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National Musueiu, national herbarium xlii 



organization and staff 82 



postage XXXVIII 



plans for additional building xliii 



preservation of collections xxvii 



printing and binding xxxviii 



purchase of specimens xlii 



publications 89 



rent of workshops xxxviii 



report of assistant secretary in charge 81 



report of Secretary 23 



researches . 86 



transportation of exhibits xli 



visitors 38 



National Zoological Park, accessions 68, 71, 72 



animals in - 71, 73 



boundaries, readjustment of 69 



elephant house xlvii 



exhibit at St. Louis 69 



finances of xlv, liii 



new houses, etc 67 



personnel 69 



report of secretary 27 



report of superintendent 67 



Natterer, Johann, quoted 413 



Nests of fishes 403-581 



Newcomb, Simon, on the scientific investigator 92 



on distance of sun 106 



Newell, F. H., on the Reclamation Service 92 



Nichols, F. S .'- - 52 



Nomenclature of certain birds 91 



Norris, Richard 74, 81 



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 Oberholzer, H. C 37, 89, 91 



Observatory, Astrophysical, of the Institution xliii, xlix, lii, 28, 74 



Observatory, Solar, of the Carnegie Institution 29, 83 



Olney, Richard, Regent of the Institution x, xiv, 2 



Ornithological Congress, Fourth International 23 



Orientalists, Fourteenth International Congress of 22 



Osgood, W. H., on Scaphoceros Tyrelli 91 



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Painter, J. H 32,36,37 



Palmer, Edward, on land shells of central Mexico 91 



Panama Canal, papers by W. H. Burr, and W. C. Gorgas 93 



Parental care among fresh-water fishes (Gill) 403-531 



instinct, origin of 409 



Paton, Stewart, Naples Table appointee. . ." 12 



Peabody, Charles 42 



Permanent Committee of Board of Regents xiv 



de Peyster, Gen. John Watts, gift of books 19 



Photographs on wood, by T. W. Smillie 90 



