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early meetings, 446-50, 452, 460; women attend, 447, 452; public and press reception, 452-3; women members, 459-60
    British Balloon Club, 137, 147
    British Library (new), 404n
    British Museum: Davy’s trusteeship, 403-4
    Brock, Claire: Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s Astronomical Ambition, 201n
    Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 455
    Brougham, Henry (later Baron), 299
    Brown, Dr John, 255
    Browne, Sir Thomas, 321
    Bryan, Margaret, 179
    Buchan, Alexander, 13-15, 44
    Buckland, William, 447, 452, 460
    Buddle, John, 361-3, 368-9, 372, 375
    Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 204
    Bullman, Mrs (Herschel’s Bath neighbour), 82
    Burch, Druin: Digging up the Dead, 284n
    Burney, Charles, 136, 140, 166, 174-5
    Burney, Esther, 306
    Burney, Fanny (Mme d’Arblay), 41, 50, 174-6, 188; mastectomy without anaesthetic, 283, 305-6
    Burns, Robert, 213
    Burton, Robert: Anatomy of Melancholy, 323
    Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 205, 250, 276, 307, 318, 327, 338, 378, 380, 384-5, 431, 457; The Bride of Abydos, 350; Childe Harold, 250; ‘Darkness’, 383; Don Juan, 350, 380, 385
    Cabanis, Pierre, 322
    Calais: monument to first balloon crossing of Channel, 151-2
    caloric (supposed element), 250, 277
    Cambridge: third British Association meeting (1833), 447-50, 452
    Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess of, 223, 226, 231
    Cameron, Julia Margaret, 465
    Campbell, Thomas, 209-10, 409
    Cape Town: John Herschel and family in, 462-5
    carbon dioxide: in respiration, 245-6
    carbon monoxide, 257-8
    Carlile, Richard, 336; Address to the Men of Science, 336
    Carlisle, Sir Anthony, 245, 274, 283
    Carlyle, Thomas: Signs of the Times, 435
    Cassini, Jacques, 101, 181
    Cavallo, Tiberius, 143, 168, 171
    Cavendish, Henry: and discovery of Uranus, 101; discovers hydrogen with Priestley, 127, 133, 158; and ballooning, 134, 158; analyses upper atmosphere, 147-8; visits Herschel, 199; Marie-Anne Paulze (Lavoisier) translates, 248; interviews Davy for Royal Institution post, 277; and founding of Royal Institution, 285; in Walker’s composite portrait, 303; in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 328; Davy praises, 344
    Chalmers, Thomas, 447, 452; Discourses on Astronomy, 209
    Chambers, Neil, 57n
    Chapman, George, 206
    Charles, Alexandre, 126, 131-3, 146-7, 152
    Charlotte, Queen of George III, 174, 177-9
    Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal, 111, 177
    Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie, Marquise du, 179, 201n
    chemistry: Davy’s interest in, 244, 247, 254-5, 257, 275; Lavoisier’s eminence in, 248; attacked as charlatanry, 273; Davy lectures on, 288; and electricity, 296; Davy writes on, 343-5, 355; Davy claims as crown of liberal education, 430; John Herschel idealises, 444
    Chenevix, Richard, 328-9
    child labour: Victorian control of, 375
    Christianson, Gale: Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae, 84n, 119n
    City Philosophical Society, 352, 358, 363
    Clanny, Dr William, 351, 363, 370-1, 375
    Clarke, Charles Cowden, 206-7
    Clay Hall, near Windsor, 164
    Clayfield, William, 257-8, 294
    Clerke, Captain Charles, 53
    Clift, William, 307
    climate change: in early nineteenth century, 383
    Cline, Henry, 306-7, 316
    clouds: classified, 159-60
    coal mines: fire-damp danger, 351, 361, 370; see also miners’ safety lamp
    Coal Mines Safety Committee, 361, 363
    Coates, Mr (of Bristol), 265
    Cockney School of poets, 318
    Coke, Lady Mary, 41, 43
    Coleridge, Revd John, 111
    Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: on scientific endeavour, 48n; on Banks as source of drugs, 56; published by Johnson, 106, 271; shown night sky as child, 111-12; moon and star imagery in poems, 113n; on clouds, 160; on ballooning, 161; stands godfather to Wordsworth’s son John, 203n; on concept of the infinite, 205n; and redemption by vision of life, 220; regional roots, 236; and Pantisocracy, 252; friendship with Davy, 266-8, 448; inhales nitrous oxide, 267; on psychosomaticism, 267, 315n; ‘conversation poems’, 268, 316; influence on Davy, 268, 270, 276; and Davy’s experiments on galvanism,