492 INDEX. 



Page. 



Paris excliiiuge agency 53 



Parker, Hon. P., report of Executive Committee iireseuted by 87 



acts of, as Eegent 85, 86, 83 



report of Executive Committee 84 



Peale, Titian R., on uses of the brain and marrow of animals by Indians 390 



Pendulum, motions of, by General Barnard 18 



Peru, earthquake in 421 



Physical observatory, Professor Henry's letter relative to 141 



Physics, terrestrial '. 421 



Pickering, Charles Gliddon, mummy-case 16 



Plan of organization 7 



Plants, account of collection of 34 



list of, by Sereuo Watson 23 



presented to foreign museums 39 



Poey, Professor Andre, new classitication of clouds 432 



Porter, Commodore, hail-storm on the Bosphorus 475 



Poland, Hon. L. P., acts of, as Eegent 85, 86, 88 



resolution relative to General Delafield 87 



Precession of the equinoxes, &c., by General Barnard 18 



Precious stones, M. Babinet on 333 



Printing report ordered by Congress 2 



Proceedings of Board of Eegeuts 85 



Programme of organization of the Institution 7 



Publications, classes of 15 



Rain, account of work on 42 



electrtcity of induction during rain 4G6 



Races in Liberia 3SG 



Receipts during 1870 81 



Record of specimens received 46 



Reintz, Dr., plants from 40 



Regents of the Institution, list of 5 



journal of proceedings of , 85 



Report, contents of, for 1889 24 



extra copies of 23 



new editions from stereotype plates desired 24 



of the Executive Committee ■ 81 



of the Secretary 13 



of Secretary presented to Regents 88 



Reptiles, examination of ^ 31 



Resolution of Congress to print report 2 



Resolutions of Regents 12, 85 



Rhees, William J., chief clerk, in charge of accounts, printing, and general 



business 6, 87 



Rich, William, on flowering plants 37 



Ridgeway, Robert, ornithology of North America 41 



Ringgold and Rogers, North Pacific explorations 37 



Ring, Lieutenant, collections from 30 



Royal Danish Society of Sciences, exchanges with 53 



Istituto Lombard! di Science e Lettere, Milan, exchanges with 53 



Swedish Academy of Sciences, exchanges with 53 



University of Norway, exchanges with 53 



Salt deposit of Louisiana 21 



Sarcophagus in National IMuseum, Admiral Harwood's account of 384 



Sargent, W. D., on influence of the aiu'ora on telegraph 430 



