Part 36

Vallisnieri, 112

Variation a factor in the origin of species, 74 ‘Materials for the study of,’ 74

Veeder, Dr., Flies the carriers of the Bacillus typhosus, 178

Venn, Dr., Effort to establish a psychophysical laboratory in the University of Cambridge, 208

Venus Genitrix, 5

Vijaya, King, 8

Vinegar, Manufacture of, 112

Virchow, Malarial pigment or melanin, 136

Virus, Attenuated, Discovery of the, 122

Waddell, Major, 84

Wade, Sir Thomas, Chinese library presented to Cambridge University by, 190

Wallich, Dr., 21

Watson, Dr. Malcolm, Reduction of malaria at Port Swettenham, 162

Weismann, Inheritance of acquired characters in telegony, 80

Westwood, Glossina morsitans named by, 164

Wiedemann, First description of the tsetse fly, 164

Wilkes, Captain, 19

Willis, 109

Wilson, Major L. M., 130

Wine, Acetous fermentation of, 113 Bouquet of, 113

Winterbottom, 169

Wollaston, Dr. W. H., 75

Woolsorter’s disease, 177 in man, 120, 177

Wundt opened the first psychophysical laboratory at Leipzig in 1878, 208

Yeast-cell, Nucleus of the, 120 Thirty different species of, 120

Yellow fever. See Fever

Yersin, 125

Zebras, Attempts to cross, with Shetland ponies, 86 Burchell’s, 82 Stripes of, 85 Experiments with, 82 Grévy’s, 82 Mountain, 82 Somali, 82 Stripes of, 85 Striped ancestors of horses, 83 Zebra-hybrids, 96