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INDEX. 



Museum collections at New Orleans, 4. 



by Smithsonian aid, C. 

 condition of, 20. 

 list of writers on, 344, 345. 

 of fishes, 169. 



invertebrate Paleozoic fos- 

 sils, 208. 

 placed in Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 5. 

 ■work upon, 3. 

 contents, public display of, 9. 

 curators detailed from other bureaus, 10. 

 curatorships, 1G. 

 deposits, 5. 

 direction, 18. 

 exohanges, 6. 

 exhibition space, 20, 21. 

 exposition staff, 19. 

 foundation and legal status, 5. 

 function and aims, 7. 

 fur Vdlkerkunde, African weapons from, 

 118. 

 Brazilian implements 



from, 118. 

 ethnologica from, 119. 

 guide-books, 12. 

 history, periods of, 8. 

 idea, development of, 8. 

 illustrations, 12, 13. 

 increase, 3. 

 lectures. 33. 



visited by foreign men of science, 33. 

 work reviewed, 4. 

 management, 5. 

 manuals, 12, 13. 

 material, how acquired. 7. 

 preserved, 7. 

 utilized, 7. 

 method of classifying, 53. 

 objects and modes of work, 7. 

 of Comparative Zoology, 10. 



research defined, 11. 

 officers as authors, 341, 345. 



papers by, 3, 346. 

 organization and" government, 5. 

 packages recorded, 22. 

 papers, bibliography of, 31. 

 preparators, work of, 41. 

 Proceedings, volume vi, 339. 

 publications, 6, 7, 31, 339. 

 report, 4. 

 research, 8. 



scientific papers, catalogue of, 7. 

 sheds, 21. 



specimens, number of, 20. * 



staff, 5, 15, 16. 

 storage courts, 3. 

 trays, 15. 

 types, 7. 

 Museums as educators, 8, 10. 

 Musical instruments, 55. 



East Indian, 72. 

 Muskiat destroyed carp, 371. 

 Florida, 325, 328, 367. 

 round-tailed, 130, 325, 367. 



relations of, 330. 

 Mussels for New Orleans Exposition, 179. 

 Mygale from Arizona, 186. 



California, 187. 

 Myodes obensis obtained, 130. 



N. 

 Napier matting, 81. 



Naiion, Professor, Peruvian birds from, 71. 

 National Academy of Sciences in Museum, 34. 

 cabinet of curiosities transferred, 5. 

 Museum, compiohensive organization of, 

 11 

 Natural history collections at Cincinnati, 50. 



New Orleans, 51. 

 exihbit at Louisville, 49. 

 Naturalists' Society meeting. 35. 

 Navajo fetiches, 116. 

 jewelry, 116. 

 Naval architecture additions, 85. 



collection, arranging and clas- 

 sifying, 90. 

 condition of, 98. 



Naval architecture collection, development of, 98. 

 history of, 105. 

 department statistics. 98. 

 development illustrations, 99. 

 gallery opened, 52. 

 material described, 98. 

 report on, 85. 

 section, 16, 17. 



desiderata for, 105. 

 researches in, 97. 

 specimens exhibited, 98. 

 battle photographed, 85. 

 officers' collections, 192. 

 vessels needed, 98. 

 Navy Department, bottom samples from, 192. 

 Needle of Eskimo basket-maker, 294. 

 Negatives added in 1884, 40. 

 Ncill, J. W., minerals from, 222. 

 Nellie S. PickiDg (schooner) model, 94. 

 Nelson, E. W., 279. 



aboriginal pottery from, 121. 

 Arizona reptiles from, 157. 

 baskets from, 294. 

 birds' eggs from, 60. 

 CapePoinanzoff bows from, 309, 310. 

 collected Arizona- rodents, <fcc, 130. 

 Cape Vancouver throw- 

 ing-sticks, 286. 

 collections from, 57, 70. 

 Diomede spear from, 11". 

 explains bow-string twisters, 316. 

 Eskimo bows from, 307, 309. 

 Norton Sound ethnologica from, 112. 

 papers by, 136, 376. 

 Saint Lawrence Island bows from, 



313. 

 throwing-sticks from, 286, 289. 

 Yukon delta bow from, 312. 

 Neofiber, 320, 327, 328, 330. 

 defined, 325, 330. 

 alleni, 277. 



described, 130, 325, 326. 

 from Florida, 367. 

 habits unknown, 330. 

 measurements, 329. » 

 skeleton measurements, 329. 

 skull measurements, 329. 

 Netherlands life-boat model, 104. 

 Nevada, Central, Paleozoic fossils, 207. 

 Devonian fauna, 206. 



Paleozoic fauna, nature and relations of, 

 205. 

 fossils, results of work on, 205. 

 showing faunal succes- 

 sion, 205. 

 shells new to science, 182. 

 white pine shale fauna, 200. 

 New Caledonia club, 119. 

 New England, marine fauna off, 380. 

 New Era, ideal fishing schooner, 102, 103. 

 New Guinea weapons, ornaments, <fcc, 57, 72, 119, 



120. 

 New Hampshire geology and lithology, illustra- 

 tions of, 237. 

 New Idria, California, insects obtained, 186. 

 New Jersey insect obtained, 185. 

 New Mexico aboriginal pottery, 121. 

 collections, 70. 

 minerals wanted, 247. 

 New Orleans collections in economic geology and 

 metallurgy, 269. 

 exhibit, 51. 



labels for, 5'. 

 of birds, 151. 

 preparations for, 45, 51. 

 size of. 52. 

 Exposition, assistant director at,52. 

 building and ornamental 

 stones, 66. 



collections, 240,241 



in metal- 

 lurgy, 247. 

 Congressional bill con- 



ceraing, 48. 

 curators at, 52. 

 ecouomic entomology 



at, 187. 

 exhibits, 30. 



