402 INDEX. 



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Astrouomy, Euler, labors and discoveries of 134 



Copernicus, labors and discoveries of 135 



Huygbeus, labors and discoveries of 136 



Clairault, labors and discoveries of 1S7 



Cassiui, labors and discoveries of 139 



D'Alembert, labors and discoveries of 134 



Lagrange, labors and discoveries of 134 



Adams, labors and discoveries of 144 



Halley, labors and discoveries of 146 



Galileo, labors and discoveries of 151 



Beruonilli, labors and discoveries of 158 



Le Sage, labors and discoveries of 15H 



Buifon, labors and discoveries of 160 



Asylums, warming and ventilation of 273,305 



Atkins, Charles G., salmon-batching by 46 



Atomic theory 192 



Auroras, De la Rive's theory of 195 



observations on, in Arctic regions 227 



records of 77 



Baird, Prof, Spencer F., Assistant Secretary of the Institution 6 



fish inquiry and propagation in charge of 44 



observation by, on temperature of sea-waters 46 



report of, on Museum . . .'. 27 



review of American birds 13 



specimens from 33,50 



Bancroft, Hon. George, acts of, as Regent and member of executive committee.. 5, 123, 



124, 125, 126, 128 



elected Regent, vice General Sherman 7 



Bank, First National, deposit with 9,119 



Barnard, General J. G., problems of rotary motion by 12 



Barnuni, P. T., specimens from 31,32,50 



Barometer, work on, to be undertaken 18 



Barracks, warming and ventilation of 295 



Bartram, John, antiquities of Florida 393 



Baumhauer, Professor, Smithsonian exchange-agent at Harlem 21 



Bean, T. H., specimens from 34, 51 



Becbler, G. R., explorations by 39 



Becquerel, experiments of , 193 



Belknap, Commander G. E., soundings on Tuscarora from 34,46,63 



Bendire, Capt. Charles, specimens from 32,33,51 



Bequests to the Institution 7 



Berlandier, collection of minerals from Mexico 53 



Bessels, Dr. Emil, scientific results of Polaris Arctic expedition 46 



specimens from 31, 51 



Biblioth^que Universelle, De la Rive's connection with 200 



Binney, W. G., shells referred to 36 



Birds, referred to G. N. Lawrence 36 



Birds, review of American, by Prof. S. F. Baird 13 



Birnie, Lieut. R., astronomical observations by 37 



Blackford, E. G., si;)ecimen8 from 33, 51 



Blunt, Lieut. S. E., astronomical observations by 37 



Boehmer, George H., arrangement of work on thunder and lightning by 18 



Boiling and melting points, tables by F. W. Clarke 13 



Bolton, Dr. H. Carrington, catalogue of scientific periodicals by 26 



Bones, analysis of 361 



