760 INDEX. 



Page. 



Museum building, use of, granted for inaugural reception 4, 155, 157, 165 



collections of, additions to 110 



of comparative zoology, Cambridge, specimens for 55 



marble or tile flooring in - 156, 164 



specimens received and distributed in 139 



Mysloif, Col. Peter, director, Vilna, Eussia, Observatory 733 



N. 



Naples, Italy, Observatory, report of 713 



Nashville, Tenn., private Observatory, report of 648 



National Academy of Sciences, relation of Institution to 65 



National Museum 38, 44 



additions to collections of 110 



application for use of building 166 



appropriations for 161 



appropriation for furniture and fixtures 162 



assistants in the Museum v, 61 



Bulletins 38 



courtesies from foreign museums 61 



distribution of duplicate specimens 60 



Ethnological Bureau 62 



increase of Museum 46 



officers and assistants V 



proceedings 38 



relation of Smithsonian Institution to 6 



reorganization of force 46 



specimens received and distributed 139 



systematic nomenclature 38 



work done in 57 



work done on collections 58 



work of 140 



National Museum Building Commission, report of 165, 167 



nearly completed 1,44 



proposed disjilays 45 



Natural history, laboratory of 8 



Natural history of marine products '^B 



Naval Academy Observatory, Annapolis, Md., report of 626 



Observatory, Bergen, Norway, report of ". 673 



Observatory, Washington, D. C, report of 665 



Navy Department, flags lent by 82 



Nelligar, T. S., watchman 7 



Nelson, E. H., collections made by 46,47,51,52 



Neptunus Company, articles presented by 135 



Netherlands- American Steam Navigation Company, grants free freight 15 



Neuchatel, Switzerland, Cantonal Observatory, report of 713 



Newark, N. J. , private Observatory, report of 648 



New England, fauna of, additions to 144 



New Haven, Conn., Winchester Observatory of Yale College, report of 650 



Newington, Conn. , private Observatory, report of 651 



New Mexico, explorations in ....22,26,48,49, 136 



New South Wales, international exhibition awarded medal to the Institution. 19, 66 



New species of fish 145 



Newton, Edward, collections made by 50, 53 



New Windsor, 111., Observatory, report of 652 



