INDEX. 451 



Exchange, account of 30 



regulations of system 32 



statistics of (jo 



Executive committee of the Institution 5 



preliminary report of 80 



reports of 74, 84 



Expenditures of the Institution in 1872 , 75 



restricted to annual i nterest 10 



Explorations, Professor Agassiz's narrative of 87 



Professor Baird's account of 43 



Feiger, Don Edward de, hunian head presented by 46 



Ferrel, William, on the tides 23 



Finances of Institution, condition of 19, 74 



Fischer, Dr. P., on scientific labors of Lartet 172 



Fishes, drawings of, presented by Dr. A. Eeuss 35 



Gill's arrangement of families of 27 



investigations by Professor Baird 35 



Flint, ancient use of 365 



implements. (See Ethnology.) 



Foreign correspondents, list of , 23 



Fossils, labors of Lartet relative to 172 



Franking privileges granted to the Institution 40, 82 



Franklin's punch-strainer bequeathed to Institution 41 



Freights free granted by steamship and railroad companies 31 



Frost, B. D., observations on underground temperatures 40 



Galena, ancient use of 355 



Garfield, Hon. J. A., acts of, as regent 80,81,84 



Geology and history, lecture on boundary between, by Suess 223 



Gibbs, George, Indian vocabularies, by 26 



Gill, Prof. Theodore, catalogues of mollusks, mammals, and fishes 27 



Green, James, meteorological instruments 37 



Green Eiver Valley, Indian engravings on rocks in 409 



Grounds, improvement of Smithsonian 15, 16 



Guu-cotton, production of 209 



Gun-powder, production of 208 



Guyot, Prof. A., meteorological tables 37 



Hall's Arctic observations 35 



Hamilton, James bequest of .$1,000 to Smithsonian Institution 85, 106 



Hamlin, Hon. H., acts of, as regent 80, 81, 82, 84 



efibrts of, to secure franking privilege for the Institution 40, 82 



Harrison, .loseph, aid to Mr. Catlin 41 



Hassler expedition, Agassiz's account of 87 



Hawkins & Wale, blow-pipe apparatus 222 



Hayden, Prof. F. V., distribution of sets of collections of 50 



valuable collections from ' 44 



Hay-stack mound, Lincoln County, Dakota, by A. Barrandt 413 



Head prepared by Jivaro Indians, presented to Institution 46 



Heights, work on, by W. L. Nicholson 28 



Henry, Joseph, Secretary of the Institution 5, 6 



history of appointment as Secretary of the Institution 14 



report of, for 1872 13 



solar origin of magnetic and other phenomena 309 



president of National Academy of Sciences 35 



