810 INDEX. 



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Utah , accessions from 85 



Vail, Mrs. Amanda, piece of telegraph wire presented by 162 



Vancouver Island, accessions from 79 



Vasey, Dr. George, honorary curator, services as .. 100 



notice of papers by 711 



report on the department of botany by 237 



Vathelet, Rev. A., donated shells from Tonquin, Indo-China 88 



Vertebrate fossils, review of work in the department of 39 



Vesicular structure of rocks 514 



Vessels, propelled by steam, early forms of 616 



projects for 613 



Virginia, accessions from . :__. 85 



Visitors to the Museum 20 



Smithsonian and Museum buildings 58, 59 



Volcanic group of rocks . 538 



Voorhees, Hon. D. W 19 



Walcott, C. D., fossils presented by 83 



notice of papers by 711 



report on the department of paleozoic invertebrate 



fossils by 233 



specimen of Heceptaculites oweni received from 85 



Walker, Commodore J. G. (U. S. N.), specimens of ocean-bottom S3nt by. 97 



Walker, W. W., sent in exchange a collection of archaeological objects, 84 



Ward & Howell, meteoric iron received from 85 



presented specimen of meteoric ore from Puquois, 



Chile . 87 



Ward, Lester F. , notice of papers by 712 



Ward, Miss Anna L., sends ethnological material 79 



Washington, accessions from 85 



Washington relics transferred to the National Museum 141 



Watkins, J. Elfreth, paper on the Log of the Savannah, by 611 



notice of papers by 716 



report on the section of transportation and engi- 

 neering 159 



Wendel, Dr. F. C. H., assistance rendered by 140 



Wesleyan College, marine invertebrates received from 224 



Wesleyan University, collection of annelids received from 86 



West Indies, accessions from 86 



White, Dr. C. A 27 



» notice of paper by 716 



report on the department of mesozoic invertebrate fos- 

 sils, by 235 



White, Dr. C. H. (U. S. N.), insects collected by 111 



reptiles, insects, fishes and marine inverte- 

 brates presented by 93, 97 



White-line engraving for relief-printing in the fifteenth and sixteenth 



centuries, paper on 385 



Wilcox, Glover P., collection presented by 83 



Williams, Henry S., notice of paper by 716 



Williams, Talcott, collection made by 138 



extracts from letters of , 112 



Williamson, Burton M., shells presented by - 8l 



