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INDEX. 



Page. 



82 



18 



84 



92 



310 



599 



65 



214 



Moon, absence of air and water on 112, 116 



Moissan, Henri, experiments with elec- 

 tric furnace by 



gift from 



paper by 



Mollusks exhibited at Nashville 



Monck- Mason on ballooning 



Money, Babylonian 



Monroe, H., gift from 



Montpillard's typophotographs 



absence of life on 



climatic condition of 



craters of the. 



density of- 



hoax, account of . 



ice on surface of 



imaginary description of . 



importance of study of . - 



photographs of 



physical composition of... 



supposed changes in 



Mooney, James 



Moore, Charles, paper by 



115 

 120 

 110 

 113 

 125 

 118 

 127 

 105 

 105 

 116 

 109 

 . 39,45,47 

 85 



Morrill, Justin S., Regent .- x,xn,2 



Morrison, Charles, electrical researches 



of... 224 



Morse"s experiments in telegraphy £26, 236 



Mosquitos, annoyance by . _ -.. 554 



as source of malaria — 556 



Mosses and lichens in tundras...- -- 322 



Mottier, D. M., at Naples table .-.. JO 



Mountain-chains, American . 382 



Mountain-observatories; Holden on 83 



Miiller, G. E., cited 192 



Miiller, Max, on human speech 466 



Murguiondo, Prudencio de, courtesies 



by...... - - 57 



Murray, John, paper by 85 



on origin of coral is- 

 lands 394 



Musical instruments, African 641 



Nadaillac, Marquis de, paper by 84 



Naples zoological station, Smithsonian 



table at 10 



Nashville Exposition, report on 90 



National Museum, accessions to. 22,31,32 



anthropology in 32 



appropriations for. xlvit,5 

 distribution of spec- 

 imens by 34 



exchanges by 22 



exhibit at Nashville 90, 92 

 foreign exchanges of 34 



galleriesin.. 7,21,31 



library of... 31,77 



Mr.Walcott's report 



on... 31 



more curators 



needed for 20 



need of new building 



for xvi, 3,21 



need of purchasing 



fund for 3 



number of visitors to ■ 35 

 property statement 



of 31 



publications by 35, 8*1 



Page. 

 National Museum, Regents 1 action con- 

 cerning new build- 

 ing xvr 



receipts and expend- 

 itures XXII 



reorganization of . . . 20, 31 

 Secretary's report 



on 19 



total of specimens in 32 



Navaho houses, Mindeleff on 47 



Naval Observatory, astronomical dis- 

 covery at 130 



Navarro, Juan N., courtesies by 58 



Navigation charts, importance of 411 



Naville, M., cited 610 



Neanderthal skull, capacity of 450 



Nebulae, chemistry of. 175 



Necrology, death of Gardiner Greene 



Hubbard 29 



Necropolises of ancient Carthage. 603 



Negrito culture forms in Africa 648 



Negro, African, type of. 637 



Nehring, Alfred, quoted 651 



Nelson, E. W., exhibit prepared by 96 



on Eskimo about Bering 



Strait^.. 47 



Neolithic period in Europe. . 347 



study of 626 



Neon, spectrum of. 273 



Neo-vitalism, discussion of 526 



Neumann, F. E., electrical discoveries 



by. 223 



Newcomb, Simon, on aspects of Amer- 

 ican astronomy ... 84 

 on problems of as- 

 tronomy 85 



Newhall, W. H, exhibit prepared by_. 96 



Newlands, John, chemical discoveries of 298 



on law of octaves 284 



Newtonian law of gravitation 143 



Newtonian, Lucretius 141 



Niagara River, future outlet of 361 



origin of 352 



utilization of _ 85 



Nicholson, A. M., gift from 65 



Nicholson, electrical experiments by.. 220 



Nichols on radiations by quartz . _ 162 



Nielsen, Dr., fishery investigations by. 414 

 Niepce of St. Victor, color photographs 



by 211 



Niewenglowski on color photography. 209 



Nitragin, agricultural use of 436 



Nitrogen, atmospheric 270 



Nodier, Charles, quoted 679 



Nomenclature, Gill on 86 



Norsemen, voyages of. _ 420 



North American Ethnology, appropria- 

 tion for - 5 



North German Lloyd Steamship Com- 

 pany, courtesies by. 58 



Norway fisheries exhibition L 



Numismatic exhibit at Nashville 99 



Oceanography, dynamic, definition of . . 408 



history of- 419 



scope of 407 



static, definition of 408 



Thouleton 407 



