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INDEX. 



Page. 

 Bark of trees, Injurious longitudinal co- 

 hesion of the 98 



Beard and moustache not a serious ob- 

 stacle to lip-reading 83 



Beauty, Transition of. from the males of 

 animals to the females of the human 



race 38 



Bee, II. P. Discovery by, of a prehistoric 



cave in Mexico 24 



Bell, A. Graham 02 



Bell, A. M. on vowel sounds GO, Gl 



homophemes 82 



Berlin, A. F 20 



Berthier, Ferd 83 



Bessels, Emil 17 



Bigelow. Otis 5, 17, 79,82, 88 



Birds, Bones of, why hollow 94 



Births, Excess of male over female 94 



Bismuth, Maximum density temperature 



of 97 



Blood-letting. Theory of savages respecting 



the efficacy of 50 



Boccaccio 29 



Boehmer, Geooge fl 5 



Bones of birds, why hollow 94 



Bransford, J. F 17 



Bristol Bay 33 



British Provinces, Natives of the, employed 



in the fisheries of the United States... 04 



Broca, Paul 104 



, cause of his death 104 



, his life and work in anthropology .. 104 



, on prehistoric trephining 47^19 



Bronchocele 99 



Brown, J. Stanley 17 



Buffalo woman G9 



"Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of 



Washington," Paper published in the.. 23 

 "Bulletin of the United States Entomo- 

 logical Commission," Paper published 



in ihe 24 



Burchard, Horatio C 17 



Burdiek, Edson A 5, 17 



Burial by clans 70 



customs of the North American 



Indians 25 



, Some modes of Indian 21 



Burial cave, Aboriginal, in the valley of 



the South Shenandoah 31 



Burnett, Swan M 3, 17 



, Paper read by 21 



California, Number of fishermen in 63 



Call, The original, for the formation of the 



Society '. 5 



Cape Newenham 33 



Cape Verd Islands, Natives of the, em- 



gloycd in the fisheries of the United 



tales 04 



Capitalists, foreign, Control of industries 



in South America by 43 



Captives made slaves 118 



Capture, Marriage by 123, 124 



Page. 



Carter, Drake f. 20 



Cave of the Bats G7 



, Remarkable prehistoric, in the val- 

 ley of the Kio Nazas, Mexico 24 



Celts, Turtle-back, and their uses 24 



Cemeteries. Aboriginal, near Piscataway, 



Maryland 22 



Cessions of land by Indian tribes to the 



United States 26 



Chart, A strange 25 



Chattels, Property in 124 



Chevron, Origin of the 74 



Chickering, J. W., Jr 17 



thief, Duties of the 119 



, how appointed 119 



Chieftaincy never hereditary 119 



Children of savages rarely maltreated 39 



Chinamen employed in the fisheries of the 



United States 64 



Choctaws, Oratorical language of the 88 



Christ, The fish as a symbol of 77 



Cicero, Deviation of, from the rules for the 



use of tlie subjunctive 30 



Cities of refuge 128 



Civil class 108 



government 112 



I ivilization 27 



Clark, Hyde, Interest shown by, in the ap- 

 plication of gesture signs to the btuay 



of hieroglyphs, <fec 59 



Classification, A question in 88-91 



of races, Bases of the 89 



Clippings, newspaper, Collections to be 



made of 14 



Clothing worn by the Seminole women 57 



Coal-measures, how related to human de- 

 velopment 94 



Coincidences 94, 95, 97 



Color-blindness as affected by race 21 



Color-names, Indian 22 



Color-sense of children in the public 



schools 21 



Comfort, G. C 20 



Committee, Executive of the assembly 119 



Communal marriage 121 



ownership 125 



Comparative mythology of the two Indies.. 22 

 Comparison of a written language with 



one that is spoken only 23 



Competition, industrial. Evils of 41 



Conduct, Regulation of 106,113 



relating to the perpetuation of the 



species 115, 116 



welfare of the individ- 

 ual 115, H6 



Connecticut, Number of fishermen in 63 



Constitution of the Society, Amendments 



made to the 12 



as amended Jan. 17, 1882 13 



, Provision for the amend- 

 ment of the 19 



The, original 16 



