INDEX. 



Abbe, Prof, Cleveland, examination by, of work by Smithsonian Institution 



on meteorology 26 



Act of Congress to appoint an acting secretary 125 



Acts and resolutions of Congress relative to the Smithsonian Institution 125, 130 



Agassiz, Louis, a biograjjhical notice, by Ernest Favre 23G 



Agencies for exchanges 33 



Agents of the Institution 123 



Agricultural Department, transfer of articles to 51, 52 



assistance in prosecution of meteorology 26 



Alaska, collections from , 53 



AUen, J. A., collaborator 55 



Alston, E. D., collaborator 55 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, apparatus at 430 



American Express Company, acknowledgments due 25 



Analyses made by the Smithsonian Institution 28, 32 



Anderson, E. J., collection of fishes 51 



Anthropology 23 



collections in 44 



Apparatus available for scientific researches 429 



Appleton, Messrs., «fc Co., acknowledgment due 15 



Appropriations by Congress 130 



by Smithsonian Institution for Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr 27 



Arago, M., biography of Condorcet by 180 



Archaeological circular 24 



subjects, correspondence relative to 31 



Arctic America, collections from 53 



Armory building, ai)propriation by Congress for 130 



collections stored in 40,41 



Assistants of the Museum 6 



Astronomical discoveries, telegraphic announcement of 29 



work of the Wheeler survey 77 



Atkins, Charles G., collection of fishes 50 



Baird, Prof. S. F., elected Secretary of the Institution 10, 135, 137 



appointed to make arrangements for funeral of Professor 



Henry 134 



director of lustitution 5,6 



letter to Congress transmitting Report 3 



presented financial statement 137 



report to Board of Regents 7 



Bancroft, George, resignation of 11, 125, 136 



Barometer reductions 27 



Bassett, Thomas, collection of fishes 50 



Batrachia, check-list of, by Edward D. Cope 21 



Baumhauer, E. H. von 33 



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