Index. 



511 



Newton, Sir Isaac, 306, 435. 



New York, colleges and learned societies, 351; 

 niuseunis 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 L,yceuni 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, Taddco 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, Kliphalet, 1S6, 473. 



Nuremberg, museum of, 79, 210, 218. 



Nuttall, Thoma.s, botanist, 122, 138, 159,431; .scien- 

 tific career, 450. 



Oakes, William, botanist, 399. 



Ohio, colleges and learned societies, 351. 



Oldy.s, 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, 332; .scien- 

 tific men in, 464; specimens from, ifi.s, 166, 172, 

 >74- 



Orientalisches Museum, Vienna, 78, 25S. 



O.sborn, Henrj- F., naturalist, 4, 17, 35, 44, 47, 4S, fii . 



Osten-Sacken, Baron C. K. 3S. 



Ottoman Empire, monuments (jf, 199. 



Ovicdo y Vald^S, Gonzalo KernAndez de, histo- 

 rian and naturali.st, 363-364. 



Owen, David Dale, 102, 119, 167,4.56,457. 



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

 Institution, 143, 144 n,322; reports Smith.sonian 

 bill, 1 10. 



Owen, Sir Richard, 67 n. 



Owen bill, in, 149. 



Owen Collection, 122. 



Owen-Hough bill, no. 



Oxford, American students in, 272. 



Oxford, Ashmolean museum at, 68; I'itt-Rivers 

 Collection, 211. 



Page, John, of Rosewcll, 272 n. 



Page's Paraguay expedition, 311. 



Pallas, Peter S., 384. 



Pari.s, mu.seums of, 77, 78, 79,210,211,213,217,257, 

 259, 260. 



Paris Kxposition of 1889, 199. 



Parnassu.s, 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. 



Patterson, R. M., 1S6, 474. 



Paulding, James K., us, 13S. 



Pavesi, Prof. Pietro, 38. 



Payne, Thomas, 418. 



Peabody Academy of Sciences, Salem, 78, 211, 259. 



Peabody Mu.semn of Archtuology, Cambri<lge, 

 7S. 2n,259. 



Peale, Charles Willson, establishes Philadel])hia 

 Museum, 70, 114, 273, 403,443. 



Peale, Rembrandt, 70, 443. 



Peale, Ruben.s, 70, 443. 



Peale, Titian R., naturalist, 120 n. 



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, 4.S7- 



Peir.son, Rev. Abraham, linguist, 375. 



Penn, William, 3S9. 



Pennant, Thomas, 397. 



Pennsylvania, colleges and learned .societies, 352. 



"Pennsylvania Gazette," 275,324,416. 



Pennsj'lvania Hi.storical Society, 274 n. 



Penrhyns Island, specimens from, 171. 



People's Palace, London, 252. 



Percy, Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 35S. 



I'erkins, B. D.,431. 



Perry, Matthew C, commodore, expedition to 

 Japan, 311. 



Persia, museums in, 66, 245. 



Peru, specimens from, 165, 172, 174. 



Peter.s, Richard, 1S6. 



Petiver, James, 376, 377, 3S5. 



Philadelphia, literarj' and scientific activities in 

 410,413; museums of, 70. 



I'hiladelphia Museum, 70, 102, n4, 115, 273,443. 



Philippines, .specimens, 166, 174; Tagala gram- 

 mar, J62. 



I'hillips, .Sir Thomas. 360 n. 



Philosophical Society, Washington, Goode, presi- 

 dent of, 58; founded, 315. 



Pickering, Dr. Charles, naturalist, 113, 120 n, 121, 

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



Pickering, John, loi n. 



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



Pickett, James C.,474. 



Pierce, James, geologist, 43S, 459. 



Pike, Nicholas, 4 19. 



Pike, General Zebulon, expedition under, 1 1.), 291, 



AM- 

 Pilling, James C, philologist, 375. 

 Pinus ba>iksiaria,4o$. 

 Pisa, University musevnn of, 221. 

 I'iso, 383. 



Pitti Museum, l-'lorence, 210. 



I'itt-Rivers Collection, Oxford, 78, 79, 209, 211, 259. 

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

 Pliny, 66, 245. 

 Plumier, Charles, botanist and zo()logist, 3S2. 



Poinsett, Joel R., president National Institution, 

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

 n5, 116, 119, 124, 127, 129, 138, 312; fir.st to suggest 

 National Mu.seum, lor; Secretary of War, 311. 



Polk, President J. K., 319. 



Pomotce Archipelago, specimens from, 171. 



