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A HISTORY OF 



Plesiosaurus P. Cramptoni, 367 



Plough, Ploughs: drain plough, 38,417 ; 

 three-coulter, 38 ; trial of, in Phoenix 

 Park, 21, 38; premium awarded for 

 improving, 58 



Ploughing, instruction in, 23, 50 



Ploughing, subsoil, premium for essay 

 on, 277 



Ploughing with oxen, premiums for, 65 



Plowman, Frederick Prussia, studied 

 under Sir Joshua Reynolds, 115 



Plunket, Catherine, premium for edg- 

 ing, 62 



Plunket, Sir Horace, 333 



Pococke, Richard (Bishop of Ossory), 

 46, 78, 112 



Pomeroy, The Rev. the Hon. John, 

 104, 381 



Pool, Robert (a former pupil), and his 

 plans of public buildings in Dublin, 

 152 



Poolbeg St. premises of the Society, 

 1781-1815, 91-6; first used as re- 

 positoryfor implements of husbandry, 



9i-3 

 Poole, T. H. , 335 

 Pope, Alexander, bust of, by Roubiliac, 



23.S 



Portlock, Capt. Joseph E., 258, 260 



Portraits and Works of Art, in Leinster 

 House, 422 et seq. 



Portuguese trade, woollen, &c. , 204 



Potato crop, inquiry into failure of, 321 



Potato crop failure (1822), efforts to 

 relieve distress, 357 



Potato cultivation, 224, 323, 359 ; in- 

 vestigation of disease, 277 ; experi- 

 ments in spraying, 323-4 ; effect of 

 meteorological conditions on disease, 

 a paper on, 361 ; on experiments in 

 propagating from seed, a paper, 362 



Potato starch, investigation of, 357 



Potatoes brought to Dublin by canal, 

 premium for, 73 



Poultry rearing, premiums for essay on, 

 252 



Poultry show, 345 



Power, Robert, premium for planting 

 trees, 73 ; premium for taking ap- 

 prentices, 193 



Powerscourt, Mervyn, Viscount, Pre- 

 sident, 287, 380, 382 



Pozzuolana, discovered at Larne, 155 

 and n. 



" Premium," Madden. See Madden, 

 Samuel 



Premium system inaugurated, 52 et 

 seq. ; the objects for premiums, 58, 

 59, 63 {and see undernames of objects) ; 



paucity of claimants in 1753, 68 ; 

 premiums offered in the year 1766, 

 68-9, 386^ seq. ; by-law as to wealthy 

 people : their claims to be recognised 

 by medals, 71 ; encouragement to 

 poor renters of land, 71-2 ; abuses 

 and deceptions, 72 ; beneficial results 

 in increasing acreage and trees, 73 ; 

 implements of husbandry instead of 

 money premiums, 93 ; decline in 

 agriculture notwithstanding, 136; 

 affected by arrears of subscriptions 

 and discontinued, 149-50; general 

 directions to candidates, 420-1 



Prendergast, J. P., 256 



President, rules as to the, 14, 290-1 



Presidents of the Royal Dublin Society, 

 list of the, 379-80 



Preston, Professor, 370, 376 



Prince Consort, Vice- Patron of the 

 Society, 277, 312 ; visits of, to the 

 Botanic Garden and Exhibitions, 

 197, 279, 280, 288 ; statue of, on 

 Leinster Lawn, 290 



Prince of Wales, 288, 311 



Printing and typemaking, premium for, 



65 



Prior, Thomas, Secretary to the Society, 

 9, 80-2, 383 ; monument to, 9, 80-1 ; 

 marble bust of, by Van Nost, 9, 

 90 ?i. z ; mentioned, 6, 12, 13, 21, 23, 

 28, 38, 43, 46, 108 



Prittie, Colonel, silver mines of, in co. 

 Tipperary, 21 



Probate Duties Grant, the, 315, 320 



Proceedings of the Society, index to, 

 178 ; General Index, 228 ; minutes 

 of Evening Scientific Meetings and 

 Sectional Evening Meetings in, 360, 

 361 



Property of the Society : resolution of 

 Select Committee as to, 260 ; views 

 of the Society, 264 ; declaration by 

 the Society as to, 266 



Prout, Professor Ebenezer, 330 



Public buildings in Dublin, premium 

 for plans of, 152 



Public Gazetteer, the, 141 



Pue's Occurrences, 11, 23, 34, 44, 59, 

 60, 62 



Pullein, Rev. Samuel, premium for 

 best written book, 66-7 



Putland, George, interest in Glasnevin, 

 191, 192 



Putland, John, Treasurer, 385 ; pre- 

 sented with gold medal, 84 



Quarries of flags, slate, and marble, 

 co. Longford, 155 



