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VEDANGAS, branches of Vedic (Hindu)

science, XXI. 274. VEDANTA, Hindu philosophical writings, XXIV. 117; XXI. 290. VEDAS, Hindu sacred writings, II. 698; IV. 201; XII. 779; XXI. 273; on caste, v. 188; Gnostic portion of, XXIV. 117; mythic stories of, XVII. 152. VEDDAHS, people of Ceylon, XXIV. 120. VEDEL, old Danish writer, VII. 90. VEDIANTII, Ligurian tribe, Italy, XIV. 640.

and philosopher, IV. 276. VEJOVIS, name of Jupiter, XIII. 780. VELA, Blasco Nunez de, Peruvian viceroy, XVIII. 677.

VELABRUM, part of ancient Rome, xx. 824.

VELASQUEZ, Diego, Spanish governor of Cuba, VI. 441.

VELAZQUEZ, Diego de Silva, Spanish painter, XXIV. 132; as colourist, XVIII. 139.

VELDEKE, Heinrich von, German writer,

X. 518, 523.

VELED, Sultan, Ottoman poet, XXIII. 656.

VELEIA, ancient town, Italy, XXIV. 136 VELEIKA, town, Russia, XXIV. 234. VELESA (Koprili), town, Turkey in Europe, XIV. 140.

VEEN, Heemskerk van, Dutch painter, VELESLAVIN, Bohemian printer and XI. 611.

Otto van, Flemish painter, XXI. 41. VEGA, Garcilaso de la, Spanish soldier and poet, X. 74; XVIII. 346; XXII. 357.

writer, XXII. 152.

VELEZ DE GUEVARA, Luiz, Spanish
novelist, XI. 248; XXII. 358.
VELEZ-MALAGA, town, Spain, XXIV.
136.

Garcilaso Inca de la, Spanish VELIKAYA, river, Russia, XX. 35; XXI. historian, X. 74.

73.

Georg von, Austrian logarithmist, VELIKIYA LUKI, town, Russia, XX. 36. XIV. 775; XXIII. 9. VELINO, Falls of, Perugia, Italy, XXIII. 190.

CARPIO, Lope Felix de, Spanish dramatist and poet, XXIV. 121; VII. 420; XXII. 357, 358.

VEGAS, irrigated plains, Spain, XXII.

299.

VEGETABLE BATHS, III. 439.

Monte, mountain, Italy, XIII. 438. VELIZH, town, Russia, XXIV. 137. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Marcus, Roman historian, XVIII. 358. VELLETRI, town, Italy, XXIV. 137.

VEGETABLE CREEK MINE, New South VELLIKONDA, district, Karnul, India, Wales, XVI. 471.

VEGETABLE HISTOLOGY, XII. 10. VEGETABLE IVORY, XIII. 524; XVII. 664.

VEGETABLE KINGDOM, XXIV. 124; III. 690; IV. 79; Linnæus's classification of, XIV. 672; longevity in, XIV. 857. See also Botany and Plant. VEGETABLE MARROW, gourd, XI. 4; XII. 283.

VEGETABLE PARASITISM, XVIII. 264. VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY, XIX. 43. VEGETABLES, Garden, XII. 278; cultivation of, I. 384; poisonous, XV. 782. VEGETATION, Chemistry of, XIV. 567.

ZONES, in the Alps, 1. 631. VEGETIUS, Flavius Renatus, Roman military writer, XXIV. 132.

Publius, Roman veterinary surgeon, XXIV. 197.

VEGLIA, island, Adriatic, XXIV. 132. VEHMGERICHTE (Fehmic Courts), Germany, IX. 63; X. 495. VEII, Etruscan town, Italy, VIII. 634; capture of, by Romans, XX. 739.

XIV. 6.

VELLORE, town, India, XXIV. 137. VELLUM, XIV. 390; XVIII. 271; ancient use of, XVIII. 144, 147, 162. VELOCIPEDE, XXIII. 559. VELOCITY, in mechanics, XV. 681, 769; VIII. 207; of light, XIV. 584; xxiv. 458; of sound, I. 104; XXIV. 418; of the wind, XVI. 156.

VELSK, town, Russia, XXIV. 283. VELTEN, St, bishop and martyr, XXIV. 36.

