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Biology, Department of, scientific researches and pul)]ications 29, 77 



total amount of spac'e allotted to 307 



work of fiscal year 1902-3 51 



work on study series 71 



birds 71 



birds' eggs 72 



fishes 72 



insects 72 



mammals 71 



marine invertebrates 73 



mollusks , 72 



reptiles 73 



zoological specimens received, number of 05 



Bird exhibit, improvements to 37 



Birds, Division of, accessions - 20, 67 



loan of specimens in 33 



overcrowded condition of the laboratories of 71 



work on the study series 71 



Birds' eggs, accessions 20 



Birds, exhibition of, Smithsonian building 233 



Birds of North and Middle America, Part II, published 41, 143 



Birmingham, Corporation Art Gallery and Museum 538 



Bishop Museum, Honolulu, birds received from 20 



Blatchley, W. S., insect specimens sent to 34 



Bogoras, Waldemar, Department of Anthropology visited by 29, 59 



Bogue, E. A. , Department of Anthropology visited by 29, 59 



Bohm, Julius, material obtained through exchange with 28 



Bonhote, J. L. , specimens for study loaned to 33 



Book of Estimates for 1903, request which appeared in 288 



Botanic Gardens, Durban, Natal, South Africa, exchange received from 28 



Sydney, New South Wales, exchange received from 28 



Botanical exhibits, space allotted for, abandoned, owing to limited space 64 



Gardens, Kew 531 



Museum, Berlin, Germany, exchange received from 27 



specimens, number of, received 61 



Boucard, A., birds of paradise received from 20, 68 



Bowdish, B. S., titles and notices of papers by 150 



Bradley, J. Chester, comparisons of insects made by 34, 76 



student of entomology, work at the Museum conducted by . 32 



Brewster, William, titles and notices of papers by 150, 151 



Brezina, Aristides, material obtained through exchange with 28 



Brief notes on various collections and buildings in Brussels 602 



Brimley Brothers, Raleigh, North Carolina, collection of reptiles and batra- 



chians purchased from 67 



series of salamanders presented by 21 , 68 



Bristol, C. L., at the suggestion of, specimen of Conger eel sent to the Museum. 68 



British fire-prevention committee 532 



Museum, department of, Cromwell Road, S. W 521 



Great Russel street, Bloomsbury 526 



London, I^ngland, geological specimens received from 24, 86 



Britton, N. L., joint work on the Crassulaceje of North America continued by. 76, 80 



researches conducted at Museum by 32 



Brooks, Mrs. C. S., daguerreotype of Mrs. Dolly Payne Madison, loan by 56 



