INDEX. 833 



B. 



Page. 



Bacterirr, notes on 555 



Baird, Spencer F., Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 49 



Director of National Museum '. xx 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution xx, 56 



Introduction to record of scientific progress 276 



Papers in Proceedings of National Museum 27 



Letter transmitting Report for 1881 Ill 



Letters on astronomical announcements 59-76 



Eeport of 1-56 



Transfer of private library to Museum 34 



Baiz, Jacob, co-operation of 89 



Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, co-operation of 31 



Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, co-operation of 31 



Barker, G. F., report on progress in physics 28, 459 



Barometers 386 



Barometric pressure 420 



Batrachia, North American, check-list of 122 



Batrachians, department of 126, 135, 204 



Bean, Barton A., assistant in department of fishes 137 



Bean, Tarleton H., curator. National Museum xx 



List of publications of the National Museum 122 



Papers by 167 



Report on collection of fishes 27, 137 



Bebiau, L. de, co-operation of 89 



Becker, George F., digest of atomic weights 22 



Belding, L., discovery of new species of reptiles 25 



Explorations by 18 



Bell, James, explorations by ^ 18 



Bendire, Charles, collections made by 17 



Researches of 17 



Papers in Museum Proceedings 27 



Bernadou, J. B., assigned to duty in chemical laboratory 42 



Bibliography, astronomical 319 



Of American linguistics 46 



Of anthropology 655 



Of fishes of the Pacific coast of the United States, by Theodore Gill 22, 26, 122 



Of G. W. Hawes 160 



Of publications of the Museum for 1882 167 



Bickuell, Eugene P., papers by 186 



Biographical notice of George W. Hawes 151 



Biological Society, meetings of, in Museum lecture-room 10 



Biology of man, notes on 638, 659 



Bird life of the Northwest, researches into, by C. Bendire 17 



Birds, department of 126, 131, 201 



Blackford, E. G., suggestion to use spawn of cod 54 



Bland, Thomas, co-operation of 89 



Blennerhasset's Island, Ohio River, remains on 759 



Blish, J. B., U. S. N., assistant in department of marine invertebrates, &c.. 42, 144 



Board of Regents xix,2 



Annual meeting of ix, 2 



Annual report to 1 



Appropriation asked of Congress for fire-proofing of Smithsonian building. 2 



Committees of 2 



H. Mis. 20 53 



