742 INDEX. 



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Annual Reports of the United States Fish Commission 147 



Apparatus and methods of capture 7S 



estimated espenditvires for IGl 



loan of 71 



Applications for use of Museum building 166 



Appropriation 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 



Archaeology, 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 building, 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 



Asti'onomical 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 Company 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 Report of 1 



appointed Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 141 



authorized to dispose of Virginia bonds IGG 



Director of the Institution iv, v, KJ 



first prize at Berlin Fish Exhibition 149 



i ntroduction to the report on scientific progress 181 



letter to Congress transmitting report Ill 



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



member of National Museum Building Commission 1(59 



Baker, Marcus, assistance given by 25 



