662 INDEX. 



Alphabet, origin of, in the Orient 519 



Alpine tunnels, l)y Fox 103 



American Ethnology, appropriation for 6 



estimate for 7 



exjienditures for xx 



American Historical Association, rep( )rt of 14, 108 



Anionton's air thermometer 210 



Andaman Islands, Abbott collection from 102 



people of 463, 4(i5 



Anderson, Tempest, report on eruption of tlu^ Soufricre 309-330, 342, 34S 



Anderson, John 620 



Andrews bequest xii 



Angell, .Tames B. , Regent of the Institution x, xi, 4 



Antarctic explorations, progress in 352 



voyage of Belgica 102 



Anthony, William A., trans-Atlantic tele{)honing 101 



Anthropoid apes, craniology of 431-449 



Anthropological collections received by Museum 31 



studies in California 104 



Ants, termites or mixed, Haviland on 103 



Ape-like men of Africa 480 



Apes, anthropoid, craniology of 431 



size of skull of 433 



Appropriations, disbursement of xvii 



statement of x vii, liii, 6 



Aquarium, need of, in Zoological Park 24 



Arabic numerals, origin of 515 



Archicological collectidns received by Museum 32 



work ( )f Bureau of Ethnology 39-57 



Rudolph Virchow 656 



Archaeopteryx, discovery of 590, 591 



Arctic exi)edition of Robert Stein 31 



Arctowski, Ilenryck, Antarctic explorations 102 



Arcturus, heat of 159 



Argon, rays of 232 



Arid lands, Powell on reclamation of (534, 638 



Arizona, archii'ological coUecitions from 32 



Arrhenius, Svante, researches by 1 79, 235 



Ashmead, W. H 33, 35 



Asia, geographical progress in 355 



Assuan dam on the Nile 531 



Astronomical events, recent, by C. G. A)>l)()t 101 



l)hotographs, improvements in 152 



Astronomy, comets' tails, the corona, and the aurora borealis 179 



stellar evolution 149 



Astrophysical instruments at Yerkes Observatory 151 



Observatory, annals of 85, 107 



appropriation for xliii, Ivi, 6 



estimate for 7 



exhibit at Buffalo iii 



expenditures for xliii 



letters coiiniiending work of 4 



propert y of 85 



