730 INDEX. 



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Quartz, star, description of 523 



Quesada, E., investigations in divisions of ethnology and somatology made by. 29 



Quinaielt salmon harpoon, description of 226 



Kathbun, Miss Mary J., report on decapod Crustacea of West Africa, com- 

 pleted by 40 



macrura, comjileted by 40 



study of fresh-water crabs by 41 



titles of i>apers by 142, 143 



Rath bun, Richard, Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution 77 



report of 3 



report of, regarding scientific work of divison of marine 



invertebrates 40 



Red Sea, fishes of 36 



Reed, Howard S., collecting outfit furnished to 70 



Reed, Walter D., shells received in exchange from 36 



Rehcs found at Dardanelles mine, California 167 



Religions, division of, illustrated catalogue made by curator of 28 



investigations in 29 



Report for 1897, papers published in separate form from 151 



of Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 3 



on department of anthropology, by head curator 21 



biology, by head curator 31 



geology, by head curator 45 



Reptile exhibition of National Museum 16 



Researches and publications of department of biology 40 



of department of anthropology 28 



Resonator type, musical instruments of the , 428 



Rhodonite, description of 526 



Rhynchota, arrangement and identification of 39 



loan of collection of 43 



Richardson, Miss Harriet, researches of 66 



titles of papers by 143 



work of '. 40, 41, 42 



Richmond, Charles W., absence of, in Cuba and Porto Rico 17, 38, 44 



paper on birds begun l)y 40 



titles of papers by 143 



zoological and botanical collections made ]iy 35, 68 



Ridgway, Robert, accompanied the Harriman Alaskan Expedition 17, 69 



bird collection by 35 



monograph on the Birds of North and Middle America, 



by 16, 38, 40 



titles of papers by 143, 144 



Riley, J. H., visited Cuba and Porto Rico, in interest of Pan-American Exjw- 



sition 17,44 



zoological and botanical collections made by 35, 68 



Robb, M. L., collecting outfit furnished to 70 



Robinson, Wirt, trip of, to Venezuela 34 



Rock crystal, description of 524 



Rocky Mountain fossils, specimens of 46 



Rose, J. N., botanical expedition of, to Mexico 28, 34, 37, 68 



col lection of Mexican plants made by 17 



l)lants collected by, in Mexico, deterinined 41 



publications of 41 



