498 INDEX. 



Pag«^ 



' Sennett, George B., assistance given by 44 



Shad from Ohio River 41 



Shad-hatching, new system of 49 



Shaw, James, mound-builders in the Rock River Valley, Illinois 253 



Shell-heaps, exploration of. 38 



on Mobile River 290 



Saint John's River, Florida 305 



Shepard, Edwin M., on deposit of arrow-heads near Fishkill, N. Y 307 



Sherman, Hon. John, member ex officio 5, 11 



Signal St'rvice, United States Army, assistance rendered by 43, 44 



Signal Office, explorations by 115 



Silver ores from Colorado 43 



Siren, living specimen of 40 



Small, Mr., donation by 39 



Smillie, T. W., photographer 6 



Smith, Prof. Sidney I., assistance of 46 



Smithson bequest 11, 12, 118 



Smithsonian fund 118 



bonds 118 



Virginia bonds 118, 119 



expenditures 119 



receipts 119 



expenses for publications 119 



researches 119 



explorations 119 



exchanges 119 



gallery of arts 119 



repayments to 119,121 



fund, balance in treasury 124 



Institution, objects of - 8 



functions of , 8 



support of 8 



Smithson, James, likeness of 9, 127 



personal effects of 9, 127 



memoir of, ordered — 127 



manuscripts of 9 



library of, consists of 123 volumes 9 



scientific papers of 9 



will of, draft of 9 



notes addressed to scientists by 9 



Sohncke, Prof. L. , law of variation of temperature in ascending currents of 



air 418 



Sound, researches on 52 



Spain, Royal Academy of Sciences, agent 26 



Spaugler, George, collection of fossils 42 



Spear, Hon. E., member ex officio 5 



Speedwell, tug, at disposal of United States Fish Commission 48 



Sponges submitted to Professor Hyatt 46 



Star clusters and nebula), books relative to, index to 19 



State Department, explorations by 115 



Steamer at disj^osal of United States Fish Commission 48 



Steel, specimens of... 42 



Stephens, Hon. A. H., Regent 5,125,127 



Stevenson, Hon. J. W., term expired 125 



