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 Navy Department, deep-sea soundings 46 



explorations by 46, 62, 63 



Navy of United States, collections made by 29 



Nebular hypothesis 161 



Newcomb, Prof. S.,on general integrals of planetary motion 13 



on orbit of Uranus 12 



Newton, Prof. H. A., aj)proval of Newcomb's paper on planetary motion 13 



Nichols, Dr. C. H., specimens from 32,58 



Nicholson , W. L., research on elevations, by 20 



Observatory, Brussels, history of 174 



Oersted, electrical discoveries of 187 



Officers of the Institution and National Museum 6 



Oluey, Mr., plants referred to 36 



Orfila's tables of bone analysis 361 



Ostensacken, Baron E., insects referred to 36 



Ozone, De la Rive's theory of 197 



Packard, Prof. A. S., jr., directions for collecting and preserving insects 13 



insects referred to 36 



Pagenstecker, Professor, specimens from 31,55 



Paintings deposited in Co7-coran Art Gallery 65 



Palaeontology. (See Wheeler ; Hayden ; Powell ; Meek ; Geneva Society.) 



Palisa, M., asteroids discovered by 26 



Palmer, Joseph, taxidermist of the National Museum 6 



Parker, Hon. Peter, acts of, as Regent 124,125,126,128 



report of executive committee 123, 126 



Pendulum, General Barnard's paper on 12 



Periodicals, catalogue of scientific, by Dr. Bolton 26 



Perrotin,M., asteroids discovered by 26 



Peters, Dr. C. H. F., asteroids discovered by 26 



Phiuney, Captain , specimens from 34, .59 



Photographic laboratory in charge of T. W. Smillie 47 



Photography. (See Wheeler ; Hayden ; Powell ; Smillie.) 



Physics, report on Geneva Society transactions 261 



Pike, Capt. N., specimeus from 30, 34, .59 



Planetary motion, general integrals of, by Prof. S. Newcomb 13 



Plants referred to Messrs. Gray, Rothrock, Vasey, Engelmann, Olney, James, 



and Carson 36 



Poey, Prof. Felipe, specimens from 34, 59 



Polaris Arctic exploration, scientific results of 46 



Poland, Hon. L. P., succeeded by Hon. G. W. Hazelton as Regent 7 



Portraits deposited in Corcoran Art Gallery 65 



Potts, John, specimens from 33,59 



Powell, Prof. Baden, translation of Arago's eulogy on La Place 129 



Powell, Prof. J. W., explorations and surveys by 40 



additions to collections by 30,63 



Pratt, W. H., antiquities of Whiteside County, Illinois 354 



Precession of the equi noxes. General Barnard's paper on 12 



Printing of ten thousand five hundred copies of report ordered by Congress 2 



Privies, ventilation of 312 



Probabilities, La Place's theory of 163 



Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, De CandoUe's 200 



Publications of the Institution, account ot 10, 12 



listof - 14 



rules of distribution 11 



Publishers' trade-list, annual 14 



Queseda, John, specimens from 33, 59 



