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INDEX. 



Torrlcelli, 103. 



Transmutation of force chemically illus- 

 trated, 872. 

 Tyndall, xxx., 57. 



Units of heat produced in combustion, 261. 



Vacuum, not yet obtained, 134. 

 Vital and physical forces, correlation of, 

 xxxii. 



effects, crude explanations of, 401. 



activity, Hiumet-risticB of, 407. 

 of plants, purpose of, 418. 



principle, 402, 420. 

 Vis viva, 218, 263. 

 Volcanoes, loss of heat by, 810. 

 Volta, 158. 



Voltaic arc, cause of light of, 88. 



W 



Wartmann, Mr., 146. 



Water, expansion of, as it approaches 



freezing, 50. 



"Water-power, force produced by, 215. 

 Watt, James, 75. 

 Wortlifim. !6, 150. 

 Win-well, Dr., xxvi., 136. 

 Wollaston, Dr., 136. 

 Wilson, Dr., 136. 



Words, misguiding influence of, 94. 

 their socUl import, 180. 

 Work performed by chemical force, 226. 

 Wood, Dr., 54, 160. 



Young, Dr. Thomas, xxvii., 124, 125, 128, 

 129, 188. 



Zodiacal light. 272. 



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