INDEX. 489 



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Coues, Dr. Elliott, classificatiou of mammals 4.5 



Cuba, explorations in 45 



Cunard Steamship Company, thanks to 25 



Cunningham, K. M., explorations by ^8 



on shell-heaps on Mobile Eiver 290 



Currents of air, nature of 447 



ascending, laws of the variation of temperature of 397,418 



and barometric variations 465 



Gushing, F. H., assistant, ethnology 6 



exploration by 38 



study of ethnological specimens 46 



Da Costa, Dr. J. M., lecture by, on strain and overaction of the heart 18 



Dall, Wm. H., in charge of Mollusca 46 



collections by 37 



Index to Brachiopoda 21 



Th. Davidson, relative to 21 



revision by, of monograph of the Chitonidse 17 



Dana, Prof. James D., resigning membership of Board of Regents 125 



Dannfeldt, Mr., donation by 43 



Davidson, Thomas, relative to index to Brachiopoda 21 



De Hart, Dr. J. N., on mounds and osteology of the mound-builders of Wis- 

 consin 246 



Delaware River, salmon from 42 



Denmark, Royal Society, agent 26 



Derry, C. W., presents silver ores 43 



Devens, Ch., member ex officio 5, 11 



Dickinson, Colonel, portrait of 9, 127 



Diebitsch, H., clerk, foreign exchanges 6 



Dominica, Island of, collections from 40 



Carib tribes in 45 



Donaldson, Thomas, services of 43 



Donations to National Museum , 94 



Douglass, Henry M., translation by 349 



Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, carp placed in 50 



Duncan, M. L., translations by 131,201,214 



Dunn & Brothers, donation of clay by 43 



Duplicate specimens 47 



Earth, internal structure of the, by Greneral Barnard 17 



Earthworks of Ashlan^ County, Ohio 261 



on the Arkansas River , 251 



Ecuador, researches in, by Habel 15 



Edwards, V. N., collection of fishes 41 



Eggs, collection of, in Museum 39 



Embarrass, Wis., pits at 250 



Engineer Department, explorations by 115 



Endlich, Dr. F. M., assistant, mineralogy 6,35 



England, salmon-eggs sent to 50 



Esquimaux, articles used by 38 



Establishment, members of 5 



meetings of 11 



Estimates for 1878 ^ 121 



Ethnology, researches in, by Dr. Habel 13, 14, 15 



European carp, introduction of 48 



Evarts, Hon. W. M., member ex officio 5, 11 



