Binsfeld, Bishop, on the ringing of bells
against storms, i, 349. His activity
in the torture of witches, 355. On the
reality of confessions extracted by tor-
ture, 358. Cited, 350, note; 352, note;
358, note; ii, 75, note.
Binz, cited, i, 359, note.

Biographie Universelle, cited, ii, 321, note.
Biologists, results of their work, i, 49.
Biology, made predictive by Darwin's
discoveries, i, 406.

Birds, generation of, i, 26, 33, 37, 51.
Birks, on evolution, i, 76. Cited, 77, note.
Bitaud, treatment of his scientific trea-
tises, i, 214.

Biting, epidemic of, in nunneries, ii, 141.
Bitumen, found near the Dead Sea, ii,
221. Legends regarding, 227, 228, 232.
Bize, cavern of, human remains found in,
i, 270.

Black, his discoveries in chemistry, i, 405.
Blackguardism, employment of, to dis-
gust Satan's pride, ii, 107.

Black Penitents, their care for the in-
sane, ii, 105.

Blackwood's Magazine, cited, ii, 293, note.
Blaer, his book on the use of globes,

i, 150. Cited, 150, note.
Blanqui, cited, ii, 283, note.
Blaxton, John, his treatise on the taking

of interest, ii, 275. Cited, 277, note.
Bleek, his work in biblical criticism, ii,
328. Cited, 364, note.
Blomfield, A., Bishop of Colchester,
cited, ii, 394, note.

Blood, medieval medicine for the, ii, 38.
Bloodroot, its medicinal properties, ii, 38.
Blumenbach, his investigation of fossils,

i, 230.

Boccaccio, cited, ii, 74, note.

Bochart, S., his book on the animals
of Holy Scripture, i, 40. Cited, 40,

note.

Böckh, cited, ii, 265, note.
Bodies, heavenly, ancient belief that light
and darkness are entities independent
of, i, 12.
Bodin, Jean, on the Copernican theory,
i, 140. On the nature of comets, 178,
179. His opposition to the theory of
"the Fall," 288. On the nature of
thunder, 354. His work in support
of witchcraft, 355; ii, 122. Cited, i,
179, note; 355, note.

Boehme, Jacob, his mysticism, i, 398.
Boerhaave, his experiments with cases of
hysteria, ii, 163, 164. Cited, 53, note,
von Bohlen, on the story of Lot's wife.
ii, 257 Cited, 257, note.
Böhm-Bawerk, cited, ii, 265, note; 273,
note; 277, note; 282, note.

de Boismont, cited, ii, 166, note.
de Bonald, his attitude toward Galileo,
i, 147. His defence of the Church's
attitude toward Galileo, 166, 167. His
attitude toward comparative ethnol-
ogy, 304. His attack on the new phi-
lology, ii, 199. Cited, 200, note.
Bonaventura, St., his belief in the dia-
bolical origin of storms, i, 337. His
hostility to Roger Bacon, 387, 388,
389. Cited, 388, note.

Bone, the resurrection, belief regarding,
ii, 52.

Bongars, cited, ii, 231, note.
Boniface VIII, Pope, his decretal against
separation of the flesh from the bones
of the dead, ii, 32, and note; 50.
Boniface, St., his denunciation of the
theory of the antipodes, i, 105. Re-
sult of his efforts to crush scientific
thought, 109. Cited, 106, note.
de Bonnechose, Cardinal, his attack on
higher education in France, i, 409, 410.
Bonnet, his development of evolutionary
theories, i, 59.

Book of Common Prayer, changes made
in, ii, 64.

Books, sacred, conception of creation in,
i, 13. Noble purpose of, 20. Early
printed, representations of the crea-
tion in, 24. Their value, ii, 288. The
laws of their development, 288. Man's
belief in the perfection and uniqueness
of his own sacred books, 289, 290.
Boomerang, its use a proof of the unas-
sisted development of man, i, 305.
Bopp, Franz, his work in philology, ii,
200, 379.

Borchard. See BURCHARD.
Bordone, his representation of the be-
lief in the diabolical origin of storms,
i, 338.

Borelli, his development of Kepler's
cometary theory, i, 202. His contri-
butions to mathematics, 393.
Börs, story of, ii, 216.

Borsippa, Tower of, cause of its ruin, ii,
172.

Boscovich, on the theory of the earth's
motion, i, 155, and note.
His casu-
istry, ii, 283.
Bosizio, on the Deluge, i, 236. Cited,
236, note.

