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VIVES, Juan Luis, or Ludovicus, Spanish | VOIGTLAND, region, Central Germany,

scholar, XXIV. 267.

VIVI, town, on Congo river, Africa, XXIV.
765.

VIVIANITE, mineral, XVI. 404; XVIII.
818.

VIVIPAROUS BIRTH, XX. 410.
VIVIPAROUS PLANTS, XX. 423.
VIVISECTION, John Hunter on, XII. 386.

ACT (1876), English, XV. 799.

XX. 493.

VOIL, Loch, Scotland, XVIII. 666.
VOIRLICH, Ben, mountain, Scotland,
XVIII. 666.

VOIRON, town, France, XXIV. 277.
VOITURE, Vincent, French writer, XXIV.
277.

VOIVODES, rulers of Roumania, XXI. 16,
19.

VIVONNE, Catherine de, Marquise de VOLAGASES I., Parthian king, XVIII.
Rambouillet, XX. 264.

VIZAGAPATAM, district and town, India,
XXIV. 267.

VIZCAYA (Biscay), province, Spain, III.
787.

VIZIADRUG, town, India, XXIV. 267; X.
566.

602.

II., Parthian king, XVIII. 603.
III., Parthian king, XVIII. 604.
IV., Parthian king, XVIII. 605.

- V., Parthian king, XVIII. 606.
VOLATERRA (Volterra), Etruscan town,
Italy, vIII. 636; XXIV. 293.

VITI (or FIJI) ISLANDS, South Pacific, VIZIANAGRAM, estate and town, India, | VOLATERRANUS, his
IX. 155; XV. 835.

VITIGIS, Gothic king, XIII. 797.

VITI LEVU, one of the Fiji Islands, IX.
156.

VITIM, plateau, Siberia, XXII. 2; XXIV.

725.

XXIV. 267.

Urbani, VIII. 193.

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VIZIER, Oriental officer, XXIV. 268; xvI. | VOLATILITY, of metals, Table of, XVI.

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river, Siberia, XXII. 5; XXIII. 510; VLACHS, or Roumans, XXIV. 268; in
XXIV. 726.

VITIS, genus of plants, XXIV. 237.
VITKOVICS, Michael, Hungarian poet,
XII. 377.

VITORIA, town, Spain, XXIV. 263; battle

of (1813), XXIV. 496.
VITRÉ, town, France, xxiv. 263.
VITREA, group of Foraminifera, IX. 378.
VITRIFIED FORTS, XXIV. 263.
VITRIOL, VITRIOLS, XXIV. 265; XVI.
401, 402; manufacture of, XXII. 636;
as a poison, XIX. 278; blue, XXII. 637;
Roman, VI. 351.
VITRUVIUS, Roman architect and en-
gineer, XXIV. 265; II. 382; XX. 809;
his influence on Italian architecture, II.
437; language and style of, XIV. 336.
VITRY, France, Storming of (1143), IX.
540; XV. 18.

VITTORIA, town, Sicily, XXIV. 266.

VITTORINO DA FELTRE, Italian educa-
tionist, VII. 672.
VITTORIO (Cenada), district, Italy, v.
334.

AMEDEO (Victor Amadeus, q.v.)
II., king of Sardinia, XIII. 484; XXI.
342.

VITTORIOSO, part of Valetta, Malta,

XV. 340.

VITUDURUM

(Winterthur), ancient
town, Switzerland, XXIV. 614.
VITUS, St, Roman martyr, XXIV. 266.
VIVARIA, or Fish Stews, Ancient, II.

218.

VIVARINI, Antonio, Venetian painter,
XXIV. 266.

-, Bartolommeo,
XXIV. 267.

Roumania, XXI. 16.

VLACICH, Matthias (Flacius), German
theologian, IX. 275; V. 765; xv. 85.
VLACQ, Adrian, Dutch logarithmist,

XIV. 774; his tables, XXIII. 9.
VLAD, voivode of Walachia, XXI. 16.
VLADIKAVKAZ, town, Russia, XXIV.
270.

VLADIMIR, government, Russia. XXIV.
270; town, XXIV. 271.

early Russian prince, XXI. 89.
VLADISLAFF, king of Servia, XXI.
688.

VLADIVOSTOK, town, Siberia, XXIV.
271; XV. 549.

