758 INDEX. 



V. 



Page. 



Van Depoele, Charles A. , electric traction experiments ] )y 346, 347 



Van Name, Willard G. , at Naples station 14 



Van' t Hoff , chemical work of 252 



Vapors and gases, nature of 318 



Varigny, Henry, on breeding of Arctic fox 527 



Varley, A. S. , dynamo designed by 339 



Vaulx, Coimt de la, ballooning by 189 



Vegetable and animal life of the ocean 493 



Verner, Samuel Phillips, collections from 52 



Vignaud, Henry, letter to 40 



Virchow, R. , on medicine and surgery 114 



Virginia, first criminal code of 117 



Vision, curiosities of 113 



Vitalistic doctrine, discussion of 471 



Vivisection, advantages of 469 



Volcanoes in Africa 436 



Von Baer, Carl Ernst, definition of science by 478 



researches by 466 



Von Huml )oldt, Alexander, cited 240, 428, 429 



Vowel timl)re, stu<iy of 10 



Vroman, A. C. , explorations by 59 



Wadesboro, eclipse expedition at 46, 101, 149 



Wahutu people in Africa 435 



Walker, Colonel, killed ])y Chinese 611 



Wallace-Farmer electric-light machines 340 



Warburton, exploration of Australia by 426 



AVard, Henry B., paper by 114 



Ward, Lester F. , on Petrified Forests of Arizona 24 



AVashburn, J. H. , on graduate study committee xvii 



AVashington Memorial Association xxi 



AA^ater corpuscles, study of 11 



AA^atkins, J. Elfreth, paper by 114 



AVave theory of light 321 



AVeather, prophecy of, Langley on 692 



solar and terrestrial 144 



Webster, A. G., researches in sound by 10 



AVeddell, Antarctic exploration by 425 



Weigh, ancient measures of 551 



AVelles, Lieut. Roger, jr. , animals obtained by 90 



AVelsbach, Auer von, incandescent mantle invented by 378 



AVeston, Edward, manganin invented by 413 



AVheatstone, Sir Charles, electrical researches by 323, 329 



dynamo generator constructed by 339 



AA^heeler, Joseph, Smithsonian Regent x 



succeeded by Dinsmore 2 



AA'^hite, Andrew D. , at Prussian Academy celebration 26 



Smithsonian Regent x,3, 4 



AV^hitney , Henry M. , electric railways introduced by 347 



AViechert, Professor, cited 293 



Wiesner, Julius, on plant physiology 114 



Wilberforce, Samuel, Huxley and 714 



