574 INDEX. 



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Sherman, General W. T., acts of, as Regent 133,134,136,137,138,140,142 



appointed Regent 11, 125 



member of executive committee 5, 132 



Shindler, A. Z., coloring of plaster-casts by 49 



Siam, King of, donation by. Centennial exhibit 41 



Smillie, T. W., photographer 6 



Smith, S. J 21 



Smith, Sanderson 59 



collections by 51, 52 



Smithson, James, bequest of 12, 126 



inventory of personal effects of, received 63 



paper in handwriting of, received 63 



Smitz, K., assistance rendered by 454 



Soapstone quarries 44,45,46 



Solar eclipses, discussion of 28 



Sound, apparatus for 429 



researches in, by Joseph Henry 455 



St. John, O., geologist 67,75 



St. Petersburg Botanic Garden, collection from 53 



Starbuck, Capt. Alexander 23, 61 



whale-fishery 62 



Statistics of exchanges 34, 113 



sea-fisheries 61 



Steams, Silas, collection of fishes 50 



Stephens, Hon. Alexander H., Regent 5 



Stevens Institute of Technology 435 



Stevenson, Prof. J. J., geological examination .- 78 



Stone, Livingston 53 



Assistant United States Fish Commissioner. 57 



collection of fishes 50 



Streets, Thomas H., M. D., natural history of the Hawaiian and Fanning 



Islands 21 



Sumichrast, Francis. E., collected birds 21 



Sunderland, Rev. Dr. Byron 138,141 



Swan, James G., collection of fishes 51,53 



Swift, Lewis, discovered comet 29 



Swift, Thomas, collections by 49 



Taylor, William B., Henry and the telegraph 262 



Tebbutt, Mr., found Encke's comet 29 



Telegraphic announcement of astronomical discoveries 29 



Telephones introduced 11 



Temperature tables 26 



Temple's periodic comet 29 



Thomson, S. R 60 



Todd, D. P., researches 28 



Topographical work of Wheeler Survey 78 



Hay den Survey 73 



Trescott, William H 60 



Trochilidse, memoir, by D. G. Elliot 14 



Trowbridge, Prof. John 429,432 



Turner, Jane A., clerk, library 6 



Uhler, P. R., circular relative to craw-fishes 15 



Ulke, Henry, portrait of Professor Henry, by 56 



Upham, Warren J 59 



collections by 51,52 



