INDEX 



391 



Committee on award of Barnard Medal, 

 report of, 82, 90, 98. 



Committee on award of Henry Draper 

 Medal, report of, 55, 67, 82, 85. 



Committee on award of Lawrence Smith 

 Medal, report of, 66. 



Committee on chemical research, 91. 



Committee on experiments on velocity of 

 light, 49. 



Committee on first Henry Draper Medal, 55. 



Committee on Gilliss' observations on zones 

 of stars around the South Pole, 36. 



Committee on Harkness' magnetic observa- 

 tions, 36. 



Committee on paleontologic correlation, loi. 



Committee on revision of constitution of the 

 Academy, 38. 



Committee on solar eclipse of 1883, 63. 



Committee on tables of celestial movements, 

 42. 



Committee on transit of Venus of 1874. 38. 

 •Committee on weights, measures and coin- 

 age, 36. 45- 



Committee to cooperate with National Board 

 of Health, 50. 



Committees, appointment of first, 26. 

 remarks of Bache on, 27. 



Committees on behalf of the Government, 

 list of, 203. 

 list of reports of, 348. 



"Compass committee," 36, 215. 



Comstock, Cyrus B., 207, 271, 276, 296. 



Comstock Fund, 91, 363. 



Comstock Prize, 91, 92. 



Congress of Electricians, 54. 



Conklin, E. G., 99. 



Conness, Senator, 235. 



Constitution, amendment to, 58. 



committee on amendment to, 73, 74. 



Constitution of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, 352. 



Counterfeiting, committee on the preven- 

 tion of, 331. 



Coville, F. v., 327. 



Cox, S. S., 58. 



Cox and Murphy, meter of, 244. 



Crafts, J. M., 81. 



Craig, B. P., 240, 241. 



Customhouse at Chicago, committee on 

 building stone for, 331. 



Dahlgren, John A. B., 62. 



biographical sketch of, 123. 

 Daly, Chief Justice, of N. Y., 312. 



Dana, Edward S., 309. 



Dana, James D., 23, 30, 31, 76, 85, 223, 272, 

 279, 304. 

 biographical sketch of, 125. 

 reasons of, for resignation, 30. 

 Davis, A. McF., 10. 



Davis, Charles H., Admiral, i, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 

 8, 9, 10, II, 23, 45, 213, 215, 216, 219, 

 222, 226, 250, 256, 258, 259, 306. 

 appointed chief of Bureau of Naviga- 

 tion, 2. 

 biographical sketch of, 127. 

 letter of, to Bache, 222. 

 letter of, to Gideon Welles, 222. 

 letters of, on organization of Academy, 3. 

 relation of, to organization of Academy, 

 8. 

 Davis, Charles H., Captain, 2. 

 Davis, W. M., 95. 

 Dean, G. W., 217. 



Declaration of Independence, committees on 

 restoration of, 279. 

 first report of committee on, 281. 

 Delegates, appointment of, 56, 57, 81, 84, 



85. 92, 95, 98, 99- 

 practice of appointing, inaugurated by 



Academy, 56. 

 Demarara sugars, committee on, 264. 

 Dietrich's method of analysis, 311. 

 Diploma of the Academy, committee on, 23. 

 Distilled spirits, committee on proving and 



gauging, 239. 

 Douglass, J. W., letter of, regarding 



revenue stamps, 255. 

 Draper Fund. (See Henry Draper Fund.) 

 Draper, Henry, 55, 63, 207, 259, 260. 

 Draper, Mrs. Henry, establishment of 



Draper Medal by, 55. 

 Draper Medal. (See Henry Draper 



Medal.) 

 Dublin, University of, 57. 

 Durchmusterung, Southern, 68. 



Eckfeldt, J. R., 229. 



Eclipse of sun, 1869, committee on, 36. 



May 6, 1883, committee on, 62, 63. 

 Edison, Thomas A., 46. 



Electrical units, committee on application of 

 definitions of, 313. 



commission on, 54. 

 Electricians, congress of, 54. 

 Emmons, S. F., 92, 99. 

 Engelmann, George, 75. 



biographical sketch of, 129. 

 Evermann, B. W., 327. 

 Experiments on animals, bill relating to, 77. 



remarks of Senator Gallinger on, 78. 



