INDEX TO PARTS I-IV. 



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Bean, Dr. T. ][., report of, 95. 



translated G. M. Dannevig, 153. 

 Judge Fiedler, 154. 

 Beckham, C. W., on Ereunetes occidental is, 154. 



services of, 90, 91. 

 Bee culture collection, 115. 



exhibit, 47. 

 Bell, A. Graham, papers by, 23. 

 Belostoma americanum from New York, 113. 

 Bendire, Capt. Charles, birds from, 85. 



honoiary curator, 8, 91. 

 Benedict, James E., collecting at Cozumel, 44, 98. 

 collections of, 124. 

 studying Annelids, 122. 

 Bering Island plants, 157. 



voyage around, 171. 

 Berlepsch, Count von, birds exchanged with. 86. 

 Berlin exhibition collections, 5. 

 Moseum, cast from, 07. 

 Berrinni, Dr. J. C, fibers from, 38. 



textiles from, 59. 

 Beyer, Dr. H. G. , honorary curator, 8. 

 on atropia, 154. 

 intracellular digestion, 154. 

 materia medica collection, 151, 



154. 

 papers by, 23, 24, 25, 58. 

 report of, 57. 



researches and papers of, 57. 

 studied cinchona barks, 37. 

 translated paper on diphtheria, 



154. 

 work of, 37. 

 Bibliographies of .American naturalists, 18. 

 Bibliography of (J. S. National Museum, 18, 149. 

 Bilhoola Indians' ethnologica, 05. 

 Billings, Dr. J. S., papers by, 22. 

 Biological Society lectures, 21. 



meetings, 22, 23. 

 Bird banes transferred, 33. 



classification and nomenclature, 43. 



discussed, 88, 89. 

 packages sent out, 87 

 Birds, accessions to, 85, 232. 



at New Orleans, museum exhibit of, 43. 



classification and nomenclature of, 88. 



department of, 8, 42. 



distributed, 80. 



exchanged, 80. 



exhibited at New Orleans, 36. 



from Agricultural Department, 27, 43. 



Cozumel, 89. 

 identified by Robert Bidgway, 90. 

 important accessions to, 85. 

 invoiced and labeled, 91. 

 lent for examination, 87. 

 list of North American, 43. 

 mounted for exhibition, 88. 

 new list of, 89. 



North American, 102. 

 of Costa Rica, 173. 



tbe standard natural history, 171. 

 on exhibition rearranged, 90. 

 prepared for New Orleans exposition, 88. 

 purchase of des derata for department of, 



90. 

 received from Department of Agriculture, 



89. 

 report on department of, 85. 



for 1883, 103. 

 returned from New Orleans, 32. 

 routine work on, 87. 

 skeletons of, 101. 

 special work done on, 88. 

 transferred, 27. 



from gallery, 90. 

 work of assistants in department of, 90. 

 Birds' eggs, accessions to, 232. 

 department of, 8. 

 given away, 87. 

 skins, nests, and eggs distributed. 17. 

 Birney, William, on lecture committee, 22. 

 Bittern mounted, least, 31. 

 Black-tish obtained, young, 81. 



stranded, 42. 

 Blackford, E.G., paper bv, 23. 

 Black Hills tin ores obtained, 145. 

 Blaisdell, J. E , sent nest and eggs of Spizella 

 atrigularis, 86. 



Blanks printed. 14, 



Boas, Dr. Franz, studied ethnologica, 21, 63. 



Bogosloff Island eruptive rocks, 139. 



notes on, 155. 

 Bogota bags, 66. 



Bond, George W., wools from, 38, 59. 

 Bone, illustrations of structure of, 100. 

 Bonilla, Mr., presented Zacatecas ores, 146. 

 Bonte-bok obtained, 32. 



Boone, Max von dem, sent Coregonus albula, 95. 

 Botany, division of, 9, 50. 

 Bothriocephalus in a trout, 159. 

 Bottle-nosed porpoise cast, 33. 

 Bowditch, H. P., paper by, 25. 

 Bowels, Mrs. A. C, correspondence with, 114. 

 Bowers, Dr. Stephen, outfit supplied to, 124. 

 Bows, studv of Eskimo, 19. 

 Brachiopoda, British fossil, reviewed, 155. 

 Brama raii from Oregon, 97. 

 Branch alewife in New York lakes, 154. 

 Brazil, bow and arrows from, 66, 



textile fibers from, 59. 

 Brewster, William, birds lent to, 87. 



on Anticosti Ptarmigan, 155. 

 birds of Arizona and So- 



uora, 155. 

 Peuca3:> aestivalis, 155. 

 Rock Ptarmigan, 155. 

 Brewster's warbler obtained, 85. 

 British Columbia ethnologica, 65. 



Museum, mammals sent to, 84. 



publications sent, 15. 



Brock, R. A., historical paper by, 144. 



on early iron manufacture, 155. 

 Brown, A. E., sent mammals. 30, 80. 

 sloth, 101. 

 Charles F., sent minerals, 137. 

 J. T., photographs by, 34. 



studied photography, 21. 

 S. C., duties of, 10. 

 Brush storage battery, 29. 

 Buffalo bug, correspondence about, 114. 



gnat, southern, 100. 

 Building and ornamental stones at New Orleans, 

 37, 52, 140. 

 stones moved from southwest court, 141. 



removed, 52. 

 stones for American Museum Natural 

 History, 1 1, 52. 

 Buildings and labor, 10, 26. 

 Bulimus alternatus from Mexico, 109. 

 Bulletins of 1885, 18. 

 Burbot, the, 154. 



Bureau of Ethnology, antiquities from, 41, 78. 

 Burgess, Edward, diptera bought from, 115. 

 Burnett, Nelson, secured whale skull, 101. 

 Burns, Frank, antiquities from, 73. 

 Bush, Katherine J., mollusk paper by, 100. 



on molluscaof Cape Hatteras, 



155. 

 studied invertebrates, 122 

 Buteo harlani and cooperi discussed, 162. 

 oxypterus, type of, 162. 



C. 



Cabbage-bug, harlequin, 165. 



cut-worms, Riley on, 163. 

 insects, Riley oh, 163. 

 worm parasite imported, 165. 

 worms, cold water remedy against, 168. 

 Cable, underground. 28. 

 Caffeine, action of, 58. 



physiological action of, 37. 

 California, gray whale skull obtained, 101. 

 Indian utensils, 65. 

 ores obtained, 145. 

 reptiles, &c, from C. R. Orcutt, 93. 

 Call, R. E., paper by, 25. 



shells from, 104. 

 Call-bells, electric, 28. 



boxes for District messengers, 28. 

 Calliphora from Alaska. 114. 

 Calodromas, note on, 102. 

 Caloptenus spretus, notes on. 105. 

 Calyraene Niagrensis obtained, 130.- 

 Camera for showing geological phenomena, 142. 

 Campeche Bank examined, 123. 

 Cambria Iron Works, specimens from, 146. 



