BATTLESBURY, ancient camp, Wilts, | BAYAM, Affonso Lopes de, Portuguese

BAUME FOCOT, gum, XIX. 512. BAUMGARTEN, Alexander Gottlieb, German philosopher, III. 447; his limitation of æsthetics, I. 212; on the beautiful, I. 217. BAUMGARTEN-CRUSIUS, Ludwig F. O., BAYNARD'S CASTLE, old London, XIV.

BAVARIANS, Law code of the, ancient, BAZARDJUSI, mountain, Caucasus, V.
XXI. 215.
BAVEAN, or Bawean, island, Java, XIII.
600.
BAXAR, or Buxar, town, India, III. 454; BAZIGARS, tribe, India, III. 459.
XXI. 735.
BAZIN'S HYDRAULIC FORMULÆ, XII.
497.

BEAUFORT, Pierre Roger de (Pope Gregory XI.), XI. 178.

mer, III. 477; his experiments in elec-
tricity, VIII. 7.

FAMILY, earls and dukes of Somer- BECCLES, town, England, III. 477; XXII.

set, VIII. 327. BEAUHARNAIS, Eugène de, stepson of Napoleon I., III. 467.

Eugénie Hortense de, Louis Napoleon's mother, XII. 209; XVII. 226.

-, Joséphine de, wife of Napoleon I., XIII. 751; XVII. 196; divorce of, XVII. 215.

BEAUHARNAISIUS,

XXIII. 477.

genus of birds,

BEAUJEU, Anne of, regent of France,

V. 411; IX. 553.
BEAULIEU, Augustin, French admiral,
I. 566.

Jacques, French surgeon, XXII.

676. BEAUMANOIR, Philippe de, French

jurist, III. 467.

BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin Caron,
French dramatist, III. 467; VII. 426;

IX. 666.

BEAUMARIS, town, Wales, III. 468.

SHARK, XIX. 518.

622.

BECERRA, Gaspar, Spanish painter and
sculptor, III. 477.
BÊCHE-DE-MER, or Trepang, edible
echinoderm, III. 477. See also VII.
640.

BECHER, Johann Joachim, German
chemist, III. 477; V. 460.
BECHSTEIN, Johann M., on birds, XVIII.

9, 17.

BECHTERMUNZE, Henry and Nicholas,
German printers, XXIII. 685.
BECHUANA LANDS, Africa, Languages
of, XXIV. 828.
BECHWANA, or Bechuanas, Negro tribes,
III. 478; XVII. 319; their totemism,
XXIII. 468; of Transvaal, XXIII. 518.
BECK, David, Dutch painter, III. 479.
BECKER, Wilhelm Adolf, German arch-
æologist, III. 479-

BECKET, Thomas, or Thomas A, arch-
bishop of Canterbury, I. 31; V. 29;
VIII. 304, 372; his contests with Henry
II., XI. 657; his bones burnt, VI. 606.

BEAUMOND CROSS, Newark, England, BECKETT'S LOCK, XIV. 749.

XVII. 370.

BEAUMONT, Francis, English dramatist,

III. 469; VII. 432.

BEAUMONTITE, mineral, XVI. 422. BEAUNE, town, France, III. 474; Hospice de, XXIV. 606.

BECKFORD, William, English writer, III.
479.

BECKLEY'S SELF-REGISTERING ANE-
MOMETER, II. 25.

BECKMANN, Johann, German writer, III.
479; I. 644.

483; population and representation,
XXIII. 727.

BEDJA, town, Tunis, XXIII. 620.
BEDLAMS, for detention of lunatics, XIII.

IIO.

BEDLIS, town, Armenia, III. 617.
BEDLOE'S ISLAND, New York, U.S.A.,
XVII. 459.

BEDMAR, Marquis of, Spanish ambas-
sador to Venice, XXIV. 147.
BEDNOR, town, India, III. 483.
BEDOUINS, nomad Arabs, II. 246; 1. 564;
XXI. 651; in Syria, XXII. 823.
BEDR, Battle of, near Medina (623), XVI.
555.

BEDSTEAD, in furniture, IX. 849.
BEE, insect, III. 484, 493; XII. 576;
XIII. 148; honey of, XII. 136, 138;
wax, XXIV. 459.

BEECH, tree, III. 503; culture of, II.

317; in U.S.A., XXIII. 808; strength
of the wood, XXII. 603.
BEECHER, Lyman, American temper-
ance reformer, XXIII. 158.
BEECHEY, Frederick William, Arctic
explorer, III. 503; X. 193; XIX. 319.
Sir William, English painter, III.
503.
BEECH-NUT OIL, XVII. 744.

