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Lighting Miiseuui, appropriations for xxviii, xsxiv, xxxv, xl 



List of illustrations to the Report viii 



periodicals for exchange, new lists made out 34 



writings of Prof. Asa Gray 78r) 



Lithology, progress in, for 1887 and 1888, by G. P. Merrill 327 



M. 



McGee, W. J., on progress in geology for 1887 and 1888 217 



Maclean, John, re-appointed Regent xxxiii 



Maine, examination of Indian pictographs in 68 



Mallery, Garrick, examination by, of pictographs in Wisconsin, Nova Scotia, 



and Maine 68 



remarks on the relations of Prof. S. F. Baird to the scien- 



tiiic societies of Washington 717 



Manuscripts, historical, Secretary of Smithsonian to report on xxxvi 



.Marcou, Jules, on Ameriques, Amerigho VespTicci, and America 647 



Miirietta Exposition, act of Congress for xxxviii, xxxix 



31ason, Otis T., on progress in anthropology for 1887 and 1888 497 



Material, amount of, sent to Cincinnati Exposition by Institution 61 



Maxey, Senator S. B., expiration of terra of, as Regent 4 



Measuring and weighing, in the progress of science, by W. Harkness 597 



JVIeeting, special, of the Board of Regents 4 



stated, of the Board of Regents 4 



Mt etings of Board, expenditures for xxii 



Meigs, M. C, acts of, as Regent xi, xvii 



appointed Regent xxxiii 



remarks on examination of accounts of Bureau of Ethnology . xii 



report of executive committee, 1887-'88 xxxi 



Members, ex officio, of the Smithsonian establishment ix 



Memorial services of the scientific societies of Washington in commemora- 

 tion of Spencer F. Baird 715 



Memoirs of Asa Gray 745, 763 



Spencer F. Baird 79, 703, 717, 721, 731, 739 



Meteorology, recent progress in, by Cleveland Abbe 355 



Merrill, G. P., collection of minerals by, for distribution 55 



on progress in petrography for 1887 and 1888 327 



Miller, Justice, Samuel F. , acts of, as Regent xvii 



elected Chancellor |)>'o tern xix,4 



remarks by relative to death of Chancellor Waite. xix 



Mindeleff, Cosmos, exploration and plotting of pueblos 67 



Mindeletf, Victor, investigations by, in Arizona and New Mexico 66 



Mineralogy, progress in, for 1887 and 1888, by Edward S. Dana 455 



Minneapolis Exposition, act of Congress xxxvi 



co-operation of Institution in 58 



Minnesota, examination of pictographs in 67 



Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, appointed representative to the eighth centenary of 



Bologna University 49 



Miscellaneous collections 22, 99, 100 



not to include Museum publications 26 



papers in the Report 583 



Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, letter in reference to eighth centennial anniversary of 



the University of Bologna 48 



Mollnsks, collection of, in the National Museum 51 



Mooney, James, examination by, of dialect of northern Cherokees 69 