66.
VOLBORTHITE, mineral, XVI. 406.
VOLCANALIA, Roman festival, XXIV. 301.
VOLCANIC ISLANDS, Polynesia, XIX.
418.

VOLCANO, VOLCANOES, X. 240; as
source of ammonia, XVII. 516; in
America, I. 673; in Azores, III. 170; of
Chili, v. 616; Etna, VIII. 627; of
Europe, VIII. 683; in Isle of Thera,
Greece, XXIII. 280; of Hawaii, XI.
531; of Iceland, XII. 617; of Italy,
XIII. 443; of Japan, XIII. 571; of
Java, XIII. 601; of Mexico, XIX. 5123
of Peru, XVIII. 672; of Philippine
Islands, XVIII. 749; Vesuvius, XXIV.
195; mud, in Burmah, XIV. 162.
VOLCI, Etruscan town, Italy, vIII. 635.
VOLE, rodent mammal, XXIV. 277; XV.
419; snow-vole, 1. 633.

VLISSINGEN (Flushing), town, Holland, VOLGA, river, Russia, XXIV. 278; XXI.
IX. 350; XXIV. 772.

74, 304.

VLOTSLAVSK, town, Russian Poland, VOLGERITE, mineral, XVI. 388.

XXIV. 625.

VOCAL ORGANS, in man, XXIV. 273; in
birds, III. 726.

VODENA, town, Turkey in Europe, VII.
652.

VODKA, river, Russia, XVII. 772.
VODNIK, Valentine, Slovenian poet,
XXII. 150.

VOLHYNIA, government, Russia, XXIV.
281.

VOLINSKI, Prince, Russian minister,
XXI. 98.

VOLITION, in psychology, XX. 72;
physiological action of the brain in,
XV. 279; Cousin's doctrine of spon-
taneity in, VI. 525. See also Will.
VOET, Gisbert, on the Cartesian philo- VOLJSK, town, Russia, XXIV. 283; xxI.
sophy, VII. 119.
305.

VOGEL, H. C., his corrections of object- VOLKHOFF, river, Russia, XVII. 607;
glasses, XXIII. 141.

XXI. 73.

Calvin, IV. 714.

VOLNEY, Constantin François Chasse-
boeuf, Comte de, French writer, XXIV.
282; IX. 672.

VOGELWEIDE, Walther von der, Ger- VOLMAR, Melchior, his influence on
man poet, XXIV. 340; X. 525.
VOGHERA, town, Italy, XXIV. 272.
VOGLER, Georg Joseph, German organist
and composer, XXIV. 272.
VOGLITE, mineral, XVI. 399.
Italian painter, VOGULS, people, Siberia, XXII. 8.
VOICE, Human, XXIV. 273; sounds of,
1. 118; XVIII. 811; XXII. 381; as in-
strument of expression, XVIII. 767.
VOIDER, in heraldry, XI. 697.

Luigi, Italian painter, XXIV. 267.
VIVERRA, genus of carnivorous mam-
mals, XV. 436; v. 796.

VOLO, town, Greece, XXIV. 282; gulf,
XXIII. 299.
VOLOGDA, government, Russia, XXIV.
282; town, XXIV. 283.
VOLOGESIA, town, Mesopotamia, XVI.
51.

VOLOST, administrative division, Russia, | VÖRÖSMARTY, Michael, Hungarian poet,

XXI. 70.

VOLSCI, or Volscians, ancient Italian

people, XIII. 445; XIV. 344; XX. 739.
VOLSINII, Etruscan town, Italy, vIII.
635.

VOLSK, town, Russia, XXIV. 283; XXI.
305.

VOLT, electrical unit of measurement,
XXIII. 116.

VOLTA, river, West Coast, Africa, X.
755.

—, Alessandro, Italian physicist, XXIV.
284; his electrical experiments, VIII.

9.

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de,
French man of letters, XXIV. 285; IX.
665; his influence on the French
drama, VII. 425; his religious opinions,
IX. 669; as satirist, XXI. 320; influence
of his writings, IX. 592; quarrel with
Lessing, XIV. 479; his relation to
Ninon de Lenclos, XIV. 445.
VOLTAITE, mineral, XVI. 402.
VOLTAMETER, electric machine, VIII.
107.

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VULCANIST THEORY, in geology, XXIV.

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VORTIGERN, British prince, II. 650; VULGAR FRACTIONS, in arithmetic, II.

VIII. 269.

Vos, Jan, Dutch writer, XII. 95.
VOSGES, department, France, XXIV.
298.

-, mountains, France and Germany,
XXIV. 298; IX. 506.

