INDEX. 



707 



Page 



Lurnmer, O., paper by 8+ 



Lunar core, origin of 112 



Lunar surface, study of, by photogra- 

 phy . _ 105 



Lynch, W.T., gift from 65 



McCoppin, Frank, mentioned 559 



MacDougall, D. T., on botanical com- 

 mission 1 19 



McGee,W J 82,42,43 



on Seri Indians _ 47 



Mackay -Smith, Mrs. , gift from 66 



McKenna, Joseph 1 



McKinley, William, member of estab- 

 lishment _ 2 



McKinney,E. T., gift from 66 



Magee, W. H., bibliography by... 1 . 83 



Magellan's voyages.. 421 



Magnetic experiments by Gilbert 217 



field, definition of 250 



Magnetism at great heights 307 



Malaria carried by mosquitoes. 556 



Malay influences in Africa 618 



Malayo-Negritos in Africa 638 



Male element predominant. 440 



Mammals, exhibit of, at Nashville 92 



anatomical character-sties 



of 475 



ancestral series of 473 



destruction of, by storms. . . 331 



fossil, of Europe 340 



in Zoological Park 63 



of tundras and steppes 322 



Mammoth, preserved, Adams's discov- 

 ery of 330 



Siberian 328,329 



teeth, instructions for pre- 

 serving 13 



Man and apes, classification of 459,464 



Java, and Pithecanthropus erec- 



tus 445 



origin of , Haeckel on 461 



prehistoric, in Europe 332 



Manouvrier on skull of Pithecanthropus 455 



Marconi's system of telegraph 251,253,257 



Marine invertebrates, exhibit of 95 



on Funafuti 399 



organisms, distribution of 85 



Mark, E. L., delegate to Congress of 



Zoology 17 



Markham, A. H., paper by 85 



Marquis de Vogue, at Carthage 603 



Marriage customsin ancient Babylon. . 587 



Marsh, O. C, fossils collected by. 33 



Marsigli's studies in oceanography 424 



Martin, Bradley M., at Naples table 10 



Martin, Thomas Commerford 85 



Mason, O. T., exhibit prepared by 98 



Maspero, G., paper by _ 86 



Massachusetts filter station, studies at. 510 



Mastodon in Europe 340 



teeth, instructions for pre- 

 serving 13 



Materia medica, exhibit of. 99 



Mathematics and mechanics, principles 



of :. 85 



Mathews, J. A., on literatiire of metal- 

 lic carbides. 13,82 



Page. 



Maxwell's electrical researches 224 



theory of electricity 228 



Mayer, Robert, discovers principle of 



conservation of energy 515 



on forms of energy 525 



Mechanical energy, nature of 517 



flight, Langley on 84 



work, definition of 520 



Medals, American, exhibit of 99 



Medicinal plants, study of 435 



Medicine and surgery, advances in 85 



benefited by science 571 



Mediterranean and New York Steam- 

 ship Company 57 



Mendeleef, Prof essor, experiments by. 284 

 Mendenhall, C. E., assistant in Astro- 

 physical Obser vat ory 73 



Mendenhall, T. C, cited 381 



Mental faculties, localization of 468 



Merodachbaladan stone in Berlin Mu- 

 seum 589 



Merrill, G. P., appointed head curator 



of geology 32 



delegate to Geological 



Congress 17 



geological collection by. 35 



geological exhibit by 95 



paper by 85 



Mesa Encantada, exploration of 38 



Metallic carbides, literature of... 13 



Metals and alloys, paper on 86 



Metargon, discovery of 274 



Meteorological investigations with 



kites 8 



observations from bal- 

 loons 312 



Meteorology, oceanography and 410 



relation of plant physiol- 

 ogy to 434 



Mexico, botanical collections from 34 



Meyenberg, E.,gift from 66 



Meyer, Hermann, paper by 86 



Meyer, Lothar, mentioned 284 



Miall, L. C, paper by 84 



Michigan fish commission 509 



Microbes, war on 86 



Miers, Professor, cited 283 



Migration of birds.. 480 



Milky Way, spectra of 136 



Miller, Gerrit S., jr. , appointed assistant 



curator 32 



Miller, H. H., gift from 66 



Mindeleff, Cosmos, on Navaho houses. . 47 



Mindeleff, Victor, gift from 66 



Mineral exhibit at Nashville 96 



Minerals added to museum 33 



"Missing link,*' Haeckel on 469 



Miscellaneous collections, addition to.. 13 

 editor's re- 

 port on 81 



Mississippi, Spanish policy in 14 



Mitchell, S. Weir, i-essarches by.... .... 9,82 



Modification of Great Lakes by earth 



movement 349 



Mohammedan encyclopedia in prepara- 

 tion 16 



Mohn, H., expedition under. 413 



