768 INDEX. 



Page. 



Verrazzano, Giovanni, early map by 288 



Vespucci, Amerigo, chief pilot of Spain 286 



Vespucci, Juan, mentioned 



Victoria, exchange agency 65 



transmissions to 67 



Victoria Land, discovery of 337 



Vinci, Lionardo da, cited 194 



Violle, researches by 247 



Virchow, Rudolph, on founding of Berlin University 681 



study and research . . 653 



Virginia, early fisheries of ' 224 



bonds, sale of - - xv 



Visigoths, art of the. 05 



Vital activity, mechanism of 445 



Vivisection, discoveries by - . - 392 



Voelcker , cited 219 



Volcanic eruptions in ocean bed 356 



Volkman, on pulse registration 465 



Volta. discoveries by. - - - 146, 165 



Von Bezold, electrical researches by . 722 



on the heart nerves 466 



Von Frey, researches by _ _ 467 



Von Hardenberg, on animal magnetism 694 



Von Helmholtz, Hermann, at Electrical Congress 141 



biography of 709 



Vortex motion, characteristics of - -. 717 



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Waddington, M., death of . 705 



Wadsworth, F. L. O. , resignation of 39, 78 



Walcott, C. D. , on oldest fossil fauna 259, 375 



Waldseemuller, Martin 291 



Waldseemtiller's globe of 1509.... 296 



Walferdin, thermometers made by 392 



Walker, Gen. F. A. , and Bureau of Ethnology 28 



Walker, Dr. Fuller, on vv^eather making 249 



Wallace, cited ...- 409 



Wallace, ^Ifred R. , on geographical distribution of animals 299 



method of organic evolution 413 



Walther, Henry -.- 47 



Walton, J. P., on rain making 270 



Wanner, Atreus, on Indian relics 85 



Wapiti, extinction of 35 



War Department, foreign exchanges of 62 



Ward, R. De C, on rain making 270 



Waring. Dr. G. E., jr., lecture by 20 



Warington, on lime salts 218 



Washburn , Dr. , on agricultural use of seaweed . . - "221 



Washington, Captain, mentioned 321 



Water, resistance of, methods of overcoming <)75 



sea, specific gravity and temperature of 354 



drop, photograph of splash 209 



