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Index 



Seaton, William Winston, Regent, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 62, 65, 107, 254; remarks of Henry on ser- 

 vices of, 69 



Secchi, Father, astrophysical work of, 529 ; on Electri- 

 cal Rheometry, 529 



Secretary, acting, of Smithsonian Institution, how 

 chosen, 61 



Secretary of Smithsonian Institution, assistants of, how 

 appointed, 61 ; duties of, 61 ; significance of name, 61 



Secretary's library, Smithsonian Institution, 299 



Seely, F. A., on Time-keeping in Greece and Rome, 

 544 



Self-induction, date of discovery of, 126 



Senate Committee on Judiciary reports in favor of ac- 

 cepting the Smithson bequest, 26; discusses the 

 Smithson bequest, 26 



Serials, check-list of, published by Institution, 791 



Shea, John G. , editor of The Library of American Lin- 

 guistics, 497 



Shepherd, Alexander Roby, Regent, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 65, 108 



Sherman, John, Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 65, 

 1 08 



Sherman, William Tecumseh, Regent, Smithsonian 

 Institution, 65, 108, 329 



Shoemaker, Paul, 357 



Silliman, Benjamin, 141; Honorary Member of Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 60 



Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., lectures on Earth, Air, Fire, 

 and Water, 614 



Simpson, Charles T., on Fossil Unionida;, 685 



Sims, Alexander D., member of committee on final 

 organization of Smithsonian Institution, 51 



Singleton, Otho Robards, Regent, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 64, 108 



Smith, Herbert H., 346 



Smith, John B., 345 



Smith, J. Lawrence, lectures on chemistry, 614 



Smithson Almanac, plans for printing of, 481 



Smithson bequest, acceptance of, by Congress, 28 : an- 

 nouncement to Congress of, 26 ; appreciation shown 

 by House of Representatives, 26 ; bill concerning, 

 with Museum clause, passes the Senate, 50; bill to 

 prosecute claim for, passed by Congress, 28 ; decree 

 of Court of Chancery concerning, 30; deliberations 

 of twenty-eighth Congress on, 49 ; discussion by 

 Committee on Judiciary on, 26 ; how invested, 

 31 ; knowledge of, received in this country, 25 ; 

 probable source of, 8; proposed applications of, 32-36; 

 total amount of, 31 



Smithson estate, claims to, 25 ; securities obtained by 

 Richard Rush deposited in Bank of England, 30; 

 securities transferred to U. S. Mint, 30 



Smithson, half-brother of, fought at Lexington, 5 



Smithson, Hugh, succeeds to title of Baronet, 4; be- 

 comes Duke of Northumberland and takes name of 

 Percy, i ; death of father of, 7 ; epitaph in West- 

 minster Abbey, 7 ; life at Alnwick Castle, 4-5 ; 

 story of his courtship, 2 



SMITHSON, JAMES, admitted Fellow of the Royal So- 

 ciety, ii ; applies to the Crown to change name 

 time first used, 12 ; as a chemist, 611 ; born in France, 

 9; burial-place of, 22; bust of, 17; cabinet of min- 

 erals of, 305 ; contemporary portrait of, 10; date and 

 place of death of, 22; date of birth of, 7; dale ofi 

 matriculation of, in Pembroke College, 9; description 

 of himself in his final will, i ; early name of, i ; ed- 

 ucation in England, 9; geological tour of, 10; im- 

 portant fact relative to change of name of, 8; industry 

 of, 16 ; lodgings in Bentinck Street, n; mother of, 

 inherits the property of the Hungerfords of Studley, 

 8 ; motives for making the United States his residu- 

 ary legatee, 22 ; overthrows Abb Haiiy's opinion on 

 calammes, 12; Pembroke College record of birth of, 

 7; prepares first scientific paper, n ; published pa- 

 pers of, 13; residence of, in Paris, 17; royal descent 

 of, 2 : son of first Duke of Northumberland, 3 ; 

 story of his mother's marriage, i ; takes degree of 

 Master of Arts, 4 ; traditions of College life of, 10 ; 

 visits France, expresses sentiments favoring Jacobin- 

 ism, 11-12 ; will of, 19 ; will of, proved in Prerogative 

 Court of Canterbury, 22 



Smithson Langdale, father of Hugh Smithson, 3 



Smithsonian almanac proposed, 49, 481 



Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory founded by 

 Langley, 232 



Smithsonian building, 260 ; annex of, 261 ; architect 



of, 251 ; ceremonies connected with laying of corner- 

 stone of, 25^ ; chemical laboratory, establishment of, 

 614; committee on, 253, 254; committee on recon- 

 struction of, 261 ; cost of construction of, 254 ; cost 

 of reconstruction of, 261 ; date of a fire in, 261 ; date 

 of laying of the corner-stone, 255 ; date, of location 

 of, 255 ; date of occupancy of, 256 ; date of re-occu- 

 pancy of, 261; design of, 252 ; loss from fire in, 260 ; 

