t trip to Europe, 271; meets Thomas
Hughes, 272; John Stuart Mill, 272; William Ewart Gladstone, 273;
General Burnside, 273; attends banquet of Royal Society, 276; visit
to Lord Lister, 278; meets Prof. Cayley, 280; Prof. J. C. Adams
calls, 281; determination of Gibraltar longitude, 284; visits
Greenwich, 285; friendship with Sir George Airy, 285-289; visits
Edinburgh, 292; meets Prof. Blackie, 294; joins party of English
astronomers bound for Algeria, 295; stormy voyage, 296; at
Gibraltar, 297; Sir James Anderson, an old acquaintance, 300;
Mediterranean trip, 302-305; Wilhelm Foerster, a Berlin
acquaintance, 306; meets great astronomer Auwers, 306; visits
Pulkova Observatory, 309; winter ride in Russia, 310; first meeting
with Hansen, 315; arrives in Paris during German evacuation, 319;
visits Paris Observatory, 321; meets Leverrier, 330; Washington
during Civil War and after, 334-371; two days military service, 339;
assassination of Lincoln, 344; attends trial of conspirators, 345;
acquaintance with Sumner, 349; with President Garfield, 353; asked
to device means for cooling his sick chamber, 357; suggestions for
location of bullet, 358; experience with eccentric theorists,
381-389; assists in obtaining entrance of American students to
French universities, 396; object lesson in regard to education in
mountain regions of South, 397; studies in economics, 399; publishes
"Critical Examination of our Financial Policy during the Southern
Rebellion," 402; contribution to "North American Review," 402;
conference with Prof. Daniel C. Gilman, 403; contributions to
economic literature: "A Plain Man's Talk on the Labor Question,"
"Principles of Political Economy," 408; "Psychical Research,"
410-412.
Nixon, Thomas, 37, 41.

Occultism, 93.
Old Peake, janitor of the Smithsonian, 58.
Oldright, Mr., 53.
Oliver, James E., 72.
Ommaney, Sir Erastus, 295.

Paine, Thomas, 3.
Paradoxers, experience with, 382.
Paris Conference, conclusions of, 230; attacked by Prof. Boss and
S. C. Chandler, 230.
Paris Observatory, 321, 332.
Parkin, George R., 39.
Patent claim, a curious, 361.
Patterson, J. W., 352.
Peirce, Benjamin professor of mathematics, 75; personality, 77, 78;
chairman of committee on methods of observing transit of Venus,
161; director of solar eclipse expedition, 274; presence in England
valuable to British astronomers, 277.
Peters, C. H. F., heads Transit of Ve