896 INDEX. 



Page. 



Peru, collections from 26, 27 



Phelps, William W., regent X, xi 



Philadelphia, electrical exhibition at 43 



Philosophical Society of Washington, bulletins of 30 



Physical geology, department of. National Museum 56, 61 



Physics, bibliography of 487 



Keport on 433 



Pickering, Prof. Edward C, on telegraphic astronomical announcements 48 



Pictographs, collection of 72 



Study of 74 



Pilling, James C, bibliography of North American linguistics 75 



Pim, Forwood & Co., co-operation of 34,41, 106 



Plants, department of, National Museum 56, 61 



Received from Prof. Asa Gray 50 



Poey, Professor, collections made by 25 



Pointe-^-Pltre, Guadeloupe, West Indies, the Guesde collection of antiquities 



in 731 



Polaris expedition, expenditures xvxu 



Polynesia, transmission of exchanges to 105 



Pombo, Consul Lino de, co-operation of 107, 112 



Porter, Rev. Dr. Noah, regent X, xi 



Re-appointed by Congress as regent * xi, 6, 153 



Portraits of regents 7 



Postage free on Smithsonian mail matter 150 



Post-office in Smithsonian building 8 



Pottery, American prehistoric, department of, National Museum 55 



Powell, Major J. W., in charge of Bureau of Ethnology 67 



Co-operation of 40, 41 



Lectures by 66, 67 



Linguistic work of 73 



Summary on work of United States Geological Survey 77 



Pre-historic fishing in Europe and North America, by Dr. Charles Ran 29 



Prentiss, Dr. D. Webster, lecture by 67 



Preservation of collections, Congressional appropriation for xvii, 151 



Price list of Smithsonian publications 30 



Prince Edward Island, exchanges with 35 



Prindle, C. G. , exploration by 41 



Printing of Smithsonian report for 1884 ordered ii 



Proceedings of Board of Regents, journal of Xi 



Of the National Museum 30, 31 



Progress of sciences, reports on 30, 31, 157 



Publications of the Institution 28 



Annual reports 2.S, 32 



Bulletins of the National Museum 31 



Contributions to Knowledge 28,29 



Forest trees _ 31 



Miscellaneous Collections 28, 30 



Proceedings of the National Museum 31 



Publications of the United States Geological Survey 92 



Annual reports 93 



Bulletins 94 



Monographs 93 



Statistical papers * 95 



Publications, oiBcial, of the United States, list of 113 



