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INDEX. 



Museum collections at New Oilean?, 4. 



by Smithsonian aid, 6. 

 couililiou of, 20. 

 list of writors on, 344, 345. 

 of fisbcs, 1C9. 



iiiveitebrate Paleozoic fos- 

 sils, 208. 

 placed in Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 5. 

 ■work upon, 3. 

 coutuuts, public display of, 9. 

 curators detailed from other bureaus, ]G. 

 curatorships, 10. 

 deposits, 5. 

 direction, 18. 

 exchanjres, 6. 

 exhibition space, 20, 21. 

 exposition staflf, 19. 

 foundation and legal status, 5. 

 function ami aims, 7. 

 fiir Volkerkunde, African weaTJons from, 

 U8. 

 Brazilian implements 



from, 118. 

 ethnologica from, 119. 

 guide-books, 12. 

 history, periods of, 8. 

 idea, development of, 8. 

 illu8tratiou.s, 12, 13. 

 increase, 3. 

 lectures, 33. 



■visited by foreign men of science, 33. 

 ■work reviewed,"4. 

 management, 5. 

 manuals, 12, 13. 

 material, how acquired, 7. 

 preserved, 7. 

 utilized, 7. 

 method of classifying, 53. 

 objects and modes of work, 7. 

 of Comparative Zoology, 10. 



research defined, 11. 

 otficers as authors, 34), 31.'). 



papers by, 3, 346. 

 organization and government, 5. 

 packages recorded, 22. " » 

 papers, bibliography of, 31. 

 preparators, work of, 41. 

 Proceedings, volume vi, 330. 

 publications, 6, 7, 31, 339. 

 report, 4. 

 research, 8. 



scientific papers, catalogue of, 7. 

 sheds, 21. 



specimens, number of, 20. 

 staff, 5, 15, 16. 

 storage courts, 3. 

 trays, 15. 

 typos, 7. 

 Museums as educators. 8, 10. 

 Musical instruments, 55. 



East Indian, 72. 

 Muskrat destroyed carp, 371. 

 Florida, 325, 328, 367. 

 round-tailed, 130, 325, 367. 



relation.s of, 330. 

 Mussels for New Orleans Exposition, 179. 

 Mygalu from Arizona, 186. 



California, 187. 

 Myodes obensia obtained, 130. 



N. 

 Napier Ujattiug, 81. 



Naiion, Professor, Peruvian birds from, 71. 

 National Academy of Sciences in Museum, 34. 

 cabinet of curiosities transferred, 5. 

 Museum, conii)iehensive organization of, 

 11 

 Natural history collections .it Cincinnati, 50. 



New Orlenns, 51. 

 oxihbit at Louisville, 49. 

 Naturalists' Sociotv meeting, 35. 

 Navajo fetiches, 116. 

 jewelry, 116. 

 Naval architecture additions, 85. 



collection, arranging and clas- 

 sifying, 06. 

 condition of, 98. 



Naval architecture collection, development of, 98. 

 history of, 10.5. 

 department statistics. 98. 

 development illu.stratious, 99. 

 gallery opened, 52. 

 material described, 98. 

 report on, 85. 

 section, 16, 17. 



desiderata for, 105. 

 researches in, 97. 

 specimens exhibited, 98. 

 battle photographed, 85. 

 ollirers' colleetiohs, 102. 

 vessels needed, 98. 

 Navv Department, bottom samples from, 192. 

 Noeillo of Eskimo basket-makor, 294. 

 Negatives added in 1884, 46. 

 Neill, J. W., minera's from, 222. 

 Nellie S. Picking (schooner) model, 94. 

 Nelson, E. W., 279. 



aboriginal pottery from, 121. 

 Arizona reptiles i'rom, 157. 

 baskets from, 294. 

 birds' eggs from, 60. 

 Cape Komanzotf bows from, 309, 310. 

 collected Arizona rodents, ic, 130. 

 Cape Vancouver throw- 

 ing-sticks, 286. 

 collections from, 57, 70. 

 Diomeue sj.ear from, 11". 

 explains bow-string twisters, 316. 

 Eskimo bows from, 307, 309. 

 Norton Sound el hnologica from, 112. 

 papers by, ISO, 376. 

 S.aiut Lawrence Island bows from, 



313. 

 throwingsticks from, 286, 289. 

 Yukon delta bow from, 312. 

 Neotilier, .326, 327, 328, 330. 

 delJned, 325, 330. 

 alloni, 277. 



described, 130,325,326. 

 from Florida, 367. 

 habits unknown, 330. 

 measurements, 329. 

 skeleton measurements, 329. 

 skull raeasuromeutis, 329. 

 Netherlands life-boat model, 104. 

 Nevada, Central, Paleozoic fossils, 207. 

 Devi nian fauna, 206. 



Paleozoic fauna, nature and relations of, 

 205. 

 fossils, results of work on, 205. 

 showing faunal succes- 

 sion, 205. 

 shells new to science, 182. 

 white pine shale fauna, 206. 

 New Caledonia club, 119. 

 New England, marine fauna off, 380. 

 New Era, ideal fishing schooner, 102, 103. 

 New Guinea weapons, ornaments, &.C., 57, 72, 119, 



120. 

 New Hampshire geology and lithology, illustra- 

 tions of, 237. 

 New Idria, California, insects obtained, 186. 

 New Jersey insect obtained, 185. 

 New Mexico aboriginal pottery, 121. 

 collections, 70. 

 minerals wanted, 247. 

 New Orleans collections iu economic geoJogj' and 

 metallurgy, 269. 

 exhibit, 51. 



labels for, 5'. 

 of bird.s, 151. 

 preparations for, 45, M. 

 size of, 52. 

 Exposition, assistant director at,52. 

 building and ornamental 



stones, 66. 

 collections, 240,^41 



in motaL 

 lurtry, 247. 

 Congressional bill con- 

 cerning, 48. 

 curators at, 52. 

 economic entomology 



at, 187. 

 exhibits, 30. 



