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UNEARNED INCREMENT, in economics, XIV. 267.

UNGARAN, town, Java, XIII. 606. UNGRUND, in Boehme's philosophy, 111. 853.

UNGUENTS, or Lubricants, in mechanics,

XV. 34, 765.

UNGULATA, order of Mammalia, xv.

421; sense of touch in, XXIII. 479. UNGVAR, town, Hungary, XXIII. 724. UNI, Etruscan goddess, XIII. 778. UNICORN, fabulous animal, XXIII. 725.

in heraldry, XI. 702.

Sea, cetacean mammal, XV. 398; XVII. 235. UNIFICATION, of moneys, XVI. 734. UNIFORMITY, Acts of, English, XIX. 690; XXIII. 199. UNIFORMS, Naval and Military, VI. 477; of British navy, XVII. 295. UNIGENITUS, papal bull (1713), V. 822; XIX. 507.

UNIMAK, volcano and island, Aleutian group, I. 444, 480.

UNIO, genus of molluscs, XVII. 110. UNION JACK, British flag, IX. 278. UNION OF CROWNS, of England and Scotland, XXI. 509.

UNION OF PARLIAMENTS, England and Scotland, XVIII. 308; XXI. 518; Paterson's advocacy of, XVIII. 360; Great Britain and Ireland, XIII. 271; XVIII. 308.

729 (index, 829); I. 711; attitude of Chatham towards, XIX. 136; civil war (1861-65), XIV. 659; Declaration of Independence, XIII. 614; architecture, II. 453; army, II. 619; banking, III. 339; birds, III. 750; XVIII. 16; establishments for the blind, III. 830; census-taking, V. 338; Presbyterian Church, XIX. 697; Protestant Episcopal Church, VIII. 493; citizenship, 1. 576; coalfields, VI. 60; proportion of coloured people, XVII. 320; cotton manufactures, VI. 506; cotton supply, VI. 485; fisheries, IX. 267; forests, IX. 405; gold, X. 743; government, IX. 62; XI. 14; immigration statistics, VIII. 177; Indian tribes, XII. 830; Jews, XI. 687; land laws, XIV. 265; libraries, XIV. 534, 550; literature, I. 718; mines, XVI. 469; municipalities, XVII. 31; navy, XVII. 300; newspapers, XVII. 433; observatories, XVII. 715; oysterculture, XVIII. 107, 109; periodical literature, XVIII. 544; police system, XIX. 341; post-office, XIX. 578; prison system, XIX. 763; railways, XX. 253; slavery, XXII. 141; statutes, XXII. 471; tobacco culture, XXIII. 424; universities, XXIII.857; weights and measures, XXIV. 491; wine industry, XXIV. 611. UNITS, in physics, VII. 241, 582; electromagnetic, XXIII. 116; of measurement, xv. 668; of value, in currency, XVI. 730; for weights and measures, XXIV. 478, 483.

UNIONS, Poor Law, XIX. 472.
UNISON, of sounds, I. 108; in music, UNITY, in philosophy, xvI. 81; XVIII.
XVII. 78.

UNIT, Standard, of value, in currency, XVI. 730. See Units. UNITARIANISM, religious system, XXIII. 725; XIII. 671; theism of, XXIII. 249.

793; conception of, in psychology, xx, 79; intuition of unity and complexity, in psychology, XX. 56. UNIVERSALISM, theological doctrine, VIII. 538.

UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, XXIII. 831.

UNITAS FRATRUM, or Moravian UNIVERSAL METHOD, Adanson's bio

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logical classification, I. 144.

UNIVERSALS, in scholastic logic, XXI. 418; Albertus on, I. 454. UNIVERSE, Elements of, according to ancients, V. 459.

The sidereal, Theories of, II. 821; Herschel's, XI. 797; XVII. 311; Kant's, XIII. 847; Kepler's, XIV. 47. UNIVERSITIES, XXIII. 831 (index, 858); distinction between, and colleges, VI. 143; precedence of officers of, XIX. 668; English, origin and establishment of, VIII. 304, 317; European, VIII. 711; German, X. 471.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, London, XIV. 835.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, Oxford, XVIII. 97.

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS, VIII. 778. UNKIAR SKELESSI, Treaty of (1833), XXIII. 650.

UNITED SECESSION CHURCH, Scotland, UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY, in law, XX. 564.

XXIII. 727.

UNITED STATES, of America, XXIII.

