762 INDEX. 



Packages distributed 88 



Packard, Professor, dredgings by 143, 148 



Padua, Italy, Observatory, report of 716 



Paiutiug of Carib antiquities 50 



Paintings, collection of, by Catlin 56 



Palenque tablet, by Dr. Rau 29 



Paleontological collection, work done to 59 



Palisa, J., director, Pola, Austria, Observatory 718 



Palmer, Edward, antluopological correspondence 445 



Palmer, Joseph, modeller, National Museum V 



assistant at tlie Berlin Fishery Exhibition 82 



preparation of plaster casts 8 



Palermo, Italy, Royal Observatory, report of 716 



Panama Railroad Company grants free freight 15 



Paramatta, New South Wales, Observatory 717 



Parcels received for distribution 15,16 



Paris, France, National Observatory, report of 717 



Paris International Congress and Exposition relative to Electricity 65 



Parker, Hon. Peter, member of the Executive Committee iv, 157, 163, 164, 165 



National Museum building commission 169 



presented report of Executive Committee 164, 165 



regent 164,165 



Parma, Italy, Observatory 718 



Parspnstown Observatory, Birr Castle, Ireland, report of (see Birr Castle) ... 674 



Patent Office, chemical analyses for 22 



Paul, Prof. H. M., director Tokio, Japan, Observatory 728 



Payne, William W., director of Carleton College Observatory, Northfield, 



Minn 654 



Pennsylvania Railroad granted free freight 82 



grants special rates of freight 15 



Penobscot River Station 76 



Periodicals received, list of 98 



Perry, Rev. S. J., director Stonyhurst College, England, Observatory 726 



Peters, C. N. F., director Observatory, Altona, Prussia 672 



Peters, C. W. F., director of Litchfield Observatory, Clinton, N. Y 634 



l)roposed exchange of astronomical telegrams 12 



Peterson, Kuno, articles presented by 135 



Phelps, N. Y., Red-House Observatory, report of 655 



Philadelphia, Pa, Central High School Observatory, report of 656 



Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad granted free freight 81,82 



Phillips, Barnet, special agent of fisheries 79 



Photographic views made in New Mexico and Arizona 136, 137 



Photographs of Professor Henry 2 



Physical Institute, Basle, Switzerland, report of 673 



Physical tables by Prof. Arnold Guy ot 38 



Physics, progress report on, by Prof. George F. Barker 235 



Physiological research. Dr. Wood , on Fever 29, 32 



Pickering, Edward C. , director of Harvard College Observatory 629 



Pirz, Anthony, collection of minerals 56 



Plantamour, E., director Geneva, Switzerland, Observatory 691 



Plants, collection of, from Japan 56 



Plaster casts prepared by Joseph Palmer & Son 8 



Plyer, Charles W., director of the Elizabeth, N. J., Observatory 636 



Poey, Prof. Felijie, acts as agent of scienti tic exchange 14 



