INDEX. 811 



Publicatious of the .Smitlisoniau Institution 10, (Ji), 70, 71 



Annual reports . 11, ]"2, 71 



Contribnlious to Knowledge 11. (ii) 



Distribution of 1!}, 47 



Miscellaneous Col lections 11, 09 



Stereotype plates, storaj^e of 15 



Q 



Quackenbusb, John, appointed agent 16 



Queensland, exchanges with 77, 78 



Quito, Ecuador, exchange agency in , 80 



K 



Radau, R., paper on photography in the service of astronomy 46^) 



Rain, how formed, paper on, by H. F. Blanford 287 



Reading room in Smithsonian library 2:3 



R'eception given by Secretary IM 



Red Star Line grant free freight 21.80 



Regents of the Smithsonian Institution xii 



Board of, annual report for 1 886 , 70 



journal of ))roceedings ot xiii 



tor 1886 70 



meetings of ^ . xiii 



report of Secretary to . ^ i 



executive committee of xii 



resolutions by xiii, xv, xvi. xvii. 22 



Report of curator of exchanges . -- -- 7;> 



executive committee of Board of Regents xix 



Samuel P. Langley, Secretar}', for 1888 70 



Secretary to Board of Regents 1 



astronomical observatories for 1880, by George II. Boehraer 70 



exchanges and library (incorporated with Secretary's report). 



Smithsonian exchanges for 1887, by George M. Itoehmer 70 



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



Researches on electrical oscillation, paper on, by G. W. de Tunzelman 145 



Resolution by Regents relative to library .. 22 



Congressional, respecting Ohio Valley Centennial Exj)osition 52 



of Congress to print extra copies of the report. -... ii 



Resolutions ol' Board of Regents — 



on death of Dr. Asa Gray xiii, xv 



to appropriate income .... .- xvi 



to provide a Smithsou hall in new l)iiilding lor Library of Congress .- xvii 



relative to deposit of books, etc., by American Historical Association xvii 



Resolutions of Congress (see Acts and .Appropriations). 



Reykjavik, Iceland, exchange agency in 81 



Rhees, William .1., catalogue of Sn\ithsouian publicatious by 70, 71 



chief clerk of the In.stitution .. xi 



Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, exchange agency in.. ._ 77, 80 



Rock Creek valley the site for proposed Zoological Park 27, 2~i, 29 



Rockhill, W. W., explorations by 9, 42 



Rotne, Italy, exchange agency in . 77, 81 



time-keeping in Greece and, address by T. A. Seely 377 



