ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



A. 



Page. 



Address, fifth presidential xxxiii, 1 



Address of retiring president xxvi 



Address, sixth presidential xliii, 35 



Alaskan birches xxxvii 



Alaskan willows xxxvii 



Albatross, steamer, recent explorations of xxxi 



Allen, W. T., drawings of plants by xxxvi 



Alternation of generation, origin of, in Hydro- 

 Medusae xxxi 



Amendments to the constitution xxvii, xxxiii 



American continent, oldest known fauna on 



the xxxi 



Arid plains, grasses of the xxxi 



Arrearages, penalty for xxvii 



Attila cozumelae, n. s 23 



Auks, shedding of the bill in xxxi 



B. 



Bacteria, Koch's method of isolating and culti- 

 vating xxxvii 



Baker, F., on muscular equilibration xxxvii 



Barnard, W. S., on a metal specimen case xl 



Barnard on environmental digestion xli 



Barnard on mounting specimen tubes xli 



Bean, T. H., on a new Chimaerid fish xxix 



Bean on a new fish related to Miiroenoides... xxxviii 



Bean on collecting at Cozumel island xxxvi 



Beyer, H. G., on genital apparatus of Lingula..xxxv 



Beyer on intracellular digestion xxxv 



Beyer on physiological effects of cocaine xxxix 



Biology, application of, to geological history, 



xxxiii, 1 



Birches, Alaskan xxxvii 



Birds, new species of, from Cozumel island, 



xxxvi, 21 



Bones of the skull, exhibiting relations of xxxv 



Borneo, natural history and people of xxxiv 



Brooks, W. K., on the origin of alternation of 



generation in the Hydro-Medusae xxxi 



Business, order of xxvii 



c. 



Cabbages, white rust of xxxviii 



Cardinalis saturatus, n. s 24 



Carnivora, molar teeth of xxxviii 



Centurus leei, n. s 23 



Cetacea, development of mammary glands in. xxxvi 

 Cetaceans, origin of flukes of xxxiv 



Page. 



Chemical Society, annual address before xl 



Checkering, J. W., on drawings of plants xxxvi 



Chimaerid fish, new to the Western Atlantic... xxix 



Chipmunk, new species of, from California 25 



Chipmunk, new subspecies of the eastern xlii 



Chlorostilbon forficatus, u. s 28 



Cholera bacillus, exhibition of xxxvii 



Cicada, notes on the periodical xxxix 



Cocaine, physiological effects of xxxix 



Collation at close of meeting xxix 



Committee, auditing xxxii 



Committee on communications, 1885 viii 



Committee on communications, 1886 x 



Committee on lectures, 1885 viii 



Committee on lectures, 1886 x 



Committee on publications, 1885 viii 



Committee on publications, 1886 x 



Committee on the trees and shrubs of Y/ash- 



ington, 1885 viii 



Committee on the trees and shrubs of Wash- 

 ington, 1883 x 



Committees, appointment of. xxvi 



Committees, standing, 1885 viii 



Committees, standing, 1886 x 



Constitution xxv 



Constitution, amendments to xxxiii 



Council, composition of xxv 



Council, duties of xxvi 



Council, list of, 1885 vii 



Council, list of, 1886 ix 



Council, quorum of xxvi 



Cover-glasses, device for storing xli 



Cozumel island, collecting at xxxvi 



Cozumel island, new birds from.. xxxvi, 21 



Cyclorhis insularis, n. s 22 



D. 



Dall, W. H.,onarecent journey in Florida... xxxviii 



Dall on deep sea mollusks xxxix 



Dall on the marsupium of Milueria minima xxxvi 



Dall on zoological position of Turbinella xxix 



Datura stramonium, multiplication in gynce- 



cium of xlii 



Dendroica petechia rufi vertex, n. sub-s 21 



Digestion, environmental xli 



Digestion, intracellular xxxv 



Diller, J. S., on a trip to Mt. Shasta, Cal xxxiv 



Diseases, contagious, new method of producing 



immunity from 2<) 



133 



