INDEX. 491 



Page. 



Meteorological obserTations of Dr. Hildvcth IG 



of Professor Cleaveland 1(5 



registers from colleges aud institutions 74 



stations and observers G.5 



system, account of 42 



of Signal Corps 44 



should be extended by Congress and 



include Smithsonian 44 



Mexican boundary survey, botany of. 38 



Mexico, account of antiquities in 373 



Milan, exchange agency 53 



Miscellaneous collections, contents of volumes 8 and 9 22 



Missouri, ancient earthworks in 406 



Mixed races in Liberia 386 



Mollusks, arrangement of families of, by Professor Gill 23 



Montana, forests iu 428 



Morgan, Lewis H., systems of consanguinity 16 



Mosses, W. S. Sullivant on 37 



Mounds. (See Ethnology) 304 



Madge, Professor, report on fossils 41 



Mliller, Fred., exchanges with 53 



Mummy-case, account of 16 



Museum, appropriations by Congress for 13 



entries iu record-books 46 



list of additions to 47 



miscellanea ■. 22 



Museums, general views relative to 31 



Myer, General A. J., meteorological system of , 44 



National library 28 



musenm, nature of 13, 34 



Neptune, Newcomb's orbit of 17 



New Brunswick, shell-heaps in 389 



Newcomb, Professor, account of investigation relative to Uranus 17 



New Orleans Academy of Sciences, geological explorations by 21 



New Zealand, collections from 30 



Nicholson, "W. L., work on altitudes 24 



North German Lloyd, acknowledgment to 26 



North Pacific exploring exj^edition, botany of 37 



Norton, Edward,, on hymenoptera 22 



Observatory, physical, Professor Henry's letter relative to 141 



Observers, list of meteorological 65 



Oelrichs & Co., ackno wedgment to 26 



Ofiticers of the Institution 6 



Ohio geological survey 41 



Orbits of planets, secular variations of 19 



Ornithology, Dall's compilation of notes on 41 



Orthoptera, catalogue of 22 



Osteusacken, 11., monograph of diptera of North America 22 



Pacific Eailroad explorations, botany of .- 38 



Palaiontology, Meek's researches 41 



Palermo, evaporation at, by Tacchini 457 



Palmer, Dr. Edward, ethnological labors 30 



Palmieri, Professor, on electricity during rain 469 



OH the electro-magnetic seismograph 425 



