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BLACKPOOL, town, England, in. 800. BLACK PRINCE, Edward, the, vn. 686;

vni. 319. BLACK QUARTER, cattle disease, xvn.

58. BLACK RIVER, New York, U.S.A., xvn.

451.

BLACK ROD, Usher of the, xxi. 37. BLACK ROT, vine disease, xxiv. 240. BLACK SEA, in. 795; xv. 820; restric tions on its navigation, XXin. 647,

650.

BLACKSTART, bird, xx. 318. BLACKSTONE, Sir William, English

jurist, in. 800; his definition of law,

xiv. 355, 362. BLACK TOWN, part of Madras city,

India, xv. 187. BLACKWALL, John, on the reproduction

of spiders, II. 294. BLACK WARE, kind of pottery, xix.

618; Etruscan, vni. 641. BLACKWATER, river, Ireland, vi. 403;

xiv. 51; xxiv. 400. BLACK WITCH, bird, 687. BLACKWOOD, Adam, early Scottish

jurist, xxi. 543.

, Henry, Scottish writer on medi cine, xxi. 543. BLACKWOOD S MAGAZINE, xvin. 537;

Lockhart s connexion with, xiv. 763;

Wilson s connexion with, xxiv. 592. BLADDER, Diseases of the, xxiv. 188.

NUT, tree, n. 320; xvn. 664.

- WORMS, xxin. 49, 52. BLADES, TV., on the sizes of books, iv.

38.

BLADON, Alabama, U.S.A., mineral water of, xvi. 436.

BLAEN AVON, town, Monmouth, England, xvi. 754.

BLAEU, William Jansson, his geographi cal globes, x. 683.

BLAGOVYESCHENSK, town, Siberia, xxii. 1 1.

, monastery, Nijni-Novgorod, Rus sia, xvn. 501.

BLAG ROVE, Henry, English musician, xvn. 93.

BLAINVILLE, Henri Marie Ducrotay de, French naturalist, III. 802; on birds, xvin. 20, 22, 29; on reptiles, xx. 435.

BLAIR, Hugh, Scottish preacher and writer, III. 802; XX. 515.

, Robert, Scottish poet, ill. 803.

, Port, town, Andaman Islands, III. 802; n. 13.

ATHOL, English race-horse, Pedi gree of, xn. 186.

CASTLE, Perthshire, Scotland,

xvin. 667.

BLAIRGOWRIE, town, Scotland, xvin. 667.

BLAKE, Francis, his telephone trans mitter, xxin. 130, 132.

, Robert, English admiral, ill. 803;

xii. 80.

BLAKE, William, English poet and

painter, in. 804. BLANC, Louis, French socialist, xxi 1. 208;

on communism, VI. 213. , Mont, Alps, in. 807; I. 625; xxi.

332- BLANCA PEAK, Rocky Mountains,

U.S.A., xxin. 796. BLANCHARD, Emile, on birds, xvin. 31.

, J. P., French aeronaut, I. 190. BLANCHE of Castile, mother of Louis

IX. of France, IX. 542. BLANCO, Guzman, president, Venezuela,

xxiv. 141. BLANE, Sir Gilbert, British physician,

in. 807.

BLANES, toAvn, Spain, in. 807. BLANFORD, W. J., on geology of Persia,

xvin. 621. BLANKENBURG, town, Germany, xxi.

461. BLANK VERSE, Marlowe s introduction

of, xv. 556.

BLANPAIN S COMET, vi. 191. BLANQUEFORT, Bertrand de, Knight

Templar, xxi 1 1. 161. BLARINA, genus of shrews, xxi. 844. BLARNEY, village, Ireland, in. 807.

CASTLE, Cork, Ireland, vi. 405. BLASIUS, Gerard, on birds, xvin. 7. -, J. H., on birds, xvin. 9, 26.

BLASPHEMY, in. 807.