BEECKMAN, Isaac, his friendship with
Descartes, VII. 116.

BEEF-MEASLE, XXIII. 52; XXIV. 206.
BEE-HIVES, III. 499.

BEAUSOBRE, Isaac de, French Protestant BECKWITH, Agnes, English swimmer, BEEK, David, Dutch painter, III. 479.

writer, III. 475.

BEAUTIFUL, Theory of the, 1. 212; XVIII. 795; Burke's work on, IV. 540; Jouffroy on, XIII. 754.

BEAUTY, its nature, IX. 194; Hutcheson on, XII. 411; Plato on, XIX. 201.

AND THE BEAST, folk-tale, XV. 91. BEAUVAIS, town, France, III. 475; XVII.

749.

Vincent of, encyclopædist, VIII. 192; XXIV. 235. BEAUXITE, or Bauxite, mineral, XIII. 295; XVI. 388.

BEAVER, rodent mammal, III. 475; XV.
418; skins of, IX. 838.

perfume, XVIII. 526.
BEAVER-WOOD, tree, XI. 360.
BEBAJIAS, Gipsy tribe, India, III. 248.
BEBBA, British princess, XVII. 569.
BÉBÉ (Nicholas Ferry), French dwarf,
VII. 567.

BEBEERINE (Bibirine), vegetable alka-
loid, III. 633.

BEC, Monastery of, Normandy, II. 91.
BECCAFICO, bird, XVIII. 53.
BECCAFUMI, Domenico, Italian painter,
III. 476; XXII. 44.

BECCARI, Agostino, Italian pastoral
dramatist, VII. 418; XVIII. 345.
BECCARIA, Marquis, Italian jurist and
economist, III. 477; XIX. 362.

Giovanni Battista, Italian astrono

BEDA (Bede, q.v.), early English his- BEE-PASTURAGE, III. 498.
torian, III. 480.

BEDARRIEUX, town, France, III. 479.
BED-CHAMBER, Ladies of the royal,
XXI. 37.
BEDDOES, Thomas, English physician,
III. 479.

Thomas Lovell, English dramatist,
III. 480.
BEDE, early English historian, III. 480;
VIII. 280; XIII. 593; XVII. 569, 570;
his account of Cædmon, IV. 630; on
monachism, XVI. 707; his place in
English literature, VIII. 405.
BEDELL, William, bishop of Kilmore,
III. 482.

BED-FEATHERS, IX. 59.
BEDFORD, town, England, III. 482.

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., mineral
water of, XVI. 436.

Duke of, English regent in France,
VIII. 321; IX. 549.

HOURS, illuminated MS., XII. 708.
LEVEL, district, England, III.
482; draining of, I. 404; IV. 727.
BEDFORDSHIRE, county, England, III.

BEERBERG, Grosser, mountain, Ger-
many, XXIII. 332.
BEERBHOOM (Birbhum), district and
town, India, III. 697.

BEERSHEBA, town, Palestine, III. 504;
XVIII. 172.

BEESTON, town, England, XVII. 598.
BEESWAX, III. 486; XXIV. 459; bleach-
ing of, III. 825.
BEET, vegetable, III. 504; XII. 279; cul-
ture of, 1. 381; rum from, XXI. 58;
sugar from, 1. 381; XXII. 625, 626.
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van, musician,
III. 504; as symphonist, XVII. 97.
BEETLE, insect, III. 507; VI. 126; XIII.
148; mimicry in, XVI. 343.
MITE, XVI. 528.

BEETLING, in bleaching, III. 818.

BEETS, Nicolaes, Dutch writer, XII. 98.

BEKR, tribe of Arabs, Mesopotamia, | BELIZE, town, British Honduras, III.
XVI. 48.

BEGARELLI, Antonio, of Modena, Italian | BEL, Assyrian deity, III. 175.

sculptor, XXI. 569.

BEGAS, Karl, German painter, III. 507.
BEGBAZAAR, town, Asiatic Turkey, III.

507.

BEGGARS, English laws against, XIX. 462.

BEGGAR'S OPERA, Gay's, VII. 437; X. 120. BEGHARDS, communistic mystics, III. 507; L. 140; XVI. 711; XVII. 132; Eckhart's connexion with them, VII. 642.

BEGONIA, stove plant, XII. 265.

BEGUINES, communistic mystics, III. 507; XVI. 709; XVII. 132.

Matthias, Hungarian historian,

III. 511.
BELA, town, Baluchistan, III. 511.
BELABANZA, town, Hungary, XXI. 393.
BELADHORI, Arab historian, XXIII. 3.
BELANDA NIAM-NIAM, Central African
tribes, XVII. 473.

