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Polarized nerve, effect of irritation of — B. F. Lautenbach. (K. 1878)__ 341, 411 



Pollock, J. Assay of coins at the Mint of the United States. (K. 1868) 224 



Polychrome bead from Florida— S. S. Haldeman. (E. 1877) 323, 404 



Polypetalae, bibliographical index of — S. Watson 258 



Polypi, relations of lucernarians to — H. J. Clark 242 



Polyzoa of northeastern coast of America, notice of recent additions to — A. E. 



Verrill. (P. 1879) 333 



Pomadasys, description of new species of, from Mazatlan, Mexico — D. S. Jor- 

 dan ; C. H. Gilbert. (P. 1881) 467 



Pontifical Academy of the Nuovi Lincei, Rome. Prize questions. (R. 1865; 



R. 1867) 209, 216 



Poole, H. Cone-in-cone. (R. 1863) 187 



Popocatepetl, examination of — Baron von Muller; A. Sonntag 114 



Population of the world, estimate of the — E. Maillt. (R. 1873) 275 



Porcupine, Canada, occurrence of, in Maryland — O. Lugger. (P. 1881) 467 



Porcupine, Canada, occurrence of, in West Virginia — G. B. Goode. (P. 1878.) 332 



Porifera of northeast coast of America — A. E. Verrill. (P. 1879) 333 



Porpoise oil, manufacture of— C. Cook. (P. 1878) 332 



Porter, Commodore. Account of hail storm on the Bosphorus. (R. 1870) 244 



Porter, J. Y. Destruction of fish by poisonous water in Gulf of Mexico. 



(P. 1881) . 467 



Porter, J. Y. ; Jefferson, J. P. ; Moore, T. Destruction of fish near the 



Tortugas. (P. 1878) i 332 



Porter, T. C. List of plants of upper Missouri. (R. 1850) 28 



Portland Society of Natural History, account of — E. C. Bolles. (R. 1867) ' 216 



Porto Rico — 



description of new owl from — R. Ridgway. (P. 1881) , 467 



great hurricane at — G.A.Latimer. (R. 1867) 215 



Latimer collection of antiquities from — 0. T. Mason. (R. 1876) 397 



meteorology of — G. Latimer. (R. 1871) 249 



Portraits — 



of North American Indians, catalogue of — J. M. Stanley S3 



of North American Indians, Stanley, report of Committee of Regents 



on. (R. 1857) 107 



photographic, of North American Indians, in gallery of Smithsonian 



Institution, list of 216 



Potamocottus Bendirei, description of — T. H. Bean. (P. 1881) 467 



Pottery — 



ancient, from Phillips county, Arkansas — J. H. Devereux. (R. 1872.) 271 

 ancient, from Pittsburg, on Des Moines river — R. N. Dahlberq ; C. 



Dahlberg. (R. 1879) 345 



. Indian— C. Rau. (R. 1866) 214, 440, 368 



Pouched rat, or salamander of Georgia, habits of — W. Gesner. (R. 1860) — 147 



Poulkova and Dorpat, description of observatories at — C. Abbe. (R. 1867.) 215, 369 



