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Aboriginal trade, liy Charles Ran - ^''IS 



Academy of Natural Scieuce, Philadelphia, stereotype plates stored with 21 



Additions to the collections in 1872 5b 



Agassiz, Prof. Louis, acts of, as regent 80,82 



trustee of Bache fund *^'>5 



couuneudatiou of Catliu collection 83 



narrative of Hassler expedition 84, 87 



remarks of, relative to ninseum of conjpurative zoology and 



Smithsonian Institution ^^ 



Agricultural colleges, aid from Congress to - 83, 8y 



Agriculture, Department of, meteorology 22 



Alga3, fresh water, by Dr. H. C. Woodjr 22 



Alkaloids, researches on 1^" 



Altitudes, work on by W. I. Nicholson 28 



Amiuonia bases - ^''"' ~^ ^ 



Ampere, Andre Marie, eulogy on, by Arago HI 



sketch of, from Blackwood's JMagaziue H'9 



Analysis by blow-pipe, Eglestou's scheme 219 



apparatus for *-"■'-' 



Ancient aboriginal trade in North America, by Charles Kau 348 



ruin in Arizona, by J. C. Y. Lee 412 



Aniline, production of ~ "^ 



Animal magnetism, Arap6re on l"*"* 



Anthropology, attention paid to, by the Institution 1^ 



(See Lartet, Suess, ethnology.) 



Appendix, general 



to report of the secretary ^"^ 



Appropriations by Congress for National Museum 77, / 8 



Arago, eulogy on Ampere by ^^l 



Arny, Governor, valuable collections from '^-^ 



Artesian wells, temperatures of 



Art-Gallery, account of foundation by W. W. Corcoran l<^ 'J4 



Aurora borealis, effect of, on telegraphs 209 



origin of, by Donati - 299 



Bache, Prof. A. D., extracts from the will of 8<j> -'-^ 



Baird, S. F., assistant secretary of the Institution 6 



account of explorations and museum 4.1 



investigations by '^'^ 



Bannister, Henry M., museum clerk ^ 



Barnard, Dr. F. A- P., recommendation of Wood's Algtc 22 



Barnes, Surgeon-General, aid rendered by - - ~'- 



Barrandt, A., account of hay-stack mound, Dakota 41.i 



Bases, lecture on, by Prof. A. Bauer 1'^^^ 



Bastile, model of, deposited at Mount Vernon 41 



Bauer, Prof. A., lecture on organic bases 1'^'* 



Bedford, Henrietta Jane, bequest of to Institution 41 



Benzol, production of ~ "^ 



