816 INDEX. 



Page. 



Biography, papers relating to 31 



Biological Society, meetings of - 35,36,37 



Bird exhibit at New Orleans Exhibition 79 



Birds, alcoholic series of 162 



distribution of 156 



eggs, important contributions of I63 



number of specimens in collection of 164 



report on department of 163 



review of work in department of 16 



exhibition series of 161 



families of, represented in reserve-skin series 159 



list of important contributions of 153 



papers on 31 



papers prepared for publication 158 



report on department of 153 



review of work i n department of 15 



Black, A. C, sends archaeological specimens 54 



Blackburn, Miss Dottie, sends reptiles 165 



Black, Dr. E. C, sends archaeological objects 54, 105 



Blackford, E. G., sends a Jew-fish 167 



fishes 59 



Blackman, O. A., sends geological specimens 55 



Blake, J. Henry, sends parasitic copepods 56 



Blakiston, Captaiu, collection of birds presented by 157 



Block for holding bottles in department of insects, description of 186 



Bloomingdale Graphite Company sends minerals 58 



Boardman, George A., skulls sent to 212 



Bolles, Lieut. T. Dix, assigned to duty in Museum 13 



assists in arrangement of Eskimo collection 89 



presents Eskimo carvings 51 



renders assistance 33 



sends ethnological specimens from Alaska 68 



Bolter, A., Lepidoptera sent by 188 



Botany, review of work in department of 21 



Bouve", T. T., presents eruptive rocks 239 



Bo werbank, Dr., British sponges described by 20 



Bowman, J. R., sends birds 58 



Brackett, Col. A. G., sends a nocturnal hawk-moth 68 



zoological specimens 60 



Branner, Dr. J. C 196 



Bransford, Dr. J. F. , presents reptiles from Nicaragua 165 



sends natural history collections from Nicaragua 68 



Bremen Geographical Society, expedition of 173 



Brevoort, J. C, contributes books 25 



Brewster, William, sends zoological speci mens 58 



Bristol Bay, ethnological objects from 91 



British America, accessions from 51 



Guiana, ethnological objects from « 94 



Museum sends birds 15 



Britt, T. A. , presents minerals 54 



Britton, Wiley, sends fossil shells 57 



paleozoic fossils 221 



Brock, John W., presents a potstone bowl 102 



sends fossil corn 59 



Brooks, Prof. W. K., delivers a lecture 34 