Bossuet, his views of the creation, i, 12,
27, 30. On the Copernican theory,
154. Proof of the worthlessness of
his chronology, 240. His belief in dia-
bolic possession, ii, 124. In the di-
vine origin of the Hebrew vowel
points, 178. His opposition to all
heterodoxy, 186. His condemnation

of the taking of interest, 278. His
suppression of Simon's works, 319,
320. His interpretation of Solomon's
Song, 326. Cited, i, 8, note; 28,
note; ii, 124, note; 279, note; 321,

note.

Boston, faith cures at, ii, 45. Cases of
diabolic possession in, 146.
Botany, work of Albert the Great in, i,
377. Of Vincent of Beauvais, 378.
Botta, P. E., his discoveries in Assyria,
ii, 370.

Botta, V., cited, i, 118, note.

Brahlsdorf, legend of a rock near, ii, 216.
Brahma, representation of, i, II. Tree
blasted by, 96. His agency in causing
confusion of tongues, ii, 172. Early
stories of, 293.

Brahmanism, its influence on early Euro-
pean religious ideas, ii, 379.
Brahmans, their alleged invention of
Sanskrit, ii, 194. Myths among, 210.
Their mystic interpretation of the
Vedas, 293.

Braid, J., his discoveries in hypnotism,
ii, 65. Cited, 166, note.

219, note.

Bouchard, cited, ii, 213, note.

Bouchardat, his labours in hygienic re-
search, ii, 93.

Boucher, Father Jean, on the horrors of
the Dead Sea, ii, 237. Cited, 241,
note.

Boué, his discovery of human bones in
the alluvial deposits of the Rhine, i,
268, 269.

Bouhours, his life of Xavier, ii, 16-20.
Cited, 17, note; 21, note.
Bouix, his defence of the Church's con-
demnation of Galileo, i, 165.
Boulak Museum, photographs of Egyp-
tian sculpture published by, i, 265,

note.

Boulders, myths inspired by, ii, 210.
Bounty, morality of the descendants of
the pirate ship, i, 311.

Bourbons, influence of their restoration
on education in France, i, 409. On
religion, ii, 248.

Bourgeat, cited, i, 28, note; 379, note.
Bourgeois, Abbé, his discovery of flints
in the Tertiary deposits, i, 282.
Bourne, E. G., cited, i, 110, note.
Bouterwek, cited, i, 4, note.
Bowring, his ridicule of the Anglican
Church's attempt to fetter science, i,
150, 411.

Boyer, his introduction of the use of in-

oculation against smallpox, ii, 55.
Boyle, Charles, his controversy with
Bentley over the Letters of Phalaris,
ii, 337, 338.

Boyle, Robert, new epoch in chemistry
begun by, i, 405. His attempt at com-
promise regarding the cause of epi-
demics, ii, 88, 89. Cited, 89, note.
Boylston, his attempt to introduce the
treatment of inoculation in Boston, ii,
56, 57.

Bradstreet, Justice, his resistance to the
Salem witch persecution, ii, 153.
Brahe, Tycho, his observations of the
comet of 1577, i, 184, 201.

theory regarding diseases of, 98. Proof
that insanity is a disease of, 127.
Bramble, reason for its creation, i, 42.
Bramhall, Archbishop, his views regard-
ing comets, i, 180. Cited, 180, note.
Braun, cited, ii, 215, note.
Brazil, work of Darwin in, i, 66. Of
Wallace, 67. Portuguese claim to,
108. Civilization among the aborigi-
nes of, 307.

Breda, cure of Prince of Orange's soldiers
at the siege of, ii, 64.

Bremen, Cathedral of, bodies preserved
in, ii, ro, note.

Breviary of the Roman Church, on the
evidence of St. Hilarion's sanctity, ii,
69.

Brewer, cited, i, 340, note.
Brewster, contemptuous characterization
of, i, 406. Cited, 402, note.
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, on the won-
ders of the Dead Sea, ii, 231, 232.
Cited, 233, note.

Bridget, St., hallucinations of, ii, 120.
Bridgewater, Earl of, his testamentary

provision for certain treatises on God's
goodness, i, 43.

Bridgewater Treatises, their place in the
development of sacred science, i, 33.
Their importance, 43. Criticism of,
44. Cited, 44, note.
Briemle, Vincent, his work on Palestine,
ii, 243. Condition in which he found
the statue of Lot's wife, 263. Cited,
245, note.

Briggs, C. A., his work in biblical criti-
cism, ii, 370. Cited, 313, note; 321,
note; 333, note.

Brighton, Sanitary Conference at, Chad-
wick's address before, ii, 91.
Brinton, D. G., cited, i, 275, note; ii, 173,

note.

Bristol, reduction of death rate in, ii, 92.
Last case of diabolic possession in, 165.
British and Foreign Evangelical Review,
cited, i, 77, note; 87, note.

