INDEX. 
United States Fish Commission, i. xx. 
Upper Gault, depth of sea of, i. 148. 
Urechinus naresianus, ii. 101. 
** Valorous,” Expedition of the, i. 43. 
Valvulina triangularis, ii. 165. 
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Wallis, i. 32, 
| “Washington,”” Expedition of the, i. 41. 
| Water, disintegrating action of warm, i. 290. 
| Water cup, i. 21. 
of Sigsbee, i. 21. 
of Tornée and Wille, i. 294. 
Vegetable parasites, Wedl and Kölliker on, | | West India Islands, appearance of, i, xiii. 
i. 288. 
Velella, i. 180, 183. 
Ventriculites, Thomson, 
170. 
Vermetus erectus, ii. 71. 
Verrill, A. E., Report on Anthozoa, i. xxi. 
n “Blake ” anthozoa, ii. 142. 
n ‘‘ Blake ” cephalopods, ii. 58. 
on color of light at great depths, i. 305. 
on fish remains, i. 145. 
on floating beach sand, i. 274. 
on pliocene submarine fossils, i. 273. 
on primitive types of aetiniz, ii. 146. 
on protective phosphorescence, i. 308. 
Verruea incerta, ii. 50. 
Vertebrate bones, scarcity of, i. 144. 
Verticordia elegantissima, ii. 74. 
Verticordia perversa, ii. 74. 
Vesicomya pilula, ii. 74. 
Vesicomya venusta, ii. 74, 15 
Vetulina stalactites, ii. 175. 
Vicksburg limestone, i. 61. 
Vineularia abyssicola, ii. 80. 
Virgin Islands, i. 105. 
land shells of, i. 116. 
sink off, i. 104. 
submarine banks of the, i. 111. 
Voleanie bottom deposits, i. 200. 
Voleanie regions, topography of bottom of, 
i. 104. 
Volcanie shore deposits, i. 289. 
Voleanoes of West Indies, age of the, i. 109. 
Voluta, bathymetrical range of, i. 169. 
Von Otter, i. 42; ii. 142. 
t Vóringen," expedition of the, i. 44. 
Vorticellidee, associated with other animals, 
i. 215. 
Waldheimia floridana, ii. 76. 
Wallace, A. R., i. 100. 
on age of continents and oceanie basins, 
1127. 
on Antillean continent, i. 116. 
Wallieh, on formation of flints, i. 143. 
on migrations of marine animals, i. 164. 
on protoplasmie deep-sea layer, i. 150. 
on silex nodules, i. 150. 
report on ** Bulldog ”” Expedition, i. 44, 
45. 
C. Wyville, on, ii. 
| elevated reefs of, i. 79. 
| eruptive roeks of, i. 110. 
history of, i. 111. 
limestone of, i. 64. 
southern slope of, i. 105. 
time of elevation of, i. 113. 
West Indian bird fauna, i. 114. 
| West Indian cretaceous rocks, i. 110. 
West Indian deep-sea fauna, richness of, 
ii. 3. 
West Indian fauna, ii. 1. 
immigration into, of Atlantie types, i. 
158. 
transition-from old fauna, i. 160. 
variety and richness of, i. 91. 
West Indian fauna and flora, origin of, 1 
116. 
relations of, i. 109. 
West Indian marine animals, northeru ex- 
, tension of, i. 119. 
West Indian miocene rocks, i. 110. 
| West Indian reptiles, relation of, i. 115. 
| West Indian specific forms, i. 116. 
West Indian submarine plateau, i. 118. 
West Indian types, northern extension of, i. 
118. 
| West Indies, Duncan on fossil corals of, i. 
161. 
| fossiliferous rocks of, Cleve on, i. 109. 
land tortoise of, i. 115. 
mollusk fauna of, i. 114. 
| Western Atlantic, bird's-eye view of, i. 105. 
| Western Caribbean, topography of, i. 100. 
| Western North Atlantic, 
warm water of, i. 
243. 
White chalk, a deep-sea deposit, i. 146. 
composition of, i. 201. 
‘off Nuevitas, i. 289. 
Wild, J. J., i. 240. 
Thalassa, i. 244. 
Willemoesix, ii. 42. 
Willemoes-Suhm on luminosity of Scopelus, 
ii. 33. 
Wilson, E. B., ii. 49. 
Report on Pygnogonida, i. xxi. 
Winds, effect of, in depth, i. 255. 
frictional effect of, 1. 247. 
Windward Islands, bottom of plateau of, ii. 
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