UNLEAVENED BREAD, Feast of, Jewish, XVIII. 343.

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UNMANZ, German islet, Baltic Sea, XXI. 56.

UNREASON, Abbot of, v. 704.

UNSOUNDNESS OF MIND, in medical jurisprudence, xv. 780. See also Insanity.

UNST, island, Shetland, Scotland, XVII. 846.

UNTER DEN LINDEN, street, Berlin, III. 594.

UNTERWALDEN, canton, Switzerland, XXIII. 858; XXII. 781.

UNWIN, Mrs, friend of Cowper, VI. 534.

UNYAMA, affluent of Nile, Africa, XVII.
506.
UNYORO, kingdom, Central Africa,
XXIII. 859.
UNZHA, river, Russia, XXIV. 279.
UPANISHADS,
Hindu philosophical
writings, IV. 201; XXI. 273, 280;
XXIV. 117.

UPAS, fabled poison tree, XXIII. 859. UPERNIVIK, district, Greenland, XI 171.

UPHOLSTERY, IX. 847.

UPLAND, Jak, Lollard verses of, XIV. 811.

UPOLU, island, South Pacific, XVIL 279.

UPPER SIND FRONTIER, district, India, XXIII. 859.

UPRAUDA, original name of emperor Justinian I., XIII. 792.

UPSALA, town, Sweden, XXIII. 860;

XXII. 744; assembly of (1593), XXII. 748; barrow at Kings' Hows, III. 398; library, XIV. 532; observatory, xvII. 714; university, XXIII. 842, 850, county, XXII. 741. UPSAROKAS, American-Indian tribe, XII. 832.

UPUPA, genus of birds, XII. 154.
UR, ancient town, Chaldea, III. 185.
URAL, river, Russia, XXI. 74.
URAL-ALTAIC LANGUAGES, XXIV. 1;
XVIII. 779; dictionaries of, VII. 192.
URAL MOUNTAINS, Russia, XXIV. 3;
XVIII. 549; gold-mines of, X. 743.
URALSK, province, Russia, XXIV. 6;
town, XXIV. 7.

URAN, town, India, XXIII. 221.
URANIA, epithet of Aphrodite, II. 171.
Muse of astronomy, XVII. 74.
URANIENBORG, Denmark, Observatory
of, XXII. 737.

URANINITE, mineral, XVI. 386.

URANISTES, in French literature, IX. 657.

URANITE, mineral, XVI. 407.

URANIUM, metal, XXIV. 7; chemistry of, V. 542.

URANOCIRCITE, mineral, XVI. 407. URANOMETRIA, classification of magnitudes of stars, XVIII. 840.

URANOPHANE, mineral, XVI. 425.

URANOSPINITE, mineral, XVI. 407.

URANOTANTALITE, mineral, XVI. 427.
URANOTILE, mineral, XVI. 425.
URANUS, in Greek mythology, XXIV.
7; XVII. 155; XXI. 320.

planet, II. 782, 812; discovery of, by Sir W. Herschel, II. 758; XI. 767; as affected by tidal friction, XXIII. 380.

URAO, mineral, XVI. 399.
URASINUS, or Ursinus, antipope, VI.
793.

URATIC DIATHESIS, in pathology, XVIII.
388.

URA-TUBE, town, Syr-Daria, Asia,
XXII. 821.

URBAN I., St, pope, XXIV. 8.

II., pope, XXIV. 8; IX. 537; XIX. 499; his dispute with William II. of

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URGINEA, genus of plants, XXII. 437.
URI, canton, Switzerland, XXIV. 11;
XXII. 781, 785; XXIII. 155.

Bay of, Lake of Lucerne, Switzer-
land, XV. 41.

URIA, genus of birds, XI. 262.

URIAGE, spa, France, XVI. 435.

URIC ACID, XXIV. II; its presence in
gout, XVIII. 388.

URUMIAH, or Urumiyah, town, Persia
XXIV. 12; XVII. 537; XVIII. 626, 628.
Lake, Persia, XXIV. 12; III. 168;
XVIII. 626.

URUP, one of the Kurile Islands, Asia,
XIV. 160.

URUS, primitive species of cattle, v. 245.
Peruvian tribe, xvIII. 676.
URUSHI, Japanese tree, XIII. 590.

URICONIUM (Wroxeter), Roman town, URUSITE, mineral, XVI. 402.
England, XXI. 848.

