Index 



383 



Packing-houses at San Nicolas, 



265 



Paleolama, 199 



Paleozoic rocks, 3-4 



Palms, 47, 57, 58, 61 , 284, 304, 3 13 , 



318,328 



'Pampa," origin of word, 130 

 Pampa, Territory of, 130 

 Pampas, the, 224, 267 

 Pampean beds, 197, 199, 202 

 Pamperos, 91 



Panama Canal, 342, 369, 370 

 Pan-American Congress, 253 

 Papaw (Asimina triloba}, 327 

 Paraguay, 137, 299 

 Parana, delta of the, 166-186 

 Pardo, Felipe, quoted, 352 

 Paria, 334; Gulf of, 323 

 Park-like lands, Argentina, 130 

 Paroaria cucullata, 173 

 Parrakeets, green, 178 

 Parrots being exterminated in 



Cuba, 341 

 Paulistas, the, 81 

 Peaches, 168 

 Pear-trees, 182 

 Peccary, fossil, 341 

 Pedro I., Dom, 308; II., Dom, 65, 



309 



Pel6e, Mt., 346 



Pelicans, brown, 331 



Pena, President, I, 254 



Peninsula, the Spanish, 358 



Pennatula, 31 



Peoples differentiated in South 

 America, 360 



Pepsis, a great wasp, 73 



"Perils": Yankee, 365, 367; Ger- 

 man, 366, 367; Japanese, 367 



Pernambuco, 318, 319 



Perrine, Charles D., in 



Peru, 359, 370; conquest of, 137 



Petrel, 29, 333 



Petroleum, cans of, 182 



Philodendron, 327 



Phoenicians, 358 



Phosphorescence at sea, 32 



Photography, its astronomical 

 uses, 41 



Physalia, 31 



Phytolacca dioica, 228 



Pilot at Santos, 79 



Pinta, 284 



Pinzon, 54 



Pitangus bolivianus, 63 



Pizarro, 137 



Plague-ships, 80 



Plantains, 65, 87, 88 



Plants, introduced species of, 229 



Playa Ramirez, 92 



Plaza Constitucion, Montevideo, 

 95; Buenos Aires, 103; Inde- 

 pendencia, Montevideo, 95; Tu- 

 cuman, 274; Libertad, Monte- 

 video, 95; San Martin, Buenos 

 Aires, 150 



Plegadis guarauna, 193 



Pleistocene formation, 202 



Plover, Argentine, 194, 265; Gol- 

 den, 309 



Plowmen, cuisine of, 188 



Pocitos, 97 



Poems in exchange for garden- 

 truck, v 



Poinsettia, 61 



Pole-star, 33 



Police, Buenos Aires, 164 



Politician, Argentine, 136 



Polyborus thariis, 284 



Pompanos, 339 



Population, of Argentina, 121; 

 of Barbados, 338; of Tucuman, 

 282 



Porpoises, 27, 335 



Portefios, 237 



Port of Spain, 319, 321, 322, 334 



Portugal, 78 



Portuguese, 53, 139, 297, 357 



Portuguese man-o'-war, 31 



Potato, 352 



Potato-races, 19 



Pottery, piece of, in Middle 

 Pampean beds, 200, 201 



Prairie-dog (A rctomys} , 195 



" Prairie-schooners, " 239 



Presentation of Diplodocus to the 

 British Museum, n; to Impe- 

 rial Academy of Sciences, St. 

 Petersburg, 14; to Imperial Mu- 

 seum in Vienna, 13; to Musee 

 d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 13; 

 to Museum in Bologna, Italy, 

 13; to National Museum, La 

 Plata, 14, 248-259 



President of France, 253 



President Pefia, I, 253 



Presidential election, Nov. 5, 

 1912, 320 



