INDEX 



[Numbers in black-faced type indicate important references.] 



A. 



Abadiano, Sefior Eufemio, casts by, 41. 



deposited Mexican 

 casts, 14. 

 Abert's squirrel obtained, 79. 

 Aborigines, basket-work of, 19. 

 Acantnocybium solandri obtained, 97. 

 Accession list, indexes to, 335. 

 Accessions by departments of Mnseam, 232. 

 locality, 225. 



name of donor, lender, to., 334. 

 disposition of, 12. 

 increase of, 12. 

 list of, 175, 177. 

 number of, 12. 

 of public documents, 15. 

 sources of, 12. 

 to museum, 12. 

 Accounts, 10, 30. 

 Acrobasis vaccinii, notes on, 166. 

 Administrative staff, 9. 



work current, 26. 

 reviewed, 12. 

 .^dipns titi, 31. 

 Africa, ethnologica from, 66. 



West, implements from, 67. 

 Agassiz, Alexander, consulted on Ecbini, 121. 

 paper by, 22. 

 Louis, fishes studied by, 96. 

 Agave Hendersoni in the museum, 136. 



rigida in the museum, 136. 

 Agaves flowering in the museum, 136. 

 Agilla, Sefior. presented Sonora ores, 146. 

 Agraulos quadrangularis, casts of, 131. 

 socialis, electrotypes of, 130. 

 strenuus obtained, 130. 

 Agricultural Department, textiles from, 59. 

 Agriculture, birds from Department of, 89. 

 Agrotis annexa, larva of, 163. 



clandestina, larva of, 163. 

 malefida, larva of, 163. 

 messoria, larva of, 164. 

 saucia, larva of, 164. 

 ypsilon, larva of, 164. 

 Air-bladder of fishes, 160. 

 Alabama antiquities obtained, 73. 



turtles, 93. 

 Alarm apparatus, 28. 

 Alaska, antiquities from, 76. 



birds of Nearer Islands, 172. 

 ethnologica from, 65. 



Aleuts of, 64. 

 Copper River Indians, 



64. 

 Kadiak region, 64. 

 Kotzebue Sound, 64. 

 Point Barrow, 64. 

 Saint Michael's, 64. 

 Sitka, 64. 

 insects from, 113, 114. 

 marine invertebrates from, 118. 

 new invertebrates from, 160. 

 notes on plants from, 159. 

 plants from, 135. 

 rocks from, 139. 

 "Albatross," collected Cozumel birds, 43,89, 

 fishes, 96. 

 marine invertebrates, 117. 



"Albatross," collections, 98. 



of fishes, 44. 

 of insects, 47, 113 

 crinoids administered upon, 122. 

 cruise in Gulf of Mexico. 174. 

 notes on, 160. 



off Cape Hatteras, 117, 124. 

 Crustacea sent out for study, 123. 

 echini reported upon, 121, 161. 

 explorations, 133. 



off Havana, 123. 

 invertebrate collections, 27, 48. 

 invertebrates assorted, 118. 

 medusae sent out for study, 123. 

 mollusca described, 155. 

 mollusks sent out for study, 123. 

 reptiles from Cozumel, 93. 

 took West Indian insects, 113. 

 Albula vulpes, 97. 

 Alcidae lent for study, 87. 

 Aldrich, P. W., exhibit of, 32. 

 Alewife, branch, in New York lakes, 154. 

 Alewives, notes on, 159. 

 Algeria, coleoptera from, 114. 

 Algiers utensils, 67. 



Alieuts, ethnologica from Unalashka, 64. 

 Allen, Harrison, paper by, 25. 

 Alloys, crystalline, 161. 



of gold and bismuth, 143. 

 Amazon River bow, 66. 

 Amblystoma copeianum described, 157. 

 America, geological history of, 173. 

 American Fisheries Society meetings, 22. 

 papers, 23. 

 fishes in Linnaean collection, 157. 

 Institute of Mining Engineers, collec- 

 tions from, 54, 147. 

 Museum, building-stones prepared for, 



11, 141. 

 Ornithologists' Union, 43. 



committee meet- 

 ing of, 88. 

 prehistoric pottery, department 7, 8. 



report on, 69. 

 taxidermists' exhibit, 32. 



Society, exhibit of, 36. 

 Ami, Henry, sent fossils, 130. 

 Amplexus fragilis obtained, 129. 

 Analecta ornithologica, 171. 

 Analyses of ores and minerals, 12. 

 fiber, tissues, &c, 156. 

 Anas hyperboreus and albatus, 162. 

 Anatomy, comparative, acessions to, 101, 233. 



condition of collections in 



102. 

 department of, 8, 44. 

 function of department 



of, 100. 

 material at hand for, 100. 

 exhibited, 100. 

 stored, 100. 

 movable cases for, 101. 

 organization of depart- 

 ment of, 100. 

 recommendations from 



curator of, 102. 

 reorganized, 99. 

 report on, 99. 

 geries in collection of, 100. 



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