Abercrombie, John, 103.Abert, 356.Abies,672.Abolition, 296.Accident, Railroad,690.Accidents,377,737.Acland, Sir Henry,722,737,803.Acland, Sir Thomas,806.Aconitum reclinatum,689.Acrolasia, 223.Acton, Lord,802.Adams, C. F.,636,641,733.Adelsburg, Fête at Grotto of, 212, 213.Agassiz, L., 179, 343-346, 349,410,432,450,455.Agassiz, A.,719,747,600.Agriculture, Mass. Society for Promotion of,817.Albro, J. A., 296, 328,395.Alleghanies, Botany of Southern, 280.Allen, A. V. G.,779,789.Alpine Plants, 229;what they are,783.Alvord, Col. and Mrs.,769,770.American Academy, 286,397,405,700;corresponding secretary of, 355;president,641.American Association,698,735,756;president,619,628.“American Journal of Science,” 19, 32.Amici, G. B., 200, 201.Ancestry, 1, 2, 3.Andersson, J. N.,545.Anemone Hudsonica, 46.Ann Arbor, 79, 80.Antarctic Expedition, 130, 162.Anthephora,451,453.“Antiquity of Man, The,”503,504.Architecture,806.Arenaria brevifolia,652.Argyle,501.Arnold, Matthew,747,748.Arnott, G. A. W., 22, 96, 129, 130.Arthur, J. C.,755.Arthur, J. C., and others, letter to,777.Assassination of Lincoln,534.Asters, 279,696,697,699,701,713-716,726,792.Astilbe,428.Audubon,790.Austin, C. F.,555.Autobiography, 1.Avery, C., 9, 10, 18.Avery, E., 7, 8, 9.Azalea, 315.Babington, C.,713.Backhouse,722.Bacon,743,748,749.Bailey, J. W., 68, 128, 129.Bailey, W. W.,682.Baird, S. F., 343,811.Baker,592,702.Balfour, Arthur J.,693.Balfour, I. Bayley,702,803.Balfour, J. H., 22, 101.Ball, J.,713,744,753,757,784,785,788.Banks’ herbarium, 148.Barber,770.Barbey,720.Bartlett’s School, 16, 18, 19, 29, 37, 49.Bateman, 131.Bates,507.Bauer, F., 22, 116, 128, 129.Beaumont, J. F.,392,394.Beck, L. C., 15, 16, 39, 40.Beck’s Flora, 39.Bell, Sir C., 102, 131.Bennett, J. J., 22, 110, 137,371,592,596,646.Bentham, George, references to, 22, 114, 123, 126, 128, 132, 143, 152,376,378,418,427,486,547,559,566,592,611,685,702,712,720,733,741,743,758,759,760,797,814.—— Letters to, 267, 365,382,427,434,437,447,547,552,559,600,691,741,745.Bentham, Lady, 187, 188.Bequest,816.Berlandier, J. L., 173;plants of,415.Berlin, Royal Herbarium, 268.Berlin Botanic Garden, 269.Bernard de Jussieu, 177.Beverly Farms,739.Biasoletto, 25, 209.Bidwell, J.,771.Big Trees,412.Bigelow, Jacob, 284, 288,558,685.Bignonia capreolata (Tendrils),548.Birth, 3-5.Birth-day, 70th,710;75th,776.Blachford, Lord,654,664,665,693,749,806.Blume, C. L.,376.Boat-race, International,591,594.Boissier, E., 24, 26, 167,374,375,418,589,680,720,781.Bolander’s collection,559.Bonafous,493.Bond, G.,500.Boott, F., M. D., 22, 91, 110, 123, 132, 149,370,473,478,511,522.—— Carices, 91, 171.Bornet,644.Botanic Garden, Cambridge, 28, 290, 291, 297, 298, 304, 325, 326, 357,445.Antibes,569,572.Chiswick, 116, 270.Edinburgh, 101, 105.Geneva, 270.Ghent,372.Glasgow, 89.Hamburg, 269.Jardin des Plantes, 23, 24, 157, 158,381.Kew, 116,371,377,384.Leyden,376.Liverpool, 88.Madrid,701.Medical Botanic Garden, Paris, 24.Missouri,752,753,761.Montpellier, 186, 187.Munich, 233, 240.Oxford,379.Padua, 204,718.Poppelsdorf,373.Regent’s Park, 121.Schönberg, 269.Schönbrunn, 218.Tharand Forst-Academie,589.Valencia,707.Vienna, 215,795.