INDEX. 



789 



Page. 



Moore, W. S 71 



Moorecroft, William, ou methods of weav- 

 ing among the Ladakis 700 



Morse, Edward S., "If public libraries, 



why not public museums? '' by 769 



Mortuary ceremoBiea among Tibetans... 727 

 Moss, William, micro-photograijhs re- 

 ceived from 157 



Mothjiroof case 27 



Mounted heads of mammals exhibited at 



AVorld's Fair 142 



Mountings for individual specimens 31 



Mueller, Ferdinand von, Australian plants 



received from 176 



Munich Academy, minerals received from 65 

 Murray, John, Albatross collections to be 



studied by 81, 167, 168 



Musee Guimet 758 



Museum cases 23 



collections to illustrate religious 

 history and ceremonials. By 



Cyrus Adler 755 



methods, recent advances in 21 



Musical instruments of Tibetans 715, 744 



the collection of 119 



Kanteuil 122 



Kational Academy of Sciences, meeting of 



the 84 



Kational Academy of Sciences, papers 



read at meeting of 315 



National Cabinet of Curiosities i 



National Herbarium 174 



deposited in Depart- 

 ment of Agricul- 

 ture 175 



mounted sheets 



added to 175 



National Institution, The, organi7,ation 



of 3 



National Museum, appropriations for. ... 64 



Bibliography of, 1893 . 285 



development of the . . 3 

 educational work of 



the 18 



library 75 



list of accessions to . . 219 

 organization and scope 



of 11 



periods in the history 



of 6 



jiossibilities for the 



future 7 



publications of the ... 76 

 scope of exhibit at 



Madrid Exhibition . 89 



staff ot' 60 



taxidermy in the 41 



to Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, relations of. . 13 



Natrix fasciatus 399 



Naii t' in kau 514 



Naval models, the collection of 117 



Nealley, G. C, presents botanical collec- 

 tions from Texas 175 



Necrology 85 



Page. 

 Neolithic age, represented at Madrid Ex- 

 position 134 



Nettleton, A. B no 



Newhall, W. H 15, 183, 184 



Neumann, Julius, objects illustrative of 

 the native arts of northern China, re- 

 ceived from 132 



Niemann, F 370 



investigation of glands of 



snakes by 349 



Nomenclator Zoologicus contin ued 151 



Notes on the ethnology of Tibet. By W il- 



liam AVoodville KockhiU 663 



Nuttall, Mrs. Zelia 90, 91 



"Oceanic Ichthyology," reference to prep- 

 aration of 153 



0-koan 526 



Onyxmarbles, chemical and physicalprop- 



erties of 558 



in United States National 



Museum, catalogue of . . . 581 



localities of deposits of . . . . 561 



origin and occurrence of. . . 544 



Onyx marbles, The. By George P. Merrill . 54 1 



uses of 553 



Opisthocomus cristatus 662 



Opistoglyph snakes in United States, 



synopsis of 351 



Opistoglyphs 347 



Organization and scope of the National 



Museum 11 



Oriental antiquities, removal of the col- 

 lection of 74 



the collection of . . . . 135 

 Oriental Christian religion, exhibit of ob- 

 jects illustrating the 137 



Osborne, J. W., lithograph jiresented by. 122 



Osteological preparator 191 



Ott, Isaac, experiments ^n ith rattlesnakes 



by 388, 389 



Owen, J. S 89 



Pacific rattlesnake 445 



Pacific walrus, mounting of the 49 



Packard, A. S., access to Museum collec- 

 tions granted to 80 



Paetel's Catalogue of Mollusks 155 



Palamedea cornuta, portion of wing of. . . 661 

 Paleolithic age, represented at Madrid 



Exposition 134 



Paleozoic fossils, department of 173 



Palmer, Edward 72 



ethnological objects re- 

 ceived from 131 



plants collected in Cali- 

 fornia by 175 



work on jilauts collected 



in western Mexico by . . 175 



Palmer, Joseph 41, 45 



Palmer, William 45, 50, 73, 141, 191 



Papers referred to in Bibliography 76 



Paris Exposition, 1889 760 



Parliament of religions 760 



Pat chii 495 



Patent Office, United States, models of lo- 

 comotives and fifteen firearms lent to. . 203 



