INDEX. 727 



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Opal, Miiller's glass, description of 518 



mystical properties of 579 



precious, description of 518 



tabasheer, description of 518 



wood, description of 518 



Operations of the year, summary of 59 



Urd, James T., loan by 24 



Ordovician fossils, specimens of 46 



Oregon tribes, fishing devices of 224 



Origin of California aborigines 163 



Ortalida\ loan of specimens of 43 



Orthoclase, description of 518 



Orthoptera 39 



Osteological collections, condition of 38 



exhibit 33 



work, amount of 73 



Otis, Isaac, ethnological purchase from 24 



Packages received by registrar of ^Museum, number of 63 



sent out by Museum, number of 63 



Painted Desert 466 



Rocks, California, visit to 178 



Palannonetes, loan of collection of 43 



Paleobotany, section of, accessions to 15, 46 



form of label adopted by 48 



progress in installation in 47 



Palmer, Joseph, work of 25 



Palmer, William, detail of, to visit Cuba and Porto Rico 17, 44, 73 



title of paper by 142 



zoological and botanical collections made by 35, 68 



Pan-American Exposition, bats obtained by collectors for 35 



Papers by officers of National INIuseum and others, based upon Museum mate- 

 rial 130 



published in separate form from Bulletin 39 152 



Report for 1897 151 



volume 22, Proceedfngs of V. S. Na- 

 tional Museum 151 



Parasitic hymenoptera, report on 41 



Paris Exposition, 1900, exhibits sent to 74 



Parritt, H. W. , collections received from 64 



Patton, W. H., investigations in divisions of ethnology and somatology, 



made by 29 



I'eabody Museum, Hopi objects in 466 



Pearl, description of 492 



mystical properties of 579 



Pegmatite, description of 519 



Pennsylvania, T7niversity of, games loane<l to museum of 29 



Peoples in California, origin of 162 



Pergande, Theo. , title of paper by 142 



Peridot, description of 516 



Peristerite, description of 488 



Personnel of departmeut of biology 44 



Perthite, description of 519 



Peruvian and Chilean harpoons, rudeness of 216 



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