GENERAL INDEX TO THE POPULAR EDUCATOR. 



Petunia, The, ii. 121 

 Pewter, iii. 240 

 Phalanges, The, v. 127 

 Phallus caninus, v. 239 

 Phanerogamic dicotyledons, gym- 



osperms, monocotyledons, iv. 



113 



Phenakistiscope, The, vi. 248 

 PhilacLelphaceae, or Syringus, iii. 



135 



Philadelphus coronarius, iii. 135 

 Philips, Ambrose, vi. 374 

 Phillips, John, vi. 192 

 Phillipsite, vi. 333 

 Phoenicia, vi. 46, 47, 79 

 Pholas Family, The, iv. 271 

 Phonetic Printing, ii. 70 

 Phosphates, vi. 399 



Calcium, iii. 130 



Phosphorus, iii. 79 

 Photodrome, The, vi. 233 

 Photometry, iv. 215217 

 Photophone, 1 Graham Bell's, vi. 



347 



Photoscope, The, v. 376 

 Phraseography, ii. 58 

 Phrases (English), Adverbial, vi. 

 . 60 

 Phrases (French), Idiomatic, ii. 



10, 74, 75, 106 ; vi. 166, 167 

 Phrases (German), Idiomatic, iii. 



90, 138, 139, 178, 179, 226, 227, 



278, 326, 327, 378, 379 ; iv. 1214, 



78 ; vi. 371, 372 

 Phryganea, vi. 81 

 Physiology, Animal, Lessons in, 



j. 33, 65, 97, 129, 161, 204, 225, 



257, 289, 321, 353, 385 

 Human, v. 63, 126, 190, 254, 



305, 369 ; vi. 60, 125, 180, 244, 



334 



Phyllodium, i. 184 

 Picrotoxine, ii. 324 

 Pilaster, The, ii. 319 

 Pile, Dry, v. 104 



Thermo-Electric, v. 321 



Voltaic, v. 104 



" Pilgrim's Progress," The, ii. 



199 



Pilot, vi. 221 

 Pine, The Nut, vi. 354 



The Stone, vi. 353 



Pinna, The, i. 130 

 Pipes, Musical, vi. 376 

 Pisa, Commerce of, vi. 300 

 Pistacia lentiscus, iii. 191 

 Pistacite, vi. 364 

 Pistils, i. 241 



Pistol, Electric, The, v. 16 

 Pitcairn Island, v. 38 

 Pitch-blende, iii. 284 

 Pitch of the Voice, iii. 398 



Burgundy, vi. 266 

 Pitchstone, iv. 178 

 Pizarro, Career of, i. 102 

 Plan, Ground, i. 72 



of an Object, ii. 161 



Plane, Inclined, iv. 10 



Picture, ii. 161 



Trigonometry, vi. 4, 75, 140, 



188, 220, 316 



Planes, Imaginary, Visible, i. 263 

 Planets, ii. 44, 45 ; iv. 281 ; v. 68 



Inferior and Superior, v. 1 



Minor, v. 193 



Plant, vi. 221 

 Plantaginacese, ii. 376 

 Plantain, The, li. 377 

 Plants, Cellular, iv. 113 

 Dioecious, i. 216 



Endogenous, i. 81 ; iv. 135 



Exogenous, i. 81 



Flowering, Linnseus's Divi- 

 sion of, i. 305 



Natural Order of, i. 347, 348 



Inorganic Constituents of, 



iv. 289 



Monoecious, i. 216 



Principle for Classification 



of, i. 2325 

 Reproductive Organs of, i. 



216 



Vascular, iv. 113 



Plates, Vibrating, vi. 329 

 Platinum, iv. 43; vi. 257 

 Plato, vi. 45 



Platypus, Duck-billed, iv. 327 

 Plautus, Readings from, v. 307, 



308 



Pleistocene Period, The, vi. 20D 

 Plesiosaurus, The, v. 393 

 Pleurobrachise, ii. 186 

 Pliocene Period, The, vi. 209 



Ploughman, Piers, Vision of, iv. 



