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Urn burial, primitive, by Dr. J. T. Snyder... 609 



Urocyon virgin iamis in Zoological Park 64 



Ursus americanus in Zoological Park 64 



horrihiUs in Zoological Park 64 



Uruguay, consul-general for, acknowledgments due 61 



exchange transmissions to-. - 59, 63 



a party to Brussels convention 58 



Utrecht, University of, sends complete set of publications 77 



V. 



Vacancies in Board of Regents, Congressional resolutions respecting xli 



Vanden Toorn, W. H., acknowledgments due 61 



Vateble, H. A., & Co., acknowledgments due --- 61 



Venezuela, exchange transmissions to 59. 63 



Venoms of poisonous serpents, researches upon. By S.Weir Mitchell and 



T. Reichert 79 



Vermont State reports presented to Institution 78 



Vertebrate fossils, statistics of accessions — 27 



Vesteras Hogre Allmiinna Lilroverk, book sent by - 78 



Victoria, exchange transmissions to 59, 63 



Vice-President of the United States member ex officio of the establisment- ix 



Vincent, Prank, jr., collection of books presented by 78 



Virginia deer in Zoological Park 64 



Visitors to National Museum 31 



Vocabularies collected by J. Curtin 49 



Mrs. Stevenson 50 



Voorhees, Hon. Daniel W., proposed bill for purchase of Capron collection. 23 



Vouchers examined by Executive Committee 3, 4 



Vulcanology, pi'Ogress report for 1886, by C. G. Rockwood, jr 79,81 



Vulpes fulvus Zoological Park 64 



velox in Zoological Park 64 



W. 



Wagner Free Institute of Science presented Kiener's " Iconographie des 



Coquilles Vivantes " 31 



Waldstein, Dr. Charles, represented Institution at International Confer- 

 ence at ancient Troy 25 



Walpi, model of, made by C. Mindeleff 53 



Wanamaker, Hon. John, member ex officio of the establishment ix 



War Department, exchanges of.. 60 



Washington, Territory, ethnological specimens from _ 29 



Indians of. By Myron Eells 80,81 



Wateree River, South Carolina, mounds on the, explored 47 



Watkins, J. Elfreth, report on steam transportation 80 



the Ramsden dividing engine 721 



Webster, Clement L., Mounds of the Western Prairies — 80,81 



on ancient mounds in Iowa 80, 81 



•Tohnson County, Iowa 80, 81 



Indian graves in Floyd and Chickasaw counties, 



Iowa 80, 81 



West Indies, exchange transmissions to 59 



Weight of packages received by bureau of exchanges 55, 5G 



Weismann's theory of heredity, by George J. Romanes -- 433 



Weitspekan vocabularies collected by J. Curtin 49 



