266 INDEX. 



Page. 

 Papers referred to in Report of Select Committee, to be communicated to the 



Board 97 



Parish, Henry, Bill for Canina's Architecture 75 



Peale, Titian R., Mounds at St. Louis 219 



Pearce, Hon. J. A., Report of 81 



Peirce, Benj., Report on Progr.amme 155 



Peirce, Prof. B., Planet Neptune 244, 222, 202, 170 



Phases of the Atmosphere, Lectures on 251 



Photographic Register of Motions of the Magnetic Needle 76, 20 



Physical Geography of United States 177, 171 



Physical Society of Berlin , 165 



Physiology, Promotion of, by the Institution 232 



Pidgeon, Wm. , Exploration of Mounds by 219 



Pike, B., and Sons, Instrument Makers 198, 175 



Pise, P«,ev. C. C, Lectures by 27 



Plan of Orgauization 129 



Planet Neptune 244, 221, 201, 169, 160 



Plantac Fremontianre 212 



Planta3 WrightianfB 239, 236 



Plants received 1853 53 



Poetry, Lecture on 230 



Policy in Accepting Donations 209 



Portraits of Nortii American Indians in Smithsonian Institution 242 



Portugal, Institutions in 47 



Potter, Rev. Alonzo, Lecture by 207 



Primordial Arrangement of Existing S^'stems, Lecture on 207 



Proceedings of the Board of Regents 72 



Programme of Organization 128 



Programme of Organization, Report of Committee of American Academj- on 148 



Prominent idea of Smithsonian Operations 253 



Publications, Advantages of 135 



Pubhcations 23G, 210, 190, 1G8, 156, 36, 11 



Purchases of Objects of Natural History not to be made 202 



Putnam, Geo. P., and Co., Agents 51 



Queen Elizabeth and Oliver Cromwell, Lectures on 251 



Radiant Heat, Investigations on 163 



Rain and Snow Gauges 198 



Receipts during 1853 67 



Receipts by Exchange, 1853 50 



Received for American Institutions, &.c 50 



Received from American Institutions for distribution abroad 40 



Reciprocal Action of two Galvanic Currents 191 



Recent Improvements in the Chemical Arts 242, 216, 19 



Recent Progress of Astronomy, Lectures on 251 



Reed, Prof. Henry, Lecture by 207 



Regents of the Institution, List of. 5 



Regents of the Institution, Proceedings of 72 



Regents of University of New York 175 



Registers of Periodical Phenomena 56 



Relations of Time and Space, Lectures on 207 



Removal of Assistants b}' Secretary authorized by Board 98 



Removal of Assistants, J. M. Berrien's Opinion on 119 