148 



PlurnbaginaceEe, ii. 377 

 Plumbago, or Blacklead, iv. 231 



Graphita, ii. 335 



Plumatella, iii. 265 

 Pluperfect Tense (French), i. 40i 

 Pluviometers, vi. 184 

 Pneumatics, v. 266, 298, 317, 346, 



381, 399 ; vi. 36, 62 

 Poecilopoda, iii. 163 

 Poesy, Apology for, v. 45 

 Poetry in Elizabethan Age, iv. 



351 



Poets, Metaphysical, The, vi. 28 

 Point, Distance, Station, Vanish- 

 ing, i. 72 ; ii. 161 



Definition of a, i. 29 



Effects of a, iv. 369 



Pointers, The, iv. 280 

 Points, Dead, vi. 386 



Solstitial, ii. 165 



Polar Distance of a Star, iv. 492 

 Pole-Star, The, iv. 280 

 Polemoniacese, ii. 344 

 Polemoscope, The, v. 56 

 Poles, The Earth's, ii. 5 

 Policy, Open, vi. 186 

 Poling, iii. 321 

 Political Economy, Lessons in, 



vi. 216, 276, 308, 324, 356, 394, 



409 



Pollen, i. 241 



Polo, Marco, Travels of, i. 100 

 Polybius, as a Geographer, i. 75 

 Polygon, The, i. 53 ; ii. 124 



Centre of Gravity of, iii. 201 



Twisted, iii. 95 



Polygonaceae, iii. 377 



Polygons, Regular, Problems on, 



ii. 149, 191, 211--213 

 Polynesia, v. 36 



Polyzoa (Bryozoa), iii. 263266 

 Pomes, i. 280 

 Poor Rate, The, vi. 411 

 Pope, Alexander, vi. 355, 372 

 Temporal Power of the, iii. 



261 



Porcelain, iii. 147 

 Porphyry, Felstone, Trachytic, 



iv. 177, 178 

 Port, Free, v. 405 

 Porte-crayon, The, v. 343 

 Portland Stone and Sand, vi. 25 

 Portraits, Distorted, v. 120, 121 

 Possessives (French), i. 78 

 (German), Absolute, i. 103, 



179 



Possum, iv. 322 

 Post, To, vi. 221 

 - Date, vi. 221 



Obit Bond, yi. 221 



Post Office, Salaries and Examina- 

 tion for Clerkships in, iv. 230 

 Post-Tertiary or Recent Period, 



vi. 305, 306 



Posting-Book, General, ii. 348 

 Pot-hook, The, i. 21 

 Potash, iii. 108 

 Nitrate of, or Saltpetre, vi. 



399 



Prussiate of, ii. 399 



Potassium, iii. 108 



Ferrocyanide of, ii. 399 



Potato, The, ii. 120; iv. 184 

 Powers, Algebraic, Rules for 



Treatment of, v. 28, 60 

 Nature of Logarithmic, vi. 



43. 



Practice (in Arithmetic), ii. 198 

 Pragmatic Sanction, The, v.' 66 

 Prawn, The, ii. 82 

 Prayer, Lord's, Composition of, 



i. 138 ; iv. 141, 142 

 Precis-writing, vi. 221 

 Predicate, i. 6 



(English), vi. 306 



(Greek), vi/407 



(Latin), v. 214 



Syntax of the, vi. 251, 252 



Prefixes (English), i. 195, 196, 227, 



267269, 299, 300, 326, 327, 396 ; 



ii. 13, 14 

 and Suffixes, Words that are 



both, ii. 226 

 , Suffixes, and Stems in Greek 



Verbs, iv. 27 



(German), Separable and In- 

 separable, vi. 202, 203 

 Prehnite, vi. 333 

 Premises, Major and Minor, v. 



