INDEX. 



367 



Vasciilar tissue of plants, 62. 



Vegetable kingdom. See Botany and Talk about Trees. 



Vegetable kingdom, periodic phenomena of, 150. 



Vegetation of a decayed nut, 356 ; of tlie river tank, 22S. 



Velocity of a meteor, 131. 



Ventrieulite in flint, 116. 



Venus, planet, occultation of, 222. 



Vespasia, coin in commemoration of, 100. 



Vesuvius, force of its eruptions, 257. 



Vibratory colours, 92. 



Violet, an example of irregular structure, 54. 



Vision of colours influenced by motion, 89. 



Volcanoes and earthquakes considered as evidences of the 



internal heat of the earth, 253, 325. 

 Volcanoes, geographical distribution of, 255 ; uses of in the 



economy of Nature, 326. 

 Vorticella convaUaria and microstoma, 311. 



Waltonian case for plant-growing, 324. 

 Wardian cases : planting them, 64 ; combining with aqua- 

 ria, 73 ; rockwork for, 36, 108 ; mosses for, 203, 324. 

 Wasp, sting of, 78. 

 Water, purification of, 144. 



Watee-Gabdetts, 73, 227; rockwork for, 36, 108, 324; 



mosses for, 203 ; general management and planting, 73. 

 Water-glass, its origin and history, 20; composition of, 21, 



22 ; varieties of, 21 ; modes of preparing, 22 ; hydrated, 



22 ; applications of to photography, 23 ; other uses, 24 ; 



suggestions for experiment, 24 ; renders textures uniu- 



flammable. 

 Wayside Weeds : Handful I., 10, 52; II., 123, 158; III., 



266, 315. 

 Weather of 1859, 237. 

 Wedgewood the first photographer, 189. 

 Weight of the earth, 331. 

 Whorled flowers, 319. 

 Wight, Isle of, geology and scenery, 128. 

 Wingless birds, 41. 



Winter management of cage-birds, 93. 

 Woody fibre, varieties of, 61, 62, 63. 

 Words, origin of, 108. 

 World, aquatic, in miniature, 227 ; 



Zoological Gardens, elands at, 225. 

 Zoology. See Natural History. 

 Zoo -spores of ulva crispa, 156. 



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