URINARY DISEASES, XXIV. 189.
URINARY ORGANS, of Amphibia, I. 766;
of birds, III. 727; of fishes, XII. 659; of
mammals, XV. 366; of reptiles, XX. 462.
URINE, XVII. 683; ammonia from, XVII.
516; chemical properties of, XXIV. 10,

II.

England, II. 91; his speech on the URMANS, Siberian marsh forests, XXIII.

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- VIII., pope, XXIV. 9; IX. 568, 572; XIII. 483; XIX. 506, 809. URBANA, town, Ohio, U.S.A., XXIV. 9. URBAN COLLEGE, or Propaganda, Rome, XIX. 809.

URBIBENTUM (Orvieto), ancient town,
Italy, XVIII. 53.

429.

URMIA, or Urumiah, town, Persia, XXIV.

12; XVII. 357; XVIII. 626, 628.

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URZHUM, town, Russia, XXIV. 303.
USBEGS, or Uzbegs (q.v.), Turkish
people, XXIII. 661.

USBOI, valley, Transcaspian Region,
Russia, XXIII. 512.

USCHBA, mountain, Caucasus, V. 253.
USCOCCHI, Mediterranean pirates, XIII.
484.

USE, in English law, XXIII. 596.
USEDOM, island, Baltic Sea, XIX. 442.
USEMBA, territory, Central Africa, v.
281.

Lake, Persia, XXIV. 12; III. 168; | USHANT, island, France, XXIV. 16.
XVIII. 626.

URN, Cinerary, XIX. 602, 623.

URNATELLA, genus of Polyzoa, XIX. 438.
URNBURIAL, Sir Thomas Browne's book,
IV. 389.

USHER, or Ussher, James, archbishop of
Armagh, XXIV. 16; his scheme of
Presbyterian government, XIX. 689.
USHIWAYA, mission station, Tierra del
Fuego, XXIII. 384.

URNERSPIEL, play based on story of Tell, USK, river, England and Wales, IV. 243;
XXIII. 155.

XVI. 753.

UROCHORDA, division of Vertebrata, USKUDAR (Scutari), town, Turkey in
XXIV. 181, 186.

URODELA, group of Amphibia, I. 751. UROMASTYX, genus of lizards, XIV. 737. URBINO, town, Italy, XXIV. 9; XX. 274; UROMYS, genus of rodent mammals, majolica ware of, XIX. 627.

76.

Duke of, patron of Tasso, XXIII.

XVII. 6.

UROPELTIDÆ, family of snakes, XXII.
192.

URBS VETUS (Orvieto), ancient town, UROSH, king of Servia, XXI. 688.
URQUHART, Sir Thomas, Scottish writer,

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Scottish writer, XXIV. 12.

URCHIN, or Hedgehog, XI. 610.

Asia, XXI. 573

USKUP, or Uskiub, town, Turkey, XXIV.
17; XV. 137.

USMAITEN, lake, Russia, VI. 515.
USMAN, town, Russia, XXIII. 41.
USOLIE SALTWORKS, Russia, XVIII. 550;

XXII. 11.

USSES, river, France, XX. 528.
USTARIZ, Geronimo, Spanish economist,
XIX. 363.

URQUIZA, Justo José de, general of USTERI, Johann Martin, Swiss poet,
Argentine Republic, II. 491.

XXII. 798.

URDU LANGUAGE, India, XI. 840, URRACA, queen of Castile, XIX. 540; USTILAGINEÆ, suborder of Fungi, IX. 847.

UREA, component of urine, XXIV. 10; URSIDE, family of carnivorous mam

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Zacharias, German theologian, UST-URT, desert, Transcaspian Region,
XXIV. 13.

URSO (Osuna), ancient town, Spain, USTYUG VELIKIY, town, Russia, XXIV.
XVIII. 63.

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283.

USTYUZHNA, town, Russia, XVII. 607.
USUCAPIO, in Roman law, XIX. 704;
XX. 690, 692.

URSULA, St, virgin and martyr, XXIV.
13.
URSULINES, religious order, XXIV. 14; USUFRUCT, in Roman law, xx. 690.
XVI. 712.

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USUGURU, lake island, Africa, XVII. 505.

USUMACINTA, river, Guatemala, XI.
239.

USURI, river, Manchuria and Eastern
Siberia, xv. 466, 548.
USURY, XXIV. 17.

affluent of River Plate, South USUS, in Roman law, XXIII. 595. America, XIX. 188; XXIV. 14. UTAH, Territory, U.S.A., XXIV. 19;

mines of, XXIII. 815; Mormon settle- | VACCINATION, XXIV. 23; XXII. 164; | VALDESSO (Juan de Valdes), Spanish ment of, XVI. 827.

