934 index. 



Page. 



BeT>ian, L. do, cooperation of 30 



Belding, L., collection made by 226 



Explorations by 20,21 



Papers by 313 



Bell, James, collection presented by 226 



Bendire, Capt. Charles, co-operation of 19 



Honorary curator United States National Museum 275 



Benedict, James E. , diploma for 254 



Services of 250 



Bernadou, Ensign J. B., detail of 40 



Explorations by 26,41 



Berrien County, Georgia, mound in 853 



Beshowe, or black cod, discovered 19 



Bibliography of anthropology 764 



Astronomy 432 



Meteorology 556 



Mineralogy 676 



Physics 623, 652 



Zoology 738 



Billings, Dr. John S., lecture by 9 



Biuuey, W. G., donations from 245 



Biological Society, forest inquiry 44 



Lectures 9 



Meetings of 10, 174 



Birbeck, Edward, aid rendered by 84 



Birds, aquatic and iish- eating, catalogue of 84 



Department of, United States National Museum 53, 164, 185, 220 



Accessions 220 



Arrangement of collections 222, 223 



Bibliography of publications ' 224 



Desiderata 225 



Distribution of specimens 223 



Number of specimens in collection 224 



Present state of collections 224 



Report of curator 220 



Robert Ridgway, curator 185, 220, 275 



Routi ue work 1 222 



Bixby, Thomas, & Co., co-operation of 36 



Black codfish discovered by J. G. Swan 19 



Bland, Thomas, co-operation of 36 



Blish,J.B.,detailof 40 



Board of Regents, Annual Report of I 



Journal of proceedings xi 



Meeting of xi 



Resolutions of xii 



Boehmer, George H., report on Smithsonian exchanges 91 



Bolton, Dr. H. Carrington, general catalogue of scientific periodicals 30 



Report on chemistry 629 



Bone-cave in the island of Anguilla, memoir on contents of 27 



Booth, Henry, relics in Poughkeepsie, N. Y 876 



Borland, B. R., co-operation of 36 



Boston Foreign Exhibition 44 



Botanists, necrology of ,«„.„.., 697 



