INDEX TO PARTS I-IV. 



247 



Bean, Dr. T. K., report of, 95. 



translated. G. M. Dannevig, 153. 

 Judge Fiedler, 154. 

 Beckhain, C. AV., on Ereunetes occidentalls, 154. 



services of, 90, 91. 

 Bee culture collection, 115. 



exhibit, 47. 

 Bell, A. Graham, papers by, 23. 

 Belostoma americanum from New York, 113. 

 Bendire, Oapt. Charles, birds from, 85. 



honoiary curator, 8, 91. 

 Benedict, James E., collectiDg at Cozumel, 44, 98. 

 collections of, 1124. 

 studying Annelids, 122. 

 Bering Island plants, 157. 



voyage around, 171. 

 Berlepsch, Count von, birds exchanged with, 86. 

 Berlin exhibition collections, 5. 

 Museum, cast from, 67. 

 Berrinni, Dr. J. C, fibers from, 38. 



textiles iiom, 59. 

 Beyer, Dr. H. G. , honorary curator, 8. 

 on atropia, 154. 

 intracellular digestion, 154. 

 materia medica collection, 151, 



154. 

 papers by, 23, 24, 25, 58. 

 report ofi 5y. 



researches and papers of, 57. 

 studied cinchona barks, 37. 

 translated paper on diphtheria, 



154. 

 work of, 37. 

 Bibliographies of American naturalists, 18. 

 Biblioiiraphy of U. S. National Museum, 18, 149> 

 Biihoola Indians' ethnologica, 65. 

 Billings, Dr. J. S., papers by, 22. 

 Biological Society lectures, 31. 



meetings, 22, 23. 

 Bird bones transferred, 33. 



classification and nomenclature, 43. 



discussed, 88, 89. 

 packages sent out, 87 

 Birds, accessions to, 8.5, 232. 



at New Orleans, museum exhibit of, 43. 



classification and nomenclature of, 88. 



department of, 8, 42. 



distributed, 86. 



exchanged, 86. 



exhibited at New Orleans, 36. 



from Agricultural Department, 27, 43. 



Cozumel, 89. 

 identified by Robert Ridgway, 90. 

 important accessions to, §5. 

 invoiced and labeled, 91. 

 lent for examination, 87. 

 list of North American, 43. 

 mounted for exhibition, 88. 

 new list of, 89. 



North American, 162. 

 of Costa Rica, 173. 



the standard natural history, 171. 

 on exhibition rearranged, 90. 

 prepared for New Orleans exposition, 88. 

 purchase of des derata for department of, 



90. 

 received from Department of Agriculture, 



89. 

 report on department of, 85. 



for 18S3, 163. 

 returned from New Orleans, 32. 

 routine work on, 87. 

 skeletons of, 101. 

 special woik done on, 88. 

 transferred, 27. 



from gallery, 90. 

 work of assistants in department of, 90. 

 Birds' eggs, accessions to, 232. 

 department of, 8. 

 given away, 87. 

 skins, nests, anil eggs distributed, 17. 

 Birney, William, on lecture committee, 22. 

 Bittern mounted, least, 31. 

 Black-fish obtained, young, 81. 



stranded, 42. 

 Blackford, E. G., paper bv, 23. 

 Black Hills tin ores obtained, 145. 

 Blaisdell, J. E., sent nest and eggs of Spizella 

 atrigularis, 86. 



Blanks printed, 14, 



Boas, Dr. Franz, studied ethnologica, 21, 63. 



Bogosloif Island erUptive rocks, l.i9. 



notes on, 155. 

 Bogota bags, 66. 



Bond, George W., wools from, 38, 59. 

 Bone, illustrations of structure of, 100. 

 Bonilla, Mr., presented Zacatecas ores, 146. 

 Bonte bok obtained, 32. 



Boone, Max von dem, sent Coregonus albula, 95. 

 Botany, division of, 9, oO. 

 Bothriocephalus in a trout, 159. 

 Bottle-nosed jjorpoise oast, 33. 

 Bowditch, H. P., paper by, 25. 

 Bowels, Mrs. A. C, correspondence with, 114. 

 Bowers, Dr, Stephen, outfit supplied to, 124. 

 Bows, study of Eskimo, 19. 

 Brachiopoda, British fossil, reviewed, 155. 

 ik'ama rail from Oregon, 97. 

 Branch alewife in New Yoik, lakes, 154. 

 Brazil, bow and arrows from, G6, 



textile fibei's from, 59. 

 Brewster, William, birds lent to, 87. 



on Ant icosti Ptarmigan, 153. 

 birds of Arizona and So- 



nora, 155. 

 Peucsea aestivalis, 155. 

 Rock Ptarmigan, 155. 

 Brewster's warbler obtained, 85. 

 British Columbia ethnologica, 65. 



Museum, mammals sent to, 84. 



publications sent, 15. 



Brock, R. A., historical paper by, 144. 



on early iron manufacture, 155. 

 Brown, A. E., sent mammals, 30, 80. 

 sloth, 101. 

 Charles F., sent minerals, 137. 

 J. T., photographs by, 34. 



stndied photography, 21. 

 S. C, duties of, 10. 

 Brush storage battery, 29. 

 Buffalo bug, correspondence about, 114. 



gnat, southern, 166. 

 Building and ornamental stones at New Orleans, 

 37, 52, 140. 

 atones moved from southwest court, 141, 



removed, 52. 

 stones for American Museum Natural 

 History, 11, 52. 

 Buildings and labor, 10, 26. 

 Bulimus alteinatus ifrom Mexico, 109. 

 Bulletins of 1885, 18. 

 Burbot, the, 154. 



Bureau of Ethnology, antiquities from, 41, 78. 

 Burgess, Edward, diptera bought from, 115. 

 Burnett, Nelson, secured whale skull, 101. 

 Burns, Frank, antiquities from, 73. 

 Bush, Katherine J., mollusk paper by, 106. , 

 on moll usca of Cape Hatteras, 



155. 

 studied invertebrates, 122, 

 Buteo harlani and coopeii discussed, 162. 

 oxypterus, type of, 162. 



Cabbage-bug, harlequin, 165. 



cut-worms, Riley on, 163. 

 insects, Riley on, 1U3. 

 worm para.site imported, 165. 

 worms, cold water remedy against, 168. 

 Cable, underground, 28. 

 Caffeine, action of, 58. 



physiological action of, 37. 

 California, gray whale skull obtained, 101. 

 Indian utensils, 65. 

 ores obtained, 145. 

 reptiles, &c., from C. R. Orcutt, 93. 

 Call, R. E., paper by, 25. 



shells from, 104. 

 Call-bells, electric, 28. 



boxes for District messengers, 28. 

 Calliphora from Alaska, 114. 

 Calodromas, note on, 162. 

 Caloptenus spretus, notes on, 165. 

 Calymene Niagrensis obtained, 130. 

 Camera for showing geological phenomena, 142. 

 Campeche Bank examined, 123. 

 Cambria Iron Works, specimens from, 146. 



