778 INDEX. 



Astronomy, progress of, observatories 159 



photography, astronomical 135 



photometry 130 



planets 144,150 



solar parallax 159 



solar spectrum 154 



solar system 151 



star catalogues 124 



stellar parallax 128 



stellar spectra 133 



transit of Venus 159 



variable and colored stars 131 



Astro-physical investigations, building for apparatus 10 



observatory, establishment of xii, 10 



scope of work explained 12 



Atlas Steamship Company, acknowledgments due 61 



Austria, exchange transmissions to 59, 62, 63 



"Avifauna Italica," presented by author 78 



B. 



Baden, exchange transmissions to - 59, 63 



Bailey, H. B., & Co., acknowledgments due 61 



Baird, Professor, statvie of 20 



Baker. Dr. Frank, appointed acting manager of National Zoological 



Park 32,41,74 



appointed honorary curator, Department of Compara- 

 tive Anatomy 32 



TheAscentof Man 447 



Baltazzi, X., Consul-General, acknowledgments due 61 



Barber & Co., acknowledgments due 61 



Barker, George F., report on progress in physics for 1886 80, 81 



Barn owl in Zoological Park 64 



Bascanion constrictor in Zoological Park 64 



Basel, University of, sends complete sets of publications 6,77 



Basement under National Museum, cost of 9 



Basket work of North American aborigines, by Otis T. Mason 81 



Batrachiaof North America, paper on, by Prof. E. D. Cope 29 



Batrachians, statistics of accessions 27 



Bats studied by Dr. Harrison Allen 30 



Bavaria, exchange transmissions to 59. 63 



Bean, Dr. Tarleton H., Dr. G. Brown Goode and, paper by 30 



Bears in Zoological Park 64 



Beck, Senator, death of, a loss to the Institution 41 



Belgium, a party to Brussels Convention 58 



exchange transmissions to 59, 62, 63 



Bell, Dr. Alexander Graham, donation to astro-physical observatory 3, 12 



Bequest of James Hamilton, amount of 2 



Dr. Jerome H. Kidder 3, 1 1 , 12 



resolutions by Board of Regents xiii 



Simeon Habel, amount of 2 



Smithson, amount of. - - 2 