VOSMAER, C., Dutch writer, XII. 98.
Voss, Johann Heinrich, German poet
and archæologist, XXIV. 299; X.
541.

VOSSIUS, Gerardus Johannes, German
scholar and theologian, XXIV. 299.

Isaac, Dutch scholar, XXIV. 300.
VOTAN, legendary legislator of Yucatan,
1. 704.

529; tables of, XXIII. 8, 13.
VULGATE, Latin translation of the
Scriptures, III. 647; XIII. 631.
VULPES, genus of carnivorous mammals,
IX. 493.

VULPINITE, mineral, XVI. 400.

VULPIUS, Christiane, wife of Goethe, X.
731.

VULSO, Cnæus Manlius, Roman consul,
XV. 492.

VULTURE, bird, XXIV. 301.

Bearded, bird, XIV. 243.
VURFU OURLA, mountain, Hungary,
XII. 361.

VYASA, Brahman poet, XXI. 281.

VOTERS, Parliamentary, Registration of, VYATKA, government, Russia, XXIV.
in England, XX. 344.
302; town, XXIV. 303; XXI. 89, 91.
VYAZMA, town, Russia, XXIV. 303; XXII.
183.

VOLTCHANSK, town, Russia, XIV. 57.
VOLTERRA, town, Italy, XXIV. 293; VIII.
636.
Daniele da, Italian artist, XX. VOTING, Modes of, III. 288.

VOTIAK LANGUAGE, XXIV. 1; XVIII.
779; dictionaries of, VII. 188.

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537.
VOLTERRANO, Il (Baldassare Frances-
chini), Italian painter, IX. 687.
VOLTORE, Monte, Italy, XIII. 439.
VOLTURNO, river, Italy, XIII. 440.
VOLTZINE, mineral, XVI. 396.
VOLUBILIS, Morocco, Ruins of, XVI.
834.

VOTKINSK, town, Russia, XXIV. 300.
VOUET, Simon, French painter, XXIV.
300.

VOUSSOIR, in an arch, IV. 305.
Vow, Religious, XXIV. 300; Nazarite,
XXIII. 17.

VOWEL POINTS, in Hebrew, XI. 600.
VOWELS, their sounds, I. 1; pronuncia-
tion of, XXII. 382; musical sounds and
notation of, I. 119.

VOLUME, Mensuration of, XVI. 13.
VOLUNTEERS, British, XXIV. 293.
VOLUSENUS, Florentius, Scottish hu- VOYAGE HOME, Lucian's work, XV.

manist, XXIV. 296.

VOLUTE, in architecture, II. 475-
VOMER, Anatomy of the, in man, 1. 825;
in Amphibia, 1.754; in mammals, XV.
355; in reptiles, XX. 450, 452; de-
velopment of, in birds, III. 700.
VOMITING, XVII. 670.
VONDEL, Joost van der, Dutch writer,
VII. 444; XII. 94.
VONONES I., Parthian king, XVIII. 600.
II., Parthian king, XVIII. 602.
VOORBROEK, Jakob (Perizonius), Dutch
scholar, XVIII. 547.

45.

VYAZNIKI, town, Russia, XXIV. 271.
VYERNYI, town, Russia in Asia, XXIV.

303; XXI. 641.

VYISKI, iron-works, Russia, XVII. 500.
VYRNWY, river, Wales, Waterworks of,
XIV. 714; XXIV. 407.
VYSHNEVOLOTSK, canals, Russia, XXIII.
672.

VYSHNIY VOLOTCHOK, town, Russia,
XXIV. 303; XXIII. 672.
VYTCHEGDA, river, Russia, XXIV. 283.

VOYAGE OF PARNASSUS, by Cervantes, W, the twenty-third letter of the
, alphabet, XXIV. 304.

V. 354.
VOYAGES, Quickest, down to 1883, XVII. WAAL, river, Holland, XII. 63; XX.
277.
VOZHE, Lake, Russia, XVII. 606.

VOZNESENSK, Ivanovo-, town, Russia,
XIII. 520; XXIV. 271.
VRANCX, Sebastian, Flemish painter,
XXIV. 301.
VRANITZA, Turkey, Charles XII.'s
residence at, V. 421.
VRAZ, Stanko, Servian poet, xxI. 691.
VOPISCUS, Flavius, Augustan historian, VRIENDT, Frans de (Floris), Flemish

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519.

WABASH, river, Indiana, U.S.A., XII.
813.

