Botanic Garden,” 17

Bottomley, James Thomson, 8, 69

Bramwell, Lord, 36
  Sir Frederick, 36

Brandis, C.A., 9, 83
  Sir Dietrich, 8, 83
  Joachim D., 9
  Johannes, 9

Bray, Anna Eliza, 38

Brewster, Sir David, 11

Bright, statue of John, 70

Britons, Ancient, 20

Brodrick, Charles, Archbishop of Cashel, 60
  George C. (Warden of Merton), 61
  Right Hon. William St. J., 61
  W.J., seventh Viscount Midleton, 61

Brodrick Scott, Charles, 61

Brothers, average number of, for any person, xxxi

Brown, Professor A. Crum, 9, 82
  General David, 72
  John, of Haddington (1722-1787), 9
  John, of Whitburn (1754-1832), 10
  John, of Biggor (1784-1858), 10, 82
  John, M.D., 10
  John (engineer), 75

Browne, Sir J. Crichton, 11, 82
  W.A.F., 11, 82

Brunel, Isambard, 35

Buller, Sir Arthur, 65
  Charles, 65
  Isabella B., 64

Burdon, Sir Thomas, 12

Burdon-Sanderson, Sir John S., 12, 29
  Richard, 12

Burke’s “Peerage,” xix

Burrows, Professor R.M., 68

Bushe, Charles Kendal, 78
  Seymour Coghill Hort, 78

Calcott, Sir Augustus Wall, 35 John Wall, 35

Cambrian Pottery Works, 46

Camperdown, Earl of, 30
  Viscount Duncan of, 30

“Canadian Men and Women of the Time,” 58

Candidates for Fellowship of Royal Society, number of, xi

Caricaturists on women who study hard, xv

Cashel, Archbishop of, 60

Cecil, family of, 2

“Celebes, Naturalist in North,” 32

Celebrity, reasons why men who have attained to the highest, fail to
  leave worthy successors, if any, xv

Cerebration, unconscious, xviii

Ceylon pearl fisheries, 31

Chance, xx

Chantrey, 70