INDEX. 



453 



Roxbnry Carpet Company, tapeetry, 83. 

 Royal Botanical Gardens, England, collectiona 



from, 71, 

 80, 107. 

 Koyal College of Surgeons, collections from, 71. 

 KuV renovated. 44. 



Kuniinants teuiporarily installed, 133. 

 Eirssell, 1. C, collected" rooks and tnfas, 66. 



collected Utah rocks and tofas, 230. 

 sent lava, 236. 

 Ryder, John A., lecture by, 34. 

 papers of. 72. 

 work of, 72. 

 writings of, 364. 



S. 



Sabine Basin flfshes collected, 178. 

 Saccopbaryngoid fishes, 365. 



literature and relations 

 of, 373. 

 Sackett's Harbor, Xew York, bird-shaped object 



from, 124. 

 Sacramento Basiu fishes collected, 178. 

 Safety lamps, 243. 20.:. 

 Satfufd, Ensign W. E., 198. 

 Sail-maker's tools and apparatus, 96. 

 Saint Joe Works lead sei ies, 253. 

 John's Diver tisbe.s, 375. 

 Lawrence I.sland bows, 313, 314, 315. 

 Louis Tripoli Company's collection, 269, 276. 

 Thomas lishes received, 163. 

 Salmo gaiidneri received, 102. 



irideus from Roanoke River, 163. 

 Soiitli Side Club, 162. 

 Salmon of Pacific coast stmlied, 172. 

 Salt, Cheshire, from .Mr. liiggiu, 107. 

 Saltonstall, H., coartesics of, 83. 

 Salvador j)lants and animals, 71. 

 Salveliuns staf;nalis from Labrador, 162. 

 Salvin cabiuel.s needed forbiids, 154. 

 San Diego moUusks received, 184. 

 Salvador minerals, 240. 



products obtained, 107. 

 textiles, 80. 

 Sand and emery paper, 242. 

 Sanders. J. D.,'mineral3 from, 222. 

 Sand paper collect inn, 208, 276. 

 Sandpiper, breeding of pectoral, 376. 

 Sandstone showing ripple marks and sun cracks, 

 234. 

 slab exhibited, 237. 

 Sandwich Islands colliction obtained, 72. 

 Sanguinolites .^iolus, i;U7. 

 Santee Basin fishe.s collected, 175. 

 Saperda bivittata, 360. 

 Saturday lectures, 33. 

 .Savannah Basiu fishes collected, 175. 

 Saxon art, phofo^raphs showing, 51. 

 Saxony rock specimens, 230, 237. 



Royal Mining Schodl sent rocks, 236- 

 Savre Female Institute sent fossils in exchange, 



203. 

 Scalops aqnaticus, 32.'>. 

 Sf-aphiocnnus from Captain Wheeler, 203. 

 Scaroid fishes, descriptions of, 375. 

 Scheinikow, Ernest, exchange with, 126. 

 Schietlelin & Co., drugs from, 76. 

 Schizochiton eVes shown, 183. 

 Schley, W. S.,"l92. 



Schlichter Jute Cordage Company, 80. 

 Schmidt, Frederick C, 92. 

 Schneider, Mr., laverack setter from, 132. 

 Schoolcraft's illustration of preparing pine seeds, 



302. 

 Schooner, cod-fisbintr, models, 86. 



tishing, builders' model of ideal, 86. 



standing rigging, 95. 

 models, 56, 94. 



showing evolution, 86. 

 three-masted, 94. 

 Schott, A. L., collected exotic plants, 219. 

 Scbreiber, J. D., sent corundum, 221. 

 Schuermann, C. W., 19. 

 Schumacher, Paul, on basket stitch, 294. 

 Sciiena sclera from Mazatlan, 375. 

 Sciathos island sloop, 89. 

 Scientific departments, review of work in, 53. 



Sclnter, Philip Lntlev, papers of, 377. 

 Scollick, J. W., 45. 



Screw steamer model of early type, 98. 

 Scudder, N. P., on fiber skull, 327. 

 Sea and fresh water investigation, 841. 

 birds, habits and capture, 348. 

 bottom materials investivratcd, 199. 

 cow, Stcller's, externiinnlion of, 366. 

 elephants from South Calil'iiniia, 70. 

 lion, Califomian. obtuined, 131 

 lions and seals from tho Farulloues, 70. 

 urchins, dry, arrangement of, 202. 

 exhi\)ited, 202. 

 Seal group reconstrurted. 41, 44. 



harbor, from Bering Island, 131. 

 harp bought, 131. 

 monk, 333. 



Ribbon, skeleton of, 368. 

 West Indian, 331. 

 Seals and cetaceans received. 59. 



and sea lions from tho Farallones, 70. 

 from Bering I.sland, 131. 

 investigated by Dr. Merriam, 68. 

 returned from Lnnilon, 133. 

 Selasphorus torridus, note on, 358. 

 Sells, Lewis, presented puma, 130. 



sent mammals, 131. 

 Semul tree dug-out, 87. 



Serpentine and green quartzite from Alaska, 69. 

 from Maine, 228. 



Massachusetts, 228. 

 Shad from Columbia River, 16'2. 

 Shagticoke flax au<l flax twines, 80. 

 Shark mounted, 44. 

 Sharpe, R. Bowdler, birds from, 60. 

 on Progne, 377. 

 Sheafer, P. W., sent coal ornaments. 263. 



fern-leaf impressions, 263. 

 secrions of coal beds, 266. 

 Sheldon, D, S., sent reptiles. 158. 

 Shell-mound pottery from Maryland, 121. 

 Shells, cases for land, 180. 



exhibited at Louisville. 49. 



Xew Orleans, 51. 

 exotic, in Museum, 181. 

 from California, 69. 



Magellan Straits, 71. 

 Mr. Jeffreys*, 71. 

 Terra del Fuego, 71. 

 land, identified, 02, 180. 



and fresh-water, collected by R. B. 

 Call, 184. " 

 of District of Co- 

 lumiiia, 183. 

 new land and fiesh-water species, 182. 

 Shields of Bateke negroes resemble fish-tra^ 



basket, 208. 

 Sbindler, A. Zei.o, 47. 

 Ship-building models, 51. 

 Ships, early American, color sketches of, 91. 

 Ship models (cotton carriers), 94. 

 .Shoemaker, C. W., clei ieal woi k of, 143. 

 Shore larks of Uniled Slates, 373. 

 Shoshone baskets coiled and whipped, 301. 

 conoiil basket bats, 301. 

 Indian basketry, 301. 

 method of pieparing pine seed, 301. 

 roasting tiiiys, 301. 

 Shufeldt. Dr. R. \V., c^Uectione from, 70. 

 papers of, 377. 

 sent tishes, 374. 

 Siam boats obtained, 100. 

 Siberian bow descrilie<l, 313. 

 bows fiiiured, 313. 

 (Eastern) Uiiowing-stick, 285. 

 Eskimo bows, 307, 313, 315. 



objects, 112. 

 mammals, 131. 

 sheep obtained, 131. 

 Siemachko, J., sent Russian minerals, 223. 

 Siemens heating .system, 209. 



regenerative principle represented, 242. 

 Signal Service collections mi Sitka, 69. 

 exhibits returned, 30. 

 exploration, 69. 

 ni.iinmals, 129. 

 mollusks from, 63. 

 Siler, A. L., sent Syringopora. 204. 