WACE, Maistre, French trouvère, XXIV.
304; VIII. 407.
WACHSTEIN, mountain, Germany, XXI.
349.
WACHUSETT, mountain, Massachusetts,
U.S.A., XV. 611; XXIII. 792.
WACKENRODER, Wilhelm Heinrich
German writer, X. 542.

VORAGINE, Jacobus de, archbishop of VRIES, Simon de, friend of Spinoza, WACLAW, king of Poland, xix. 288.

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WADMAN, Johan Anders, Swedish writer, | WAIROA, river, New Zealand, XVII. | WALDEMAR, king of Sweden, XXII.
XXII. 757.
467.
745.

WADY HALFA, town, Nubia, Africa, WAITANGI, New Zealand, Treaty of WALDEN, Thoreau's prose work, XXIII.
XVII. 507, 611.
(1840), XVII. 471.

WADY MUSA (Petra), town, Northern WAITZ, Georg, German historian, XXIV.
Arabia, XVIII. 705.

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VII. 511;

OF BATTLE, II. 210;
XVII. 820; XXIV. 305.
WAGES, XXIV. 306; XIV. 165; as affected
by trade unions, XXIII. 500; payment
of, XVIII. 440; taxes on, XXIII. 89;
Lassalle on, XIV. 321; Marx on, XXII.
211; Rodbertus's theory, xx. 616.
See also article Political Economy.
WAGGONS, Railway, XX. 247.
WAGLER, Johann, on birds, XVIII. 14,
20; on reptiles, XX. 436.
WAGNER, Adolf, German economist,
XIX. 392.

Andreas, on a feathered reptile,
XVIII. 34.

Johann Gottlob, pianoforte maker,
XIX. 73.

Rudolph, German anatomist and
physiologist, XXIV. 313.

Wilhelm Richard, German musi-
cal composer, XXIV. 313; anticipated
by Monteverde, XVII. 87; his influ-
ence on the lyrical drama, XVII. 99.
WAGNERITE, mineral, XVI. 407.
WAGRAM, Austria, Battle of (1809), III.
134; IX. 616; XVII. 214.
WAGRIA, ancient district, Holstein, XXI.
415.

WAGTAIL, bird, XXIV. 316.

WAHAB, Muhammed ben, Druse chief-
tain, VII. 484.
WAHBALLATH, prince of Palmyra,

XVIII. 202.

WAHHABEES, or Wahhabites, sect of
Arabs, II. 250, 260; XVII. 773; XXIII.
648; their doctrines in India, XI.
849.

WAHIDI, Arabic writer, XVII. 514.
WAHLSTATT, Prussian Silesia, Battle of
(1241), XIV. 569; XVI. 741.
WAHSATCH MOUNTAINS, U.S.A., XXIII.
796; XXIV. 19.

WAI, town, India, XXI. 317.
WAIGALIS, tribe, Kafiristan, Asia, XIII.
822.

WAIHU (Rapanui), island, South Pacific,
XX. 273.

WAIKATO, river, New Zealand, III. 67;
XVI. 467.

WAINAD, district, India, XVII. 508.
WAINEWRIGHT, Thomas Griffiths, Eng-
lish essayist, XXIV. 317.
WAINGANGA, river, India, III. 627.
WAIPA, river, New Zealand, XVII.
467.

317.

WAITZEN, town, Hungary, XXIV. 30.
WAIVES AND STRAYS, Cinque Port
right, V. 787.

313.

WALDENBURG, town, Prussia, XXIV.
322.

WALDENSES, religious sect, XXIV. 322;
XX. 321; their Presbyterianism, XIX.
697.

WAKAHOLO, Lake, Buru, Indian Archi- WALDERBESKOPF, mountain, Rhenish
pelago, IV. 573.
Prussia, XX. 20.
WAKATIPU, Lake, New Zealand, XVII. WALDGEBIRGE, mountains, Austria, III.
467.
116.
WAKEFIELD, town, England, XXIV.
318.

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WALDHEIM, Fischer de, on birds, xvIII.
15.

Edward Gibbon, English colonial WALDMANN, Hans, burgomaster of
statesman, XXIV. 318.
Zurich, XXIV. 831.

XXIV. 323.

Gilbert, English scholar and theo- WALDO, Peter, founder of the Waldenses,
logian, XXIV. 319.
WAKEFULNESS, XXII. 157.
WAKEMAN, Sir George, English phy-
sician, XVII. 697.
WAKHAN, state, Central Asia, XVIII.

104.

