INDEX. 617 



Page. 



Cockerell, T. D. A. , insect collections presented by 67 



specimens sent to 34 



joint paper by, describing four new plants from New 



Mexico - 32, 80 



title and notice of joint paper by 151, 162 



Cohen, E., material loaned to 88 



Coins donated to museum 19 



Coleman, John W. , return of 90 



severed connection with museum 90 



Collection of Washington relics transferred to the Museum from the Patent 



Office 57 



Collections, account of the buildings occupied by the national, U. S. National 



Museum 181 



additions to 17 



biological, laboratory, use of, by investigators 76 



condensed account of conditions and requirements of, by Assistant 



Secretary 28t) 



Department of Anthropology, assigned to 52 



care of 56 



Biology, growth of 61 



Geology, present condition of 88 



disposition of, from Centennial Exhibition 237 



exhibition, progress in the installation of the 36 



increase of 1 85 



loan of, and cooperation of specialists, Department of Biology 74 



of museum, bulk of 9 



principal sources of, summarized 8 



transferred to the National Museum by the Bureau of American 



Ethnology 54 



Collins, G. N., Economic Plants of Porto Rico, jointly by, published 41, 143 



title and notice of joint paper by 151 



Columbia University, in the city of New York 358 



Committee appointed to inquire into origin of fire, suggestions by 213 



executive, extracts from reports of 214 



Comparative anatomy, case labels for the exhibit of, completed 64 



exhibitions of. National Museum building 259 



Conchology, laboratories for, location of, in Smithsonian building 235 



Conclusive remarks 518 



Congress, appropriation by, for construction of Government building at St. 



Louis 46 



memorial presented to, 1868 218 



transmitted to, by Board of Regents, 1877 239 



Construction of building, bids for 197 



Contributions from U. S. National Herbarium, management of, transferred to 



National ^luseum 41 



iniblished hitherto by Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture 15 



Cook, O. F., custodian, Section of INIyriapoda 93 



Economic plants of Porto Rico, jointly by, published 41, 143 



honorary assistant curator. Section of Cryptogamic Collections. . . 94 



lecture on Views of Liberia, delivered by 1 40 



Systematic and Geographic Botany and Aboriginal Tse of Plants, 



jointly by, reprinted 41 



