ii. 124, 134, 137

Astley's, ii. 110 Athens, F. N. at, i. 87 _seq._ Atherstone, Warwickshire, ii. 236, 237 Atonement, the, i. 486, ii. 234 Auckland, Lord (Bishop of Bath and Wells), i. 325 Auckland (N.Z.), F. N. manuscripts at, ii. 440 Augusta, Queen of Prussia, German Empress, ii. 187, 314 _n._ Aunt Hannah. _See_ Nicholson, Miss Aunt Mai. _See_ Smith, Mrs. Samuel Austen, Jane, ii. 317 Austria and the Austro-Prussian War (1866), ii. 104, 106, 119 _Autobiography of a Balaclava Nurse_, ii. 461; referred to, i. 210 _n._, 249 Avignon, Mill's house at, ii. 221, 222 Aylesbury, Bucks County Infirmary, i. 422 Aztecs, ii. 315

Babbage, Charles, i. 26 Bacillus, ii. 400 Bacteriology, i. 441 Baden, Grand Duchess (Luise) of: founds Ladies' Society for Nursing in Baden, i. 447; admiration of F. N. and letters to her, i. 447, 450, ii. 202, 314, 413; on _Notes on Nursing_, i. 450; nurses the Emperor William I., ii. 314 _n._ Baker, Mr., ii. 34, 35, 36 _n._ Baker, Sir Samuel, ii. 304, 429 Baker, General Sir W. E., ii. 152, 274 Balaclava: battle of, i. 171, 181, ii. 404; an incident of, ii. 66; arrival of wounded from, at Scutari, i. 184; British hospitals at, i. 254, 285, 449; memorial cross at, i. 294 Balfour, Arthur James, ii. 397 Balfour, Dr. T. Graham, Secretary of the Royal Commission (1857), i. 329, 330, 332, 377; works with F. N., i. 372, 435; director of Army Medical Statistics, i. 389 _n._, 432, ii. 74 Balliol College, Oxford, ii. 333, 398; _See also_ Jowett Ballot, the, i. 26 Balmoral, F. N. at, i. 324, 325, 326 Balzac, i. 486, 505, ii. 106 Barbauld, Mrs., quoted, ii. 235 Barlow, Sir Thomas, ii. 421 Barrack and Hospital Improvement Commissions and Committees-- Barrack and Hospital Improvement Commission (a Sub-Commission to advise on, and carry out, reforms recommended by the Royal Commission of 1857), i. 363, 381, 383, 388 Barracks Works Committee (appointed June 1861), i. 388-389, 405 Barracks (Mediterranean Station) Improvement Committee (1862), i. 405, ii. 7 Barracks and Hospital Improvement Commission (made a permanent body, 1862), ii. 64-65; reinforced by representatives of the India Office, to advise on Indian sanitary measures (1863), ii. 33, 42, 45, 46, 48, 51, 150; its name changed to Army Sanitary Committee (1865), ii. 65; various references, ii. 147, 149, 171, 172, 173, 178, 279; threatened, reconstituted (1890), ii. 374-5 Barracks, improvements in, i. 381, 388, 405, ii. 374 _n._, 406-7; F. N.'s proposed model, i. 374 Barratt, Jerry, picture of F. N. at Scutari, ii. 468 Barrie, Georgiana. _See_ Gonzaga, Sister Bathurst, Caroline, i. 114 Batta, violoncellist, i. 25 Baudens, L., i. 204 _n._ Bayard, the Chevalier, ii. 160 Bayard, T. F. (American Ambassador), ii. 419 Bayuda Desert, ii. 350 Bazaars, i. 80 Beatitudes, the, ii. 120, 261 Beaumont, Elie de, i. 21 Bèche, Sir H. de la, i. 38 Bedchamber Plot, i. 25 Begging letters, i. 318, 319, 496, ii. 86 _n._, 106 Bence-Jones, Dr., i. 269, 456 _n._, 457 Bengal, plants of, ii. 310 Bengal Land Question, ii. 285, 297 Bengal Social Science Association, ii. 178, 446 Bentinck, General, i. 235 Benton, Samuel, ii. 272 _n._ Berlin, F. N.'s study of hospitals at, i. 92, 417; Victoria Training School for Nurses, ii. 190 Bermondsey, R.C. Convent at, Nuns from, with F. N. during Crimean War, i. 159, 253, 304; subsequent relations with, i. 487 Bermuda, yellow fever, ii. 70 Bernays, Dr., i. 460 Best, Mr., i. 266, 281 Bethune, Mr., i. 35 Bhownaggree, Mr., ii. 378 Bible, the, F. N. on selections from, ii. 228, 229; Protestant view of, i. 77 Birds, F. N.'s fondness for, i. 9, 10, 28, ii. 309 Birdwood, Sir George, ii. 378 _Birkenhead_, loss of the, i. 316 Birkenhead Hospital, i. 423 Bismarck, Prince, ii. 105, 315 "Bison," the, i. 325; bullyable, i. 335; bullying the, i. 335, 354, ii. 30 Blachford, Lord. _See_ Rogers Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, i. 29, 61 Blackwood, Lady Alicia, i. 197, 198, 240; her _Experiences of the Crimean War_, ii. 463; quoted, i. 247, 260 Blackwood, Rev. Dr. J. S., i. 197 Blanchecotte, Madame, _Impressions de Femme_, ii. 315 Blue-books, i. 377, 386, 499, 500, ii. 307 Board of Survey, i. 202 Body and soul, ii. 224 Boer War, ii. 411 Bokhara, King of, ii. 156 Bologna, ii. 420 Bomba, King Ferdinand II. of Naples, ii. 90 Bombay: plague, ii. 409; sanitation in, ii. 174, 183, 281; Village Sanitation Bill, ii. 377, 378, 454 Bonham Carter, Charles, ii. 392 Bonham Carter, Miss Edith, ii. 389 Bonham Carter, Henry, i. v, 30, 280, ii. 190, 191, 200, 254, 361 _n._, 362, 363, 392, 393, 403, 413 Bonham Carter, Miss Hilary, i. 11, 29, 99, 124, 130, 431, 492, 500, 502, ii. 25 _n._; illness and death of, ii. 93, 395; portraits of F. N. by,