INDEX. 



451 



Pike, Hon. Xicbolas. sent exotic sholla, 181. 

 IMlot boat raodels, 56, 92. 

 I'iakie inotlel. 86. 

 I'innipetla from Californiii, 131. 

 mounted in 18.S4, 42. 

 secured in 1884, 44. 

 Pinus monophyllaprepaied. 301. 

 I'lpc-fishes of Key Wost, 379. 

 PiptT, Mrs. M. A." Maori objects from, 119. 

 Phvcer gold specimens, 67. 



bought. 244. 248. 

 Plant accessions. 65. 



analysis recommended, 70. 

 Plants, accessions of fossil, 219. 



added to Wasbinston flora, 369. 

 Carboniferous fossil, 220. 

 catalogued, 65. 



chemistry of the feeding of, 340 

 classifieif, 65. 

 Cretaceous fossil. 220. 

 department of fossil. 219. 

 determined fossil. 220. 

 duplicate fossil. 220. 

 fo.'>sil, administered upon, 220. 

 and recent, 17, 65. 

 catalogued, 220. 

 compared with living, 219. 

 curator's work on, 219. 

 from coal, 263. 

 in reserve series, 220. 

 from botanical gardens, 36. 



Costa Kic.i, 71. 

 Joad collection of, 65. 

 Laramie group fossil, 220. 

 Paleozoic fossil, 220. 

 Tertiary fossil. 220. 

 undetermined fossil, 220. 

 Plectognath fishes, synopsis of, 372. 

 Plectrodera scalator from Illinois, 187. 

 Pleurotomaria nodomarginata, 207. 

 Plum curculio, 3G3. 

 Piecilichthys. new spei-ics of. 374. 

 PcBcilopodii, C .Tlioniferou.s. obtained, 212. 

 Devonian, obtained, 211, 214. 

 Poey, Prof. Felipe, Cuban fishes from, 70. 



sent Monachus tropicalis, 331. 

 Pogonip fossils. 207. 

 Point Barrow basket, 294. 



Eskimo bows, 307, 310. 



objects, 57, 111,112. 

 invertebrates new to science, 201. 



studied, 201. 

 mammals obtained, 130. 

 shells obtained, 184. 

 throwingstick, 263, 284. 

 Polar hare-skins obtained, 130. 

 Polishing material*, 242. 

 Pollard, John A., as.si.sted to collect coal, 267. 



sent view of colliery, 266. 

 Polynesia, tapa cloth from, 119. 

 Polynesian weapons, 57. 

 Polyzoa, Devonian, obtained, 213. 

 Pompano of 36 pounds obtained, 163. 

 Ponca ax from grave, 116 

 Popayan palm-leaf coat, 118. 

 Porichthys porosissiraus, note on, 374. 

 Porpoiseflsheries investigated by Mr. True, 132. 



fishing, 367. 

 Porpoises from U. S. Fish Commission, 1.32. 

 1 I'ort Clarence throwing-stick, 285. 



Portugal building and ornamental stones, 236. 

 I'orzana li-uco^astra, 376. 

 Potomac breccia marble, 236. 

 Potsdam .sandstone fossils from "Wisconsin, 205. 

 Potter, Prof. W. B., assisted collecting, 244. 

 Pottery, aboriginal Ameiican 18, 121. 

 received in 1884. 58. 

 American prehistoric, 17. 

 Cbiriqni, 71. 

 collection, gaps in. 122. 

 value of, 122. 

 department of American prehistoric, 58. 

 from Central America needed, 122. 

 Maryland shell mounds, 121. 

 Mexico needed, 122. 

 Soath America needed, 122. 



Pottery, Peruvian, from Dr. W. II. Jones, 58. 



report on aboriginal, ."<8, 121. 

 Pottsville district coal mine collections, 287. 

 Powell, MnJ. J. W., lectures by, 34. 

 Powers on Indian baskets, 300.' 

 Prehistoric America. 351. 

 fishing, 356. 

 Indian objects, .53. 

 Prentiss. Dr. I). Webster, le«-tnre by, 34. 

 Preparation, 19. 



Preparator's building erected, 36. 

 increase of, 41. 

 work of, 41. 

 Pribylov Islands throwing-stick, 288. 

 Primates mounted in 1881, 42. 



secured iu 1884, 43. 

 Prime, Temple, on new spha^riuin, 377. 

 Prince William Sound throwingstick, 287. 

 Print-roller for calico printing, 82. 

 Priocella tenuirnstris, haititat, 386. 

 Prionotus from dolphin stomach, 324. 

 Proceedings of Museum ])ublislied, 339. 



in 1884, 31. 

 volume vii, 339. 

 signatures pnblishotl in 1884, 339. 

 Prochlorite in District of Columbia. 355. 

 Procter, J. R., sent Kentucky building stones, 



231. 

 Proctor, A. C, contribution from, 66. 

 Prodelphinus, 317. 



brevimanus, 323. 

 dons, 277,317,323,324. 

 colors of, 318. 

 described, 318. 

 diagnosis of, 323, 324. 

 external measurements of, 



319. 

 external morphology of, 318. 

 osteology, 319. 

 pelvis, 320. 

 phalanges, 320. 

 recorded from Florida, 317. 

 skeleton measurements, 320. 

 skull described, 319,321. 

 storniini and scapula, 320. 

 (t\pical) skull measure- 

 ments, 321. 

 vertebrse described, 319, 320. 

 with in.jnred vertebra;, 324. 

 dubius in Paris Museum, 323. 

 froDnatns, 323. 

 frontalis, 323. 

 marginatus, .320. 

 obscurus, cast of hea<l, 132. 

 plaziodon, 323. 



skull measurements, 321. 

 sknll variations in, 321. 

 species not fully described, 322. 

 Prodnctns semiieticnlatua obtained, 204. 



subaculeatus, 206. 

 Progne, note on, 377. 

 Property and supplies, 10,37. 

 Property clerk, duties of, 37, 

 Pronithecus liolonielas bnught, 131. 

 Psvllida;, North Arutrican, liOl. 

 of Unitid States, 302. 

 Ptamiignns of Ntlseii, 3i)0. 



shedding claws, 367. 

 Pteropoda, Carboniferous, obtained, 212. 



Devonian, obtained, 211,213,214. 

 Ptilodyctia carbonaria, 207. 



serratft, 207. 

 Publication, 19. 



Publications of the Museum, 31, 339. 

 Pueblo ware installed, 121. 

 Pulmonifera, Carboniferous, obtained, 212. 



in Lower Carl)ouifer»us rocks, 207. 

 Pumice from Krakatoa, 230. 



sand, Norwegian, 229. 

 Pumpellv, Prof. K., collected iron ores, 272. 



ores, 239. 

 Pusa. 308. 



Pyrite for sulphuric acid manufacture, 280. 

 from Virginia, 260. 

 products, 261. 

 Pyrites obtained, 262. 



