664 INDEX. 



Bell and Kidder fund xviii 



Bell, Alexander (Irahani, favors bringing of Smithson's remains to America., xiv, 3 



phonograph improvements liy 251 



member of Executive Committee x 



Regent of the Institution x, xi, 4 



Benedict, James E 104 



Benton, Elbert J 56 



Berliner, Solomon 75 



Bertholf, Lieut. Ellsworth P (315, (520, 623 



Bevier, Louis, research in nature of vi )wels 9 



Bezzi, M 36 



Bibliography, chemical 100 



spectroscope 100 



Binny, A.J 431 



Biological discoveries by Professor Loeb 630 



laboratory at Woods Hole 625 



jmpers in Museum Proceedings 104 



researches by telephotography 9 



Biology, number of animal species 582 



morphological method in 581 



Bird, Henry, collection from 32 



Birds, fossil, progress in study of 589, 591 



generic names, 1890 to 1900 107 



lists of collections of 105, 107 



Middle and North American 37, 107 



Board of Regents, meeting of xi-xvi, 2, 4 



mem])ers of x, 2, 4 



Boas, Franz 42, 44, 52, 53, 102, 108 



Bodies smaller than atoms, by Thomson 101 



Bogoslof volcanoes, by Merriam 102 



Bohio dam on Panama Canal 546 



"Boiling" effect on solar image 26, 95, 193 



Bolometer, invention of 25 



])recision and minute work of 25 



Bolton, 11. ('., liibliography of chemistry 100 



chemical societies of nineteenth century 100 



Bonney, T. ( I 348 



Book j)nnting, origin of 525 



Boomerangs, by (1. T. Walker 102 



Borchgrevink, C. E., Martiniciue disaster 348 



Borneo, native tribes of 463 



Botanical experiments in hybridization 563 



Boule, Marcelin 451 



Boulton, Bliss &, Dallet, courtesies by 75 



Bourdeau, L 393 



Bowdish, n. S 32, 35 



Bovvditch, Charles P 54 



Boyle, Robert, o])servations in low temperatures 208 



Brain, function of lobes of 434 



relation of man's and ape's 431 



Branly, Dr. , electrical researches by 264 



Branly coherer, description of 265 



Braun's experiments in low teinpcratures 211 