VELTHEN, Magister Johann, German dramatist, VII. 441.

VELVET, silken textile, XXIV. 137, 467; ancient, XXIII. 209; dyeing of, VII. 579.

VELVET-DUCK, bird, XXI. 470.
VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMENTI-
ANUS FORTUNATUS, Latin poet, IX.
469.

VENATION, of leaves, IV. 109.
VENDACE, fish, XXIV. 137; XXI. 223.
VENDÉE, department, France, XXIV.
137; insurrection in, IX. 605.

VENDÉE DIAMOND, kind of quartz. XXIV. 138.

VENDETTA, Practice of, in Sardinia, XXI. 309.

VENDIDAD, part of Zend-Avesta, XXIV. 775, 823.

VENDÔME, town, France, XXIV. 138;
XIV. 809.

VENDOR, in law, XXI. 206.
VENEER, Marble, in wall decorations,
XVII. 35.

VENEERING, in cabinet work, XXIV. 138; IX. 849.

VENER, Lake, Sweden, XXII. 736. VENERATION, in phrenology, XVIII. 845.

VENEREAL DISEASES, XVIII. 404; XXII. 686; in the horse, XXIV. 202. VENETI, ancient Italian people, XIII. 447. VENETIA, province, Italy, XXIV. 141. VENETIAN ALPS, I. 630. VENEZUELA, republic, South America, XXIV. 139; I. 712; revolt of, from Spain, 1. 710; liberation of, by Bolivar, IV. 7; forests, IX. 406; newspapers, XVII. 437. VENGEANCE, Private, in Roman law, XX. 675; in Sardinia, XXI. 309. VENICE, town and former republic, Italy, XXIV. 141; XIII. 479; occupation of Greece by, XI. 121; war of Louis XII. of France with, IX. 555; occupation of, by Napoleon (1797), XVII. 198; conflict with Ottoman empire, XXIII. 642; contest with Pope Paul V., XVIII. 431; relations to the popedom, XIX. 505; its support of Father Sarpi, XXI. 311; bank of, III. 316; bridge of the Rialto, IV. 332; coins, XVII. 657; commerce, VI. 199; musical conservatory, VI. 291; dialect of, XIII. 494; doges, VII. 331; glass making, X. 652; libraries, XIV. 530, 548; majolica ware, XIX. 628; St Mark's church, II. 435; crypt in St Mark's, VI. 669; nobles, XVII. 527; school of painting, XXI. 436, 442; pictures in, XXI. 447; porcelain, XIX. 636; sculpture, XXI. 568; Tintoretto's pictures in, XX. 609; Titian's pictures in, XXIII. 414, 416; Turner's pictures of, XXIII. 667.

70.

PRESERVED, Otway's drama, XVIII.

TURPENTINE, XIV. 310. VENI CREATOR, ancient hymn, XII. 583. VENIERI, Sebastian, Venetian admiral and doge, XXIV. 145, 146. VENKATAGIRI, town, India, XVII. 321. VENLO, town, Holland, XXIV. 157. VENNACHER, Loch, Scotland, XVIII. 666. VENNONES, or Venostes, Rhætian people, XX. 505.

VENTA ICENORUM (Norwich), ancient town, England, XVII. 595. VENTIDIUS, Roman general, XVIII. 597.

VENTILATION, XXIV. 157; of bee hives, | VERGIL, or Virgil (q.v.), Latin poet, XXIV. 248.

III. 486; of drains, XXI. 715; of hospitals, XII. 304; of mines, VI. 70;

XVI. 459.

painting, XXI. 436, 443; pictures, XXI. 447. VERGNIAUD, Pierre Victurnien, French VERONESE, Paolo, Italian painter, XXIV. Revolutionist, XXIV. 164. 173; XXI. 436; his manner of colour

VENTNOR, town, Isle of Wight, England, VERHULST, William, director, New XXIV. 162.

VENTRILOQUISM, VII. 63.

