446 INDEX. 



Precious Opal from Mexico 45 



Preevoort, Captaia 93 



Premiums not necessary 10 



President of tlie United States 36 



Presidio del Norte 45,277 



Preston, Texas 37, 84 



Pressure of tlie Wind at Greenwich 219 



Pretat's Accounts of Dromedary Regiment 119 



Priestly Ig2 



Prince George County, Md 44 



Prince Henry, Voyages planned by 153 



Prince of Orange 176 



Principle on which Iodine acts on Poison 135 



Prionotus Pilatus {Flying-fish) 327 



Private Explorations, Results from 37 



Private Reports of Explorations 96 



Probable discoveiy of New Planets 145 



Proofs of Divine Creator 100 



Proposition to buy Stanley's Indian Gallery declined , 77 



Providential Government of the World 162 



Prussian Government, action of, relative to Exchanges 21 



Prussic Acid, Antidote to , 135 



Psychrometrical Observations at Sacramento, Cal 267, 269, 270, 271 



Pteropus 45 



Publications during 1854, quarto and octavo 31 



Public Buildings in Europe 39 



Publishers, Copyright Circular to 400 



Pueblo of Zuni 83 



Pueblos of Quivira , 313 



Puerco river 300 



Puerto del las Limpias 277 



Puerto del Paisano 277 



Puertosde Abo 299 



Puget's Sound 82 



Pulse 99 



Pun in a Despatch from Plymouth Agent 178 



Puryear, Hon. R. C, Member of Investigating Committee of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives 77 



Putnam, George P., & Co 36, GO 



Putnam, G. P 66 



Putrefactive Poisons 135 



Pyrenees 171,274 



Quadrupeds 42 



Quantity of Food required by the Camel 1*^8 



Quantity of Water required to make an Inch of Rain ~-lG 



Quarrtl, Excursion to 296 



Quarrii, Ruins of. <''0'- 



Quebec 87 



Quebec, to be admitted into the Confederation 1 ''4 



