Index. 



505 



Darwin, Charles, 42S; influence on America, 41KI. 

 Darwin, l-^rasnius, 402. 



Daughters of the American Revolution, 59. 

 J)avis, Garrett, Regent Smithsonian Institution, 



322. 

 Davis, Jefferson, no, 149; Regent Smithsonian 



Institution, 143, 146, 322. 

 Dayton, A. O., 87, 116, 161, 190, 191. 

 De Betancourt, l,uis, 371. 

 De Gennes, a traveler, 3S2. 



DelafieUl, Gen. Richard, Regent Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 322. 

 Delaware colleges and learned societies, 347; 



scientific men in, 464. 

 Delile, Alire RafTenan, botanist, 445. 

 Del Pulgar, Fernando, 371. 



Denyse, Nicolas, naturalist and geographer, 38 1. 

 Descartes, Ren6, 359. 

 De Schweinitz, Lewis David, 447. 

 De Solis, Antonio, 371, 

 Dewej^ Chester, geologist, 43S, 446. 

 Dexter, Aaron, chemist, 402. 

 Dezobry, C. H., 66, 245. 

 Diaz del Castillo, Bernal. See Castillo. 

 Dickins, Asbury, secretary Columbian Institute, 



87, 285 n. 

 Didelphys azarcT^ 405. 

 Dixon, Jeremiah, astronomer, 310. 

 Donaldson, S.C, 1S6. 

 Donatello Museum, 209. 



Douglas, Stephen A., Regent Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 322. 

 Douglass, Captain D. B., 114,447. 

 Drake, Dr. Daniel, 285; Josiah Meigs to, 29S; 



manager Western Museum, 444 n. 

 Draper, John William, physicist, 186,452, 457, 472; 



on science in America, 460. 

 Drayton, Joseph, 120 n, 162, 173, 174, 176, 180. 

 Dresden, museums of, 209, 211, 25S. 

 Duane, William, editor Philadelphia "Aurora," 



88 n. 

 Du Creux, Francis, 361 n. 

 Dudley, Paul, 255; jurist and naturalist, 393. 

 Dugds, Dr. Alfred, 38. 

 Dunbar, Dr. John W., 186, 474. 

 DunglLson, Professor Robley, 94, 99. 

 Duponceau, Dr. Peter S., loi n, 105. 

 Du Pratz, L,e Page, explorer, 382. 

 Durand, John, 268. 

 Dwight, President Timothy D., 426. 

 Dyce- Foster collection, 81, 210. 

 Earll, R. E., collaborator of Goode, 22. 

 East Indies, 69 n; specimens from, 172. 

 Eastman, J. R., 317 n. 

 Eastport, Me., Goode at, iS, 20, 43, 44. 

 Eaton, Amo.s, geologist, 447-438, 441, 446, 449,451; 



quoted, 440. 

 Eaton, D. C, botanist, 457, 458. 

 Edinburgh, American students in, 272. 

 Edwards, Edward, 196. 

 Edwards, Henry, 238. 

 Egede, Hans, traveler, 3S3. 

 Eggleston, Dr. Edward, 232. 

 Egypt, museunis in, 66, 199, 245; specimens from, 



135, 169- 

 Elgar, John, 1S6. 

 Elgin, Lord, 238. 



Eliot, Rev. Jared, physician and botanist, 393, 401. 



Eliot, John, 265 n. 



Eliot, Rev. John, linguist and missionary, 374-375 



Ellicott, Andrew, 291, 308, 419. 



Elliott, Stephen, botanist, 444-445. 



Elliott Society of Natural History, 445; Science 



and Art, 445. 

 Ellis, Henry, statesman, scientist, explorer, 288, 



391. 393- 



Ellis, John, zoologist, 390, 391. 



Ellisia, 405. 



p;iIsworth, H. l^., Commissioner of Patents, 125, 

 13°. 131; promotes establishment of Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, 315. 



Embrees, Jesse, manager Western Museum, 



444 n- 

 Emerson, George B., 399. 

 Emmons, Ebenezer, 446, 452. 



Emory, W. H., Mexican boundary survey by, 458. 

 Encke's Comet, observed, 309. 

 English, William H., Regent Smith.sonian Insti- 

 tution, 322. 

 Enslen, A. von, botanist, 431. 

 Espy, James P., 186,473. 

 F;truscan museums, 210. 

 Evans, Lewis, geographer, 274 n. 

 Everett, A. H., 186, 474. 

 Everett, Edward, 285, 303, 471. 

 Ewing, Rev. Dr. John, 415. 

 Ewing, Dr. Thomas, astronomer, 310. 

 Fabricius, Otho, mi.ssionary and teacher, 383. 

 Fairchild, H. L., 423, 424 n. 

 Falconer, a carpenter, 162. 

 Farquhar, Edward, 279 n. 

 Farrington, O. C, 34. 

 Featherstonhaugh, G. W., expedition under, 115, 



311; scientific work, 43S, 452. 

 Felton, Prof. Cornelius C, Regent Smithsonian 



Institution, 322. 

 Fermin, Philippe, naturalist, 383. 

 Fessenden, W. P., Regent Smith.sonian Institu- 

 tion, 322. 

 Feuillee, Louis, mathematician and botani.st, 382. 

 Field, Cyrus W., 319. 

 Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, resolutions 



on death of G. Brown Goode, 34; specimens 



in, 213. 

 Fiji Islands, specimens from, 162, 165, 166, 169, 170, 



174. 

 Fillmore, Vice-President Millard W., Chancellor 



Smithsonian Institution, 322. 

 Findlay, James, manager Western Museum, 



444 n. 

 P'lagg, Henry Collins, ichthyologist, 430. 

 Flagg, Wil.son, 419. 



Flamsteed, John, Astronomer Royal, 306. 

 Fleischmann, Charles Lewis, recommendation 



respecting use of Smithsonian fund, 96. 

 Florence, museums of, 78, 79, 80, 198, 210, 211, 213, 



2:7, 218, 258, 260. 

 Florida, colleges and learned societies, 347; 



Goode in, 44; .scientific men 111,464. 

 Flcnirens, Life and Works of Blumenbach, 67; 



quoted, 39S. 

 Flower, Sir William H., director British Museum, 



22, 36, 195, 238. 

 Forbes, Edward, 196. 



