404 



Bee, cell of, 234.. 



Belemuocrinus, 180. 



Beluga leucas, 272. 



Bermuda, coral reefs of, 325. 



Birds, of Porto Rico, 248; distribution 

 of North American, 259 ; donation of 

 the Lafresnaye collection of, 385. 



Bitumen, new kind of, 306. 



Blake, Prof. W. P. Account of an 

 Earthquake at Sau Francisco, Cal., 

 236. 



Borax in California, 262. 



Boston Public Library, privileges 

 granted by, 235. 



Botany, report of the curator of, 121, 

 377. 



Boulders, transportation of by arctic 

 currents, 245. 



BouvE, T. T. On the financial condi- 

 tion of the Society, 12; eulogy on 

 Prof Hitchcock, 35. 



Box Turtle, varieties of, 65. 



Brewer, Prof. On the existence of 

 plants in warm springs, 181. 



Brigham, W. T. On the adaptation of 

 Wardian cases to scientihc observa- 

 tion, 6; on animal and vegetable life 

 in the hot springs of California, 58. 



Brosmius flavescens, 274. 



Bryant, Dr. H. Donation of birds, 

 17; remarks on the type of Buteo in- 

 signatus Cassin, 90; remarks on Sphy- 

 ropiciis varius, 91 ; a list of birds from 

 Porto Ivico i)resented to the Smithso- 

 nian Institution by Messrs. R. Swift 

 and George Latimer, 248; on the oc- 

 currence of human skeletons in a cave 

 in Moneague Island, 364; donation of 

 the Lafresnaye collection of birds, 385. 



Bufo americanus, 272. 



Building committee, report of, 160. 



Building fund, subscribers to, 142. 



"Bull-dog" Cod, 68. 



Bunodes stella, 342. 



Buteo insignatus, type of, 90. 



By-Laws, change in, 16, 185. 



Cabot, J. E. Notice of an attack by a 

 thrasher on a whale, 308. 



Caesia, acid tartrates of, 16. 



Calcite from Martinsburg, 97. 



California, arctic current on coast of, 

 63; Jackson's journej^ through, 224; 

 miocene formation of, 262; bitumin- 

 ous oil in, 262. 



Calluna vulgaris, 63. 



Canis argentatus, 265. 



crucigera, 265. 



fulvus, 269. 



lagopus, 265, 269. 



lui)us, 265. 



vulpes, 265. 



Carbo cormoranus, 268. 



Carcharias tigris, 81. 



Carchesium pol;^pinum, 231. 



Castor canadensis, 270. 



zibethicus, 266. 



Cat, supernumerary toes in, 246. 



Catodon, 266. 



Caudina areuata, 354. 



Cells of bees, 278. 



Central America, polyps and corals of, 



323. 

 Cephalopoda, shells of, 24 ; progression- 



al and degradationaL forms ot, 302. 

 Certhia anicricaua, 80. 

 Certhiohi Huvcola, 252. 

 Cervus tanuidius 265. 

 Chamcerlai;^, S. N. On spawning 



season of the eel, 68. 

 Champlain, Lake, lish fauna of, 64. 

 Charadrius auratus, 267. 



semipalniatus, 267. 



squatarola, 267. 



Chester, Mass., Discovery of emery in, 



84; minerals associated with the em- 

 ery of, 320. 

 Chiastolite, dissection of, 25. 

 Chirodota lasvG, 354. 



oolitica, 354. 



Chlorite, 322. 



Chloritoid of Chester, 321. 



Chrysotes, 256. 



C'istudo virginica, varieties of, 65. 



Clark, Prof. H. J. On the Vorticel- 



lidan parasite of Hydra, 223 ; on tlie 



vestibular bristle of V^orticellidas, 231. 

 Climate, pleistocene, of Europe, 241. 

 Clinochlore of Chester, 321. 

 Clupea, 275. 



sprattus, 269. 



Coccyzus minor, 255. 



Cockroach, mode of driving away, 79. 



Cod, malformations of, 68; habits of, 



103 ; in Labyador, 273. 

 Colaptes auratus, 92. 

 Columba raontana, 257. 



passeriua, 257. 



zenaida, 257. 



Colymbus glacialis, 218. 



septentrionalis, 268. 



Comatula, development of, 40. 

 Committee, auditing, appointment of, 



35, 364. 

 Committee, building, report of 160. 



nominating, 35, 334, 385. 



publishing, announcement 



of, 198. 

 Committee on subscription to working 



fund, 15. 

 Communications, list of, read in 1864-5, 



115; in 1865-6,365. 



Communications, Verbal, by 

 Agassiz, A., 14, 40, 222, 240. 

 Atwood, Capt. N. E., 11, 65, 68, 81, 103, 



182, 322. 

 Bouv6, T. T., 12, 15, 16, 102. 

 Bryant, Dr. H., 96, 364. 

 Chamberlain, S. N., 68. 

 Cook, J. P., 16. 

 Eddy, Rev. E. B., 93. 

 Gould, Dr. A. A., 211. 

 Hall, A. F., 107. 

 Hyatt, A., 19, 24, 302. 

 Jackson, Dr. C. T., 17, 72, 97, 102, 240, 



245, 262, 303, 308. 

 Jackson, Dr. J. B. S., 246. 

 Jeffries, Dr. B. J., 19, 97. 

 Lincoln, Hon. F. W., 44. 