BLAST ENGINES, used in metallurgy,

in. 551; xvi. 60. BLAST FURNACE, ix. 840; in. 550;

xni. 297. BLASTING, in. 808; most extensive ever

attempted, xxin. 622; in mines, xvi.

445- BLASTOCCELE, in animal development,

n. 51. BLASTOIDEA, order of Echinodermata,

vn. 638. BLASTOMERES, in animal development,

n. 51. BLASTOSPORE, in animal development,

vni. 746.

BLATTID^E, group of insects, xni. 152. BLAXTON, William, early settler at

Boston, U.S.A., iv. 73. BLAZONRY, in heraldry, XI. 684, 705. BLEACHING, in. 811; of linen yarn,

xiv. 666.

POWDER, chloride of lime, v. 678.

BLEDA, king of the Huns, xn. 381. BLEEDING, as disease, xvin. 375. BLEEK, Friedrich, German Biblical

scholar, in. 823; on the Pentateuch,

xvin. 506. , Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel,

African traveller and scholar, in.

824.

BLEINIERE, mineral, xvi. 428. BLEKINGE, province, Sweden, v. 112;

xxn. 741. BLEMMYES, native tribes, Africa, xvn.

612.

BLENDE, or Zinc Blende, mineral, xvi.

392; xxiv. 785.

, Nickel, mineral, xvn. 487. BLENHEIM, village, Bavaria, in. 825;

battle of (1704), in. 126; vni. 353;

ix. 581; xv. 554. HOUSE, Oxford, England, in.

825; xxiv. 653; Vanbrugh s design,

xxiv. 55

BLENNY, fish, xn. 690; xxi. 614. BLESBOK, kind of antelope, 11. 101. BLESENSIS, Petrus (Peter of Blois),

mediaeval writer, xvin. 698. BLESSINGTON, Countess of, English

writer, III. 825; her relation to Count

D Orsay, vn. 370. BLICHER, Steen Steensen, Danish

writer, in. 825; vn. 92; xvin. 348. BLIDAH, town, Algeria, in. 825. BLIGH, William, English admiral and

explorer, in. 825; x. 190; xix. 132;

xxin. 24. BLIND, The, in. 826; print ing types for,

xxin. 696; associations and colleges

for, in. 816.

- FISH, in caves, xn. 693; xv. 450.

- HARRY, Scottish minstrel and writer, XI. 496; XXI. 541; XXIV. 326.

MAN S BUFF, Wilkie s picture,

xxiv. 568.

BLINDNESS, xvn. 784.

BLIND TRAVELLER, The (James Hoi- man), English traveller, XII. 103.

BLISTERING BEETLE, or Spanish Fly, insect, VI. 133; V. 31.

BLITHE, or Blythe, Walter, writer on agriculture, I. 297, 329, 331.

BLITONG (Billiton), island, Indian Archipelago, in. 677.

BLOATERS, Curing of, ix. 253.

BLOCH, Mark Eliezer, German natural ist, in. 833; on fishes, xn. 632.

BLOCK, Maurice, on statistics, xxn. 461.

BLOCKADE, in war, in. 834; xni. 194; xxiv. 364.

BLOCKADE-RUNNING, in American civil war, ill. 237; xxin. 775.

BLOCK-BOOKS, in. 652; xxin. 683; printing of, XXIII. 682.

BLOCK MACHINERY, in. 833; invention of, iv. 398; xv. 152.

BLOCKS, in mechanics, xv. 763.

BLOCKSBERG, hill in Budapest, Hun gary, xvin. 691.

BLOCK SYSTEM, Railway, xx. 238.

BLODITE, mineral, xvi. 402.

BLOEMFONTEIN, town, Orange River Free State, South Africa, xvn. 813.

BLOEMHOFF, district, Transvaal, South Africa, xxin. 518.

BLOIS, town, France, in. 835; treaties of (1504), ix. 555.

, Peter of, medieval theologian and moralist, xvin. 698.