410 INDEX. 



Page. 



Mammals, arrangement of families of, by Dr. Theoilore Gill , 13 



referred to H. and J. A. Alien and Dr. Sclater 36 



Manigault, G. E., specimens from 33,57 



Manufactories, warming and ventilation of i ^90 



Manuscripts from Mrs. Dundas, account of, by Mr. Spofford 25 



Marine invertebrates, referred to A. E. Verrill 36 



Marshall, Lieut. W. M., surveys by 37 



Marvin, A. R., explorations by 39 



Mason, Prof. Otis T., collaborator in ethnology 6 



Materialism, doctrines of 192 



Mather, Frederick, specimens from 34. 58 



Mauritius, specimens from 29 



Maxwell, Mrs. M. A., specimens from 32, 58 



McBride, R. W., explorations by 381 



McHenry, James W., antiquities of Jaclisou County, Tennessee 384 



McReynolds, W. T., specimens from 374 



McWhorter, Tyler, ancient mounds of Mercer County, Illinois 351 



M^cauique Celeste, exposition of La Place's 129 



Meek, Prof. F. B., collaborator in the invertebrate paljeontology g 



specimens from 33, 58 



Meigs, General M. C, ethnological specimens from 31, 58 



Members ex officio of the Institution 5 



Metallurgical collection of the Institution 35 



Meteorology, classified record of, auroras 77 



instruments 80 



meteors 81 



miscellaneous 85 



rain 83 



wind ' 85 



local 87 



Africa 87 



Asia 87 



Australia 88 



Central America 8S 



Europe 89 



North America 90 



Polynesia 115 



South America 115 



West Indies 116 



transfer of Smithsonian system to United States Signal-Office 16 



(See Bessels ; Quetelet; Wheeler; Hayden ; Powell.) 



Meteors, records of, in Institution 81 



Microscopic material referred to Messi's. Smith & Seaman 36 



Milner, James W., new species of fish described by 28 



shad batching and distribution by 46 



Mineralogy. (See Endlich ; Explorations.) 



Mineral-waters referred to Doctor Loew ., 36 



Minerals, examination of 35, 36 



Miscellaneous collections, account of 10,11,13 



Mitchell, Dr. Aug., antiquities of Florida 390 



Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, queries by, in regard to chorea 66 



Mont Blanc, De la Rive's studies of 199 



Mounds. (See Ethnology.) 



Mountains, eifect of vapors on 199 



Mulier,F., Smithsonian exchange-agent in Amsterdam 21 



