INDEX. 



Page. 



Additions to collections in 1871 43 



Agassiz, L., instructions to Captain Hall relative to Glaciers 387 



Agriculture, Department of, action of, in relation to meteorology 105 



Alcoholic collections, account of 30 



Algoe, fresh-water, by Dr. H. C. Wood 15 



Alternate generation and parthenogenesis in the animal kingdom 235 



Altitudes, circular printed 17 



Anderson, Benjamin, exploration to Musardo 20 



Antiquities. (See Ethnology.) 



Appendix, general 107 



Aijpropriations from Congress for Government collections 11, 101 



Arago, M., biography of Fourier 1 137 



Army Medical Museum Library 23 



Arrow-heads, Indian mode of making 420 



Astronomy, instructions for exploration to North Pole 3G7 



Astronomy. (See Herschel.) 

 Astronomy. (See Stockwell.) 



Aurora, (see Meteorology) 375,451 



Baird, S. F., instructions to Captain Hall, (Natural history) 381 



Baird, Professor S. F., investigations of, as Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.. 27 



Barnard, General J. G., on rotary motion 15 



Berthoud, E. S., antiquities in Colorado 403 



Botany. (See Eeichardt.) (See Hall.) 



Brown, D., shell-heap in Georgia 423 



Building, changes made in, and imi^rovements necessary 38 



Casts i>laced in National Museum 39 



Catlin, George, Indian cartoons and collections 40 



Catlin, George, Indian collection of, should be purchased by Government 41 



Certiticate of examination and approval of accounts 102 



Cesnola, Mr., collections from 33 



Chase, S. P., acts of, as Regent 104 



Chemistry. (See Graham.) 



Claparede, Edward, notice of 35G 



Coffin, Professor J. H., discussion of winds 24 



Colfax, S., acts of, as Eegent ■ 104 



Collaborators in natural history 31 



Collections, account of 26 



Collections, additions to 43 



Collins, Colonel, meteorology of Green Eiver country 453 



Colossochelys atlas, account of cast of, in museum 40 



Comfort, A. .J., Indian mounds in Dakota 389 



Congress, appropriations from, for Government collections 14, 101 



Congress, independent support of Museum by 14 



Contributions to knowledge, account of Smithsonian 15 



Cooke, H. D., acts of, as Eegent ..." 103,104 



Copyright system 23 



Correspondence of the Institution, account of 34 



