(')42 INDEX. 



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 Soi-iety for the Preservation oi Wil<l Flowers, talks, illustrated, given by mem- 

 bers of ^ 40 



of American Naturalists, specimens in Museum examined by members of 32 



Americanists in New York, museum visited by foreign delegates to. 59 



S( )urces of Material, Division of Physical Anthropology 20 



South Kensington Museum, National gallery 530 



or Victoria and Albert Museum 529 



.Space, allotment of, administration, general workshops, storage, and miscella- 

 neous 308 



Department of Anthropology 306 



Biology 307 



Geology 307 



Museum deprived of accessions for lack of 277 



Speaker of the House of Representatives, letter sent to 223 



Specimen and reference cards. Department of Geology, number of, prepared . . 87 



Specimens, acquisition of, by purchase restricted owing to small appropriation. 18 

 approximate number of, received by Museum during year, recorded 



by subjects, table showing 25 



determined and reported upon during year at request of corre- 

 spondents, number of lots of 40 



distribution and exchange of 26 



ethnological, received through exchange by the Department of 



Anthropolog}' 55 



number of, added to the collections less than previous years, De- 

 partment of Biology - 61 



of Museum classified 6 



duplicate 6, 1 1 



received for identification 17 



stamped and added to the herbarium, number of 74 



table showing number of lots of, sent to each State and foreign 



country 27 



total number of, in national collections 17 



in possession of Museum at close of year, recorded 



by subjects, table showing 25 



transfer of, from Patent Office to Smithsonian building 184, 232 



Staff, administrative, list 94 



Museum, list 93 



scientific, list 93 



Stanford University, collection of Japanese fishes presented by 68 



inquiries received from, concerning methods of catalogu- 

 ing and labeling employed in Department of Biology. . 77 



Starks, Edwin Chapin, papers on the osteology of fishes by, published 78 



titles and notices of papers by 1 65 



Staunton, T. W., custodian, Mesozoic Section of Invertebrate Fossils 94 



Stearns, R. Vj. C, honorary associate in zoology 94 



titles and notices of papers Ijy 165 



Stebbing, T. R. R., material from Division of Marine Invertebrates sent to — 35 



types of species of aniphipods described by 70 



Steele, Edward S., monograph on a section of the genus Laciniaria completed 



by 32,80 



Steinen, Gar! von den, investigations in Department of Anthropology by 29,59 



Stejneger, Leonhard, curator, Division of Reptiles and Batrachians 93 



gecko described by 21 



