INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVII. 



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Abbe ; Oa the Altitude of the Aurora above the Earth's Surface. . 4 



Artiodactyls of the Uinta Formation, Selenodont; Scott 73 



Aurora above the Earth's Surface, Altitude of the ; Abbe 4 



Asphalt resembling Gilsoaite by the Distillation of a Mixture of Fish and Wood, The 



Production of; Day 171 



Australian Tribes, Divisions of; Mathews 151 



Initiation Ceremonies of ; Mathews 54 



Bitumens, Genesis of as related to Chemical Geology ; Peckham lOS 



Brinton ; The Linguistic Cartography of the Chaco Region 178 



On Two Unclassi6ed Vocabularies from South America 321 



Chaco Region, The Linguistin Cartography of ; Brinton 178 



Committees appointed. Standing 51 



Day ; The Production of an Asphalt resembling Gilsonite, by the Distillation of a Mix- 

 ture of Fish and Wood 171 



Declaration of Independence, Facsimile exhibited 81 



A Note on the History of the Jefferson Draught Manu- 

 script of; Hays 88 



Fort William Henry, MS. of a Journal kept during the Siege of ; Hays 143 



Fraley, Frederick; Portrait of, presented .142,162 



Grote ; Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wiug, the Pieri-Nymphalidte 17 



Hays ; A Note on the History of the Jefferson Manuscript Draught of the Declaration of 



Independence 88 



MS. of a Journal kept during the Siege of Fort William Henry, August, 1757 . . 143 



Herpetological Notes ; Van Denburgli 139 



Initiation Ceremonies of Australian Tribes ; Mathews 54 



Kansan Drift in Pennsylvania, Notes on ; Williams 84 



Kendall, Resolutions in regard to Dr 337 



Laws of the Society adopted 155 



Lesley, J. P.; Portrait of, presented 142,165 



Librarian elected 7 



Linguistic Cartography of the Chaco Region, The; Brinton 178 



Magellanic Fund, Resolutions in regard to 325 



Mathews ; Initiation Ceremonies of Australian Tribes 54 



Divisions of Australian Tribes 151 



Divisions of Queensland Aborigines 327 



Members deceased : 



Bayard, Thomas F 176 



Bessemer, Sir Henry. 54 



Cattell, William C 53 



De Mortillet, Gabriel 320 



Ebers, George M. 176 



Foggo, Edward A 54 



Gladstone, William E 170 



Hall, James • ■ 176 



Legge, James . » 53 



Muller, Friederich 176 



Parvin, Theophilus 52 



Pepper, William 176 



Pulzsky, Francis 176 



Trimble, Henry , 176 



Members elected : 



Allen, Alfred H 170 



Baer, George F 338 



