450 



INDEX. 



Pacific fishes, maim script on, burned, 172. 

 new to science, 172. 

 islands, canoes, &c, from, 105. 

 Mills samples, 82. 



specimens from, 81. 

 visited, 83. 

 Ocean invertebrata obtained, 64. 

 Railroad Survey collections, 6. 

 Steam Whaling Company, Arctic coal 

 from, 69. 

 Page & Krause, barytes collection, 276. 

 sent barytes series, 269. 

 Pagophilus, 368. 



Painting, history of, illustrated, 56. 

 Paleacrita vernata, 360. 

 Palenque, La Stele de, 356. 

 Paleontology of Eureka district, 368. 



types illustrat- 

 ing, 203. 

 Paleozoic fauna ot Central Nevada discussed, 214. 

 fossil plants, 220. 

 fossils from California, 204. 



grouped in the strata, 207. 

 miscellaneous, obtained, 204. 

 of Central Nevada, 207. 

 invertebrate fossils, 64. 



additions to, 20S. 

 administered upon, 



208. 

 condition of, 64. 

 disposition of, 209. 

 number of, 64, 208. 

 number of rocks 



containing, 208. 

 present state of, 



208. 

 received from U. S. 

 Geological Sur- 

 vey, 210-214. 

 report on, 203. 

 stored, 208. 

 work on, 205. 

 rocks of Central Texas, 368. 

 Palmer, Dr. Edward, collecting corals, 70. 



describes use of roasting 



trays, 301. 

 Florida Indian objects from, 



116. 

 invertebrates from, 63, 191. 

 on Indian basketry, 303. 

 received collecting outfit, 194. 

 Palmer, Joseph, 45, 133. 

 Palmer, William, 45, 133. 

 Palms in Museum, 65. 

 Palos (brig) model, 93. 

 Panama and Costa Rica fishes burned, 173. 

 fishes collected, 173. 

 excavations, rocks and fossils wanted 



from, 180. 

 fishes collected, 172. 

 Paper from Yucca brevifolia, 81. 

 Paper-weight of Russian stones, 230. 

 Papers on Museum material, 31. 



material not by Museum offi- 

 cers, 371. 

 Papuan weapons, ornaments, &c, 119, 120. 

 Park Brothers & Co. steel exhibit, 245. 

 Parke, Davis & Co., drugs from, 76. 

 Parker, Peter, jr., assisted in laboratory, 198. 



on fishes, 169. 

 Parker, Dr. W. T., Apache bed from, 116. 

 Parkhurst, V. P., Jamaica fibers from, 80. 



Jamaican foods from, 107. 

 Parry's account of Eskimo bows, 308. 



description of tbrowing-stick, 283. 

 Part I begins, 3. 

 Part II begins, 73. 



Part III, papers illustrating collections, 277. 

 Part IV, bibliography, 337. 

 Part V, appendix, 381. 

 Parula=Compsothlypis, 366. 

 Passaic Zinc Works collection, 273, 275. 

 Passereulus princeps, breeding-place of, 357. 

 Patchogue lisli collections, 165. 

 Patella in birds, 377. 

 Patna (Bengal) dug-out for fishing. 87. 

 Pattee, William P., vessel models from, 94. 

 Pawtucket Hair-Cloth Company collection, 82. 



Peabody Academy Museum. 10. 



Museum of Archseologv, 10. 

 Yale College, 10. 

 Peacock coal received, 263. 

 Peale, Dr. A. C, 236. 

 Pearce, Richard, sent minerals, 221. 

 Pearis, C. F., made Utah collections, 244. 

 Pearl from Venus mercenaria, 182. 

 Peccary tusk from Graham Island, 114. 

 Peckham, Prof. S. F., sent thomsonite, 221. 

 Pectolite from Alaska identified, 225. 

 Peerless mine coal, &c, 262. 

 Pendleton, Col. Philip G., presented anthracite, 



262. 

 Pennsylvania Coal Company sent coal-breaker 

 picture, 266. 

 Diamond Drill Company collection, 



269. 

 Museum of Industrial Art, 10. 

 Tack Works collection, 240. 

 Pensacola fishes, 172, 374. 



spotted dolphin, 317. 

 Pentacrinus from Havana, 197. 



the Albatross, 190. 

 Periplaneta americana found on whale-ship. 185. 



from Florida, 185. 

 Perkins, Harriet S., 143, 152, 153. 

 Perley, L. O , sent Fusulina cylindrica, 201. 

 Pernety's figure of dolphin, 322. 

 Perry Japan Expedition collections, 6. 

 Perry, N. H., sent Maine minerals, 223. 

 Peru, Ancon, antiquities, 116, 117, 118. 

 pottery, 121. 

 and Ecuador, shells from, 183. 

 birds from, 71. 

 collections from, 71. 

 fishes from Dr. Jones, 164. 

 Huaca objects, 57. 

 pottery from, 58. 

 shells 'from, 183. 

 Phalacrocorax violacQus and resplendens, note on, 



357. 

 Pbalarope, oldest name for Wilson's, 366. 

 Pharmacological experiments recommended, 76, 



77. 

 Pharmacopoeias, report on, 75. 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 10. 



and Reading Coal and Iron Company 



collections, 261. 

 and Reading Coal and Iron Com- 

 pany's exhibit, 267. 

 Lut^rnational Exhibition collections, 



6. 

 Permanent Exhibition, accessions 

 from. 67. 

 Philippine Islands, shells from, 183. 

 Phoca, 368. 



fasciata skeleton, 368. 

 tropicalis, 335. 

 vitulina, 131, 332. 

 Wilkianus, 335. 

 Phoenix Iron Company's rolled iron, 245. 

 Photinus ardens from Maine, J86. 

 Photographer, 46. 



Photographic instruction to scientific men, 46. 

 instruments purchased 46. 

 work for Government bureaus, 46. 

 in 1884, 46, 47. 

 Photographs of coal miues and mining, 264, 265. 



stone buildings, 66. 

 Photolithographs of Japanese pottery, 51. 

 Photomicrographs of rock sections, 232. 

 Phylloxera, 362, 363. 



spinosa, 362. 



vastalrix insecticide, 361. 

 Physa gyrina from New Mexico, 184. 



and Zaptychius, bearing of the discovery 

 of, 207. 

 Physical geology collections. 233. 



report on lithology and, 227. 

 labels and cards, 234. 

 Physiology, experimental, 72. 

 Picoides tridactylus alasoensie, 376. 

 Pig-copper refining illustrated, 240, 256. 

 Pig iron and ores from furnaces, 257. 

 from fossiliferons ores. 241. 

 smelting collection, 241,257. 

 Pig lead from the ore, 243, 254. 



