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Perry, Mr. — , of die earthquake at Sumatra 1756, xi. 192 

 Perry, improv. in the manufacture, suggested, ix. 165, Miles 

 Persepolis, unknown characters from the ruins of, iii. 543, 



Flower 

 Persia, of some diseases in, ii. 344, Tavernier 



— art of damaskeening steel in, ii. 346, Same 



Perspective, doctrine of vi. 172, Taylor 



Peru, some particulars of the mineralogy of, ii. 168 

 Pescennius Niger, his hist, deduced from medals, x. 50, Boze 

 Peters, Charles, m. d., case of hydrophobia cured, ix. 06' 

 Peters, Nicholas, Jun., a boy shot through the lungs, ix. 6j 

 Petit, Peter, some account of, i. 15, Note 



— on a conjunc. of the ocean with the Mediterranean, i. 15 

 Red Sea, ibid. 



— magnetical variations, i. 186 



Petiver, James, biographical account of, iv. 132, Note 



— catalogue of plants of Guinea, iv. 201 



— animals, plants, &c. from Maryland, iv. 324 



— on similar virtues in plants of the same class, iv. 416 



— description of some East Indian plants, iv. 527 



— animals and shells from Carolina, v. 209 



— list of fossil shells, &c. v. 259 



— manner of making the storax liquida, v. 398 



— catalogue of plants of the Chelsea garden, &c. v. 659, 



667; vi- 17, 155, l68, 198, &c. 



— catalogue of Swedish minerals, vi. 49 



Petre, Lord, extraordinary effects of lightning, viii. 583 

 Petrifaction, of wood without water, at Wendleburg, i. 38 



— remarks on petrifactions, i. 119, Beale 



— on the trunk of an elm, i. 122, Packer 



— of rock plants, ii. 351, 647, Beaumont 



— of a petrified child seen in Denmark, v. 46, Oliver 



— petrified human bones, vii. 129, Scheuczer 



— cause of, & descrip. of those at Matlock, viii. 406, Gilks 



— bones incrusted with stone, ix. 181, Folkes 



— on those usually attributed to the deluge, ix. 233, Moro 



— of the petrifactions of Lough Neagh, ix. 282, . . . Simon 

 ix. 2S8, Bp. Berkeley 



— a stratum petrified by the Matlock waters, xiii. 510 



— an induration of sand, &c. on iron, xiv. 478, King 



— see Fossils, Shells. 



Petto, Rev. Samuel, parhelia seen at Sudbury, iv. 36l 

 Petty, Sir William, biographical account of, ii. 172,. . Note 



— improvement of machines for land-carriage, iii. 62 



— enquiries on the nature of mineral waters, iii. ()9 



— experiments on the weight of various articles, iii. 113 



— comparative magnitude of London and Paris, iii. 320, 342 



— outlines for a treatise of navigation, iii. 511 

 Pewter money, coined in Ireland by King James, v. 199 

 Peyer, John Conrad, biographical account of, iii. 243 Note 

 Peyssonel, J. Andrew, m. p., natural history of coral, x. 257 



— of the brimstone-hill, at Guadaloupe, x. 700 



— of the sea-currents at the Antilles, x. 710 



— signs of the approach of hurricanes, x. 71 1 



— account of a leprosy at Guadaloupe, xi. 74 



— of a fish of the Antilles producing purple, xi. 225 



— formation of sponges by worms, xi. 227 



— description of the alga marina latifolia, xi. 241 



— on the cause of earthquakes, xi. 245 



— poisonous effects of the manchenille apple, xi. 284 



— of the American sea-sun-crown, xi. 307. 