“Botanical Text-Book,” 28, 368.Botany, dawning of taste for, 14.Botany, Geographical. See Geographical Botany.Botanical Society, Royal, of Regensburg, 56.Botteri, M.,764.Bourier,700.Bowen, F.,561.Bowerbank, J. S., 137, 138.Brace, C. L., letters to,458,460,461,462;references to,371,624.Brace, J. P., 348.Brackenridge’s Filices,404,423.Brandegee, T. S.,671,672.Braun, A.,374,383.Breeding, cross. See Fertilization.Brewer, W. H.,532,636.Brewster, Sir David, 104.Brigham, C.769.British Association,387,592,722,756,759,791,807.British Museum, 22, 110, 132, 146, 153,379,387,592.Britton, N. L., letter to,813.Brongniart, A. T., 23, 174,382,418,611.Brooks, Phillips,805.Brougham, Lord, 165.Brown, R., 22, 110, 112, 115, 120, 124, 128, 132, 141, 151, 175,371,376,378,387,418,442,443,449,451,463,498.Browne, W.,731,756.Browning,713.Bryce,804.Buckle,613.Buckley, S. B., 311.Bunbury,788.Buonaparte, C., 179.Burgess, E.,668.Bury, Lady Charlotte, 120, 121, 137.Butler, B. F.,746,748.Cairnes,491.California, journey to,627,670,761.Calluna vulgaris,468.Cambridge, Mass., appointment at, 27.call to, 283-286.removal to, 287.Cambridge University, England, degree at,800.Canby, W. M., Letters to,556,641,648,651,682,687,779;references to,557,633,686.Canby and Redfield, letters to,712,723.Canterbury, Archbishop of,804.Carex, Boott’s collection of, 91, 92.Carey, John, 20, 26, 33, 322, 354,407,697.Carlyle,742.Carpenter,740.Carruthers, W.,592.Caruel, T.,607.Catesby, plants of, 146.Cathedrals,806.Cats,436.Cavendish,451.Censorship of the press (Vienna), 216.“Ceratophyllaceæ, Remarks on,” 20.Ceratophyllum,691.Cereus giganteus,408.Chalmers, 102.Channing, E. T., 27.Chapman, A. W.,540,545,650.Chapmannia, 147.“Characteristics of the North American Flora,”756.Chevreuil,797.Chiswick Gardens, 116.Christison, Sir R., 104.Christy, W., 119.Church, R. W., letters to,394,403,429,444,463,518,523,533,543,560,563,570,591,595,597,601,608,612,617,628,653,662,664,678,693,697,703,724,734,743,747;references to,379,394,565,594,804.—— Letter from, to Mrs. Gray,750.Cinchona officinalis,551.Claytonia Virginica, 14.Clayville, 4.Cleveland, Ohio, 71.Clift, W., 112.Climbing plants,537,539,548,549.Clinton, Grammar School, 7, 8.Clinton, G. W.,546.Clive, Mrs. Archer,376.Clough, A. H.,394,395,396.Cobbe, Miss F. P.,638.Cogniaux,669.Cohn,676.Colenso,491.Coleridge, Lord,748,754.Collectors, 272, 341.See, also, Berlandier, Bolander, Buckley, Coulter, Crawe, Diell, Douglas, Drummond, Eschscholtz, Fendler, Frémont, Geyer, Goldie, Gregg, Hugel, Kneiskern, Lindheimer, Michaux, Nuttall, Palmer, Parry, Pringle, Pursh, Rugel, Sartwell, Thurber, Wislizenus, Wright.College