MOUNTAINS, Transcaucasia, Rus-
sia, XXIII. 513.
WAKHSH, affluent of Oxus, Central
Asia, XVIII. 103.

WAKIDI, Moslem historian, XVI. 596;

XXIII. 2.

WAKORES, African tribe, XV. 475.
WALACHIA, principality, Roumania,
XXI. 16; Great and Little, XXIV. 269,
270.

WALACHIAN (or ROUMANIAN) LAN-
GUAGE, XXIV. 270; XX. 668; alphabet
of, 1. 614; dictionaries of, VII. 186.
WALAFRID STRABO, German mediaeval
writer, XXIV. 320.

WALATA, oasis, Africa, XVII. 695.
WALBURGA, St, English abbess, XXIV.
337.

WALCH, Carl Friedrich, German jurist,
XXIV. 321.

Christian Wilhelm Franz, Ger-
man ecclesiastical historian, XXIV.
321.

Jacob (Jacopo de' Barbari), Vene-
tian artist, VII. 555, 556.

Johann Ernst Immanuel, German
philologist, XXIV. 321.

Johann Georg, German church
historian, XXIV. 321.
WALCHEREN, island, Holland, XXIV.
771; British expedition to, XIV. 854.
WALCHOWITE, mineral, XVI. 428.
WALCOTT, John, on British birds,
XVIII. 9.

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WALES, principality (incorporated with
England), VIII. 215; as part of ancient
Britain, IV. 353; in 6th century, VIII.
271; in 9th century, VIII. 284; inva-
sion of, by William II., XXIV. 577;
Norman settlement in, XVII. 551; in
11th and 12th centuries, VIII. 304,
309; conquest of, by England, VIII.
311; Irish in, XIII. 247; ancient law
code, XXI. 216; ancient literature, v.
314; poetry, VIII. 408; ancient tribes,
V. 300; coalfields, VI. 49; colleges,
XXIII. 856; counties, VIII. 220;
Eisteddfod, VII. 791; newspapers,
XVII. 422; population and representa-
tion, XXIII. 727.

WALFISCH BAY, South Africa, v. 43.
WalghVögel (Dodo), bird, VII. 321.
WALIA, Visigothic leader, in Spain,
XXII. 308.

WALID I., caliph, XVI. 573.

II., caliph, XVI. 576.

Abul (Rabbi Jonah), Jewish philo-
logist, XIII. 737.

WALIDIYA, town, Morocco, XVI. 831.
WALKELIN, bishop of Winchester, XXIV.
596.

WALKER, river and lake, Nevada,
U.S.A., XVII. 367.

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Sears Cook, American astronomer,
XXIV. 326.

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General William, filibuster, Nicar-
agua, XVII. 479.

WALKERITE, mineral, XVI. 420.
WALKER'S EARTH, fuller's earth, IX.
816.

WALCZ (Deutschkrone), town, Prussia, WALKING-STICK INSECT, XIII. 152.

VII. 134.

WALDECK-PYRMONT, principality, Ger-
many, XXIV. 321.
WALDEMAR, margrave of Brandenburg,
XX. 3.

II., king of Denmark, vII. 84.
III., of Denmark, VII. 85; his con-
test with the Hanse towns, XI. 450.

WALL, Great, of China, v. 638, 644.

Antonine's, Scotland, II. 139; IV.
353; XXI. 471; XXII. 554.
-, Hadrian's, England, XI. 364; XXI.
47I.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel, on natural
selection, VIII. 749, 764; on the races
of man, II. 114; on the Malayan race,

XV. 324; on birds, XVIII. 32; on the
fauna of New Guinea, XVII. 387.
WALLACE, Sir William, Scottish patriot,
XXIV. 326; XX. 592; XXI. 487; his
struggle against Edward I., VII. 683;
VIII. 313.

stance, XIV. 223.

WANG KHAN, Prester John (q.v.), XVI.

XXIV. 333; Chatterton's application to, | WANGEN, lake-dwelling, Lake of Con-
v. 448; his Walpoliana, 1. 785.
WALPOLE, Sir Robert, English states-
man, XXIV. 335; VIII. 354; X. 422;
his measures of finance, IX. 184; his
relations with Townshend, XXIII. 492.

William, Scottish mathematician, WALPURGIS, St, English abbess, XXIV.

