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Parker, William Kitchen, memoir of 771 



Parliamentary documents, immediate exchange of 19 



publications presented to institution 78 



Paroquet in Zoological Park 64 



Patents, Commissioner of, member ex officio of the establishment ix 



Patent Office, exchanges of 60 



Peccary in Zoological Park 64 



Pe fiasco Blanco, ruin of, modelled by Cosmos Mindeleff 53 



Pendulum experiments carried on by Coast Survey 21 



Perkins, Frederick S., collection of, Congressional act for purchase of xli 



Permanent funds of the Institution in the U. S. Treasury 2 



Perry, Ed., & Co., acknowledgments due 61 



Personnel of Museum 32 



Peru, exchange transmissions to . 59, 63 



Phelps Brothers & Co., acknowledgments due 61 



Physical apparatus in astro-physical observatory 11 



standards for 13 



statistics of accessions 27 



geology, statistics of accessions 28 



research begun by secretary 11 



science, grants in aid of 20 



structure of the earth, by Henry Hennessy 201 



Physics, progress report for 1886, by George F. Barker 80,81 



Photographic image, by Prof. Raphael Meldola 377 



Photographs from Mekka presented to Institution 78 



made by Bureau of Ethnology 53, 54 



of the moon to be made by Lick Observatory 21 



Photography, conditional instruction in 21, 30 



Picicorvus columbianus in Zoological Park 64 



Pictography, investigations in 42. 47, 50 



Pilling, James C, bibliographical work of 52 



Pim, Forwood & Co., acknowledgments due 61 



Piney Branch of Rock Creek, archaeological examination of 47 



Pioneer Line of steamers, acknowledgments due 61 



Plan for increasing the library 20 



Plans for new Museum building presented 4 



Plants, statistics of accessions 28 



used in Indian materia medica, collection of 42, 48, 51 



Playfair, Sir R. Lambert, the Mediterranean, physical and historical 259 



Poisonous serpents, venoms of, researches upon, by Sir Weir Mitchell and 



T. Reichert - 79 



Polynesia, exchange transmissions to 59, 63 



Pomares, Consul-General Mariano, acknowledgments due 61 



Ponka and Omaha songs, by .T. Owen Dorsey 50 



genealogical tables i-evised by J. Owen Dorsey 50 



Porcelain, statistics of accessions 27 



Porcupine in ZoSlogical Park 64 



Porter. Dr. J. H., artificial deformation of children — 80 



Porter, Dr. Noah, resignation of, as regent xi 



resolution of Board of Regents respecting 2 



Portuguese consul-general. New York, acknowledgments due 61 



Portugal, a party to Brussels convention -•- - 58 



exchange transmissions to - 59,63 



