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VANNUCCI, Pietro (Perugino), Italian painter, xvm. 680.

VAN NUYSSEN, Abraham Janssens, Flemish painter, xin. 568.

VANOZZA, Rosa, mistress of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI.), I. 487.

VAN TILBORGH, Egidius, Flemish painter, XXIII. 175.

VAN TWILLER, "Wouter, director, New Netherland, America, xvil. 454.

VANUA LEVU, one of the Fiji Islands, ix. 156.

VAN VEEN, Heemskerk, Dutch painter, xi. 611.

VAN VEEN, Otto, Flemish painter, xxi. 41.

VAPINCUM (Gap), ancient town, France, x. 72.

VAPOUR, laws of its formation, vin. 727; limits of elasticity of, VII. 801; amount of aqueous, in atmosphere, ill. 32; xvi. 138; instrument for measur ing, XII. 569; Deville s dissociation experiments with, xxi. 166; as steam, XXII. 483 ; determination of vapour- density, v. 547; volcanic vapours, x. 241. - BATHS, in. 440.

VAPOURS, The, disease, xn. 598.

VAR, department, France, xxiv. 68.

VARANGIANS, Scandinavian guards, at Constantinople, xi. 116.

VARASD, town, Austria, xxiv. 69; frontier generalate, xvi. 295.

VARDANES, Parthian king, xvm. 60 1.

VARDAR, Iron Gate of the, pass, Mace donia, xv. 137.

VARDHAMANA, leader of the Jains, India, XIII. 543.

VAREN, Bernhard (Varenius), German geographer, xxiv. 69.

VARIA, Sabine town, Italy, xxi. 129.

VARIABLE, Complex, in mathematics, xxiv. 69.

VARIATION, Magnetic, xv. 220.

AND SELECTION, in biology, xxiv.

76, 818; i. 87; vni. 750.

VARIATIONS, Calculus of, xxiv. 85; Lagrange s contributions to, Xiv. 207.

VARICOSE VEINS, xxn. 684.

VARIETY, Hamilton s Law of, in psy chology, xx. 49.

VARINA (Miss Waring), object of Dean Swift s attentions, xxn. 765.

VARINUS of Gamers, Italian scholar, xi. 238.

VARIOLA, disease, xxn. 162.

VARISCITE, mineral, xvi. 405.

VARIUS AVITUS (Heliogabalus), Roman emperor, xi. 632.

VARLEY, Cornelius, English painter, xxiv. 90. , John, English painter, xxiv. 90.

VARLEY S TELEGRAPHIC INSULATOR, xxni. 114.

VARNA, town, Bulgaria, xxiv. 90; battle of (1444), xix. 289; xxi i. 642.

VARNHAGEN VON ENSE, Karl August, German biographer, xxiv. 91.

VARNISH, xxiv. 91; copal, vi. 342; Japanese, XIII. 590, 592; painter s, xvm. 138; for violins, xxiv. 246.

VARO, island, Norway, xiv. 769.

VAROLI, Constantio, Italian anatomist, I. 809.

VARRO, Marcus Terentius, Roman man of letters, xxiv. 92; xx. 719; his chronology of Rome, v. 710; his economic teaching, xix. 350 ; his language and style, Xiv. 334.

, Publius Terentius, Roman poet,

xxiv. 94.

VARRONIANUS, Donaldson s work, vn.

357-

VARTHEMA, Ludovico di, Italian traveller, X. 179.

VARTRY, river, Ireland, xxiv. 557.

VARUNA, Vedic god, iv. 208; xvi. 530.

VARUS, P. Quintilius, Roman general, x. 475.

VARVICITE, mineral, xvi. 387.

VASA, Gustavus, king of Sweden, xi. 333; xxn. 747.

, Duke Charles, regent of Sweden,

xxn. 748.

VASARHELY, Hodmezo, town, Hungary, xii. 41.

, Maros, town, Transylvania, XV.

562.

VASARI, Giorgio, Italian painter and writer on art, xxiv. 94.

VASCO, Giambattista, Italian economist, xix. 362.

