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Index. 



Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, 315, 



349- 



Mississippi, colleges and learned societies, 349- 

 350; scientific men in, 464. 



Missouri, colleges and learned societies, 350. 



Missouri River, exploration of, 290, 291. 



Mitchel, O. M., astronomer, 459. 



Mitchell, Dr. John, naturalist, 265, 387, 392, 457. 



Mitchella, 405. 



MitcheUa Repens, 3S7. 



Mitchill, Dr. Samuel I,atham, zoologist, miner- 

 alogist, chemist, 402, 437, 438, 439, 441, 446; scien- 

 tific work of, 422-424, 430, 440, 450. 



MobiuK, Dr. Karl, 37. 



Momfaiioi, Prince, of Spain, 135. 



Monastery of St. Mark, Florence, 79, 21S, 260. 



Monroe, President James, 2S4, 297, 308, 323. 



Montana, colleges and societies, 350. 



Montezuma, gardens of, 368, 369. 



Montucla, J. B)., 359 n. 



Mordecai, Capt. Alfred, 473. 



Mordecai, Samuel, 271 n, 401 n. 



Morgan, Dr. John, 70, 265, 412, 443. 



Morrill, Justin S., bill to establish educational 

 institutions, 313, 341-342; regent Smithsonian 

 Institution, 322. 



Morris, Rev. John Gottlieb, 473. 



Morse, Rev. Jedediah, geographer, 426. 



Morse, Samuel F. B., 1S6. 



Mortimer, Cromwell, 375 n. 



Mortoti, Thomas, naturalist, 373, 457. 



Moseley, Henry N., 231. 



Muhlenberg, Gotthilf, botani.st, scientific, work 

 of, 417-41S. 



Muhlenbcigia, 418. 



Munich, museums of, 78, 210, 211, 258. 



Mus6e d'Artillerie, Paris, 79, 211, 259. 



Mus6e d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 212, 256. 



Musee de Marine, Paris, 79, 211, 259. 



Musee de Melle, Ghent, 215. 



Mus^e de Trocadero, Paris, 78, 211, 258. 



Mus^e Dupuj-tren, Paris, 25S. 



Musee Gallo-Romain, St. Germain, 210, 21S. 



Mus6e Guimet, Paris, 79, 211, 21S, 236, 259. 



Musee Historique, Versailles, 310. 



Mus6e In.strumental, Pari-s, 211, 259. 



Musee Orfila, Paris, 25S. 



Museo Barbonico, Naples, 218. 



Museo delle Belle Arti, Sienna, 21S. 



Museo de Ultramar, Madrid, 211, 21S, 236. 



Museo di Studii, Naples, 260. 



Museo preistorico ed ethnografico, Rome, 78, 258. 



Museo Psicologico, Florence, 217. 



Museum Francisco-Carolinuni, I,inz, 38. 



Museum fiir Volkerkunde, L,eipzig, 79, 211. 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass., 74, 212, 221, 255, 257. 



Museum of Practical Fish Culture, South Ken- 

 sington, 211, 259. 



Museum of Practical Geology, I,ondon, 213, 215, 

 217, 218, 257. 



Museum of the Uffizi, Florence, 209, 260. 



Museums Association, Great Britain, action on 

 death of G. Brown Goode, 35; paper of Goode 

 before, 56, 195. 



Mutis, Don Joseph C, naturalist, 3S0, 397-398. 



Meyer, Gen. Albert J., Chief Signal Officer, 302. 



Nag's Head, L,ondon, American fishes exhibited 

 at, 68, 378. 



Naples, museum of, 78, 198, 218, 221, 260. 



National Academy of Sciences, 41; founded, 312, 

 459; Goode, member of, 58; members of, 463. 



National Botanic Garden, 310. 



National Cabinet of Curiosities, iii, 112, 113, 125, 

 150; end of, 142. 



National Deaf-Mute College, 287. 



National Gallery in Patent Office, 130, 131, 132; 

 end of, 142. 



National Geographic Society, Washington, 313, 

 315; Goode a member of, 58. 



National In.slitute, Washington, 69, 104-105, 107, 

 108, 109, III, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 

 132, 133. 136, 137, 139, 140, 14I1 144, 149. 150, 152, 161, 

 164, 167, 170, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 183, 184, 185, 

 187, 188, 189, 190, 309; collections of, 134-135, 157- 

 174; collections of, removed to Smithsonian 

 Institution, 141; end of, 142; transactions of, 140. 

 See National Institution. 



National Institution, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 97, 98, 

 99, 100, loi, 102, 104, 107, 110,112,113,115,116,118, 

 119, 120, 122, 13S, 146, 157, 158,159-161,312; bulle- 

 tins of, 191 See Columbian Institute; National 

 Institute; National Institution for the Promo- 

 tion 0/ Science. 



National Institution, Barlow's, 281-2S4, 312, 329- 



341- 



National Institution for the Promotion of Science, 

 311, 469, 470, 471; bill incorporating, 97, 98, 100; 

 Congress of scientific men, 471-475. See Na- 

 tional Institution; National Institute. 



National Intelligencer, 90 n, 282. 



National Museum. See United States National 

 Muse tint. 



National Observatory. See United States Naval 

 Observaiovy. 



National Portrait Gallery, London, 81, 210, 239. 



National, A, University, 281, 324-329; John 

 Quincy Adams and, 303; Washington and, 274, 



275-311- 



Nautical Almanack, proposed, 305, 307. 



Navigator Islands. See Samoa. 



Nebraska, colleges and societies, 350. 



Nelson, John, 190. 



Nemours, Dupont de, to Jefferson, 2S2; treatise 

 by, 2S7; work of, 418. 



Neuchatel, museum of, 78, 260. 



Neumann, Julius, 37. 



Nevada, colleges and learned societies, 350; sci- 

 entific men in, 464. 



Newberry, John S., 459. 



Newcomb, Simon, astronomer, 459. 



New England Magazine, 90 n. 



Newfoundland, 69 n. 



New Hampshire, colleges and learned societies, 



350- 

 New Haven, scientific men in, 463. 

 New Holland, specimens from, 165, 166, 169, 170, 



174. 

 New Jersey, colleges and learned societies, 351. 

 New Jersey Historical Society, 148,351. 

 New Mexico, colleges and societies, 351. 

 New Orleans, Goode at, 54; scientific men in, 463, 

 Newton, Isaac, first Commissioner of Agriculture, 



315. 459- 



