INDEX. 



711 



Page. 

 Shells, collections presented to Mu- 

 seum ._ 33 



Sherborn, Charles Davies, on forami- . 



nif era - - 83 



Sherman, John ■ 1 



Shut eldt, R. W. , paper by 85 



Siberian tundras and steppes 322 



Siemens and Wheatstone, electric 



machines of , 230 



Silicon, abundance 291 



Silver ores, types of 9(5 



Simpson, C. T., mollusk exhibit by 94 



Skulls, anthropoid 450 



capacity of ape and gorilla 451 



comparison of Pithecanthropus 



and others 452, 454 



Slaby's experiments with wireless 



telegraph 235, 244 



Slavery in ancient Babylon _ 588 



Smith, Charles Emory, member of 



establishment 1.2 



Smith, Edward, Hodgkins warrantry 



to XIIT 



Smith, F. Jervis, electric coherer used 



by 243 



Smith, W., gift from _ 66 



Smith, Wiley, train-telegraph experi- 

 ments by 238 



Smith, Willoughby, telegraph experi- 

 ments by - 240 



Smithson bequest, statement of xvn 



will, photograph of 19 



tablets, erection of 19 



Smithsonian deposit in Congressional 



Library 15 



fund, present condition 



of - xvi 1,4 



Report, rules for selec- 

 tion of papers in 80 



Snakes, poisonous, exhibit of 92 



Snowdrifts in Europe 332 



Soaring flight, Huffaker on 84 



Solar radiation , researches in _ . 72 



spectrum, researches in 7,72 



Sollas, W. J. , on origin of coral atoll 389 



Soul of man, nature of 467 



Sound, Hallock's researches on 9 



observations from balloons 315 



propagation, researches on 9 



Specific heat, ratios of air, oxygen, and 



hydrogen 9,12,80 



Spectroscopic work, stellar 136 



Spectrum, increased knowledge of 161 



invisible, extension of 29,72 



method of observation 200 



star 136,169,170 



top, Benham's 203 



ultra violet 161 



Spencer, J. W. , study of Great Lakes by . 352 



Spencer, Percival, ballooning by 311 



Spirit, separable, belief in 630 



Spofford, Ainsworth R., biography of 



J. M. Toner by .. 86 



Sponges, chalk, structure of 477 



Stars, chemistry of, Locky er on 167 



gaseous, metallic, and carbon . . . 170 



spectra of 136,169 



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Stars, temperature of 170 



Steamships, first trans-Atlantic 99 



Steiner, Roland, stone implements 



from _ . _ 32 



Steinhauser's map of gravity varia- 

 tions 377 



Steinheil's telegraph. 226 



Stein, Robert, on Arctic expedition 41 



Stejneger, Leonhard, collections in 



Commander Islands by 34 



Stellar atmospheres, absorption of 174 



Steppes, tundras and . 321 



Sternberg, G. M., Indian crania from.. 32 

 Steuart, C. A., at Nashville exposition. 100 

 Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, on Zuni In- 

 dians 1 46 



Stevenson, J. J., paper by 84 



Stewart, John, courtesies by 58 



Stewart, W., gift from 66 



Stiles, C. W., delegate to Congress of 



Zoology 17 



on Naples table commit- 

 tee 11 



Stimpson's fresh-water biological stud- 

 ies 500 



Stokes, H. N., on revival of inorganic 



chemistry 289 



Stone implements, Phillips on 84 



Stoney, Johnstone, on kinetic theory of 



gases 279 



Stuart, Professor, mentioned 396 



Sturgeon's experiments in magnetism. 221 

 Submarine telegraphs, difficulties in 



laying 415 



Sumerian language, documents in 589 



Summer biological laboratories 509 



Sun, atmosphere of 177 



photography of 136 



spectrum of 172 



spots, nature of.. 172 



photographs of 107 



rays, researches on 72 



Supreme Being, ancient belief in 633 



Surgery, antiseptic, advance in 577 



Sweeny, T. W., exhibit prepared by... 98 

 Swingle, "W. T., appointed honorary 



custodian 32 



at Naples table 10 



Swiss lakes, biological study of 505 



Switzerland, tundras and steppes in... 333 



ancient glaciers in 338 



Sylvine, solar radiations by 163 



Tablets, Smithson, erection of 19 



Tassin, Wirt,paperby 85 



Taveira, Luis Augusto, courtesies by.. 58 



Taylor, F. B., study of Great Lakes by. 352 



Taylor, William Bower, biography of.. 86 



Technological exhibit at Nashville 99 



Teeth of men and apes 453,472 



mammoth 13 



Telegraph, discovery of - 224 



five-needle 224 



Gauss and Weber 225 



portraits 227 



multiple- wire - 224 



railroad-train 238 



Schiller's 225 



