INDEX. 403 



Page. 



Borelly, comets observed by '2G 



Bossange Gustave, Smithsonian exchange-agent at Paris 21 



Bottinical index, by Sereno Watson 1^ 



Botany. (See De Candolle, explorations.) 



Boulaq Museum, plaster cast of Tanis stone from 29 



Boyd, C. H., specimens from 33, 51 



Briggs, S. W., antiquities discovered by 364 



Brown, Solomon G., transportation clerk .6 



Bryan, Oliver N.', antiquities of Charles County, Maryland 387 



Buckland, Frank, collection of casts of fishes 33 



Burial of Indian squaw in California, account of 350 



Burmeister, Dr., specimens from 31, 32, 52 



Campbell, Archibald, additions to collections by 30, 62 



Carson, Dr., plants referred to 36 



Cases, appropriations for ■. 121, 122 



Cast of Phoibus 65 



Casts of fishes 29, 33 



Egyptian antiquities 31 



birds' skulls 32 



Catalogue of implements found in ancient graves in California 347 



scientific periodicals, by Dr. H. C. Bolton 26 



transactions of learned _societies in Smithsonian library 25 



Chandler, L. H., specimens from 33, 52 



Chase, A. W., additions to collections by 30, 52 



Chase, Hon. S. P., change in the Board on account of death of 7 



Chemical formulae, tables by F. W. Clarke 13 



laboratory, operations in 47 



Chorea, queries respecting 66 



Churches, warming and ventilation of 305 



Circular relative to Chorea 66 



Clarke, Prof. F. W., constants of nature 13, 16 



Clerks, list of, in Institution and Museum 6 



Clifford, Justice Nathan, as chancellor of Board of Regents 7 



Coast-Survey, explorations and collections by 62 



Coffin, Prof. J. H., on winds of the globe 15,17 



Coffin, Prof. Selden J., completion of work on winds by 17 



Coggia, comets observed by 26 



Coleman, J. T., specimens from 34, 53 



Coleoptera, classification of, by Dr. John L. LeConte 13 



new species of, by Dr. John L. LeCoute 13 



Collaborators In natural history 6, 36 



Collecting apparatus lent to fifteen expeditious .^.. 36 



Collections, appropriation for preservation of 121 



Colleges, warming and ventilation of 284 



Comets, detected in 1874 , 26 



La Place's method of determining orbits of 165 



research relative to 18 



Congress, appropriation by, for National Museum 9 



printing of 10,500 reports ordered by 2 



Constants of nature, part 1, specific gravities, &c., by F. W. Clarke 13 



specific heat 16 



expansion by heat for solids and liquids IG 



weight of air, &c 16 



Contributions to knowledge, account of 10 



Cooper, Dr. William A., specimen from 32, 5? 



