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opment of natural history collections by, 183 ; dis- 

 tribution of second volume, Contributions to Know- 

 ledge, by, 182 ; early companions and correspondents 

 of, 163 ; economy of, in erecting National Mu- 

 seum building, 191 ; election of, to professorship in 

 Dickinson College, 165 ; first meeting of Henry 

 with, 167; friendship of, with Audubon, 163; gen- 

 ealogical tree prepared by, 158 ; genealogy of, 

 '5?; gives his library to National Museum, 290; 

 gives zoological collection to Institution, 314; grad- 

 uation of, 162; honor paid to portrait of, 188 ; hon- 

 ors bestowed on, by foreign countries, 192 ; honorary 

 member of many foreign societies, 192 ; influence of 

 ancestors on character of, 162 ; influence of, on Ameri- 

 can natural history, 180 ; introduction of laboratory 

 practice and field exploration into schools by, 165 ; 

 journal of, 200 ; long term of service of, 58 ; marriage 

 of, 165 ; memorandum from note-book of, on height 

 and weight of himself, 164; nationality of ancestors of, 

 158; new method in ichthyological work by, 173; 

 number of published writings of, 168 ; on mammals, 

 171 ; on mammals and birds of America, in Pacific 

 Railroad Reports, 715 ; on meteorological observers, 

 666; organizes corps of meteorological observers, 

 182 ; Pacific Railroad Survey reports of, 171 ; prepa- 

 ration of synonymy of North American birds by, 164 ; 

 prize awarded to, 188; remarks on international ex- 

 changes by, 407; school life of, 162; scientific edito- 

 rial work of, 184 ; special work of, in connection with 

 Smithsonian Institution, 232 ; specimens prepared by, 

 163 ; studies after graduation, 163 ; system of inter- 

 national exchanges organized by, 182 ; transfer of pri- 

 vate collections to the National Museum by, 167; 

 translation of Iconographic Cyclopedia by, 166; trib- 

 ute to character of, by Harrison Allen, 197-199; trib- 

 ute to character of, by John S. Newberry, 194-197; 

 varied ability of, 157; walking excursions of, 164; 

 work as Commissioner of Fisheries, 173 ; work during 

 Civil War, 184; work in classifying reptiles, 172; 

 work in North American herpetology, 172 



Baird, village of, named for Professor Baird, 192' 



Baird, Wm., 163 



Bairdian Period, 169 



Bairdian School of Ornithologists, 170 



Baker, Marcus, 356 



Ball, Sir Robert, on Atoms and Sunbeams, 553; on 

 Wanderings of the North Pole, 550 



Bancroft, George, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 

 65,82 



Barker, George F., comments on Connection of Op- 

 tics with Electricity, 150; on Progress in Chemistry, 

 622 ; on Progress in Physics, 558 



Barlow, Peter, 122 



Barnard, J. G. , on Problems of Rotary Motion, pre- 

 sented by the Gyroscope, the Precession of the Equi- 

 noxes, and the Pendulum, 548, 634 



Barnard, F. A. P., on Undulatory Theory of Light, 

 534 



Bartlett, John R., 466 



Bartlett, W. H. C., photographs solar eclipse of 1854, 



573 



Bartram, John, meteorological observations by, 647 



Batut (de la), Baron Eunice. See Henry Hungerford 



Batut (de la), Madame, claim on Smithson estate re- 

 turned at death of, 31 ; mother of Hungcrford, 25 



Bean, Tarleton H., 356, 366; assists in Smithsonian 

 exhibits at Centennial Exhibition, 326 



Beck, Lewis C., on Application of Chemistry to Agri- 

 culture, 612 



Beck, Senator James B., favors National Zoological 

 Park, 449 



Becker, George F., 347; tables of atomic weights by, 



Beckwith, E. G., 466 



Becquerel, A. E., 432 ; on Preservation of Copper and 

 Iron in Salt Water, 556 



Behr (von), F. F. M., President of the German Fish- 

 ery Union, 188 



Belfrage, G. W., 345 



Bell, Alexander Graham, biographical notice of, 240 ; 



