AAbbey, Westminster,393Academical honors,395Academy of Science, Royal,202Action at a distance,356Adams Prize,339Addison,215,216Advancement of learning,65Affinity,70Agonic line,22,23Akenside,216Albert the Great,36Albertus Magnus,70Alibert,159Aldin,141,207Alfonso el Sabio,8Almanack, Poor Richard's,103Ampère, Jean Jacques,233,210,232,361Amperean currents,214Amundsen,30,51Anaesthesia,308Anaxagoras,244Anatomy, Comparative,136Ancients in the exact sciences,1Anderson,381Anelectrica,70Animal electricity,146,149,175,205,320Annus mirabilis,86Apollonius,244Arago,177,232,243Archimedes,1,13,139,244,213;burning mirror,14Architecture,199Architectonics of metaphysics,222Aristarchus of Samos,53Aristotle,52Arsinoe, Queen,5Aspects of pain,352Assisi, Poor little man of,161Atheism,160Atlantic Telegraph Co.,373Atoms,355Attraction and repulsion,197Auenbrugger,274Autobiography of Franklin,126Ayrton,369BBacon, Chancellor,13Bacon, Roger,3,10,64Balance, Electric,200Balancing of energies,331Baltimore lecture,395Barlowe, Wm.,40,70,326Barometer,70Barrett, Father,254Bassi, Laura,154Battery, Voltaic,206Bauernfeind,292Baxter, Richard,359Bear, Little,24Bede,54Beet sugar,306Bembo, Cardinal,215Bence Jones,333Bernoulli,236,245,348Bernoulli, Daniel,280Bernoulli, Johann,280Bertelli,27Bertholinus,147Berthollet,224Beuve, Saint,253Bevis,95Biot,198,203,224Birds' ears; kidneys; semi-circular canals,137Boethius,54Bolivar,255Bond,70Bose,87Boyle,70,301Brewster, Sir David,218Briggs,50Bright, Sir Charles,387Brook Taylor,280Browne, Sir Thomas,70Brugnatelli, Prof.,179Brunetto Latini,9Buffon,14,99,132Bunyan,386Burning mirror,14Byron,328CCabanis,246Cabeo,3,26,73Cable, submarine,362;telegraph,322Cabot, Sebastian,23Calculus of variations,245Canada balsam,348Canals, Semi-circular,348Canton,91Carthesian ovals,337Carminate, Prof.,141Cascade,90Cassini,26Cavallo,26Cavendish,93,101,173,338;Laboratory,340Cayley,364Cell, Gun-cap,380Charles, Law of,173,224Chelonian, Complaisant,52Chemical manipulation,307Childe Harold,328Christianity,257Chrystal,258Churchmen in Science,162Cingari,153Circle, Graduated,19Circuit,70Clark, Latimer,218,387Clausius,348Clergymen Pioneers in Electricity,162Clerk Maxwell,32,94,324Clerk of Penicuik,335Cluny,8Coffin of Mahomet,5Coleridge,261,328Collinson, Peter,81Color vision,345Columbian line,23Columbus,21,23;on electricity,208Como, College of,172Compass-card,386;variation of the,25Concentration,367Concourse of atoms,394Conference of St. Vincent de Paul,254Contributions to molecular physics,285Copernicus,54Copley medal,284Coulomb,84,93,188;character,203;memoirs,199Creator and Ruler,394Creatures,331Crookes,86,246Cumming,70Cunatus,87Current, Oscillatory,206Curves, Rolling,337Cuthberson,361Cuvier,252,224Cynosure,24DDante,161Darwin,227,327,351Davy, Sir Humphry,303,326Davy,209,306D'Alembert,280D'Alibard,99,106De Causis et Sedibus Morborum,167Declination,21De Civitate Dei,5Degrees and residence,205De Heer,284Dellman,286De Magnete,35De Mundo Nostro,61De Mundo Nostro Sublunari,63De Natura Rerum,2De Romas,107De Vi Attractiva,170De