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INDEX TO PARTS I-IV. 



Key "West fisheries studied, 123. 



fishes obtained, 96. 

 Kidder, Dr. J. H., on lecture committee, 22. 

 Kingfisher, new American, 162. 

 Kinney, Dr. Augustus C, sent fishes, 97. 

 Knowiton, Frank H., botanical work of, 50,135. 



on Alaskan plants, 133, 159. 

 paper by, 24. 

 Kobus ellipsiprimnus, 32. 



obtained, 80. 

 Koehele, Albert, assisted Professor Kiley, 116. 



sent reptiles, 93. 



work of, 48. 



worked on insects, 21. 

 Kogia breviceps cast, 33. 



obtained, 42, 80. 

 Kohn, G., sent Alabama turtles, 93. 

 Koons, Prof. B. F., studying fish-parasites, 122. 

 Kotzebue Sound ethnologica, 64. 

 Kutorgiua cingnlata obtained, 130. 



L. 



Labels and printing, 14. 

 department, 10. 

 for museum objects, 6. 

 stored in library, 17. 

 Lahidesthes sicculus from South Carolina, 98. 

 Laboratory furniture, IJ. 



work, 13. 

 Labrador arachnidfB, 26. 



batrachians obtained, 93. 

 fishes from Mr. Turner, 97. 

 salmonidee obtained, 97. 

 Labridse from Key West, 96. 

 Lagenorhynchus repaired, 31. 

 Lake Superior fl.«he.s, 158. 

 Lamson, J., & Bro., Costa Eican ethnologica 



from, 66. 

 Landeros y Cos, Jose de, presented mining col- 

 lections, 147. 

 Lanius robustus, remarks on, 171. 

 Laniiers, M. Virion des, cocoons from, 59. 

 Larrea mexieana, 76. 

 Lawrence, George M., birds exchanged with, 86. 



birds lent to, 87. 

 Lea, Dr. Isaac, sent fresh-water shells, 103. 

 land shells, 103. 

 writings of, 18. 

 Leaf-beetle, streaked cottonwood, 166. 

 Lectures, committee on, 22. 

 Lectures in Museum, 21. 



Saturday, 2L. 

 Lee, General E. E., furniture of, 39. 



Prof. L. A., studying Foraminifera, 122. 

 Thomas, assisted on "Albatross," 124. 

 W. F., antiquities from, 78. 

 Legar6, Dr. T. B., sent Lahidesthes, 98. 

 Leidy, Joseph, onJ3othriocephalus, 159. 

 Lepidoptera arranged, 116. 



from India, 47, 113. 

 of Hong-Kong, paper on, 114. 

 Lepomis cyanellus, an enemy of carp, 96. 

 elongatus obtained, 97. 

 mystacalis obtained, 97. 

 Leptgena deltoidea obtained, 131. 

 Leslie, C. C, collecting fishes, 98. 

 Leucarctia aerate from Texas, 113. 

 Lewis, Dr. J. G., Arkansas ores, &.C., from, 145. 



H. C, paper by, 25. 

 Libbey, Joseph, carved jicara from, 66. 

 Library accession!?, 15. 



card-catalogue, 16. 

 contributors to, 15. 

 crowded state of, 16. 

 department, 10. 

 extension proposed, 17. 

 of Congress accounts transferred, 16. 

 popular circulating, 16. 

 privileges, 16. 

 report of 1883, 172. 

 wants, 16. 

 work in, 15. 

 Life-car, metallic, 39. 



Life-saving apparatus of Joseph Francis, 39. 

 Lima Facultad de Medecina received duplicate 



invertebrates, 125. 

 Limbs, modifications of, illustrated, 45. 

 Lindenkohl, A , paper by, 22. 



Lingula cuneata obtained, 130. 

 Linney, W. M., lent ax, 74. 



flint cutter, 74. 

 stone, 75. 

 Linton, Prof. E., studying fish-parasites, 122. 

 Lithology, &c., at New Orleans, 52. 

 and physical geology — 

 accessions to, 139, 234. 

 ' additional space for, 141. 



at New Orleans, 37. 

 department of, 9, 51. 

 desirability of buying specimens 



io, 142. 

 exhibition series in, 52. 

 in 1883, 160. 

 money wanted for, 52. 

 need of cases for, 142. 

 new space for, 52. 

 number of specimens in, 142. 

 recommendations about, 142. 

 report on, 139. 

 researches upon, 141. 

 routine work in, 140. 

 state of collections in, 141. 

 Livistona australis living in the Museum, 136. 



Borbonica living in the Museum, 166. 

 Lloyd, C. G. H., mammal.s from, 80. 



sent reptiles, 93. 

 Locust injury, opinion regarding, 168. 



Eocky Mountain, 165. 

 Loft for storage, 27. 

 Loncheres armatus in Martinique, 171. 

 London exhibition cuUections, 5. 



fisheries exhibits installed, 27. 

 Long Island Sound exploration, 153. 

 Loomis, Elias, paper by, 22. 

 Lophius, development of anterior dorsal of, 170. 

 Lota maculosa, paper on, 154. 

 Louisiana, Indian coat from, 65. 

 Louisville Exposition, collections sent to, 14. 

 Lov6u, Prof. Sven, Echinus sent to, 123. 

 Lovett, Edward, edible moUusks furnished to, 



109. , 



Lowell School, Boston, received duplicate inver- 

 tebrates, 125. 

 Lower Cambrian fossils, casts of, 151. 



Silurian rocks obtained, 139. 

 Loxia reviewed, 102. 

 Lucas, F. A., assistant, 8. 



exhibits of, 32. 

 on Monachus tropicalis, 83. 

 preparing skeletons, 159. 

 rough skeletons, 151. 

 osteological preparator, 30, 101. 



work of, 44. 

 presented .skeleton, 101. 

 report of 33. 

 work of, 101. 

 Lucilia from Alaska, 114. 

 Lunda cirrhata skeleton obtained, 102. 

 Lupton, Prof. N. P. , sent meteorite, 137. 

 Lutjanus, 98. 



griseus, 97. 

 LUtken, Dr. Chr. Fr., correspondence with, 83. 

 Lygua lineolaris, notes on, 165. 

 Lyman, Hon. Theodore, address by, 23. 



studied Ophiurans, 122. 



M. 



Macacus speciosus, 31. 

 Macaque mounted, Japanese, 31. 

 McCaughhan, J. Z. A., on Mullidse, 157. 



with E. A. Hall, 159. 

 McDonald, Marshall, on shad and alewives, 159. 



papers by 23, 25. 

 McDonogh School received invertebrates, 125. 

 Mcllwraith, Thomas, birds exchanged with, 86. 

 McKay, C. L., Aleut ethnologica from, 64. 



collected Alaskan plants, 135. 

 notes on plants of, 159. 

 sent Alaska antiquities, 76. 

 Mackerel fisheries, English, 155. 

 Mac Lean, J. P., lent tablet, 73. 

 sent cast, 74. 

 J. J., Sitka ethnologica from, 64. 

 Maclurea ? obtained, 129. 

 McNeil, J. A., gold ornaments from, 66. 



