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INDEX TO PARTS I-IV. 



AndeTson, Mrs., "Indian cradle from, 65. 



Andrews, B., grass fuel from, 65. 



Animal products exhibited at New Orleans, 35. 



section, 8. 

 Animals mounted, 30. 



post-mortem examinations of, 45. 

 races of domestic, 100, 

 Anisomorpha buprestoides obtained, 113. 

 Annelids studied by J. E. Benedict, 122. 

 Annex building for storage, 27. 

 Annunciator for police service, 28. 



replaced, 27. 

 Annunciators, 28. 



Anon., on cruise of Albatross, 174. 

 the island of Cozumel, 174. 

 TJinted States at Fisheries Exhibition, 

 174. 

 Anser leucopareius, note on, 161. 

 Antelope mounted, pron.g-horned, 31. 

 Anthias vivanus, type of, 97. 

 Anthomyia brassicse, notes on, 165. 



cabbage, 165. 

 Anthracahidae, 22. 

 Anthrenus scrophularise, correspondence about, 



114. 

 Anthropological Society lectures, 21. 

 Anthropology, ouratorships in, 8. 

 notes on, 159. 

 preparators in, 34. 

 progress of, 159. 

 work in, 37. 

 Anthozoafrom the "Albatross," 117. 



new genus and new species of, 172. 

 researches upon, 122. 

 returned fro'u Yale College, 118. 

 Antieosti ptarmigan discussed, 155. 

 Antilocapra americana, 31. 

 Antimony ores obtained, 145. 

 Antiquities, accessions to, 71, 78, 232. 

 arrangement of, 77. 

 casts of, 77. 



collection, present state of, 78. 

 denartment of, 8, 41. 



report on, 71. 

 duplicate, exchanged, 77. 

 exhibited, special collections of, 77. 

 for 1883, report on, 161. 

 from mounds exhibited, 77. 

 routine work upon, 77. 

 Ants and aphides, 168. 

 Apanteles glomeratus introduced, 165. 

 Apatite for fertilizers, 143. 

 series obtained, 54. 

 Aphis brassicaj, notes on, 165. 

 Aplopappus Fremontii received, 58. 

 Apparatus of Dr. Priestly, 39. 



Professor Henry, 39. 

 physical, 39. 

 transferred, 27. 

 Applications for specimens, 17. 

 Arachnida from West Indies, 113. 



Labrador, 26. 

 Archistome theory, 169. 

 Archives department, 10. 



Archontophoenix Alexandrasa living in the Mu- 

 seum, 136. 

 Ardetta exilis, 31. 



Arizona and Souora birds, notes on, 155. 

 antiquities from, 75. 

 Indian implements, &c., 65. 

 squirrel obtained, 79. 

 Arkansas, ores, &c., from, 145. 

 Army collections, 4. 



Medical Museum, skeletons from, 45. 



skulls and skeletons 

 from, 101. 

 Arrangement, progress in classification and, 13. 

 Art exhibit at New Orleans, 36. 

 Artist, Museum, 34. 

 Arts and industries, accessions to, 232. 

 department, 8. 



work, 37. 

 Arzama equals Sphida, 26. 

 Ashburner, C. A., papers by, 25. 

 Aspidophoroides GUntherii described, 154. 

 Assignment of space, U. 

 Assistant Director's report, 151. 

 AstacidEB sent to Prof. Faxon, 123. 

 Asterioidea, new species of, 172. 



Athsrris lamellosa obtained, 129. 



8p.(?) obtained, 129. 

 Atkins. Charles G., paper by, 23. 

 Atlantic right whale skull obtained, 80, 101. 



shells at New Orleans Exposition, 104. 

 Atropia, influence of, 154. 



phj'siological action of, 37. 

 Atropine, action of, 58. 



on the heart, 37. 

 Atrypa reticularis obtained, 130. 

 Attendance increased, 27. 

 Atwater, Prof. W. O., collection from, 61. 



on chemistry of foods, 153. 

 WOT k of, 38. 

 Autotypes at New Orleans, 36. 

 Axis Deer obtained, 32. 

 Aym6, Louis H., antiquities from, 41, 76. 



Mexican ethnologica from, 66. 



pottery from, 41, 69. 

 sent human skulls, 101. 

 Aztec calendar stone, 41. 



Goddess of Death, 41. 



B. 



Baboon mounted, 41. 



olive, 30. 

 obtained, 32. 



dog-faced, 30. 

 , olive, 32. 

 Bag-worm, remarks on, 168. 

 Bailey, Dr. L. W., minerals from, 137. 



sent fossiliferous limestone,129' 

 Bailly, J. F. D., exhibits of, 32. 

 Baird, Prof. S. F., documents from, 15. 



exchange requested by, 109. 

 meat biscuit from, 61. 

 writings of, 18. 

 Baker, Frank, papers by, 24. 

 BalsBna cisarctica received, 42. 



skull obtained, 80, 101. 

 Baldwin, A. H., assisted Mr. Rathbun, 121.« 

 Balistes, 98. 



vetula, 97. 

 BalistidsB from Key West, 96. 

 Ball, Forest, sent reptiles, &c., 93. 

 Bark-louse, scurfy apple, 168. 

 Barnacles bmught together, 120. 

 Barnum, Baney & Hutchinson, gifts from, 30. 



sent fallow deer, 

 80. 

 mammals, 42 

 Barracuda at Cozumel, 97. 



Barrett, C. A., sent pleurotomaria tabulata, 129. 

 Bartlett, J.R., 76. 

 Basketry exhibit installed, 27, 40. 



to he developed, 14. 

 Basket-work of North American aborigines, 19. 

 Bass, name of striped, 158. 

 Batrachians, report on reptiles and, 93. 

 BatrachidsB reviewed, 160. 

 Baur, Dr. Georg, porcupine sent to, 84. 



sent pamphlets, 15. 

 Beach, Horace, sent cast of foot-track, 75. 

 Bean, B. A., duties of, 98. 



Bean, Dr. T. H., accompanied the Albatross, 124. 

 curator, 8, 44, 95. 

 editor, 10. 



exhibited SalmonidsB, 23. 

 field work of, 98. 

 fishes transferred to, 117. 

 on American fishes in Linnaean 

 collection, 157. 

 Aspidophoroides Giintherii, 



154. 

 branch alewife, 154, 159. 

 cottus maculatus, 154. 

 department of fishes, 1883, 



154. 

 Hadropterus, 154. 

 Halieutella lappa, 157. 

 Long Island Sound explora- 

 tion, 153. 

 Lota maculosa, 154. 

 new fishes, 154. 

 Plectromus crassiceps, 153.- 

 Stathmonotus, 154. 

 Stoasodon, 154. 

 papers by, 24, 153, 154. 