DA GAMA, Portuguese navigator,

x. 57, 181; xii. 796; XIX. 545; doub ling of Cape of Good Hope by, v. 44.

VASCULAR SYSTEM, or Organs of Circu lation, xxiv. 95: i. 899; xix. 16; in Amphibia, I. 763; in birds, II. 726; in Crustacea, VI. 640; in fishes, xn. 658; in mammals, xv. 364; in reptiles, xx. 459.

VASES, Ancient, xix. 605, 608, 614; gold and silver, xix. 178; painted, early Greek, 1 1. 353, 359, 364; Corin thian, II. 348; Etruscan, vin. 641, 644; Greek, designs on, vn. 448.

VASHISHTHA, Brahmanic sage, xn. 782.

VASILII IVANOVICH, sovereign of Russia, xxi. 91.

VASILIKA, village, Greece, xxn. 32.

VASILIKI, village, Santa Maura, Ionian Islands, xxi. 297.

VASILKOFF, town, Russia, xxiv. 110.

VASSAL, in feudal system, xiv. 114; tenure of land bv, in England, XIV. 264.

VASSAR COLLEGE, at Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A., xix. 644.

VASSEUR, Therese le, mistress of Rous seau, xxi. 24.

VASTO, town, Italy, xxiv. 1 10.

VAS-VARMEGYE (Eisenburg), county, Hungary, vn. 790.

VATATZES, John III., emperor of Nicaea,

xin. 713.

VATE, island, New Hebrides, XVIL 395. I VATHY, town, Ithaca, Greece, XIII. 517. , town, Samos, ^Egean Sea, XXI.

250.

VATICAN COUNCIL, xxiv. 1 10.

T ATICAN LIBRARY, at Rome, xiv. 528, 

548; Oriental MSS. of, n. 728. VATICAN PALACE, Rome, xx. 835;

Raphael s paintings in, xx. 277. VATICANUS, Codex, MS. of New Testa ment, in. 646; xvm. 147. VATKE, on the Pentateuch, xvm. 508. VATOPEDE, convent on Mount Athos,

Turkey, I. 1 1. VATTEL, Emer de, Swiss jurist, xxiv.

113; on the balance of power, in.

267. VATTELUTTU, Tamil alphabet, xxni,

42. VAUBAN, Sebastien Le Prestre de, French

marshal, XXIV. 113; as military

engineer, IX. 578; on fortification,

IX. 441, 444; as political economist,

xix. 359. VAUBERNIER, Marie Jeanne de

(Madame Du Barry), mistress of

Louis XV., VII. 494. VAUBOIS, Comte de, French general, his

defence of Malta (1798), xv. 343. VAUCHAMS, France, Battle of (1814),

XVII. 221.

VAUCLUSE, department, France, xxiv.

114. , Petrarch s retreat, xxiv. 114;

xvm. 707, 708. VAUD, canton, Switzerland, xxiv. 114:

xxn. 793. , Pays de, district of mediaeval

Switzerland, xxiv. 1 1 5. VAUDEVILLE, variety of French drama,

vn. 427; xvni. 215. VAUDOIS, or "Waldenses (q.i:), religious

sect, xxiv. 323. VAUGHAN, Henry, Welsh poet, xxiv.

115. , Thomas, Welsh writer and

alchemist, xxiv. 116. , Sir William, his Golden Fleece,

I. 720.

VAULT, in architecture, II. 426, 430. VAULTING, in gymnastics, XI. 35.

, Groined, in architecture, II. 465.

VAUQUELIN, Louis Nicolas, French

chemist, XXIV. 116; 011 the com position of alum, I. 644; his patronage

of Thenard, xxill. 251. VAUQUELINITE, mineral, xvi. 403. VAUVENARGUES, Luc de Clapiers,

Marquis de, French moralist, xxiv.

116; IX. 670. VAUX, Clotilde de, her relations with

Comte, vi. 233.

VAVAU, island, South Pacific, ix. 779. VAVAVATO, district, Madagascar, xv.