spots on collodion pictures, 310. stereoscopic note, 282. tent for collodion purposes, 83. Talbot's patents, 83. 526. 599. Townsend's wax-paper process, 598. Turner's paper, 41. Towgood's paper, 110. wax negatives, 456. waxed-paper pictures, 182. 381. 382. 429. Pickard family, 10. 87. Picts' houses, 208. * Picture queries, 198. [Greek: Pistis], unde deriv., 324. 551. * "Plain Dealer," original edition, 303. Planets, recently discovered, 36. Plantagenets, their demoniacal descent, 494. 550. * Plants and flowers, 421. Plants of the months symbolised, 37. * Plaster casts, 126. * Pliny's dentistry, 467. Plowden (Edmund), his portrait, 56. 113. * Plowden (Sir Edmund) noticed, 301. * Plumley (Mr.), dramatist, 516. Plymouth calendar, 585. Poets Laureate, notices of, 335. Pocklington (Dr. John) noticed, 247. Political predictions, 559. Polygamy, 246. 329. 409. Pope (Alex.) quoted, 469. Pope and Dennis, 223. 516. Pope and Macklin, 239. Popiana, 445. 568. Portionists at Merton College, 304. Portrait painters of the last century, 563. Postage system of the Romans, 350. 549. Postmasters at Merton College, 304. Prayer, occasional forms of, 13. Precedence, 327. 541. Precious stones, emblematical meanings of, 37. 88. 284. 408. * Prelate noticed by Gibbon, 56. Prerogative office, its exclusive constitution, 215. Pretenders, their births and deaths, 177. 230. 572. Pricket, its meaning, 434. Primers of the reign of Elizabeth, 170. "Prince Royal" launched, 464. * Prints of London before the fire, 348. * Prints, on repairing old, 104. Prior's epitaph on himself, 283. * Pronunciation of foreign names, 222. Property, right of redeeming, 601. Prophesying before death, 550. * Prospect House, Clerkenwell, 375. Prospectuses of works, 45. Prototype, its misuse, 44. PROVERBS AND PHRASES:-- All Holiday at Peckham, 35. As snug as a bug in a rug, 322. As dead as a herring, 347. Bath: "Go to Bath," 421. 577. Begging the question, 136. 284. 359. Chip in porridge, 45. Corruptio optimi est, 173. Cui bono, 76. 159. Cutting off with a shilling, 198. Deus ex machinâ, 77. Feather in your cap, 220. 378. Fig: "A fig for you!" 149. Flea in his ear, 322. Good wine needs no bush, 113. Hypocrisy the homage, &c., 127. I put a spoke in his wheel, 45. 601. Jump for joy, 466. Kick the bucket, 107. Obs and sols, 176. Paid down upon the nail, 196. 384. Service is no inheritance, 20. 41. Spoke in his wheel, 45. 601. * To pass the pikes, 516. * Turk: "A regular Turk," 451. Proverbs, unregistered, 392. 527. * Proxies for absent sponsors, 324. Psalm cxxvii. 2., its translation, 107. Psalm, the great alphabetic, 121. 376. 473. Psalms for the chief musician, 242. 457. * Psychology, when first used, 271. Publican's invitation, 448. Publishers, a hint to, 146.