BEL AND THE DRAGON, History of, in
Apocrypha, II. 181.
BELASPOOR (Bilaspur), town, India,
XIII. 823.

BELBEIS, town, Upper Egypt, III. 511.
BELCHEN, mountain, Black Forest,
Germany, XXIV. 700.

BEHAIM, Martin, cartographer and navi- BELCHER, Sir Edward, Arctic explorer, gator, III. 509; X. 680.

XIX. 321.

BEHAR, province, India, III. 508, 567; BELEBEI, town, Russia, XXIII. 717.

town, III. 509; XVIII. 409. BEHBEHAN, town, Persia, III. 509. BEHEM, or Behaim, Martin, cartographer and navigator, III. 509; X. 680. BEHISTUN, Persia, rock inscriptions at, III. 509; XVIII. 567.

BEHMEN, Jakob (Boehme, q.v.), German mystic, III. 852.

BELEMNITE, fossil mollusc, XVI. 676.
BELESME, Robert of, Norman noble, XI.
656.

BELFAST, town, Ireland, III. 511; XIII.
237; library, XIV. 524; newspapers,
XVII. 423; Queen's College at, XXIII.
855.

LOUGH, Ireland, III. 512.

BEHN, Aphra, English dramatist, III. BELFORT, town, France, III. 513; XIII. 781.

509; VIII. 424.

III. 510; XIX. 318.

BEHRING, Vitus, Danish Arctic explorer, BELFRY, in architecture, II. 461.
BELGE, or Belgians, Gallic tribe, IX.
527; X. III.

BEHRING'S ISLAND, North Pacific, III.

509.

BEHRING'S STRAIT, III. 509; XVIII.
116; whale fishery in, XXIV. 528.
BEHRISCH, E. W., friend of Goethe, x.
722.

BEIBAZAAR (Begbazaar), town, Asiatic
Turkey, III. 507.

BEIGHTON, Henry, his steam-engine
improvement, XXII. 474.
BEING, Science of, XVI. 79.

AND NOT BEING, in Eleatic philo-
sophy, XVIII. 315.
BEIRA, province, Portugal, III. 510;
XIX. 537.

BEIROUT, or Beyrout, town, Syria, III.

BEJAR, town, Spain, III. 510; XXI. 203. BÉJARD, Armande, wife of Molière, XVI. 625.

BELGAM, or Belgaum, district, India,
III. 513.
BELGIUM, III. 514; united to and separ-
ated from Holland, XII. 83; its relations
to the papacy, VI. 242; academy of,
1. 76; its army, II. 615; birds, XVIII.
17; coalfields, VI. 55; coins, XVII.
656; small farms, 1. 412; forests, IX.
400; foundling hospitals, IX. 483;
irrigation works, XIII. 370; libraries,
XIV. 531, 549; mines, XVI. 468;
national debt, XVII. 246; newspapers,
XVII. 430; observatories, XVII. 715;
oyster culture, XVIII. 108; periodical |
literature, XVIII. 542; police system,
XIX. 343; prison system, XIX. 758;
railways, XX. 250; Walloons, XXIV.
332.

622; commerce of, XXIII. 655.
BEIT-EL-FAKIH, town, Arabia, III. 510.
BEJA, town, Portugal, III. 510.
BEJAPORE (Bijapur), state and town, BELGRADE, town, Servia, III. 531; xxI.
India, III. 669.
688; battle of (1717), VIII. 661; treaty
of (1739), XXIII. 647.
BELHAVEN, Lord, on farming in East
Lothian, Scotland, I. 301.
BELIEF, III. 532; psychology of, XX.
83; in relation to theology, XXIII.
264; Jacobi's theory of, XIII. 537.
BELINSKI, Russian critic, XXI. 108.
BELISARIUS, Byzantine general, III.
535; XIII. 797; XVII. 233; XVIII. 612;
XX. 782; African campaign of, XXIV.
59; Procopius's relations with, XIX.
789.

BEKA, district, Asiatic Turkey, XXIII. 654.

BEKE, Charles T., English traveller, III.

510.

BEKES, town, Hungary, III. 511.
BEKKER, Balthazar, Dutch theologian,

536; XII. 132.

BELKNAP, Jeremy, American writer,
III. 536.

BELL, and bell manufacture, III. 536;
IV. 366; of Moscow (Tsar-Kolokol),
XVI. 867; of Nara, Japan, XVII.

229.

Alexander Graham, on telephony, XXIII. 127, 128, 130.