British Association for the Advancement

of Science, Bishop Wilberforce's speech
before, i, 70. Hostility toward, 224,
406.

British Columbia, prehistoric remains
found in, 1, 279, 280.

British Geological Society, President of
the, on the fossils in the coal measures,
i, 231.

British Museum, prehistoric engravings
in, i, 275, note.
Brittany, language, the primitive speech,
ii, 191. Explanatory myths in, 211,
216. Imprints on stones in, 212.
Brixham, remains of man in the caverns
of, i, 276.

Brongniart, his work on fossil plants, i,
231.

Bronze implements, their earliest form
among the lake-dwellers, i, 295.
Brooklyn, hysteria in, ii, 163.
Brooks, Phillips, his account of the Con-
vocation of Canterbury, ii, 356, note.
Brossier, Martha, her hysterical impos-
tures, ii, 141, 142.

Brothers, The Two, the story of Joseph
drawn from, ii, 375.

Brown, the Rev. Amos, his ideas em-
bodied in the Morrill bill, i, 414.
Brown, Francis, his work in biblical crit-
icism, ii, 370, 371, 372. Cited, 374,
note.

Brown, John, his account of the cure of

king's evil by Charles II, ii, 47.
Brown, Dr. Jukes, his discovery of flint
instruments in Egypt, i, 298.
Brown, J. A., cited, i, 280, note; 281,

note.

Brown, J. Mellor, his denunciation of
scientists, i, 65. His denunciation of
geologists, 223, 271.

Browne, Sir Thomas, on the Copernican
theory, i, 140. On the influence of
comets, 181. Cited, 110, note; 140,
note; 181, note.

Bruce, cited, i, 177, note,

Brugsch, date assigned by him for the
reign of Mena, i, 258. On the per-
fection of Egyptian art, 260.
His op-
position to the idea of a Stone age
in Egypt, 297. Cited, 264, note; 265,
note; 309, note; ii, 3, note.
Bruhns, cited, i, 126, note; 152, note.
Brunel, Sir I., cited, ii, 286, note.
Bruno, Giordano, murder of, for his work
in science, i, 15. His attempt to re-
vive the current of Greek thought, 57.
His martyrdom at Rome, 130, 143.
Bruno, St., intercession of, in behalf of
Naples, ii, 78.

Brussels, remains of ancient man in the
museum at, i, 276.

Brux, human skulls discovered at, i, 290.
Bruyn, Cornelius, his representations of
the fossils of Palestine, ii, 246. Cited,
248, note.

von Buch, his investigation of fossils, i,
230. His theory as to the origin of

the story of Lot's wife, ii, 260, note.
Buchanan, Morrill bill vetoed by, i, 413.
Buchmann, cited, ii, 103, note.
Büchner, cited, i, 228, note.
Buck, cited, ii, 95, note.
Buckland, his essay in the Bridgewater
Treatises, i, 43. His attempt to pre-
serve the theological theory of crea-
tion, 49. Denunciation of him as an
infidel, 223. On fossil evidences of the
Deluge, 231, 232. On the ancient re-
mains of man, 268. His discovery
regarding the relics of St. Rosalia, ii,

29.

Buckle, on stagnation of scientific
thought, i, 68. Light thrown by him
on man's spiritual evolution, 312.
Cited, 105, note: 322, note; ii, 36,
note; 81, note; 88, note; 121, note.
Buckley, cited, ii, 46, note.
Buddeus, an authority on the old theory
of philology, ii, 191.
Buddha, supernatural announcement of
his birth, i, 171. Stone hurled at, ii,
210. Imprint of his feet on stones,
211. Canonization of, 381-383. Strik-
ing similarity between the story of his
life and that of Christ, 383.
Buddhism, similarity between narratives
and ideas of, and those of the Bible,
ii, 379-384.

Buddhists, myths among, ii, 210.
Budé, his attack on Erasmus, ii, 304.
Buffon, forced recantation of his views,
i, 9, 41, 61, 62. And the Sorbonne,
215.
On thunder stones, 268.
Bugloss, its medicinal properties, ii, 39.
Buisson, cited, ii, 332, note.

Bullarium Romanum, cited, ii, 37, note.
Bunsen, on the antiquity of Egyptian
civilization, i, 262. The work of, 407.
Cited, 172, note.

Bünting, Prof., on the wonders of the
Dead Sea, ii, 236. Cited, 237, note.
Burchard, Count, on the wonders of the
Dead Sea, ii, 229, 230. Cited, 231,

note.

Burckhardt, his investigation of the
Dead Sea myths, ii, 249. Cited, 271,

note.

Burggraeve, cited, ii, 53, note.
Burgon, Dean, on evolution, i, 76. On
the inerrancy of the Bible, ii, 369.
Cited, 167, note; 348, note.

