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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 



Silhman, 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 Unionidae, 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 Chan eery 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; date of 

 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 Abbe 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, 255 ; 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 

 f>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. Gilman 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 physical 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 lo, 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 



Smilhsonian 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 conlenls 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 



Smilhsonian Tables, issued by Inslilulion, 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 

 Smilhsonian Inslilution, 373; of 1889, photographs 

 of, by D. P. Todd, 574 



Solar eclipses, work of Inslilulion in connection wilh, 

 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 wilh U. S. Lighthouse 

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



537-543 

 Sparks, Jared, 273 



