706 



AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Ventral arches, 458, 585, 



591, 611 

 Ventricle, 503 

 Vera Cruz, 432 

 Verbascum (poisonous 



plant), 489 

 Verdun, 536 



Vermont, fauna, 430; fish- 

 eries, 479; pisciculture, 



563, 569 

 Vernacular names, 600 — 



see also under the various 



countries 

 Verona, 518, 567 

 Vertain, 539 

 Vertebral Column, 368, 



380, 457, 459, 465, 502, 



591, 585, 601, 610-612; 

 age determined by, 496, 

 497; abnormal, 604 



Vertebral theory, 590, 591 



Vesicula limpida, 510 



Vesiculae seminales, 609 



Vesicular tissue, 588 



Vesprem, 534 



Vesuvius, Mt., 516 



Vettern, Lake, 452 



VexilUfer, 643; adult form 

 — see Fierasfer 



Victoria, fauna, 454; fish- 

 eries, 488; palaeontology, 

 531, 542; pisciculture, 

 570 



Victoria Nyanza, Lake, 421 



Victoria R., 422 



Vienna, fisheries congresses, 

 463; museums and ex- 

 hibits, 466, 517, 547; 

 markets, 468; palaeon- 

 tology, 541; pisciculture, 

 565 



Vierwaldstattersee, 453 



Ville-sur-Saulx, 536 



Villedieu, 537 



Villers, 536 



Virgin Is., 431 



Virginia, fauna, 430; mar- 

 kets, 468; fisheries, 479; 

 palaeontology, 533, 534, 

 635, 537, 538, 540; pisci- 

 culture, 540 



Viscera, 498, 603, 604, 608 



Visceral Skeleton, 612, 

 613; visceral arches, 365, 

 390, 520, 584, 586, 591, 



592, 602, 605, 612, 613; 

 visceral muscles, 520, 521 ; 

 visceral clefts, 613 



Vision, 394, 419, 613, 614; 



in deep-sea fishes, 396; 



eye, 418 f. 

 Vistula R., 440 

 Visual purple, 419 

 Vitality, 502, 584, 601 

 Vitelline body, 529 

 Vit elline membrane, 528 

 Vitellus, 412 

 Viti Levu, 456 

 Vitr eous humor, 420 

 " Vivier," 470 

 Viviparity, 409, 506, 580- 



5 82 , 595 



Vivisection, 601 



Vizo, 540 



Vladivostock, 439 



Voice — see Sound 



Voirons, 538 



" Volcano fish," 637 



Volga R., 493, 515; fauna, 

 450; fisheries, 486; palae- 

 ontology, 533; piscicul- 

 ture, 563, 568 



Volpersdorf, 533 



Volterra, 542 



Volusia, 426 



Voracity, 574, 575 



Vorarlberg, 440 



Voyages, 343-347 — see 

 also under names of 

 countries, and names of 

 steamers 



Vrasski's method of im- 

 pregnation, 555, 568, 

 595 



Vulcanism, 515, 516, 602 



Vyatka Govt., 451 



Wadi-Natrtin, 542 



Waigiu I., 455 



Wales, 548; fauna, 444; 

 fisheries, 482; palaeon- 

 tology, 532, 533, 535; 

 pisciculture, 565 



"Walking" with rays of 

 pectoral, 512 



Walking Fish — see Peri- 

 ophthalmus 



Wall charts, 508 



Wallace's line, 405, 453 



Wallensee, 453, 487 



Walnut Lake, 428 



Walton-Naze, 539 



Wanstead, 542 



Waquoit Wier, 428 



Warberg-am-Elm, 535 



Wash R., 481 



Washington, fauna, 430; 

 fisheries, 473, 479 



Washington, D. C, 463, 

 468; museums, 519; shad 

 culture, 563 



Wasselnheim, 535 



Wassy, 537 



Water-throwing habit, 500 



Waterspouts, 575 



Waziristan, 436 



Weakfish — see Cynoscion 



Wealden fish-fauna, 537 



Weather, influence on mi- 

 grations, 515 



" Weather-fish " — see Co- 

 bitis, 381 



Weberian apparatus, 380, 

 381, 543 



Webi Shebeli (R.), 423 



Weever fish — see Tra- 

 chinuK 



Wehmingen, 535 



Weight — see Growth 



Weinheim, 540 



Weissig, 534 



Weitsee, 447 



Weldon, 563 



Wellington, 457 



" Wells " for transporta- 

 tion, 463 



Wels — see Silurus glanis, 

 636 



Wemmelian stage, 539 



Wernleiten, 539 



Weser R., fauna, 446; fish- 

 eries, 483, 554; piscicul- 

 ture, 567 



Wesleyan Univ. Mus., 519 



West Africa, 579 



West Indies, 508, 574; 

 fauna, 430 ; markets, 

 468; fisheries, 479; fish- 

 ing methods, 491; palae* 

 ontology, 538 



West Virginia, 430 



Westphalia, 405 



Wetterau, 446 



Wettin,533 



Weymouth, 535 



Whale Shark — see Rhine- 

 odon 



Whales, 574, 605 



Whanganui R., 457 



Whitby, 442, 535 



White corpuscles, 384 



" White roach," 506 



White Sea, 420, 450 



" White spot " disease, 547 



Whitebait, 474 



Whitefish • — see Coregonus 



Whiting — see Gadus mer- 

 langus 



Wickford, R. I., 469 



Wieliczka, 541 



Wight, Isle of, fauna, 441; 

 palaeontology, 537, 539, 

 540 



Wildungen, 532 



Wilhelmshohe, 541 



Williamson's hatching 



trough, 554 



" Wind-eggs," 528 



Wind-fish — see Semotilus 



Winkelsmiihle, 507 



Winnipeg, 424 



Winnipiseogee, Lake, 428 



Winter killing, 516 



Wisconsin, 493, 516, 544; 

 fauna, 430 ; fisheries, 479 ; 

 palaeontology, 531; sal- 

 mon introduced, 557; 

 pisciculture, 570 



Witch — see Pleuronectes 

 cynoglossus 



Wittingau, 565 



Wolffian duct, 606, 607 



Wolf-fish, 660 



WoodhuU Lake, 557 



Woodlark I., 456 



Woods Hole, fauna, 428; 

 biological laboratory, 

 469 ; marking experi- 

 ments, 516; cod culture, 

 561 ; breeding seasons, 576 



Woodwardian Mus., 517 



World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition, 466 



World's Exposition, 466 



World's Fisheries Con- 

 gress, 463 



