INDEX. 



Page. 



Abbe, Professor C, meteorological services 44 



Aboriginal rnins at aud near Savannah, Tennessee, by J. P. Stelle 408, 416, 417 



Aboriginal rnins. (See Ethnology) 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, aid to Sumichrast's exploration 30 



Accounts, report of Committee on 84 



Adams Express, acknowledgment to 2G 



Additions to collections in 1870 47 



Africa, mixed races in 386 



Agassiz, Professor, museum of 33 



Regent 5 



Agricultural Department, agreement with, as to herbarium 39 



AlgiB, Bailey on 37 



fresh-vrater. Dr. "Wood on 21 



marine. Dr. Harvey on 21 



Altitudes, material collected relative to 24 



American distribution of i>acliages from foreign institutions 56 



Oriental Society, reference of Morgan's memoir 17 



Pliilosoi)hical Society, publication by, of Choctavv^ grammar 20 



Amsterdam, exchange agency .53 



Anchor Line, thanks to, for free frieght 26, 86 



Ancient earth-works on the Upper Missouri 406 



mounds in Georgia 380 



mounds. (See Ethnology) 



Anderson, Martin B., life of Chester Dewey 231 



Anthropology, Smithson collection unsurpassed 35 



Antiquities in Southern States, by II. C. Williams 337 



Tennessee, account of, by E. O. Dunning 376 



Vera Cruz 373 



(See Ethnology) 



Apx^endix, containing lectures, &c ' 89 



to the rex^ort of the Secretary 46 



Appropriations by Congress for National Museum 82, 13 



for 1871 83 



resolution of Regents relative to 13 



Arago, Francis, autobiography of 145 



Arago's biography of William Herschel 197 



Arica and Tacua Railroad earthquakes 421 



Army Medical Museum, exchanges with 30 



Art Gallery, Mr. Corcoran's 14 



Artisan and artist, lecture on, by Cardinal Wiseman 301 



Astronomical investigations of Newcomb 17 



Astronomical observatories. Professor Henry on 141 



Atmometers, description of 4.57 



Aurochs, from Vienna 31 



Aurora, inHueuco of, on telegraph 430 



Autobiography of Francis Arago 145 



