INDEX. 827 



Paga 



Bird-traps used hj tlio ludiaus of the northwest coast 294 



Bisou group ill Museum 141 



Blackford, Hon. E. G., presents living buffaloes 40,215,216 



sends fishes 15~ 



Blake Expedition, work on the gastropods of the 162 



investigations in regard to mollusks collected by the steamer 35, 163 



Blakiston, T. W., paper by - 47 



Board of Eegents pertaining to the organization of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, resolution of 3 



Boas, Dr. Franz, on the social organization of the Kwakintl 244 



sends ethnological objects 66 



Boehmer, George H., paper by 47 



Bolles, Lieut. T. Dis 87 



assigned to active duty 79 



assistance rendered by 51 



completes arrangement of Eksimo collections 30 



objects contributed by 79 



presents swords, carvings, etc., from Japan 74 



sends fossils 70 



Bollmau, Charles H., myriapods from 167 



notice of paper by 708 



paper by 47 



Bolton, Prof. H. Carrington, lecture by 50 



Bombycid lepidoptera, arrangement of the 35, 165 



Bombyliidaj, completion of work on the 169 



Bone combs used by the Tlingit Indians 260 



implements r 665 



Bonnett, Hon. Peter, assistance rendered by 77 



bidarkas obtained through courtesy of 68 



Books, amount expended for 56 



withdrawn from library, number of 41 



Botanical section of the Biological Society of Washington, meetings of the .. 51 



Botany, exhibition space assigned to collection of 25 



Boulogue-sur-mer, strike-a-light from 579 



Bourke, John G. , necklace collected by 78 



Bowen, Amasa, pigmy sperm-whale received from 77 



Bower, Dr. A. G., seals lent by - 93 



Bowers, Dr. Stephen, correspondence with 163 



Bowers, T. B. , sends stone implements 72 



Bowman, D. A., presents minerals 196 



Bows and arrows, arrangement of collection of 87 



method of installation of 87 



Boyle, C. B 187 



Bozeman, plants collected near 191 



Bracelets worn by the Indians of the northwest coast 262 



Brackett, Fred., agent of the Minneapolis Exposition 83 



Brazil, National Museum of, exchange of meteorites with 195 



Brewster, William, notice of paper by 708 



sends birds 68, 146 



Mexican birds 67 



Bridgman, A., jr., presents a swan's skin 69 



British America, accessions from , 66 



Columbiaj accessions from 66 



ethnological research in 232 



