470 INDEX. 



Page. 



Indian vocabularies 17 



International copyright, importancQ of 23 



Interpolation, mctliods of, applicable to the graduation of irregular series, such 



as tables of mortality, etc 275 



lastitutions in correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution 16, 17 



lusnrancc-tables : 275 



Japan, aclmowledgraent for school-books sent to 37 



Jai>an, adoption of western civilization by 37 



Journal of the Board of Eegents 103 



Kampf, Dr., calculation of tables by 16 



Knight, R. T., connection of gales of wind and aurora 461 



Koruhuber, Dr. G. A., generation and parthenogenesis 235 



Kroeh, C. F., translations by 217,249,425 



Lamark, distinction between tornadoes and tempests 455 



Language of the Dakota or Sioux Indians, by F. L. O. Roehrig 434 



Latimer, George, meteorology of Porto Rico 451 



Libraries, rules of distribution of publications to 18 



Library, account of additions to 21 



Library, Army Medical Museum .'. . . 23 



Library of Congress 22 



Life-insurance tables 275 



Light-House Board, services rendered to, by Secretary of Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion 36 



Lightning-rods, circular printed 17 



Liquids, researches on. (See Graham.) 



Lyceums, encouragement to 35 



Lyon, W. B., antiquities in New Mexico 403 



Maclean, John, report of Executive Committee 102 



Magnetism, instructions on, for expedition to North Pole 369 



Manzauo, Dr., account of relic from 423 



Mayo, Joseph, letter from, relative to Virginia bonds 105 



McConuell, E. M., letter from, relative to old Indian village, Kushkushkee, Penn- 

 sylvania 406 



McMinn, Mrs. James A., valuable contributions from 28 



Medicine, report of Geneva Society of 353 



Meek, F. B., instructions by, to Captain Hall 3S4 



Meek, J. B., report of tornado in Spruce Creek Valley, Pennsylvania, by 456 



Megatherium, account of cast of, in Museum o9 



Members ex officio of the Institution 5 



Memoir of John Frederick William Herschel 109 



Joseph Fourier 137 



Tliomas Graham 177 



Edward Claparedo 356 



Augustus Waller 342 



Metagenesis, researches on 236 



Meteorology, account of Smithsonian system of 23 



Meteorological articles received by the Institution and deposited in the Library 

 of Congress : 



Auroras 80 



Earthquakes 80 



Electricity 81 



Forests, influence of . , 81 



General meteorology 81 



Hail 82 



