VIVES, Juan Luis, or Ludovicus, Spanish | VOIGTLAND, region, Central Germany,
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.
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.
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.
VIZIER, Oriental officer, XXIV. 268; xvI. | VOLATILITY, of metals, Table of, XVI.
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,
(Winterthur), ancient town, Switzerland, XXIV. 614. VITUS, St, Roman martyr, XXIV. 266. VIVARIA, or Fish Stews, Ancient, II.
VIVARINI, Antonio, Venetian painter, XXIV. 266.
-, Bartolommeo, XXIV. 267.
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.
VLOTSLAVSK, town, Russian Poland, VOLGERITE, mineral, XVI. 388.
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.
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,
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.
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.
VULCANIST THEORY, in geology, XXIV.
VORTIGERN, British prince, II. 650; VULGAR FRACTIONS, in arithmetic, II.
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.
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.
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.
VYAZNIKI, town, Russia, XXIV. 271. VYERNYI, town, Russia in Asia, XXIV.
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
WAITZEN, town, Hungary, XXIV. 30. WAIVES AND STRAYS, Cinque Port right, V. 787.
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.
WALDHEIM, Fischer de, on birds, xvIII. 15.
Edward Gibbon, English colonial WALDMANN, Hans, burgomaster of statesman, XXIV. 318. Zurich, XXIV. 831.
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.
MOUNTAINS, Transcaucasia, Rus- sia, XXIII. 513. WAKHSH, affluent of Oxus, Central Asia, XVIII. 103.
WAKIDI, Moslem historian, XVI. 596;
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.
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.
Sears Cook, American astronomer, XXIV. 326.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OIL, XXIV. 337. WALPURGITE, mineral, XVI. 407. WALRUS, carnivorous mammal, XXIV. 337; XV. 443; tusks of, XIII. 523.
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.
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.
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.
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
WARENS, Madame de, friend of Rous-
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,
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,
-, Samuel, English novelist, XXIV. 373.
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.
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.
town, Ireland, XXIV. 401; news- papers, XVII. 423. WATER GAUGE, XII. 476.
Mount, New Hampshire, U.S.A., WATER-GLASS, XXII. 53.
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
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,
, Thomas (1688-1745), professor of poetry at Oxford, XXIV. 377.
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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