486 INDEX. 



Page. 



Bfibinet on the diamond and other precious stones 333 



Bache, Alexander Dallas, eulogy on, by Professor Henry 91 



lecture on Switzerland, by 117 



list of scientific jiapers, by 103 



Bache, Lieutenant G. M., account of hail-storm in Texas 477 



Bailey, Professor, on algie !.. 37 



Baird, S. F., Assistant Secretary, in charge of museum, exchanges, &c G 



investigation of shell-heaps, &c 29 



systematic description of land birds of Pacific States 40 



Bannister, Henry M., clerk, in charge of meteorological records 6 



Barnard, General J. G., memoirs by, on i>recession, gyroscope, &c 18 



on motions of pendulum 18 



on precession and nutation aflected hy internal struc- 

 ture of the earth 19 



Barraudt, A., ancient earthworks on Upper Missouri 406 



Bequest of Smithsou 81 



Berkely, Dr., on fungi , 37 



Binncy, W. G., bibliographj' of North American Conchology 22 



land and fresh-water shells 22 



Biography of Francis Arago 145 



Chester Dewey 231 



Henry Gustavus Magnus 223 



William Herschel 197 



Birds, arrangement of families of 22 



circular relative to 22 



in museum, 4,154, mounted and on exhibition AG 



Bland, T., examination of shells 31 



land and fresh-water shells 22 



Blyden, Edward D., on mixed races in Liberia 386 



Bosphorus, account of hail-storm on 475 



Bossauge, Gustavo, exchauges with 53 



Boston Society of Natural History, aid to Sumichrast's exploration . 30 



Botanist of Agricultural Department and Smithsonian Institution 39 



Botany of region west of Mississippi 23 



Brackenridgc, W. D., on ferns 37 



Brain and marrow of animal, uses of, among the Indians 390 



Brewer, Dr. T. M., ornithology of North America 41 



Brinton, Dr., revision of Choctaw grammar 20 



Brown, Solomon G., clerk, in charge of transiaortation 6 



Building, expenditures on 82 



space in, for museum 34 



Byington, Dr., Choctavr grammar' and dictionary 20 



California, geological survey 40 



Campbell, John V., account of earthquake in Peru 421 



Caprou, Horace, agreement with 40 



Carlisle, James M., services rendered as counsel 15 



Carpenter, P. P., arrangement of shells 42 



Catalogue of publications of societies and of periodical works 22 



Chief clerk, apxiointment of 87 



Choctaw grammar and dictionary, by Dr. Byington 20 



Christiania, exchange agency , 53 



Circular relating to collections in archfcology and ethnology 22 



relative to collections of birds from middle and South America 22 



to ethnologists 22 



