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INDEX. 



Beyer, Dr. H. G., 16. 



honorary curator, 75. 

 Bibliography, analysis of, 337, 339. 



Of Museum, 31, 337, 339. 

 Biddle on construction of Indian vessels, 89. 

 Bigelow Carpet Company specimens, 82. 



visited. 83. 

 Bilhoola Indian basket work, 297. 

 Binney, Dr. W. G., shells contributed by, 181. 

 Biological Society lectures, 33. 



meetings, 35. 

 Birch and linden in basketry, 305. 

 Bird collections of NationalMuseum, 358. 

 labels for exhibition, 154. 

 prepared. 59, 151. 

 sample of, 151. 

 new to Bermudas, 340. 

 Birds, 17. 



added to exbibition series, 155. 

 alphabetical list of accessions to, 143-149. 

 and fishes mounted, 41, 44. 

 aquatic and fish-eating,at London Fisheries, 

 341. 

 rearranged, 150. 

 department of, 59. 

 desirable for exbibition, 155. 



to purchase, 155. 

 displayed in American Museum of Natural 



History, 153. 

 distributed, 149. 

 duplicate and exchanged, 60. 

 Birds' eggs, 17, 18, 60. 



exchanged, 150. 



and loaned, 60. 

 foreign, 60. 

 installed, 153. 

 lent, 150. 



number of, 60, 153. 

 overhauled, 152. 



presented by Captain Ben dire, 153. 

 wanted, 343," 347. 

 extensive accessions of, 60, 143. 

 exhibited at Cincinnati, 50. 



New Orleans, 151. 

 exotic, wanting, 155. 

 for New Orleans Exposition, 59, 358. 

 from Alaska, 60. 

 Arizona, 60. 

 California, 69. 

 Dominica, 70. 

 India, 60. 

 Japan. 60, 71. 

 Mexico, 70. 

 in exhibition series, 59. 



reserve series, 59, 152. 

 installed in cases, 150. 

 key to North American, 371 . 

 mounted, 151. 



nests and eggs obtained, 149. 

 new North American races of, 376. 

 North American game sent to New Orleans 

 152. 

 proposed new list of, 150. 

 of Bermuda, H40, 377. 



National Museum, papers on, 152. 



prey, diurnal, 373. 

 old 8 



and new generic names of, 366. 

 present state of, 152. 

 recommendations for department of, 153. 

 report upon, 143. 

 returned from London, 60. 

 secured in 1884, 44. 

 water, of North America, 346. 

 work upon, 59, 150, 151. 

 Bird-skins and alcoholic specimens, 143-149. 

 condition of, 152. 

 exchanged, 149. 

 lent, 149. 

 mounted, 59. 



protected from insects, 152. 

 Bismuth ores, 272. 



from Utah, 257. 

 Blackfeet mat and bowl 116. 

 Blackfish hatching, 352. 

 Blackford, E. G., sent Brevoort fishes, 164. 

 crustaceans, 190. 

 430-pound halibut, 102. 

 steel-head trout from, 162. 



Blackford, E. G., 36-pound pompano from, 163 

 Blackiston, Capt, T. W., 60. 



birds from, 71. 

 Blackmore Museum, mound-pipes in, 125. 

 Black Warrior Basin fishes collected, 176. 

 Blair, Albert, 268. 

 Blake collections of marine invertebrates, 180. 



deep-sea mollusks studied, 180. 

 Blake, J. H., 198. 



Blankets of Northwestern coast, 299. 

 Blatta orientalis ? from California, 187. 

 Blende, galena, and marcasite crystals, 243. 

 Blight, I. O., favors from, 2G7. 

 Blissus leucopterus, 360. 

 Blossburg Coal Company presented drill, 264. 

 Boas, Dr. Franz, 112, 279. 



on Cumberland Gulf throwing- 

 stick, 282. 

 Boat and vessel models installed, 97. 



repaired by Captain Col' 

 lins, 97. 

 building material obtained, 86. 

 fittings, 86, 96, 98. 



models and equipments collected, 85. 

 from Aden, 89. 

 China, 90. 

 London Fisheries Exhibitioa, 



97. 

 Madras, 89. 

 the Maldives, 89. 

 Boats collected, 1882 to 1884, 85. 



vessels, &c, now exhibited, 98. 

 Bobtail mill gold collection, 241, 274. 



extraction shown, 249. 

 Bogosloff Island rocks and volcanic ashes, 69, 230 

 Bohuslan cod-fishing vessel, 104. 

 Bolles, Lieut. T. Dix, collections from, 57. 



Thlinket objects froin, 114. 

 Bolts, nuts, and washers, 239. 

 Bombay fishing-boat model, 88. 

 Bombax malabaricum, dug-out from, 87. 

 Bones, fossil, in Florida, 380. 

 Booth, A., Columbia River shad from, 162. 

 Borassus flabelliformis, fishing dug-out from, 87. 

 Boston custom-house fibers, 81. 



foreign exhibition, accessions from, 67. 

 Brazil foods from, 107. 

 Ceylonese collection 



from, 72. 

 collections from, 71. 

 Guatemala foods from, 



107. 

 Hawaiian foods, See., 



from, 72, 107. 

 San Salvador product* 



from, 107. 

 sent foreign mineral», 



240. 

 textiles from, 80. 

 Museum of Art, 10. 

 Society of Natural History, 10. 

 Botany, department of, 17, 65, 220. 



of Bermuda, 340, 376. 

 Bot-flies in a turtle. 367. 

 Bottle covered with basketry, 299. 

 Bottle-nosed dolphin obtained, 132. 

 Bow appliances for twisting sinew, 312. 

 lashings described. 310, 311. 

 hitches in, 311. 

 Bowker, Torrey &. Co., contributors, 66. 



sent onyx, 231. 

 Bowlder, photograph of, 229. 

 Bows, backing of, at various points, 310. 

 broad and flat with bent end, 309. 



with straight end, 309. 

 Eskimo, a study of, 307. 

 of Yukon delta'described, 308. 

 paper on, mentioned, 57. 

 replaced by fire-arms, 315. 

 sinew backing of, 307. 308. 

 Bow-string twisters, 316. 

 Boxes for small specimens, 26. 

 Boyle, C.B., 215. 

 Boyne corracle for fishing, 90, 91. 

 Brachiopods, Carboniferous, received, 212, 

 Devonian, obtained, 210, 213. 

 recent work on, 350. 

 Bradford silks, 80. 



