INDEX. 773 



Potters' art, use of bat-ketry in relation to 354 



Pottery, 1 )uyketry preserved 1 )y .■!72, 385 



textile markings on, classes 381 



Powell, J. W., eolleef ions 490 



Preble, E. A. , collections consulted ) >y . 36 



Prehistoric Aj-cheology, Division of, nnnd)er of siieciinens added to 22 



work of arranging collections of continued 40 



objects, accessions of 23 



Preparing materials, basket making 214, 217 



Preservation of baskets 540 



Price, Mr., skin of whale shark secured through 25, 65 



Proceedings, U. >S. National Museum, number of voliunes issued 12 



scope 11 



Volume XXIII, contents of 44 



Volume XXIII, papers published in 



separate form from 136 



Volume XXIII, published 44, 135 



Volume XXIV, published in form of 



sei)arates 44, 136 



Processes of manufacture, basket making 214, 221 



Progress in the installation of the exhil)ition collections 39 



Proudfit, Robert, archaeological collection purchased from 55 



Publication and research, Department of Biology 70 



Geology 83 



Publications, ilistril)ution of ^luseum during year in this country and abroad, 



amount 45 



of Museum 43, 135 



and of the members of its staff, table classifying ac- 

 cording to subjects 45 



Pueblo and Shoshonean basketry 489 



basket maker 499 



basketry, ancient 501, 507, 509 



syndjolism 333 



Purdy, Carl, classification of Pomo basket W( irk 454 



interpretations of Pomo synd)ols 330 



on unspoiled art in northwestern California 192 



vocabulary of symbols on Pomo basketry 329 



Quarles, A. H. , collection of coins purchased from 55 



(Quartermaster's Department of the Army, special acknowledgments ilue 47 



(^uinaielt Indians, basketry 434 



wallet 264 



Kalph, William L. , birds' eggs donated by 64 



Ransome, F. I^. , geological material collected by 78 



Rathbun, Miss M. J., Brachyura an<l Macrura identified by 34, 72 



collection of Japanese stalk-eyed crustacea rejiorted on 



by 34, 72 



description of a new species of Paratiieliiluisa, published 



by 72 



list of decapods of the Northwest, with descrijitions of 



new and rare forms, prepared by 34, 72 



new species of fossil crabdescribed by 34,72 



preliminary descriptions of macrura and brachyura pre- 



})arcd by, and published 34, 72 



