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Pirn, For-wood & Co., co-operation of 89 



Pirz, A., paper by, in Museum Proceedings 27 



Planetoids, discovery of 29 



Planets, notes on 28, 303 



Plans for fire-proofing of Smithsonian building 4 



Plateau, F. M., paper by, in Museum Proceedings 27 



Porifers, notes on 573 



Porter, J. Y., paper by, in Museum Proceedings 27 



Porter, President Noab, Regent X, xix^ 



Portrait of Washington 43- 



Potomac River, Fish Commission work in 52' 



Powell, Lieutenant, explorations by 15 



Powell, J. W., Director of United States Geological Survey 9, 47 



Explorations by 18 



In charge of Bureau of Ethnology 44 



Introduction to the study of tribal government 47 



Lectures of 10 



On limitations to the use of some anthropological data 46 



On the evolution of language 46 



Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians 46 



The Muskoki confederacy 47 



Wyandot government 46 



Prehistoric remains in Florida 771 



Prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets, by Robert Fletcher, U. S. A 46 



Preservation of collections, acts of Congress respecting 264, 267 



Printing of Centennial Exhibit Keport, Congressional act respecting 267 



Printing of Smithsonian Report for 1882 ordered u 



Proceedings of the National Museum 27, 121 



Progress, scientific record of 275- 



Property and supplies of the National Museum 123 



Protochordates, notes on 605 



Protozoans, notes on 570 



Public documents, distribution of, Congressional act respecting 271 



Publications of the Bureau of Ethnology 46 



Publications of the National Museum 121,122 



Bulletins 122 



List of 122 



Proceedings 121 



Publications of the Institution 21 



Annual report 27 



Contributions to knowledge - 21 



Miscellaneous collections 22 



Pueblo of Zufli, relief model of 47 



Pumpelly, R., analyses by .* 9 



Putnam, Joseph Duncan, death of 39 



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Raffo, M. , co-operation of 89 



Railroad, extension of, to Armorj' building 6 



Rainfall , notes on 416 



Rathbun, Richard, assistant curator. National Museum xx 



Report of 144 



Papers by, in Museum Proceedings 27, 170 



Ran, Charles, curator. National Museum xx, 127, 167, 193 



Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures 46 



H. Mis. 26 51 