XXIV. 327.

WALLACE'S LINE, Asia, II. 684.
WALLACHIAN ALPHABET, I. 614.
WALLACHIAN (or ROUMANIAN) LAN-
GUAGE, XXIV. 270; XX. 668; diction-
aries of, VII. 186.
WALLACKS,

Vlachs, or Walachians,
race of people, Europe, XXIV. 268; in
Greece, XI. 83.

WALLASEY, town, England, XXIV. 328.
WALLA WALLA, town, Washington
Territory, U.S.A., XXIV. 328; district,
XXIV. 386.

WALL-CREEPER, bird, XXIII. 534.
WALL DECORATION, XVII. 34; XXIII.
158. See Mural Decoration.
WALLENBERG, Jakob, Swedish writer,
XXII. 756.

WALLENSTADT,

Lake, Switzerland,

XXII. 777.
WALLENSTEIN, Schiller's drama, XXI.
397.

Adalbert Eusebius von, German
general, XXIV. 328; III. 125; IX. 77;
X. 500; XI. 334.
WALLER, Edmund, English politician
and poet, XXIV. 330; VIII. 418.
WALLIN, Johan Olof, bishop of Upsala,
Swedish hymn-writer, XXII. 757.
WALLIS (Valais), canton, Switzerland,
XXII. 785.

408.

Lake, New South Wales, XVII.

John, English mathematician and
grammarian, XXIV. 331; on the
arithmetic of infinites, XIII. 6; on
imaginary roots of quadratic equations,
XX. 161; on squaring the circle, XXII.
435; his controversies with Hobbes,
XII. 36, 37; on Wright's navigation
tables, XVII. 225; on the teaching of
deaf-mutes, VII. 6.

-, Samuel, explorer in Polynesia,
x. 189; discoverer of Tahiti, xxIII.

24.

337.

OIL, XXIV. 337.
WALPURGITE, mineral, XVI. 407.
WALRUS, carnivorous mammal, XXIV.
337; XV. 443; tusks of, XIII. 523.

745.

WANJAB, river, Turkestan, XVIII. 103.
WANKS, river, Honduras, XII. 130.
WANSBECK, river, England, XVII. 565.
WANS DYKE, Wilts, England, xxiv.
594.

WANSTEAD, town, England, XXIV.
343.

WAN WANG, Chinese writer, v. 660.
WANYORO, people, Central Africa, XXIII.
859.

OIL, XVII. 744.
WALSALL, town, England, XXIV. 338.
WALSH, William, English poet, XXIV.
338.
WALSINGHAM, Norfolk, England, Ruins WAPITI, kind of deer, VII. 24.
at, XVII. 537.
WAPPLERITE, mineral, XVI. 404.

WAPENTAKE, English territorial divi-
sion, XII. 360.

WALTER of Essex, reputed author of
Guy of Warwick, XI. 341.

Jakob Gottlieb, on the anatomy of
the nerves, 1. 816.

Sir Francis, English statesman, WAR, XXIV. 343; English articles of,
XXIV. 338.
VI. 518; XVI. 296; use of balloons in,
1. 199; influence of, on emigration,
VIII. 173; international law of, XIII.
193; laws and usages of, Lieber's code,
XIV. 564; prizes of, XIX. 766; tactics
in battles, III. 443.
WARACABA, bird, XXIII. 595.
WARAN, lizard, XIV. 734-
WARANGAL, town, India, XXIV. 366.
WARASDIN (Varasd), frontier generalate,
Austria, XVI. 295; town, XXIV. 69.
WARATAH, tree, New South Wales, XVII.

John, proprietor of The Times
newspaper, London, XVII. 417.

PRINTING MACHINE, XXIII. 707.
WALTERS, Lucy, mother of James, duke
of Monmouth, XVI. 755.
WALTHAM, town, England, XXIV. 339.

ABBEY, town, England, XXIV. 339;
gunpowder factory at, II. 633.

HOLY CROSS, town, England,
XXIV. 339.
WALTHAMSTOW, town, England, XXIV.
340.

WALTHEOF, Earl, English noble, VIII.
292; XXIII. 476; XXIV. 575.
WALTHER, Bernhard, German astro-
nomer, XXIV. 340; XX. 342; his obser-
vatory at Nuremberg, XVII. 709.

VON DER VOGELWEIDE, German
minnesänger, XXIV. 340; X. 525.
WALTON, or Walton-le-Dale, town, Eng-
land, XXIV. 341.

or Walton-on-the-Hill, town, Eng-
land, XXIV. 341.

Brian, bishop of Chester, XXIV.
341; his Polyglott Bible, I. 497; III.
652.

