848 INDEX. 



Pase. 



o. 



Ober, F. A., collections made by 19 



Obituary notices. (See Necrology.) 



Observations on cuiJ-shaped and other lapidarian sculpture in tbe Old World 



and America, by Charles Rau 40 



Oelrichs & Co ., co-operation of 89 



Officers and assistants xx, 167 



Official publications sent to foreign Governments 107-118 



Ohio, Butler County, signal mounds of '. 762 



Mounds in Henry County 682 



River, Blennerhasset's Island, remains ou 759 



Oldmixon, Dr., researches by 15 



Omahas, government of the, by J. Owen Dorsey 47 



Oregon, explorations in 17 



Ores, collection of 8 



Organic chemistry, not«s on 522 



Ornaments, found in Florida 791 



Ornithological publications ., 135 



P. 



Pacific Steam Navigation Company, co-operation of 31,89 



Paleozoic rocks, notice of 333 



Of Colorado 337 



Palmer, Edward, explorations 44,45 



Palmer, Joseph, chief modeler of the National Museum 125 



Palmer, William, assistant modeler, National Museum 125 



Panama Railroad Company, co-operation of 31,89 



Parker, Peter, assistant in department of fishes 137 



Parker, Hon. Pet^er, Regent X, xix 



Member of Executive Committee xviii,xix 



Pavey, Dr., explorations by 13 



Peale's portrait of Washington .' 43 



Pennsylvania Railroad, co-operation of 31 



Penobscot salmon, propagation of 53 



Periodicity of temperature and sun-spots 441 



Peters, C. H. F., acknowledgment to , .57 



Letters from 61,64,66,70,75 



Phseuogams, notes on 562 



Phillips, Barnet, paper by 192 



Photographic laboratories 7 



Work 7 



Photographs for Museum building 7 



Physics, report ou progress in, by G. F. Barker 28, 459 



Acoustics 470 



Electricity 489 



Heat . 473 



Light 480 



Mechanics 461 



Physiology, experimental, department of 156 



Vegetable , 552 



Pictographs, introduction to study of 47 



Picture writing, Central American, studies in 46 



Pilling, James C, bibliography of American linguistics 46 



Linguistic manuscripts in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology.. 46 



Research of 45 



