730 INDEX. 



I'HKC. 



AKricultural colleges, petition from xv 



Air, aiK'ietit ideas about the 233 



molecular eomposition of 159 



nature and jiroperties of 13 



Air-sliip, Zei»i>elin, trial of L'i 7-222 



Airy, Professor, on river deltas 27() 



Alaska, 1 ireeding of Arctic fox in 527 



exploration of 42S 



plants from 54 



Alaskan exj>eilition, collections from 52 



Albert Kdward Lake, exploration of 441 



Alger, Kussell A., member of Sniitlisoniau Kstablishment ix 



resignation of I 



Algon(|uian Indians, researches among BO 



Alkaline earths, discovery of nature of 235 



Alteneck, Von Hefner, electric dynamo of 335) 



Alternating current transformer 350 



Aluminum works at Niagara 352 



American ethnology. (.SVr Bureau of Ethnology.) 



American Historical Association, extra reports authorized i.xiii 



report of 117 



Ames, Dr. Roger 1'., study of yellow fever l)y G(i3 



Ancient desemers or steelyards, S«')keland on 551-564 



Andes, exploration of 42S 



Andrews, Charles M., paper by 117 



Andrews, Thomas, researches by 31 ,s 



Andrews, Wallace C, conditional be(|Uest of xiii 



Andrews, William Given, ]>aper by 117 



Angell, James B.. mendjer of committee on graduate study xvii, 3 



[Smithsonian Regent x, xi, 4 



Animal pictures, by ])ugmore 507-515 



Antarctic explorations during 19th century 425 



Anthroi)ological additions to Museum 52 



Antioch, plain of, ruins in 535 



Ai>propriations and expenditures xxix-i,vii, (5, 8 



Archibald, Douglas, kite ol)servations b^ 224 



Arc lamps, experiments with 334, 337 



history of 342 



Arctic explorations during 19th century 422 



in the Yermak 450 



exjilorers, work of 422 



fox, breeding of, Varigny on 527-533 



habits of 527 



ice, thickness of 453 



ocean, quantity of organisms in 505 



temperature of water in 454 



Arizona, explorations in ^ 60 



]tetrifie(i forests of 23 



Armstrong, Sir W. G., builder of "Yermak" 450 



Art collections, Smithsonian 18 



Articulate speech, movement of air in 9, 10 



Asia, exploration of, during 19th century 429 



Assurbanipal, discovery of palace of .,.....,..., , , 537 



