568 INDEX. 



Page. 



Donaldson, Thomas, visit -to Trance 63 



Smitbson relics procured by - 63 



Donations by foreign governnients 40 



to library --• 36 



United States National Museum.. 24 



Doutre, Josepb .-. 60 



Dug#s, Professor 54 



Duke of Northumberland, portrait of, procured by Smithsonian Institution.. 63 



Earll, R. E 59,60 



Eccles, James, services rendered by 72 



Edwards, Viual, duties of 62 



Edwards, V. N., collection of fishes - - 50 



Election of Secretary 135 



Electric bells introduced 11 



Electricity, apparatus for 429 



Elliot, D.G., memoir by 14 



Encke's comet - 29 



Endlich, Dr. F. M 6,21,55 



Entomological Commission 53 



Eskimos, notes on - 453 



Estimated receipts and appropriations 129 



Evans, W.W 47,54 



Exchange agents 123 



Exchanges, account of 32,33,34, 12S 



international bureaus 33 



statistics of -.--. 34, 113 



Executive committee of the Board of Eegeuts 5, 126 



Expenditures of Institution in 1878 - 127 



National Museum 130, 131 



Explorations and surveys 65 



Dr. Haydeu 65 



Lieut. George M. Wheeler 77 



Prof. J. W. Powell 79 



in Greenland. 452 



ornithological, of the Caribbee Islands 446 



Fargo, James C, acknowledgments due to 25 



Farlow, Dr. William G 59 



Farr, Frank, collection of fishes 51 



Favre, Ernest, biographical notice of Louis Agassiz 236 



Fencker, Governor, assistance rendered by . 454 



Ferguson, T. B 57,58 



Ferrar, P., discovered comet 29 



Ferrel, William, member of committee on Smithsonian meteorology 26 



Fever, researches ou, by Dr. H. C. Wood 27,420 



Finances, statement of 11, 12 



Finsch, Dr. O 54 



collection of fishes 51 



Fire-proof building for the National Museum 142 



Fire-proofing of Smithsonian building, estimate for .- 131 



Fish Commission, United States 42, 50, 51, .52, 56, 58 



reports of 22, 56, 57 



Fishes, collections of 50,51 



Flint, Dr. Earl 54 



Foreman, Edward, assistant, ethnology - 6 



