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Macrura, report on, completed 40 



Majinetite, <le!<('ription of 515 



Maguey or American aloe, Uf^e of a^^ food by California Indians 187 



Maine, 1 )arbed harpoon heads found in 234 



Makah Indians of North America 227 



devices for catching salmon 230 



Malachite, description of 490 



mystical properties of 578 



Mammal collections of Department of Agriculture 31, 33 



hall of National Museum 16 



Mammals, division of, exhibition series of 31 



publications of .• 41 



European, purchase of specimens of 36 



Mann, All)ert, examinations of deep-sea deposits by 42, 43 



Marble, description of 493 



Marca.site, description of 520 



Marine invertebrates, division of, sea urchin collection of 38 



workers engaged upon collections of 42 



Marlatt, C. L. , title of joint paper by 138 



Marsh collection of fossil vertebrates, accession of 15, 46 



transfer of, from New Haven 38 



Marsh, Millard Caleb, title of joint paper l)y 137, 139 



Marsh, O. C. , service of as vertebrate paleontologist 52 



transfer of vertebrate collections of 53 



Marsupial mole, notoryctes, skeleton of 35 



Marx, George, spider collection of added to National Museum 15, 35 



Mason, Mrs. L. 0., loan by 24 



Mason, Otis Tufton, on Aboriginal American Harpoons; a study in ethnic dis- 

 tribution and invention 189 



report on installation, work, by 26 



titles (jf papers liy 139 



Matthews, Washington, collection of Hopi Indian ceremonial pigments made 



for 465 



pigments gathered among Navajo Indians ])y 465 



series of Hopi ceremonial paints in national collection 



through liberality of 465 



Maxou, William K., appointed aid in division of {)lants 59 



temporary appointment of as aid 44 



titles of papers by 139, 140 



Maynard, George C, electrical studies of 29 



title of paper by 140 



Mead, pAigene, ethnological jKirchase from 24 



Meadow larks, loan of collection of 43 



Mealing outfit at Todd's Valley, California, description of 169 



Mearns, E. A., collecting outfit furnished to 70 



collection of reptiles presented by 36, 69 



Mechanical technology, division of, report on 26 



researches made by curator of 29 



Medicine, division of, installation work of 26, 27 



Mediterranean Sea, fishes of 36 



Mercer's cave, California, burial })it at 172 



human remains obtained from 171 



