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INDEX. 



Pacific fishes, mannscript on, Lnmcd, 172. 

 new to science, 172. 

 islands, canoes, &c., from, 10.'). 

 Mills samples, 82. 



specimens from, 81. 

 visited, 83. 

 Ocean iuvertebvata obtained, G4. 

 Railroad Survey collections, 6. 

 Steam Whaling Company, Arctic coal 

 from, 69. 

 Page & Kranse, barytes collection, 276. 

 sent barytes series, 269. 

 Pagophilus, 368. 



Painting, history of. illustrated, 56. 

 Paleacrita vernata, ;!G0. 

 Palenque, La Stfele de, 356. 

 Paleontology of Eureka district, 368. 



types illustrat- 

 ing, 203. 

 P.aleozoic fauna ot Central Nevada discutssed, 214. 

 fossil plants, 220. 

 fossils from California, 204. 



grou])ed in the strata, 207. 

 miscellaneous, obtained, 204. 

 of Central Nevada, 207. 

 invertebrate fossils, 64. 



additions to, 20S. 

 administered upon, 



208. 

 condition of, 64. 

 disposition of, 209. 

 number of, 64, 208. 

 number of rocks 



containing, 208. 

 present state of, 



208. 

 received from U. S. 

 Geoloirical Sur- 

 vey, 210-214. 

 report on, 203. 

 stored, 208, 

 work on, 205. 

 rocks of Central Texas, 368. 

 Palmer, Dr. Edward, collecting corals, 70. 



describes use of roasting 



trays, 301. 

 Florida Indian objects from, 



116. 

 inveitebrates from, 63, 191. 

 on Indian basketry, 303. 

 received collecting outfit, 194. 

 Palmer, Joseph, 45, 133. 

 Palmer, William, 45, 133. 

 Palms in Museum, 65. 

 Palos (brig) model, 93. 

 Panama and Costa Rica fishes bumed, 173. 

 fi.sbes collected, 173. 

 excavations, rocks and fossils wanted 



from, 180. 

 fishes collected, 172. 

 Paper from Yucca brevifolia, 81. 

 Paper-weight of Knssian atones, 230. 

 Papers on Museum material, 31. 



material not by Museum offi- 

 cers, 371. 

 Papuan weapons, ornaments, &c., 119, 120. 

 Park Brothers & Co. steel exhibit, 245. 

 Parke, Davis & Co., drugs from, 76. 

 Parker, Peter, jr., as.sisted in laboratory, 193. 



on fishes, 169. 

 Parker, Dr. W. T., Apache bed from, 116. 

 Parkhurst, V. P., Jamaica fibers from, 80. 



Jamaican foods from, 107. 

 Parry's account of E.skimo bows, 308. 



description of throwiug-stick, 283. 

 Part I begins, 3. 

 Part II begins, 73. 



Part III, papers illustrating collections, 277. 

 Part IV, bibliography, 337. 

 Part V, appendix, 3Ki. 

 Parala^=Compsoihlypis, 866. 

 Passaic Zinc Works collection, 273, 275. 

 Passerculus princeps, breeding-place of, 357. 

 Patchogue fish cnllec tions, 16.i. 

 Patella in birds, 377. 

 Patna (Bengal) dug-out for fishing, 87. 

 Pattee, William P.', vessel models from, 94. 

 Pawtucket Hair-Cloth Company collection, 82. 



Peabody Academy Museum, 10. 



Museum of Archaeology, 10. 

 Tale CoIlege.lO. 

 Peacock coal received, 263. 

 Peale, Dr. A. C, 230. 

 Pearce, Richard, sent minerals, 221. 

 Pearis, C. F., made Utah collections, 244. 

 Pearl from Venus mi'rcenaria, 182. 

 Peccary tusk from Graham Island, 114. 

 Peckham, Prof. S. F., sent thomsonite, 221. 

 Poctolito from Alaska identified, 225. 

 Peerless mine coal, «Scc., 262. 

 Pendleton, Col. Philip G., presented anthracite, 



262. 

 Pennsylvania Coal Company sent coal-breal?er 

 picture, 266. 

 Diamond Drill Company collection . 



269. 

 Museum of Industrial Art, 10. 

 Tack Works coUection, 240. 

 Pensacola fishes, 172, 374. 



spotted dolphin, 317. 

 Pentacrinus from Havana, 107. 



the Albatross, 190. 

 Periplaueta americana found on whale-ship. 18.". 



from Florida, 185. 

 Perkins, Harriet S., 143, 152, 153. 

 Perley, L. O , sent Fasulina cylindrica, 201. 

 Pernety's figure of dolphin, 322. 

 Perry Japan Expedition collections, 6 

 Perry, N. H., sent Maine minerals. 223. 

 Peru, Ancon, antiquities, 116, 117, 118. 

 pottery, 121. 

 and Ecuador, shells from, 183. 

 birds from, 71. 

 collections from, 71. 

 fishes from Dr. Jones, 164. 

 Huaca objects, 57. 

 pottery from, 58. 

 shells "from, 183. 

 Phalacrocorax violaceus and resplendens, note on, 



357. 

 Phalarope, oldest name for Wilson's, 366. 

 Pliarmacological experiments recommended, 76. 



77. 

 Pharmacopoeias, report on, 75. 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 10. 



and Reading Coal and Iron Company 



collections, 261. 

 and Reading Coal and Iron Com- 

 pany's exhibit, 267. 

 Intoi-uational Exhibition collections, 



6. 

 Peimanent Exhibition, accessions 

 from, C7. 

 Philippine Islands, shells from, 183. 

 Phoca, 368. 



fasciata skeleton, 368. 

 tropicalis, 335. 

 vitulina, 131, 332. 

 Wilkianus, 335. 

 Phcenix Iron Company's rolled iron, 245. 

 Photinus ardens from Maine, J 86. 

 Photographer, 46. 



Photographic instruction to scientific men, 46. 

 instruments purchassed 46. 

 work for Government bureaus, 46. 

 in 1884,46,47. 

 Photographs of coal mines and mining, 264, 205. 



stone buildings, 66. 

 Photolithographs of Japanese pottery, 51. 

 Photomicrographs of rock sections, 232. 

 Phylloxera, 362, 363. 



spinosa, 362. 



vastatrix insecticide, 361. 

 Physa gyrina from New Mexico, 184. 



and Zaptychius, bearing of the discovery 

 of, 207.' 

 Physical geology collections. 233. 



report on lithology and, 227. 

 labels and cards, 234. 

 Physiology, experimental, 72. 

 Picoides tridactylus alascensi.?, 376. 

 Pig-copper refining illustrated, 240, 256. 

 Pig iron and ores from furnaces, 257. 

 from fossiliferous ores. 241. 

 Rmeltiug collection, 241,257. 

 Pig lead from the ore, 243, '^54. 



