THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 451 



Parker, — ,uses Fuller's earth in woollen 



manufacture, 154 

 Parliament Act regulating wages of 



silk weavers, 200 

 Parliament House, the Society meets 



in the, 6, 12, 88, 90 

 Parliamentary grants in aid of the 



Dublin Society, 86, 87, 144, 187, 209 



etseq., 218, 240, 258, 260; House of 



Commons select committee, 258 et 



seq. 

 Parnell, Sir John, aids in spinning 



worsted, 207 

 Parnell (the poet), resided at Glasnevin, 



188 

 Parr, [Saml.], cited, 142 

 Parsnips, premiums for, 387, 400 

 Parsons, Sir William, his " terrier " for 



pulling up small trees, 32 

 Parvisol, Mr., premium for hats, 63 

 Pasleyjoshua, executor of T. Pleasants' 



will, 237 

 Pasture, premium for essay on laying 



down ground for, 253 

 Paterson, John, premium for a table 



decoration, 65 

 Pattern drawing, premiums for, 415 

 Patton, John, Society's librarian, 178, 



179, 285 

 Paulet, John, premium for tapestry, 65 

 Paulet, Richard, premiums for tapestry, 



66, 67 

 Payne (of Pall Mall), 173 

 Peacock, Joseph, 96 

 Peall, Thomas, lecturer in the veterinary 



establishment, 160, 338, 339 

 Pearce, Sir Edward, 28 

 Pearl barley, premiums for, 414 

 Peat, 359 ; paper on, 367 

 Peat, premium for essay on converting 



it into fuel, 253 

 Peat and peat charcoal, 362 

 Peat bogs — scientific examination of 



bog butter, 358 

 Peers, Edward and Nicholas (brewers, 



of Lisburn), premium, 72 

 Pelham, Mr. Secretary, 224 

 Pembroke, Earl of, 231, 311, 313 

 Pendarves, Mrs. See Delany, Mrs. 

 Penrose, William, premium for glass 



manufacture, 74 

 Percival, Dr. John, 339 

 PercivaJ, Dr. Robert, 155, 187 

 Percy, — , former pupil, executes pre- 

 sentation plate, 130 

 Pergolesi, Michael Angelo, Society sub- 

 scribes to his volume of Designs in 



Etruscan style, 116 

 Perpetual motion machine, 219 



Perry and M alone, premium for printing 



with letters of their own making, 65 

 Persepolis ruins, casts from, presented 



to the Society, 245-6 

 Peter, A., Account of the Magdalen 



Chapel, Dublin : its Foundress, &*c. , 



cited, 143 n. 2 

 Peters, Matthew William, sent to study 



painting in Italy, 112, 130 

 Petrie, George, 119, 122, 278 Memoir 



of, by Dr. William Stokes, 119 

 Petrie, James, 119, 122 

 Petty, Sir William, 1, 2 andn., 7, 21, 



143, 148 

 Petty, Anne (daughter), 2 n., 143 

 Pharmacopoeia Pauperum, for dispen- 

 sing medicine to the poor, erected 



by the Society, 144 

 Philips, Ambrose, 30 

 Philosophical lectures, 160-1 

 Philosophical Magazine, 255, 368 

 Philosophical Society's rooms (Trinity 



College), meetings in, 6, 88, 90 

 Photographic work, laboratory for, 328 

 Physico-Historical Society (1744-1752), 



45-6, 53 ; minute book of, preserved, 



45 ; histories of counties projected by, 



46 

 Pilkington, Rev. Matthew, 13 

 Pim, Thomas, jun., 319, 321 

 Place, Francis, premium for engine for 



beetling linen cloth, 59 

 Place, Thomas, premium for a stallion, 



63 

 Planchard, Nicholas, premium for 



black cloth, 68 

 Planting trees and sallows, premiums 



for, 58, 59, 61, 63, 65, 68, 73, 74, 



403 et seq. 

 Plants in enclosures, 74 

 Plants, newly discovered in Ireland, 



paper on, 363 

 Plate glass, premiums for, 74 

 Plate, presentation, executed by former 



pupils of drawing schools, 130 

 Pleasants asylum for orphan girls, the, 



2 37 



Pleasants, Thomas, 236, 237 ; bequest 

 of pictures and prints, 127, 193, 239 ; 

 conditions of bequest, 237; presen- 

 tation of books and other gifts to 

 Society, 177-8, 237 ; presentation for 

 the Botanic Garden, 193; munificent 

 provision of a tenter house;by, 178, 206 

 and n. ; contributes to erection of 

 a hospital, 178; reprints Madden's 

 Reflections and Resolutions , 52, 237 ; 

 will of, 236, 237 ; portrait of, 237. 



Pleasants, William, 237 



