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Index 



Court of Chancery, decree of, giving Smithson be- 

 quest to the United States, 30 



Coville, F. V., on Department of Botany, National 

 Museum, 350, 351 



Cox, Samuel Sullivan, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 63, 87 ; report of committee on death of, 75 



Craig, Benjamin F., work in Smithsonian chemical 

 laboratory by, 617 



Crawford, Thomas, 361 



Crittenden, Senator, John J., views of, on formation 

 of library, 267 



Cross, Whitman, 347, 348, 352 



Culbertson, Thaddeus, explorations by, 463 



Culin, Stewart, 356 



Cullom, Shelby Morse, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 65, 88 



Curtin, Jeremiah, 370 



Gushing, Frank Hamilton, 370, 386, 387, 388; assists 

 on Smithsonian exhibits at Centennial Exposition, 

 327 



Custine, Comte de, 360 



Cutter, Charles A., remarks of, on Jewett's catalogue 

 plan, 273 



Cyclopaedia of Indian Tribes, 395 



Dall, Wm. H., 170, 343, 353, 356; account of corre- 

 spondence of Professor Baird with the officers of the 

 Hudson Bay Company, 181 ; on Department of 

 Mollusks, National Museum, 342-344 ; on Miocene 

 Faunae, 683 ; surveys of, 182 



Dallas, George Mifflin, Chancellor and Regent, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 64, 62, 88; delivers address at 

 laying corner-stone of Smithsonian Institution, 256 ; 

 endorses the election of Henry as Secretary of Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 141 



Dana, James Dwight, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 64, 88, 163, 164 



Darwin, Charles, 150 



Davenport, Thomas, experiments with Henry mag- 

 nets, 139 ; makes engine to run on circular track, 139 



Davis, C. H., translation of Gauss's Theoria Motus 

 Corporum Ccelestium by, 566 



Davis, David, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 65, 88 



Davis, Garrett, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 64, 89 



Davis, Henry Winter, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 64, 89 



Davis, Jefferson, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 64, 

 89 ; favors acceptance of the Smithson bequest, 26 ; 

 on Committee on final organization of Smithsonian 

 Institution, 51 ; secures return of money lost in State 

 bonds, 78, 483 



Davis, John, influence in final organization of Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 55 



Dayton, William Lewis, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 64, 89 



Dean, George W., longitude observations made by, 599 



Deane, James, on Fossil Foot-prints in Connecticut 

 Valley, 693 



Decorative Art among American Indians, investiga- 

 tions by W. H. Holmes on, 382 



Deep Sea Fishes of the North Atlantic Basin, 499 



Deering, Nathaniel Cobb, Regent, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 65, 90 



Delafield, Richard, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 

 65, 90, 261 



Delano, Columbus, honorary member of Smithsonian 

 Institution, 60 



Delaunay, Charles, on Velocity of Light, 535 



De St. Fond, F., tour of, with Smithson, 10 



Devens, Charles, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 90 



Devonshire, Duke of, 406 



Dewar, James, lecture on Magnetic Properties of 

 Liquefied Oxygen, 531 



Dewey, Frederic P., chemical work for the Institu- 

 tion, 621 



Dickinson, Henry Louis, half-brother of Smithson, 22 



Dolphin, Baird's, 193 



Domestic wares, collections of native, 386 



Donaldson, Thomas, assists on Smithson exhibits at 

 Centennial Exhibition, 327 



Dorsey, J. Owen, 370, 381 



Douglas, James, 352 



Douglass, Stephen Arnold, Regent, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 65, 91 



Downes, John, prepares tables of occultations, 576 



Downing, Andrew J., design of, for planting the Mall, 

 263 ; vase erected to memory of, 263 



Draper, Henry, on construction 01 a silvered-glass 

 telescope, 603 



Draper, John W., 432 



Dresden Royal Library, gifts of, to Institution Library, 

 295 



Drummonds, Messrs., of Charing Cross, bankers to 

 Smithson, 19 



Duchemin, Emile, 225 



Dunglison, Robley, Professor of University of Virginia, 

 plan of, for the organization of Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 32 



Duponceau, Peter S., 481 ; reasons for change of name 

 of National Institute, 44 



Dupreez, F., on Atmospheric Electricity, 532 



Easter Island, collection from, 755 



Edmunds, George Franklin, Regent, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 64, 91 ; introduces bill for National Zo- 

 ological Park, 449 



Ehrenberg, Christian G. , work of, translated by Baird, 

 164 



Electricity, discoveries of Michael Faraday in, 527; 

 discoveries of Henry in, 527 



Ellet, Charles, 462 



Elliott, J. D., 360 



Elsdale, Lieut.-Col. H., on Aerial Navigation as studied 

 by Langley, 224 



Emery, Matthew Gault, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 65, 91 



Emory, W. H., 466 



Emory, William H., 181 



Emmons, George T., 356 



Emmons, S. F., 347 



Emperor Frederick does honor to Baird in Berlin, 

 189 



Endlich, Frederic M., work of, in Smithsonian chemical 

 laboratory, 620 



English, Wm. Hayden, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 65, 91 ; remarks in Congress on value of Smith- 

 sonian Contributions to Knowledge, 493 



Espy, James P., Memoirs on Meteorology, by, when 

 published, 496; pleads for the establishment of a 

 meteorological bureau through Smithson bequest, 

 35 ; work in meteorology by, 649 



"Establishment" of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 changes in membership of, 60; duties of, 59; hon- 

 orary members of, 60; meetings of, 60; statutory 

 members of, 59 



Ethnographic collections in the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 766 



Ethnology of Thibet, by W. W. Rockhill, 480 



Evans, French S., 256 



Evans, George, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 62- 

 64, 92 



Evans, John, 465 



Everett, Edward, 27^3; on Jewett's catalogue plan, 278 



Exchange bureaus, international, 411 



Exchange of books, by Royal Library of France, 398; 

 by United States Government, 398, 406-408; efforts 

 of Alexandre Vattemare to promote, 398 



Exchange office of Smithsonian Institution, clerical 

 work of, 417 



Exchange of publications by American Philosophical 

 Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



397 



Exchange of specimens by the National Museum, 364 

 Exchanges, History of the Smithsonian, 397 

 Exchange system of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 agencies of, in Europe, 404 ; appreciation of, by 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 405 ; 

 appropriations of Congress for, 413; co-operation 01 

 Royal Society of London in, 400, 401 ; cost of, 413 ; 

 description of, by Henry, 397, 406 ; distribution of 

 Government publications through, 405 ; influence of 

 Poinsett in inaugurating, 55 ; methods of, 414 ; 

 records of, 417; statement of Baird regarding, 408 ; 

 statistics of, 416, 417 



Exchange systems, early efforts to establish, 398 ; in- 

 ternational conferences relative to, 410 

 Executive Committee becomes Advisory Committee, 

 63; duties of, 63; number of meetings held by, 63; 

 residence of members of, 63 

 Exhibition work of National Museum, 332 

 Expedition, to Africa, National Museum sends a nat- 

 uralist with, 480; to Alaska and Siberia to establish 

 telegraph, 476 ; to Commander Islands, under Leon- 

 hard Stejneger, 479 