309 

 Premium, vi'. 221 



Prepositions (English) v. 195, 



196 ; vi. 307, 308 



(French), ii. 276 ; vi. 139 



(German), ii. 119, 155, 156, 178 



180; iii. 42 ; vi. 219, 253, 254, 



343 



(Greek), vi. 164,408 



(Italian), vi. 198, 291 



(Latin), ii. 150 ; v. 403, 404 



(Spanish), v. 58; vi. 91, 333, 



334 



Press, Hydrostatic, iv. SSS 

 Pressure, Centre of, v. 56 

 Equality of, Principle of, iv. 



388 



Gauge, Common, vi. 36 



Laws of, v. 53 



Prester John, i. 140 



Preston Pans, Battle of, ii. 253 



Pretender, The Young, ii. 219, 



253 

 Price Current, vi. 221 



Genitive of (Latin), vi. 23 



Prickly Pear, The, iii. 137 

 Primage, or Hat-money, vi. 221 ' 

 Prime Cost, vi. 221 

 Primrose, The, ii. 401 

 Primulacese, ii. 401 

 Principal, vi. 221 

 Prior, Matthew, vi, 374 

 Prism, The, iv. 344 



Reflecting, v. 312314 



Private Halls, iii. 231 



Privateer, vi. 222 



" Privilege," The Commons' Cry. 



i. 409411 

 Privy Council Office, Salaries and 



Examinations for Clerkships 



in, iv. 112 

 Pro Forma, vi. 238 

 Pro Rata, vi. 239 



Problems and Theorems, Differ- 

 ence between, iv. 47 

 Proceeds, yi. 222 

 Proctor, yi. 222 

 Procuration, vi. 238 

 Produce, vi. 238 

 Foreign, v. 49, 50, 81, 113 



Raw, iv. 145 



Product, i. 54 



Proasepe, or The Beehive, vi. 239 



Profit and Loss, ii. 362 



Profits and Interests, vi. 324 



327 

 Projectiles, Movements of, iv. 



188 



Projection, Isometric, Ortho- 

 graphic, ii. 295 

 - Problems in, il. 297 

 Promissory Note, Form of a, i. 



240 



French and English, v. 384 



Prompt, vi. 239 

 Prongbuck, The, iv. 60 

 Pronouns (English), v. 138140, 



194, 195 

 French, i. 43, 58, 78, 182, 183, 



206, 215, 235 ; ii. 297, 298, 364 ; 



iv. 116, 132, 165, 166, 167, 218; 



v. 406, 407; vi. 18, 19, 20, 38, 



39,74 

 (German), i. 61, 119, 150, 163, 



179, 180; v. 187, 234, 235, 285, 



286 ; vi. 317 

 (Greek), iii. 254, 255, 294 ; vi. 



383 



(Italian), vi. 235, 261, 262 



(Latin), ii. 19, 54, 83, 84 



r- (Spanish), v. 98, 99, 134, 162, 



163, 202, 203 ; vi. 186, 187 

 Proper Names (French), iv. 21 

 Property, A (Logical), v. 130 

 Proportion, Algebraical, vi. 94 

 and Progression (Arithme- 

 tical), vi. 115117 

 (Geometrical), vi. 155, 156, 



203205 



Continued, vi. 246, 247 



Proposition, Subject of a, vi. 250 

 Propositions (English), i. 3436, 



74, 75, 98, 99 



(Logical), v. 189, 190 



Protest, Ship's, vi. 239 

 Protogine, iv. 178 

 Protozoa, ii. 83, 114 

 Protractor, i. 113 ; v. 334 

 Proxy, vi. 239 

 Prussia, Rise of, v. 65, 66 

 Prussian Quarter, The, vi. 390 

 Prussiate of Potash, ii. 399 

 Prynne, Punishment of, i. 351 

 Psilomelane, vi. 259 

 Pteropoda, iv. 39, 40 



Ptolemy, i. 77 ; iv. 18 



Puccinise, vi. 33 



Puddling, iii. 239 



Puff Ball, The, v. 162 



Pulleys, Compound, iii. 365, 396 



Three Systems of, iii. 372. 



