INDEX TO VOL. VL 



Address of the President, IG, 67, 233. 

 Admission fee, 128, 132. 

 Adipocire (C. M. Wetherill), 80, 84. 

 Additions to the Mint Cabinet, 184. 

 Adamson on measuring portions of 



time, 237, 243. 



Dr. introduced, 153. 



Alexander (Prof.), of Baltimore, 56. 

 Aluminium (Dubois), 141, 148, 171. 

 Alphabet of Lepsius (Haldeman), 187. 

 Amendment to by-laws, 128, 177, 180. 

 Apparatus for specific gravity of ores 



(Eckfeldt), 194, 201. 

 Arctic exploring expedition, 5, 22, 



49, 57, 84, 132. 

 Arctic plants (Durand), 186. 

 Astronomical observing fund, 128, 



132. 

 Asteroid discovered, 55. 

 Augite (Trego), 246. 

 Australian gold (Dubois, Trego), 184. 

 Aurora Borealia (Justice, Lea), 162. 

 (Boye), 163. 



Bache (Dr. F.), 58. 



Bean's magnetic observations, 39, 41. 



Bessel & Schumacher, 57. 



Boardman (Dr. Henry), 16. 



Board of officers and council, 16, 35, 



68, 128, 184, 208, 239. 

 Bo?edge, new genus (Dr. Hallowell), 



186. 

 Boye on models of crystal forms, 303. 



on a remarkable aurora, 155. 



on human hair, 163. 



on an apparatus to show heat 



vibrations, 32. 



on a stereoscopic daguerreotype, 



49. 

 Brown-Sequard on crystals in dogs' 



blood, 243. 

 Budge (Prof.), made correspondent, 



56. 

 By-laws amended, 332, 342. 



Camels introduced into America 



(Wayne), 275. 

 Cai'bonifcrous Limestone -fossil fish, 



205, 208. 

 earlier (Mens.), 158. 

 Carpenter's square (R. E. Rogers), 



169, 181. 

 Chase on English-Sanscrit analogues, 



324. 

 Chicago longitude, &c. (Graham), 312. 

 Charts of the Arctic regions, Lady 



Franklin's, 22, 84. 

 Cicindelre revised (LeConte), 175, 176. 

 City fund for an observatory, 128, 



132. 

 Coinage (Peale), 95, 106. 

 Coins loaned to Dr. Morris, 139, 143. 



of Japan, 184. 



of aluminium, 171. 



Committee, historical and literary, 26. 

 Comet of 1858 (Justice), 328. 



„ ,, „ (Zantedeschi), 333. 



Committees : — 



Standing Committees appointed, 



5, 81, 172, 234, 284. 

 Finance, 64, 66, 153, 164, 165, 



212, 213, 228, 230, 279, 280, 



344, 346. 

 Publication, 9, 64, 164, 175, 208, 



228, 237, 260, 273, 279, 298, 



304, 344. 



Special: — on 



Names of officers for the election 



of 1859, 345, 346. 

 Library and Hall, 8, 26, 33, 35, 



41, 47, 51, 56. 

 Sale of Hall, 81, 85, 118, 124, 



137, 139, 143, 145, 180, 182, 



184, 216, 254, 257, 302, 304. 

 Purchase of Hall, 258, 260, 262, 



269. 

 Revision of by-laws respecting 



