INDEX. 259 



F'age . 



Cameron, Gilbert, Petition from 74 



Canada, Visit of Secretary to 176 



Carlisle, J. M., Counsel for the Boar4 69 



Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, Lecture on 27 



Cass, Gen., Resolution of. 211 



Catalogue of Apparatus 180 



Catalogue of Books in Washington 181 



Catalogues of Libraries , 248, 204 



Catalogue of Library of Congress 248, 27 



Catalogue of North American Reptiles 19 



Catalogue System, Advantages of 241, 33 



Centigrade Scale proposed to be adopted 165 



Central America, Meteorological Observations from 176 



Chamberlain, Mr., Pneumatic Instruments by 180 



Chandler, Joseph R., Chairman of Committee on Smithsonian Institution in House 



of Representatives 78 



Cliappellsinith, .Tno., Account of a Tornado 14 



Chemical Arts, Recent Improvements in 242, 216, 19 



Chemical Oper:itions of Nature, Lectures on 207 



Chemistry, Application of, to Agriculture 180 



Chilian Government established Observatory at Santiago 203 



Chili, Astronomical Expedition to 245, 203, 172, 163 



Choctaw Language, Grammar of. 241 



Classification of Insects upon Embryological Data 172 



Cleaveland, Prof. Parker, elected Honorary Member 101 



Climate, Lectures on 27 



Coast Survey, Observations made by 213 



Coast Survey connected with Smithsonian Institution in Magnetic Observations. ... 21 



Coffin, Professor J. H., Winds of the Northern Hemisphere 213, 13 



Coleoptera, Catalogue of. 217, 18 



Collections in Natural History 253, 249, 227, 202, 181, 177, 51, 26 



Comet, Discovery of, by Miss Mitchell 171 



Commencement of Operations of the Institution 140 



Conimissioner of Patents, Arrangement witii 162 



Commission on Catalogue System , . 204 



Committee of Conference with Board of Regents 103 



Committee on By-Laws 100 



Communication of Chancellor and Secretary 7 



Comparative Anatomy of the Fcog 238 



Comparative Anatomy, promotion of, by tlie Institution 232 



Compatibility of two plans 189 



Compromise, rigidly adhered to , 224 



Congress, act of, accepting bequest of Smithson Ill 



Congress, act of, establishing the Institution 112 



Congress, appropriation by, to commence Catalogue of its Library. 248, 27 



Construction of the act of establishment, by Mr. Berrien 117 



Contribution to the Physical Geography of the United States 171 



Convention of Librarians 31 



Copyright Law, change in, necessary 226 



Copyright, none taken on Smithsonian Publications 195 



Corcoran & Riggs, deposit with 72 



Corcoran, W. W : 235 



