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Beacoin. Lieut. J. H., sends skin of Salvelinus namaycush 157 



Bean, Barton A. , aid, department of fishes 28 



Bean, Dr. T. H., acknowledgment of services of 80 



collects birds, crustaceans, and fishes at Somers Point, New 



Jersey 71 



Crustacea 174 



contributes reptiles 153 



honorary curator of department of fishes 28, 34, 155 



investigates the fishes of Great Egg Harbor 34 



Southern mackerel fishery 34 



makes collections in Great Egg Harbor 80 



notice of papers by 707, 708 



visits the mackerel grounds between Cape Hatteras and Cape 



Cod 179 



Beath, James W., sends cut stones 72 



Bear hunting by the Indians of the northwest coast 301 



Beckham, C. W., death of 27,33 



notice of papers by 708 



presents birds 73, 146 



bird skins 70 



Beck, Senator J. B., introduces a bill for the establishment of a zoological park 218 



Beecher, C . E. , correspondence with 163 



presents minerals 196 



Bella-Bella, fire-making implements from 534 



Bell, Howard, sends stone implements 72 



Bell, James, contributes reptiles 153 



Bement, C. S., presents minerals 196 



Bendire, Capt. Charles E., acknowledgment of services of 78 



honorary curator of birds' eggs 28, 33, 151 



fossil plants collected by 189 



identification of fossil plants collected by 52 



plants collected in Oregon by 37 



notice of papers by 708 



on extinction of Pallas's cormorant 33 



Benedict, James E., paper by 47 



Banners, G. B., sends birds 73 



Bennett, L. J., sends fossil Crustacea 71 



Benson, Lieut. H. C, birds' eggs contributed by 33, 151 



contributes reptiles 153 



skins and eggs of birds and reptiles 78 



presents birds 146 



sends collections from Ari zona 68 



Ben6t, General S. V., transmits historical objects to the Museum 77 



Bergen museum, birds exchanged with 146 



Bering Island, information furnished correspondents in 58 



whale skull and skeleton from 140 



Berlin, allusion to museums in 6 



fishery exhibition, reference to collections obtained at 21 



museums, reference to 133 



Berries as food of Indians 276 



Bessels, Dr. Emil, arctic plants collected by 191 



sends plants from Spitzbergen 75 



Bethnal Green Museum, allusion to 6 



