VENTIL-WALKER 



GENERAL IXDEX 



Ventilation, health and, lo, 8. 



— system of passenger car, 43, 247. 

 Venus, transit of, 14, 423. 



at Nagasaki, 14, 423. 



Vera Cruz, relics from, 11, 83. 



Verb in American languages, 22, 332. 



Vertebrata, 12, ^68, 210, 460, 466, 

 469, 483, 487, 554; 14, 361; 17, .u, 

 52, 182, 219, 233, 268; 19, 27, 38, 

 195; 20, 139, 447, 461, 478; 24, 

 209; 30, 123, 221, 278, 282; 36, 71. 



— from Upper Tertiary, Formations 

 of the West, 17, 219. 



— new Paleozoic, from Illinois, Ohio 

 and Pennsylvania, 36, 71. 



— of the Dakota Epoch of Colorado, 

 17, 233. 



— of the Permian Formation of 

 Texas, 19, 38: 20, 447. 



— of the Pucrco Eocene Epoch, 20, 

 461, 545- 



— of the Trias of North America, 

 24, 209. 



— phylogeny of the, 30, 2/8. 

 Vertebrate fossils of the Uinta For- 

 mation, 24, 255. 



— palc-eontology of Brazil, 23, r. 



— — of Texas, 30, 123. 

 Vertebrates, adaptive forms of the 



vortex-motion of the substances of 

 red blood-corpuscles of, 32, 2/2. 



— descriptions of some, of the Car- 

 boniferous Age, 39, 96. 



— of the Cayuga Lake Basin, N. Y., 

 48, 370. 



— some new Palaeozoic, 30, 221. 



— some points in the kinetogenesis 

 of the limbs of, 30, 282, 305. 



Vesuvius, 10, 421, 425. 



Vibrations, caused by heat, 6, ^2. 



Victoria, native tribes of. their lan- 

 guages and customs. 43, 54. 



Virginia, geology of various counties 

 of, 19, 88, 219; 22, 1 14. 



— southern, coal system of, 9, 30. 



— southwest, geology of, 24, 172. 



Vivisection of the brain of a pigeon, 



17, 3I4- 

 Vocabularies, Copto-Egyptian, 10, 65. 



— from the Musquito Coast, 29, i. 



— of the Seelish language, 23, 367. 



— two unclassified rec.ent. from 

 South America. 37, 321. 



Volapiik, 24, 415, 421. 436; 25, 3, 13, 

 312. 



Vowel sounds, not used in any lan- 

 guage. 9, 271. 



Vries, Hugo de, elementary species 

 in agriculture. 45, 149. 



Wagner Institute of Philadelphia. 



some of the work of, 32, 245. 

 Waitshum'ni dialect of the Kawi'a 



language. 23, 372. 

 Wake. C. Staniland, Malay language, 



Asiatic affinities of the, 28, 81. 

 Walker, Sears C. analogy of periods 



of rotation of primary planets, 5, 



97- 



August meteors, i, 261. 



■ Biela comets, 4, 235. 



— — -comet of 1843, 3, 67. 



— ■ — discovery of a missing star, 4, 



311- 

 elements of the planet Neptune, 



4. 332, 339- 



• Encke's comet, 2, 186. 



ephcmeris of the planet Nep- 

 tune, 5, 20. 



Erlel meridian circle, 4, 113. 



longitudes from observations of 



meteors, i, 161. 



. — in southern Michigan, i, 7. 



lunar occultations of the fixed 



stars, I, 71. 22i^. 



— — mirage, lateral and vertical, i, 

 188. 



obituary notice of E. R. Mason, 



2, 7- 

 — • — periodical meteors, 2, 18. 

 — • — ^ telegraphic operations of the U. 



5. Coast Survey, 5, 74. 



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