A
A'Beckett (A.) in 'Every Man in
his Humour,' 528

Abell (Mrs. Elizabeth) and Napo-
leon at St. Helena, 280
Abinger (James, 1st Lord), life by
his son, 483

Academy, its foundation, 434
Adams (Henry J.), senior partner
of Adams & Sons, death, 492
Adams (William James), publisher
of Bradshaw's Guides, death, 313
Adams (William R.), his miniature
aquarium, 272n.

Addison (Joseph) not the author of

"When all Thy mercies," 447
Advertisements, in London Gazette,
239; in the Queen, 430n.; in
the Glasgow Herald, 498; John
Francis and the duty on, 548
Aeronautical Society founded, 190
Africa, Livingstone's discoveries,
34, 282, 315; fate of its explorers,
167; Dr. Baikie, 175; Stanley's
discoveries, 386; death of Mrs.
Petherick, 389

Agassiz (Alexander), founder of
zoological laboratory at Rhode
Island, 274

Ainsworth (Harrison), death, 493
Aird (Thomas), editor of the Dum-
fries Herald, death, 369
Airy (Sir George Biddell),
earthquake in England, 161; on
the Royal Society at Burlington
House, 312

on

Akerman (John Yonge), first rail-

way journalist, 313
Albert (Prince), opens Exhibition
of Art Treasures at Manchester,

19; obituary, 141; Albert the
Good and progress, 143, 209;
'Early Years,' 209; Sir T.
Martin's 'Life,' 335, 440;
political foresight, 414

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
his marriage, 151, 156; visit to
India, 352; and co-operation,
412n.; chairman of Longfellow
committee, 505

Alden (John), Pilgrim Father,
ancestor of Longfellow, 503
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 156
Alford (Henry), Dean of Canter-
bury, his life, 304

Alice (Princess), her death, 406
Alison (Sir Archibald), death, 207
Allgemeine Zeitung, its character,
417

All the Year Round, its foundation,
89; Walter Thornbury a con-
tributor, 363; death of W. H.
Wills, 455; its first number,
529; C. Dickens, jun., editor,
532

Almanach de Gotha for 1867, 202
America, and Westminster Abbey,

506n.; Dickens's visit, 524
American books in the British
Museum, 396n.
Analytical Society, its foundation,
65
Anderson (James U.), proprietor of
the Orcadian, obituary, 334
Anderson (John P.) compiles Ros-
setti bibliography, 510
Anglo-Saxon, Dr. Bosworth's de-
votion to, 361

Anstey (Thomas Chisholm), obi-
tuary, 309

Anthropological Society, death of
Sir G. Duncan Gibb, 368
Anti-Corn-Law League, 363
Apocrypha. See Bible.
Appleton (Dr. C. E.), founder of
the Academy, death, 434
Aquaria, public and private, history
of, 271

Archer (Frederick Scot), inventor
of collodion process, 19; sub-
scription for his family, 20
Archers, Royal Company of, its
history, 348

Arithmetic, Dean Peacock's his-
tory of, 66

Army, flogging in, abolished, 107;
'Scientific Organization" of, 249,
263

Arnold (Dr. Thomas), Dr. Brock's
defence of, 398
Arrowsmith (John), geographer,
death, 313

Arsenic for preserving paper, 383
Arthur, son of Henry VII., mar-
riage with Katharine of Arragon,
153

Artists' Rifle Corps formed, 74
Art Journal, Mr. M. Huish editor,
450

Art Treasures at Manchester, 19
Arya-Samaj, new Theistic church
in India, 416

Ashworth (Henry), death, 461
Asiatic Society of Japan founded,
320

Assyria, George Smith's discove-

ries, 337; the Temple of Belus,
357; death of G. Smith, 358
Astrological Society, its last sur-
vivor, 360

Astronomical Society, Lord Wrot-

tesley president, 214
Athenæum, half-yearly volumes
issued, 53; price reduced to
threepence, 137; comparison
with 1833, 157; death of Charles
Wentworth Dilke, 171; on lite-
rature of Europe and America,
242; letters on 'Paris and the
War-Scientific Organization

of the Army'-enlarged-Hep-
worth Dixon resigns editorship—
on Literature of the People,'
249; posted for a halfpenny,
258; Scientific Organization of
the Army,' 263; Prof. De Mor-
gan's contributions, 267; death
of F. D. Maurice, 286; death of
Mr. Holmes, 307; its proprie-
tors, 307n.; on the Challenger
expedition, 318; articles by
Howard Staunton on corruptions
in Shakspeare, 324; on London
public libraries, 328; celebrated
contributors to, 331; death of
Dr. E. Lankester, 334; of George
Finlay, 341; on the Prince of
Wales in India, 352; death of
Walter Thornbury, 362; Index
Society suggested by, 388; ju-
bilee of, 390; death of H. T.
Riley, 408; of Hepworth Dixon,
435; John Francis's jubilee, 484;
H. F. Chorley musical critic,
537; death of John Francis, 547
Augusta (Princess), marriage with
the Duke of Brunswick, 49
Aunt Judy's Magazine, founded by
Mrs. Gatty, 310

Australia, Paramatta Observatory
founded by Sir T. M. Brisbane,
118; salmon in, 204; Col. War-
burton's explorations, 331
Aytoun (Prof. W. E.), death, 188

B

Babbage (Charles), death, 280
Babington (C.) on Macaulay's cha-
racter of the clergy, 518
Back (Sir George), Arctic explorer,
death, 408

Bacon (Francis), Lord Verulam,
life by Hepworth Dixon, 436;
death of J. Spedding, 491
Baddeley (Robert), Twelfth Night
bequest, 231

