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Additions to collections in 1873 „ 59 



Agassiz, Prof. Louis, discourse on, by Eev. E. P. Stebbins 198 



death of 148 



resolutions of Eegents relative to 1.53 



remarks of Hon. Peter Parker on 153 



Agents of international exchanges 26, 72 



Agricultural Department, arrangement with 43 



Antiquities. (See Ethnology.) 



Appendix, general 160 



to the report of the Secretary 58 



Appropriations by Congress for museum .... 7, 35, 145 



Argentine Observatory 265 



Army Medical Museum, arrangement with 48 



Astronomical discoveries, announced by telegraph in 1873 34 



Astronomical discoveries, telegraphic announcement of 32 



Astronomical Observatory at Cordoba, Dr. Gould's account of 265 



Babbage, Charles, eulogy by N. S. Dodge , 162 



by Prof. A. Quetelet 183 



extracts from writings of 187 



on constants of nature and art 23 



Baird, S. F., on food-fishes r^, .-= 15,16 



report of, on museum .. 36 



scientific, and other labors of 42, 43, 47, 55 



Bank suspension. First National 7, 142, 151 



Barnum, P. T., donations from 47 



thanks of Board of Eegents for presents from 157 



Beaver, on habits of, by F. Brunot . 422 



Berendt, C. H., on the Carib language 363 



Biography. (See Babbage, Agassiz, Torrey, Gibbs.) 



Bird, John H., n'luseum-cases 35 



Birds — Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, on,., 56 



Blake & Shotwell, steato-heating apparatus , 35 



Boiling-points, tables of 24 



Bossange, G., services as agent 26, 72 



British Association, report on moUusks 15 



British Museum photographs 53 



Brunot, Felix, habits of the beaver 429 



Cable telegrams • 32 



Cancerous tumors, Woodward on 24 



Carpenter, P. P., mollnsks of Western North America 14, 15 



Census Office, meteorological work for 31 



Chancellor elected 148,158 



Chase, Chief- Justice S.P., death of - 148 



resolutions of Eegents relative to 152 



remarks by Mr. Hamlin on 152 



Clarke, Prof. F. W., constants of nature and art. SiJecific gravity tables 24 



