INDEX. 829 



Page. 



Biographical memoirs i 70:3 



Birds, collection of, in the National Museum 51 



Board of Regents, meetings of xi,xvii,4 



Blackford, Eugene G. , valuable contributions by, to Zoological Park 40 



Bologna, University of, eighth centenary of the 47 



Books received lor the Library of Congress 40 



Botany, progress in, for 1887 and 1888, by F. H. Knowlton. 475 



Bruyier, John, revision by, of Dakotau texts 70 



Buffaloes presented to the Zoological Park by E. G. Blackford 44 



Building, expenditures for xxi 



for Museum, plans submitted to Congress 15 



new, for Museum and Geological Survey xiv 



none to be placed on Smithsonian grounds except for Smithsonian 



use XV 



repairs of Smithsonian building, appropriation and expenditures.. xxv 



Smithsonian building, appropriation for urgent repairs xxxv 



Senate bill for fire-prooting west end 17 



Bulletins of the National Museum 24, 101 



appropriation for printing xli 



Bureau of Ethnology (see Ethnology). 



Bushotter, Mr. , collection by , of Dakotau legends, etc 70 



C. 



Cash received by Smithsonian Institution xxii 



Capelliui, Prof. S.,of the Bologna University, request by, for representation 



of the Institution at its eighth centenary 47 



Catlin Indian gallery, paper on, by Thomas Donaldson 55 



Central America, natural history of, investigated by C. H. Townsend 21 



Chancellor of the Institution, aunounceraeut by, of appointment of Mr. G. B. 



Goode as Acting Secretary xiii 



announcement by, of death of Dr. Peter Parker xvi 



Chief- Justice Waite, death of xvii 



necessity of election of xvii 



remarks of, on printing for the Institution xiii 



on the death of 1 



resolutions of Board relative to death of xviii 



views as to forbidding placing of any building on Smithsonian 



grounds except for exclusive use of Smithsonian xv 



views of, relative to accounts xii, xiii 



on use of Smithsonian grounds for Columbian celebration xv 



Chancellor pro tern, election of Justice S. F. Miller as xix 



Chronology of the Human x^eriod, by J. W. Davis 583 



Chemistry, progress in, for 1887 and 1888, by F. W. Clarke 425 



Cherokees, northern, examination of dialect of 61) 



Cincinnati Exposition, act of Congress for xxxvii, xxxix 



co-operation of Institution in 59,61 



Circulars respecting periodicals 117 



Cissel, D. T., awarded contract for stone, brick, and wood-work in fire-proof- 

 ing the west corridor of Smithsonian building 18 



Clarke, F. W., on progress in chemi.stry for 1887 and 1888 425 



Cluss and Schulze, architects for tire-prooliugthe west corridor of the Smith- 

 sonian building, report pf 18 



Collections, increase of, in the National Museum 51 



tabular statement showintr e.xtent and character of 52 



