INDEX. 



A. 



Pap;o. 



Al)be, Cleveland, on recent progress in Meteorology ISaf) 



Accessions to the Mnseuni for the year r>2 



recent, to the Museum, great extent of rM 



Accounts of Bureau of Ethnology, discussion on xii 



examined and approved by executive committee xxxi 



of exchanges xxiii, 2d 



Museum should be settled directly with Treasury Department.. xii 



Acting Secretary, Dr. G. B. Goode appointed as xiii , 4 



Act of Congress accepting Grant relics xxxiv 



appointing commission on historical manuscripts xxxvi 



Regents Smithsonian Institution. ..xxxiii.xxxv.xxvi, xii 



making api)r()i)riatious xxxiii, xxxiv, xxv, xxxvi, xl, xii 



to purchase General Shields's swords for Museum xxxvi 



relative to Cincinnati Exposition xxxvii, xxxix, 51> 



Marietta Exposition xxxviii, xxxix 



Minneapolis Exposition xxxvi 



Smithsonian, etc xxxiii 



for relief of Semon Bache cV: Co xii 



requiring Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to nuike 



detailed reports of expenditures xl 



Adler, Dr. Cyrus, honorary assistant curator of Oriental antiquities 57 



on the progress of oriental science in America (iTf) 



Alaska, ethnologic investigations in, by Ensign A. 1'. Niblack 21 



America, derivation of the name, by Jules Marcou 047 



American Historical Association, a bill to incorjiorate the 47 



Amerigho Vespucci, and the name America, l)y Jules Marcou G47 



Amerricjues, Amerigho Vespucci, and America, by Jules Marcou 647 



Angell, James B., acts of, as Regent xi.xvii 



appointed Regent by resolution of Congress xxxv 



motion to appropriate income xv 



that Executive Committee prepare resolution rela- 

 tive to death of Dr. Peter Parker xvi 



Animals, collection of, for Zoological Park 42 



Department of living, organization of r)7 



Annual meeting of the Regents 4 



report for ld87-'88, contents of v 



reports of the Institution 22, 101 



Anthropology, bibliography of, for 1887 and 1888 r)24 



progress in, for 1887 and 1888, by O. T. Mason 074 



Antiquities, collection of Assyrian and Babylonian 'i7 



Appendix, general : 12;J 



objects of l~4 



to Secretary's report 95 



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