954 INDEX. 



Pag«. 



Record of scientific progress 363 



Anthropology, O. T. Masou 753 



Astronomy, E. T. Holden 365 



Botany, W. G. Farlow 681 



Chemistry, H. C. Bolton 629 



Geography, F. M. Green 465 



Geology, T. Sterry Hunt 443 



Introduction, by S. F. Baird 363 



Meteorology, C. Abbe '. 483 



Mineralogy, E. S. Dana 661 



Physics, G. F . Barker 571 



Zoology, Theodore Gill 699 



Records in department of reptiles 227 



Kept in department of marine invertebrates 259 



Red Star Line, co-operation of 36 



Regents of the Institution x 



Appointed xi 



Changes of 3 



Expiration of terms as xi 



Journal of proceedings xi 



Meetings of 3, xi 



Report of 1 



Resolutions by XII 



Registry and storage department, United States National Museum 163, 165 



Relations to foreign Governments 42 



Relics, ancient, at Dayton, Ohio 838 



Historical, section of, United States National Museum 53, 177 



In Poughkeepsie, N. Y 876 



Of Washington 42 



Report of Board of Regents • 1 



Of Executive Committee xn, xiii-xvi 



On the Henry statue xvn 



Report of Professor Baird 1 



Bureau of Ethnology 56 



International Conference on Exchanges at Brussels 120 



On aboriginal pottery 52 



Smithsonian exchanges 91 



United States Fish Commission 81 



United States Geological Survey 66 



Reptiles, department of, United States National Museum 54,164,185,225 



Collections received 185, 225, 226, 227 



Number of specimens on band 227 



Report of curator 225 



Suggestions made by curator 228 



H. C. Yarrow, honorary curator 185, 225, 276 



Research. (See Cave research.) 



Researches in department of mammals 211, 213 



In department of metallurgy 269 



Resolution of Cougi-ess relative to Henry statue xviii 



To print Smithsonian Report for 1883 11 



Resolutions by Board of Regents xil 



Accepting report of Executive Committee xn 



Accepting report on Henry statue xn 



Referring report of the Secretary to the Executive Committee xn 



Relative to publication of the scientific writings of Joseph Henry xu 



Relative to appointment of an Acting Secretary xn 



