INDEX, 771 



Page. 



National Museum, U. S., history of, divided into three epochs 7 



insufficient staff of Id 



library 52 



loans 14 



maintenance 6 



management 6 



means required by, for acquiring special collections!. 15 



necrology 56 



needs of ■ 18 



no parallel in the world 17 



number of entries of specimens in record books of, at 



close of 1904 9 



number of entries of specimens in record books of, 

 immediately preceding the Centennial Exhibition 



ofJ876 ...'. 8 



objects of, defined 7 



operations of year, summary 21 



organization 55 



origin of 3 



packed condition of storeroi >ms of 9 



papers by officers of, and others based wholly or in 



part upon the national collections 161 



part taken by, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 19 



primary object of a 15 



publications 6, 49 



list of 157 



papers published in separate form 157 



report on Department of Anthropology 61 



Biology 77 



Geology 97 



reports of head curators " 59 



researches 38 



scope of, defined 6, 7 



specimens, classification 6 



distribution and exchange of 633 



in record books of, in 1884 9 



staff 105 



subjects best represented 6 



visitors 47 



Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, relics deposited . 



by 29 



surveys, the era of, or fifth era of State surveys 551 



Naval Medical School, IT. S., graduating exercises of, held in lecture hall 48 



Navas, R. P. Longin, material obtained in exchange from 47 



Navy Department, objects of interest presented by 53 



Ned wah, Ward, collecting outfit supplied to - 45 



Need ham, James G. , title and notice of paper by 1 77 



Neligh, John P. S., Indian textile art studied by 39, 71 



Nelson, E. W., bird collections consulted by 90 



lecture on A Naturalist's Winter in Mexico delivered by 48 



titles and notices of papers by 177 



New Museum building 12 



plans for, approved by the Secretary of Smithsonian 



Institution 13 



