INDEX. 815 



Page. 



Bell, James, collectious rpceivoil fidin 103 



nionnds in Alachua County, Florida 635 



Bendire, Capt. Charles, list of papers by 125 



collections received from 105 



Berlin, fishery exhibition in 44, 182 



Berrien County, Georgia, New River, mounds in 631 



Bibliographical history of the Museum 98 



Bibliography of anthropology 508, 525 



of Museum Avork Ill 



of zoology 411 



Billings, Dr. J. S., letters of introduction given to 44 



Biological Society of Washington, meetings of, in Museum building 99 



Biology of man 500, 503 



Birds added to American fauna in 1881 487 



American Jurassic 485 



number of 485 



bibliography of 481, 482, 483, 484 



coloring matter of feathers 484 



Blackford, E. G., donations to Museum 103, 105 



Blind fishes and congeners 477 



Blood of insects 445 



Board of Regents, report to 1 



meeting of (> 



Boehmer, George H. ; History of the Smithsonian Exchanges 33, 703 



in charge of international exchanges 30 



report on operations of exchanges during the year 1881 . 30 



Booth, N. , expiration of term of, as Regent ix 



Botany, report on progress in, in 1881, by W. G. Farlow 391 



archegoniata 405 



bacteria 395 



diseases of plants 399 



fossil, department of 109 



phajnogams 407 



thallophytes 400 



vegetable anatomy and physiology 391 



Boucard, A. , donation to Museum 103 



Bowers, Stephen, donation to Museum 101 



Boyle County, Kentucky, mounds in 603 



Braceville, Ohio, mound near 592 



Brausford, J. F.; antiquities of Nicaragua 26 



Bread, Indian, or tuckahoe, by J. H. Gore 637 



Brewster, Hon. Benjamin H., member ex officio xv 



Brewster, William, titles of papers by 125, 126 



Brushes, exhibit of, in Museum 101 



Building commission. {See National Museum, building commission.) 

 Buildings of the Institution : 



Armory building 12 



Laboratory of natural history 12 



National Museum building 10 



Smithsonian building 9 



Building-stones, analysis of 110 



microscopic slides of 110 



Bulletins of the National Museum, No. 21 27 



Philosoi^hical Society of Washington 27 



