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INDEX. 



Hough, Dr. F. B., reads letter on bu- 

 rial place of Lord Howe, 269. 



exhibits copper hatchet, 270. 



local records, 270. 



remarks on Gazetteer, 273. 



on French colony of Castorland, 

 275. 



on sun dial on Capitol, 282. 

 allowed to print a Ms. volume, 

 286. 



volume on Indian treaties, 297. 



on statistics of war, 298. 



paper by, on second battle of 



Bull Run, 315. 

 blanks for military statistics, 315. 

 Hough,' Prof. Greo. W., election as 

 resident member, 287, 288. 

 article upon machine for charting 



stars, 167, 305. 

 paper on astronomy, 292, 294. 

 Howe, Lord, burial place of, 269. 

 Hudson river, obstructions in, 274. 

 Ichthyoci'inus subangularis, 201. 

 Illinois, fossils from carboniferous 



limestone of, 1. 

 Indian Treaties, Dr. Hough, allowed 

 to print, 286. 

 printed volume presented, 297. 

 Indians, paper on migration of, 299. 

 Inscription, Phoenician, 70. 

 Jackson, Greo. P., election as resident 

 member, 277, 278. 

 on defects in hollow cast iron 



columns, 281. 

 William A., elected a resident 

 member, 259. 

 Jewett, Col. E., applies for purchase 



of a coin, 314. 

 Kansas, fossils of, 73. 

 Lampterocrinus, observations upon 



the genus, 202. 

 Landscape gardening, paper on, 312. 

 Laws, early of, Albany, 269. 

 Lead, geological place of, 295, 296, 

 299. 



Leda subscitula, 79 

 Length, measures of, 57. 

 Leptocelia, note on the genus, 145. 

 Lichas breviceps, 222. 



Boltoni, 223. 

 Limestones of western coal measures, 

 2, 3. 



Liver, paper on functions of, 311. 

 London, parks of, 234. 

 Longitude, determination of, 257. 

 Loosey, Charles S., election of, as 



corresponding member, 298. 

 Loxonema vincta, 28. 

 Lyonsia concava, 82. 



Cooperi, 83. 

 McCoy, Prof., remarks by, 253. 



Macrostylocrinus genus, 207. 



striatus, 207. 

 Man, early traces of, 287. 

 Manuscript, ancient, exhibited, 291. 

 Marriages, registration of, 246. 

 Mead, M. L., election as a resident 



member, 285 

 Measures, decimal and dual systems 



of, 50. 



Medals, observations on the design 

 and import of, 176, 249. 



Medal department in Mint, memorial 

 for, 247, 248. 

 from Napoleon III, exhibited, 

 253. 



Meek, B. F., description of organic 

 remains from the cretaceous 

 rocks of Vancouver's Island, 

 37. 



on organic remains, 73. 



paper presented from, 247. 



on Permian fossils, 258. 

 Melocrinus obconicus, 206. 

 Members of Inst., proposed list of, 

 277. 



Menzies, William, donations from,250. 

 Meristella genus, observations upon, 

 125. 

 described, 140. 

 Maria, 212. 

 Mexico, mineral resources of, 283. 

 Military statistics, blanks of, 315. 

 Miller, Wm. A., paper on phonetic 



languages, 69. 

 Minor, W. C, election as a resident 

 member, 261, 262. 

 upon some of the homologies of 



the odontoid, 267. 

 exhibits dissections of the mud- 

 fish, 270. 



Mint, medal department for, 247, 248. 

 Mira star, notice of, 260, 263. 

 Mix, D. E. E., elected corresponding 

 member, 255. 

 problem proposed by, 254. 

 Monotis hawni, 76. 

 Morgan, Lewis H., paper on migration 



of Indians, 299. 

 Motion, paper on, read, 286. 

 Mountain ranges, Prof. Hall on, 284. 

 Mud-fish, remarks on, 270. 

 Munsell, J., exhibits specimens of 

 paper, 250. 

 paper on burning of books, 252. 

 paper by, on history of St. Pe- 

 ter's Church, Albany, 268, 269. 

 exhibits orderly book of Gen. 



Burgoyne, 274, 282. 

 plans of Dutch Church, 300, 302. 

 paper by, on Phoenician inscrip- 

 tion, 68. 