Alexander Melville, his system of shorthand, XXI. 840; on visible speech, I. 608; VII. 9; XXII. 385.

Andrew, English educationist, III. 539; VII. 678; educational system of, XIV. 258.

Andrew, printer of first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, VIII. 200.

Sir Charles, English anatomist, III. 540; XV. 817; his Anatomy of Expression, 1. 817; on physiognomy, XIX. 5.

Currer, Ellis, and Acton (the sisters Bronte), IV. 365.

BELLA, suburb, Nicastro, Italy, xvII. 480.

Stefano de la, Italian engraver, III.

543. BELLADONNA, plant, III. 543; XVII. 231; as poison, XIX. 279.

OIL, XVII. 744.
BELLAI, Guillaume du, French general
and writer, III. 543.

BELLAMAR, Caves of, Cuba, xv. 624.
BELLAMY, Jacobus, Dutch poet, III. 543;
XII. 96.

BELLARMINE, Robert F. R., cardinal,
III. 544; his relations with Galileo, X.
32.

BELLARY (Ballari), district and town,
India, III. 286.
BELLAY, or Bellai, Guillaume du,
French general and writer, III. 543.
Joachim du, French poet, III. 544;
XX. 841.
BELL-BIRD, of New Zealand, XII. 139.
of Venezuela, XXIV. 139.

BELL-COT, in architecture, II. 461.
BELLEAU, Rémy, French pastoral poet,
III. 545; XVIII. 345; XX. 841.

Immanuel, German philologist, BELIUS, Matthias, Hungarian historian, BELLE-ISLE, Duke of, French marshal,

BELLE-ISLE, Marquis of (Nicolas Fou- | BELLY-FISH, in Java, XIII. 606.

quet, q.v.), French statesman, IX. 487. BELLE-ISLE-EN-MER, island, west of France, III. 545.

BELLENDEN, John, Scottish poet, III. 545; XXI. 541; his translation of Boece's history, III. 850.

William, French classical scholar,

III. 545.

BELMONTE, river, Brazil, IV. 222.
BELON, Pierre, French naturalist, III.
553; on birds, XVIII. 4; on fishes,
XII. 631.

BELONE, genus of fishes, X. 8o.
BELOOCHISTAN (Baluchistan), country,
Asia, III. 299.

BELPASSO, town, Sicily, III. 553

BELLENZ (Bellinzona, q.v.), town, Switz- BELPER, town, England, III. 553.

erland, III. 548.
BELLEROPHON, in Greek legend, III.
546; XVIII. 468.

Belles-Lettres, Academies of, 1. 73.
BELLEVILLE, town, Ontario, Canada,
XVII. 775.

-, town, Illinois, U.S.A., III. 546.
BELLEY, town, France, III. 546.

BELSHAM, Thomas, English Unitarian
writer, III. 553.

William, English political writer,
III. 553.
BELSHAZZAR, of Scripture, III. 188, 553.
BELT, mechanical connector, XV. 760.
Great and Little, straits, Denmark,
III. 554.

BELLIGERENTS, in international law, BELTANE, or Beltein, Celtic festival,

BELLINGER, river, New South Wales, BELTIRS, race of people, Russia, XXI.
XVII. 408.

251.

BELLINGHAM, Sir Edward, viceroy of BELUGA, cetacean mammal, xv. 398; | BENEDICTINE MONASTERIES, I. II.

Ireland, XIII. 263.

John, assassin of Spencer Perceval, XVIII. 521. BELLINI, Gentile, Italian painter, III. 547; XXI. 436; tutor of Titian, XXIII. 414.

Giovanni, Italian painter, III. 547; XXI. 436; tutor of Titian, XXIII. 414. Jacopo, Italian painter, III. 546; XV. 501.

XXIV. 525; XIX. 522.
BELUNUM (Belluno), ancient town,
Italy, III. 553-

BELVACENSIS, Vincentius (Vincent of
Beauvais), encyclopædist, VIII. 192;
XXIV. 235.

BELVEDERE, town, Italy, III. 554.
STATUE, of Apollo, II. 186.
BELZONI, Giovanni Battista, explorer
of Egypt, III. 554.

Lorenzo, Italian anatomist and BEM, Joseph, Polish general, XII. 372.

physician, III. 548.

Vincenzo, Italian musical composer,

III. 548; XVII. 99.

BEMA, in architecture, II. 461.

Manichæan festival, xv. 485.
BEMBA, lake, Central Africa, XXIV. 763.

