828 INDEX. 



Page. 



Norris, Col. P. W., collections received from 110 



Northville, Michigan, Fish Commission station 51 



Nova Scotia, antiquities of G73 



Nichols, Dr. H. A., birds received from 103 



collections received from 106 



Nichols, Lieut. H. E., collections received from 105 



Null, James M. , donation to Museum 101 



Null, James W. ; anthropological correspondence G84 



Nushigak, signal station at 22 



O. 



Observations on temperatures of water and air 42, 43 



Observatories 223 



Occupations of mankind illustrated in Museum 91,93 



Officers and assistants of the Smithsonian Institution XVi 



of the United States National Museum Ill 



Ohio, Ashland County, mounds and earthworks in 593 



Butler County, earthworks in 600 



Trumbull County, mound in 592 



Onondaga County, New York, antiquities of 647, 651 



Optical phenomena 322 



Organic chemistry 388 



Organization of the Museum, plan of 89 



Orthonectides, characteristics and relations of the 425 



Oswego County, New York, antiquities of 647 



Oyster, multiplication of 51 



P. 



Pacific Mail Steamship Company, co-operation of 40, 31 



Paleontological specimens 109 



Paleontology, invertebrate, department of 109 



Paleozoic era, land shells of 457 



Paints, exhibit of, promised to Museum 100 



Palmer, Edward ; anthropological correspondence 684 



donation to Museum 101 



investigation of mounds 39 



Palmer, Joseph, chief modeler of the Museum 96 



Parallax of stars 195 



Parasitic crustaceans 438 



polychactous worm 427 



Paris, electrical convention in 44 



Parker, Hon. Peter, member of Executive Committee XV, 172 



Museum Building Commission 176 



Regent viii, ix, xv 



reports by Xli, xiii 



resolutions by X 



Parker, Peter, jr., assisted in Fish Commission work 48 



Patterson, Eev. George, D. D. ; antiquities of Nova Scotia 673 



Peet, S. D. ; anthropological correspondence 684 



Pennsylvania, rock carvings on the Susquehanna River 642 



Southwestern, antiquities of 638 



Perforated tablet of stone from New York 658 



Perfumes, exhibit of, promised to Museum 100 



Phuenogams, report on 407 



