760 INDEX. 



Polar heat, decrease of 273 



Pollard, John G-arland 54 



Pollock, G. F. , donation to Zoological Park 71 



Polynesia, exchange agency 64 



transmissions to 66, 67 



Polynesian bow, E. Tregar on 85 



Pomares, Mariano, courtesies from 65 



Poncin, quoted 562 



Porcelain, Chinese, decoration of 592 



in Persia 607 



Porter, A. A., donation to Zoological Park 71 



Portugal, exchange agency 64 



transmissions to 66, 67 



Portuguese chart makers 287 



Postage and telegraph, expenditures for xvi, xxiv 



Potash deposits, distribution of 232 



Potential of electricity 147 



Pottery of the Guanches 551 



Potts, T. H., on rain making 270 



Pouillet, electrical experiments by 168 



Powell, Maj. J. W xviii,29,526 



Powers, Edward, method of rain making 264, 270 



Powys, Mervyn, Arctic researches by 335 



Pratt, F. W. , donation to Zoological Park 71 



Pratt, N. A. , on phosphates 230 



Precession, constants of 101, 102 



luni-solar 103 



Preece at Electrical Congress 141 



Preston, latitude observations by._ 277 



Prestidigitation, i)sychology of 555 



Prince Henry, discoveries by 283 



Printing, expenditures for xvi 



Proctor, determines periodic rotation of Mars 115 



Psychology, Maj or Powell's investigations in 83 



of x^restidigitation, Binet on 555 



Ptolemaic system of astronomy 95 



Ptolemy's Almagest, cited 114 



Public documents, international exchange of 61 



Publications of Bureau of Ethnology 54, 88 



National Museum xxv, 28, 42, 86 



receipts from sale of -... xvi 



received in Smithsonian Library 11, 79 



Secretary's report on 8 



Pueblo Country, explorations in 44 



Purinton, L. W. , donation to Zoological Park -. 72 



Putton, P. H. , donation to Zoological Park 71 



Pythagoras, astronomical knowledge of 94 



Pythagorean system suppressed 95 



Q. 



Quatrefages, Armand de, on advent of man in America - 85 



Queensland, exchange agency- 64 



transmissions to 66, 67 