VENTURA, Luca d'Egidio di (Signorelli),

Italian painter, XXII. 50; XXI. 434, 442. VENUE, in law, XXIV. 162. VENUS, Roman goddess (the Greek Aphrodite), 1. 788; II. 171; relations with Adonis, 1. 163; the Egyptian Athor, III. 13; temple of, at Rome, xx. 827; in classical sculpture, II. 356, 361; VII. 530; xv. 842.

planet, II. 777, 782, 791; brightness of, XIV. 582; transits of, II. 796; XVIII. 246; first observation of transit, II. 754; XII. 172; Assyrian worship of, III. 176.

Vigil of, Latin poem, XVIII. 683. VENUS'S FLY-TRAP, insectivorous plant, XIII. 136.

VEPERI, part of Madras city, India, xv. 188.

VERA, Augusto, Italian philosopher, XXIV. 162.

CRUZ, state, Mexico, XVI. 214; population, XXIV. 163.

CRUZ, town, Mexico, XXIV. 163.

VERATRUM, plant, XXIV. 163.
VERAWAL, town, India, XXII. 261.

Netherland, America, XVII. 454. VERJUICE, from crab apples, II. 212. VERKH-ISSETSKII, town, Russia, XVIII.

550.

VERKHNE-TCHIRSKAYA, town, Russia, XVII. 500.

VERKHNEUDINSK, town, Transbaikalia, Russia, XXIII. 511.

VERKHNE-URALSK, town, Russia, XXIV. 166; XVII. 826.

ing, XVIII. 139; as colleague of Tintoret, XX. 610.

VERONICA, St, XXIV. 173.

VERRES, Roman governor, XXIV. 174. VERRI, Pietro, Italian economist, XIX. 362.

VERROCCHIO, Andrea del, Florentine painter and sculptor, XXIV. 175; XIV. 456; XXI. 568.

VERRUCCHIO, Malatesta da, Italian nobleman, XX. 556.

VERKHNII LOMOFF, town, Russia, VERRUGAS, disease, XXIV. 377, 732.

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VERB, in grammar, XI. 41.

lake, XV. 198.

VERBENA, plant, XXIV. 163.

163;

VERCELLI, town, Italy, XXIV. library, XIV. 531; university, XXIII. 833, 836.

CODEX, Anglo-Saxon MS., VIII. 406; MS. of Gospels in Latin, XXIV. 163. VERCELLIS, Madame de, friend of Rousseau, XXI. 24.

VERCINGETORIX, Gallic chief, IV. 637. VERD, Cape, West Africa, XXI. 661; islands, v. 50; I. 272; III. 759. VERDAGUER, Jacinto, Spanish poet, XXII. 365.

VERDE ANTICO, variety of marble, xv.

529; XVI. 397.

VERDELHO WINE, Madeira, xv. 178. VERDEN, Massacre of Saxons at (782),

v. 403.

VERDERER, in forest law, IX. 409. VERDICT, of a jury, XIII. 785, 787. VERDIGRIS, or Acetate of Copper, vi. 351; as a poison, XIX. 278.

river, Nebraska, U.S.A., XVII.

307. Verditer BLUE, pigment, Xix. 87. VERDUN, town, France, XXIV. 164; treaty of (843), IX. 534; X. 480; XV. 9. VERGE-BOARD, in architecture, II. 475. VERGENNES, Claire E. J. G. de (Madame Rémusat), French writer, XX. 379.

Italian Reformer, XXIV. 166. VERMILION, pigment, XXIV. 166; XIX. 87. VERMLAND, County, Sweden, XXII. 741.

VERMONT, State, U.S.A., xxiv. 166.
VERNATION, of plants, arrangement of
leaves in bud, IV. 118.
VERNET, spa, France, XX. 128.

Antoine Charles Horace (Carle
Vernet), French painter, XXIV. 169.
Claude Joseph, French painter,
XXIV. 168.

Émile Jean Horace, French military painter, XXIV. 169.

Madame, her protection of Condorcet, VI. 254.

VERNIER, micrometric

instrument,

XXIV. 169; XVII. 256; XXII. 718.

Pierre, French commandant, inventor of the vernier, XXIV. 169; XVII. 256; XXII. 718.