 objections to site of, 249; original plan of interior 

 arrangements, 258, 259 ; reconstruction of, 261 ; re- 

 port of building committee, 257; site of, 248; size 

 of, 252 ; stone used in construction of, 254 ; style of 

 architecture of, 252 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 320, 488; 

 contents of, 494; first distribution of, 416; Henry's 

 plan of, 489 ; origin of, 488 ; policy on question of 

 copyrighting, 492 



Smithsonian fund, bequest of James Hamilton, 236; 

 bequest of Simeon Habel to, 237; bill in Congress 

 for investing, in State stocks repealed, 36; earliest 

 addition to, 235 ; gift of A. G. Bell to, 239 ; gifts 

 of Thomas George Hodgkins to, 241 ; repeal of bill 

 for investing, in State stocks, 36 



Smithsonian grounds, date of planting, 262 ; original 

 plan of planting of, replaced, 263 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, act of incorporation of, date 

 /'.53> 3 10 '' Acting Secretary of, how chosen, 61 ; ac- 

 tivities of, 23; advantages of close connection of, with 

 the Government, 79 ; aid given to governmental bu- 

 reaus by, 564 ; aids in disseminating abstract scientific 

 works by, 567; appropriations for maintenance of 

 collections in, 322; assistants of Secretary of, how 

 appointed, 61 ; chancellor of, 61 ; committee of, on 

 Hamilton College equatorial telescope, 601 ; connec- 

 tion of, with scientific discoveries, 519; cooperative 

 spirit of Secretaries of, D. C. Oilman on, 813; dis- 

 astrous fire at, 16; Establishment of, 59 ; first trans- 

 mission of documents by, 183 ; governing principle 

 of, 521; manager of, term changed to regent of, 52 ; 

 motive of creation of, 2; officers of, ox; present 

 amount of fund of, 235 ; promotes physicaj science 

 by stimulating original research, by distribution of its 

 publications, 528 ; proposition to purchase the City 

 Hall as site for, 250; relation of, to scientific ex- 

 ploration, 179; resolution of committee concerning 

 character of Secretary of, 57 ; Secretary of, duties 

 of, 61 ; significance of name of secretary of, 61 



Smithsonian Library, character of, expressed in report 

 of Board of Regents, 270, 271 ; commencement of, 

 271 ; copyright system of, 285 ; early date of proposal 

 for, 265 ; gifts to, 294-298 ; Henry on the organization 

 of, 272; increase of, from 1887-1894, 294; increase 

 of, under Jewell's care, 285; most important idea 

 of, 273; periodical literature in, 301,302; policy of 

 Langley in regard to, 291 ; present character of, 291 ; 

 publications received by, 294 ; Jewell's plan for, 272 ; 

 special aim of, 301 ; transfer of, to Library of Con- 

 gress, 286 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 495 



Smithsonian publications, 481 ; first, 496; Gilman on, 

 809, 810; plan of R. D. Owen for, 482 ; special, 496; 

 use of, in increasing library, 302 



Smithsonian Report, 482; appendices to, 486; distri- 

 bution of, 483 ; epitome of contents of, 486-88 ; 

 Henry on the theory of, 485 ; plan of the first, 482 ; 

 plan of the second, 483 ; size and cost, 484 ; value 

 of, stated by Senator Hamlin, 485 



Smithsonian Tables, issued by Institution, 794 



Societ6 d'Acclimatation de France, Baird receives gold 

 medal from, 192 



Solar eclipse of 1851, daguerreotype of, 573; of 1854, 

 experiments on, by Institution, 573 ; of 1858, report 

 of, in Contributions, 573; of 1860, observations by 

 Smithsonian Institution, 573 ; of 1889, photographs 

 of, by D. P. Todd, 574 



Solar eclipses, work of Institution in connection with, 

 573 ; of nineteenth century, map of, 573 



Somatology, publications on, by Institution, 767 



Somerset, Charles, Duke of, i 



Sonntag, August, on Observations on Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism in Mexico, 531 



Sound, audibility of, discussion by Henry and John 

 Tyndall, 541; audibility of, summary of experiments 

 by Henry, in connection with U. S. Lighthouse 

 Board, 541; papers on, published by the Institution, 



S37-S43 

 Sparks, Jared, 273 



