INDEX. 453 



Page, 



Meteorology, account of system ". . 37 



iu Russia, by Dr. Wceikoff 267 



Mica, aucient use of 360 



Mineralogical coUectiou transferred to Institution from Laud-Office 52 



Mirbanol, production of 213 



MoUusks, Gill's arraugement of families of 27 



Morphine, production of 196, 200 



Mounds. (See ethnology.) 



Mount Vernon, articles deposited at 41 



Museum, appropriations for 42, 77, 78 



additions to 43, 56 



distribution of duplicates 50 



entries in record-books 55 



history of 15 



re-arrangement of, and catalogues 26 



receipts and expenditures 77 



• work done iu 4'J 



Myer, General A. J., Signal Corps, meteorology 37 



National Academy of Sciences, Professor Henry, president 35 



bequest of Professor Bache to 93, 94 



National Library, organization of 15 



National Museum, appropriations for 42, 77, 73 



additions to 43 



receipts and expenditures 77 



(See Museum. ) 



Natural history, policy of lustitutiou relative to 13 



(See Museum.) 



Netherlands, central bureau of exchange 31 



Newberry, Prof. J. S., arrangement of specimens by 51 



Ne wcomb. Prof. S., on orbit of Uranus 24 



New York, Newfoundland and London Cable Telegraph Company, free tele- 

 grams of astronomical discoveries 82 



Nicholson, "Walter L., hypsometrical maj) by 28 



Nitrogen, bases 106, 203 



bodies of modern chemistry, by Kletzinsky 203 



Nitro glycerine, production of - 217 



North American stone implements, by Charles Eau 395 



Northern lights, origin of 299 



Obsidian, ancient use of 357 



Officers of the Institution 5, 6 



Opium, researches on 200 



Organic bases, lecture on, by Prof. A. Bauer 196 



Organization of the Institution, programme 7 



Paleontology, labors of Lartet relative to 172 



Parker, Hon. Peter, acts of, as regent 80, 82, 84 



preliminary report on finances, by ^ 80 



report of executive committee 79 



report relative to Corcoran Art-Gallery 84 



Peabody, Prof. A. P., address on scientific education of mechanics and artizans- 185 



Peale, C. W., ijortrait of Wasliington by, report on 81, 82 



Peale, T. R., prehistoric remains in vicinity of Washington 430 



Perfumery, chemical researches on 213 



Pierce, Benj., trustee of Bache fund 93 



Perriu T. M., mounds near Anna, Union County, 111 413 



