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PAINTING, 96, 98 

 Papin, Denis, 324 

 Paraffin oil, manufacture of, 448 

 Parham, Lord Willoughby de, 16 

 Parliamentary reform, 185, 316 

 Peak, Derbyshire, 103 

 Peat, hydrocarbons in, 455 

 Peel, Sir Robert, 128, 294 

 Pemberton, 253 

 Pennant, 191 

 Percival, Dr., 14, 118, 125, 138, 



192 

 Percussion, force of, 254 

 Perkins, Mr., 314 

 Perrault, Claude, 155 

 Peterloo massacre, 315 

 Petit, 345 

 Petroleum, 454 

 Philips, Mr,, 316 

 Phillips, Francis, 173 

 Philosophy, 80 



— natural and moral, 186 

 Philostratus, 188 

 Phlogiston, 196, 224 

 Phonograph, 194 

 Physicians, Royal College of, 109 

 Physiognomy, history of, 188 

 Piccadilly, 128 



Pictet, M., 205 

 Planing machine, 327 

 Plants, physiology of, 139 



— power of movement in, 142 

 Platinum, melting of, 114 

 Plato, 209 



Playfair, Dr. Lyon, 124, 452 

 Plutarch, 182 

 Pneumatics, 80 

 Pole, Dr., 257 

 Pole-lathe, 326 

 Political episode, 171 

 Poncelet, 255 

 Popular Illusions, 175 

 Population in Manchester, 4, 19, 



40, 105, 115, 116, 118 

 Potato disease, 290 

 Potomac, the, 306 

 Presbyterians, 186 

 Priestley, 109, 173, 191, 196 

 Principia, 252 

 Pringle, Sir John, 109 



RUT 



Progress, doctrine of, 141 

 Prony, 247 

 Proust, 225, 226 

 Public cabinet, 169 

 Public-houses, 20, 122 

 Pythagoras, 207, 209 



RAILWAY, Livetpool and 

 Manchester, 31 

 Ransome, Mr., 292 



— Arthur, 330 



— Joseph Atkinson, 329 

 Rawson, Robert, 259 

 Ray Society, 329 

 Reciprocal proportion, 213 

 Redi, 188 



Reed-making machine, 327 

 Rees, Dr., 315 



Reform League, 316 

 Regnault, M. O., 338 

 Religio-Medici, yj 

 Rennie, John, 309 

 Revolution of 1830, 316 



— of 1848, 317 

 Rhedi, 177 

 Richter, 225 

 Riley, H. D., 181 

 Rive, Prof, de la, 283 

 Robberds, Rev. J. G., 161 

 Robert, Madame, 190 

 Roberts, Richard, 325 

 Robertson, Dr., 16 

 Robins, 250, 253 

 Robinson, Samuel, 242 

 Roget, 124 



Roscoe, William, 7, 122 



Ross, Colonel, 214 



Rothwell, Mr., 296 



Royal Institution, 3(8, 351 



Royou, Mons., 305 



Rules of the Manchester Literary 



and Philosophical Society, 367 

 Rumford, Count, 332 

 Rumsay, James, 306 

 Rupp, Dr. Theophilus 196 

 Rush, Dr., 306 

 Russell, Lord John, 276 

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