UTAKAMAND, town, India, XVII. 509.
UTE, genus of sponges, XXII. 414.
UTEN, Egyptian measure, XXIV. 485,
486.

UTERINE APPENDAGES, Removal of, in surgery, XXII. 691.

discovery of, XIII. 623; laws relating to, XV. 797.

VACCINIUM, genus of plants, XXIV. 556.

religious writer, XXIV. 32; XXII. 360. VAL DE TRAVERS, valley, Switzerland, XVII. 361; asphalt of, for paving, II. 716; XX. 586.

VALDEZ, or Waldo, Peter, founder of the Waldenses, XXIV. 323.

VACOA, or Vacois, tree of Mauritius,
XV. 641.
VACUUM, Production of, XIX. 246; I. | VALDIVIA, province, Chili, v. 617.
429; electrical test of, XIX. 247; Torri- | VALÉE, Silvain Charles, Comte de,
cellian, III. 381.
French general, 1. 568.

UTES, American-Indian tribe, XII. 832.
UTHONG, Siamese ruler, XXI. 854.
UTICA, ancient town, Africa, XXIV. 21; VACZ, town, Hungary, XXIV. 30.

XIV. 551.

-, town, New York, U.S.A., XXIV. 21. UTILITARIANISM, ethical theory, VIII. 606; as the foundation of law, XIV. 355; Bentham's, III. 576; Cumberland's, VI. 702; John Stuart Mill's, XVI. 313.

VADER ISLANDS, Sweden, XXII. 737.
VADUZ, lordship and town, Germany,
XIV. 568.

VAGA, Perino del (Perino Buonaccorsi),
Italian painter, XXIV. 30.
VAGABONDS, Laws relating to, I. 298;
XIX. 463, 468.

VAGARSHAPAD, town, Transcaucasia,
Russia, XXIII. 515.

UTILITY, in economics, XXIV. 46; wealth| defined as based on, XXIV. 461. not an essential in the fine arts, VAGRANCY, in English law, XIX. 463, IX. 197, 211. 468; I. 298. UT MINE STROMTID, Reuter's novel, VAGUS, in nervous system, XIX. 29. XX. 495. VAIGATCH ISLAND, Arctic Ocean, XVII. UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More's work, VI. 604.

212; XVI. 819. UTRECHT, province, Holland, XXIV. 21.

town, Holland, XXIV. 21; congress of (1712), VI. 270; peace of (1713), III. 126, 269; VIII. 353; IX. 583; XII. 81; XXII. 336; union of (1579), XII. 77; XXIV. 583; libraries, XIV. 532; observatory, XVII. 715; university, XXIII. 850.

UTRERA, town, Spain, XXIV. 22; XXI. 708.

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VAISHNAVAS, or Bhagats, their teaching, and influence on Hindi literature, XI. 844.

VAISON, town, France, XXIV. 114.

UTRICULARIA, genus of insectivorous VAISYARS, or Vaisyas, Hindu caste,

plants, XIII. 138.

U-TSANG, region, Tibet, XXIII. 340.
UTTARAMIMANSA, system of Hindu
philosophy, XXIV. 117.
UTVÆR, island, Norway, XVII. 576.
UVEA, island, South Pacific, XV. 30.
UVULA, Anatomy of the, 1. 837.
UXBRIDGE, town, England, XXIV. 22.

Earl of, at Waterloo, II. 31. UXMAL, ancient town, Central America, XXIV. 758; ruins at, I. 693; XVI. 214. UYUK (Euyuk), village and ruins, Turkey in Asia, VIII. 724. Uz, of Scripture, XXIV. 22. UZBEGS, or Uzbeks, Ural-Altaic people, XXIII. 661; IV. 1; IX. 85; XII. 3; XIV. 64; XVI. 749; XVIII. 101; XXIII. 636; origin of the name, XII. 607.

IV. 203, 204; V. 188; XII. 746. VAKHSH, river, Central Asia, XII. 3. VALABHIS, Indian dynasty, XII. 790. VALACHIANS, Walachians, or Vlachs, people, South-Eastern Europe, XXI. 16; XXIV. 268.

VALAIS, canton, Switzerland, XXIV. 31; XXII. 785.

VALAMO, monastery, Finland, XXIV.

209.