-, Peru, Railway bridge at, XVIII. 675. VERSAILLES, town, France, XXIV. 176; treaty of (1756), IX. 588; treaty of (1783), IX. 595; William I. of Prussia proclaimed German emperor at (1871), XXIV. 582; labyrinth at, XIV. 180; libraries, XIV. 526, 546; palace, II. 441; Vernet's paintings in palace, XXIV. 169; waterworks, II. 222. VERSECZ, town, Hungary, XXIV. 178. VERSIFICATION, in poetry, XIX. 258. VERTEBRÆ, XXII. III; XXIV. 178; in

human anatomy, I. 820; of Amphibia, 1. 751; of apes, II. 159; of birds, III. 717; of fishes, XII. 640; of mammals, XV. 356 (and article Mammalia throughout); of reptiles, XX. 447. VERTEBRATA, or Vertebrates, division of animal kingdom, XXIV. 178; II. 53; embryology of, XX. 420; nervous system, XIX. 31; reproduction, XX. 409; skeleton, XXII. 106; in Lankester's classification, XXIV. 812.

VERTIGO, Epileptic, VIII. 480.
VERTOT, Abbé de, French historian, IX.
668.

VERTUE, George, English engraver and
antiquary, XXIV. 188.
VERTUMNUS, Roman deity, XIX 443.
VERT VERT, Gresset's poem, XI. 187.
VERULAM, Baron (Francis Bacon, q.v.),

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VESOUL, town, France, XXIV. 191; XXI.

301.

VESPA, genus of insects, XXIV. 391.
VESPASIAN (Titus Flavius Vespasianus),
Roman emperor, XXIV. 191; XX. 772;
in Judæa, XIII. 427; temple of, at
Rome, xx. 820.

VETRANIC-CAVCIC, Nicholas, Ragusan | VICO, Giovan Battista, Italian jurist and dramatist, XXI. 690.

VETTER, Lake, Sweden, XXII. 736.
VETTORE, Monte, mountain, Italy,
XIII. 437.

VETULONIA, Etruscan town, Italy, VIII.
636.

VESPERS, canonical hour, XXIV. 192; IV. VETURII, Ligurian tribe, Italy, XIV.
263.
640.

AT BLACKFRIARS, London, Acci- VEVAY, town, Switzerland, XXIV. 115.
dent at (1623), XIV. 847.
VEXIN, district, Normandy, France,
VESPERTILIONIDE, family of bats, XV.

410.

VESPIDE, family of insects, XXIV. 391.
VESPUCCI, Amerigo, Italian navigator,
XXIV. 192; X. 181.
VESTA, Roman goddess (the Greek
Hestia), XXIV. 193; temple of, at
Rome, XX. 818, 819; temple of, at
Tivoli, II. 417; pilgrimage to temple
of, XIX. 91.

-, asteroid, II. 807.
VESTALIA, Roman festival, XXIV. 195.
VESTAL VIRGINS, Roman priestesses,
XXIV. 193.

VESTAS, matches, XV. 626.
VESTERAALEN, islands, Norway, XIV.

768; XVII. 577.

VESTERÅS, county, Sweden, XXII. 741. VESTERBOTTEN, county, Sweden, XXII. 741.

XVII. 539, 544.

VEYSI, Turkish writer, XXIII. 656.
VÉZELAY ABBEY, France, Architecture
of, II. 430.

VIADUCTS, IV. 284; railway, XX. 234.
VIAREGGIO, town, Italy, XXIV. 208.
VIATICUM, last communion to the
dying, XXIV. 208.

VIATKA, or Vyatka, government, Russia,
XXIV. 302; town, XXIV. 303.
VIAU, or Viaud, Théophile de, French
poet, XXIV. 208; IX. 656.
VIAZEMSKI, Prince, Russian poet, XXI.

109.

VIBORG, town, Denmark, VII. 83.

town, Finland, XXIV. 209. VIBRATION, Effect of, on iron and steel, XIII. 355; on magnetization, XV. 268.

Light propagated as, XXIV. 421. VESTERNORRLAND, county, Sweden, VIBRATIONS OF SOUND, I. 100; XVII.

XXII. 741.

VESTFJOLD KINGS, of Norway, xvII. 585.

VESTIGES OF CREATION, anonymous work, by Robert Chambers, v. 381; XXIV. 77.

VESTMANLAND, county, Sweden, XXII. 741.

VESTMENTS, Ecclesiastical, XXIV. 195;

VI. 461.

VESTOCHNYI, Cape, Eastern Siberia,

XV. 547.

VESTRIS, Madame, English actress, XV.
632.

