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INDEX 



Newcomb, Simon, birth and parent- 

 age, 363; early life, 365; computer 

 for Nautical Almanac and in 

 charge of office, 368, 372; expedi- 

 tion to Saskatchewan, 370; ap- 

 pointment at Naval Observatory, 

 370; senior professor of mathemat- 

 ics in U. S. Navy, 372; observa- 

 tions on the moon and of solar 

 eclipses, 376, 377; grant from 

 Carnegie Institution, 377; super- 

 intends construction of Washing- 

 ton telescope, 377; in charge of 

 expeditions to observe transits of 

 Venus, 378; agent for Lick and 

 Pulkowa observatories, 379; Pres- 

 ident of International Congress 

 of Arts and Sciences, 380; volumi- 

 nous writings, 381; contributions 

 to political economy, 382; writer 

 of fiction, 383; honors, 384-386; 

 domestic life, 387; death and 

 burial, 389 



Newton, Prof. Hubert Anson, 361 

 Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 17 

 North America, Continent of, Dana's 



theory of development, 257 

 North American Rhynchosporeae, by 



Asa Gray, 215 

 North American Serpents, by S. F. 



Baird, 272 



Norton, Sidney Augustus, 430 

 Nova Scotia, expeditions to, 288, 



289; also 365 

 Nut tall, Thomas, 69 



Observations on Crania, by Jeffries 



Wyman, 192 

 Oceanic Ichthyology, by Goode and 



Bean, 398, 401 



Octoplex printing telegraph, 425 

 Odontornithes, or The Extinct Toothed 



Birds of America, by O. C. Marsh, 



300 



Olmsted, Denison, 109 

 On Symmetry and Homology in 



Limbs, by Jeffries Wyman, 195 



note, 196 

 Opossum, Osteology and Myology of 



the, by Elliott Coues, 203 

 Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d', 158 

 Ord, Charles, 54 

 Ord, George, 61-63, 65-68, 79 

 Ordovician time, 257-258, 262 



Oregon, The, see Wilkes Exploring 



Expedition 

 Origin of Species, by C. R. Darwin, 



193, 226, 249 

 Origin of the Fittest, by E. D. Cope, 



33 2 

 Ornithological Biography, by J. J. 



Audubon, 82, 84, 85 

 Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 315, 316, 



319,327,328,330 

 Ostwald, Felix Leopold, 351, 361 

 Owen, Sir Richard, 177, 188 note, 



189, 193 



Owen, Robert Dale, 132 

 Oyster industry of Maryland, 440, 



447 

 Oyster, The, by W. K. Brooks, 447 



Pacific Railroad Surveys, 313 

 Packard, Alpheus Spring, 187, 194, 



33i, 335 



Packets between Philadelphia and 

 Liverpool, first line inaugurated, 



3i5 

 Paleontological Discovery, History and 



Methods of, by O. C. Marsh, 307 

 Paleozoic time, mountain-making in, 



256, 257 

 Pangenesis, Provisional Hypothesis 



of, by W. K. Brooks, 445 

 Paris, Observatory at, 376 

 Parkman, Dr. George, 177, 197 

 Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 50 

 Paumotu Islands, 238, 258 

 Peabody, George, 181, 285, 286, 288, 



291 

 Peabody, George Augustus, 185 and 



note 



Peabody Academy of Science, 304 

 Peabody Museum, Harvard, 180- 



182, 304; Yale, 105, 304 

 Peacock, The, see Wilkes Exploring 



Expedition 



Peale, Charles Willson, 63 

 Peale, Rembrandt, 63, 80, 273 

 Peirce, Benjamin, 369 

 Penikese Island, 161-163, 433, 439 

 Pennybacker, Isaac Samuals, 132 

 Percival, J. G., 106 

 Perkins, Dr. G. A., 190 

 Permanence of continents and 



oceans, Doctrine of, 252, 259 

 Peters, Wilhelm Karl Hartwig, 



290 



