490 INDEX. 



Page. 



Executive committee, report of 118,120 127 



Exchanges, literary and scientific 25 



expenses for 119^ 121 



appropriation for 122 



statistics of 27, 92 



rules relating to 27 



international .., 27 



Expenditures in 1877 119^ 125,126 



Exploring expeditions, list of 105 



Explorations, expenses for . 119 



appropriation for 122 



account of , 55 



Fanning Islands, natural history of, contributions to 19 



Favre, Adolf, report on transactions of the Geneva Society 225 



Ferguson, T. B., took chargeof European carp 50 



new system of shad-hatching 49 



fish commissioner of Maryland 49 



Ferguson, S. N., collections by 40 



Ferrel, W., reply to criticism of Hann 445 



relation between diiference of pi'essure and velocity of wind 426 



Fever, lecture on, by Dr. H. C.Wood 18 



Dr. W. W. Keen IS 



Finances, report on 11 



Fish culture 47, 50 



Fish, collection of 40,41,42,45,115 



Fish Commission of the United States 40,47,48,49,50,51 



Fish establishments at Havre de Grace, Md 49 



Bucksport, Me 50 



McCloud Kiver, Cal 50 



Holyoke, Mass 50 



Fishes, Jordan's paper on 21 



Fishkill, N. Y.j deposit of arrow-heads near 307 



Fire-proofing of Smithsonian building 12 



Flint imijlements in Holmes County, Ohio 267 



Florida, bead from 302,305 



fishes from 41 



mound in, gold ornament from 298 



shell-heaps in 305 



Flligel, Dr. Felix, agent in Leipzig 26 



Fog-siguals, Professor Henry on 51 



Food fishes, propagation of 49 



Foreman, E., assistant, ethnology 6 



Forests, rain-fall affected by clearing of 24 



Fossil invertebrates submitted to Prof. C. A. White 46 



Fossils, collection of 42 



France, salmon eggs sent to 50 



Free freight, companies furnishing 25 



Friel, Joseph, antiquities of Hancock County, Kentucky 268 



Frith, Mr., collection presented by 39 



Fuller, Captain^ collection by 39,42,45 



Funds of the Institution, coudition of 118, 126 



Fur-bearing animals, monograph on 45 



Gabb, Dr. W. M., collections presented by 39 



Gaines, Colonel, explorations by 38 



