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Page. 



Bean, Dr. T. H 29 



honorary curator of department of fishes 19, 105 



investigates the movements of the " Southern mackerel" 62 



notice of papers by 564 



presents reptiles 103 



relieved from Museum editorial work 19, 105 



visits the middle and southern A tlantic coast 19 



Beard, D. C, gives birds' nests 50 



presents store-house and nest of field mouse 89 



Beardslee, Commander L. A., presents fishes 48 



• sends fishes 106 



specimen of fungus 57 



Beauregard, M., collections sent to 27 



Beckham, C. W., contributes birds 47,96 



notice of paper by 564 



Bedson, S. L., bison herd of 458 



Beebe, Maj. W. S., sends cast of carved serpentine 56 



Beecher, C. E., information furnished to 113 



Belfrage collection of insects 117 



Beiderman, C. R. , sends mesozoic fossils 143 



Belding, L., sends bird-skins from California 47 



Bella-Coola cradle 170 



Bell, James, contributes skin of wild turkey 96 



Bement, C. S., sends a cut sapphire 50 



gem specimens 23 



minerals 149 



Bendire, Capt. Charles E., acknowledgment of services of 57 



fossil leaves collected by 145 



honorary curator of birds' eggs 18, 101 



Benedict, A. C, presents fossils 140 



Benedict, James E., annelids collected by 128 



notice of papers by 565 



resignation of 133 



Bennett Island, mollusks obtained from 20 



Benson, Lieut. H. C, contributes skins and eggs of birds 18,45,57,96, 101 



forwards natural history collections from Arizona 46 



Bergen Museum, sea-lion skin sent to 27 



Bermuda, collection of sponges from 21 



corals and sponges from 125 



Berils, meaning of 336 



Bernardiu, Professor, offers to send commercial products from Belgium 28 



Bessels, Dr. Emil. sends ethnological objects from Greenland 66 



specimens from Lapland 66 



Bettongia grayi mounted in Museum workshop -- 39 



rufescens mounted in Museum workshop 39 



Beyer, Dr. H. G., acknowledgment of services of 58 



in charge of materia medica collection 10 



materia medica circular by 29 



notice of papers by 565,566,567,568 



Bibliography of papers by Museum officers and other investigators 562 



relating to shell money 334 



U. S. National Museum, 1887 559 



Biddle, Henry J., sends archaeological specimens 46 



rocks 152 



