INDEX. 



81$ 



Denver, height of, 195. 



Departments in the Institution with heads con- 

 trary to law and not advisable, 111. 

 Deposit of Smithson income, account of, 5G6. 

 Deposit of income, committee appointed on, 302. 

 report of committee on, 306. 

 in First National Bank, 410, 544, 582. 

 Deposit with Secretary of Treasury, 419. 

 with Department of Agriculture, Army Med- 

 ical Museum, and Corcoran Art Gallery, 425. 

 De Saussure, H., on entomology, 211. 

 Design, school of, proposed, 125, 126. 

 Dickerson, Dr., proposed ethnological explo- 

 ration by, 46. 

 Dickinson, H. L., left half income of property 



to Madame De La Batut, 183. 

 Dictionaries, Shea's Indian, 191, 208, 209. 

 Dictionary, J. R. Bartlett proposes to prepare a 



new English, 51. 

 Diffusion of knowledge, means provided for, 



106. 

 Dille, I., letter from, on location of mounds, 200. 

 Direction of affairs should be left to Secretary, 



492. 

 Directions for telegraphing storms, 195. 

 Disbursing officer, chairman of Executive Com- 

 mittee made, 3. 

 Disbursements made by chairman of Executive 



Committee, 486. 

 Discoveries of Oersted, Arago, Davy, Ampere, 



Barlow, Sturgeon, 148. 

 Diseases of northern Indians, 263. 

 Distribution of Vol. 1, Smithsonian Contribu- 

 tions to Knowledge, 404, 475. 

 Distribution of specimens, conditions of, 320. 

 to be continued and returns to be required. 

 319. 

 Distribution of duplicate specimens, views of 

 Profs. Agassiz and Henry on, 390. 

 appropriation for, 738. 

 District of Columbia, memorial of citizens of, 

 against use of marble worked by convicts. 

 21, 22, 23. 

 Disturnell, John, letter from, relative to new 

 gazetteer of North America, 51. 

 memorial from, 468. 

 Dixon, Jas., & Co., bid for building accepted, 

 591. 

 letter of, 624, 670, 688. 

 Dixon, James, retires from firm of Dixon & 

 Cameron, 688. 

 building contract with, 630, 676. 

 Dobbin, J. C, attendance at Establishment, 



772, 773. 

 Documents relating to history of Smithsonian 



bequest, Secretary to collect, 4. 

 Donations, list of, presented, 51. 

 committee to report regulations relative to 



reception of, 92. 

 of $1,000 from a friend of science, 551. 

 policy regarding, 219. 

 Donnelly, L, letter referred by, 252. 

 Doorkeeper, Wm. McPeak appointed, 1. 

 Doors, windows, and cloisters, specifications 



for, 651. 

 Douglas, Stephen A., appointed Regent, 97. 

 reappointed Regent, 154. 

 attendance as Regent, 97, 99, 101, 112, 114, 117, 

 120, 125, 12^, 130, 131, 133, 135, 136, 137, 151, 

 150, 161, 163, 166, 170. 

 appointed on committee to confer with Estab- 



lishment, 116. 

 appointed on committee on S^ F. B. Morse's 



charges against Prof. Henry, 133. 

 appointed on committee on Stanley's Indian 



gallery, 134. 

 motion by, on removal of assistants and dis- 

 tribution of income, 113. 

 remarks by, on income, 115. 

 resolution by, on correspondence, 120. 

 motion by, to ask authority to receive funds 

 or legacies and for power to sue and be 

 sued, 125. 

 resolutions by, on death of E. K. Kane, 132. 



Douglas, Stephen A. — Continued. 

 motion by, to appropriate $2,000 for casts and 



moulds of works of art in Europe, 152. 

 motion by, on death of Washington Irving,. 



159. 

 motion by, to invest $5,000 of extra fund, 163. 

 motion by, on death of P. Cleaveland, 104. 

 eulogy on, by S. S. Cox, 79. 

 Dowdeii, Henry J., letter from, on exchanges,. 



188. 

 Downer, Joel, inspection of wood-work by, 64. 

 letter from, 671. 

 contract with, for fence, 675. 

 bill for fence, 688. 

 Downes, John, thanks to, for computations, 52. 



computations by, 46G, 468, 478. 

 Downing, Andrew J., plans for public grounds, 

 74, 702, 705. 

 resolutions of Board relative to death of, 85. 

 Downing, Mrs. A. J., correspondence between 



Secretary and, 89. 

 Drains ordered, 707, 711. 

 Draughtsman, 482. 



Drawing of ballots for term of service by Re- 

 gents, 2. 

 Drayton, Mr , valuable aid of, 668. 

 Dudley observatory, plans of, 221. 

 Duke of Devonshire, examination of Prof. 



Henry by, 775. 

 Duke of Northumberland, books presented by, 



Duplicate specimens, condition on which pre- 

 sented, 261. 

 distribution of, 187. 



Durand, G. J., report by, on S. I. to Imperial 

 Academy of Bordeaux, 154. 



Dwight, Theodore W., letter from, on tele- 

 scope, 124. 



IE- 

 Earthworks, proposed map of, 185. 

 Eaton, D. C, on ferns, 211. 

 Eclipse, expedition to Labrador of Lt. Gilliss, 



162. 

 Education, books on, sent to M. Laboulaye,332. 

 of Indian tribes, D. Peiroe's plan for, 58. 

 proposed history of, by F. A. Packard, 223. 

 Educational institution, co-operation of S. L. 



with, requested, '57. 

 Egypt, account of scientific society in, 321. 

 work on, by Lepsius, presented by Prussian 

 Government, 127. 

 Electricity, memoir on, by A. Berry, presented, 



39. 

 Electric phenomenon, account of, 250. 

 Electrotypes of conchology granted by British 



museum, 231. 

 Elevators, specifications for, 658. 



provided, 721. 

 Elgin marbles, casts of, recommended, 98. 

 Ellet, Mr., offered to superintend erection of 



wire bridge, 70. 

 Ely, Alfred, letter from, relative to application 

 of naval officer for remuneration for shells 

 collected, 162. 

 Emery, M. G., attendance as Regent, 355. 

 Encylopedia of education proposed, 224. 

 belonging to Smithson purchased, 63. 

 Engelmann, Geo., letter from, on heights of 



mountain peaks, 195. 

 Engineer Corps of United States army, account 



of, by General Barnard, 266. 

 England, free freight to and from, 161. 

 English Government Scientific Commission, 



examination of Prof. Henry by, 775. 

 English manuscripts from J. O. Hal li well, 90. 

 English, VV. II., appointed Regent, 121. 

 reappointed Regent, 133, 161. 

 attendance as Recent, 92, 93, 95, 97, 101, 112, 

 114,116,119,120,121, 122, 125, 127, 128,129, 

 130, 135, 137, 151, 154, 161, 163, 1G6, 170. 

 appointed member of Building Committee, 

 93. 



