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Davy’s grudging sketch of, 400; and colonial persecution, 426; achievements and influence, 435; religious indifference, 450; Charles Darwin studies voyages, 461; dreams of astronomical expedition to southern hemisphere, 462; Endeavour Journal, 4, 21, 46n, 47, 56, 382; Endeavour Voyage (unfinished), 58-9; ‘On the Manners and Customs of the South Sea Islands’, 36-8; ‘Thoughts on the Manners of the Otaheite’, 45
    Banks, Sophia (Joseph’s sister), 9, 12, 41, 54-5, 59, 134, 137, 384, 395, 450
    Banks Island: Parry names for Sir Joseph, 396
    Barbauld, Anna, 246 & n, 304
    Baretti, Giuseppe, 50
    Barrias, Louis Ernest: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (statues), 436n
    Barrington, Shute, Bishop of Durham, 351
    Bastille: fall (1789), 176, 191
    Bath: Herschel in, 60, 75-7, 80, 95; Caroline sings in, 90
    Bath Philosophical Society, 60-1, 91, 93
    Beagle (ship), xvi, 438, 446-7, 455, 461
    Beaglehole, John C., 59
    Beaufort, Sir Francis, 159, 438
    Beaufoy, Henry, 156
    Beddoes, Anna (née Edgeworth): Davy’s attachment to, 253-4, 260-1, 278, 281, 288, 301, 337; inhales nitrous oxide, 263; Maria Edgeworth on, 264; exchanges poetry with Davy, 275, 278-80; children, 279-80; leaves Beddoes for Giddy, 281; visits Davy at Royal Institution, 291; settles in Italy, 302; nurses dying Beddoes, 308; Davy consults about marriage to Jane Apreece, 339
    Beddoes, Anna Maria (Anna’s daughter): birth, 279
    Beddoes, Dr Thomas: Davy works with, 235, 252-7; organises Pneumatic Institute, 235, 251, 285, 356-7; radicalism and medical ideas, 235, 250-2, 254-5, 290n; asthma, 253; marriage, 253-4, 280; on nitrous oxide experiments, 263-4; Coleridge on, 268; Davy dedicates Researches to, 271; attacked and satirised, 273-4; Davy leaves, 277-8, 285; and Davy’s admission of ineffectiveness of nitrous oxide, 281-2, 285n; abandons experimental work, 286; wife leaves, 286; Davy loses touch with, 293; on Davy’s successes in chemistry, 299; death, 302; biographies, 303n; Hygia: Essays Moral and Medical, 286; ‘A Letter to Sir Joseph Banks’, 302; Observations made at the Medical Pneumatic Institution, 272-3
    Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 302-3; Death’s Jest-Book, 303
    Bell, Charles, 452
    Bentley’s Miscellany, 453
    Bentley’s Standard Novels, 456
    Berlin Academy of Sciences, 406, 440
    Berlin Astronomical Yearbook, 97n
    Berthollet, Claude Louis, Comte de, 128, 345, 353, 396, 403n
    Berzelius, Johann Jacob, 296, 299, 439
    Bible, Holy: on creation and age of earth, 451, 454, 459
    Bichat, Xavier, 306, 310, 312
    Biggin, George, 141-2
    Blagden, Sir Charles, 63, 134, 171, 173, 317, 381, 386, 395-6
    Blake, William: published by Johnson, 106; satirises scientific aspirations 143; Jane Apreece dines with, 338; engraving of Newton, 404n; ‘An Island in the Moon’ (verse-prose fragment), 143
    Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 128, 146-52, 159, 161
    Blanchard, Sophie, 159
    Bligh, William, 386
    Blosset, Harriet (later Dessalis), 4, 11-12
    Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 221, 310, 330, 425; Comparative Anatomy, 311; Manual of Natural History, 266
    Bode, Johann, 114; Uranographia, 97n
    Boehme, Jakob, 345
    Boethius: Consolation, 424
    Bonaparte, Lucien, 114
    Bonnycastle, John: Introduction to Astronomy in Letters to his Pupil, 105-6, 113, 124, 206
    Borlase, John Bingham, 241-2
    Borodino, battle of (1812), 306
    Boswell, James, 43; Tour of the Hebrides, 211
    Botany Bay, New South Wales: Banks recommends for colonial settlement, 211, 386
    Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, 3, 4n, 11, 46n, 461
    Bourgeois, David, 132
    Brahe, Tycho, 171
    Brett, Elizabeth, 139
    Brewster, Sir David, 399, 437, 445, 447, 460; Life of Sir Isaac Newton, 454-6
    Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of, 451
    Bristol: Davy in, 256; Davy leaves for London, 285; see also Pneumatic Institute
    Bristol Mirror, 284
    Britain: balloons and ballooning in, 136-45, 155-8; war with France, 231, 297; state of science in, 435, 437-45
    British Association for the Advancement of Science: proposed and founded, xix, 440, 446;