758 INDEX. 



Page. 



Oriental languages and peoples 600 



Orientalists, International Congress of 19 



Ornithology of Australia 299 



Orton, Edward, on rock pressure of natural gas 83 



Osbom, Henry Fairfield, on evolution and heredity 85 



Osborn, Sherard, Arctic exploration by 330, 334 



Ostrich, African, characteristics of 308 



geographical distribution of 300 



remains of extinct species of 300 



Overton, Percy, donation to Zoological Park 71 



Oxford and Cambridge universities founded 513 



Oxygen and hydrogen. Professor Morley on density of 16 



question of solar 243 



P. 



Pacinotti, M. . experiments by 170 



Packard, R. L., on x^re-Columbian copper mining 85 



Paget, experiments on the heart by 466 



Paleolithic Age in Canary Islands 546 



man in Europe 599 



Paleontology, origin of oldest fossils 359 



Palmen, Dr. J. A. , on migration of birds 85 



Paper, compressed, for vessel covering 676 



Paraguay, exchange agency 64 



Paris physiological station, work of 391 



Paris University founded 513 



Parker, Prof. W. K., mentioned 303 



Parry, Dr. . cited 472 



Parsons, Alfred, mentioned 623, 651 



Parthenon, curves in entablature of 573 



Paschal, G. W. , donation to Zoological Park. _ _ 71 



Pasteur, M. , discoveries by 392, 477 



Patagonia, extinct species of ostrich in 300 



Pathologic Institute in Berlin 692 



Patinas of Japanese bronze "■ 648 



Payer's Arctic sledge journey 325 



Peary, Lieut. Robert E. , Greenland exploration by 328 



Peckham, Adelaide Ward, on typhoid and the colon bacillus 451 



Pendulum experiments • 99, 100 



seconds, length of -. 99, 102 



Penguins, geographical distribution of 300 



Pennethorne, John, on architectural curves 577 



Pennsylvania University , publications from 79 



Penrose, Francis Cranmer, on Athenian architecture. 573 



Periodicals, statistics of, in Smithsonian library. 79 



Perry, Ed., & Co., courtesies from 65 



Perry, Newman K. , donation to Zoological Park 71 



Persian porcelain 607 



Peru, astronomical observatory in.. 162 



exchange agency 64 



transmissions to 66, 67 



Peters, C. A. F., on latitude variation 276 



Petrie, Professor, discoveries at Coptos by 600 



