INDEX. 707 



Page. 



Astronomical obervatones, report on, for 1886, by George H. Boehmer 70 



Astro-physical Observatory at Potsdam, Germany, account of 133 



proposed erection of 33 



observations, temporary shed for 33 



Australian Museum at Sydney, contributed collection of birds 43 



B. 



Bailey, H. B. & Co.. grant free freight 21, 79 



Baird, Spencer F., annual report of, for 1886 -. 70 



and Louis Agassiz, natural history illustrations prepared un- 

 der the direction of 69 



statue to : 32 



widow of, appropriation for relief of 32 



Baldwin Locomotive Works, present model of locomotives 44 



Base line established by United States Geological Survey in Smithsonian Grounds, 33 



Batrachia of North America, Professor Cope's work on 10 



Beck, Senator, bill lor establishment of Zoological Park 27 



Bequest of James Hamilton, amount of xix, 2, 3 



Simeon Habel, amount of xix, 2 



Smithson, amount of xix, 2 



Berlin, Germany, scientific institutions at, account of 89 



Bern, University of, sends dissertations 25, 84 



Bibliographical work of J. C. Pilling 62, 65 



Bibliography of anthropology, 1889 621 



astronomy for 1887, by William C. Winlock .__ 70 



chemistry lor 1887, by H. Carrington Bolton . 70 



meteorology for 1889, by O. L. Fassig 271 



National Museum 71 



North American Indian languages, by J. C. Pilling 65 



Bisons, American, described by Dr. V . F. McGillycuddy 25 



Blanford, IL F., lecture, " How rain is formed " 287 



Bleismer, Rev. C. A., translation of Virchow's address, "Anthropology in the 



last twenty years" 555 



Blytt, A., paper on the movements of the earth's crust ... 325 



Board of Regents. (See Regents.) 



Boas, Dr. Franz, explorations by 60 



Boehmer, George H. : 



Additions and corrections to list of foreign correspondents by 70 



Report on astronomical observatories for 1886 by 70, 71 



Report on Smithsonian exchanges for 1887 by 70,73 



Systematic arrangement of list of foreign correspondents by 70 



Translation by 89 



Bonn, University of, sends dissertations 25,84 



Books deposited in Library of Congress 22, 25,83 



inaccessibility of, in Library of Congress 22,23 



retained for Museum library 25 



transferred to Surgeon-General's library 25,83 



Boscovich's theory, by Dr. William Thompson 435 



Botanical biology, address by W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 399 



Garden in Berlin, Germany, account of 113 



Institute of the Royal University at Berlin, Germany, account of. 117 



