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Wave form, transit velocity of the, i. 121.
Wave of reflection and refraction, ii. 280; proof of, ii. 282.
Wave, reflected, occurs in every shock, ii. 300.
Wave amplitude and volume, ii. 317.
Wave, earthquake, becomes a thermometer for inaccessible depths, ii. 319.
Wave, velocity of transit of the, ii. 322.
Wave of shock, velocity proper of the, ii. 335.
Wave-particle, velocities discussed, ii. 377; new method of comparing, ii. 341.
Wave of shock, local disturbing causes producing abrupt perturbations of the, ii. 347.
Wave, abrupt reduction of the, ii. 353.

Wave-path, first class of determinants—fractures in rectangular buildings as evidences of, i. 33; in reference to buildings, i. 34; inferred, in the case of a cardinal building and abnormal wave, i. 64; radiation of, from Caggiano, ii. 237; general tabulation of, ii. 238—241; convergence of, ii. 242—245; divergence of, approximately equal to the focal cavity horizontally, ii. 246.
Wave transit, direction of, discovered in buildings similarly placed, i. 37; through limestone and clays, i. 385
Wedges detached, i. 66; severed off, i. 131; from quoins, i. 132.
Windows, fractures over, i. 117.
Wiseman, Cardinal, value of encyclical letter by, i. 2; ii. 386.

"Zoccollante," large old monastery of, at Oliveto, ii. 143.


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