-, Izaak, author of Compleat Angler,
XXIV. 342.

WALLONS, or Walloons, people of South- WAMAHS, tribe, Kafiristan, Asia, XIII.
822.

Eastern Belgium, XXIV. 332.

WALL-PAPERS, IV. 512; XVII. 38; WAMASAI, race of people, East Central
Japanese, XIII. 591.

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Africa, I. 263.

WAN-CHOW FU, town, China, XXIV.
342.

WANDERING JEW, The, XIII. 673.
WANDERING JEW, Eugène Sue's novel,
XXII. 619.

WANDSWORTH, district, London, XIV.
822, 833.

410.

WARBECK, Perkin, claimant of English
crown, VIII. 329; XI. 662; in Scotland,
XXI. 496; siege of Waterford by, XIII.
261.

WARBLER, bird, XXIV. 366.
WARBURTON, Egerton, Australian ex-
plorer, III. 106.

Eliot Bartholomew George, Irish
traveller and novelist, XXIV. 367.

William, bishop of Gloucester,
controversialist, XXIV. 368.
WARD, in law, XIII. 2.

, Ann (Mrs Radcliffe), English
novelist, XX. 211.

Edward Matthew, English painter,
XXIV. 369.

James, English painter, XXIV. 369;
XXI. 441, 444; his defence of beards,
III. 464.

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Orders of, Presbyterian system, WARD OF COURT, in law, XIII. 2.
in England, XIX. 686.
WARDS AND LIVERIES, Court of, XIV.
WANGARAWA (Mandingoes), African 115.
tribe, XV. 475.

WARE, town, England, XXIV. 370.

WARENDORP, Brun, burgomaster of WARTON (1728-1790), Thomas, poet and

Lübeck, XV. 32.

WARENS, Madame de, friend of Rous-

seau, XXI. 24.

WARGENTIN, P. W., on the satellites of
Jupiter, II. 757-

WARHAM, William, archbishop of
Canterbury, VIII. 414.
WARING, Miss (Varina), object of Dean
Swift's attentions, XXII. 765.
WARMING, of hospitals, XII. 305.

APPARATUS, XI. 590.
WARMINSTER, town, England, XXIV.
370.

WARNEFRID, father of Paul the Deacon,

XVIII. 436.

Paul (Paulus Diaconus, q.v.), XVIII.
436; his book of homilies, XII. 125.
WARNER, William, English pastoral
poet, XVIII. 347.

author of History of English Poetry,
XXIV. 378.

WARWICK, County, England, XXIV. 378;
XXI. 737; coalfield of, VI. 50; town,
XXIV. 380.

Countess-dowager of, Addison's
wife, I. 149.

Richard Nevil, earl of, XXIV. 381;
VII. 685; VIII. 327, 328.

CASTLE, England, XXIV. 380.
WASA, province of Finland, IX. 217.
WASEN, town, Switzerland, XXIV. 11.
WASH, The, bay, Lincolnshire, England,
XIV. 653.

WASHBURNE, Mount, Wyoming, U.S.A.,
XXIV. 737.

WASHBURN OBSERVATORY, at Madison,
Wisconsin, U.S.A., XVII. 715.
WASHING, Water for, XXIV. 399.

WARNERIUS, or Irnerius, Italian jurist, WASHING-MACHINES, in bleaching, III.
XIII. 277.

WARNER OBSERVATORY, at Rochester,
New York, U.S.A., XVII. 715.
WARP, in weaving, XXIV. 463; ancient,
XXIII. 206.
WARPING, mode of irrigation, I. 406;
XIII. 367.

WARR, Peter de la, speaker of House of
Commons, XVIII. 306.
WARRANDICE, in Scots law, XXIV. 373.
WARRANT, in law, XXIV. 371; for
arrest, II. 630.

WARRANTY, in law, XXIV. 372; of sale,
XXI. 208.

WARREE, ungulate mammal, XVIII. 449.
WARREN, Mercy, American authoress,

I. 722.

-, Samuel, English novelist, XXIV.
373.

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tures, XI. 585; XII. 460; density of,

in Pacific Ocean, XVIII. 120; distilla-
tion of, VII. 263; filtration, IX. 166;
hardness of, how remedied, v. 88; its
action on lead, XIV. 378; mechanics
of, XII. 435; its action on metals, XVI.
69; as a mineral, XVI. 385; movements
of, in the Baltic Sea, III. 296; refractive
power of, XIV. 591; resistance of, ex-
periments on, XXI. 810; its action on
rocks, X. 262, 267, 269; as medium of
sound, 1. 157; velocity of sound in, 1.
104; ordeal by, XVII. 820; of rivers,
rights in, XX. 565; of the sea, XXI. 611;
XXIV. 398; Gay-Lussac on the com-
position of, x. 122; Thales's cosmic
theory of, XXIII. 219.

