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Po, river, Italy, xix. 251; xm. 435;

Swiss basin of, xxn. 776. POACE^E, group of grasses, xi. 58. POACHING, Legislation on, x. 62. POAYA, or Ipecacuanha, drug, xm.

210. POCAHONTAS, Indian princess, XXII.

175-

POCHARD, or Pockard, bird, xix. 252. POCKET-HOLES, in media3val dress, vi.

468. POCKNELL, E., his system of shorthand,

xxi. 840. POCOCK, Edward, English Orientalist,

xix. 252. POCOCKE, Richard, bishop of Ossory,

Eastern traveller, xix. 253. POCOMOKE, river, Maryland, U.S.A.,

xv. 603. POCONCHIS, people, Central America,

xxiv. 760.

POD, form of fruit, IV. 151. PODAGRA, disease, xvm. 388. PODARGUS, genus of birds, X. 712. PODAXONIA, or Polyzoa (q.v. xix. 430;

in Lankester s classification, xxiv.

813-

PODESTA, Italian civic ruler, xm. 474.

PODGORITZA, town, Montenegro, xvi. 78!.

PODICA, genus of birds, XX. 223.

PODICEPS, genus of birds, xi. 79.

PODIEBRAD, George of, king of Bo hemia, xix. 253.

PODIUM SANCM: MARINE (Le Puy), ancient town, France, XX. 119.

PODOLIA, government, Russia, xix. 253.

PODOLIAN CATTLE, xm. 451.

PODOLSK, town, Russia, xix. 254.

PODOPHTHALMIA, group of Crustacea, vi. 655.

PODOPHYLLIN, drug, XIX. 255.

POE, Edgar Allan, American writer, xix. 255; I. 725, 732.

PCECILOPHIS, genus of snakes, xxn. 196.

POERIO, Carlo, Italian statesman, xix. 256.

POETICS, of Aristotle, n. 519.

POETILIAN LAW, Roman, XX. 68 1, 694.

POETRY, xix. 256; as a fine art, ix. 207; of troubadours, xix. 873; Aris totle s work on, II. 519; Wordsworth s theory of, XXIV. 670.

POETS, Lives of the, Johnson s work, xm. 728.

POGANOVKA, town, Russia, xvn. 504.

POGGENDORFF, Johann Christian, Ger man physicist, xix. 273.

POGGlO(Gian Francesco Poggio Braccio- lini), Italian humanist, xix. 274; I. 784; his Latinity, xiv. 342. GAJELLA, Italy, Cemetery at, v. 216.

POGODINE, Michael Petrovitch, Russian historian, xxi. 108.

POGROMNA, spa, Eastern Siberia, xxin.

510.

POGY, fish, XIX. 275; XVI. 10. POINSETTIA, stove plant, xn. 266. POINSOT, Louis, French mathematician,

xix. 275; his rolling ellipsoid, xv.

737- POINT, Kinematics of a, xv. 679.

DE GALLE, town, Ceylon, x. 40.

POINTE A PITRE, town, Guadeloupe,

West Indies, XI. 230. POINTED ARCHITECTURE, n. 422;

churches in, IV. 448. POINTE DES GALETS, harbour, Reunion,

xx. 493.

POINTER, dog, vn. 330. POINTING, of walls, in building, iv.

464.

POINT-LACE, xiv. 185. POINTS, Railway, xx. 237. PoiRET, Pierre, mystic, xvn. 135. POISCHWITZ, Prussia, Armistice of

(1813), xvn. 219.

POISONED ARROWS, xxii. 608; of Bush men, iv. 575.

POISONED WOUNDS, xxii. 68 1. POISONOUS FOOD, xv. 781. POISON RINGS, xx. 561. POISONS, xix. 275; diseases from, xvm.

406; narcotic, treatment of, xvn. 231;

ordeal by, xvn. 819; for arrows, xxii.

