Beets, large amount of alkali in, xv, 180. ----, nutriment for domestic animals, xxii, 200. ----, cultivation of, and manufac. of sugar, _M. Girardin_, xxiii, 392. Beet sugar in France, vi, 388; xv, 394. Belemnite, animal of, xlv, 403. Belemnites americanus, xvii, 281; xviii, 249.^f ----, _Raspail's_ opinion, xvii, 184. _Bell, J._, improved airpump receiver, xxviii, 353.^f Bellows, theory of, _H. Strait_, xxvii, 88.^f ----, exploded by inflammable gas, xxiv, 182. Bellows Falls, scenery of, vii, 12. ---- ----, granite of, vi, 11. Belzoni's gift of two statues to Padua, v, 177. _Benedict, A._, on the vegetation of the Ottawa and some of its tributaries, xviii, 349. _Benedict, Prof._, on conic sections, xxxi, 258.^f _Benedict, F. N._, on determining the temperature of the mercury in a siphon barometer, xl, 250.^f Benzoyle, hydruret of, xlix, 194. Benzoic acid, xxvi, 267; xlix, 194. Benzoic compounds, researches on the radical of benzoic acid, _Wöhler_ and _Liebig_, xxvi, 261. ---- ----, benzoic acid, xxvi, 267. ---- ----, benzoin, xxvi, 279. ---- ----, benzamid, xxvi, 274. ---- ----, chlorobenzoyle, xxvi, 270, 277. ---- ----, cyanobenzoyle, xxvi, 273. ---- ----, iodobenzoyle, xxvi, 273. ---- ----, bromobenzoyle, xxvi, 272. ---- ----, hydrobenzoyle, xxvi, 270. ---- ----, bitter almond oil, xxvi, 263.^f ---- ----, formulas for, and the ethers, xxvi, 285. _Bennet, E. T._, obituary notice of, xxxii, 215. Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, geology of, viii, 1. Berlin, notice of the city, xx, 389. _Bertero, C._, Chilian plants, xix, 63, 299; xx, 248; xxiii, 78, 250. Berthierite, xv, 386. Beryl, broken crystal, xlvi, 366.^f ----, of Haddam, forms of crystals, viii, 395. ----, forms of crystals, _J. Johnston_, xl, 401.^f ----, ----, ibid, xlvi, 381.^f ---- of Acworth, N. H., _C. U. Shepard_, xvii, 355. ----, localities in Canada, viii, 61. ----, ---- in Connecticut, i, 242, 354; ii, 142; vi, 222; viii, 258; x, 206. ----, ---- in Delaware, xiv, 11. ----, ---- in Maine, xiii, 373; xviii, 291. ----, ---- in Mass., vi, 222; vii, 255; viii, 43; xii, 259; xiv, 219. ----, ---- in New Hampshire, xv, 358; xvii, 354. ----, ---- in New York, ix, 244. ----, ---- in Pennsylvania, iv, 39; viii, 236; x, 222; xiv, 3, 14. ----, ---- in R. Island, viii, 226; ix, 46. _Berzelius, J. J._, on chemical nomenclature, xxii, 248. ----, on isomeric bodies, xxvi, 178. ----, on crenic and apocrenic acids, xxviii, 121. ----, on tellurium, xxviii, 137. ----, on Prout's hypothesis of atomic weights, xlviii, 369. ----, festival in honor of, xlvii, 218. _Bevan, B._, notice of, xxxvii, 120. _Bewick, T._, notice of the works of, xxxvii, 158. _Bidard_, analysis of guano, xlviii, 181. Big Bone Lick, bones of, xviii, 139. ---- ---- ----, report on, xx, 370. _Bigelow, J._, forwardness of the spring in the U. S., i, 76. ----, documents and remarks respecting the sea serpent, ii, 147.