INDEX. 435 



Pafe. 



Navajo Indiajis^ Clotliin/^ 289 



Pood _ 290 



Occupation 29t 



Health 298 



Horses and cattle 292 



Warlike character. . 292 



Weapons 293 



Religion and morals . 294 



General cliivractcr 295 



No tr/iditions- 296 



I^anguage _ 295 



Hiero^l^'pbics 296 



Nogrettl and Zainl (ra's new M;udmum Tliermometer- - 2 19 



Newberry, Dr. J. S. , Collections made by 42 



Now Mexico, Sketch of Navajo Indians in 28S 



Spanish works on. 307 



Northern route for Pacific Eailroad survey.. 43 



North Pacific and China seas, Surrey of 47 



OeLfichs aj:d Liirman, Liberality of 41 



Officers of the Institution.. 5 



Olmsted, Prof. Demiison, on Aurora Borealis 18 



Ombrometer or Bain Ga^e, description and uses 22* 



Oology, Paper on 19 



Oregon, Geological Survey of, by Dr. J. Evans 45 



Ottawa Athcneum, Premivim for collections by . 57 



Oxygen and it.s Combinations, Lecture on . 143 



Action of water as transfei-er of 144 



Phenomena of rust explained . 144 



Effects of, on organic bodies * 145 



Tendency of bodies to unite ivith 146 



Office performed by, in respiration 146 



The restorer as well as the destroyer of life 148 



Eifects of, on products of man's labor 149 



Pacific Mail SteanLship Company, Tha)iks to 77 



Pacific Ilailroiul Survcj-s 43 



Page, Capt. T. J., Exploration of the Parana 47 



Panama Eailroad Conapany, Thanks to 77 



Paraguay, Exploration in.. 47 



Parke, Lieut. J. G. , Exploration of 44 



Patent Ofilce, Meteorological arrangement with 26 



Patterson, Lieut., CoUectioas madeby 45 



Patton, Jos. H., relative to Wynu estate 77 



Peirce, Prof. B., on. Meech's Paper 20 



Periodical Phenomena., Directions for observation of 259 



Perry, Conmiodore, Jajian Expedition 47 



Phillips, Jno., Communication from 77 



Philips, Prof., Maximmn Thermometer by — 219 



Physical Geography of the United Slzifis, additions to ... 27 