608; of snakes, xxii. 191. PoiSSON, Jeanne Antoinette, Madame

de Pompadour, xix. 443; ix. 586. -, Simeon Denis, French mathema

tician, xix. 279; his application of analysis to electricity, vm. 9; on the equilibrium of fluids, V. 58; on light, xxiv. 429; on magnetism, xv. 228, 241, 249.

POITEVIN, Alphonse, French photo grapher, xvm. 831.

POITIERS, town, France, xix. 281; population, xxiv. 222; university of, xxiii. 841; battle of (732), ix. 531; battle of (1356), vn. 686; vm. 318; ix. 546.

PoiTOU, old province, France, XIX. 282; mule-breeding in, XVII. 14.

Poix, Prince de, French noble, XVII.

523- POKER, or Pochard, bird, xix. 252.

, card game, xix. 282. POKROFF, town, Russia, xxiv. 271. POKROVSK, or Pokrovskaya Sloboda,

town, Russia, xix. 284; XXI. 243. POKROVSKAYA SLOBODA, town, Russia,

xix. 284; xxi. 243. POKROVSKY CATHEDRAL, Moscow,

Russia, xvi. 867.

POL, Wincenty, Polish writer, xix. 305. POLA, island, South Pacific, xvn. 279.

, town, Austria- Hungary, XIX. 284;

observatory at, XVII. 713; battle of

(1379), xxiv. 144. POLABES, ancient Slavonic tribe, XIV.

347-

POLABISH LANGUAGE, xxii. 154.

POLAND, country, Europe, xix. 285; treatment of, by Catherine II. of Russia, v. 233; union with Lithuania, xiv. 702; its claim to Moldavia, xxi. 18; partitions of, x. 503; xix. 297, 298; xvii. 485; xx. 11; xxi. 100,102; Reformation in, xx. 336; its relations with Sweden, xxii. 748; Arianism in, xxni. 725; coins of, xvn. 658; language, xvm. 785; xxn. 150; news papers, xvii. 430; nobility, xvn. 530; periodical literature, xvm. 543; Pres byterian Church, XIX. 697; Lelewel s History of, Xiv. 434.

, Russian, xix. 306; xxi. 69.

POLAR, in geometry, x. 399. - BEAR, in. 461.

COORDINATES, x. 414.

POLARIMETRY, in optics, XXIV. 451.

POLARIS, Arctic expedition of the, xi.

388.

POLARISCOPE, Arago s, II. 303. -, Lantern, xv. 213.

POLARITY, xix. 312; magnetic, xv. 227, 266.

POLARIZATION, of light, xiv. 610; xxiv. 445; of the aurora, in. 93; in crystals, XVI - 373! i ]1 electricity, vm. 14, 86-89,93; rotatory, xxiv. 451; action of sugar on, xxn. 623 ; Brewster s discoveries in, iv. 276; by reflexion, Malus s discovery of, xv. 345.

POLAR REGIONS, xix. 315; explorations of, x. 190; Franklin s explorations, IX. 721; animals, vn. 269, 274; flora, vn. 287, 289; whale fisheries, xxiv. 527.

POLE, of the earth, x. 198 ; of the heavens, 1 1. 764.

, in magnetism, xv. 220, 235; xvi.

163; different meanings of, xv. 241.

, Edmund de la, earl of Suffolk,

xxiv. 753.

, Reginald, cardinal, xix. 330; vm.

340; xxiv. 753.

AND POLAR, in geometry, x.

399- POLECAT, carnivorous mammal, xix.

331; xv. 440.

POLEJNA, genus of sponges, xxn. 414. POLEMARCH, Greek magistrate, n. 476. POLEMARCHUS, Athenian, brother of

Lysias, xv. 1 1 7. POLEMICS, in history of dogmatic, vn.

339-

POLEMON, on physiognomy, xix. 4. POLENTA, Italian maize porridge, xvm.

476. POLES, people, Europe, xxn. 145, 147;

xix. 309; in Russia, xxi. So. POLE STAR, Nautical observations by,

xvn. 269. POLEVOI, Nicholas, Russian historian,

XXI. 108.

, Paul, Russian writer, xxi. 108.