900 INDEX. 



Page. 



Smith, Mr., services of t 39 



Smith, William E., plants deposited in Museum 61 



Smithson, James 2 



Letter to Davies Gilbert . .' 5 



Letters relating to 3, 4, 5 



Life of 2 



Smithson fund, condition of XV 



Smithsonian building 8 



Chemical laboratory , 9 



Congressional appropriations 8 



Electrical connections 8,9 



Fire-proofing 8 



Fitting up of rooms 8 



Post-office 8 



Rooms occupied by the Coast and Geodetic Survey 9 



Time service 8 



Wind vane *. 9 



Smithsonian contributions to knowledge 28, 29 



Pre-historic fishing, by Dr. Charles Ran 29 



Smithsonian exchanges, report on 99 



Smithsonian Institution, report on 1 



Smithsonian library, packages received for Ill 



Smithsonian mail matter free of postage 150 



Society of American Taxidermists, meeting of 66 



Society of Naturalists of the Eastern United States, meetings of 66 



Sonorous sand 47 



Soundings made by steamer Albatross 25 



South America, explorations in 26 



Chili 26 



By Crawford, Dr. William N 27 



Galapagos Islands 26 



By Jones, Dr. William H 26, 57 



By Kiefer, Mr 26 



By Nation, Professor 27 



Peru 26,27 



By Steamer Shenandoah 27 



Straits of Magellan 27 



Terra del Fuego « 27 



South Atlantic division, geological work in the 82 



South Kensington Museum, Loudon, collections received from 27 



South Mississippi, division of the, geographical work of the United States 



Geological Survey in the 79 



Southern Exposition at Louisville 63 



Special donations to the Institution 4g 



Spies, Consul Francis, co-operation of 107 



Spinney, Joseph S., co-operation of 34^ 106 



Standard set of weights and measures presented to Institution 49 



State and international exhibitions , 43,63 



Statistical papers of the United States Geological Survey 95 



Work of the United States Geological Survey 92 



Steamboat lines, co-operation of 41 



Steamer Adams, explorations by 19, 38 



Albatross, collections made by 60 



Explorations by 24 



Soundings made by ^ ^.,^... 25 