VESTRY BOARDS, of London, XIV. 820.
VESUNNA (Périgueux), Roman town,
France, XVIII. 534.
VESUVIANS, matches, xv. 626.
VESUVIUS, volcano, Italy, XXIV. 195;
X. 243; XVII. 187; destruction of
Pompeii by, XIX. 444.

VESZELYITE, mineral, XVI. 406.
VESZPREM, town, Hungary, XXIV. 197.
VETCHES, Culture of, I. 376.

105; communication of, 1. 116; of human voice, XXIV. 275. VIBROGRAPHS, acoustic instruments, I.

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PARK, London, XIV. 824.

PEAK, Vancouver Island, XXIV. 57.
REGIA, water-lily, XXIV. 402.
UNIVERSITY, at Manchester, Eng-
land, XXIII. 854.
VICTORINES, The, mystics, XVII. 132.
VICUÑA, or Vicugna, ungulate mammal,
I. 598; IV. 13; XIV. 739; influence of
domestication on, IV. 251.

VICENZA, town, Italy, XXIV. 210; uni- VICUS AQUENSIS (Bagnères-de-Bigorre), versity of, XXIII. 836.

VETERINARY DEPARTMENT, of British VICE-PRESIDENT, of United States, army, II. 584.

VETERINARY SCIENCE, XXIV. 197. VETLANKA, Russia, Plague at, XIX. 167. VETLUGA, river, Russia, XXIV. 279. VETO, in constitutional law, XXIV. 206; of the Roman tribune, XXIII. 558; presidential, of United States, XXIII.

749.

ACT, of Church of Scotland, IX. 743; XXI. 538.

XXIII. 750; list of vice-presidents,
XXIII. 787.

VICH, town, Spain, XXIV. 210.

ancient town, France, III. 235. VICUS IRIE (Voghera), ancient town, Italy, XXIV. 272.

VIDA, Marco Girolamo, Italian Latin
poet, XXIV. 219.

VICHY, town, France, XXIV. 210; VIDAGO, spa, Portugal, XVI. 435.
mineral water of, XVI. 435.
VICHY-CHAMROND, Maria de, Marquise
du Deffand, VII. 25.
VICKSBURG, town, Mississippi, U.S.A.,
XXIV. 211; battle of (1863), XXIII.

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VIEILLOT, Louis Pierre, on birds, XVIII.

7.

VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzio da, Italian | VILLEFRANCHE DE ROUERGUE, town, architect, III. 380; XX. 836.

France, XXIV. 228.

VIEN, Joseph Marie, French painter, VIGNY, Alfred de, French poet and VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-SAÔNE,

XXIV. 219.

VIEN-CHANG, town, Siam, XXI. 853. VIENNA, capital of Austria-Hungary, XXIV. 219; siege of, by the Turks (1529), XXIII. 643; siege of, by the Turks (1683), III. 126; XIV. 466; XIX. 296; XXIII. 645; taken by Bonaparte (1805), III. 132; peace of (1809), III. 134; IX. 616; congress of (1814-15), III. 135, 270; VI. 270; IX. 618; XIII. 485; XIV. 855; XVII. 223; XIX. 298; revolution at (1848), III. 136; academy of surgery, 1. 77; libraries, XIV. 527, 547; newspapers, XVII. 429; imperial observatory, XVII. 713; telescope in observatory, XXIII. 149; picture galleries, XXI. 445; porcelain, XIX. 640; Canova's sculpture in, XXI. 570; university, XXIII. 840, 851; waterworks, II. 228.

VIENNE, department and town, France,

XXIV. 222.

223.

river, France, XIV. 806.

Haute-, department, France, XXIV.

John de, leader of the French in Scotland (1381), XXI. 490. VIEQUEZ, island, Porto Rico, West Indies, XIX. 532.

VIERGE AUX ROCHERS, Leonardo's painting, XIV. 460. VIERWALDSTÄTTERSEE, or Lake of

Lucerne (q.v.), Switzerland, xv. 41. VIERZON, town, France, XXIV. 223. VIETA, François, French mathematician,

XXIV. 224; his application of algebra to geometry, I. 514; on squaring the circle, XXII. 434; his contributions to trigonometry, XXIII. 562.

