1008 



INDEX. 



Pagf. 

 Mound builders, varionsopinions concern- 

 ing antiquity of the 511 



pipe, curved-base type of, charac- 

 teristics of 632 



curved-base type of, distribu- 

 tion of 633 



similarity of monitor pipe to 



the 474 



pipes 510 



artistic decoration of 516-517 



characteristics of the 513 



geographical distribution of. 526 



method of drilling bowls of. . 524 



southern 612 



theory concerning origin of 



the 513 



Monsterien epoch, appearance of the spear 



in tlie 826 



Mullen, B.H., exchange with 18 



Miiller, Baron Ferdinand von, exchange 



with 17 



Murbach. Louis, title of paper by 203 



Mur-de-Barrez (Aveyron), France, prehis- 

 toric Hint mine at 859 



Murdoch, John, Eskimo pipes collected 



by 590,591,592 



smoking habit among 

 the Point Barrow Es- 

 kimo described by 589 



Murray, (i. R. M., exchange with 17 



Museo d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, 

 Switzerland, collection of Orthoptera re- 

 ceived in exchange from 49 



Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa, 



Italy, exchange with 15 



fishes sent to 45 



Museo Nacional, Mexico, pottery pipe col- 



le<ted by the 407 



Prehistorico Etnografico, Eome, 



Italy, exchange with 18 



Museum building, appropriation for re- 

 pairs to 80 



new 34 



reference to construc- 

 tion of galleries in. 80 

 of Natural History, Geneva, 



Switzerland, exchanges with. 15,16 

 Lyons, France, exchange 



with 15 



Paris, France, exchange 



with 16 



rec'ord defined 5 



research defined 5 



Musical instruments, accessions to collec- 

 tion of 76 



Mythology of the bow and arrow 832 



National Academy of Sciences, list of pa- 

 p e r s 

 read at 

 m e e t- 

 ing of, 



in 1897. 237 



mee ting 

 of the . 33 



Herbarium 33 



Page. 

 National Herbarium, report concerning 



condition and 



care of 58 



review of work 



in 57 



transfer of em- 

 ployees assigned 



to the 33 



National Institute, fossil pipe collected by 



the , 434 



National Medical Institute, City of Mex- 

 ico, exchange with 17 



National Museum, U. S., accessions to the 



collections of. . 10 



adm i nistrative 

 staff of the.... 6 



api)ropriation for 

 the 13,238 



bibliography o f 



1897 193 



bill introduced 

 into Congress 

 for an addi- 

 tional building 

 for the 34 



catalogue entries 



of 12 



classification o f 

 the mineral col- 

 lections in the, 

 by Wirt Tas- 

 sin 747 



collector s outfits 



furnished by . . 22 



cooperation of the 

 Executive De- 

 partments of 

 the Govern- 

 ment with 18 



distribution of 

 publications of 82 



exchanges of 

 specimens with 

 i n s ti tuti ons 

 and individuals 

 abroad 14 



exiienditures of . 238 



functions of the. 5 



Iroquoian clay 

 ])ipes in the .. . 494 



list of accessions 



to 91 



man's 

 k n i V es 

 in the.. 743 



list of papers ac- 

 com panying 

 Report (1897) 

 of 247 



list of papers by 

 officers of the, 

 and others 194 



listofpapers pub- 

 lish e d s e p a- 

 ratelvbv...... 213 



