258 INDEX. 



Page. 



Asia, Institutions in 49 



Association, Lecture on 230 



Astronomical Clock 203 



Astronomical Instrmncnts for Chili 203, 173 



Astronom}', Promotion of, by tlie Institution 231 



Astronomy, Recent Progress of. Lectures on 251 



Atchison, Hon. D. R., Letter to 3 



Atwatcr, Mr., on Mounds of Ohio Valley , 219 



Aurora 199, 24 



Bache, Prof, Paper presented by 191 



Bailey, Prof J. W 191, 17 



Baird, Dr. Robert, Lectures by 27 



Baird, Prof S. F., appointed Assistant 224, 189 



Baird, Prof. S. F., Directions for Collecting Specimens of Natural History by 217 



Baird, Prof. S. F., Explorations by 220, 20O 



Baird, Prof. S. F., in charge of Exchanges 218 



Baird, S. F., Report of, for 1853 36 



Baird and Girard, Catalogue of Serpents 19 



Barometers, by Ernst and Newman 197 



Barnard, Henry, Lectures by 27 



Bartlelt, John R., Report on Squier k. Davis 144 



Batis Maritima 16 



Batut, Madame de la 209 



Beck, Prof. Lewis C, Lecture by 207 



Beck, Prof. Lewis C, Report by 180 



Beck, T. Romeyn, Meteorological System of New York 175 



Belgium, Institutions in 44 



Bermuda, Meteorological Observations from 176 



Berrien, Hon. J. M., Construction of the Act by 117 



Berzclius, Report of, on Physical Science 138 



Bethune, Rev. Dr. G. W., Lecture Ijy 207 



Bibliographia Americana 179, 163 



Birds, received 1853 53 



Blanco, E., Liberality of. 203 



Blodgot, Lorin .247, 99, 25 



Booth, Prof J. C 216 



Booth and Morfit, Report on Chemical Arts, by 242, 216, 19 



Bossange, Hector, Distribution of Publications by 38 



Botany of California 212 



Botany, Promotion of, l»y the Institution 232 



Bowditch, Anecdote of. 135 



Brackenridge, AV. D 16 



Bridgmm, Laura, Vocal Sounds of 191 



Briggs, Governor , . 197 



Building, Changes in 184 



Building Committee, Summary of Report for 1852 235 



Building Committee, Report of, for 1853. .*. 69 



Bulvver, Sir Henry 218 



Byington, Rev. Harvey, Choctaw Grammar by 241 



By-Laws of the Smithsonian Institution 100 



California Academy of Natural Sciences 76 



Cameron, Gilbert, Balance due, paid 78 



