768 INDEX. 



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National iMuseum, V. S., as a mnsenm of record 7 



research 9 



an educati(jnal museum ] 



Assistant Secretary of Smithsoiiian Institution in 



charge of 3, 85 



1 )ibliography 1 35 



list of authors in , 163 



l)uildings 1 2, 20 



used )^y, crowded condition of 13 



collections, bulk 9 



principal sources of, summarized 8 



l)ui-chased by the Bureau of American 



Ethnology and deposited in 55 



cooperation of executive departments of government 47 



corresiiondence 7, 43 



date of general employment of name 5 



disbursements from appropriation for 1899-1900 20 



unexpended balances of appro- 

 priations for fiscal year ending 



June 30, 1901, table showing. 20 

 disposition of exhibit made by, at Pan-American 



Exposition 39 



duplicate specimens 6 



exhibition collections, progress in installation of 39 



expenditures and appropriations 19 



ending June 30, 1902, table showing.. 19 



explorations 29 



expositions 47 



floor area occupied by, table showing 12 



general considerations 3 



use to which floors of buildings occuj)ied ))y, 



are devoted, table showing 12 



history of, divided into three epochs 7 



library 45 



maintenance 6 



management 6 



Museum staff 85 



necrology 49 



number of entries of specimens in record books of, 



at close of 1902 9 



number of entries of specimens in record books of, 



in 1884 8 



number of entries of specimens in record books of, 

 in^mediately preceding the Centennial Exhibition 



of 1876 8 



objects of, defined 7 



operations of year, sunmiary 19 



organization 48 



origin of 3 



osteological work 46 



packed condition of storerooms of 9 



papers by otflcers of, and others, l)ased upon ]Mu- 



seum n latcrial 138 