VIEUSSENS, Raymond, French anatomist, 1. 812, 813.

VIEUZAC, Barère de, French Revolu

tionist, III. 373.

VIGEVANO, town, Italy, XXIV. 224. VIGIL, Ecclesiastical, XXIV. 224. VIGILANTIUS, early writer on superstitious practices, XXIV. 224; his

warning against monachism, XVI. 703. VIGILIUS, pope, XXIV. 225; XIX. 493;

his relations with Pope Pelagius I., XVIII. 473.

VIGIL OF VENUS, Latin poem, XVIII. 683.

VIGNA, Pietro de la, or Pier delle Vigne, Italian minister to Frederick II., XXIV. 225; inventor of the sonnet, XXII. 262; XIII. 500.

adventurer, XXIV. 225.

VIGO, town, Spain, XXIV. 226; XIX. 455. VIGORS, Nicholas Aylward, on birds, XVIII. 15.

VIGTEN ISLANDS, Norway, XVII. 576. VIJIL, Francisco de Paula, Peruvian orator and statesman, XVIII. 676. VIK, district, Norway, XVII. 584. VIKINGS, Northern sea-rovers, their early expeditions, XVII. 584; their knowledge of geography, X. 178; their possession of Orkney and Shetland, XVII. 848; invasion of Scotland by, XXI. 477. VIKRAMADITYA, king of Ujjain, India, XII. 789. VIKRAMORVASI,

Kalidasa's Sanskrit

drama, XIII. 829; XXI. 285.

VI LAICA REMOVENDA, obsolete English writ, XXIV. 695.

France, XXIV. 229.

town,

VILLEHARDOUIN, Geoffroy de, French chronicler, XXIV. 229; IX. 645.

Godfrey, prince of Achaia, XXIV. 229; capture of Nauplia by (1211),

XVII. 249. VILLEINAGE, in England, VI. 355; VIII. 325; XXII. 137. VILLEIN-SOCAGE, system of land tenure, England, XIX. 734. VILLEMAIN, Abel François, French literary historian, XXIV. 231; IX. 680. VILLEMARQUÉ, Théodore Hersart, Vicomte de la, on Breton literature, V. 324.

VILLENA, town, Spain, XXIV. 231. - Enrique de, Spanish poet, XXII.

355.

VILLENAGE, or Villeinage (q.v.), VI. 355.

VILAYET, Turkish administrative divi- VILLENEUVE, Pierre C. J. B. S. de,

sion, XXIII. 654.

VILCAMAYU, river, Peru, XVIII. 673; valley, XVIII. 675.

VILKOMIR, town, Russia, XXIV. 226. VILLACREZES, congregation of reformed Franciscans, IX. 699.

VILLA DE CONTAS, town, Brazil, xxiv. 227.

VILLA DE HORTA, town, Azores, III.

172.

VILLA DO RIO PARDO, town, Brazil,

XXIV. 227.

VILLAFRANCA, Italy, Conference and peace of (1859), III. 139; IX. 624; XIII. 490; XVII. 228.

VILLAGE, in United States, XXIII. 827. The, Crabbe's poem, VI. 539. COMMUNITIES, XIV. 365; in Russia, XXI. 70, 83.

TENURE, of land, XIV. 260. VILLA HAYES, town, Paraguay, XVIII. 244.

VILLAINAGE, in England, VI. 355; VIII. 325; XXII. 137.

VILLANI, Filippo, Italian biographer,

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VIGNACOURT, Alof de, grand-master of VILLA REAL, town, Portugal, XXIII.

Knights Hospitallers, XXI. 175.

VIGNE, Pier delle. See Vigna.

VIGNEMALE, mountain, France, XX. 127. VIGNETTE, in architecture, II. 475. VIGNOBLES, district, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, XVII. 361.

525. VILLA RICA, town, Paraguay, XVIII. 244.

VILLARS, Claude Louis Hector, Duc de, French general, XXIV. 228; IX. 581. VILLARSITE, mineral, XVI. 415.

French admiral at Trafalgar, XVII. 323.

VILLENEUVE-SUR-LOT, town, France, XXIV. 231.