Burnet, Thomas, on the movement of

the earth, i, 149. His belief regarding
comets, 206. His Sacred Theory of
the Earth, 218, 219, 227.
Burnouf, his work in philology, ii, 379.
Cited, 211, note; 213, note.
Burns, cited, ii, 96, note.

Burr, E. F., his attack on the theory of
evolution, i, 80, 81.

Burr, G. L., discovery of Loos's book by,
i, 356, note. Cited, 357, note; ii, 75,
note; 78, note.
Burroughs, George, condition of Salem
parish after the pastorate of, ii, 147.
His conviction and execution for
witchcraft, 151.

Burton, Henry, cited, ii, 84, note.
Burton, J. H., cited, ii, 286, note.
Burton, Robert, his allusion to comets,
i, 181. Cited, 181, note.

Busaeus, Father, his attitude toward sci-
ence, i, 133.

Butler, Bishop, criticism of, i, 44. His
logic powerless against the scientific
spirit, 49.

Butler, C., cited, ii, 308, note.
Büttner, his Comet Hour-Book, i, 185.
Cited, 185, note.

Buxtorf, John, the younger, on
the
divine origin of the Hebrew vowel
points, ii, 178. On the sacred charac-
ter of Hebrew, 185. Cited, 188, note.
Byzantine Empire, development of
medical science in, ii, 26.

Caaba, black stone of the, at Mecca, le-
gend of, ii, 217.

Cabanis, cited, ii, 3, note.
Caccini, Father, his sermon against
mathematicians, i, 133.

Caddo, Michael, torture and execution
of, ii, 75.

Cadmon, his influence, i, 4.

Cæsar, Julius, supernatural announce-
ment of his death, i, 173.
Cæsarius of Heisterbach, his opinion re-
garding the earth's centre, i, 99. On
thunder and lightning as instruments
of divine punishment, 332. His story
of a money-lender's punishment, ii,
268. Cited, i, 333, note.

Caesars, supernatural announcement of
their births, i, 172.

Caetani, M., his atlas of the cosmology
of Dante, i, 118, note.
Cahier and Martin, cited, i, 36, note;
ii, III, note.

Cairo, museum of Egyptian art in, i, 261.
Imprint of Mohammed's feet on stones
in, ii, 212.

Caius, Dr., on sanitary precautions, ii,
82, 90.

| Cajetan, on the three languages of the
inscription on the cross, ii, 180.
Calculate, the origin of the word a proof
of man's evolution, i, 308.
Calculus, medieval cures for, ii, 42.
Calef, his influence against belief in
witchcraft, i, 362. His discussion of
the Salem witchcraft, ii, 128, 153.
Popularity of his book, 154. Cited,
152, note.

Calendar, Gregorian, God's wrath against,
i, 333.

Calf, monstrous, Luther's interpretation
of its signification, ii, 307.

Calf hill, his objection to the baptism of
bells, i, 348, note.

Calganini, his presentation of Coperni-
cus's theory, i, 124.

Calixt, his views regarding the waters
above the firmament, i. 98.

Calixtus III, Pope, his alarm concerning
the comet of 1456, i, 177, and note; 204.
His decretal against Jewish physicians,
ii, 44-

Calmeil, cited, ii, 98, note; 99, note; 106,

note; 120, note; 121, note; 143, note;
156, note.

Calmet, on the origin of species, i, 47.
His theory of fossils, 226. On dis-
crepancies of testimony regarding Lot's
wife's statue, ii, 233, 257. Cited, i, 172,
note; 226, note; ii, 257, note.
Calovius (or Calov), his denunciation of
the Copernican system, i, 147. His
activity against witches, ii, 75. His
biblical interpretations, 307. Cited,
182, note.

Calthrop, S. R., cited, i, 87, note.
Calvary, as the centre of the earth, i, 100.
Calves, golden, description of, among

the animals of Holy Scripture, i, 40.
Calvin, his views on the creation, i, 8, 26.
On the shape of the earth, 97, 98. His
attack on Servetus for expressing geo-
graphical truths, 113. His condemna-
tion of the Copernican theory, 127.
His views on demoniacal possession,
ii, 115, 116. His charge against Ser-
vetus, 237. His belief in the lawful-
ness of taking interest, 273. His atti-
tude toward biblical criticism, 307.
His persecution of Castellio for throw-
ing light on Solomon's Song, 325.
Cited, i, 10, note; 28, note; ii, 277,

note.

Cambridge, hostility of its clergy to Dr.

Priestley, i, 149. Prejudice against
scientific study at, 406. Recent prog-
ress of biblical research at, ii, 359.
Cambridge (Mass.), Agassiz's museum at,
i, 694.