INDEX. 



Page. 



Abbe, Cleveland, on recent progress in Meteorology 355 



Accessions to the Mnseum for the year 52 



recent, to the Museum, great extent of 50 



Accounts of Bureau of Ethnology, discussion on xii 



examined and approved by executive committee xxxi 



of exchanges xxiii, 21) 



Museum should be settled directly with Treasurj^ Department.. xii 



Acting Secretary, Dr. G. B. Goode appointed as , xiii, 4 



Act of Congress accepting Grant relics xxxiv 



appointing commission on historical manuscripts xxxvi 



Regents Smithsonian Institution. ..xxxiii.xxxv, xxvi, xii 



making appropriations xxxiii, xxxiv, xxv, xxxvi, xl, xii 



to purchase General Shields's swords for Museum xxxvi 



relative to Cincinnati Exposition xxxvii, xxxix, 59 



Marietta Exposition xxxviii, xxxix 



Minneapolis Exposition xxxvi 



Smithsonian, etc xxxiii 



for relief of Semon Bache «fc Co xii 



requiring Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to make 



detailed rejiorts of expenditures xl 



Adler, Dr. Cyrus, honorary assistant curator of Oriental antiquities 57 



on the progress of oriental science in America 675 



Alaska, ethnologic investigations iu, by Ensign A. P. Niblack 21 



America, derivation of the name, by Jules Marcou 647 



American Historical Association, a bill to incorporate the 47 



Amerigho Vespucci, and the name America, by Jules Marcou 647 



Amerriques, Amerigho Vespucci, and America, by Jules Marcou 647 



Angell, James B., acts of, as Regent xi.xvii 



appointed Regent by resolution of Congress xxxv 



motion to appropriate income , xv 



that Executive Committee prepare resolution rela- 

 tive to death of Dr. Peter Parker xvi 



Animals, collection of, for Zoological Park 42 



Department of living, organization of 57 



Annual meeting of the Regents ^ 4 



report for 1887-'88, contents of , v 



reports of the Institution 22, 101 



Anthropology, bibliography of, for 1887 and 1838 524 



progress in, for 1887 and 1888, by O. T. Mason 974 



Antiquities, collection of Assyrian and Babylonian 57 



Appendix, general 123 



objects of 124 



to Secretary's report 95 



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