Tribes, Hebrew, meaning of their names, 281–284 _Trochites_, 192, 193 Trowbridge, Breck, 373 _Tse-boum_, or incense vase, in Dalai Lama’s palace at Lhasa, 302 Tubuas, angel, 245 _Turmali_, Cinghalese name of tourmaline, 52 Turquoise, 20, 159, 291, 296, 310 amulets of, from Pueblo Bonito, 352 book on, by Dr. Joseph E. Pogue, 353 favorite stone in Tibet, 343, 344, 404 in ancient Egyptian tale, 316 in ancient Persian jewels, 324 inlays of, in Mexican masks, 306, 307 large pendant of, on Buddha’s statue, 304 meaning of Persian name of, 316 offered to image of Santo Domingo, 309 of Los Cerrillos, 309 religious favor given to, in Tibet, 304 set in sheep’s eyes, 316 Shylock’s, 337 valued by Pima Indians of Arizona, 353 Tycho Brahe, 179 U Uleranen, angel of November, 248 _Ultunda_-stones of Australian medicine-men, 16 _Umbilicus marinus_, 191 Uriel, archangel, 243, 245, 246, 251, 334 Urim and Thummim, 278 V Valentine, St., 270, 276 Vases offered to the Buddha, 297 Verres, Caius, 405, 406 Verus, Lucius, 397 Victoria, Queen, 48, 375 Victorini, St., 252 Vienna, Natural History Museum of, 90 Virgil, 82 “Virgin’s milk,” 4 Vishnu, double footprint of, legend regarding, 340 Vitus, St., 270, 276 Vlasto, D., 373 Volmar, 13 W Wada, T., vii Walpole, Horace, 381 Walpurgis, St., Day, 21 Ward, W. Hayes, vii “Watermelon stone,” variety of tourmaline, 58 Weighing of the Mogul Emperor, 301 Wells, T. Tilestone, 373 Wenceslaus Chapel in St. Veit’s at Prague, adorned with precious stones, 296 “Whitby jet,” 380 White, H. C., 239 “White magic,” 29 White quartz of Clan Donnachaidh, 24, 25 in Indian mounds, 27 from Pueblo region of Southwest, 27 White stones in burials, 23, 24, 27 in Isle of Man, 34 oaths taken on, 35 Whitfield, J. E., 98, 99 Wilkes, Major J. D., 218 Willamette meteorite, 98, 99 chemical composition of, 99 Wilson, Robert, 154 “Witch-stones,” 200 Wittich, Johann, 132 Wolff, Johann, 126 Wright, Thomas, 153 Wundt, Wilhelm Max, 313 X Xystus, St., 252 Y Yeamans, Mrs. Annie, 374 Ypolitus, St., 252 Z Zemzem, well of, at Mecca, 87 ----- Footnote 1: Rosenfeld, “Singing and Speaking Stones”; Scientific American Suppl. No. 1720, p. 395, Dec. 19, 1908. Footnote 2: Johannis Laurentii Philadelpheni Lydi quæ extant excerpta; ed. Hase, etc., Lipsiæ et Darmstadii, 1827, p. 104. Footnote 3: “La Statue vocal de Memnon,” by M. Letronne, in Mém. de l’Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. i, 42, 1. Footnote 4: See Theophrasti, “De lapidibus (Peri lithôn),” ed. by John Hill, London, 1746, pp. 15–17; cap. 10. Footnote 5: