Index. 



511 



Newton, Sir Isaac, 306, 435. 



New York, colleges and learned societies, 351; 

 museums of, 77, 259. 



New York Academy of Sciences, resolutions on 

 death of G.Brown Goode,35; founded, 315, 351. 



New York Institution, 297. 



New York Lyceum of Natural History, 71, 437, 470. 



" New York Medical and Physical Journal," 441. 



New Zealand, museums in, 7S; specimens from, 

 165, 166, 172, 174. 



Nicholas I, Czar of Russia, 306. 



Nichols, H. W., 34. 



Nicolet, Jean N., 102, 298, 318. 



Nieuhof, Jan, traveler, 383. 



Niza, Taddeo de, 371. 



Noank, Long Island Sound, Goode at, 20, 44. 



North, Lord, 310. 



North American Telegraph Association, 300. 



North Carolina, colleges of, 351; scientific men 

 in, 464. 



North Dakota, colleges of, 346. 



Norton, William A., 186, 472. 



Norwalk, Conn., museum at, 70. 



Nott, Hliphalet, 186, 473. 



Nuremberg, museum of, 79, 210, 218. 



Nuttall, Thomas, botanist, 122, 158, 159.43'". scien- 

 tific career, 450. 



Oakes, William, botanist, 399. 



Ohio, colleges and learned societies, 351. 



Oldys, William, 359. 



Olin, Stephen, 94 n. 



Olm.sted, Deni.son, 446, 451, 452. 



Ontonagon, copper of the, 130. 



Ord, George, 448. 



Ordway, John M., 459. 



Oregon, colleges and learned .societies, 352; scien- 

 tific men in, 464; specimens from, 165, 166, 172, 



174. 

 Orientalisches Museum, Vienna, 78, 25S. 

 Osborn, Henrj' F., naturalist, 4, 17,35,44,47,48,61. 

 Osten-Sacken, Baron C. R. 38. 

 Ottoman Empire, monuments of, 199. 

 Oviedo y Vald6s, Gonzalo Kerndudez de, histo- 

 rian and naturalist, 363-364. 

 Owen, David Dale, 102, 119, 167,456,457. 

 Owen, Robert Dale, in, 158; Regent Smith.sonian 



Institution, 143, 144 n, 322; reports Smithsonian 



bill, no. 

 Owen, Sir Richard, 67 n. 

 Owen l)ill, in, 149. 

 Owen Collection, 122. 

 Owen-Hough bill, no. 

 Oxford, American students in, 272. 

 Oxford, Ashmolean museum at, 68; Pitt-Rivers 



Collection, 211. 

 Page, John, of Rosewell, 272 n. 

 Page's Paraguay expedition, 311. 

 Pallas, Peter S., 384. 

 Paris, nmseums of, 77, 78, 79, 210, 2n, 213, 217, 257, 



259, 260. 

 Paris Exposition of 1889, 199. 

 Parnassus, museum in grove of, 65, 244. 

 Parra, Don Antonio de, naturalist, 397. 

 Parsons, U., 167. 



Patagonia, specimens from, 165, 174. 

 Patterson, Robert, and U. S. Coast Survey, 292, 



294. 296, 434. 



Patter.son, R. M., 1S6, 474. 



Paulding, James K., 1 15, 138. 



Pavesi, Prof. Pietro, 38. 



Payne, Thomas, 41S. 



Peabody .\cademy of Sciences, Salem, 78, 2n, 259. 



Peabody Museum of Archajology, Camliridge, 

 78. 2 n, 259. 



Peale, Charles Willson, establishes i'hiladelphia 

 Museum, 70, 1 14, 273, 403, 443. 



Peale, Rembrandt, 70, 443. 



Peale, Rubens, 70, 443. 



Peale, Titian R., naturalist, 120 11. 



Pearce, James A., Regent Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, 143, 322. 



Peck, William Dandridge, zoologist, 403, 426, 430. 



Peel, Sir Robert, 252. 



Peirce, Benjamin, Superintendent Coast Survey, 

 296; quoted, 453-454. 457- 



Peirson, Rev. Abraham, lingui.st, 375. 



Penn, William, 3S9. 



Pennant, Thoma.s, 397. 



Pennsylvania, colleges and learned societies, 352. 



"Pennsylvania Gazette," 275,324,416. 



Pennsj'lvania Historical Society, 274 n. 



Penrhyns Island, specimens from, 171. 



People's Palace, London, 252. 



Percy, Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 358. 



Perkins, B. D.,431. 



Perry, Matthew C, commodore, expedition to 

 Japan, 311. 



Persia, museums in, 66, 245. 



Peru, specimens from, 165, 172, 174. 



Peters, Richard, 1S6. 



Petiver, James, 376, 377, 385. 



Philadelphia, literary and .scientific activities in 

 410,413; museums of, 70. 



Philadelphia Museum, 70, 102, n4, \\% 273,443. 



Philippines, specimens, 166, 174; Tagala gram- 

 mar, 162. 



Phillips, Sir Thomas, 360 n. 



Philosophical Society, Washington, Goode, pre.si- 

 dent of, 58; founded, 315. 



Pickering, Dr. Charles, naturali.st, n3, 120 n, 121, 

 122, 123, 125, 128, 129, 132, 161, 163, 173, 174. 



Pickering, John, 101 n. 



Pickering, Timothy, Secretary of State, 277, 278 n. 



Pickett, James C, 474. 



Pierce, James, geologist, 438, 459. 



Pike, Nicholas, 419. 



Pike, General Zebulon, expedition under, 1 14, 291, 



434- 



Pilling, James C, philologist, 375. 



Pinits bankstana, 40$. 



Pisa, University museum of, 221. 



Piso, 383. 



Pitti Museum, Florence, 210. 



Pitt-Rivers Collection, Oxford, 78, 79, 209, 211, 259. 



Playfair, Sir Lyon, on science in America, 323-324. 



Pliny, 66, 245. 



Plumier, Charle.s, botanist and zoologist, 382. 



P/umieria, 405. 



Poinsett, Joel R., president National Institution, 

 97,99,100,101,102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 

 115, 116, n9, 124, 127, 129, 13S, 312; first to suggest 

 National Mu.seum, loi; Secretarj'of War, 3n. 



Polk, President J. K., 319. 



Pomotee Archipelago, specimens from, 171. 



