732 INDEX. 



Page. 



Balfour, A. J. , psychical research by 678 



Balloon, Zeppelin's, trial of 217-222 



Ballooning, progress in 188-193 



scientific 114 



Balloons, meteorological observations with 190 



Ball, Sir Robert, on :\rars 157-166 



Bangs, Ontrani, Innls from 53 



Barnard, Professor, discoveries by 142 



Barus, Carl, cited 296 



researches by 11 



Basketry collection from California 70 



Bastard, M. , escapes from Chinese 610 



Bats, collections of 53 



Bauer, Carl Ernst von, grant to 11 



Beattie, J. C. , <in Becciuerel rays 382 



Beaver, habit.s of 517 



in National Zoological Park 51 7-522 



the outlaw, character study of 517 



Bec<iuere], Henri, radiations discovere^l by 331, 380 



Beccpierel rays, experiments with 381 



researches in 372 



Bel, excavation of temjile <if 543, 544 



Bell, Alexander Graham 21 5 



executive committee report by lvii 



exhibits telephone in 187«) 341 



invents telephone 330 



meml)er of committee on graduate study xvii, 3 



on aerodrome experiment 199 



on Kidder becjuest xiv 



on plan for graduate study xxvii 



Smithsonian Regent x, 4 



Bell's theorem, discovery of 470 



Benitz, Alfred, live peccary from 90 



Bennett, James Gordon, Stanley sent to Africa by 421 



Bentley, Edward M., underground conduit designed by 347 



Bequest, Kidder, expenditure of xiii 



Wallace C. Andrews provisional xiii 



Berendt, Carlos H. , ^laya vocabulary from 67 



Berger, Philippe, paper by 114 



Berthelot, M., on Brown-Sequard 114 



Berzelius, Jacob, determination of atomic weights by 239 



Bethge, Lieut. D. von, on Zeppelin balloon 221 



Bevier, Ix)uis, researches by 10 



Bianco, Salvatore Lo, on preservation of animals 58, 116 



Bibliography, of chemical dissertations 16, 112 



of Mississijjpi 117 



of study of history 117 



Bidwell, Shelford, on curiosities ( )f vision 113 



Billings, John S., on progress in medicine during nineteenth century 637-644 



Biological additions to Museum 52 



Biology, greatest discovery in 462 



growth of, in nineteenth century 4H1-478 



marine 493 



Bird flight, Rayleigh on 195 