BEETLES, VI. 126, 130.
WATER-BOK, antelope, II. 101.
WATERBURY, town,

U.S.A., XXIV. 400.

Connecticut,

WATER-CHAMBERS, in ships, XXI. 814.
WATER CHESTNUT, tree, XVII. 664.
WATER-CLOSETS, XXI. 716.
WATER COLOURS, XIX. 86; painting
in, XVIII. 139.

WATER CRESS, plant, XII. 289; XVII.
239.

WATER-CROW, bird, XVIII. 75.
WATER-CURE, or Hydropathy, XII. 542.
WATER ENGINES, XII. 519.
WATERFORD, county, Ireland, XXIV.

400.

town, Ireland, XXIV. 401; news-
papers, XVII. 423.
WATER GAUGE, XII. 476.

Mount, New Hampshire, U.S.A., WATER-GLASS, XXII. 53.

XVII. 390; XXIII. 792.

xv. 564.

WATER-HEN, bird, XVI. 808.

ISLANDS, Marquesas group, Pacific, WATER HOG, rodent mammal, v. 80.
WATER IN THE HEAD, disease, XII. 431.

Dr Samuel, Wesleyan seceder, WASHITA, river, Louisiana, U.S.A., XV. WATERLAND, Daniel, his controversy

XVI. 190.

GIRDERS, for bridges, IV. 317.
WARRINGTON, town, England, XXIV.
374.

WARRINGTONITE, mineral, XVI. 402.
WARS, drug, XIII. 831.
WARSAW, government, Russian Poland,
XXIV. 374.

-, town, Poland, XXIV. 375; observa-
tory at, XVII. 714.

Prince of (Ivan F. Paskewitch),
Russian general, XVIII. 340.
WARS OF GRANADA, romance, XX. 659.
WART, skin excrescence, XXIV. 377;
XVIII. 378; XXII. 121.
WARTA, river, Russian Poland, XIX. 307.
WARTBURG, fortress, Germany, VII.
790; Luther's detention at, XV. 75.

HILL, Germany, XXI. 349.
WARTHE, river, Germany, XVII. 724.
WART-HUG, ungulate mammal, xxII.
774.

WARTON, Joseph, English man of letters,

XXIV. 377.

, Thomas (1688-1745), professor of
poetry at Oxford, XXIV. 377.

20.

xv.

WASH-PUMPS, ore-dressers, XVI. 59.
WASPS, group of insects, XXIV. 391; XII.
577; XIII. 148; honey of, XII. 136.
-, The, Aristophanes's comedy, II.
508.

WASTE, in law, XXIV. 393.

LANDS, Improvement of, I. 402.
OF WATER, in cities, XXIV. 410.
WEIR, IV. 785; XXIV. 408.
WASUNGEN, town, Germany, XXI. 348.
WA-SWAHILI, tribes, East Africa, XVII.
319.

with Middleton, XVI. 282.
WATERLANDERS, Dutch sect, XVI. 12.
WATER-LILY, plant, XXIV. 402.
WATERLOO, village, Belgium, XXIV.
402; battle of (1815), III. 444; VIII.
364; IX. 618; XVII. 224; XXIV. 497.
-, town, Iowa, U.S.A., XXIV. 402.
LECTURES, Col. Chesney's, v. 591.
WATERLOO-WITH-SEAFORTH, town,
England, XXIV. 402.

WATER-MARKS, in paper, XVIII. 218.
WATER-MEADOWS, Irrigation of, XIII.
364, 367.

WATAUGA, river, Tennessee, U.S.A., WATERMEN, Thames, XXI. 30.
Settlements on, XXIII. 178.

WATCH, timepiece, XXIV. 394.
WATCHMAKING, in Geneva, X. 148; in
Switzerland, XXII. 779; at Waltham,
U.S.A., XXIV. 339.
WATELLEN, mountain, Sahara, Africa,
XXI. 149.

WATER, XXIV. 398; boiling point of, at
different heights, III. 387; for brewing,
IV. 273; composition of, v. 483; de-
composition of, by galvanism, xvII.
487; density of, at different tempera-

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