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INDEX. 



Page. 



Banded rattlesnake 426 



Banded water snake 399 



Barringer, Paul B., on bite of coral snake. 354 



Bartleuian, R. M 70, 73 



Bartolzzi 122 



Basketry ot California tribes of Indians. 129 



Baur, George, reference to paper by 3W9 



Bavarian Museum at Munich 759 



Beale, Hon. Truxton 70, 135,751 



Bean, Barton A., assistant curator 73,153 



leference to paper by . . *iS9 

 Bean, Tarleton H.. honorary curator of 



department of fishes 69, 72, 110, 152 



Bean, Tarleton H., referenceto papers by. 389 

 Beecher, CharlesE., crinoid slabs received 



from 173 



Beecher, Charles E., reference to paper by . 390 



Belding, L., reptiles contributed by 151 



Belonopterus chileusis 658 



Bendire, Maj. Charles E 71 



Bendire, Maj. Charles E., continues work 

 on second volume of Life Histories of 



North American Birds 148 



Bendire, Maj. Charles E., honorary cura- 

 tor of the oological collections 147,148 



Bendire, Maj, CharlesE.," TheCowbirds," 



by 5Sr 



Bendire, Maj. Charles E., reference to 



papers by '^90 



Benedict, A. L., fossils received from 173 



Benedict, James E., assistant curator 164 



experiments on exhi- 

 bition jars by 33 



preparation of exhibit 



forWorld'sFairby. 168 

 reference t o papers 



by 290 



work of 166 



Benguiat, Hadji Ephraim 114 



Benjamin, Marcus 114 



Bensou, Lieut. H. C U. S. A 71, 149 



Bergman, Carl, groups of figures for Mad- 

 rid Exjiosition mounted by 130 



Bering Strait area, plate armor from 632 



"Biblical World," qiu)tation from the 136 



Bibliography ot the Museum. 1893 385 



Bierstadt animals as models for the 



artist 42 



Bigelow, R. P 73 



reference to paper by 390 



Birds, additions to the collection of 74 



department of 144 



families of, represented at the 



World's Fair 145 



Birds" eggs, department of 147 



Birds, The weapons and wings of. By 



F. A.Lucas 653 



Bissinger, Erhard 70 



.Syrian ethnological ob- 

 jects received from.. 132 



Blasius, Dr., quoted 148 



Blatchley, W. S., reference to paper by.. 391 



Board of Regents, resolution of the first . . 4 



Body armor, description of 631 



Boettcher, F. L. J . ,... 72 



Page. 

 Bogle, George, descrijjtion of dress of 



Tibetans by 689 



Tibetan dance described 



by 716 



Bolies, Lieut. T. Dis, U. S. N., death of. . . 86 



reference to paper by 391 

 Bollman, Charles Harvey, reference to 



paper by 391 



Booth, E. T., taxidermist 43 



Boots and shoes worn by Tibetans 686, 746 



Bourke, Capt. John G., U. S. A 71 



Brauer, Dr. F., European Muscidse re- 

 ceived from 64, 159 



Bremen, Natural History Museum in ... . 43 

 Brett, Walter, bird parasites received 



from 165 



Brewster, William 27 



Brezina, Dr. A 65 



minerals received in ex- 

 change from 179 



Brigham, William T., ethnological ob- 

 jects received from 63 



Brinton, Dr. D. G 90 



British America, list of accessions from.. 264 



British Museum of Natural History 43 



Brown, Herbert, contributes rejitiles 150 



Brown, J. Stanley, lichens and mosses ob- 

 tained in AlasKa by 141 



Brown, Montagu 43 



Brown, Sevellon A 110 



Brown, S. C, registrar 189 



Brunetti, E., European diptera received 



from 64 



Buchenau, Franz, plants received from.. 176 



Buildings and labor 191, 204 



Bulletin No. 176, U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey 174 



Bulletin of U. S. National Museum 77 



Bumba, or holy- water vase 741 



Bure, shirt of silk worn by Tibetans 686 



Bureau of American Republics 91 



Burmese dominoes 528 



Burns, Frank 71 



Butterworth, Benjamin 114 



Buysson, H. du, insects received from ... 64 



Byers, Lyall J 70 



Call, S.J 71 



Callothrus robustus 599 



Calwell, Lieut. J. C, U. S. N 89 



Camp, J.H 73 



Cauby, William M 291 



reference to paper by. 305 

 Canterbury Museum. Christ Church, N. Z., 

 starfishes and ophiurans received from. 64. 165 



Carlton, M. A., reference to paper by 391 



Carpenter, J.S 71 



Castan's " Panopticum ' 52 



Castillo, Don Antonio Gdnovaa del 87 



Catalogue entries 68 



" Catalogue of Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy 

 Korean Collections in National Mu- 

 seum," publication of 131 



"Catalogue of the Crabs of the family 

 Maiida? in the United States National 



Museum," publication of 166 