of Surgeons, 117.Collinson, Peter,370.Commonwealth (Vegetable),496.Compass plant,400,401.Compositæ, 26, 27.Congdon, J. W.,682.Congreve, R.,379.Coniferæ,674,675.Constable, J., 26.Cooke, J. P.,527.Cooper, Sir Astley, 113, 119.Cooper, Bransby, 113.Cooper, Elwood, Cal.,768.Cope,624.Copyrights,816.Corda, A. C. J., 130, 221.Corema,775,776.Cosson, E.,611,709,713,715.Coulter’s collection, 328.Coulter, T.,784,785.Cowles,689.Crewe, J. B., 18, 19, 32, 43.Creighton,789.Cross Fertilization. See Fertilization.Curtis, M. A.,652.Cusick, W.,726.“Cyperaceæ, North American Gramineæ and,” 19, 45, 46.“Cyperaceæ of North America,” 60.Cypress knees,416,421.Cypresses of Chapultepec,763.Dale, T., 141.Dalton,808.Dana, J. D., letters to,424,430,521,626,785;references to, 337, 338,430,459.Dana, R. H., Sr., 296.Darbya,686,687.Darlington, William,370,423,499,500.Darlingtonia,648,649.Darwin, Charles, letters to,456,472,484,496,501,522,536,548,553,561,599,615,623,631,645,664,668,676;references to, 117,380,447,454,455,459,463,498,509,528,550,559,565,566,594,626,642,695,714,722,732,734,751,815.—— Letter to Asa Gray,557.“Darwin, Charles, Life of,” by A. Gray,646.Darwin, Mrs.,800.Darwin, George,507,759.“Darwiniana,”655,656,662.Darwinism. See Evolution.Daubeny, C., 332,379.Dawson, Sir William,734,740.Death,815.De Bary,807.Decaisne, J., 23, 157, 161, 162, 168, 174,381,382,611,683,687,709,712,721,733,734.De Candolle, Auguste Pyramus, 26, 47, 267, 281, 332,374,498;bust of,727.De Candolle, Alphonse, letters to, 232, 276,377,380,396,409,413,419,426,451,481,497,519,526,552,566,587,592,606,624,635,639,642,669,680,684,692,694,699,702,712,714,717,727,733,783,793;references to, 26, 267,375,448,702,712,718,719,720,724,746,781,785,796.De Candolle, Casimir,451,566,719.Degree, medical, 14.Degrees at, Cambridge, England,800;Edinburgh,806;Oxford,801.Delessert, Benjamin, 24, 166, 169, 171.Delessert, François,382.Delessert Herbarium,720.Delile, A. R., 24, 186, 187.De Morgan,759.Derby, Lord,805.“Descent of Man,” Darwin,615.Desfontaines Herbarium, 23.Desfontaines plants, 176.Design in Nature,485,489,498,502,508,512,638,648,656,658,659.Detroit, 73.Development Theory. See Evolution.De Vriese, W. H.,376.Dewey, Chester, 57.Dextrorsum,699.Diamorpha pusilla,652,653.Diell, 54, 58.Dionœa,556,557,561,633,642,649.Distribution of Plants. See Geographical Botany.Dogs,435,436,599,676-678.Don, David, 110, 137.Douglas, David, 90, 92, 123, 279.Douglass, Professor, 78.Downing, Major Jack, 45.Drake, Miss, 131.Drosera rotundifolia,510,556,557,633,641.Drummond’s Louisiana plants, 173, 279.Duby, J. E., 263.Ducie, Lord,713,810.Duff-Gordon, Lady,582.Dufferin, Lord,737.Dunal, M. F., 24, 187.Durham University, 109.Dyer, W. Thisleton,734,762.Early Undertakings, 29-84.Eaton, Amos, 14, 40.Eaton, D. C., letters to,438,470;receives Garber’s plants,702.Eaton’s Manual of Botany, 14, 40.“Ecce Homo,”