Verbiest, the Jesuit, made president of Board of Astronomy, [143]
Wall, Great, see Great Wall
Wang Chao, invents new alphabet, [217]
Ward, Frederick G., the American, and the Tai-ping rebellion, [160]
Ward, Hon. J. E., American minister, proceeds to Peking by land, [167]
declines to kneel to Emperor, [168]
Wei, one of the Nan-peh Chao, [116]
Weihien, in Shantung, destined to become a railway centre, [30]
Weihwei-fu, city on the border of Chihli and Honan, [41]
Wensiang, success of Prince Kung's administration largely due to him, [277]
contests with Tungsuin in extemporaneous verse, [277]
Wen-ti, "patron of letters," a ruler of the house of Han, [107]