VALBENOITE, Abbey of, at St Étienne, France, XXI. 168.

VALENCE, town, France, XXIV. 33; uni

versity, XXIII. 842.

VALENCIA, province, Spain, XXIV. 33; XXII. 298.

town, Spain, XXIV. 33; libraries of, XIV. 549.

town, Venezuela, XXIV. 34. VALENCIENNES, town, France, XXIV. 35.

A., French ichthyologist, XII. 633. VALENCINIA, genus of worms, XVII. 326.

VALENCY, or Combining Power, of chemical elements, V. 473.

VALENS, emperor of the East, XXIV. 35; XX. 779.

VALENTIA, Roman province, Britain, XVIII. 411.

(Valencia), ancient town, Spain, XXIV. 34.

COLONIA JULIA (Valence), ancient town, France, XXIV. 33. VALENTINE, St, XXIV. 36.

George Sand's, VII. 509.

AND ORSON, romance, XX. 653, 659.

VALENTINEITE, mineral, XVI. 388. VALENTINI, Michael B., on birds, XVIII. 7.

VALENTINIAN I., emperor of the West, XXIV. 36; XX. 779.

II., emperor of the West, XXIV. 36; XX. 779; his contentions with Ambrose, 1. 663.

III., emperor of the West, XXIV. 37; XX. 780; edict or decree of, XIV. 448; XIX. 492.

LAW OF CITATIONS, in Roman law, XX. 711.

VALCKENAER, L. G., Dutch scholar, VALENTINIANS,

XXI. 57.

VALDAI, town, Russia, XVII. 607. VALDEMAR II., king of Denmark, VII.

84.

III., of Denmark, vII. 85; XI. 450. UZBEK KHAN, Mongol ruler, XVI. 747; VALDENSES, or Waldenses (q.v.), reXII. 607.

UZEN, river, Russia, XXI. 74.

UZUN HASAN, shah of Persia, XVIII. 632.

V, alphabet, XXIV. 23.

the twenty-second letter of the

VAAGÖ, islands, Norway, XIV. 769. VAAL, river, South Africa, XXIII. 517. VACCINAL ULCER, XXIV. 26.

ligious sect, XXIV. 322. VALDEPEÑAS, town, Spain, XXIV. 32; wine of, XXIV. 607. VALDERREDIBLE, town, Spain, XXI.

297.

VAL DE RUZ, valley, Switzerland, XVII. 361.

VALDES, inquisitor-general, his rules for torture, XXIII. 463.

Juan de, Spanish religious writer, XXIV. 32; XXII. 360, 361.

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DIOCLETIANUS, or Diocletian (q.v.), Roman emperor, VII. 244.

FLACCUS, Caius, Roman poet, IX. 274; XX. 726.

MAXIMUS, Latin writer, XXIV. 41. VAL-ÈS-DUNES, Battle of (1047), xvii. 543.

VALETTA, town, Malta, XXIV. 42; XV.

340; siege of (1565), XXI. 174.
VALETTE, John La, grand-master of
Knights Hospitallers, XXI. 174.
VALI, Turkish governor, XXIII. 654.
VALKI, town, Russia, XIV. 57.
VALLA, George, his De Expetendis et
Fugiendis Rebus, VIII. 193.

Lorenzo or Laurentius, Italian scholar, XXIV. 42; XX. 323. VALLADOLID, province, Spain, XXIV. 42. -, town, Spain, XXIV. 43; university, XXIII. 839, 851.

III. 657.

VALRHEIN, mountain, Switzerland, 1.
621; XXIII. 351.

VALS, spa, France, XXIV. 45; XVI. 435.
VALSALVA, Antonio Maria, Italian ana-
tomist, I. 813; XV. 815.
VALSERINE, river, France, XX. 528.
VALS-LES-BAINS, spa, France, XXIV.
45; XVI. 435.

VALTELLINA, district, North Italy,
XXIV. 45; XXII. 791, 794.
VALUE, in economics, XXIV. 45; in rela-
tion to wealth, XXIV. 461; socialistic
views of, XXII. 211; Marx on, XXII. 211.
See also article Political Economy.
VALUIKI, town, Russia, XXIV. 298.
VALVATA, genus of snails, XXII. 188.
VALVES, VALVE-MOTIONS, in steam-
engine, XXII. 501.

painter, XI. 641.

VAN DER HEYDEN, Jan, Dutch painter,
XI. 784.

VAN DER MEER, Jan, Dutch painter
XV. 824.

VAN DER PALM, Johannes Henricus,
Dutch historian, XII. 97.

VAN DER WEYDEN, Roger (c. 1400-64),
Flemish painter, XXI. 439, 443; his
connexion with Memling, XV. 846.
VAN DER WEYDEN, Roger (1450-1529),
Flemish painter, XXI. 439, 443.
VANDEVELDE, Adrian, Dutch painter,
XXIV. 59.

William, Dutch painter, XXIV. 59. VAN-DIEMEN'S-LAND, or Tasmania (q.v.), island, Australasia, XXIII. 72. VAN DYCK, Sir Anthony, Flemish painter, XXIV. 59.

of the heart, I. 900; XXIV. 98; of VANDYKE BROWN, pigment, XIX. 88. the veins, 1. 905; XXIV. 103. VANE, in architecture, II. 475. VALVULAR DISEASE, of the heart, XI. 553.

Sir Henry, English Parliamentarian, XXIV. 65.

VAMÇAVALI, Nepalese chronicle, XVII. VANELLUS, genus of birds, XIV. 308.
344.
VANESSA (Esther Vanhomrigh), friend
of Dean Swift, XXII. 765; III. 590.
VAN EYCK, Hubert Flemish painter,
VIII. 814.

(Morelia), town, Michoacan de VAMPIRE, bat, XXIV. 52; III. 432; VII.62; Ocampo, Mexico, XVI. 820. XV. 415; sense of touch in, XXIII. 479. town, Yucatan, Mexico, XXIV. 43, | VAMPYRELLA, genus of Protozoa, XIX. 758. 839. VALLANDIGHAM, Clement L., political VAN, town, Asiatic Turkey, XXIV. 53; agitator, U.S.A., XIV. 661.

VALLE, Pietro della, Italian traveller,
XXIV. 43.

CRUCIS, abbey, Wales, XIV. 741. DE PIELAGOS, town, Spain, XXI. 297.

province, XXIII. 653.

Lake, Asiatic Turkey, XXIV. 53;
XIV. 222; XXIII. 654.
VANADINE BRONZITE, mineral, XVI.
416.

VANADINITE, mineral, XVI. 407.

VALLEJO, town, California, U.S.A., VANADIUM, chemical element, XXIV.
XXIV. 44.

VALLETTA, town, Malta, XXIV. 42; XV.
340; siege of (1565), XXI. 174.
VAL LEVENTINA, district, Switzerland,
XXII. 785; XXIII. 351.
VALLEY FIELD, town, Canada, XX. 167.
VALLEY FORGE, U.S.A., Washington's
strategic position at, XXIV. 389.
VALLEY OF DEATH, Asia Minor, XXIV.

399.
VALLOMBROSA, Order of, monastic
society, XVI. 708.

VALLS, town, Spain, XXIV. 44.
VALMIKI, Brahman poet, XXI. 280.
VALMY, Duke of (Kellermann), French
marshal, XIV. 29.

VALOIS, House of, French dynasty, IX.
545; its connexion with Capet family,
v. 55.

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Adrian de, French historiographer,

I. 784.

54; V. 539; in iron, XIII. 284.
VAN ALPHEN, Hieronymus, Dutch
writer, XII. 97.

VANBRUGH, Sir John, English dramatist
and architect, XXIV. 54; II. 443; VII.
436.

VAN BUREN, Martin, president of the
United States, XXIV. 56; xIII. 766.
VANCOUVER, George, English navigator,
XXIV. 56; X. 190.

ISLAND, British Columbia, XXIV.
57; its mineral wealth, VI. 169.
VAN CUELEN, Ludolph, mathematician,
XXII. 434.

VAN EYCK, Jan, Flemish painter, VIII. 815; XXI. 438.

VAN GOYEN, Jan Josephszoon, Dutch
painter, XI. 23.

VAN HAREN, Onno Zwier, Dutch poet,
XII. 96.

VAN HAREN, Willem, Dutch poet, XII.
96.

VAN HELMONT, Jean Baptiste, Belgian

mystic and alchemist, XI. 638; 1. 467;
V. 460; XV. 810.
VANHOMRIGH, Esther, Dean Swift's
Vanessa, XXII. 765; her bequest to
Berkeley, III. 590.

VANIKORO, island, Santa Cruz, Pacific,
XVII. 395.

