794 INDEX. 



Page. 



Materia medica. Indian, ])lant9 used in, collection of 42,48, 51 



statistics of accessions 27 



Mathematical theories of the earth , by Robert S. Woodard 183 



Maya codices, aid to study of, paper by Prof. Cyrus Thomas .- 54,82 



Measures and valuint*-, by .1. Owen Dorsey 50 



Medals, statistics of accessions .- 27 



Medical formulas of Indians, collected 42, 48, 51 



Medicine man, practice of 42, 4.'{, 48, 51 



practice of Indian studies 42, 47 , 48, 50, 51 



Zunis studied by Mrs. Stevenson 50 



Mediterranean, the, physical and historical, by Sir R. Lambert Playfair . . 259 



Meeting, annual, of Board of Regents xi, 2 



change in time of - -. xv 



Meetings held in lecture hall of National Museum 31 



Academy of Sciences 31 



American Historical Association 22 



American Institute of Mining Engineers 31 



Association of American Agricultural Colleges 31 



Geological Congress Committee 31 



National Geograhic Society _-- -.. 31 



Meigs, Gen. Montgomery C, a regent x, xi 



member of the executive committee x. xxxiii 



resolution relative to compensation for plans 



for new Museum building xiv 



Mecca, photographs from, presented to Institution 78 



Meldola, Prof. Raphael. The photographic image 377 



Mekayns yalloparo in Zoological Park 64 



Members ex officio of the establishment ix 



Memoir of Arnold Guyot, by James D. Dana 80 



Elias Loomis, by H. A. Newton -.. 741 



William Kitchen Parker 771 



Memoirs relating to the solar corona 14, 79 



withdrawn from Library of Congress 19 



Memorial meeting of National Academy of Sciences in Museum 31 



Menomoni delegation, assistance given by 51 



Merchant S. L. Company, acknowledgments due 61 



Merrill, George P., appointed curator. Department of Geology 32 



hand-book on building and ornamental stones in National Mu- 

 seum .30, 80 



hand-book of geological collections 30,80 



Mesozoic fossils, statistics of accessions -. 27 



Metallurgy, statistics of accessions 28 



Meteorite collection in National Museum, by F. W. Clarke 80 



Meteorological and Physical Tables, Guyot's, new edition of 14 



Mexico, antiquities of, by S. B. Evans 80, 81 



consul-general for, acknowledgments due - 61 



exchange transmissions to - 59, 62, 63 



Meyer, Victor. The chemical problems of to-day 361 



Michelson, Prof. Albert A., aid to, in investigations 21 



Michigan, ancient works in, examined 47 



Middleton, James D., explored ancient works... 47 



explorations made by 14 



Mide'wiwin, the Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibwas 48 



