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Index. 



Pompeii, yS. Sec Naples. 



"Popular .Science Monthly," circulation, 464. 



Porter, Dr. Jacob, botanist, 438. 



Porter, J. M., Secretary of War, 130. 



Porter, President Noah, Regent Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 322. 



Potomac Company, 275. 



Pourtalos, Count, L,. F., naturalist, 456. 



Powell, Maj. J. W., 25, 292, 370, 434, 459. 



Prentiss, James, 1S6. 



Prescott, Wra. H., 36S, 369. 



Preston, W. C, Senator, bill for organizing 

 Smithsonian Institution, 79, 100, loi n, 104, io5, 

 loS; interest in science, 120, 125, 177, i8o, 181,309; 

 Regent Smithsonian Institution, 143, 322. 



Price, Dr. Richard, 275. 



Priestley, Joseph, 415, 41S. 



Propaganda, museum of the, 78, 258. 



Propylasum, Athens, 245. 



Provincetown, Goode at, 20. 



Puget Sound, specimens from, 166. 



Pursh, Frederick, botanist, 431. 



Quercus bartramii, 405. 



Rafinesque, Constantine, 92 n, 420, 42S, 438, 442, 



447, 450- 

 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 357, 35S, 360. 

 Randolph, Edmund, 279. 

 Ratisbon, Valhalla at, 210. 

 Rau, Dr. Charles, 368. 

 Ray, John, naturalist, 56, 385, 393, 403. 

 Raynal, Abb6, and Thomas Jefferson, 421. 

 Redfield, W. C, meteorologi.st, 299, 446, 457, 469. 

 Rees's Cyclopedia, American edition of, 442. 

 Reid, Sir William, meteorologist, 446. 

 Rennie, George, 222. 



Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, organ- 

 ized, 446. 

 Rhees, William J., 85, 94 n, 96 n, 100 n, 105 n, 141 n, 



145 11, 149 "> 153- 2S7 n, 320. 

 Rhode Island, colleges and learned societies, 



352; scientific men in, 464. 

 Rice, Prof. William N., 43. 

 Rice, Rev. Luther, 286 n. 

 Rich, William, botanist, 120 n. 

 Richardson, Sir John, naturalist, influence on 



America, 447. 

 Ridgely, Capt. C. S., 449. 

 Rigaud, Stephen P., 359. 

 Rigg.s, George W., jr., 190, 191. 

 Rijks Ethnographisch Museum, Leyden, 7S, 25S. 

 Riley, C. V., on Hessian Fly, 273. 

 Rittenhouse, David, 265, 273, 403, 419; scientific 



work of, 412, 453. 

 Rive.s, William C, loS. 

 Robbin.s, Asher, .Senator, resolution respecting 



Smithsonian fund, 95-96. 

 Roberdean, Col. Isaac, 285 n, 30S.' 

 Robertson, William, 36S. 

 Robertson, Ignatius Loyola, 90 n. See Knapp, 



S. L. 

 Robin, C. C, botanist, 431-432. 

 Robin, Vespasian, botanist, 381. 

 /?<)/)/« /a, 405. 



Rochefort, N., traveler, 383. 

 Rogers, expedition to North Pacific, 311,458. 

 Rogers, H. D., 452,457- 

 Rogers, W. B., 452,457,469. 

 Romano-German Museum, Mainz, 210. 



Kome, museums of, 77, 19S, 199, 211, 245, 259; art, 66. 



Rood, Ogdeii N., 459. 



Root, Oren, 167. 



Rotterdam, museum of, 78, 211, 258. 



Rouelle, John, mineralogist, 270. 



Royal Academy, of France, 270. 



Royal Academy of History, Spain, 363. 



Royal Botanical Garden, Kew, 213, 257, 311. 



Royal College of Surgeons, London, museum of, 

 257. 258. 



Royal Iri.sh Academy, 210. 



Royal Society, London, 270, 29S, 310, 312 n, 3S5, 386, 

 387, 388, 402, 430; founded, 265; relation to sci- 

 ence in America, 265, 400, 412, 428. 



Rumford, Count, 402, 403. 



Rupel, Mr., U. S. consul at La Guaira, 163. 



Ruschenberger, Dr. W. S. W., 285 n. 



Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 9211, 267, 276,387,402; on a 

 National University, 327-329; scientific work 

 of, 412. 



Ru.sh, Richard, 94, 99, loi n, 108, 113, 137, 139, 1S6, 

 285 n, 323, 472; Regent Smithsonian Institution, 

 322. 



Ruskin, John, 239. 



Sabine, J., 360 n. 



Sagard. See Theodat. 



St. Germain, mu.seum of, 78, 210, 218, 260. 



St. Helena, specimens from, 165, 166, 174. 



St. Hilaire, A. F. C. P. de, 256. 



St. Louis Academy of Science, 315. 



St. Paul's, London, 79, 219. 



St. Petersburg, museum of, 211 213; Royal Botan- 

 ical Garden, 213, 257. 



Salisbury, Blackmore Museum at, 78, 211, 25S. 



Salisbury, Lord, 69 n, 377. 



Salix culler i, 405. 



Saltero, Master, 68, 37S. 



Samoa, specimens from, 165, 166, 171, 174. 



Sandwich Islands, specimens from, 165, 166, 171, 

 174. 



Sargent, Charles S., 2S9 n, 290 n. 



Sarracenia, 405. 



Saturn, third ring of, discovered, 456. 



Savi, Paolo, 221. 



Savonarola, Girolamo, 79, 260. 



Say, Thomas, zoologist, 114, 417, 430,442,446; sci- 

 entific work of, 447-44S, 450. 



Sayinsch, Dr. Lewis, 167. 



Scaiies caiesbyi, 405. 



Schiel, James, chemist, 457. 



Schmeisser, John G., mineralogist, 430. 



Schone, Dr. R., 38. 



vSchoepf, Johaiin David, naturalist and surgeon, 



3S4. 396-397, 430, 432- 

 Schoolcraft, Henry R., mineralogist, 114, 186,438; 



439, 447; expedition under, 297, 370. 

 Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 277. 

 "vScience," Goode's contributions to, 23. 

 "Science News," Goode's contributions to, 57. 

 "Scientific American," circulation, 464. 

 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 18,58. 

 Scott, Robert H., 299. 

 Screven Collection, 167. 



Scudder, Newton P., collaborator of Goode, 22. 

 Seaton, William Winston, 91 n, 184, 195, 2S5n; 



Regent Smithsonian Institution, 143. 

 Seba, miLseum of, Amsterdam, 68, 37S. 

 Serra, Jos<i Francisco Correa da, naturalist, 445. 



