INDEX TO PARTS I-IV. 



259 



Pottery for New Orleans, Pueblo. 69. 

 from Chiriqui, Panama, 69. 



installed, aboriginal, 69. 

 Powell, J. W. t on lecture committee, 22. 



paper by, 22. 

 Powelton estate ore-works, pictures of, 146. 

 Pratt, Capt. It. II., borrowed cases, 18. 

 exchange- with, 18. 

 Indian clothing from, 65. 

 N. P., presented corundum, 145. 

 Preparation department, 10. 

 Preparators in anthropology, 34. 

 Priestly, Dr. Joseph, apparatus of, 39. 

 Primates mounted, 31. 

 Priouotus ophryas, type of, 97. 

 stearnsii, type of, 97. 

 Pristipoma, 98. 



PristipomatidiB from Key West, 96. 

 Proceedings of U. S. [National Museum, 151. 

 published in 1885, 18. 

 signatures of, published, 151. 

 Proctor, Professor, presented coals, 145. 

 Prodelphinus cast, 83. 



doris, dolphin identical with, 20. 

 obtained, 80. 

 Productus obtained, 129. 



semireticularis obtained, 130. 

 Progress of general and incidental worK, 15. 

 Property and supplies, 10, 30. 



clerk's duties, 30. 

 Protypus senectus obtained, 130. 

 Psaltriparus grinds, note on, 162. 

 Pseudemys rugosa, experiment on, 58. 

 Pseudogryphus californianus, remarks on, 162. 

 Pseudojulis, 98. 

 Psyllidae-, notes on. 1G3. 

 Ptarmigan, Anticosti, 155. 



shedding claws in, 171. 

 Pteromalus, on a, 26. 

 Pteropods, paleozoic. 173. 

 Ptychoparia Adaiusi obtained, 130. 

 Kingii obtained, 131. 

 Rogersi, cast of, 131. 

 Teucer obtained, 130. 

 trilineata obtained, 130. 

 Public comfort, 26. 

 Publications, 18, 151. 



department, 10. 

 of Museum, 18, 151. 

 subjects of Museum, 19. 

 Pueblo pottery at New Orleans, 41. 

 for New Orleans, 69. 

 Puffin, skeleton of tufted, 102. 

 Puget Sound gambling disks, 65. 



shells at New Orleans Exposition, 

 104. 

 Pulvinaria innumerabilis, notes on, 166. 

 Push-buttons, electrical, 28. 

 Putorius nigripes discussed, 83. 

 distributed, 84. 

 obtained, 79. 

 studied, 84. 

 Pygmy sperm-whale discussed, 83. 

 obtained, 80. 



Q. 



Queen Charlotte Islands ethnologica, 65. 



P. 



Radiates of United States, 161. 

 Ragsdale, G. H., sent mammals, 79. 



Texas reptiles, &c, 93. 

 Railroads and steamboats, 40. 

 Path, Gerhard von, paper by, 22. 

 Rathbun, M. J., assisted upon invertebrates, 121. 

 Richard, at Wood's Holl, 49. 



Brazilian bow and arrows 



from, 66. 

 curator, 8, 48, 117. 

 en "Albatross" Echini, 161. 



crustaceans, &c, 161. 

 report of, 117. 



for 1883, 161. 

 revised Echini, 119. 

 Rat obtained, Coypu, 32. 

 Rau, Charles, curator, 8, 71. 



on antiquities of 1883, 161. 



Rau, Charleji, repoxt of, 71. 



work of, 41. 

 Ray, Lieut. P. II., Alaskan ethnologica from, 64. 

 gun-rlint maker's coie from, 66. 

 obtained new invertebrates, 160. 

 Real del Monte Mining Company collection, 147. 

 Recommendations for library, 16. 

 Red Snapper banks investigated, 96. 

 grounds described, 155. 

 Reference books wanted, 16. 

 Register of visitors by months, 20. 

 Registry and storage department, 10. 

 Reindeer skulls and antlers obtained, 101. 

 Remsen, Ira, paper by, 23. 

 Report of assistant director, 151. 

 Reptiles, accessions to, 232. 

 distributed, 17. 

 report on, for 1883, 173. 

 shown by casts, 37. 

 and batrachians, additions to, 93. 

 aquatic, 172. 

 department of, 8, 44. 

 extent of .collections 



of, 94. 

 recommendations from 



curator of, 94. 

 report on, 93. 

 researches on, 94. 

 routine work on, 93. 

 Research, increase of original, 19. 

 Rhachianoctes skull obtained, 101. 

 Rhagium lineatuin, habits of, 26. 

 Rhizocrinus from off Havana, 48. 



Rawsoni obtained, 122. 

 Rhode Island Iron Foundry pictures, 146. 

 Rhynchoi«ella capax obtained, 129. 

 Rhytina gigas skeleton, 33, 45. 

 Ridgway, Robert, assisted students, 90. 

 curator, 8, 85 

 exhibit prepared by, 42. 

 on American crossbills, 162. 

 anas hyperboreus and alb*» 



tus, 162. 

 a new Contopus, 161. 

 kingtisher, 162. 

 warbler, 161. 

 auser leucopareius, 161. 

 Buteo harlani and coopeii, 

 162. 

 oxypterus, 162. 

 carpodacus hsemorrhous, 



163. 

 cathartes, 161. 

 committteof Ornithologists' 



Union, 88. 

 department of birds, 1883, 



163. 

 Icterus cucullatus, 161. 

 new birds, 162. 



boat-billed heron, 162. 

 Costa Rican birds, 161. 

 hawk, 162. 

 honey-creepers, 161. 

 sparrows, 16i. 

 ffistielata, 161. 

 Onychotes gruberi, 162. 

 Peucaea mexicana, 162. 

 Psaltriparus grindue, 162. 

 red-shouldered hawk, 161. 

 Sarcorbninpbus aequatori 



alis, 162. 

 the Califoi nian vulture, 1*2 

 name Calodromas, 162. 

 types of birds, 162. 

 report of, S5. 

 & Stejneger, new list of birds by, 89. 

 Riley, Prof. C. V., address by, 26. 



chinch-bug notes of, 167. 

 circular by. 168. 

 correspondence of, 114. 

 diagrams by, 115. 

 duties of, 47. 

 honorary curator, 8, 113. 

 miscellaneous notes of, 167. 

 note from, 167. 

 on ants and aphides, 168. 

 cabbage insects, 163. 



cut-worms, 163. 

 worms, 168. 



