398 
Surveying the Territories, committee on a 
plan for, 268. 
Surveys under the Government, views of 
the Academy regarding, 48. 
Swain, Joseph, 85. 
Swarthmore College, 85. 
Swiss Society of Natural Sciences, 98. 
Tagliabue, Wm. G., 241, 242. 
Tariff classification of wools, committee on, 
306. 
Telephone, carbon, exhibition of, 46. 
Territories of United States, committee on 
a plan for surveying the, 268. 
Thayer, Nathaniel, 32. 
Thompson, R. W., 49. 
Tice, I. P., 244, 245, 246. 
Ticonderoga, U. S. S., 217. 
Tilghman, R. A., 226. 
Tittmann, O. H., 327. 
Torrey, John, 23, 42, 188, 206, 225, 227, 
240, 255. 
biographical sketch of, 188. 
Totten, J. G., 29, 190, 218. 
biographical sketch of, 190. 
Totten, John, 34. 
Towne, J. H., 226. 
Transit of Venus, committee on, 256. 
Trelease, William, 92. 
Triangulation connecting the Atlantic and 
Pacific coasts, committee on, 331. 
Tribune, the New York, 21. 
Trowbridge, John, 54, 314. 
Trowbridge, W. P., 207, 215, 272, 296, 312. 
Trust funds, act authorizing Academy to 
receive and hold, 58. 
amounts of, 76. 
Trusts, question of Academy administering, 
58. 
text of bequests and, 361. 
Tyndale, Hector, 6s. 
Tyndall, John, 65, 66. 
Tyndall trust fund, 65. 
Union for Codperation in Solar Research, 
93: 
University of Aberdeen, quaternary cele- 
bration of, 92. 
University of Berlin, rooth anniversary of, 
99. 
University of Bologna, 800th anniversary 
of, 57. 
University of City of New York, 18. 
University of Dublin, 57. 
University of Glasgow, 84. 
Upton, Winslow, 64. 
INDEX 
“Uranometria Argentina” of B. A. Gould, 
resolution relating to, 51. 
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 248. 
Van Hise, C. R., 85, 92, 330. 
Velocity of light, committee on experiments 
on, 49. 
Vignaud, Henry, 55. 
Vincennes, U. S. S., 219, 220. 
Vivisection bill, 78. 
Vogel, H. K., awarded Henry Draper 
Medal, 74. 
Von Baer, Karl Ernst, 28. 
Wade, Senator B. F., 235. 
Walcott, Charles D., 327. 
Walker, episode in Nicaragua, 248. 
Walker, Francis A., 57, 296. 
Walker, Professor, 306. 
Washington, George, 7. 
Water-meter, Worthington’s, 244. 
Watson Fund. (See J. C. Watson Fund.) 
Watson, James C., 257, 267. 
bequest of, 52. 
Watson Medal, 53, 68, 71, 74, 75, 82. 
awarded to Arthur Auwers, 71. 
awarded to Edward Schonfeld, 68. 
awarded to Seth C. Chandler, 75. 
awarded to Sir David Gill, 82. 
first award of, to B. A. Gould, 53. 
recommendations of board of trustees on 
award of, 75. 
Webb, W. H., 249. 
Webster, Arthur G., 207. 
Weights, Measures, and Coinage, 
mittee on, 27, 35, 36, 45, 206. 
Weights and Measures, International Bu- 
reau of, 42, 212. 
Welles, Gideon, 1, 226. 
letter of, 2. 
West, Preston C. F., 249, 250. 
Wex, Gustav, 318. 
Whiskey, committee on the question of tests 
for the purity of, 225. 
White Mountains, forests of, resolutions on, 
com- 
93- 
Whitney, J. D., 76, 85, 271, 276. 
biographical sketch of, 193. 
Whitney, W. C., letter from, regarding the 
astronomical day, 303. 
Wiesbaden, conference at, 8r. 
delegates to, 81. 
Williams, Henry, 213, 214. 
Wilson, E. B., 95. 
Wilson, Senator Henry, 4, 5, 10, 11, 17, 20, 
26, 37, 38, 62, 235. 
address of, at first meeting of Academy, 
18. 
