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INDEX. 



Silicate and carbonate zinc ore, 259. 

 Siliceous and calcareous sinters, 236. 

 Silicified wood from Mr. McGee, 230. 

 Silk fabrics from E 0^:1 and, 80. 



manufacture illustrated, 81. 

 Silks, raw, obtained, 81. 

 Silliman, Beniamin, oust of, 45. 

 Silurian corals, 206. 

 Silver ard copper, native, 2.50. 

 lead refining, 275. 

 collections, 250,271. 

 extraction from ores, illustrations wanted, 



251. 

 from base ores, 271, 275. 

 horn, 271. 

 native, 271 



wanted, 250. 



with sulphide of copper, 250. 

 ores, chloridizins roasting. 240. 



of Utah, 250. 

 ruby, 271. 

 smelting and refining, 275. 



collections, 251. 

 wire, 271. 

 Simms, James M., standing rigging from, 95. 

 Sinew backing for bows, 308. 



twisters for bows, 313, 316. 

 mode of using, 3)6. 

 used in a game, 315. 

 twisting tools, note on, 315. 

 Singleton, Dr. K. H., 215. 

 Sioux head-dress, 116. 



medicine man's pipe, 116. 

 Siphonostoma from American waters, 355. 

 Siphostoma McKayi, 379. 

 Sirenians added, 132. 



Sitka bow imitating Eskimo in backing, 315. 

 ethnologica, 69. 

 Thlinket objects, 114. 

 Skaneateles rocks. 229. 

 Skeletons prepared, i^. 

 Sketches by Mr. Shindler, 47. 

 Skide^jate implements and ornaments, 114, 115. 

 Skiff for fishing in Greece, 89. 

 Slade, Elisha, on hybrid ducks, 378. 

 Slag from copper ores, 256. 

 Slate from Kansas, 228. 

 Smelting of auriferous material shown, 249. 



operation illustrations, 273. 

 Smillie, T. W., 46. 



enlarged mining pictures, 264. 

 Smith, A. J. M., Puffin sk.ncoat from, 118. 

 Smith, C. M., antiquities from, 125, 126. 

 Smith, Charles J., collected Oregon fishes, 171. 

 Smith, E. C, fish from, 163. 

 Smith, Hugh M.. 143, 153. 

 Smith, M. M., 164 



fisH drawings of, 61, 165, 169. 

 Smith, Peter, sent carp from brackish water, 164. 

 Smith, K. R., Arkansas antiquities from, 125. 

 Smith, Rosa, Pacific fishes from, 162, 171. 



reptiles from, 158. 

 Smith, Sanderson, 198. 



worked npon mollusca, 200. 

 Smith, Prof. S. I., 198. 



papers of, 378. 



received Albatross Crustacea, 



197. 

 researches of, 200. 

 returned Crustacea, 190. 

 studying Crustacea, lUO. 

 Smith, William R., 65. 

 Smithsonian area at New Orleans, ."il. 

 exhibit at Louisville, 49. 

 Institution at Cincinnati Exposition, 

 50. 

 exploration for, 67. 

 participation in exposi- 

 tions, 3, 48. 

 unclassified material in, 

 53. 

 Snakes and turtles, casts of, at Cincinnati, 50. 

 Snow, Professor, lent Crotalus lepidns, 158. 

 bunting, new, from Alaska, 358. 

 podura from Colorado, 185. 

 Maine, 187. 

 New Jersey, 185. 

 spectacles, 374. 



Society of Naturalists E. TT. S. meeting, 35. 



American Taxidermists, gift from, 41. 

 Taxidermists' meeting, 35. 

 Solders and other alloys, 242. 



from Merchant & Co., 276. 

 Solomon Islands clubs, 119. 

 Sorex, 325. 



Soricidae to be treated of, 135 

 Soundings by the Albatross, 199. 

 South America shells from Dr. Jones, 183. 

 American collections, 71. 



pottery needed, 122. 

 Carolina ceremonial object, 124. 

 Chicago Bessemer Works steel collection, 

 275. 

 Rolling Mill Bessemer steel, 258. 

 Kensington Fish Culture Museum, boat 

 models fri>m, 90. 

 Museum, collections from, 71. 

 policy, 9. 

 Side Clnb rainbow tiout, 162. 

 Southern Indian basketry, 305. 



twilled checker-woven , 

 305. 

 States, fishes collected in, 173. 

 type of bow, where used, 314. 

 Spanish "galleon," sketch of, 91. 

 mackerel hatching, 352. 

 Sparrow, new song, 373. 

 Spencer & McConey zinc collection, 258. 

 Sphaerium, new species, 377. 

 Spices from Kew Gardens, 107. 

 Spinning and weaving processes studied, 83. 

 Spiriferina cristata, 206. 

 Spofford, H.W., 37. 



Sponges and corals from fishing grounds, 190. 

 exhibited, 202. 



from Florida and Dry Tortugas, 191. 

 McKesson & Eobbins, 192. 

 Sporobolus for basket warps, 300. 

 Spratt, Joseph, made fish guano, 346. 

 Spruce roots for baskets, 295. 

 Squawberry in basketry, 303. 

 Squid, note on, 349. 



Squier & Davis mound-pipe molds, 125. 

 Stalactites and stalagmites shown, 236. 



obtained, 228. 

 Stalagmite marble, 228, 230. 

 Stalagmites from Austria. 229. 

 Standing rigging for fishing schooner, 95. 

 Stands tor mounted birds, 154. 

 Stanniferous wolfram in California, 252. 

 Star-fishes, dry, arrangement of, 202. 



exhibited, 202. 

 Stassfurt salts, 240. 

 Statuary and vases installed, 35. 

 Steamers in the fisheries, 97. 

 Stearns & Co., drugs from, 75. 

 Steams, John N., &. Co., silk fabrics from, 81. 

 Steams, Prof. R. E. C, 17. 



antiquities from, 123. 

 assistant curator, 62, 179. 

 California collections from , 



69. 

 collection of mollusks, 181. 

 collection of mollusks, ex- 

 tent of, 62. 

 duties of, 179. 

 obtained District shells, 



183. 

 paper by, 365. 

 preparing mollusks for 



New Orleans, 62 

 presented copper ores, 239. 

 reptiles from, 158. 

 specimens from, 81, 

 Steams, Silas, collected Pensacola fishes, 172. 

 Pensacola fishes from, 374. 

 contribution from, 66. 

 Steel collections, 257, 275. 



exhibits catalogued, 245. 

 rail lolling specimens, 244. 

 tests of, 240. 

 Stejneger, Leonhard, 17. 



as.sistant curator, 143. 

 assisting with now list of 



birds, 150. 

 birds' eggs from, 60. 



