sneri, an Italian geologist of the eighteenth century, ii. 315.

Vandal attack, i. 327.

Vandals converted in the fourth century, i. 365.

Van Helmont introduced the theory of vitality into medicine, ii. 285.

Variation of organic forms, i. 8.
Man not exempt from law of, i. 10.
Human, best seen when examined on a line of the meridian, i. 11.
The political result of human, i. 11.

Varolius, a distinguished anatomist, ii. 284.

Varro, Terentius, his scepticism, i. 257.

Vasco de Gama doubles the Cape of Good Hope, ii. 167.

Vatican library founded by Nicholas V., ii. 111.

Vedaism, the adoration of nature, its doctrines, i. 58.
Its changes, i. 64.

Vedic doctrines, minor, i. 62.

Venice, commercial rivalry between Genoa and, ii. 158.
Takes the lead in the publication of books, ii. 199.

Venus, light of the planet, ii. 304.

Verona, Fracaster wrote on the petrifactions found at, ii. 315.
The first geological museum established at, ii. 390.

Vesicles, nerve, structure and functions of, ii. 347.

Victor, Bishop of Rome, requires the Asiatic bishops to conform
to his view respecting Easter, i. 291.

Victor III. denounces the life of Pope Benedict IX. as foul and
execrable, i. 381.

Vienne, Council of, ii. 89.

Vieta improves algebra, and applies it to geometry, ii. 284.

Vigilius purchases the Papacy for two hundred pounds of gold, i. 354.

Vinci, Leonardo da, his contributions to science, ii. 268.
First asserts the true nature of fossil remains, ii. 314, 390.
Compares the action of the eye to that of a camera obscura, ii. 380.

Virgin Mary, worship of, i. 296.
Various art types of the, i. 361.

Visconti, Barnabas, irreverence of, ii. 95.

Visigoths, spread of, through Greece, Spain, Italy, i. 300.

Vision, correct ideas respecting, ii. 380.

Vitello publishes a treatise on optics in the sixteenth
century, ii. 255.

Vocabulary, Indo-Germanic, i. 32.

Volcanoes, ii. 301.

Volta, indebtedness of chemistry to, ii. 391.

Voltaic electricity, ii. 377.

Voyages, minor, ii. 174.

Vulgate becomes the ecclesiastical authority of the West, i. 306.
Jealous fears of Rome respecting depreciation of the authority
of, ii. 195.

Wales, South, thickness of coal-bearing strata in, ii. 308.

Walter the Penniless, one of the first Crusaders, ii. 22.

War, effect of, o