INDEX. 803 



Rhees, William J., chief clerk of the Institution ix 



list of Smithsonian publications Ifj 



Ridgway . Robert, paper on humming birds 30 



Rio Salado, ruins on, report on, by Victor Mindeleff 5^ 



Rock Creek, archaeological examination of .- 4T 



selected for Zoological Park 3" 



Roekhill, W. W., explorations in Thibet 13 



Rockwood. C. G., jr., report on progress in vulcanology and seismology in 



1886 1 79,81 



Romanes. George J . . Weismann"s theory of heredity 433 



Rocky Mountain sheep in Zoological Park (14 



Rooms for scientific work, assignment of 21 



Royal Academy of Budapest presented publications 78 



Society of London, books presented by 78 



Ruins modelled by Cosmos Mindeleff 53, 54 



report on, by Victor Mindeleff 53 



Ruiz, Consul-General D. L., acknowledgments due 61 



Rush, Dr. W. H., U. S, Navy, acknowledgments due for specimens 14 



offered to make collections 33 



Russia, exchange transmissions to 59, 63 



history of geodetic operations in. by Col. B. Witkowski and Prof. 



.1. Howard Gore 305 



hydrographic publications pi'es3nted by Government of 78 



Salaries paid by exchange bureau 57 



Sales of publications, receipts from xviii 



San Salvador, consul-general for. acknowledgments due 61 



exchange transmissions to 59 



Saturday lectures in Museum lecture hall 31 



Savannah River, Georgia, mound on the, explored 47 



Saxony, exchange transmissions to 59 



Sayce, Prof. A. H., the primitive home of the Aryans 475 



Schliemann, Dr. Henry, requested representation at international con- 

 ference at ancient Troy , 25 



Schumacher, A., & Co., acknowledgments due 01 



Scientific work, assignment of rooms for 21 



Sciurus ca rnlinensii^ in Zoological Park 64 



hudsonius in Zoological Park ._ 04 



Sciuroptcrus volucella in Zoological Park 64 



Screw threads, standards to be adopted 13 



Secretary communicated to National Academy investigations upon the 



cheapest form of light 11 



Secretary's letter submitting annual report . iii 



Secretary of Smithsonian Institution a member of committee on resolutions 



relative to the late S. S. Cox 43 



report for 1889 .• 82 



Secretary's report, appendix to 47 



on Bureau of Ethnology 42 



international exchang-es 1(5 



library :, 19 



National Museum 26 



National Zoological Park 31 



Secretary of Interior, coui-tesy of 2i» 



Seely, F. A., grant for purchase of archreological objects 21 