Bagehot (Walter), editor of the
Economist, obituary, 373
'Bagford Ballads,' edited by Ebs-
worth, 470

Baikie (Dr. W. B.), African ex-
plorer, death, 175
Bain (Alexander), inventor of elec-
tro-chemical telegraph, death,
389
Baines

་

(Thomas), Lancashire

writer, death, 492
Balcombe (Miss). See Abell.
Ballad Society, 236; new editor,
421; Bagford Ballads,' 470
Bankers' Almanac, 314
Bankers' Magazine, 314
Bank of England, method of print-
ing notes, 370

Banns, a princess's published, 47
Barlow (Dr. Henry Clark), Danto-
philist, obituary, 367
Barnes (Joseph), Printer to the
University of Oxford, 294
Barrow (Sir John), a founder of
the Royal Geographical Society,
481
Barsukof (Nikolai),

" Sources of

Russian Hagiography,' 500
Bates (H. W.) edits Col. Warbur
ton's journals, 331

Bath, British Association at, 167
Bath Guardian founded, 257
Bathurst (Bishop Henry) ordains
Dr. Stebbing, 390n.
'Battle of Dorking,' 276
Baxter (John Boyd), joint founder

of Dundee University, 498
Baxter (Mary Ann), joint founder
of Dundee University, 498
Baxter (R. D.), National Debts,'
275
Bazaine (Marshal F. A.), his con-
duct at Metz, 264
Beaconsfield (Lord).
(Benjamin).
Beamish (Richard), 'Memoir of
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel,'
147

See Disraeli

Beavan (Mrs.), legacy for schools

in Wales, 103

Beckford (William), Lord Mayor,
68

Beckford (William), of Fonthill,
sketch of, 67; his villa in Por-

tugal, 308; original edition of
'Vathek,' 360

Beeton (S. O.), founder of the
Queen, 430

Behan (Thomas L.), editor of Lon-
don Gazette, death, 238
Beke (Dr. C. T.), death, 336
Belcher (Sir Edward), history of
one of his ships, 20n.; action
brought against him by Zadkiel,
322; death, 389

Bell (Prof. Graham), his articu-
lating telephone, 379

Bell & Bradfute, William Black-
wood apprenticed to, 421n.
Bell & Daldy purchase Bohn's
'Libraries," 223

66

Bell & Sons, additions to Bohn's
'Libraries," 223

Bellew (J. C. Montesquieu), death,
336

Belt (Thomas), traveller, death,

409

Benisch (Dr. Abraham), editor of
Jewish Chronicle, death, 408
Bennett (James Gordon) sends
search expedition for Living-
stone, 281

Bennett (Dr. W. C.) on memorial
to Longfellow, 505
Bennoch (Francis), hon. treasurer
of Longfellow committee, 505
Bentinck (Lord George), Disraeli's
'Political Biography' of, 478
Bentley (George), joins the firm,
277; letter from Lord Lytton,
301; on Augustus Meves, 437
Bentley (Richard), publisher temp.
Charles II., 278n.

Bentley (Richard), obituary, 276
Bentley (Richard), jun., joins the
firm, 278

Bentley's Miscellany, prospectus
drawn up by Dickens, 277; Tip-
perary Hall papers, 407; first
number, 523

Berlin, its honorary citizenship, 480
Bewick (Thomas), his advice to W.
Harvey, 191

Bexley (Nicholas, Lord), presi-

dent of British and Foreign Bible
Society, 106
Beyer (C. F.), legacy to Owens
College, 290

Bible, few copies in Wales, 103;
and the Apocrypha, 104; in
Chinese, 105; number of copies
issued, 106; right to print, 106,
296; Revised, published, 295;
New Testament published in
Chicago Times, 295n.; prices of
Mazarine, 376n.; in Hindustani,
389; in the Caxton Exhibition,
394; first English translation,
395; revised by Joseph Gurney,
419; Longman's New Testa-
ment, 420; in the Sunderland
sale, 486; Polyglot, 506
Bible Class, 253

Bill (John), founder and printer of
the London Gazette, 427
Billinge (Mary), alleged centena-
rian, 483

Binney (Dr. Thomas), death, 336
Birch (Dr. Samuel) and the Cy-
priote inscriptions, 359
Birdwood (Sir George) discovers
old documents at the India
Office, 346

Birmingham, Social Science Asso-

ciation at, 30; branch of Mudie's
Library, 122; centenary of Old
Library, 431
Birrell (Charles M.), 'Life of Dr.
Brock,' 398

Bismarck (Prince von), on the
French negotiations for peace,
262; honorary citizen of Berlin,
480

Black (Adam), obituary, 316; Mac-
aulay's friendship, 522
Black (A. & C.), Encyclopædia
Britannica' dinner, 132
'Black Book,' sale of, 354
"Black Friday," 190
Blackie (John), publisher, death,
336

Blackwood (John), obituary, 421
Blackwood (William), life of, 421n.
Blackwood's Magazine, Battle of

Boscawen (W. St. C.) on Cyprus,
399

Boswell (James), 'Life of Johnson,'
Croker's edition, 515

Bosworth (Dr. Joseph), Professor
of Anglo-Saxon, obituary, 361
Botanical Register, 186
Botany, its advancement by Brown,
54; by Lindley, 185, 186;
Jussieu's method, 343
Boutell (Rev. Charles), archæo-
logist, death, 390

Bowerbank (Dr. J. S.), death, 389
Bowring (Sir John), death, 299
Boyd (Sir William), of Edinburgh,
death, 353
Bradbury & Evans, George Smith