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McNeil, J. A., sent insects, 114. 

 Macropus gigantous obtained, 80. 

 gigas, 31. 

 rufus, 32. 

 McWhirter, A. J., sent ores. 146. 

 Madagascar, ethnologica, C7. 

 Maderia Islands, ethnologica from, 66. 

 Magee Furnace Company, gift from, 85. 

 Maka Indians' ethnologica, 65. 

 Malformation, heieditary, 159. 

 Mamestra subjuncta, lava of, 164. 

 Mammal department, offices moved, 27, 42. 

 report on, 79. 

 exhibit at New Orleans, 36. 

 heads mounted, 31. 

 offices moved, 11. 



skins and skeletons distributed, 17. 

 Mammals, accessions to, 232. 



added from January to July, 1885, 83. 

 attended to, 31. 

 department of, 8, 41. 



for 1883, 172. 

 distributed and exchanged, 84. 

 entry members of, 84. 

 from Central America, 79. 

 West Indies, 79. 

 ^ important accessions to, 79. 



in collection, number of, 83. 

 flesh obtained, 32. 

 reserve and duplicate series, 83. 

 investigations concerning, 82. 

 labels for, 41, 81. 

 leiat for stady, 84. 

 list of, 81. 



mounted, 31, 41. 

 mounted, 41, 81. 

 new cases for, 81. 

 obtained, aquatic, 80. 



exotic, 80. 

 office of, moved, 82. 



overhauling skuUa and skeletons of, 99. 

 poisoned, 82. 

 present condition of, 83. 

 proposed terrace for, 81. 

 rearranged, 81. 

 record of, completed, 82. 

 report on department of, 79. 

 returned from New Orleans, 32. 

 routine work on, 81. 

 selected for exchanges, 82. 



study, 82. 

 sent to New Orleans, 31, 41. 

 skulls and skeletons of, 101. 

 terrestrial, 79. 



work on general collection of, 82. 

 Manatees and sea-cow, 172. 

 Mandril, mounted, 31. 

 Manganese ore from Arkansas, 145. 



ores obtained, 145. 

 Manigault, Dr. G. E., correspondence with, 83. 



shells furnished to, 109. 

 Mann, B. P., paper by, 26. 

 Mantis Carolina obtained, 113. 

 Maple-scale, cottony, 166. 

 Marbles from Ophite Marble Company, 139. 



shown at New Orleans, 37, 52, 140. 

 Marcou, J. B., Bulletin by, 18. 



honorary assistant, 9. 

 on Invertebrate Paleontology, 159. 

 Marine invertebrates, report on, 117. 

 Marsh, Prof. O. C, casts from, 45. 

 Marshall, Benry, 30. 



birds mounted by, 88. 

 moved, 33. 

 work of, 32. 

 Marsupialia, mounted, 31. 

 Martin, H. N., paper by, 25. 



S. J., sent porpoise, 81. 

 Marx, Dr. George, papers by, 26. 

 Mason, C. F., sent fulgurites, 139. 



Otis T., anthiopological notes of, 159. 

 at ISew Orlean.s, 62. 

 cuiator, 8, 63. 

 monographs by, 63, 78. 

 on anthropology, 159. 

 basket-work, 19. 

 hereditary malformation, 159. 

 lecture committee, 22. 

 tbrowing-sticks, 19. 



Mason, Otis T., papers by, 23, 24. 

 report of, 63. 

 ■work of, 40, 63. 

 Massachusetts, stone carving from, 71. 

 Materia medica accessions, 57. 



catalogue revised, 58. 

 collection, arrangement of, 57. 

 classification of, 151. 

 state of, 58. 

 labels, 14. 

 section, 8. 



routine work in, 57. 

 report on, 57. 

 ■work of, 37. 

 Mather, Fred., papers by, 23. 

 Matthews, Dr. Washington, Navajo ethnologica 

 from, 5. 

 paper by, 22. 

 Maynard, C J.. & Co., birds exchanged with, 86. 

 Mazatlan fishes obtained, 98. 

 Mazyck, W. G., shells named for, 109. 

 Meat biscuit from Mexico, 61. 

 Medina sandstone fossils, 130. 

 MedusEB sent out for study, 123. 



to be reported upon, 122. 

 Meek, F. B., writings of, 18. 



Seth E., on Batrachids, 160. 

 flying-fishes, 158. 

 Iowa and Missouri fishes, 158. 

 new Hybopsis, 160. 

 Meetings of societies, 22. 

 Meles taxus obtained, 80. 

 Memimna indica, 31, 32. 

 Mendenhall, Prof. T. C, lecture by, 22. 

 Merchant marine vessels illustrated, 36. 

 Mercury ores from Nevada, 146. 



obtained, 145. 

 Merriam, Dr. C. H., correspondence with, 83. 

 sent harp seal skins, 30. 

 studied mammals, 83. 



Putorius nigripes, 84. 

 Merrill, George P., acting curator, 9, 139. 



at New Orleans, 51, 140. 

 collected reptiles, 93. 

 curator, 51. 



on hornblende andesite, 160. 

 supposed jade, 160. 

 volcanic dust, 160. 

 papers by, 25. 141. 

 photographs by, 34. 

 report of, 139. 

 studitd photography, 21. 

 work of, 51. 

 L. H., assistant, 140. 

 Meso-Cenozoic invertebrate fossils, 9, 49. 



1883, 173. 

 accessions to, 



1.J3. 

 described, 133. 

 report on, 133. 

 ■workon,49,133. 

 Mesozoic fossil plants, 136. 

 Metalia pectoralis obtained, 118. 

 MetaUurgist's office, <SiC., moved, 11. 

 Metallurgy and economic geology — 

 accessions to, 143, 144, 234. 



from New Orleans, 145. 

 at New Orleans, 30, 53, 143. 

 department, 9, 53. 

 report on, 143. 

 work on, 53. 

 Metallurgy, collections obtained at New Orleans, 

 54. 

 department labels, 14. 

 exhibits from Philadelphia, 27. 



installed, 27. 

 laboratory moved, 53. 

 offices moved, 27. 

 Metals, extraction and utilization of, 143, 144. . 

 occurrences of, 143. 

 shown at New Orleans, 53. 

 Meteorite from Mexico, 137. 

 Mexican boundary survey collections, 4. 

 casts to be exhibited, 14. 

 commission presented labret, 66. 

 Mexico, antignities from, 76. 

 ethnologica from, 66. 

 fishes from northwestern, 98. 

 haman skulls from, 101. 



