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INDEX. 



Germany, free freights on packages to and 



from, 152. 

 Gibbs, George, commending Shea's Indian lin- 

 guistics, 100. 

 Chinook vocabulary, 208. 

 Klallam and Lummi vocabularies, 208. 

 Nisqually dictionary, 208. 

 on Indian philology, 201. 

 on Indian vocabularies, 254. 

 on existence of Indian tribes speaking Welsh, 



253. 

 report on paper submitted to, 475. 

 Gilliss, Lieut., letter from relative to expedi- 

 tion for observation on solar parallax, 44. 

 apparatus loaned to, 407, 483. 

 asks for instruments, 477. 

 expedition to observe eclipse, appropriation 



for, 102. 

 letter from, read, 57. 

 Secretary to supply instruments to, 58. 

 thanks to companies for facilities afforded 



to, 152. 

 thanks to companies for liberality to, 152. 

 Gilliss, .1. M., payment by, 500. 

 Gilpin, Miss, petition from, relative to estab- 

 lishment of normal school for female teach- 

 ers, si. 

 Girard College, illustration of, G70, G72, 689, 695. 

 Given, W. F., account of electric phenomenon, 



251). 

 Gladiator, statue of, lost in fire, 238. 

 Glass jars, expenditures for, 498, 504, 508, 511, 



514,517. 

 Glossbrenner, Adam J., records made by, 10. 

 Glover, John B., letter from, offering marble, 



31, 603. 

 Goff, John, statue of Dying Gladiator lost in 



fire, 238. 

 Gold, decision of Treasurer to pay interest in, 

 534. 

 interest should be paid in, 234. 

 purchase of, 531. 



premium on, 245, 305, 524, 533, 534, 535, 537, 

 542, 545, 54S, 551, 556, 500, 573, 578, 579, 724. 

 Goodwin, Josiah, on exchanges, 325. 

 Gorman, Peter, claim of, 468, 471. 



prices for stone, 31. 

 Gotteri, Frederick, communication from rel- 

 ative to silk culture, 123. 

 Gould, B. A., list of scientific papers of Prof. A. 

 D. Bache, 376. 

 on discussion of Piazzi's observations, 221. 

 Gould, John, thanks for humming-birds, 333. 

 Government, services of S. I. to, 323. 

 Governor of District to be Regent, 357, 384. 

 Governors of the District of Columbia, list of 



those who have been Regents, 749. 

 Grace Church, N. Y., illustration of, 669, 672, 



67S, 093, 097. 



Grammars, Shea's Indian, 191. 



Granite quarries of Maryland, report on, 589. 



Granite of Baltimore county, Md., report on, 



604. 

 Granite, proposals for, 615, 622. 

 Grant, Mr., appointed on committee of British 

 Association to prepare catalogue of me- 

 moirs, 123. 

 Grant, U. S., attendance at Establishment, 773. 

 Gray, Asa, elected Regent, 419. 

 attendance as Regent, 426, 428, 430, 434. 

 appointed on committee to report on mu- 

 seum, 429. 

 appointed on committee on connection of S. 



I. and National Museum, 430. 

 biographical notice of W. H. Harvey by, 339. 

 letter from, transmitting thanks of American 



Academy, 124. 

 motion by, to appoint committee on connec- 

 tion of S. 1. and National Museum, 436. 

 report of special committee on the museum, 

 430. 

 Gray, J. E., identification of bat by, 210. 



grant by, 231. 

 Great Britain, President of the United States 



to enter into correspondence with Govern- 

 ment of, on uniform coinage, 98. 

 Greece, ornamental album of "works of art in r 



presented by Miss Contaxaki, 134. 

 Greek language and literature, 175. 

 Greek slave, Power's statue of, exhibition of,. 

 43. 

 arrangements for exhibiting, 695. 

 statue of, ofi'ered to S. I., 459. 

 Green, Jas., meteorological instruments con- 

 structed by, 473, 470. 

 Grigg, John, memorial by, on Lowe's plan to- 

 cross the Atlantic, 167. 

 Griscom & Burrough, letter of, 615. 

 Grounds, appropriations for, 13, 482, 490, 493, 494,. 

 503, 507, 510, 700, 712, 724, 735. 

 Building Committee authorized to contract 



for laying out, 29. 

 death of Mr. Downing, superintendent of, 85. 

 Mr. Downing's plan for improvement of, 74. 

 of the S. I., nineteen acres set apart for, 706. 

 plat of, 671, 675. 

 Grout, L., use of the standard alphabet by, 168. 

 Guadaloupe, D. V., on Mexican exchanges, 186. 

 Guatemalan Minister, letter from, commending 



Dr. Berendt, 256, 257. 

 Guild, R. A., biographical notice of C. C. Jewett,. 



336. 

 Guillemard, J., letter from, concerning James 



Smithson, 53. 

 G-urley, Mrs. E. M., letter from, soliciting ap- 

 pointment for husband, 23. 

 Gurley, R. R., appointment as librarian solicit- 

 ed, 23, 21. 

 appointment of, recommended by T. Freling- 



huysen, 24. 

 letter from, recommending purchase of 

 Catlin's gallery, 34. 

 Guthrie, James, attendance at Establishment, 



772, 773. 

 Guyot, Prof., distribution of meteorological 

 instruments by, 476. 

 on Dr. Engelmann's letter on heights or 

 mountains, 196. 



Hagedorn, C. F., letter from, in relation to sale 



of library, 24, 32. 

 Hagcn, II., letter on Neuroptera, 186. 

 Ilaidinger, YV., presents fossils, 230. 

 on gold medal to Dr. Von Martius, 232. 

 on meteorites, 232. 

 Haldeman, S. S., memorial by, on Lowe's plan 



to cross the Atlantic, 167. 

 recommending appropriation to S. F. Baird,. 



463. 

 Hale, Chas., map of river Nile from, 251. 

 Hall, C. I-., Arctic expedition, repayment, 557. 

 Hall, Harrison, letter from, relative to pur- 

 chase of books, 56. 

 Hall, James, letter from, giving account of 



experiments of Prof. Henry at Albany, 148. 

 proposal for building stone, 615. 

 Hall, James C, appointed trustee of Corcoran 



Art Gallery, 402. 

 Ball, John II., engravings by, 693. 

 Hall of second story assigned to collections, 



320. 

 fitting up, for collections, 557, 55S, 503, 561, 569,. 



576, 5S4. 

 Halliwell, J. O., collection of MSS. bills, invento- 

 ries, &c, presented by, 90 

 Halls, completing and fitting up, appropriations 



for, 736. 

 Hamburg-American Steamship Co., free freight 



by, 184, 320. 

 Hamburg, sparrows from, 329, 330. 

 Hamburg Zoological Gardens, exchanges with,. 



211, 326. 

 Hamilton College, letter from, relative to test 



of telescope, by S. I., 123. 

 on exchange of specimens, 187. 

 Hamilton, James, bequest of $1,000 to S. I., 392,. 



413, 423, 424, 427, 572, 573, 578, 579, 721. 



