830 INDEX. ' 



Page. 



Columbian celebration in 1892 , xv 



Columbus and Amerigho Vespucci (see America) 6 17 



Commission appoiuted by Congress, on historical manuscripts xxxvi 



Committee to examine sanitary condition of Museum building 49 



Congress (see Acts; see also Bills.) 



resolution of, to print extra copies of the Annual Report ii 



respecting public documents 114 



Regents asking for change of form of appropriations.. xiii 



Congressional ccmmission on historical manuscripts xxxvi 



Cope, Prof E. D. , work on North American Batrachians 20 



Copp^e, Prof. Henry, acts of as Regent xi, xvii 



re-appointed Regent xxxiii 



remarks on examination of accounts of Bureau of Eth- 

 nology xii 



Contents of the Annual Report v 



Museum report 55 



Contributions to knowledge 21 , 99 



Convention of American and European nations concerning international ex- 

 changes Ill 



Cox, Hon. S. S., acts of as Regent xi.xvii 



appointed Regent xi, 4 



motion by, to accept report of Secretary and transmit it to 



Congress xiii 



Cox, W. v., chief clerk of National Museum, preparation of exhibit by, for 



Minneapolis Exposition 58 



Cullom, Hon. S. M., acts of as Regent xvii 



motion to elect Justice S. F. Miller as Chancellor j^ro tern. xix 



D. 



Dall, William H., memoir by, on Professor Baird in science 731 



notice of death by, of Dr. Emil Bessels 92 



Dana, Edward S., on progress in mineralogy lor 1887 and 1888 455 



Dana, James D., biographical memoir of Asa Gray 745 



Davis, J. Woodbridge, chronology of the Human period 583 



Death of Chief- Justice Waite, Chancellor of the Institution xvii 



Dr. Peter Parker, late Regent xvi 



Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Institution 4, 77 



Deaths of Chancellor, Regent, and Secretary 1 



Density of the earth, determination of, by pendulum principle, by .1. Wilsing. 635 

 Deposit of all money received by Smithsonian Institution with Treasurer of 



United States xxii 



Detailed statements of expenditures required by Congress. xl 



Diggs, Isaac, death of 92 



Disbursing officer's statements of balances xxxi 



Disbursement of appropriations by Congress to be changed from Interior De- 

 partment to Smithsonian xiii 



Distribution of publications 24 



Donaldson, Thomas, paper by, on the Catlin Indian gallery 55 



Dorsey, J. Owen, translation of Dakotan Indian texts 70 



Dunnington, Capt. C. W. C, death of 92 



E. 



Earth, mean density of, determined by pendulum principle •^35 



Easter Island, collection of valuable specimens from 57 



