830 INDEX. 



Page. 



Publications of the Museum 98 



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



bibliographical history of the Museum 98 



Bulletins of the National Museum 27 



distribution of 34 



memoirs in course of ^preparation 98 



Proceedings of the National Museum 27 



Table of entries in the record books 99 



Publications of the Smithsonian Institution 25 



Annual report 28 



Antiquities of Nicaragua 26 



Checli list of publications 27 



Contributions to Knowledge 25 



Distribution of 34 



Miscellaneous Collections 26 



Eainfall tables 26 



Q. 



Quarry, aboriginal soapstone, in Alabama 617 



K. 



Radiation of heat 354 



solar 267 



Radiators in Museum building 174 



Rainfall tables, by Charles A. Schott 26 



Ralls County, Missouri, mounds in 533 



Rau, Charles, curator, U. S. National Museum xvi, ill 



titles of papers by 115 



Rathbun, Richard, assisted in Fish Commission work 48 



curator. National Museum xvi. 111 



employed in Fisheries Census 53 



Receipts for the Smithsonian fund in 1831 167 



Record books of the Museum, entries in 99 



of scientific progress in 1881 189 



Anthropology 499 



Astronomy 191 



Botany 391 



Chemistry 381 



Meteorology 231 



Physics 333 



Zoology 409 



Reflection of light 363 



Refraction of light 363 



Regents, Board of, meeting of x, 6 



Journal of proceedings of ix 



resolutions of ix, V 



new, of the Institution 4 



of the Institution viii, xv 



Repayments from exchanges 7 



Report of the architects of the National Museum 177 



Report of Assistant Director U. S. National Museum 81 



Report of Bureau of Ethnology 38 



of the Chemist 161 



Executive Committee 



