INDEX. 861 



Petroff on payment for injuries among Indians 241 



Peucoea cestivalis bachmanii, nests and eggs of 151 



hachmanii 146 



Fezophaps solitarius 181 



Pfordte, OttoF., presents minerals 196 



Pharmacopceal drugs, meaning of 114 



Pharomacrus costaricensis 148 



PRasianus amlierstia ^ 147 



Photographer, work of the 65 



Photographic department in the Museum, reference to the 18 



Photographs, enlargements of 65 



ethnological 92 



Physical apparatus, extent of collection of 22 



Physiology, papers on, published during the year 49 



Pictographs 661 



Pierced tablets and boat-shaped articles 649 



Pilocarpus pennatifoUus, drawing of, lent for comparison 52 



Pilsbry, H. A., correspondence with 163 



Piney Branch, paleolithic implements from 126 



Pipe-lighting outfit of the Koords 583 



Pipes 662 



Piranga riihra cooperi, eggs of 151 



Pitt-Eivers, General, alludes to the United States exhibit at London in 1883 11 



Plants, fossil and recent, distribution of 45 



sectional library of department of 43 



papers on, published during the year 49 



recent, sectional library of department of 43 



Playfair, Sir Lyon, quoted 13 



Pleurotomidcu 162 



Pliocene beds of south Florida 163 



Plummets aud sinkers 652 



Plymouth Institute, England 39 



Pocket gopher mounted 61 



Poinsett, Hon. Joel Eoberts, first suggests the idea of a national museum . 4 



Point Barrow, fire-making outfit from 561 



Hope, Alaska, ethnological material from , 89 



Poitevin, allusion to 118 



Polioptila californica, eggs and nest of 151 



Polished stone hatchets 645 



Pollock, George F 60 



Polynesia, accessions from 75, 92 



Poole on Indians of the northwest coast 253 



Porcelain, antiquity of 392 



composition of 435 



decoration of 439 



earliest men tion of 388 



introduction of colored decoration in the manufacture of 398 



manufacture of, during five dynasties 396 



origin of the word 394 



paste, shaping the 437 



process of baking 438 



Porcupine, crinoids collected byH. M. S 174 



Forites, report on the genus 176 



Portlock on foods of Indians 277 



Tlingit Indians 254 



