396 
National Academy of Sciences—Continued. 
plan of incorporating, 4. 
principal promotors of, 9. 
Proceedings of, 28, 37, 44, 51, 66, 67. 
Proceedings of, publication of first volume 
of, 44. 
second session of in 1864, 28. 
sections of, 39. 
National Board of Health, committee to 
cooperate with, 50. 
National cemeteries, iron headstones in, 232. 
National codperation in chemical research, 
plan for, go. 
National currency, committee on, 204, 331. 
National forest reserve in Southern Appa- 
lachians, committee on establishment of 
a, 323. 
National Institute, annual scientific conven- 
tion of, 12. 
Naval Observatory, 305. 
committee on the erection of a, 303. 
Newberry, J. S., 23, 76, 272. 
biographical sketch of, 164. 
Newcomb, Simon, 41, 49, 50, 63, 81, 85, 92, 
207, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 267, 268, 
272, 290, 296, 302, 305, 306. 
Newton, H. A., 59, 63, 76, 85, 166, 207, 290. 
awarded Lawrence Smith Medal, 66. 
biographical sketch of, 166. 
Nicaragua, 251. 
Nicaragua, Compania de Transito de, 248. 
Nicaraguan Transit Company, 249. 
Nichols, E. L., 330. 
Northampton, Mass., meeting of Academy 
in, 30, 32. 
Northwestern University, 84. 
Noyes, A. A., 95, 330. 
O. C. Marsh Fund, 97, 371. 
Officers, list of, 335. 
Onondaga, U. S. S., 231. 
Opium, committees on the morphine con- 
tent of, 309. 
Ordway, John M., 263. 
Organization of the Academy for 1863, 23. 
Osborn, Henry F., 93, 95, 102. 
Paleontological correlation, international, 95. 
Passaic, the monitor, 217. 
Patterson, C. P., 276. 
Peirce, Benjamin, 4, 9, 10, 21, 23, 27, 168, 
215, 223, 256. 
biographical sketch of, 168. 
Peirce, C. S., 63, 207. 
Pendleton, Geo. H., 295, 296. 
Permanent Commission, letter of appoint- 
ment, I. 
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Peters, CG. He B,) 56; 267. 
Philippine Islands, committee on scientific 
explorations of the, 325. 
Phonograph, exhibition of, 46. 
Physical tables, plan to publish annually, 99. 
Pickering, Edward C., 67, 296, 304. 
Henry Draper Medal awarded to, 67. 
Pinchot, Gifford, 316, 320, 323, 327- 
Planay (Go As AS 28; 
Poinsett, J. R., 7. 
Polaris, voyage of the, 4o. 
scientific instructions for expedition of, 
40. 
Polariscope to determine the value of sugars, 
committee on, 264. 
Pollock, James, 229, 230. 
Powell, J. W., 60, 269, 273, 277- 
Preston, E. D., 64. 
Princeton University, 102. 
Proceedings of the Academy, 28, 37, 44, 51, 
66, 67. 
publication of first volume of, 44. 
Procyon, proper motion of, 71. 
Prussian Academy of Sciences, 80, 81. 
Publication, committee on, 27. 
Publications of the Academy, list of, 374. 
Putnam, F. W., 326. 
Ramsay, Senator Alexander, 235. 
Raum, Green B., 291. 
letter of, concerning methyl alcohol, 291. 
Rayleigh, Lord, 72, 75. 
awarded Barnard Medal, 72, 75. 
Remsen, Ira, 81, 84, 282, 283, 291, 293, 310, 
30. 
elected President of the Academy, 84. 
Reports of committees on behalf of the 
Government, list of, 348. 
Road, O. N., 290. 
Roanoke, the iron-clad, 217. 
Robeson, George M., 40, 256, 259. 
Rockwell, C. H., 63, 64. 
Rodgers, John, 21, 36, 62, 171, 206. 
biographical sketch of, 171. 
Rodgers, U. S. S., 311. 
Rogers, Fairman, 23, 33, 37, 52, 76, 85, 173, 
206, 215, 217, 226, 231. 
biographical sketch of, 173. 
resigns as treasurer of Academy, 52. 
Rogers, Joseph A., 260. 
Rogers, Robert E., 21, 76, 174, 225, 280. 
biographical sketch of, 174. 
Rogers, William B., 21, 61, 176, 272, 280, 
286, 293. 
biographical sketch of, 176. 
elected President of the Academy, 48. 
letter of, on meeting for organization, 21. 
