680 INDEX. 



Page. 



Permanent committee, report of xii 



Personal-equation machine, design for 93 



Petrological ideas, evolution of 287-308 



Pe3'Ssonel, study of coral by 609, 61 



Phalen, W. C, aid in Museum 31 



Philip, Admiral J. W., swords of 31 



Philippines, ethnological objects from 31 



native tri))es of 463 



Phillips, 0. P 43 



Phonautograjjh, invention of 246 



Phonetics, experimental 241-259 



Phonograph, development of 246 



improvements in 251 



records, collection of 258 



Edison's 32 



Phosphorescent bodies luminous when excited 205 



Phot( )graphic action of light 237 



Photographs, astronomical, improvements in 152 



by uranium rays 198 



sound waves 249 



Photograi^hy, color 101 , 415 



Phototopography, importance of 369 



Physical ethnology, researches in 89 



laboratory, National 102 



Physico-chemical speculations as t( > rocks 303 



Physiology, comi)arative 628 



Pickering, E. C 4, 231 



Pictet and C'ailletet, low temperature I'esearches by 217, 220 



Pilcher's flying machine 135, 1 36 



Pinchot, Gifford, forest destruction 102 



Pithecanthropus erectus, discussion of 437, 438 



Plants, laws of heredity in 563 



Piatt, O. H., member of Museum building committee 3 



Regent of the Institution x, xi, 4 



Plumacher, E. H 75 



Polar streamers of the sun 160 



Pollard, C. L 35 



Polonium, radio-acrtivity of 200 



Poppoff's wireless telegraph apparatus 265 



Porto Rico, l)irds from 32 



ethnological researches in 21, 42 



Powell, John Wesley, biography by G. K. (liilbert 633-640 



director of Bureau of Ethnology 21, 108 



ethnological work of 41, 635, 637 



Poynting, John 11., on gravitation 101 



Preece, William 11., wireless telegraph exi)eriments l)y 262 



Prehistoric arch;eology, ^'ircllow's studies of - 655 



man in Europe 431 



France 102, 452 



Kansas 455 



Prentiss, C. W., at Smithsonian Naples Table 11 



Pressure of light, investigation of 177 



Primal shaping arts, Holmes on 102 



