Weininger, Leopold, x Weir, J. Alden, viii Wellington, Duke of, 224 Welsh gold used for Prince of Wales’ ring, 284 Widowhood,” “Ring of, 286, 287 order of, 286, 287 Wier, J. Alden, on rings in portraits, 64 Wild-ass, healing rings made from hoof of, 352 William the Conqueror, tomb of, at Caen destroyed by Huguenots, 179 William Rufus, ring found in tomb of, 179 William I of Germany, 172 signet of used by William II, 158 William IV, of England, Coronation Ring of, 283 William de St. Barbara, ring of, 275 Wilson, President Woodrow, signet-ring of, vi, 161 Winslow, Isaac, memorial ring of, 47 Winslow, Josiah, 47 Wiseman, Cardinal, manuscript describing Solessing of “cramp rings,” owned by, 344, 345 Wiser, David, 108 Wissler, Clark, viii “Wolfdietrich,” story of magic ring in, 305, 306 Wolter, Charlotte, ring of, 90 Woodford, General Sir John, 165 Woodland, Theodore M., viii Writing with diamond ring, 168–170 Wu Ting Fang, jade rings of, 107, 108 Wykeham, Bishop, ring of, 275 Wyman, Walter C., viii Wytlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury, ring of, 275 X Xerxes, signet of, 122 Y “Ywaine and Gawin,” romance, magic ring in, 310 Z Zerubbabel, ring of, 135 Zick, Stephan, ivory ring made by, 75 Zircon (jacinth,) 78, 86, 124, 340 Zodiacal rings, 85, 328, 329 FOOTNOTES: [1] Grandchild. [2] Great grandchild. [3] Signet of the author, reading George F. Kunz, New York. Engraved upon a dark red sard, in Teheran, Persia, in 1895. [4] Fossey, “La magie assyrienne,” Paris, 1902, p. 83. [5] Délégation en Perse, Mémoires publiés sous la direction de M. J. de Morgan, vol. viii, “Recherches archéologiques,” 3d ser., Paris, 1905, pp. 321, 322; figured on p. 320. [6] Communicated by the late Dr. William Hayes Ward. [7] Communicated by the late Dr. William Hayes Ward. [8] Hilprecht and Clay, “Business Documents of Murashû Sons of Nippur”: The Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, Series A: Cuneiform texts, vol. ix, Philadelphia, 1898, p. 30. [9] F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the ... British Museum,” London, 1907, pp. 1, 2, 997 (see pl. xx); also the same author’s Catalogue of the Jewellery Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the ... British Museum, London, 1911, p. xvii. [10] Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, “Kypros, the Bible, and Homer,” London, 1893, vol. i, p. 367, and vol. ii, plate xxxii, fig. 32. [11] Strena Helbigena, 73; Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. xxi, p. 155, fig. 33; p. 159, fig. 39; Schliemann Mycenæ and Tiryns, pp. 354, 360. [12] See F. H. Marshall, _op. cit._, p. 3; rings from Enkomi, Cyprus.