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INDEX. 



Throwing-stick, Greenland type, 281. 

 illustrations, 281. 

 left-handed. 287. 

 locality marks of, 280. 

 mode of holding, 279. 

 modifications, 288. 



at Nunivak, 286. 

 of Anderson River, 283. 

 Attu, 288. 

 Bristol Bay, 287. 

 East Siberia, 285. 

 Kadiak and Unalashka, 287. 

 Kotzebue Sound, 284. 

 Norton Sound, 286. 

 Nunivak and Cape Vancouver, 



286. 

 Point Barrow, 283. 

 Prince William Sound, 287. 

 Port Clarence and Cape Nome, 



285. 

 Yukon River Eskimo, 286. 

 origin of, 283, 288. 

 philosophy of, 279. 

 relation to hand-rest, 289. 

 revelations, 281. 

 * substituted by hand-rest, 288. 



Ungava type, 281. 

 with peculiar index cavity, 284. 

 Throwing-sticks, catalogue of, 289. 

 classified, 288. 

 in National Museum, 279. 

 made by whites modified, 287. 

 paper on, mentioned, 57. 

 Thuja gigantea in basketry, 297. 

 Thurn, E. im, on British Guiana baskets, 306. 

 Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis, 361. 



from Arkansas, 185. 

 Tierra del Fuego mollusks and shells, 182. 

 Tile-fish history, 349. 



not rediscovered, 199. 

 Tin collections, 252, 271. 



received, 253. 

 from Cash mines, 252. 

 cassiterite, 252. 

 North Carolina, 253. 

 stanniferous wolfram, 252. 

 Virginia, 252. 

 in Alabama, 252. 

 ores, 241. 



and plate, 271. 

 from Alabama, 241. 

 Australasia, 245. 

 Dakota, 241. 

 Maine, 242. 

 North Carolina, 242. 

 Virginia, 241. 

 plate from stanniferous wolfram, 252. 

 of Welsh make, 253. 

 Tinne Indian basket ornamentation, 295. 



basketry, 294. 

 Titlark, earliest name of American, 366. 

 Title of Part II, 73. 

 Todd, H. L., drawings of, 169. 



fish drawings of, 61, 165. 

 Tomkins, J. C, 268. 

 Toner lecture, 34. 

 Tortugas corals, &c, 70. 

 Tourmaline region of Maine visited. 223. 

 Townsend, Charles H., birds from, 60. 



birds' eggs from, 60. 

 collected California mam- 

 mals, 130,131. 

 mammals collected by, 69. 

 reptiles from, 61,157,158. 

 sent Carboniferous fossils, 

 204. 

 Trachynotus goreensis weighing 36 pounds, 163. 

 Trachypterus arcticus obtained, 163. 

 Trap dike in granite, 229. 

 Trenton fossils, 207. 

 Triassic sandstone, 229. 

 Trilobite appendages, 368. 

 Trinidad fishes obtained, 163. 

 Trinitv Basin fishes collected, 178. 

 Tripoli collection, 244, 2K9. 

 True, Frederick W., 17, 18,62,277. 



acting assistant director, 18, 

 133. 



True, Frederick W., bought exotic mammals, 131. 

 curator, 59. 

 librarian, 19. 

 mammal report of, 129. 

 on a spotted dolphin, 317. 

 Florida muskrat, 325. 

 mammals for New Or- 

 leans, 343. 

 papers of, 136, 367. 

 studied porpoise fisheries, 



132. 

 studying cetacea in Europe, 

 135. 

 mammals in Eu- 

 rope, 132. 

 and Lucas, F. A., on Mona- 

 chus tropicalis, 331. 

 Tufas from Mr. Russell, 236. 

 Turbinella pyrum, classification of, 183. 



relations of, 181. 

 Turdus alicise in Palsearctic region, 366. 

 Turner, L. M., 279, 282, 287. 



birds from, 60. 



collected Labrador mammals, 130. 

 collections from, 68. 

 Eskimo bows from, 307. 

 explorations of, 68. 

 fishes from, 61, 162. 

 insects from, 63, 187. 

 lent Ungava throwing-stick, 281. 

 mollusks collected by, 181. 

 report of, 68. 



throwing-sticks from, 286, 289. 

 Ungava collections from, 57. 

 Turner, H. W., sent reptiles, 158. 

 Tursio Doris, 323. 

 Tursiops tursio, 320, 324. 



obtained, 132. 

 Turtles, mounting of, 353. 

 Twilling in basketry, 299. 

 Twines from Bailey & Co., 80. 

 Type-metal collection, 242, 268, 276. 



U. 



Unakite and diabase from Virginia, 228. 

 Unalashka throwing-stick, 287. 

 Ungava birds received, 60. 

 insects received, 63. 

 (Labrador) throwiug-stick, 281. 

 throwiug-stick related to Alaskan forms, 

 281. 

 Ungulata mounted in 1884, 42. 

 renovated, 41, 44. 

 secured in 18>-4, 44. 

 Union Stone Company sent corumdrum, emery, 



&c, 269. 

 U. S. Census Bureau, fisheries enumerated for, 171. 

 Coast Survey di edging appliances, d56. 

 eastern explorations, 70. 

 educational museums, 10. 

 Exploring Expedition corals, 202. 

 shells, 181. 

 Fish Commission, California collections, 69. 

 captured porpoises, 132. 

 collected West Indian 



bats, 130. 

 collections, 70. 

 Copepoda. 355. 

 dredging appliances, 356. 

 experiments in embryol- 

 ogy, 72. 

 explorations, 197. 

 explorations for fishes, 169. 

 fish-cultural exhibit, 342, 



352. 

 invertebrate collections, 



189, 190. 

 invertebrates cared for, 



193. 

 invertebrates distributed, 



195. 

 invertebrates from Alba- 

 tross, 189. 

 London Fisheries collec- 

 tions, 341. 

 mammals, 129. 

 mollusks to arrive, 181. 



