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INDEX TO PARTS I-IV. 



Painting of Smithsonian building, 27. 

 Pal TJte Indian utensils, 65. 



Paleontology, progress of Nortli American inver- 

 tebrate, 159. 

 Paleozoic invertebrate fossils, 9, 49. 



additions to, 129. 

 number of, 131. 

 recommendations 



about, 132. 

 report on, 139. 

 1883 report on, 173. 

 work on, 131. 

 fossil plants, 136. 

 notes, 173. 

 Palmer, E., antiquities from, 78. 



Arizona antiquities from, 75. 

 collected corals, 119. 

 collections of, identified, 122. 

 ethnologica from, 65. 

 explorations of, 41. 

 obtained new sponge, 118. 

 twig broom from, G5. 

 Joseph, modeler, 30. 

 exhibit of, 32. 

 work of, 33. 

 William, exhibit of, 32. 



collected reptiles, &c., 93. 

 obtained Brewster's warbler, 85. 

 Palestine, ethnologica from, 66. 

 Panama insects olrtained, 114. 



reptiles from Dr. Nelson, 93. 

 Pandanus utilis living in the Museum, 136. 

 Papers based on Museum material, 19, 151$. 

 Papers on Museum material, list of, iS'S. 

 Papio maimon, 31. 

 Paradosides Bennetti, casts of, 131. 

 Hailani, casts of, 131. 

 spinosus, casts of, 131. 

 Paridas invoiced, 91. 

 Parker, H. G., birds exchanged with, 86. 



Peter, duties of, 98. 

 Parti, Assistant Director's Report, 1. 



II, Cuiator's Eeports, 55. 



III, Bibliography, 149. 



IV, List of Accessions, 175. 

 Passer saturatus from Japan, 171. 

 Pastinacas, generic name of, 156. 

 Pearce, Eichard, on alloys, 144, 161. 



sent alloys, 143. 

 Peccary, mounted, 31. 



skins from Cozumel, 79. 

 Penseidae, genera of, defined, 170. 



new species of, described, 170. 

 of U. S. Fisli Commission, 170. 

 Pennsylvania antiquities obtained, 71. 



Geological Survey publications, 15. 

 ore collections, 146. 

 Pensacola fishes, new species of, 158. 



obtained, 96. 

 Pentacrinus from ofi' Havana, 48. 



ground off Havana examined, 123. 

 mlilleri and decorus obtained, 122. 

 Perch, log, notes on, 158. 



name of yellow, 158. 

 Percina caprodes, notes on, 158. 

 Periodicals for library, 15. 

 Perkins, Harriet, assisted with birds' eggs, 90. 

 Perley, L. O., sent fossils, 131. 

 Perognathus fasciatus obtained, 79. 

 Perry Japan expedition collections, 4. 



N. H., minerals from, 137. 

 Peru, ethnologica from, 66. 

 fishes from, 97. 

 human skulls from, 101. 

 image from, 77. 

 Peters, C. H. F., paper by, 22. 



G. "W., correspondence with, 114. 

 Peucfea jestivalis discussed, 155. 



mexicana new to United States, 162. 

 Phasianidaj, exotic, 44. 



from Department of Agriculture, 89. 

 Philadelphia exhibition collections, 5. 



industrial collections, 5. 

 Zoological Garden, mammals from, 

 80. 

 sent animals, 42. 

 Society, sent sloth, 101. 

 Philippine Islands, bracelets from, 67. 



land shells from, 103. 



Phocaina communis obtained, 80. 



dalli described, 172. 



lineata obtained, SO. 

 Phosphatic rock obtained, 146. 

 Photo-engraving illustrated at New Orleans, 36. 

 Photographer, \^i k of, 34. 

 Photographic enlargements, 34. 

 negatives made, 34. 



E lints made, 34. 

 ^ ^ „ y electric light, 29. 

 pupils in, 34. 

 Phyllacanthus gigantea sent out for study, 123. 

 Phyllotreta albionica, 164. 

 vittata, 164. 

 zimmermanni, 164. 

 Phylloxera, notes on, 167. 

 Physical apparatus transferred, 38. 

 Pickett, T. J., Mexican ethnologica from, 66. 

 Pickford and Wiukfield sent apatite, 54, 143. 

 Pierce, M. M., sent porpoise, 80. 

 Pieris napi from Alaska, 113. 

 Pima Indian ethnologica, 65. 

 Pisciculture, Goode on, 157. 

 Pityophthorus consimilis on sumac, 26. 

 Plagiodeia scripts, notes on, 166. 

 Plant-bug, tarnished, 165. 

 louse, cabliage, 165. 

 Plants added to flora of Washington, 173. 

 card catalogue of, 135. 

 Cenozoic fossil, 1,36. 

 collected by A. L. Schott, 136. 

 department of fossil, 136. 



and recent, 9, 50. 

 recent, organized, 135. 

 determined for A. R. Fellows, 58. 

 • distributed, 17. 

 fossil, accessions to, 233. 



administered upon, 136. 

 catalogued, 136. 

 stored in Armory, 136. 

 undetermined, 136. 

 work on, 136. 

 from Alaska reported upon, 135. 



Commander Islands, 157. 

 " Joad collection " of, 50. 

 list of genera of, 51. 

 Mesozoic fossil, 136. 

 number of, 136. 



obtained from Kew Gardens, 135. 

 Lester F. Ward, 135. 

 U. S. Botanical Gardens, 135. 

 of Commander Islands, notes on, 171. 



Greely expedition, 212. 

 Paleozoic fossil, 136. 

 recent accessions to, 233. 

 report on department of, 135. 

 fossil, 1883, 173. 

 recent, 135. 

 which thrive in the Museum, 136. 

 Plason, Mr. de, offered Coleoptera, 114. 

 Plaster casts distributed, 17. 

 Plectromus crassiceps described, 153. 

 Pleurotomaria 1 pernetusta obtained, 130. 



tabulata obtained, 129. 

 Podiceps auritus skeleton obtained, 102. 

 Point Barrow birds, notes on, 160. 



now invertebrates from, 160. 

 Polar moUusk fauna in Museum collections, 103. 

 Police work, 26. 

 Polynesia, bracelets from, 67. 

 Polypterus skeleton obtained, 101. 

 Pomacanthus aureus, 97. 

 Popular library, 16. 

 Porites a hindrance to seining, 97. 

 Porpoise cast, bottle-nosed, 33. 



fisheiy otf Cape Hatteias, 172. 

 fishing, paper on, 82. 

 obtained, common, 80. 



striped, 80. 

 steak, 172. 

 Potato-beetle, Colorado, 165. 

 Potomac salmon, 31. 



Pottery, American prehistoric,accessions to, 232. 

 report on, 69. 

 at Kew Orleans, ancient, 41. 

 Pueblo, 41. 

 department, Ameiican prehistoric, 8, 40. 

 distributed, 17. 

 exhibited, 27. 