VANILLA, spice, XXIV. 66.
VANILLIN, principle in vanilla, v. 573;

XXIV. 66; as perfume, XVIII. 526. VANINI, Lucilio, Italian pantheist, XXIV. 67.

VANITY FAIR, Thackeray's novel, XXIII. 215.

VANDALS, Teutonic people, XXIV. 58; VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, by John-
XX. 780; in Spain, XXII. 308.
VANDALUS (Vistula), river, Russian
Poland, XIX. 307.

VAN DEN BOSCH, Johannes, governor
of Dutch East Indies, XII. 820; XIII.
604.

Félix de, abbot of Trinitarians, VAN DEN ENDE, Franz, Dutch physi-
XXIII. 574.
VALONA (Avlona), town, Albania, III.
157.

VALONIA, tanning material, XI. 88; XIV. |

382; XVII. 694.

VALPARAISO, town, Chili, XXIV. 44; province, v. 617.

cian and teacher, XXII. 400. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, at Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., XVII. 236. VAN DER GOES, Hugo, Flemish painter,

X. 721.

VAN DER GOES, Jan, Dutch poet, II.
138; XII. 95.

son, XIII. 723. VANLOO, Charles painter, XXIV. 68.

Andrew, Italian

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VANNUCCI, Pietro (Perugino), Italian
painter, XVIII. 680.
VAN NUYSSEN, Abraham
Flemish painter, XIII. 568.
VANOZZA, Rosa, mistress of Rodrigo
Borgia (Pope Alexander VI.), I. 487.
VAN TILBORGH, Egidius, Flemish
painter, XXIII. 175.

VAN TWILLER, Wouter, director, New
Netherland, America, XVII. 454.
VANUA LEVU, one of the Fiji Islands,
IX. 156.

VAN VEEN, Heemskerk, Dutch painter, XI. 611.

VAN VEEN, Otto, Flemish painter, XXI.

41.

VAPINCUM (Gap), ancient town, France,

X. 72.

VAPOUR, laws of its formation, VIII. 727; limits of elasticity of, VII. 801; amount of aqueous, in atmosphere, III. 32; XVI. 138; instrument for measuring, XII. 569; Deville's dissociation experiments with, XXI. 166; as steam, XXII. 483; determination of vapourdensity, v. 547; volcanic vapours, X.

241.

BATHS, III. 440.

VAPOURS, The, disease, XII. 598.
VAR, department, France, XXIV. 68.
VARANGIANS, Scandinavian guards, at
Constantinople, XI. 116.

VATÉ, island, New Hebrides, XVII. 395. VATHY, town, Ithaca, Greece, XIII. 517. town, Samos, Egean Sea, XXI.

VARNHAGEN VON ENSE, Karl August, | VATATZES, John III., emperor of Nicæa,
German biographer, XXIV. 91.
XIII. 713.
VARNISH, XXIV. 91; copal, VI. 342;
Japanese, XIII. 590, 592; painter's,
XVIII. 138; for violins, XXIV. 246.
VÄRÖ, island, Norway, XIV. 769.
VAROLI, Constantio, Italian anatomist,
I. 809.

VARRO, Marcus Terentius, Roman man of letters, XXIV. 92; XX. 719; his chronology of Rome, v. 710; his economic teaching, XIX. 350; his language and style, XIV. 334.

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250. VATICAN COUNCIL, XXIV. 110. VATICAN LIBRARY, at Rome, XIV. 528, 548; Oriental MSS. of, II. 728. VATICAN PALACE, Rome, xx. 835; Raphael's paintings in, XX. 277. VATICANUS, Codex, MS. of New Testament, III. 646; XVIII. 147.

Publius Terentius, Roman poet, VATKE, on the Pentateuch, XVIII. 508. XXIV. 94. VATOPEDE, convent on Mount Athos, VARRONIANUS, Donaldson's work, VII. Turkey, I. 11.

357. VARTHEMA, Ludovico di, Italian traveller, X. 179. VARTRY, river, Ireland, XXIV. 557. VARUNA, Vedic god, IV. 208; XVI. 530. VARUS, P. Quintilius, Roman general, X. 475.

VARVICITE, mineral, XVI. 387. VASA, Gustavus, king of Sweden, XI. 333; XXII. 747.

VATTEL, Emer de, Swiss jurist, XXIV. 113; on the balance of power, III. 267. VATTELUTTU, Tamil alphabet, XXIII. 42.

VAUBAN, Sebastien Le Prestre de, French marshal, XXIV. 113; as military engineer, IX. 578; on fortification, IX. 441, 444; as political economist, XIX. 359.

