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Page. 



Ores, copper, from Bolivia 43 



from Arizona 43 



Osteology of the mound-builders ofWisconsin 246 



Pacific Mail Steamship Company, thanks to 25 



Steam Navigation Company, thanks to 25 



Palmer, Joseph, taxidermist 6 



Palmyra Island, researches in 20' 



Panama Railroad Company, thanks to.... 2S 



Parker, Hon. Peter, member of Board of Eegents 5, 125, 127 



member of executive committee... 5, 124 



report of 126 



Peabody Museum, explorations by , 115 



Pennsylvania, ancient mound in 306 



collections from 38 



Perrine, M., collections by 38 



Peru, the Indians of 308 



researches in, by Habel 15 



Peslin, relation between barometric variations and atmospheric currents 465 



Pits at Embarrass, Wis 250 



Planets discovered in 1877 25 



Plantamour, E., report on transactions of the Geneva Society 201 



Plants, collections of 42 



Plaster casts 38 



casts of fish , 51 



Poey, Dr. Felipe, agent for Cuba 26 



Polychrome bead from Florida 302 



Porter, President Noah, member of Board of Eegents 5, 125, 127 



Portrait of Professor Henry 126, 128 



of Sniithson 127 



of Colonel Dickinson 127 



Porto Rico, explorations in 45 



Portsmouth, United States steamer, surveys by 20 



Portugal, Polytechnic School, agent for exchanges 26 



Powell, Professor S., collection of fishes 41,44 



Powell, Maj. J. W., collections by 43 



ethnological publication 24 



explorations by 23,37, 115 



Indian vocabularies transferred to 23 



proposed publication by 37 



Pratt, Caj)taiu, assistance in procuring plaster casts of Indians 39 



Precession and nutation, phenomena of, paper on, by General J. G. Barnard.. 17 



Pressure of the atmosphere, proposed work on 24 



Providence, R. I., rain-fall in 24 



Publications of the Institution 12 



distribution of 13 



expenses for 119, 121 



appropriation for 122 



Rafinesque on North American fishes, review of 21 



Rain-fall affected by clearing of forests 24 



tables, new edition of 24 



in Providence, R. 1 24 



influence of, on pressure 385, 393, 421 



Kau, Charles, assistant, archajology 6 



supervision of archaeological work 23 



