814 INDEX. 



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Astronomy — Continued. 



Star charts I97 



The Sun 205 



Transit of Mercury 212 



Transit of Venus 209,210 



Uniform standard time 227 



Variable stars 195 



Velocity of light 210 



Vulcan 219 



Atkins, C. G., employed in fisheries census 53 



Atkinson, Edward, procured exhibit of cotton fabrics 100 



Atmosphere, chemical and physical properties of 261 



movements of 290 



Atwood, Capt. N. E., employed in fisheries census 52 



Auckland, New Zealand, Museum, collections received from 106 



Amoras 304 



B. 



Bacon, Paymaster Albert W., U. S. N., collections received from 107 



Bacteria 395 



Bailey, Mr. , engineer steamer Fish Hawk 47 



Baird, Prof. S. F., bibliography of the publications of 98 



Director Smithsonian Institution and National Museum . . . xvi 



U. S. National Museum Ill 



letter transmitting Annual Eeport for 1881 iii 



member of National Museum Building Commission 176 



report of, to Board of Regents 1 



report on Bureau of Ethnology 38 



report on the U. S. Fish Commission 46 



report on U. S. National Museum 35 



Baker, Capt. J. G., specimens received from 42 



Banta, W. V., and John Garretson; on mounds at Snake Den, near Salem, 



Iowa 532 



Barber, George W. ; on mounds near the National Home, Milwaukee County, 



Wisconsin 542 



Barker, Prof. G. F., representative at Electrical Convention at Paris 46 



report on progress in chemistry in 1881 381 



report on progress in physics in 1881 333 



Barker, Henry L. , collections made by 104 



Barkley, W. F. ; anthropological correspondence 681 



Barnard, J. G. ; internal structure of the earth 25- 



Barnstable County, Massachusetts, shell heaps in 664 



Barren County, Kentucky, mounds in 609 



Bean, Dr. T. H., assisted in Fish Commission work 48 



collections made by 105 



curator U. S. National Museum xvi, 111 



employed iu fisheries census 53 



in charge of department of fishes 105 



table of entries in the record books of the Museum 99 



titles of papers by Ill, 112 



Beardslee, Commander L. A., collections made by 102 



Beauchamp, W. M., antiquities of Onondaga and adjoining counties, New 



York 647 



Bee, peculiar glands connected with tongue of 446 