 — - on the sea-millepes [terebella,] xi. 326 



Phalana granella, generation of the, iii. 360, Leuwenhoek 

 Pheasant, of Pennsylvania, account of, x. 450, . . . Edwards 



— description of a Chinese, xii. 202, Same 



Philippine Isles, ace. of the New, v. 442. Clain & Le Gobien 



Philips, Henry, plan for calculating tides, i. 239 



Philips, Rich., agitation of the waters near Reading, x. 651 



Philodemus, remarks on a piece of music of, found at Her- 

 culaneum, x. 685, Watsoa 



— an epigram of, x. 686, Same 



Phlogiston, on the nature of, xv. 245, Kirwan 



— of the quantity of, in nitrous air, xv. 254, Sam© 



fixed air, xv. 255, Same 



- ~ vitriolic air, xv. 260, Same 



■ sulphur, xv. 26l, Same 



1 marine acid air, xv. 262, . . Same 

 ■ 1 metals, xv. 338, Same 



— affinity of metallic calces to, ibid, Same 



— experiments on, xvi. 420, 473, 518, 604, .... Priestley 

 Phoca, account of the phoca barbata, viii. 658, 



— natural history of the genus phoca, x. l6l, 

 Phoenician inscription, remarks on, xii. 115, 



— see Coins. 

 Phcenicopterus, see Flamingo. 



Pholas conoides, description of, xii, 175, Parsons 



Phosphorus, accidental discov. of a sort of, ii. 368, Baldwin 



— of factitious shining substances, ii. 390 



— of Kunckel, account of, ii. 489, Sturm 



— experiments on the solid and liquid, ii. 505, 518, . . Slare 



— experiments with, before the r. s., ii. 0'5'1, Same 



— Boyle's discovery of, iii. 478, and Note 



— to make minerals phosphorescent, iv. 317, • • Southwell 



— experiments on the mercurial, v. 254, Hauksbee 



— exper. on the phosphorus of urine, vii. 594, . . Frobenius 



vii. 596, Hanckewitz 



Parsons 

 . . Same 

 Swinton 



— fired by electricity, ix. 107, Miles 



— an easy method of making, xii. 579, Canton 



— of the colours emitted by, xiii. 130, Beccaria 



— see Light (phosphoric). 



Photometer, description of a, xvii. 359, Rumford 



Physeter macrocephalus, account of the, i. 46 

 Physic, see Medicine. 



Physiognomy, theory of, iii. 638, Guither 



Piazzi, Rev. Jos., result of various observations of the solar 



eclipse of June 1808, xvi. 529 

 Picard, John, biographical account of, i. 326, Note 



— observation of Saturn at Paris, i. 326 



— measure of the earth's meridian, ii. 193 



Pickering, Rev. Roger, on the seeds of mushrooms, viii. 71$ 



— culture of mushrooms, ix. 31 



— plan and machines for a weather diary, ix. 34 



— on manuring land with fossil shells, ix. 82 

 Pickersgill, Rich., track of a voyage to Labrador, xiv. 475 

 Picolo, Francis Maria, account of California, v. 458 

 Pictet, Mark Aug., convenience of the observatory of Geneva 



for measuring an arc of the meridian, &c, xvii. 34 

 Pigeons, a species from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 33S, .... Foster 

 Pigott, Thomas, earthquake at Oxford, 1683, ii. 658 

 Pigott, Nathaniel, solar eclipse, 1765, at Caen, xii. 458 



— observations of the transit of Venus, 1769, xiii. 49 



— meteorological observations at Caen, xiii. 145 



— astronomical observ. in the Netherlands, xiv. 22, 401 



— discovery of some double stars, xv. 38 



— astronomical observations in Glamorgan, xv. 117 



— a meteor observed near York, August 1783, xv. 620 



— transit of Mercuvy, May 1786, at Louvain, xvi. 135 

 Pigott, Edw., a nebula in Coma Berenices, xv. 37 



— observations of the comet cf 1783, xv. 464, 621 



— a new variable star, xv. 649 



— transit of Mercury, 1 7 S6, at Louvain, xvi. 135 



— latitude and longitude of York, xvi. 145 



— observations of some luminous arches, xvi. 6*31 



— lat. and long, of places near the Severn, xvi. 709 



— variableness of two fixed stars, xviii. 1 02 

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