636 INDEX. 



Page. 



Pittier, M . , Department of Anthropology visited 1 )y 29, 59 



Plans for additional building, National Museum, prepared 289 



Museum building, extracts from report relating to 290 



Plants, Division of. {See National Herbarium.) 



accessions 22, (55, 70 



loan of specimens .S5, 75 



material received from 17 



purchases made by, during the year 71 



research work in ;^1 



routine work in HI 



Piatt, O. H., member of committee to present to Congress necessity of addi- 

 tional room 289 



Pollard, Charles Louis, assistant curator, Division of Plants 94 



joint paper by, describing four new plants from New 



Mexico 80 



notes in the Plant World, published by 32, 80 



paper descriptive of two new violets from the United 



States, prepared by .32, 80 



titles and notices of papers by 162 



Powell, John Wesley, biographical sketch of 47 



close relations of, with the Museum 47 



meeting in lecture hall to commemorate the life and 



services of 39 



reference to death of 47 



Preble, Edward A. , title and notice of paper by 162 



Predominant influence of the German over the American universities 375 



Prehistoric Archeology, division of, number of specimens added to 18 



objects, accessions of 19 



hall of, closed on account of repairs 57 



Smithsonian building, location of hall of 235 



laboratories for 235 



President, act approved by, providing for the celebration of the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the acquisition by the United States of the Louisi- 

 ana Territory 45 



bill for establishment of Smithsonian Institution approved by the. . 185 



location of Smithsonian Institution approved by the f 85 



necessity for new Museum building l)rought to the attention of the. 242 



Priest, B. W., material obtained through exchange with 28 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, number of volumes issued 11 



scope - 11 



Volume XXIV, contents of 42 



published 42, 143 



XXV, papers published in sepa- 



rate form from 144 



published 42, 144 



XXVI, papers published in sepa- 



rate form from 145 



printed 42, 145 



Progress in the installation of the exhibition collections 36 



Publications and research. Department of Biology 77 



distribution of Museum, during year in this country and abroad, 



amoimt 42 



of Museum 143 



Museum, demand for 42 