Pulvis Fulmmans, iii. 109 



Pumice, iv. 177 



Pumps, Different Kinds of, v. 



218220, 382 

 Punctuation (English),!. 30-32, 



122, 123, 154-156, 190 



(Spanish), v. 6 



Punjaub, The, iii. 175, 214 

 Pupa State, ii. 310 

 Purbcck Beds, The, vi. 26 

 Puritans, The, ii. 214 

 Purple Island, The, iv. 352 

 Pym, John, i. 350 -352 

 Pyramids, Early, ii. 15, 16 

 Pyre, ii. 374 



Pyrites, Copper, iii. 322 ; vi. 400 

 Iron, iii. 178 ; iv. 257 ; vi. 400 

 Pyrolusite, vi. 259, 332 

 Pyromancy, ii. 374 

 Pyrotechnics, ii. 374 

 Pyroxene, vi. 332 

 Pyroxyline, iv. 242 

 Pythagoras, i. 29 

 Pytheas, Voyages of, i. 41 

 Pyxis; The, i. 281 



Q, Sound of, in French, i., 42 



To Form the Letter, i., 196 



Quadrature, iii. 193 

 Qualification (Latin), vi. 281 

 Qualities, Transmission of, vi. 1, 2 

 Quantities.Positive and Negative, 



iii. 61 



Quantity, Reciprocal of a, iii. 61 

 Quarantine, vi. 239 

 Quarles, Francis, vi. 28 

 Quarto, i. 396 



Quartz, iii. 386 ; iv. 178 ; vi. 258 

 Qnartzite, or Quartz Rock, iv. 



231 



Quass, vi. 353 

 Que, Use of, in French, i. 116; 



215 ; iv. 166 



Quicksilver, Native, vi. 257 

 Quid pro Quo, vi. 239 

 Quill- wort, The, iv. 304 

 Quinia, or Quinine, v. 109 

 Quire, A, i. 396 



Quoique, quoi, qui, i. 215 ; iv. 166 

 Quommus, Construction of, iii. 367 

 Quotation Mark, The, i. 218 

 Quotations, vi. 239 

 Quotient, i. 69 



R 



R, Sound of, in French, i. 42 



Raceme, The, i. 218 



Rack Punch, v. 32 



Radiata, ii. 81 



Radiation, vi. 137 



Radical Quantities, v. 155157, 

 206, 207, 278, 279 



Radius, The, ii. 28 



Raffael, ii. 292 



Rafflesia Amoldi, The, i. 185 ; iv. 

 16 



Rafflesiaceee, iv. 16 



Raikes, Robert, v. 221 



Railways, Electrical, vi. 153, 154 



Rain, iii. Ill 



Rainbow, The, vi. 281 



Rainprints, iii. 112 



Raisins, iii. 88 ; v. 49 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, i. 277279; 

 v. 46 



Ranunculacese, i. 347 



Rat and Mouse, The, iii. 127 



Ratan, or Calamus, The, v. 217 



Ratio (Algebraical), vi. 92, 93 

 and Proportion, i. 342, 343 



Ratios, Trigonometrical, vi. 5, 6, 

 75 



Rattoons, v. 216 



Raw Produce and Industry, Re- 

 lation between, iv. 321 



Rays, Medullary, i. 81 



Visual, ii. 161 



" Readers, To our," vi. 412 



Reading and Elocution, i. 30, 51, 

 82, 122, 154, 190, 218, 242, 286, 

 303, 338, 378, 406 ; ii. 29, 50, 91, 

 126, 147, 186, 214, 250, 278, 303, 

 346, 378 



