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Paderborn, a periodical spring, with three streams of dif- 

 ferent qualities, i. 47 



Paderni, Camillo, statues and other antiq. at Herculaneum, 

 viii. 435 ; x. 328, 493, 549, 585, 679 ', xi. 79, 236' 



Pagan temple, at Cannara, description of, v. 501, . . . Stuart 



Page, Sir Thomas Hyde, description of the King's Wells at 

 Sheerness, Languard Fort, and Harwich, xv. 46 1 



Painting, rules observed by ancient masters, i. 281 



— conferences held at the Royal Acad, of Paris, for the im- 



provement of, i. 349; remarks on effect in several pieces 

 of ancient masters, 350 



— in wax, ancient method revived, xi. 4, Mazeas 



— remarks on the above discovery, xi. 6, Parsons 



— on the encaustic painting of the ancients, xi. 32S, 333, 



Colebrooke 

 Paisley, Lord, observ. of the comet 1723, at Witham, vii. 15 

 Paitoni, J B., one of the lobes of the lungs wanting, xii. 199 

 Palates, of oxen, micros, observ. on, v. 481, . . Leuwenhoek 

 Palilicius, see Aldebaran. 



Palitch, , observations of the star Algol, xv. 460 



Pallas, S. Peter, m. d., of the cold at Berlin, 1762, xi. 694s 



— of a species of jaculator fish, xii. 322 



— native iron ore of Siberia, xiv. 99 



Palmer, Joseph, effects of lightning in Devonshire, x. 223 

 Palmyra, descrip., with journey from Aleppo, iv. 33, Halifax 



— two journeys from Aleppo to, iv. 49 



— historical account of the ancient Palmyra, iv. 60, Halley 



— some particulars of the history of, iv. 122, Seller 



— the Palmyrene alphabet, x. 523, Swinton 



Palsy, Bath waters a cure for, iii. 140, Peirce 



— case of a periodical palsy, iv. 293, Musgrave 



— of a palsy in the eyelids, viii. 225, . . . . . Cantwell 



— efficacy of electricity in the cure of, xi. ld3, 262,Brydone 

 xi. 189, .. . Franklin 



— ■ xi. 372, .... Himsel 



xii. 391, Spry 



Pantheon, at Rome, alterations making at, xi. 87 

 Panton, Paul, increase of population in Anglesea, xiii. 421 

 Papa, Jos. Del, poisonous effects of Indian varnish, iv. 608 

 Paper, portraits curiously cut in, v. 51, Ellis 



— sorts used by the ancients, vii. 491, Clerk 



— made from vegetables in China, x. 388,. . . . DTncarville 



— of a natural paper found in Tuscany, xii. 598,. . Strange 



— Hindostan method of manufacturing from the sun plant, 



xiii. 506 

 Papin, Denis, biographical notice of, ii. 239, Note 



— on the origin of fountains j supplying of rivers with 



water, ii. 242 



— pneumatical experiments, ii. 239, Z$7, 271 



— description of a siphon like the Wurtemberg, iii. 112 



— new machine for raising water, iii. 193, 249, 34-*} re- 



marks on it by Dr. Vincent, iii. 239 



— on a tract on perpetual motion, iii. 240, 315, 349 



— shooting, by rarefaction of air, iii. 272 



— - velocity with which air rushes into a vacuum, iii. 334 



— improvement of the Hessian bellows, v. 226 



— mechanic arts and physic of the East Indies, xi. 50 

 Pappus, ofAlexandria, two propositions of, restored, vi. 659, 



Simson 

 Parabolic glasses, Du Son's progress in improving, i. 41 



— description of Hoesen's mirrors, xii. 589> Wolfe 



Paracelsus, biographical account of, ii. 299> Note 



Paraguay, astr. observs. at, 1706 — 1736", ix. 6l5, Sarmento 

 Parallax of the sun and moon, way of finding, ii. 447 



— of altitude, theory, for the sphere, xii. 344.. . . . Mallet 



— of the sun and moon, connect, between, xii. 500,Murdock 

 •*- on the menstrual parallax of planets, xii. 535, Smeaton 



— see Swn, Moon, Fixed Stars. 