VILLIERS, George, first duke of Buckingham, IV. 417; Bacon's connexion with, III. 206.

George, second duke of Buckingham, IV. 419.

George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, v. 807.

John de, master of Knights Hospitallers, XXI. 174.

VILLON, Francis, French poet, XXIV. 232; IX. 647.

VILMANSTRAND, town, Finland, XXIV.

209.

VILMORIN, Henry de, French agriculturist, XXIV. 532.

VILNA, government, Russia, XXIV. 233. town, Russia, XXIV. 234; observatory at, XVII. 714.

VILUI, river, Siberia, XXII. 5; XXIV. 726.

VIMIERO, Portugal, Battle of (1808),

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VINCENT DE PAUL, St, founder of the | VIRAMAMUNI (Joseph Beschi), Italian | VISCHER, Theodor, on æsthetics, 1. 219.
Lazarites, XXIV. 236.
writer in Tamil, XXIII. 44.

FERRER, St, Spanish preacher, VIRAVANALLUR, town, India, XXIII.
XXIV. 236.
405.
VINCENTIUS (St Vincent), Spanish saint VIRCHOW, Rudolf, on cellular pathology,
and martyr, XXIV. 234.

BELLOVACENSIS (Vincent of Beau-
vais), mediæval encyclopædist, XXIV.
235; VIII. 192; XXI. 427.
VINCI, Leonardo da, Italian painter and
philosopher, XIV. 455; XIII. 508; xxi.
437, 569.

VINDELICI, ancient Alpine people, XX.

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XVIII. 361.

VIRGEN GORDA, island, West Indies,
XXIV. 261.

VISCONTI, Milanese ruling family, XIII.
477; XVI. 291, 293.

479.

Filippo Maria, duke of Milan, XIII.

Gian Galeazzo, count of Pavia,
XIII. 478; XVIII. 438; as ruler in
Siena, XXII. 41; tomb of, XXI. 569.

VIRGIDEMIARUM SIXE BOOKES, Bishop VISCOSITY, property of matter, VII. 801;
Hall's work, XI. 390.

VIRGIL (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman

poet, XXIV. 248; XX. 722; language
and style of, XIV. 335; as representa-
tive of the Augustan age, III. 82; his
connexion with Naples, XVII. 191;
commentaries on, XXI. 692; Gawain
Douglas's translation of, VII. 377;
Dryden's, VII. 492.

Polydore, bishop of Bath and
Wells and historian, XXIV. 255.
THE ENCHANTER, romance, XX.

641.
VIRGILIA, genus of trees, II. 320.
VIRGILIANÆ SORTES, Divination by,
VII. 293.

VINDOCINUM (Vendôme), ancient town, VIRGINAL, musical instrument, XIX. 67.
France, XXIV. 138.
VIRGINIA, Roman maiden, Story of, v.
816.

VINE, plant, XXIV. 236; in horticulture,
XII. 277; culture of, for wine making,
XXIV. 602; cultivation, in Italy, XIII.
451; in Madeira, XV. 178; of Zante,
XXIV. 767.

VINEA, Petrus de, or Pietro de la Vigna,
minister of emperor Frederick II.,
XXIV. 225. See Vigna.

State, U.S.A., XXIV. 255; colony
of, XXIII. 729; Captain John Smith's
connexion with, XXII. 174; mineral
springs of, XVI. 436; newspapers, XVII.
434; opium cultivation, XVII. 792.

West. See West Virginia.
CITY, Nevada, U.S.A., XXIV. 261.
VIRGINIAN NIGHTINGALE, bird, XI.
209; XVII. 499.

VIRGINIANS, The, by Thackeray, XXIII.
216.

VINEGAR, or Acetic Acid, XXIV. 240;
making of, IX. 98.
VINE-MILDEW, XVI. 294.
VINERY, Garden, XII. 223.
VINET, Alexandre Rodolphe, French
critic and theologian, XXIV. 241; XXII.
799.
VINEYARDS, XXIV. 602; on the Rhine, VIRGIN ISLANDS, West Indies, XXIV.
XX. 520.

VINJE, A. O., Norwegian poet, XVII.
591.

VINLAND, Seat of early settlement, North

America, I. 706.

