472 INDEX. 



Page. 

 Meteorology, Commissioner of Agriculture discontitiues publication of observa- 

 tions 105 



Meteorology, instructions for expedition to North Pole 372 



Meteorology, (see Henry) 451 



Meter commission in Europe 36 



Moon, effect of the, on the weather 460 



Morgan, L. H., on systems of relationship, by 15 



Mori, Mr. A., Japanese minister, aid rendered to 37 



Mortality-tables, methods of graduating 275 



Mounds. (See Ethnology.) 



Much, M., ancient history of North America, by 425 



Musardo, exploration to, by Benjamin Anderson 20 



Museum, account of work done in the , 30 



Museum, additions to collections in the 29, 30, 43 



Museum, distribution of duplicates from the 42 



Museum, entries in the record-books of 42 



National Academy, instructions to Captain C. F. Hall 364 



National Academy of Sciences 35, 364 



National Library, necessity for a new building for 22 



National Museum, approiDriations for 37 



National Museum, changes in building for 38 



Natural History, Geneva Society of, transactions of 341 



Natural history, instructions for expedition to North Pole 379 



Navy Department, instructions to Cajitaiu C. F. Hall 361 



Netherlands, bureau of exchanges 19 



Newcomb, S., instructions to Captain Hall 368 



Newcomb, S., on orbit of Uranus 16 



North Pole, instmctions to Captain Hall's expedition 361 



Ocean physics, instructions for expedition to North Pole 370 



Ocean wind-charts of the English board of trade 25 



Odling, William, on Professor Thomas Graham's scieutilic work , 177 



OfBccrs of the Institution.. 6 



O'Kielly, Henry, on discovery of electro-magnetic telegraph 104 



Parker, Peter, acts of, as Regent 103, 104 



Parker, Peter, report of Executive Committee 102 



Parthenogenesis in the animal kingdom, by Dr. G. A. Kornhuber 235 



Pealo, T. E., claim for portrait of Washington 104 



Peter, Eobert, ancient mound near Lexington, Kentucky 420 



Peters, Dr. C. H. F., communication from, relative to telegraphic announcement 



of discoveries of planets, etc , 103 



Physical science, relation of general science to, lecture on 217 



Physical Sciences, report of Geneva Society on 344 



Physiology, animal 235 



Physiology, report of Geneva Society of 351 



Physics, Geneva Society of, transactions 341 



Physics. (See Foui-ier.) 



Pima Indians, account of 407 



Planetary orbits, secular variations of the 261 



Plants, present knowledge of cryptogamous 249 



Poland, L. P., acts of, as Ecgcnt 103,104 



Polar expedition of Captain Hall 361 



Powell, Professor J. W., account of explorations by 26 



Powell, Professor J. W., appropriation for exploration recommended for 105 



Programme of organization 7 



Publications of the Institution .* 14 



