INDEX. 845 



rase. 



Mei^s, General M. C, thanks tendered to 2 



Jlerccr beq uest , 40 



Merchants' line of steamers, co-oi)eration of 31,^0 



Merrill, George P., assistant, National Museum xx 



Metallurgy, department of 152 



Meteorological observations, by Alexis Cas^vell 21 



Meteorology, progress in, by C. Abbe 27,28,368 



Aeronautics *. 38G 



Anemometers, barometers, &c : 38G 



Atmospheric electricity 422 



Auroras 422 



Barometric pressure 420 



Climate 382,453 



Evaporation 41G 



Ground currents 422 



Halos 437 



Hydrology - 447 



Hypsometry 447 



Eainfall 410 



Refraction and mirage 437 



Solar radiation 413 



Special stations and work 365 



Storms 421 



Terrestrial magnetism 422 



Terrestrial temperature 413 



Winds 418 



Mexican and Maya manuscripts 47 



Mexico, explorations in ID 



Middleton, James J)., explorations by 44 



Mindeleff, Victor, explorations 45 



Prepared model of pueblo of Zuiii ^ 47, 125 



Miner, R. H., assigned to duty 42, 137 



Mineralogy, report on progress in. by E. S. Dana 523 



Chemical mineralogy 538 



Crystallography and physical mineralogy 535 



Discovery of new mineral localities 541 



General works on mineralogy 533 



New minerals 543 



Minerals, department of, in the Museum 151 



Mirage, notes on 437 



Miscellaneous collections published 22 



Mississippi Bottom, Illinois, mounds of the 684 



Mitchell, S. Weir, material furnished to 156 



Model, relief, of the pueblo of Zuiii 47, 125 



Mollusks and molluscoids 588, 589 



Department of, in the Museum 126, 139, 214 



Moore, M. A., paper in Museum Proceedings 27 



Morgan, Lewis H., death of 39 



Houses and house life of American aborigines 46 



Mortuary customs of the North American Indians 46, 47 



Moulton, J. H., collections made by 16 



Mounds, examination of 44 



In Carroll County, Illinois 683 



In Henry County, Ohio - 682 



