INDEX 
Abbot, Charles G., 61. 
awarded Henry Draper Medal, 98. 
Abbot, Henry L., 81, 312, 314, 316, 320, 325. 
Abel, Professor, 85. 
Académie des Sciences, Paris, 56. 
Adams, John, 7, 12. 
Adams, John Quincy, 280, 284. 
Agassiz, Alexander, 84, 93, 100, 272, 281, 
316, 320, 324, 325. 
death of, 99. 
elected President of the Academy, 77. 
remarks of Professor Mayer on, 99. 
Agassiz Fund. (See Alexander Agassiz 
Fund.) 
Agassiz, Louis, 4, 5, 9, 11, 21, 23, 27, 35, 
41, 42. 
becomes regent of Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, 5. 
expedition of to South America, 32. 
Agassiz Medal. (See Alexander Agassiz 
Medal.) 
Airy, Sir G. B., 217. 
Albert Medal, Society of Arts, 44. 
Alcoholometer, committee on Saxton’s, 218. 
Alexander Agassiz Fund, 361. 
Alexander Agassiz Medal, ror. 
Alexander, J. H., 206, 207, 223, 225. 
biographical sketch of, 109. 
Alexander, Stephen, 21, 27, 34, 62. 
biographical sketch of, 112. 
Allen, A. H., 282. 
Allen, Horatio, 226, 227. 
Allison, Wm. B., 295, 299. 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
103. 
objects of, 12. 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, 103. 
American coals, resolution on, by Academy, 
41, 42. 
American Ephemeris, committee on proposed 
changes in, 267. 
American Geological Society, 15. 
American Philosophical Society, 33, 99, 102, 
103. 
Americanists, International Congress of, 84. 
Ammen, Daniel, 258. 
Ampere and volt, committee on application 
of definitions of, 313. 
Annual of the Academy, 17, 28, 29, 32, 35, 
44, 219, 226, 227. 
first, publication of, 29. 
second, publication of, 32. 
Appalachian forest reserve, 324. 
Apparatus, philosophical and scientific, com- 
mittee on, 302. 
Argelander, F. W. A., 28. 
Army knapsacks, committee on the preser- 
vation of, 331. 
Associates, foreign, list of, 337. 
Association of Academies, International, 80, 
81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 94, 955 
98, 99. 
Asteroids, discovery of new, 36. 
Astronomical day, the, 304. 
committee on the, 303. 
Astronomical physics, Pickering’s work on, 
67. 
Astronomical Tables, committee on, 42. 
Astronomische gesellschaft, 71. 
Auwers, Arthur, awarded the 
Medal, 71. 
Watson 
Bache, Alexander Dallas, 1, 9, 11, 12, 16, 
21, 23, 26, 30, 31, 34, 47, 62, 113, 201, 
202, 206, 207, 215, 217, 218, 227, 239, 
240. 
account of first meeting of Academy, by, 
22. 
address of, 7. 
death of, 32. 
estate of, 33. 
first President of the Academy, 23. 
meeting at house of, to arrange plan of 
incorporation, 6. 
remarks of, on committees, 27. 
remarks of, on need of national scientific 
organization, 7. 
remarks of, on objects of Academy, 13. 
will of, 33. 
Bache Fund, 34, 38, 45, 64, 76, 101, 361. 
grants from, 33, 96. 
Bache, Henry Wood, 33. 
Bache, Mrs. A. D., death of, 33. 
Baird, Spencer F., 30, 41, 302. 
Barker, G. F., 293, 302, 310, 314. 
Barlow, Joel, 7, 12. 
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