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 Marine invertebrates from Camp Clay, Smith 



Sound xxxii 



Marsupium of Milneria minima. xxxvi 



Mason, O. T., f>n casts from Haidi gambling 



sticks xxxix 



Mason on mutilations of the human body, con 

 sidered ethnically xlii 



Mason on post-mortem trepanning xxxviii 



McDonald, M , on fish-culture in maintaining 



the shad fishery xxxix 



Meeting, annual xxvii 



Meeting, day of xxvii 



Meeting, fifth anniversary xxxiii 



Meeting, fifth annual xxxii 



Meeting, proposed change of day of xxxiv, 



xxxv, xxxvi 



Meeting, sixth anniversary xliii 



Meeting, sixth annual xlii 



Meetings, collation at xxix 



Meetings, field xxvii 



Meetings, notice of xxvi 



Meetings, special xxvii 



Members, absent xxvii 



Members, classification of xxv 



Members, election of xxv 



Members, foreign xxxiii 



Members in arrears xxvii 



Members, list of xi 



Members, non-resident xxvii 



Mendenhall, T. C., on weighing the earth xxxiv 



Merriam, C. H., on a new chipmunk 25 



Merriam on a new striped squirrel xlii 



Merriam on a new sub-species of chipmunk xlii 



Merriam on ornithology in the Department of 



Agriculture xli 



Mildews of the grape vine xli 



Milneria minima, marsupium of xxxvi 



Minot, C. S., on meeting of Society of Natural 

 ists of E. U. S xxxii 



Molacanthus, relations of. xxix 



Mola, development of xxix 



Mollusks, deep-sea xxxix 



Monkey, Guereza xxxviii 



Monotremata, classification of the xxx 



Mt. Shasta, a trip to xxxiv 



Mursenoides, new fish related to xxxviii 



Murdoch, J., on marine invertebrates from 



Greely Expedition xxxii 



Musci of Washington 110,111 



Muscular equilibration xxxvii 



Mutilations of the human body, considered 



ethnically xlii 



Myiarchus platyrhynchus, n. s 23 



N. 



Name of the Society xxv 



Natural history, the beginnings of, in Amer 

 ica xliii, 35 



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New Orleans Exposition, natural history feat 

 ures at xxxii 



O. 



Objects of the Society xxv 



Officers, classification of xxv 



Officers, election of xxvi 



Officers, election of, for 1885 xxxiii 



Officers, election of, for 1886 xlii 



Officers, list of , 1885 vii 



Officers, list of, 1886 ix 



Ornithology in the Department of Agriculture.... xli 



Ornithorhynchus xxxiv 



Oysters, new method of raising seed xl 



P. 



Paulownia imperialis, phyllotaxy of xxxvi 



Philosophical Society, annual address before, 



xxx, xl 



Phocaena Dalli, new species of porpoise xxxii 



Phyllotaxy of Paulownia imperialis xxxvi 



Physiological effects of cocaine xxxix 



Plants added to Washington, 1884-86 106 



Plants, drawings and paintings of, by W. T. 



Allen xxxvi 



Plants from Fort Conger xxx 



Plants, new localities for rare . species of, in 



Washington 129 



Pocket rats, the American xli 



Porpoise, new species of xxxii 



President, duties of xxvi 



Presidential address xxvi 



Presidential address, fifth annual xxxiii, 1 



Presidential address, sixth annual xliii, 35 



Primordial group of St. John, N. B., fossils 



of xxxi 



Proceedings xxix 



Prodelphinus doris from off Cape Hatteras xl 



Q- 



Quail, hybrid xxxviii 



R. 



Rathbun, R., on the Wood's Holl station of the 



Fish Commission xl 



Red snow ^ 



Ridgway, R , on new birds from Cozumel 



island xxxv, 21 



Right whales, recent capture of xxxv 



Riley, C. V., on mildews of the grape vine xli 



Riley on periodical cicada xxxix 



Riley on phytophagic habit in Isosoma xxx 



Ryder, J. A., on a new system of raising seed 



oysters 3 



Ryder on development of fin-rays in fishes xxxii 



Ryder on development of mammary glands in 



Cetacea 



