INDEX. 839 



V. 



Page. 



"Vauderbilt, William H., resolution of Congress velativo to xsxiv 



Vespucci, Amerigho, and the name America 647 



Vilas, Hon W. F., Secretary of the Interior, letter from, relative to the dis- 

 bursement of Museum funds 8, II 



Virginia bonds xxi 



Visitors, number of, during the year, to (he Institution and Museum 54 



Vouchers examined by Executive Committee and found correct xxx 



W. 



Waite, Chief Justice M. R., acts of, as Regent xi 



Chancellor of Institution, death of xvii, 1,75 



resolutions of Board of Regents relative to death 



of xviii, 75 



War Department, appropriations for exchanges xxxiii, xl 



Watkins, J. E., in charge of section of transportation in the Museum 57 



Weaver, Mrs. L. S., death of 92 



Weighing and measuring, in the progress of science, by W. Harkness 597 



Welling, James C, acts of, as Regent xi, xvii 



appointed on committee to express sense of board in rela- 

 tion to death of the Chancellor, Chief Justice W^aite.. .. xvii 

 motion to express sense of board on death of the Chancel- 

 lor, Chief Justice Waite xvii 



presented auiual report of executive committee xi 



remarks on examination of accounts of Bureau of Eth- 

 nology xii 



report of committee relative to death of Chancellor 



W'aite xviii 



executive committee, 1887-88 xxxi 



resolutions by, to recommend to Congress change of form 



of appropriations xiii 



resolutions by, relative to death of Dr. Peter Parker xvi 



Wheeler, Hon. Joseph, acts of as Regent xi.xvii 



appointed Regent xi, 4 



White, Andrew D., acts of, as Regent xvii 



appointed Regent sxxvi,4 



William, Henry S., on North American Palaeontology for 1887 and 1888 261 



Wilsing, J., on determination of the mean density of the eartli by means of a 



pendulum principle 635 



Wilson, Mr. Thomas, appointed as honorary curator of prehistoric archseology 57 



Wilson, Hon. W. L., expiration of term of, as Regent 4 



Winlock, on progress in astronomy for 1887 and 1688 125 



Wisconsin, examination of pictographs in 67,68 



Writings of Asa Gray, list of 785 



Y. 



Yuates, W. S., collections of minerals by, for distribution 55 



Z. 



Zoological Park established 42 



o 