VINNITSA, town, Russia, XXIV. 241;

XIX. 254.

VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS (1798), in
history of United States, XV. 183;
XXIII. 756.

261.

VI. 311; XIX. 247; of gases, XVI. 618;

XIX. 248; of solids, XXII. 598; mea-
surement of, XII. 459.

VISCOUNT, rank of nobility, XXIV. 261;
XXIII. 418; in English peerage, XVIII.
464.

VISCUM, genus of plants, XVI. 527;
XVIII. 265.

VISHNU, Hindu deity, IV. 207; worship
of, among Mahrattas, XV. 290.
VISHNUMAYA, daughter of Brahma, XIV.
19.

VISHNUVITES, tribe, India, xv. 185.
VISHTASPA, ancient Oriental sovereign,
XXIV. 821.

VISIBLE SPEECH, A. Melville Bell's, 1.
608; XXII. 385.

VISIGOTHIC WRITING, XVIII. 156.
VISIGOTHS, or West Goths, X. 848; in
France, IX. 528; XIV. 287; invasion
of Roman empire by, XX. 780; their
conquest of Spain, XXII. 308; in time
of Theodosius I., XXIII. 257; code of,
IV. 262; XXI. 216.

VISIN, Denis von, Russian dramatist,
XXI. 106.

VISION, XIV. 578; physical causes of,

VIII. 816; binocular, XXII. 538; diseases
of, XVII. 780; influence of, on nervous
movements, XIX. 39; psychical relations
of, VIII. 826; Berkeley's theory of, III.
590; in bees, III. 487. See also Sight.
Poetic, XIX. 263.

149.

OF MIRZA, Addison's allegory, I.

Virgin Martyr, The, Massinger's play, VISIONS, Mental, vII. 452.
XV. 618.

VIRGIN MARY, The, XV. 589.

VIRGINS, Eleven Thousand, of the
Ursula legend, XXIV. 13.
VIRIATHUS, Lusitanian chief, XXII. 306.

VINTSCHGAU, district, Tyrol, Austria, VIRTUE, in ethics, VIII. 575; Aristotelian

XXIII. 7II.

VIOL, musical instrument, XXIV. 242.
VIOLA, genus of plants, XVIII. 214;

XXIV. 241.

VIOLET, plant, XXIV. 241; XII. 253.
VIOLIN, musical instrument, XXIV. 242.
VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugène Emmanuel,
French architect, XXIV. 246.
VIOLONCELLO, musical instrument,
XXIV. 245.

VIOTTI, Giovanni Battista, Italian
violinist and composer, XXIV. 246.
VIPER, reptile, XXIV. 247; XXII. 193,

199.

doctrine of, II. 517; Platonic, XIX. 196;
Socratic, XXII. 237, 266; XIX. 195;
Stoic doctrine of, XXII. 568.
VIRUNUM (Klagenfurt), ancient town,
Austria, XIV. 107.
VISAKHADATTA, Hindu dramatist, XXI.
286.

VISAYAS, islands, Philippines, XVIII.
752.

race of people, Philippine Islands,
XVIII. 753.
VISCERA, Thoracic, Anatomy of, 1. 899;
XX. 475; abdominal, VII. 223; XVIII.
669; malformations of, XVI. 765.

VIPERA, genus of snakes, XX. 452; XXII. VISCHER, Peter, German artist, XVII.
193; XXIV. 247.

633; XXI. 565.

VISITATION, Feast of the, XV. 592.
VISON, genus of carnivorous mammals,
XVI. 474.

VISPERED, part of Zend-Avesta, XXIV.
775.

VISQUERT, Antonio, Spanish painter,
XXIII. 198.
VISSCHER, Anna, Dutch poetess, XII.

93.

Roemer Pieterssen, Dutch writer,
XII. 93.

Tesselschade, Dutch poetess, XII.

93.
VISTRITZA, river, Macedonia, XV. 137.
VISTULA, river, Central Europe, 111. 116,
294; XIX. 307; XX. 218.

GOVERNMENTS, Russian official
designation of Poland, XIX. 306.
VISVAMITRA, Indian sage, XII. 782.
VITALE MICHIELI, doge of Venice,
XXIV. 142.

VITALIAN, Roman general, XIII. 791.

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