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INDEX. 



Anthracite breakers, photographs of, 243. 

 coal and associates, 242. 



from Pennsylvania, 261. 

 in zinc furnaces, 260. 

 from Colonel Pendleton, 262. 

 Anthracites from Brookside colliery, 262. 

 Loyalsock mine, 262. 

 Ly'kens Valley district, 262. 

 Anthrenns scropbutarise from Connecticut, 186. 

 Anthropological classification, 14, 

 collections, 13. 



arrangement of, 54. 

 material classified, 109. 

 Society, early history of, 56. 

 lectures, 33. 

 Anthropology defined, 54. 



division of, 16, 53. 

 in Washington, 354. 

 museum of, 54. 

 preparators in, 47. 

 progress in, 354. 

 Antillean region invertebrates, 191. 

 Antimony ores, 271. 



from Utah, 253. 

 in Centennial collection. 253. 

 Antiquities, 16. 



aboriginal, circular relative to, 356 

 accessions to, 59, 123, 127. 

 arranged by material and form, 58. 

 arrangement of, 126, 127. 

 catalogued, 125. 

 department, 58. 



recommendations for 127. 

 duplicate, 59. 

 exhibited, 125. 

 extralimital, 127. 

 from Or Jones, 71. 

 number of, 59, 127. 

 of Chiriqui. 71. 

 prehistoric European, 127. 

 prepared for New Orleans Exposi- 

 tion, 126. 

 report on department of, 123. 

 researches upon, 126. 

 sent as exchanges, 126. 

 special collections of, 58. 

 work upon, 125. 

 Antrim mines coal, 243. 

 Apache basket ornamentation. 302. 

 bed, 116. 

 necklace, 116. 

 Apocynum cannabinum for basketry, 301. 

 Appendix, list of accessions, 381. 

 Applications for specimens, 30. 

 Aquatic animals at carp ponds, 72. 



mammals at London fisheries, 342. 

 Arapalioes, saddle-bags from, 116. 

 Archaeological collection at New Orleans, 51. 



objects from California, 69. 

 Archer, B. V., reptiles from, 158. 

 Archer, Prof. T. C, 80. 

 Archives, 19. 

 Arctic exploration, 69. 



Ocean shells obtained, 184. 

 tvpe of bow. where used, 314. 

 Eskimo bow, 310. 

 Ardea wardi, notes on, 380. 

 Argent Club meetings in Museum. 35. 

 Argentiferous lead ores, 271. 



smelting of, 240. 

 smelting series, 252. 

 Argentine Republic rocks, 227. 



Works smelting series, 252. 

 Arizora aboriginal pottery, 121. 

 antiquities obtained, 124. 

 birds from E. W. Nelson, 60. 

 calcareous incrustations, 230. 

 collections, 70. 

 copper smelting, 256. 

 mammals obtained, 130. 

 minerals needed, 247. 

 Arkansas antimony ores wanted, 253. 

 antiquities received, 125. 

 fishes obtained, 61. 

 white-grub fungus from, 185. 

 Arlington Mills, collection of \arns from, 81. 



visited, 83. 

 Armoiy building storage, 21, 53. 



Army Medical Museum, antiquities from, 124. 



worm, 363. 

 A mot mine coal, 243. 

 Art and industry objects from Africa, 72. 



students in the Museum, 33. 

 Artibeus perspicillatus obtained, 120. 

 Artists represented by autotypes, 51. 



work, 47. 

 Arts and industries collections, 53. 

 curators, 53. 

 department, 16, 53. 

 reported on, 55. 

 Arvicola, 326, 329, 330, 367. 

 amphibius, 328. 

 and Fiber contrasted, 329. 

 generic characters of, 329. 

 Asbestos collection, 242, 268, 269, 276. 

 Ascalaphus hyalinus from Long Island, 186. 

 Ashburner, C. A., sent charts of coal-fields, 265. 

 Asia, bats, &c, from, 131. 

 collections, 71. 

 Minor, ancient lamps, 118. 

 Asopia costalis from Virginia, 185. 

 Assinaboine moccasins, 116. 

 Assistant director, duties of, 18. 



director's report, 339, 352. 

 Astacidae returned by Professor Faxon, 201. 

 Astacus catalogued, 371. 

 Asteroidea, new species of, 379. 

 Astur atricapillus henshawi, 376, 



striatulus, note on, 357. 

 Athyris sublamellosus, 206. 

 Atkinson, Lieut. B. W., collected reptiles, 158. 

 Atlantic shore fishes collected, 174. 

 Atophyrax Bendirei mentioned, 130. 

 Attacus cecropia from Missouri, 186. 

 Attagen group reviewed, 367. 



ptarmigans of the group, 366. 

 Attn th rowing-stick, 288. 

 Atwater, Prof. W. O , 16, 18. 



food analyses by, 108. 

 papers of, 846. 

 Auriferous gravel collections, 271. 

 pyrite collections, 271. 

 Australian fishes repaired, 41, 44. 



rocks, 237. 

 Austria stalagmites, 229. 

 Automatic registers of visitors, 32. 

 Autotypes by Braun & Co., 56. 

 Auxis rochei from Wood's Iloll, 163. 

 Aviculopecten catactus, 206. 

 Ayme, Louis, collections of, 70. 



investigations of, 70. 

 objects from Yucatan, 57. 

 Azores building and ornamental stones, 236 



building stone, 227. 

 Aztec antiquities received, 123. 



B. 



Babbitt and other alloys, 242, 276. 

 Baby-basket of Modoks, 300. 



North California Indians, 300. 

 Backgrounds, 26. 

 Baeder, Adamson &Co., sand-paper collection, 276. 



sent collection, 268. 

 Bag-worm from Arkansas, 185. 

 Bailey, E. M., sent Maine minerals, 223. 

 Bailey, Sylvanus, throwing-stick from, 289. 

 Bailey & Co., ropes and twines from, 80. 

 Baird, Prof. Spencer F., 38, 136. 



directed the collecting 



of fishes, 169. 

 Maine shell-heap re- 

 mains from, 124. 

 offered reward for dol- 

 phin, 317. 

 sent frigate mackerel, 



163. 

 sent reptiles to Cope, 



157. 

 writings of, 346. 

 Baird, Brewer & Kidgway on water birds, 346. 

 Baker, A B., sent bat from Kansas, 130. 

 Baker, Dr. Frank, lecture by, 34. 

 Balbach, E., & Sons' bullion refining series, 252. 

 col'eetion of gold and cop- 

 per, 2"»0. 



