The Invention of Nature

Banks, Sir Joseph: AH meets in London, 1.1, 13.1; AH requests passport for Bonpland, 3.1; AH sends specimens to, 6.1, 11.1; on internationalism of science, 6.2, 8.1; library, 6.3; aids AH, 11.2; praises AH at Royal Society, 13.2; and Robert Brown, 14.1

Baraba Steppe (Russia), 16.1, 16.2

Barnaul (Russia)

Baudin, Captain Nicolas, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Beagle, HMS: Darwin sails on expedition, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4; FitzRoy captains, 17.5; itinerary, 17.6

Bello, Andrés, 9.1, 15.1

Belukha (mountain, Altai chain)

Berlin: AH dislikes, 10.1, 10.2, nts.1; AH travels to with Gay-Lussac (1805), 10.3; royal court in, 10.4; garden house, 10.5, 10.6; experiments in, 10.7; AH writes Views of Nature in, 10.8; AH leaves (1804), 10.9; AH moves to from Paris (1827), 14.1, 15.1; life in, 15.2; AH lectures in, 15.3, 15.4; scientific conference (1828), 15.5; AH returns to from Russian expedition, 16.1; university, 18.1; AH disparages, 18.2; Oranienburger Straße flat, 18.3; revolution (1848), 20.1; ageing AH’s life in, 20.2; see also Germany; Prussia; Tegel

Berlin Academy of Sciences, 10.1, 15.1

Berlioz, Hector

Berry, Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duc de

Berry, Wendell

Berzelius, Jöns Jacob, 15.1, 20.1

Binet, René

Bismarck, Prince Otto von

Bladgen, Charles

Bligh, Captain William

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1.1, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1; Über den Bildungstrieb, 1.2

boa constrictors, 5.1, 5.2

Bogotá (Colombia), 6.1, 12.1

Bolívar, Simón: praises AH, prl.1; AH meets in Paris, 9.1; in Rome, 9.2; revolutionary activities, 9.3, 12.1, 12.2; climbs Chimborazo, 12.3, 12.4; returns to South America (1807), 12.5; writings and language, 12.6, 12.7; as nature lover, 12.8, 12.9, 12.10; flees Caracas for Curaçao, 12.11; character and qualities, 12.12, 12.13; studies AH’s writings on South America, 12.14; declares freedom for slaves, 12.15; appearance, 12.16; leads llaneros, 12.17; presents constitution at Angostura congress, 12.18; letter to AH on South America and nature, 12.19; on AH’s defence of Latin America, 12.20; Spain seeks support against at Aachen, 14.1; invites Bonpland to return to Latin America, 14.2; attempts release of Bonpland, 14.3; AH recommends young French scientist to, 14.4; vision of Latin American league of free nations, 15.1; death from TB, 20.1; García Márquez writes on, 20.2; decrees tree-planting programme, 21.1; ‘Letter from Jamaica’, 12.21; ‘My Delirium on Chimborazo’, 12.22, 12.23

Bonaparte, Joséphine

Bonpland, Aimé: silhouette, 3.1; AH meets in Paris, 3.2; accompanies AH on expedition to Latin America, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3; experiences earthquake in Cumaná, 4.3; experiments with electric eels, 5.7; seeks protection against mosquitoes, 5.8; fevers and dysentery, 5.9, 6.4; sends specimens back to Europe, 6.5; AH’s relations with, 6.6; climbs Chimborazo with AH, 7.1; in Guayaquil, 7.2; travels to USA, 8.1; meets Jefferson, 8.2, 8.3; returns to France, 9.1; granted French government pension, 9.2; encourages Bolívar’s revolutionary ideas, 9.3; botanical writings, 9.4, 10.1; and AH’s visit to Vesuvius, 9.5; plans further expedition, 10.2; AH stays with in Paris, 11.1; invited back to South America, 14.1; unavailable to accompany AH to Asia, 14.2; imprisoned by Paraguayans and released, 14.3, 20.1; correspondence with AH, 20.2; death, 20.3

Boston, Massachusetts

botany see

plants

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, 1.1, 3.1

Bouguer, Pierre, 6.1, 10.1

Boves, José Tomás, 12.1, 12.2

Boyacà, battle of (1819)

Brazil: Darwin in, 17.1, 17.2; see also Latin America

Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)

Bristol, Frederick Augustus Hervey, prl.1th Earl of, 3.1

Britain: Industrial Revolution and economic prosperity, 1.1; mercenaries support Bolívar, 12.1; commercial dominance, 13.1; political reforms, 15.1, 17.1; abolishes slavery, 17.2; see also London

Brown, Robert

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard

Buch, Leopold von, 9.1, 10.1

Buckland, William

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 4.1, 12.1

Byron, George Gordon, prl.1th Baron: Don Juan, 13.1

Cajamarca Plateau (Peru)

Calabozo (Venezuela)

Caldas, Francisco José de, 6.1, 12.1

California: gold in, 19.1; Muir in, 23.1–21, 23.1, 23.2

Canary Islands, 3.1, 17.1

Cancrin, Count Georg von, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4

Canning, George, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1

Cape Verde islands

Capri (island)

Captaincy Generals (Latin America)

capybaras (Latin American rodents), 5.1, 17.1

Caracas (Venezuela): AH visits, 4.1; earthquakes (1812), 12.1, 15.1; Bolívar occupies, 12.2; in revolutionary war, 12.3; Bolívar regains (1821), 12.4

Carlos IV, King of Spain

Carquairazo (mountain, Ecuador)

Carr, Jeanne, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3

Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring

Cartagena (Colombia), 6.1, 12.1

Casiquiare River (South America), 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

Caspian Sea

Caucasus Mountains

Century (magazine)

Chambers, Richard: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 18.1

Chaptal, Jean Antoine