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Index. 



Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, 315, 



349- 



Mississippi, colleges and learned societies, 349- 

 350; scientific men in, 464. 



Missouri, colleges and learned societies, 350. 



Missouri River, exploration of, 290, 291. 



Mitchel, O. M., astronomer, 459. 



Mitchell, Dr. John, naturalist, 265, 387, 392, 457. 



Mitchella, 405. 



Mitchella Repetis, 3S7. 



Mitchill, Dr. Samuel I,atham, zoologist, miner- 

 alogist, chemi.st, 402, 437, 438, 439, 441, 446; scien- 

 tific work of, 422-424, 430, 440, 450. 



Mtibius, Dr. Karl, 37. 



Momfanoi, Prince, of Spain, 135. 



Mona.stery of St. Mark, Florence, 79, 21S, 260. 



Monroe, President James, 284, 297, 308, 323. 



Montana, colleges and societies, 350. 



Montezuma, gardens of, 368, 369. 



Montucla, J. E., 359 n. 



Mordecai, Capt. Alfred, 473. 



Mordecai, Samuel, 271 n, 401 n. 



Morgan, Dr. John, 70, 265, 412, 443. 



Morrill, Justin S., bill to establish educational 

 institutions, 313, 341-342; regent Smithsonian 

 Institution, 322. 



Morris, Rev. John Gottlieb, 473. 



Mor.se, Rev. Jedediah, geographer, 426. 



Mor.se, .Samuel F. B., 186. 



Mortimer, Cromwell, 375 n. 



Morton, Thomas, naturali.st, 373, 457. 



Moseley, Henry N., 231. 



Muhlenberg, Gotthilf, botanist, .scientific, work 

 of, 417-418. 



Mulilenbergia, 418. 



Munich, museums of, 78, 210, 211, 258. 



Mus^e d'Artillerie, Paris, 79, 211, 259. 



Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 212, 256. 



Musee de Marine, Paris, 79, 211, 259. 



Musee de Melle, Ghent, 215. 



Mus^e de Trocadero, Paris, 78, 211, 258. 



Mus^e Dupuytren, Paris, 25S. 



Musee Gallo-Romain, St. Germain, 210, 218. 



Mus<;e Guimet, Paris, 79, 211, 218, 236, 259. 



Musee Historique, Versailles, 310. 



Mus6e Instrumental, Paris, 211, 259. 



Musee Orfila, Paris, 25S. 



Mu.seo Barbonico, Naples, 218. 



Museo delle Belle Arti, Sienna, 21S. 



Museo de Ultramar, Madrid, 211, 218, 236. 



Museo di Studii, Naples, 260. 



Museo preistorico ed ethnografico, Rome, 78, 258. 



Mu.seo Psicologico, Florence, 217. 



Museum Franci.sco-Carolinum, I,inz, 38. 



Museum fiir Volkerkimde, Leipzig, 79, 211. 



Mu.seum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass., 74, 212, 221, 255, 237. 



Museum of Practical Fish Culture, South Ken- 

 .sington, 211, 259. 



Mu.seum of Practical Geology, I.,ondon, 213, 215, 

 217, 218, 257. 



Mu.seum of the UfBzi, F'lorence, 209, 260. 



Museums Association, Great Britain, action on 

 death of G. Brown Goode, 35; paper of Goode 

 before, 56, 195. 



Mutis, Don Joseph C, naturali.st, 380, 397-39S. 



Meyer, Gen. Albert J., Chief Signal Officer, 302. 



Nag's Head, IvOndon, Amencan fishes exhibited 

 at, 68, 378. 



Naples, mviseum of, 78, 198, 218, 221, 260. 



National Academy of Science.s, 41; founded, 312, 

 459; Goode, member of, 58; members of, 463. 



National Botanic Garden, 310. 



National Cabinet of Curiosities, 111,112,113,125, 

 150; end of, 142. 



National Deaf-Mute College, 287. 



National Gallery in Patent Office, 130, 131, 132; 

 end of, 142. 



National Geographic Society, Wa.shington, 313, 

 315; Goode a member of, 58. 



National Institute, Washington, 69, 104-105, 107, 

 108, 109, III, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 

 132, 133- 136, 137- 139. 140, 141, 144. 149. i5o> 152, 161, 

 164, 167, 170, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 183, 184, 185, 

 1S7, 188, 189, 190, 309; collections of, 134-135, 157- 

 174; collections of, removed to Sraith.sonian 

 Institution, 141; end of, 142; transactions of, 140. 

 See National Instiliilion. 



National Institution, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 97, 98, 

 99, 100, loi, 102, 104, 107, no, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 

 119, 120, 122, 138, 146, 157, 158,159-161,312; bulle- 

 tins of, 191 See Columbian Institute; National 

 Institute; National Institution for the Pyonio- 

 tion of Science. 



National Institution, Barlow's, 281-2S4, 312, 329- 

 341- 



National Institution for the Promotion of Science, 

 311, 469, 470, 471; bill incorporating, 97, 98, 100; 

 Congress of .scientific men, 471-475. See Na- 

 tional Institution; National Institute. 



National Intelligencer, 90 n, 282. 



National Museum. See United States National 

 Museum. 



National Observatory. See United States Naval 

 Observatory. 



National Portrait Gallery, London, Si, 210, 239. 



National, A, University, 281, 324-329; John 

 Quincy Adams and, 303; Washington and, 274, 



275-311- 



Nautical Almanack, proposed, 305, 307. 



Navigator Islands. See Samoa. 



Nebraska, colleges and societies, 350. 



Nel.son, John, 190. 



Nemours, Dupont de, to Jefferson, 282; treatise 

 by, 287; work of, 418. 



Neuchatel, museum of, 78, 260. 



Neumann, Juliu.s, 37. 



Nevada, colleges and learned societies, 350; sci- 

 entific men in, 464. 



Newberry, John S., 459. 



Newcomb, Simon, astronomer, 459. 



New F^ngland Magazine, 90 u. 



Newfoundland, 69 n. 



New Hampshire, colleges and learned societies, 



350- 

 New Haven, scientific men in, 463. 

 New Holland, specimens from, 165, 166, 169, 170, 



174- 

 New Jer.sey, colleges and learned societies, 351. 

 New Jensey Historical Society, 148,351. 

 New Mexico, colleges and societies, 331. 

 New Orleans, Goode at, 54; .scientific men in, 463. 

 Newton, Isaac, first Commissioner of Agriculture, 



315, 459- 



