P Paoli, Pascal, 70 _et seq._ Parr, Dr Samuel, 113, 144. Phlogisticated Air (Nitrogen), Priestley’s theory of its constitution, 220. Phlogiston, 98, 100, 162, 214, 222. Pneumatic Trough, the, 176. Price, Dr Richard, 61. Pringle, Sir John, address on award of Copley Medal to Priestley, 80. Priestley, Jonas, father of Joseph Priestley, 2. Priestley, Joseph, his birth, 1; ancestry, 2; education, 8; becomes an Arminian, 14; goes to Daventry, 17; his studies there, 18; begins his _Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion_, 20, 68; his “thorn in the flesh,” 21; goes to Needham, 22; his privations there, 23; goes to Nantwich, 30; starts a school, 31; removes to Warrington, 32; marries, 47; is ordained, 49; his _English Grammar_, 32, 51; _Essay on Education_, 53; _Lectures on History and General Policy_, 55; his _Chart of Biography_, 60; is made Doctor of Laws of Edinburgh, 60; publishes his _History and Present State of Electricity_, 64; goes to Leeds, 66; becomes a Unitarian, 69; _Theory and Practice of Perspective_, 72; _History of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light and Colours_, 73; his literary characteristics, 74; his invention of soda-water, 77 _et seq._; is awarded the Copley Medal, 80; becomes librarian to Lord Shelburne, 82; visits the continent, 84; his _Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit_, 86; _Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air_, 77, 103; leaves Lord Shelburne, 88; removes to Birmingham, 93; his merits as a preacher, 105; his _History of the Corruptions of Christianity_, 106; his merits as a theologian, 109; his love of literature, 111; his physical characteristics, 114; his habits of life, 114; his mental characteristics, 117; destruction of his house at Birmingham, 120 _et seq._; his address to the inhabitants of Birmingham, 134; his account of the riots, 143; succeeds Dr Price as minister at Hackney, 146; withdraws from the Royal Society, 147; determines to leave the country, 149; his arrival in New York, 155; settles in Northumberland, 155; death of Mrs Priestley, 158; his last days, 162; his _Doctrine of Phlogiston Established_, 162; his death, 164. Priestley, Timothy, 2, 7. R Respiration, and the use of the Blood, Priestley’s paper on, 203. Robinson, Henry Crabb, his account of Mrs Barbauld, 46. Russell, Martha, her account of the Birmingham Riots of 1791, 128. Russell, William, 105, 126, 149.