742 INDEX. 



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Annual Eeports of the United States Fish Commission 147 



Apparatus and methods of capture 78 



estimated expenditures for 161 



loan of - 71 



Applications for use of Museum huilding 166 



Appropriatiou for Armory building 161 



for exhibit Berlin International Fishery Exhibition ^. 80 



for international exchanges suggested 14 



for marble flooring in new Museum, resolution of Executive 



Committee respecting 156,164 



for Museum, &c 161 



for publication of Polaris report 64, 162 



Archteology, researches and collections in 31 



Arctic expedition, publication of, appropriation for 64, 162 



Architects of National Museum building, report of 165, 170 



Arizona, collections from, to Museum 48 



explorations in 23, 136 



Armagh, Ireland, Observatory, report of 672 



Armory bui Iding, appropriation for 161 



used for storage 8 



Artificial propagation of striped bass 76 



Ashe, E. D., director, Quebec, Canada, Observatory 720 



Assistants in the Museum v, 61 



of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum v 



Asteroids discovered in 1880 12,212 



Astrand, J. J., director. Naval Observatory, Bergen, Norway 673 



Astronomical announcements by telegraph 11 



Observatories, reports of 623 



Astronomy, progress report on, by Prof. E. S. Holden 183 



Athens, Greece, Observatories, report of 673 



Atlantic Cable Company, acknowledgment to 12 



Atlantic coast, collections from, to Museum 49 



Atlas Steamship Conijiauy grants free freight 15 



Atkins, C. G., explorations .by 144 



special agent of fisheries 79 



Atomic weights, by George F. Becker 35 



Atwater, Professor, analyses by 145 



Atwood, Capt. N. E., special agent 79 



Australia, aborigines of, memoir on 32 



B. 



Bache, steamer, dredging by 143, 148 



Baillaud, B., director, Toulouse, France, Observatoire 728 



Bailey, Sylvanus, assistance given by 25 



Baird, Prof. S. F. , Annual Eeport of 1 



appointed Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 141 



authorized to dispose of Virginia bonds 166 



Director of the Institution iv, v, 8".) 



first prize at Berlin Fish Exhibition 149 



introduction to the report on scientific progress 181 



letter to Cougi-ess transmitting report Ill 



letter to W. W. Story relating to statue of Professor Henry. 151 



member of National Museum Building Commission 169 



Baker, Marcus, assistance given by 25 



