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INDEX. 



Beyer, Dr. U. G., IG. 



honorary curator, 75. 

 Bibliograi>bv, analysis of, .'{;i7,3:;9. 



of Museum, 31. 337, 339. 

 Biddlc on cousuuction of Indian vessels, 89. 

 Bijrelow Carpet Company specimens, 82. 



visited. 83. 

 Bilhoola Indian basket woik, 297. 

 Binno\, Dr. W. G., shells contributed by. 181. 

 Biological Society leotiires, 33. 



nieotij^s. 3.3. 

 Birch and linden in.basketry, 30,'5. 

 Bird coUeetious of National Museum, 358. 

 labels for exhibition, 154. 

 prepared. 59, 151. 

 sample of, 151. 

 new to Bermudas, 340. 

 Birds. 17. 



added to exhibition series, 155. 

 alphabetical list of accessions to, 143-149. 

 and Ushes mounted, 41, 44. 

 aquatic and lisheating,at Loudon Fisheries, 

 341. 

 rearranged, 150. 

 department of, 59. 

 desirable for exhibition, 1.55. 



to purchase, 1 55. 

 displayed in American Museum of Katural 



History, 1153. 

 distiibutVd, 149. 

 duplicate and exchanged, 60. 

 Birds' eggs, 17, 18, 60. 



exchanged, 150. 



and loaned, 60. 

 foreign, 60. 

 installed, 1.53. 

 lent. 150. 



number of, 60, 153. 

 overhauled, 152. 



presented by ("aptain Bendire, 153. 

 wanted, 343," 347. 

 extensive accessions of, 60, 143. 

 exhibited at Cincinnati, 50. 



Kew Orleans, 151. 

 exotic, wanting, 155. 

 for New Orleans Exposition, 59, 358. 

 from Alaska, 60. 

 Arizona, GO. 

 California, 69. 

 Dominica, 70. 

 India, CO. 

 Japan, 60, 71. 

 Mexico, 70. 

 in exhibition series, 59. • 



reserve series, 59, 152. 

 installed in cases, 150. 

 key to North American, 371. 

 mounted, 151. 



nests and eggs obtained, 149. 

 new North American races of, 376. 

 North American game sent to New Orleans 

 152. 

 pioposed new list of, 150. 

 of Bermuda, :'40, 377. 



National Museum, pripers on, 152. 

 prey, diurnal, 373. 

 old and new geneiic names of, 366. 

 present state of, 152. 

 recommendations for department of, 153. 

 report upon, 143. 

 returned trom London, 60. 

 secured in 1884, 44. 

 water, of North Ameiica, 346. 

 work upon, 59, 150, 151. 

 Bird-skins and alcoholic specimens, 143-149. 

 condition of, 152. 

 exchanged, 149. 

 lent, 149. 

 mounted, 59. 



protected from insects, 152. 

 Bismuth ores, 272. 



from Utah, 257. 

 Blackfeet mat and bowl 116. 

 Blackfish hatching, 352. 

 Blackford, E G., sent Brevoort fishes, 164. 

 crustaceans, 190. 

 430-pound halibut, 162. 

 steel-head trout from, 162. 



Blackford, E. G., 36pound porai)ano from, lt!3. 

 Blacki.stou, Capt. T. W.. 60. 



bii ds from, 71. 

 Blackmoie Museum, mound-pipes in, 125. 

 Black Warrior Basin fishes collected, 176. 

 Blair, Albert, 268. 

 Blake collections of marine invertebrates, lt9. 



deep-sea mollusks studied, 180. 

 Blake, J H,, 198. 



Blankets of Northwestern coast, 299. 

 Blatta oiientalis ! from California, 187. 

 Blende, galena, and marcasite crystals, 243. 

 Blight, I. O., favors from, 207. 

 Blissus leucopterus, 300. 



Blossburg Coal Compan\ presented drill, 264. 

 Boas, Dr. Franz, 112,279. 



on Cumberland Gulf throwiug- 

 stick, 282. 

 Boat and vessel models in.stalled, 97. 



repaired by Captain Col- 

 lins, 97. 

 building material obtained, 86. 

 fittings; 86, 96, 98. 



models and equipments collected, 85. 

 from Aden, 89. 

 China. 90. 

 L(mdon Fisheries Exhibition, 



97. 

 Madras, 89. 

 the Maldives, 89. 

 Boats collected. 1882 to 1884, 85. 



vessels, &c., now exhibited, 98. 

 Bobtail mill gold collection, 241, 274. 



extraction shown, 249. 

 Bogoslolf I.sland rocks and volcanic a.sbes, 69, 230 

 Bohuslan cod-fi.sbing ves.sel, 104. 

 Bolles, Lieut. T. Dix, collections from, 57. 



Thlinket objects from, 114. 

 Bolts, nuts, and washers, 239. 

 Bombay fishing-boat model, 88. 

 Bombax malabaricum, dug-out from, 87. 

 Bones, fossil, in Florida, 380. 

 Booth, A., Columbia River shad from, 162. 

 Borassus ilabelliformis, fishing dug-out from, S7. 

 Boston customhouse fibers, 81. 



foreign exhibition, acces-sions from, 67. 

 Brazil foods from, 107. 

 Ceylouese collection 



from, 72. 

 collections from, 71. 

 • • Guatemala foods from, 



107. 

 Hawaiian foods, «fec., 



from, 72, 107. 

 San Salvador products 



fro:n, 107. 

 sent foreign minerals, 



240. 

 textiles from, 80. 

 Museum of Art, 10. 

 Society of Natural History, 10. 

 Botany, department of, 17, O.J, 220. 



of Bermuda, 340, 376. 

 Bot-flies in a turtle, 307. 

 Bottle coveied with basketry, 299. 

 Bottle-nosed do]i)hiu obtained, 1.32. 

 Bow appliances for twisting sinew, 312. 

 lashings described. 310, 311. 

 hitches in, 311. 

 Bowker, Torrey & Co., contributors, 66. 



sent onyx, 231. 

 Bowlder, photograph of, 229. 

 Bows, backing of, at various points, 310. 

 broad and flat with bent end, 309. 



with straight end, 309. 

 Eskimo, a study of, 307. 

 of Yukon delta'described, 308. 

 paper on, mentioned, 57. 

 replaced by fire-arms, 315. 

 sinew backing of, 307. 308. 

 Bow-string twisters, 316. 

 Boxes for small specimens, 26. 

 Boyle, C.B., 215. 



Boyne corracle for fishing, 90, 91. _ 

 Brachiopods, Carboniferous, received, 212, 

 Devonian, obtained, 210, 213. 

 recent work on, 350. 

 Bradford silks, 80. 