Viribus Electricitatis,141Development, Process of,228Devotion, Life of,231Dewar,41Dickerson, William,380Didactic lecture,295Digby, Sir Kenelen,40Dip-circle,30Discoveries by accident,311;in science,283;new,251;practical,213Disposer, Great,332Divinia Commedia,161Divisch,107Dobereiner's lamp,173Dryden,65Dubois, Reymond,298Dufay,83,95Dumas,290Dynamics of bodies,291EEarth's magnetism,22Earthquakes and electricity,148Earthquakes and magnetism,315Ear of the bird,139Elastic solids,337Electrica,70Electrical bumper,96;jack,95;pistol,172;treatment,147;tube,81Electricitatis,134Electric light,316;matter,92;motor,76Electricity,70Electro-dynamics,250Electromagnet,70Electro-magnetics,250Electro-magnetism,70Electro-magnetismos,41Electron,86Electronic theory,85Electrophorus,171Electroscope,171Epilepsy,292Epitaph of Franklin,129Eratosthenes,1Ether,309;universal,60Euclid,1Eudiometer,172Eugénie, Empress,310Euler,107,236,280Ewing,42Examination of conscience,79Existence, History of,247;of God,354FFailure, Triumph of,283,391Faith, Confession of,186Faraday,32,41,189,298,338,361,366;eloquence,323;marriage,329;money making,309;notebooks,302,317;parents,300;passing of,332;perseverance,318;poverty,300;statement of law,314Faraday-Maxwell Theory,344Father of Mercies,327Father of Pathology,167Fechner,276,284Fénelon,235Fichte,324Field, Cyrus W.,322,377,384Field of force,42Filial tributes,267Flavio Gioja,20Foster, Carey,388Foucault,55Fourier,363Fowler,149Francis I., Emperor,110Franklin,68,77;and Paine,128Franklinian rods,115Franz, Father,110Freedom of the Press,225Free will,352,394Fresnel,251,361Frog dancing master,151Fuller,65Fulminating pane,89Future, Truth of,331GGalileo,40,245Gateway of Knowledge,386Galtoni, Father,16,8Galvani,133,205,211;anticipation of original experiment,144;Madame,141;the physician, the teacher,151;wife,140Galvanometer,70,375Garnett,339Gasser,28Gauss,271,375Gay-Lussac,209Gellibrand,26,49Genius, Precocious,234Geometry,1; and intellectual culture,267,268Gilbert,3,13,26,32Giliani, Alessandra,155Gioja,200Gladstone,236,332Glass harmonica,115God disposes,289Goethe,222Graduation, Early,165Graft,192Graham,26Gray, Stephen,77;Prof. Andrew,369Great Eastern,382Green,70Gregory,244Grind,263Guericke, Otto von,74Guyot de Provins,7Gymnotus electricus,150Gyrostat,372HHakewill,216Hallam,36Hamilton,76Handy-men,273Hansteen,208Happy in life,355Hartmann,26,31Harvey,133,334Hauksbee,74Haüy, Abbé,224Headaches,52Helmholtz,279,321,366Heis,271Henry,214,361; Joseph,92,206,284,388Herapath,348Herschel, Sir John,225Hertzian waves,342Hippocrates,244Hobby,345Holmes, Oliver Wendell,262Homer,235Horace,204,355Hottentots,129Hunter, John,138Huyghens,244Hymn to Mont Blanc,328IIdentity of lightning and electricity,98Il mago benefico,184Imitation of Christ,255Inclination,70Induction,311;theory of,311;sparks,316Institute of France,202Interference, Phenomena of,287Iron filings,3;raspings of,2Isidore of Seville,54Isomagnetic lines,24Invisible things of God,331Izarn,207JJacobi,284Jesuit gymnasium,270Johns Hopkins University,389Joule,385,388KKant,