664 INDEX. 



Page. 



Pan-American Exposition, appropriation act for liv, 19 



Paris Exposition, act relating to r>viii 



Parsons' turbo-motor, introduction of 581 



Passenger steamers, improvement in 568 



Patagonia, explorations in 29 



Pavona, C. F. , exchanges with 33 



Payne, Edward J. , on unity of American tribes 477 



Peary, Lieutenant, explorations l)y 325 



Peopling of th_^ Philippines, Virchow on 509-526 



Pepi)er-Hurst expedition 485 



Peraza, N. Bolet, courtesies fr( »m 50 



Perkins, Jacob, engines of 596 



Permanent committee, report of xiii 



Perry, Edward, & Co. , courtesies from 50 



Petrified forests of Arizona, Ward on 289-307 



Pettersson, Otto, on ocean explorations 325 



Phelps Bros. & Co. , courtesies from .... 50 



Pliiladelphia Commei'cial Exposition li 



Philippines, animals wanted from 57 



color of people of 520 



discovery of 509 



fashions in 522 



foreign peoples of 529 



immigrations in 520 



immigration of Chinese to 515 



list of tribes of 527-547 



peopling of 509-526 



primitive people of 510 



religious customs of 521 



tattooing in 522 



Phillips, W. A. , paper by 77 



Phlogiston theory. Rice on .398 



Phosphorescence, newly discovered sources of , 150 



Photochemical researches by Bunsen 619 



Photography by Becquerel rays 158 



by magnesium light 616 



Photometer, Bunsen's discovery of 617 



Physical chemistry, Bunsen's researches in 619 



Laboratory, National 164 



sciences, development of 178 



Physiology, electro 350 



recent progress in 77 



Pickering, E. C. , researches by 70 



Pictet and Cailletet experiments .- 131 



Pitchblende, rays from 156 



Planetary intervals, measurement of 211, 215 



Plant life in the ocean 318 



Plants, American, in Europe 411 



collections received by Museum 31 



motion of, electrical phenomena of 329 



Platinum, specific heat of 619 



metals, Bunsen's researches in 628 



Piatt, Orville H. , Regent of the Institution x, xii, 3 