fift of, to Astrophysical Observatory, 423 ; gift of, to 

 mithson fund, 239 

 Ben dire, Charles, 340, 366 

 Bequest of James Smithson, amount of, 235 

 Berlepsch, Count (von), 339 



Berlin Fishery Exhibition, effect on National Mu- 

 seum, 330; report of juries of, 188 



nadou, J. B., 356; explorations of, in Korea, 479 

 ret, James Gabriel, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 



Bern 

 Berret 



tion, 65, 82 

 Berrien, John McPherson, Regent, Smithsonian In- 



stitution, 64, 83, 208 

 Bessels, Emil, astronomical observations on Hall's Ex- 



pedition, made by, 596 

 Beutenmiiller, William, 346 



Beyer, G. , 345 



Biographies of Individuals, list of, 795 



Bibliographies of Astronomy, 708 ; of 



of Ch 

 by B 



Botany, 799 ; 

 he 



raphies of Astronomy, 708 ; o 



emistry, 799 ; of Indian Languages, published 



ureau of American Ethnology, 380; of Natu- 



ral History, 800; of Oriental Literature, 802; of Or- 



nithology, 800 ; of Physics, 802 ; of Science, 797 ; 



of Scientific Periodicals, 796 ; of the United States 



Natural Museum, 797; of Vulcanology and Seismol- 



ogy, 803 ; of Zoology, 803 

 Biddle, James, sword presented to, in section of His- 



tory, 360 

 Bigelow, Frank H., on the Solar Corona Discussed by 



Spherical Harmonics, 575 

 Bill, Cor.gessional, for the erection of observatory, 



prepared by J. Quincy Adams, 247 ; appropriating 



the mall for use of the Smithsonian Institution, 248 ; 



for Astrophysical Observatory, 481 ; giving charac- 



terization of the building of Smithsonian Institution, 



248 ; to appoint Commission on National Zoological 



Park, 449; to erect observatory from Smithsonian 



fund, 419 ; to establish library, known as " the library 



plan," 269 

 Billings, J. S., comparison of Louis Agassiz and S. F. 



Baird, 178, 179 ; estimate of Baird's work in biology, 



by, 176, 177 

 Binney, Amos, 164 

 Binney, W. G., 343 

 Biographical memoirs in Smithsonian Reports, 559 ; 



notices of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 



tion, by William Jones Rhees, 80-114 

 Birds, list of species of, by Baird, sent out by Smith- 



sonian Institution, 169 

 Birds of North America, by S. F. Baird, 169; pub- 



lications by the Smithsonian Institution on, 741-743 

 Blake, Wm. P., assists in Smithsonian exhibits in 



Centennial Exhibition, 327 

 Bland, Thomas, 343 

 Boas, Franz, 356 

 Boehmer, Geo. H., 412 

 Bollman, C. H., 346 

 Bolograph, use of, 218 

 Bolometer, basis of action of, 217; description of ap- 



paratus employed in new method of using, 436 ; in- 



vention of, by Langley, 432 ; method of use of, in 



determining heat-lines in spectrum, 433 ; new method 



of using, 435; result of work of, 442 

 Bolton, H. Carrington, on Bibliography of Chemistry, 



626; on Chemistry, 622 

 Booth, James C. , on Recent Improvements in the 



Chemical Arts, 613 

 Booth, Newton, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 



65, 83 

 Botanical, papers, miscellaneous, published by Institu- 



tion, 705 

 Botanical science, services rendered to, by Institu- 



tion, 697 ; work in Institution, beginning of, 698 

 Boucard, A., 338 

 Bourke, John G., 356 

 Bowen, Sayles Jenks, Regent, Smithsonian Insti- 



tution, 65, 83 

 Boys, C. J., on Electric Spark Photographs of Flying 



Bullets, 558; on Quartz Fibers, 558 

 Brady, J. F., 346 

 Bransfoid, J. F., 356 

 Breckinridge, John Cabell, Regent, Smithsonian In- 



stitution, 64, 84 

 Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, Regent, 



Smithsonian Institution, 64, 84 

 Breese, Sidney, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 



62, 65, 84 



Breguet, Antoine, 240 

 Brewer, Thomas M., 163 



Brewster, Sir David, 141 ; remarks on Henry by, 122 

 Brockhaus, Konversations- Lexicon of, 166 

 Brown, Rev. Frederick, genealogist of the Hungerford 



family, (j 



Bruce, Minor W., 456 

 Bryan, F. T., 467 



