OF SMITHSONIAN PUBLICATIONS. 267 



Oceanic bonito [Orcynus pflamys), occurrence of, in Vineyard Sound — V. N. 



Edwards. (P 187H) 332 



Odling, W. Scientific work of Thomas Graham. (R. 1871) '249 



Okhler, A. Stone cists near Highland, Madison county, Illinoia. (R. 1879.) 345 



Oersted, 11. C, memoir of, by E. De Beaumont. (R. 18G8) .-_ 224 



Officers — 



and establishment of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum. 449 

 collaborators, employe-, etc., of Smithsonian Institution, National Mu- 

 seum, Geological Survey, Bureau of Ethnology, and Fish Commis- 

 sion, directory of 466 



and Regents of Smithsonian Institution, 1846, list of N 



Ohio- 

 ancient earthworks in, sketch of — I. Dille. (R. 1866) 214 



ancient works in, descriptions of — 0. "Whittlesey 37 



Ashland county, earthworks in— G. W. Hill. (R. 1877) 32:{ 



Ashtabula county, double-walled earthwork in — S. D. Peet. (R. 1876.) 299 



Holmes county, flint instruments in — H. B. Case. (R. 1877) 323 



Kelley's Island, climate of— G. C. Huntington. (R. 1866) 214 



Marietta, meteorological observations at — S. P. Hildreth; J. Wood __ 120 



northern, antiquities of— G. W. Hill. (R. 1874) 286 



Perry county, antiquities of — W. Anderson. (K. 1874) 286 



Trumbull county, mound in — F. Miller. (R. 1877) . 323 



Ohio river, habits of black bass of the — J. Eoff. (R. 1854) 75 



Ohio river, suggestions for improvement of navigation of — C. Ellet, Jr 13 



Oil- 

 coal, explosibility of— Z. Allen. (R. 1861) ._ 149 



porpoise, manufacture of — C. Cook. (P. 1878) 332 



rock, or petroleum, history of — T. S. Hunt. (R. 1861) 149 



Oil-shark of southern California— D. S. Jordan; C. H. Gilbert. (P. 1880.) 425 



Old-World birds in National Museum, catalogue of — R. Ridqway. (P. 1881.) 467 



Oligocene fossils, check-list of — T. A. Conrad 200 



Olmos, Peru, account of solar eclipse at — J. M. Gilliss 100 



Olmsted, D. Aurora borealis, recent secular period of 81 



Olney, S. T. List of Rhode Island algae 241 



Omaha myth— J. O. Dorsey. (E. 1879-80) 476 



Oolog}', North American. Part i. Raptores and fissirostres — T. M. Brewer__ 89 



Oology of Kerguelen Island — J. H. Kidder; E. Coues 294 



Opening and closing of Kennebec river, Maine — R. H. Gardiner. (R. 1858.) 109 



Opheosaurus ventralis, remarks on osteology of — R. "W. Shufeldt. (P. 1881.) 467 

 Orbit— 



and phenomena of meteoric fire-ball — J. H. Coffin 221 



of Neptune, investigation of, with tables of its motion — S. Newcomb _. 199 



of Uranus, inve.•^tigation of, with tables of its motion — S. Nkwcomb 262 



