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INDEX TO PARTS I-F 



Painting of Smithsonian building, 27. 

 Pai Ute Indian utensils, 65. 



Paleontology, progress of North American inver- 

 tebrate, 159. 

 Paleozoic invertebrate fossils, 9, 49. 



additions to, 129. 

 number of, 131. 

 recommendations 



about, 132. 

 report on, 129. 

 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, 65. 

 Joseph, modeler, 30. 

 exhibit of, 32. 

 work of, 33. 

 William, exhibit of, 32. 



collected reptiles, &c, 93. 

 obtained Brewster's warbler, 83. 

 Palestine, ethnologica from, 66. 

 Panama insects obtained, 114. 



reptiles from Dr. Nelson, 93. 

 Pandanus utilis living in the Museum, 136. 

 Papers based on Museum material, 19. 152. 

 Papers on Museum material, list of, 153. 

 Papio maimon, 31. 

 Paradoxides Bennetti, casts of, 131. 

 Harlani, casts of, 131. 

 spinosus, casts of, 131. 

 Paridse invoiced, 9). 

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



Peter, duties of, 98. 

 Part I, Assistant Director's Report, 1. 



II, Curator's Reports. 55. 



III, Bibliography, 149. 



IV, List of Accessions, 175. 

 Passer saturatus from Japan, 171. 

 Pastinacas, generic name of, 156. 

 Pearce, Richard, on alloys, 144, 161. 



sent alloys, 143. 

 Peccary, mounted, 31. 



skins from Cozumel, 79. 

 Penaeidae, genera of, defined, 170. 



new species of, described, 170. 

 of TJ. S. Fish Commission, 170. 

 Pennsylvania antiquities obtained, 71. 



Geological Survey publications, 15. 

 ore collections, 146. 

 Pensacola fishes, new species of, 158. 



obtained, 96. 

 Pentacrinus from off Havana, 48. 



ground off Havana examined, 123. 

 miilleri 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, O. H. F., paper by, 22. 



C W., correspondence with, 114. 

 Peucaea aestivalis discussed, 155. 



mexicana new to United States, 162. 

 Phasianidao, 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. 



Phocfena communis obtained, 80. 

 dalli described, 172. 

 lineata obtained, 80. 

 Phosphatic rock obtained, 146. 

 Photoengraving illustrated at New Orleans, 36. 

 Photographer, w>rk of, 34. 

 Photographic enlargements, 34. 

 negatives made, 34. 

 prints made, 34. 

 Photography by electric light, 29. 



pupils in, 34. 

 Phyllacanthus gigantea sent out for study, 123. 

 Phyllotreta albionica, Hi4. 

 vittata, 164. 

 zimraernianni, 164. 

 Phylloxera, notes on, 167. 

 Physical apparatus transferred, 38. 

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

 Pickford and Winkfield sent apatite, 54, 143. 

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

 Pioris napi from Alaska, 113. 

 Pima Indian ethnologica, 65. 

 Pisciculture, Goode on, 157. 

 Pityophthorus consimilis on sumac, 26. 

 Plagiodeia BClipta, notes on, 166. 

 Plant-bug, tarnished, 1G5. 

 louse, cabbage, 165. 

 riants added to flora of Washington, 173. 

 card catalogue of, 135. 

 Cenozoic fossil, 136. 

 collected by A. L. Schott, 136. 

 department of fossil, 136. 



and recent, 9, 50. 

 recent, organized, 135. 

 determined for A. It. 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. 



TJ. 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 ? pernetusta obtained, 130. 



tabulata obtained, 129. 

 Podiceps auritus skeleton obtained, 102. 

 Point Barrow birds, notes on, 160. 



new invertebrates from, 160. 

 Polar mollusk 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. 



fishery off Cape Hattoras, 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, American prehistoric, 8, 40. 

 distributed, 17. 

 exhibited, 27. 



