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WHITE, Benjamin, English naturalist

publisher, XXIV. 549., Gilbert, English naturalist, xxiv.

549; on birds, xvill. 9., Henry, English meteorologist,

xxiv. 549., John, English naturalist, XXIV.

549-

, Joseph Blanco, author, XXIV. 550.

, Robert, English engraver, xxiv.

550., Thomas, English scientist, XXIV.

549- ANTS, insects, I. 260; xm. 146,

152. WHITEBAIT, fish, xxiv. 550; fishery,

ix. 255.

WHITEBOY SOCIETY, Ireland, xm. 270. WHITE CANONS, or Prsemonstratenaians

(q.v.), monastic order, I. 20. WHITE CART, river, Scotland, XX.

395-

WHITE DOE OB RYLSTONE, Words worth s poem, xxiv. 676.

WHITE-EYE, bird, xxiv. 824.

WHITEFIELD, town, England, xxiv.

551-, George, English preacher, xxiv.

551; vm. 355; xvn, 376.

WHITEFISH, xxiv. 552.

WHITEHALL, Government offices, Lon don, xiv. 839, 847.

- BANQUETING HOUSE, n. 443. WHITEHAVEN, town, England, xxiv.

552. WHITEHEAD, bird, xvm. 52.

- TORPEDO, xxm. 450; xvn. 285. WHITE HORDE, of Mongols, xvi. 747. WHITE HORSE HILL, Berkshire, Eng land, in. 593.

WHITE HORSE VALE, England, Stone

alignments in, XXI. 51. WHITE HOUSE, Washington, U.S.A.,

xxiv. 384. VHITEHURST, Mr, his hydraulic ram,

iv. 173.

WHITE LEAD, xiv. 378. WHITE LEG, disease, xxn. 684. WHITE LIGHT, xiv. 596, 607. WHITELOCK, General, Capitulation of,

at Buenos Ayres, II. 490. WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode, English

Commonwealth politician, XXIV. 552. WHITE MAGIC, xv. 207. WHITE MOUNTAINS, New Hampshire,

U.S.A., xvii. 390; xxm. 792. WHITE PINE, tree, xix. 105. WHITE PLAINS, New York, Provincial

congress at (1776), xvii. 455. WHITE ROCK, form of basalt, x. 311. WHITE SEA, Russia, xxi. 67, 72, 73;

fisheries in, xxi. 582. WHITE S TACKLE, in mechanics, xv.

763- WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Virginia,

U.S.A., xvi. 436. WHITE SWELLING, disease, XVIIL 405.

WHITETHROAT, bird, xxiv. 553.

WHITE TRAP, rock, x. 31 1.

WHITFIELD, or Whitefield (q.v.), George, English preacher, xxiv. 551.

, John Clarke, English organist and

musical composer, xxiv. 553.

WHITGIFT, John, archbishop of Canter bury, xxiv. 554; vm. 377.

WHITHORN, town, Scotland, xvii. 513; XXIV. 563; monastery of, XVI. 706.

WHITING, fish, xxiv. 554; xn. 691.

, abbot of Glastonbury, England, I.

24.

WHITING-POUT, fish, xix. 650.

WHITLOW, disease, xxiv. 554.

WHITMAN, Marcus, colonizer in Oregon, U.S.A., xvn. 825.

, Walt, American poet, I. 733.

WHITNEY, William Dwight, 011 classifi cation of religions, XX. 365; on lan guages of American Indians, I. 689.

WHITNEYITE, mineral, xvi. 393.

WHITSTABLE, town, England, xxiv.

555-

WHITSUNDAY, xxiv. 555; xv. 648. WHITSUNTIDE, in England, in time of

Shakespeare, xxi. 750. WHITTAKER, James, Shaker leader,

xxi. 737. WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, American

poet, I. 734. WHITTINGTON, town, England, xxiv.

555-, Sir Richard, lord mayor of Lon

don, xxiv. 555.

AND HIS CAT, Legend of, xxiv.

556. WHITTLESEA MERE, England, Drainage

of, iv. 728. WHITWORTH, town, England, xxiv.

556. -, Sir Joseph, his experiments on

projectiles, I. 745. WHOOPER, bird, xxn. 731. WHOOPING-COUGH, disease, xn. 154. WHORL, spinning apparatus, xiv. 664. WHORTLEBERRY, shrub, xxiv. 556.

WHY COME NOT YE TO COURT ? Skel-

ton s song, xxn. 120. WHYDAH, town, Dahomey, Africa, vi.

765. WHYMPER, Edward, his expedition to

Greenland, xix. 324. WHYTOCK, Richard, his carpet-weaving

process, v. 130. WIBERT of Ravenna (Clement III.,

antipope), XL 255. WlBORG, province, Finland, IX. 217 ;

town, XXIV. 209. WICHE S LAND, island, Spitzbergen,

xxii. 408. WICHITA, town, Kansas, U.S.A., xxiv.

556. WICK, of candle, IV. 803; of lamp,

xiv. 245.

, town, Scotland, xxiv. 556.

WICKER- WORK, m. 421.

WICKLIFFE, or WyclifFe (q.v.), John, English Reformer, xxiv. 708.

WICKLIFFE S BIBLE, vm. 383.

WICKLOW, county and town, Ireland, xxiv. 557.

WICKSTEED, J. H., his single-lever test ing machine, XXII. 596.

WIDALIN, John, Icelandic bishop, XII. 626.

WIDDIN, town, Bulgaria, xxiv. 558.

WlDE-AWAKE, bird, xxm. 189.

WIDGEON, bird, vn. 506.

WIDIN, or Widdin, town, Bulgaria, xxiv. 558.

WlDMANNSTATTEN FIGURES, on

meteoric irons, xvi. 113. WIDNES, town, England, XXIV. 558. WIDOW, Marriage of, among Jews, XXL

in.

WIDOW-BIRD, xxiv. 463. WIDOW S QUARANTINE, in law, xx.

158. WIED, Counts of, Rhenish Prussia,

xvii. 366. WIEDEMANN, Gustav Heinrich, his

magnetic researches, XV. 253. WIELAND, in German mythology, XI.

679.

, novel by C. B. Brown, iv. 383.

, Christopher Martin, German man

of letters, xxiv. 558; x. 535; as

translator of Shakespeare, VII. 442. WIELICZKA, Poland, Salt-mine at, xxi.

230. WlEN (Vienna, q.v.), XXIV. 219.

, river, Austria, XXIV. 219.

WlENER-NEUSTADT, town, Austria,

xvn. 365.

WIEPRZ, river, Poland, XIX. 307. WlERZBOLOWO, town, Russian Poland,

xxn. 728.

WIERZ-YARVI, lake, Russia, xiv. 724. WIESBADEN, district, Germany, xvn.

238., town, Germany, XXI v. 559;

mineral water of, xvi. 434. WlESELGREN, Per, Swedish historian,

XXII. 758. WIFE, WIVES, Laws relating to, xil.

400; xv. 565; xxiv. 637. WlG, of artificial hair, XXIV. 560. WIGAN, town, England, xxiv. 560. WlGEON, bird, XXIV. 561. WIGHT, Isle of, England, xxiv. 561. WiGRY, lake, Russian Poland, xix.

308. WIGTOWN, county, Scotland, xxiv. 562;

town, xxiv. 563. WlLBERFORCE, Samuel, bishop of

Oxford, XXIV. 564., William, English philanthropist,

xxiv. 565; his opposition to the slave

trade, xxi I. 139.

WILCZEK LAND, Polar Regions, Dis covery of, xix. 324. WILDALLE, Giuseppe Pinetti de, Italian

conjurer, XV. 208.