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Ornithological collections, Dr. Kidder's, Dr. Coues on ... i 17 



Orvis, Charles F., Orvis fishing-reel from 84 



Otis, Colonel, skull and fossil wood from 84 



Oiideslys, Charles L., oil from 84 



Ourley, J. B., flint hatchets and fossils from 84 



Owen Hou.se, Washington, D. C, oystor-fish from 84 



Oxygen, compositions of 180 



Oyster industry exhibited at the Centennial 66 



Pacific Guano Company, materials for making guano from 84 



Mail Steamship Company, thanks to 27 



transported Tucson meteorite free of charge 51 



Steam-Navigation Company, thanks to 27 



Palisa, J., discovered asteroids 36, 37 



Palmer, Joseph, taxidermist 6 



Palmer, Dr. E., collections from 84 



Palmer, F. W., stone beads from 84 



Panama Railroad Company, thanks to 27 



transported Tucson meteorite free of charge 51 



Papyrus, Egyptian, photograph of, from Mr. John S. Edgar 36 



Pardon, W. P., ethnologica from 84 



Parish, Grant, egg from 84 



Parker, Hon. Peter, Regent of the Institution 99 



member of executive committee of Board of Regents. ..99, 102, 111 



eulogy on Henry Wilson 101 



Parry, Captain, polar expedition 215 



Parrott, R. D. H., mineral wood from 84 



Patterson, Holmes A., stone implement from 84 



Patterson, Dr. D. C, lignite from 84 



Peabody Museum, ethnological collection of the 238 



Pease, Harper, mollusca from 84 



Perkins on Indian relics from Vermont 343, 359 



Peters, C. H. F., discovered asteroids 36 



Petroleum, experiments on 43 



Phenomena, mechanical, on surface of globe 186 



natural, value of experience with respect to 187, 188 



electrical, ascribed to certain fluids 125 



Phillips, Professor, Joseph Prestwich relative to 175 



Phillips, William, ethnological and natural historical specimens from 84 



Philosophical Magazine, Dr. Gregory's experiments on sound quoted from 213 



Phoenix Mines, minerals from 84 



Photographic likenesses, collection of 42 



Photograph of Egyptian papyrus, from Mr. John S. Edgar 36 



Photographs by T. W. SmlUie 6,42 



from Professor Hayden's survey 52 



of fishes at Centennial G3, 64 



Photography, new building for 42, 109 



Photozincography 36 



Physics, labors in, of Geneva Society 165 



of the globe, by Quetelet 164 



Pictet, Raoul, observations by 166 169 



Pierce, E. G., piece of Sir William Pepperell's house from 84 



Pierce, , arrow-points from 84 



Pierrepont, Hon. E., ex-officio member of the Institution 5 



Pike, R. G., salmon from 84 



Pile, voltaic 127,131,155 



