INDEX. 825 



ragP. 



Madison County, New York, antiquities of 651 



Madsen, Peter, donation from 146 



Magnetism 304, 372 



Miikauda, Illinois, stono fort near 582 



Mammals 490 



Mammoth Cave, blind fishes of 477 



Man, illustrated in Museum 89,92 



Manufacturing firms, aid of, to Museum 100 



Marble, Hon, Edgar M. , member ex officio xv 



Maruack, S. W., collections received from 104 



Marshall, Henry, taxidermist of the Museum 96 



Masks from Japan 102 



Mason, Otis T. ; report on progress in anthropology in 1881 499 



Massachusetts, Barnstable County, shell heaps in 664 



Marsupials, relations of 494 



Materia medica, collections in Museum 99 



Mather, Fred., emjiloyed in Fisheries Census 52 



Matthew, G. F. ; on a supposed specimen of aboriginal art 672 



Maxey, Hon. Samuel B., appointed regent ix,4, 5 



Eegent viii, XV 



McClelland, M. A. ; on antiquities of Knox County, Illinois 554 



McDonald, Col. Marshall, collections received from 105,108 



contributions to Museum 37 



employed in Fisheries Census 53 



McFarlano, R., collections made by 103 



McKay, Charles L., arranging of fish collection 105 



signal observer at Nushigak 22 



title of paper by 129 



McLean, John J. ; anthropological correspondence 683 



signal observer at Sitka 23 



Mechanics 336 



Medicinal collections in Museum 36 



Medusai and hydroid polyps living in fresh water 422 



Meeting of the Board of Regents 6 



Meeting of the members of the Establishment 5, 6 



Meigs, Gen. M. C, consulting engineer of Museum building commission 175 



resolutions of thanks to xi 



Members ex officio , xv 



Memoirs in course of preparation 98 



Memorial of Joseph Henry . 27 



report of special committee on Ki 



MendelefT, Mr., mound of Ziiui 40 



Mercer County, Kentucky, mounds in 603 



Mercury, transit of 212 



Merrill, George P., aid. National Museum xvi, HI 



lapidary work by 96 



prepared raicj oscopic slides of building stones 110 



Merostomes, relations of the 431 



Metcalfe, Mr., collections from 39 



Meteorology, report on progress in, in 1881, by Cleveland Abbe 231 



auroras 304 



chemical and ])hysical properties of the atmosphere 261 



methods and apparatus 244 



movements of the atmosphere, winds, tic 290 



optical phenomena 322 