BELLINZONA, town, Switzerland, III. BEMBO, Pietro, cardinal, III. 554

548; XXII. 778; XXIII. 351.
BELLMAN, Carl Mikael, Swedish poet,
III. 549; XXII. 755.
BELL METAL, IV. 366.
BELLOMONT, Lord, English governor of

New York, XVII. 455.
BELLONA, in Roman mythology, III.
549.

BELLONIUS, Petrus (Belon, q.v.), French
naturalist, III. 553; on birds, XVIII. 4.
BELLOT, Joseph René, French Arctic
explorer, III. 549; XIX. 321.
BELLOVACENSIS, Vincentius (Vincent of
Beauvais), medieval encyclopædist,
VIII. 192; XXIV. 235.
BELLOVACI, Gallic tribe, XVIII. 286.
BELLOVESUS, founder of Milan, XVI.

292.

BEMBRIDGE, town, Isle of Wight,
England, XXIV. 562.

BENACUS (Garda), lake, Italy, X. 75.
BENARES, division, district, and town,
India, III. 554; XVII. 572; Ghoosla
Ghat, landing place at, II. 397.
BEN ATTOW, mountain, Scotland, xx.
854.

BENAVENTE, town, Spain, III. 556.
BENBECULA, island, Scotland, XI. 607.
BENBOW, John, English admiral, III. 556.
BENBULBIN, mountain, Ireland, XXII.
159.

BENCH, legal term, III. 556.
BENCHERS, English lawyers, III. 556;
XIII. 87.

BENCOOLEN, town, Sumatra, III. 556;
residency, XXII. 639.

BELLOWS, III. 549; for organ, XVII. 836; BEND, in heraldry, XI. 695, 706.

for smelting ores, XVI. 60. BELL-RINGING, III. 538.

BELL ROCK LIGHTHOUSE, on Scottish
coast, XIV. 616.

BELL'S PALSY, disease, XVIII. 257.
BELLUÆ, Linnæan order of Mammalia,
XV. 421; XXIV. 805.
BELLUNO, town, Italy, III. 553.

Duke of (C. P. Victor), French marshal, XXIV. 213.

seaman's knot, XIV. 128; XXI. 590.
BENDALL, Cecil, on Nepalese chronology,
XVII. 344.

BENDER, town, Russia, III. 557; Charles
XII.'s residence at, V. 421.
BENDER-ABBASI (Bandar Abbas), town,
Persia, III. 557; XVIII. 620, 627.
BENDER EREGLI, town, Asiatic Turkey,

XI. 681.

BENDING MOMENT, in beams, IV. 290.

grottoes at, VII. 774. BENEE-SUWEYF, town, Egypt, VII. 774.

BENEFICE, Ecclesiastical, III. 559; origin
of the system, IX. 121; right of
presentation to, I. 179; XX. 158;
simony in regard to, XXII. 85;
vicarial, XXIV. 209; dilapidations of,
VII. 239.

BENEFIT OF CLERGY, in law, v. 827;
VIII. 372.

BENEKE, Friedrich Eduard, German
philosopher, III. 560.

BENEVENTO, town, Italy, 111. 561.

-, Prince of (Talleyrand), French
statesman, XXIII. 29.
BENEVENTUM (Benevento), ancient
town, Italy, III. 561; XXI. 249; battle
of (275), XX. 744.
BENEVOLENCE, in phrenology, XVIII.
845.

Universal, Cumberland's theory of,
VI. 702.
BENEVOLENCES, enforced loans, IX. 177.
BENFEY, Theodor, German philologist,
XVIII. 781; XIII. 682.
BENGAL, lieutenant-governorship, India,
III. 562; early British connexion with,
XII. 799; army of, II. 590.
BENGALEE ERA, V. 719.
BENGALI LANGUAGE, Dictionaries of,
VII. 190.

BENGAL LIGHT, in pyrotechny, xx.
136.

BENGAWAN, river, Java, XIII. 601.

BENGAZI, town, North Africa, III. 571; | BENTENG, town, Indian Archipelago, | BERBER, town, Egypt, III. 584; XVII XXIII. 575. 507.

BENGEL, John Albert, German Biblical BENTHAM, George, on plant classifica- BERBERA, town, Eastern Africa, III. 584. scholar, III. 571.

BEN LAWERS, mountain, Scotland, BENTON, Thomas Hart, American poli- BERE, cereal, III. 376; culture of, 1. 359. XVIII. 666.

BENNINGTON, town, Vermont, U.S.A., BÉRANGER, Jean Pierre, Swiss historian, BÉRÉNICE, Racine's drama, XX. 206. XXIV. 167.

BERARDI, Angelo, Italian musician, BERGAMO, town, Asia Minor, XVIII.
XVII. 87.