774 • INDEX. 



Page. 



Palace of Minos, Evans on 425-437 



Paleolithic period in Europe 439 



Palmer, William, collections by 59 



Pamamary Indians, collections from 56 



Pan-American Exposition, collections from 60 



report on 63 



Papago Indians, study of 66 



Papi-lta in fire walk ceremony o39-544 



Pawnee Indian ceremonies, study of 68 



Pearson, Karl, quoted 181 



Pekin, loot of summer palace at 20, 135 



Pekin Observatory, loot of 133 



Peirce, Charles S. , on great men of science 135 



Permanent committee, report of xvi 



Perrin, Jean, researches by 286 



Perrine, Mr. , solar eclipse observations by 166 



Perseus, new star in, observations on 167 



Petersen, H. P. , minerals from 60 



Petrified forests of Arizona, Ward on 131 



Phenomena of life, Rucker on 188 



Philippines, collections from 56, 60 



list of native tribes of 132 



peopling of 132 



Phillips, 0. P. , moving pictures by 68 



Phillips, W. A., explorations by 60 



Philology, studies in 78 



Phonograph, magneto or micro 307 



Phosporescence, forms of 494 



Photographic gun, description of 322 



lens, improvements in 348 



Photography, astronomical, advances in 155 



clirono, Marey on 317-340 



color, article on 135 



Herschel on 313-316 



sound wave 134 



spectrum 744 



Physical Laboratory of Great Britain 341-357 



theories, limits of 190 



Physics, progress in, Mendendall on 134 



Physiological uses of salt 561-574 



Pickering, E. C 44 



observations on planet Eros by 160 



Pinchot, Gifford, on forest destruction 401-404 



Planet Eros, observations of 159 



Plants, electrical phenomena of 131 



new collections of 59 



Piatt, Orville H., Regent of the Institution xii, xiii, 7 



Plumacher, E. H., crocodile from 109 



Poincare, Professor, on scientific methods 171 



Pollard, C. L., collections by 59, 61 



Porto Rico, collections from 33 



Postage, Museum, appropriation for 10 



Potterv, Andamanese 483 



