Index 



849 



Albany Academy, 523; work of, for Government 

 of United States in testing building materials, and on 

 new process for procuring alcohol, 151; work of, 

 on meteorology in connection with agriculture, 146 



Henry and the Royal Society, work in bibliography, 

 789 



Henry, Mary A., gives date of experiments in Albany 

 Academy in transmission of signals, 126 



Henry, William, father of Joseph Henry, 117 



Henshaw, Henry W., 370 



Herndon, William L., 357 



Herschel, Sir John, 223 



Hertz, Heinrich, 148; experiments of, 150 



Hewitt, J. N. B., 370 



Hilgard, Eugene W. , on carbon disulphide, 616; on 

 Geology of Lower Louisiana, 634 ; on prevention of 

 counterfeiting bank notes, 616 



Hilgard, J. C., on Tides and Tidal Action, 548 



HiU, Benjamin Harvey, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 64, 97 



Hill, Nathaniel Peter, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 97 



Hillebrand, W. F., 352 



Hilliard, Henry Washington, Regent, Smithsonian 

 Institution, 62, 64, ^8, 97 



Hints on Public Architecture, by Robert Dale Owen, 

 first publication of the Institution, 496 



Hitchcock, Edward, on Surface Geology, 632 



Hitchcock, Romyn, 357 



Hitt, Robert Roberts, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 3, 97 



Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, Regent, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 64, 98 



Hoar, George Frisbie, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 

 64, 98 



Hodge, Frederick Webb, 370 



Hodgkins fund prizes, papers submitted for, 623-626 



Hodgkins medal of the Smithsonian Institution, 245 



Hodgkins, Thomas George, bequest of, to Smithson 

 fund, 241 ; biographical sketch of, 241 



Hoffinan, W. J., 357, 370, 381; on Indian jugglery, 

 388 



Holmes, Wm. H., 370, 385, 395; on costume among 

 American Indians, 385 



Holmgren, F., on Color Blindness in its Relations to 

 Accidents by Rail and Sea, 535 



Hornaday, Wm. T., 446 



Homblower, Josiah, 361 



Horsford, Eben N., lectures on Munitions of War by, 

 618 



Hough, Franklin H., 250; on Periodical Phenomena 

 in Plants and Animals, 663, 664 



Hough, William Jarvis, Regent, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 51, 62, 63, 98 



House of Representatives shows generous apprecia- 

 tion of Smithson bequest, 26 



Howard, L. O., on Department of Insects, National 

 Museum, 344-346 



Hoy, Philo R., 163 



Hubbard, Gardiner Greene, Regent, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 65, 98 



Huggins on Results of Spectrum Analysis Applied to 

 the Heavenly Bodies, 535 



Hungerford, Henry James, nephew of Smithson and 

 principal legatee, 19, 20, 25; place and date of death 

 of, 25 ; title of, 25 



Hungerfords of Studley, ancestors of Smithson' s 

 mother, i 



Hunt, T. Sterry, on relation of Chemistry to Geology, 

 615 



Hunter, Henry C., assists J. M. Gilliss in expedition 

 to Chile, 594 



Huxley, Thomas H., 406; Jubilee Year Address by, 

 558; remarks of, on Fish-culture in America and 

 Great Britain, 188 



Hyatt, Alpheus, on Genesis of the Arietidae, 685 



Hydrography of the Ohio River, treatise on, published 

 by Institution, 462 



Hypsometric Map of United States, prepared by 

 Charles A. Schott, 784 



Ilarregui (y) Salazar, Governor of Yucatan, 478 

 Immediate Exchange of the Official Journals, Par- 

 liamentary Annals and Documents, provision for a 

 convention to consider the, 411 



Indexes to Chemical Literature published by Institu- 

 tion, 623 



Indian Linguistic Collections, plan by Wm. W. Turner 

 for. 379 



Indians, American, beliefs among, 392 ; ceremonials 

 of, 394 ; classification of, by Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy^ 373> 374, 37 6 : classification of linguistic char- 

 acters of, 377 ; collection of vocabularies of, by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 757; collections relating 

 to, made by J. W. Powell, 394 ; costume among, 

 385; games of, 388; habitations among, 584; handi- 

 craft among, 385 ; hieroglyphic system of, 383 ; idea 

 of property right among, 392 ; investigation of, 372 ; 

 laws of marriage among, 391 ; quarrying and min- 

 ing among, 387 ; sign-language among, 381 ; social 

 organizations among, 388; stocks, table of, of Xorth 

 American, 377; symbols of belief among, 393 ; syn- 

 opsis of, by Gallatin, 379 ; system of tribal laws 

 among, 390 ; tribal society among, 389 



Induction, discovery of, by Michael Faraday, 526; dis- 

 covery of, by Henry, 526 ; magneto-electric, date of 

 discovery of, 127 



Ingalls, John James, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 



65, 99 



Ingersoll, Joseph R., 47, 269 



Insects, publications by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 on, 730-732 



International Congress of Electricians, name of Henry 

 given to unit of inductive resistance by, 126 



International Exchange Conferences at Brussels, 410 



International Exchange of Official Documents, Scien- 

 tific and Literary Publications, provisions of con- 

 vention for, 411 



International Exchanges, 23; J. S. Billings on, 819; 

 D. C. Gilman on, 809 



International Fishery Exhibition of Berlin, 288 



International Geographical Congress, in Paris, plan 

 of, for international exchanges, 409, 410 



Introductions to Xorth American Ethnology, 395, 499 



Invertebrate Animals, Smithsonian publications on, 

 681-686, 728 



Invertebrate Paleontology, list of memoirs on, 692 



Irving, Washington, Honorary Member of Smithso- 

 nian Institution, 60 



Ives, Joseph C., expedition of, 180 



Jackson, Andrew, 361 



Jackson, Charles T., 465 



Jackson, T. C., 349 



Janssen, J., 421 



Jardin des Plantes, origin of, 444 



Jefferson, Thomas, 360 



Jeffreys, J. Gwyn, 343 



Jenkins, Timothy, member of committee on final or- 

 ganization of Smithsonian Institution, 61 



Jenney, W. P., 352 



Jewett, Charles C., becomes Superintendent of Boston 

 Public Library, 284 ; biographical sketch of, 274, 

 275; library work of, 816; method proposed by, for 

 securing complete catalogue of all libraries in United 

 States, 276; Notices of Public Libraries of the U. S. 

 of America by , 277 ; on a plan for a general catalogue, 

 787 ; on the construction of catalogues of libraries, 

 278 ; plan of, for Smithsonian Library, 272 ; retire- 

 ment of, from the Institution, 283 



Jillson, Joseph, 357 



Joad, George, 351 



Johnson, Andrew, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 

 64, 99, 483 



Johnson, Samuel W., on Agricultural Chemistry, 615 



Johnson, Walter R., pleads use of Smithsonian be- 

 quest in fostering researches in physical science, 35 



Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, Regent, Smithsonian 

 Institution, 64, 99 



Johnston, William Preston, Regent, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 64, 100 



Joessel, J. G., 225 



Joule, James P., 148, gives priority to Henry in con- 

 struction of electro-magnetic engines, 138 



Jouy, P. L., 357; work in Korea of, 479 



Judd, Orange, 515 



Kalb, Baron de, 361 



Kane, Elisha Kent, 467 ; observations on terrestrial 



magnetism by, 530; on Tidal Observations in the 



Arctic Seas, 548 

 Keate, Lumley Hungerford, brother of Elizabeth Keate 



Macie, 8 



