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INDEX. 



"Welsh tin plates, 242. 253. 



■Wert.li, J. R., 268. 



West Indian bats presented, 130. 



birds from the Albatross, GO. 

 collections of Albatross, 197. 

 Islands invertebrates received, 189. 

 reptiles obtained, 61. 

 seal, 331. 

 West Virginia, coal and associates. 202. 

 Western Eskimo bow, peculiar backing of, 313. 

 type of bow where used. 314. 

 Eskimo bows, 313. 

 Whale-boat model, 56. 



cast of ziphioid, 133. 



fishery and its appliances, 341. 



exhibit at Louisville, 49. 

 in River Tay, 349. 

 Whales and porpoises, how collected and pre- 

 served, 3G7. 

 toothed, proposed monograph of, 135. 

 ziphioid, obtained, 131. 

 Wharton, Mr., contribution from, 61 

 Wheeler, Lieut. G. M., antiquities from, 123, 126, 

 127. 

 sent Scaphiocrinus, 203, 

 204. 

 Whitcomb, George D., presented photograph, 26">. 

 White, Dr. C.A.,17, 64. 



arrow-heads from, 124. 

 papers of, 370. 

 report of, 215. 

 White, Dr. J. A., arrow-heads from, 124. 

 Whitefish, Nelson's, 347. 



new Alaskan, 347. 

 White fishes of North America, 347. 

 lead by corrosion process, 254. 

 from the ore, 254. 

 paints, 241. 

 paint from ore, 243. 

 pine shale fauna of Nevada, 206. 

 shale?, position of, 206. 

 Whitfield. Edward, chemical work of, 224. 

 Whiting, S. B., assisted to collect, 267. 

 Whitman, W., courtesies of, 83. 

 Whitney, Eli, cotton-gin model from, 83. 

 Whitney, J. D., 346. 

 Whittenton Manufacturing Company ginghams, 



82. 

 Wilcox, F. E., Arapahoe saddle-bags from, 116. 

 Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., collections from, 96. 

 Wild wheat in basketry, 295. 

 Wiley, Prof. Harvey W., lecture by, 34. 

 Wilkes Exploring Expedition collections, 6. 



models of canoes. 

 &c, 105. 

 Wilkie's Monachus tropicalis, 331. 

 Wilkinson, Ensign Ernest, 225. 

 Willeox, Joseph, lent minerals, 221. 



minerals from, 65, 221. 

 minerals installed, 223. 

 Willow splints in basketry, 301. 

 Wilson, D. B., Kiowa shield from, 116. 

 Wilson, Thomas, exchange with, 126. 

 Wilton carpet samples, 82. 

 Windlass, steam, models, 95. 

 Window glass abraded by sand, 230. 

 Winnebago medicine man's club, 116. 

 Winslow, Lieut. Francis, on London Fisheries mol- 

 hisks, 341. 

 the oyster, 381. 

 Wire-drawing illustrations, 241. 

 Wisconsin antiquities exhibited, 126. 

 obtained, 123. 

 fishes collected, 170. 

 Wittfeld, William, new mammal from, 130. 



sent Florida muskrat, 325. 

 Witzel, Ensign H. M., assisted Mr. Dewey, 276. 

 Wood, George II., favors from, 267. 

 Woodpecker, new, irom Kamtchatka, 366. 

 WOod's Holl fishes, journal upon, 165. 

 obtained, 173. 

 laboratory facilities, 198. 

 new laboratory, 198. 

 shells received, 183. 

 station of Fish Commission, 197. 

 Woollen goods, samples, 82. 



Woolfe, D., mining Arctic coal, 69. 



Workshop built, 36. 



Worsted fabrics from England, 80. 



Hahifen & Co.. 81. 

 yarn manufacture illustrations, 81. 

 Worsteds from Pacific Mills. 82. 

 Wren, Alaska willow, from Nushagak, 69. 

 Wrought iron from oi e, 257. 



Yarn manufacture illustrations, 81, 82. 



samples, 81. 

 Yarrow, Dr. H. C, 17. 



aboriginal pottery from, 121. 

 antiquities collected by, 123. 

 collected Utah reptiles, 157. 

 honorary curator, 60. 

 paper by, 370. 

 report of, 157. 

 visits Utah, 60. 

 Yeates.W. S., 17. 



collecting trips of, 66. 

 field expeditions of, 222. 

 mineral work of, 225. 

 North Carolinarocks, &c, from, 229. 

 Yellowstone National Park, model, 234. 

 Yokohama antiquities. 124. 



baskets, 118. 

 Yucatan birds from Mr. Gaumer, 71. 

 Indian collections, 57. 

 investigations, 70. 

 Yucca baskets and trays of the Mokis, 304. 

 brevifolia, 81. 

 in basketry, 303. 

 Yukon delta bow from W. H. Dall, 312. 



resembling Arctic type, 312. 

 Eskimo bows described, 308. 

 Indian trap, 113. 

 River Eskimo throwing-stick, 286. 



Z. 



Zalophus californianus obtained, 131. 

 Zeledon, Jose C, Costa Rican collections from, 71. 

 reptiles from, 158. 

 sent Costa Rican mammals, 130. 

 Zenaidura yucatanensis, note on, 356. 

 Zinc blende from Missouri, 258. 

 furnaces collections, 259, 273. 



methods and materials, 274. 

 iron and manganese smelting, 275. 

 or spelter smelting collections, 258. 

 ore from, Missouri, 244. 

 processes, 260. 

 products, 260. 

 ores, 241, 243, 272. 



and their treatment, 274. 

 from Mossy Creek, 242. 

 products of, 274. 

 paint from Page & Krause, 244. 

 silicate and carbonate ores of, 258. 

 smelting collection from Glendale Work", 

 259. 

 Granby Works 



259. 

 Joplin Works, 2L.3 

 Kansas, 259, 

 Langon Works, 

 259. 

 collections, 275. 

 works described, 273. 



photographs of, 274. 

 Ziphioid whales received, 131. 

 Ziphius from Bering Island, 131. 

 Zonites cellarius from Oregon, 183. 

 Zoological gardens contribute mammals, 59, 129. 



nomenclature, 352. 

 Zoology, division of, 17, 59. 



progress in, 372. 

 Zukoski, E. L., collected Bessemer steel, 258. 

 copper ores, "J.">4, 255. 

 Illinois coals, 267. 

 collections of, 243, 252. 

 Zuiii basketry, 304. 



objects, 116. 

 Zygouectes zonifer from Georgia, 375. 



