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First and second stories, New National Museniu l)uildin.<;, descrii)tion of 297 



First building committee, Smithsonian Institution 196 



Fish Commission, U. S., collections from the Hawaiian Islands transmitted 



by 21 , 65, 66 



comi)romise effected with 238 



material transmitted by 17, 20, 53 



quarters in Armory building appropriated to use of. 237 



request by, in 1888 238 



specimens furnished by, for distribution to educa- 

 tional establishments 66 



Fish, Pierre A., title and notice of paper by _ 154 



Fisher, Walter K. , bird specimens sent to 33 



paper by, on a new tern from tlie Hawaiian Islands 78 



title and notice of paper by 154 



Fishes, Division of, accessions 21, 68 



collections of, consulted 32 



improvements to exhibit of 63 



work on study series 72 



exhibition of. National Museum building 259 



reclassification of casts of 63 



storage of, room used for, Smithsonian l)uilding 234 



Flint, J. M. . honorary curator, Division of Medicine 93 



Floor area of each building, temjjorary and rented, f()r ^Museum purposes 263 



occupied by outside buildings 304 



the U. S. National Museum, total amount of 306 



changes. National Museum building 256 



space occupied by the National Museum 298 



Foote Mineral Company, of Philadelphia, minerals obtained from, through 



purchase and exchange 85 



Foote, Warren M. , geological gift from 23, 85 



Fossil plants, collection of, rearranged 38 



Foster, William, zoological collections made by, purchased by the Museum .. 20,67 



Fowke, Gerard, field work conducted by 25 



material from ancient quarries near Carter, Ky., obtained by. 19, 58 

 objects collected by, transferred to the Museum by the Bureau 



of American Ethnology 55 



Fowler, Henry W., titles and notices of joint papers by 154 



Free Reference Library, Manchester 552 



French, Benjamin B., ceremony of laying corner stone performed by 199 



conniiissioner of jiublic grounds 190 



Galleries, erection of, in IMuseum building 250, 255, 299 



Garfield, James A., use of Museum 1)uilding for inaugural reception to 248 



Geare, R. I., chief of correspondence and documents 94 



General considerations 3 



library, number of books borrowed from 44 



Geographical Society of Baltimore, expedition of, to the liahamas 65 



Geological collections, important changes in halls containing 37 



Survey, U. S. , accessions from 23 



bills introduced in Congress for erection of building 



for 271 



Chemical and Physical Departments, material 



loaned to 88 



material exhibited l)y, at Charleston and lUiffalo 



expositions turned over to National Museum 84 



