034 INDEX. 



Page, 



Nelson, E. W. , bird collection consulted by 32 



gifts of crania and parts of tlie bniiian skull from 53 



title and notice of paper by 147, lfi'2 



Nero, U. S. S., deei)-sea pelican fish transmitted by otlicers of 21, 68 



Newberry Library ■. 459 



Newhall, AV. H., aid, Division of Physical and Chemical Geology 94 



routine work of : 87 



New National Museum Ijuilding 263 



description 296, 297 



history of 263 



net floor area of 298 



rotunda, description of 298 



New Orleans, exhibition at, reference to 260 



New York Botanical Garden, plants loaned to 75 



Public Library — Astor, Lenox, and Tilden foundations 351 



State Lil .rary 396 



division of exchanges 401 



traveling libraries division 400 



Museum 394 



Nickels, John M. , geological specimens given by 24 



Niernsee, J. R., Smithsonian building examined by 202 



Nonmetallic minerals, exhibition of, worked over 38 



North Carolina Talc and Mining Company, Swain County, North Carolina, 



geological gift from 23, 84 



Notes on some European museums and kindred institutions 520 



Novo Urei, Russia, fragment of the diamond-bearing meteorite from 83 



Nutting, C. C. , monograph by, on the Sertularia 34 



Oberholser, Harry C, bird collection consulted by 32 



papers by, on South American birds 78 



titles and notices of papers by 162 



Officers of the National Museum and others, papers by, based wbolly or in 



part upon the national collections 147 



Oldroyd, Mrs. T. S., marine shells from California presented by 21, 69 



Oological collection, accession to 20 



(Operations of the year, sunmiary of 15 



Organization and staff 46 



Ornithological collection, additions to 20 



Osborn, H. F., researches upon fossil vertebrates by 36, 88 



Osgood, Wilfred H. , bird collection consulted by , 32 



lecture on Three Summers in Alaska, delivered by 40 



Osteological collection, additions to 22 



Otaki, K. , Japanese fishes collected by 68 



Outside buildings, floor area occupied by 304 



Owen, David Dale, assistance of 196 



Owen, Robert Dale, bill for establishment of Smithsonian Institution drafted l)y 185 



Hints on Public Architecture, etc., by, published 196 



member of first building committee 1 92, 196 



(juoted 230 



resolutions preliminary to building, offered by 194 



Page, Charles G., varieties of stone subjected to tests for durability by 197 



Page, James, assistant in ceremony of laying corner stone ^ 199 



Paine, R. G., appointed aid in the Division of Reptdes and Batrachians... 47,81,93 



Paleobotany, section of, accessions in 24, 86 



Palmer, Josei)h, time spent by, in caring for the ethnological collections 56 



