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Contribution toward a monograph on Noctuidse, bv John B. Smith 30 



Co-operation of departments of Government 28 



Cope, Prof. E. D., the Batrachia of North America 29 



Cope, Prof. Edward D., paper on Reptilia 15 



Coppee, Dr. Henry, a regent x, xi 



member of the executive committee x, xxxiii 



resolution of, relative to resignation of Dr. Noah Por- 

 ter -.. xi 



Corea, lecture on, in Museum lecture hall 31 



Cornell University, books sent by 78 



Corona, structure of the, by David P. Todd "79 



Correspondence, how conducted 25 



of exchange bureau, recording of 62 



Correspondents of exchange bureau 57 



Cortis, R. J., acknowledgments due 61 



Cost of exchanges to Smithsonian Institution 17, 18 



improving grounds for Zoological Park 40 



improvements of Museum building 10 



Costanoan vocabularies collected by J. Curtin 49 



Costa Rica, exchange transmissions to - 59, 62 



Conurus carolinensis in Zoological Park 64 



Cox, Hon. Samuel S., death of, action of Board of Regents respecting xv, 2 



descent of 44 



obituary notice of 43 



Cox. Mrs., presented poi'trait of her husband 2 



Cradles of the American aborigines, by Otis T. Mason 80 



Crain, Hon. W. H., introduced bill for extending hours for visiting the 



Museum 32 



to provide electric plant for Museum 



and Smithsonian buildings 32 



Criminal anthropology, by Thomas Wilson _-. 617 



Cuba, exchange transmissions to 59, 62 



Cullom, Hon. Shelby M., a regent x, xi 



motion of, proposing change in time of meeting 



of Board of Regents xv 



Cunard Steamship Line, acknowledgments due 61 



Curator of exchanges, report of 55. 62 



Curators of National Museum, reports of 82 



papers by 30 



Curtin, Jeremiah, explorations by 49 



field studies of 14 



Cyanocitta Stelleri macrolopha in Zoological Park - - 64 



Cynomys ludovidanus in Zoological Park • 64 



D. 



Dakota, account of sun-dance, paper by J. Owen Dorsey 50 



mound explorations in 47 



d' Almeirim, Baron, acknowledgments due 61 



Dana, Edward S.. report on progress in mineralogy for 188G 80, 81 



Dana, James D. . bibliographical memoir of Arnold Guyot 80 



Darton, Nelson H., progress in North American geology in 1886 79,81 



De Varigny , Henry, temperature and life 407 



Dean, Bashford, received fishes for study 30 