Paraselenes, see Moon. 



Pardies, J. G., biographical account of, i. 726, Note 



— animadversions on Newton's theory of light, ibid 



— 2nd letter on the same subject, i. 738 



Pareira Brava, medicinal virtues of, vi. 198, . . . . Helvetius 

 Parhelia, of three seen at Paris at the same time, i. 73 



— two seen in Hungary, i. 349, Brown 



— cause of, i. 459, Huygens 



— seen at Marienburg, ii. 130, Hevelius 



— seen at Sudbury, Suffolk, iv. 36 1, Peto 



Canterbury, iv. 367, Gray 



— unusual parhelion and halo, iv. 486, Same 



— unusual parhelia, and circular arches, iv. 664, . . Halley 



— observations of a parhelion, Oct. 1721, vi. 531, .. Same 



— and inverted rainbow, Oct. 1721, vi. 532, .... Whiston 



— in Ireland, March 1722, vi. 582, Dobbs 



— at Kensington, March 1727, vii. 186, Whiston 



— Huntingdonshire, Dec. 1735, viii. 134, Neve 



— the same at Wittemberg, viii. 136, Weidler 



— of three seen in London, Sept. 1736, viii. 137, Folkes 



— one observed in Norfolk, July 1749, ix. 684, . . Arderon 



— an anthelion seen near Oxford, xi. 532, Swinton 



— a meteor resembling a parhelion, xii. 39, Dunn 



Paris, of an observatory building at, i. 6l6 



— comparative magnitude with London, iii. 320, 342, Petty 



— regulations of Royal Acad, of Sciences, iv. 374, Geoffroy; 



first institution of, ibid, Note 



— proceedings of Royal Acada. of Sciences, iv. 651, Blondel 



— on its size, compared with London vii. 228,. . — . . Davall 

 Parisi, Wm , Caesar, lunar eclipse 1718, at Bologna, vii. 21 

 Parker, Lord, agita. of the waters in Oxfordshire 1755, x. 65% 

 Parker, John, eruption of Vesuvius, 1751, x. 270 



Paroquet, dissection of a, iii. 650, Waller 



Parr, Thomas, account of, and dissection, i. 319, Harvey 

 Parsons, James, M. v., biograph. account of, vii. 6*92 Note 



— account of his book on hermaphrodites, viii. 477 



— account of Le Cat's " Traite des Sens," viii. 619 



— account of the sea-calf [phoca barbata] viii. 658 



— natural history of the rhinoceros, viii. 692 



— observations on several sorts of seed, ix. 80 



— description of the Indostan antelope, ix. 145 



— minute crystal stones, ix. 147 



— medicinal virtue of musk, ix. 206 



— on burying, in lime, cows dead of distemper, ix. 255 



— of Marg. Cutting, who could speak without a tongue,ix. 375 



— a shell fish lodged in a large stone, ix. 438 



— two conjoined female children, ix. 568 



— description of the frog-fish, [lophius piscatorius] ix. 658 



— of the phocas marinse, x. l6l 



— description of an hermaphrodite, x. 170 



— of the striated monkey [simia iacchus] x. 171 



— on the casting of shells of crabs, x. 254 



— formation of corals, corallines, &c, x. 282 



— Kircher's opin. of the burning-glass of Archimedes, x. 488 



— use of lycoperdon as a styptic, x. 566 



— remarks on a petrified echinus, x. 594 



— a sheep with a preternatural horn, x. 6*01 



— on a revival of painting in wax, xi. 6 



— extraordinary tumours on the head, xi. 155 



— fossils found in the Isle of Shepey, xi. l65 



— description of the felis caracal, xi. 474, and Note 

 pholas conoides, xii. 174 



— account of a white negro, xii. 190 



— of the double horn of the rhinoceros, xii. 2?6 



— observations on amphibious animals, xii. 324 



— peculiar structure of the wirid-pipe of several birds 3 and 



of the land tortoise, xii. 329 



— a particular species of chamaeleon, xii. 552 

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