-, Duke Charles, regent of Sweden, VAUBERNIER, XXII. 748.

VASARHELY, Hodmezö, town, Hungary,

XII. 41.

- Maros, town, Transylvania, XV. 562.

VARASD, town, Austria, XXIV. 69; VASARI, Giorgio, Italian painter and

frontier generalate, XVI. 295. VARDANES, Parthian king, XVIII. 601. VARDAR, Iron Gate of the, pass, Macedonia, XV. 137.

VARDHAMANA, leader of the Jains, India, XIII. 543.

VAREN, Bernhard (Varenius), German geographer, XXIV. 69.

VARIA, Sabine town, Italy, XXI. 129. VARIABLE, Complex, in mathematics, XXIV. 69.

VARIATION, Magnetic, XV. 220.

AND SELECTION, in biology, XXIV. 76, 818; I. 87; VIII. 750. VARIATIONS, Calculus of, XXIV. 85;

Lagrange's contributions to, XIV. 207. VARICOSE VEINS, XXII. 684. VARIETY, Hamilton's Law of, in psychology, XX. 49.

VARINA (Miss Waring), object of Dean
Swift's attentions, XXII. 765.
VARINUS of Camers, Italian scholar,
XI. 238.

VARIOLA, disease, XXII. 162.
VARISCITE, mineral, XVI. 405.
VARIUS AVITUS (Heliogabalus), Roman
emperor, XI. 632.

writer on art, XXIV. 94. VASCO, Giambattista, Italian economist, XIX. 362.

DA GAMA, Portuguese navigator, X. 57, 181; XII. 796; XIX. 545; doubling of Cape of Good Hope by, v. 44. VASCULAR SYSTEM, or Organs of Circulation, XXIV. 95; 899; XIX. 16; in Amphibia, 1. 763; in birds, II. 726; in Crustacea, VI. 640; in fishes, XII. 658; in mammals, XV. 364; in reptiles,

XX. 459.

VASES, Ancient, XIX. 605, 608, 614; gold and silver, XIX. 178; painted, early Greek, II. 353, 359, 364; Corinthian, II. 348; Etruscan, VIII. 641, 644; Greek, designs on, VII. 448. VASHISHTHA, Brahmanic sage, XII. 782. VASILII IVANOVICH, sovereign of Russia, XXI. 91.

VASILIKA, village, Greece, XXII. 32. VASILIKI, village, Santa Maura, Ionian Islands, XXI. 297.

VASILKOFF, town, Russia, XXIV. 110. VASSAL, in feudal system, XIV. 114; tenure of land by, in England, XIV. 264.

VARLEY, Cornelius, English painter, VASSAR COLLEGE, at Poughkeepsie,

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Marie Jeanne de (Madame Du Barry), mistress of Louis XV., VII. 494.

VAUBOIS, Comte de, French general, his defence of Malta (1798), XV. 343. VAUCHAMPS, France, Battle of (1814),

XVII. 221.

VAUCLUSE, department, France, XXIV.

114.

Petrarch's retreat, XXIV. 114; XVIII. 707, 708.

VAUD, canton, Switzerland, XXIV. 114; XXII. 793.

Pays de, district of mediæval Switzerland, XXIV. 115. VAUDEVILLE, variety of French drama, VII. 427; XVIII. 215.

VAUDOIS, or Waldenses (q.v.), religious sect, XXIV. 323.

VAUGHAN, Henry, Welsh poet, XXIV. 115.

-, Thomas, Welsh writer and alchemist, XXIV. 116.

Sir William, his Golden Fleece, I. 720. VAULT, in architecture, II. 426, 430. VAULTING, in gymnastics, XI. 35.

Groined, in architecture, II. 465. VAUQUELIN, Louis Nicolas, French chemist, XXIV. 116; on the composition of alum, I. 644; his patronage of Thénard, XXIII. 251. VAUQUELINITE, mineral, XVI. 403. VAUVENARGUES, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de, French moralist, XXIV. 116; IX. 670.

Comte, VI. 233.

VASSEUR, Thérèse le, mistress of Rous- VAUX, Clotilde de, her relations with
seau, XXI. 24.
VASTO, town, Italy, XXIV. 110.
VAS-VARMEGYE (Eisenburg), county,
Hungary, VII. 790.

VAVAU, island, South Pacific, IX. 779. VAVAVATO, district, Madagascar, xv.

168.

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