INDEX. 829 



rago. 



Biographical memoirs 703 



Birds, collection of, iu the National Museum Til 



Board of Regents, meetings of xi, xvii, 4 



Blackford, Eugene G., valuable contributions by, to Zoological Park 4tJ 



Bologna, University of, eighth centenary of the 47 



Books received lor tiie Library of Congress 40 



Botany, progress in, for 1887 and 1888, by F. H. Knowlton 475 



Bruyier, John, revision by, of Dakotan texts 70 



Butfaloes presented to the Zoological Park by E. G. Blackford 44 



Building, expenditures for xxi 



for Museum, plans submitted, to Congress !.'> 



new, for Museum and Geological Survey xiv 



none to be placed on Smithsonian grounds except for Smithsonian 



use XV 



repairs of Smithsonian building, appropriation and expenditures.. xxv 



Smithsonian building, appropriation for urgent repairs xxxv 



Senate bill for fire-proofing west end 17 



Bulletins of the National Museum 24, 101 



appropriation for printing xli 



Bureau of Ethnology (see Ethnology). 



Bushotter, Mr. , collection by, of D-akotan legends, etc 70 



C. 



Cash received by Smithsonian Institution xxii 



Capellini, Prof. S.,of the Bologna University, request by, for representation 



of the Institution at its eighth centenary 47 



Catlin Indian gallery, paper on, by Thomas Donaldson 55 



Central America, natural history of, investigated by C. H. Townsend 21 



Chancellor of the Institution, announcement by, of appointment of Mr. G. B. 



(ioode as Acting Secretary xiii 



announcement by, of death of Dr. Peter Parker xvi 



Chief-Justice Waite, death of xvii 



necessity of election of. xvii 



remarks of, on printing for the Institution xiii 



on the death of 1 



resolutions of Board relative to death of xviii 



views as to forbidding placing of any building on Smithsonian 



grounds excejjt for exclusive use of Smithsonian xv 



views of, relative to accounts xii, xiii 



on useof Smithsonian grounds for Columbian celebration xv 



Chancellor pro tern, election of Justice S. F. Miller as xix 



Chronology of the Human period, by J. W. Davis 583 



Chemi.stry, progress in, for 18H7 and 1888, by F. W. Clarke 425 



Cherokei^s, northern, examination of dialect of ()9 



Cincinnati Exposition, act of Congress for xxxvii, xxxix 



co-operation of Institution in 59,61 



Circulars respecting periodicals 117 



Cissel, D. T., awarded contract for stone, brick, and wood-work in tiro-proof- 

 ing the west corridor of Smithsonian building 18 



Clarke, F. W., on progress in chemistry for 1887 and 1888 425 



Cluss and Schulze, architects for fire-proofing the west corridor of the Smith- 

 sonian building, report of IH 



Collections, increase of, in the National Museum 51 



tabular statement showing extent and character of 52 



