Ovum, shows the process of development in all its stages, 43, 44.
Owen, Orville, a paradoxer, 370, 403.
Oxenstjern, cynical remark of, 349.
Paine, Thomas, 149.
Paley, Frederick, 353.
Paris, massacres of prisoners in, 287.
Parker, Theodore, 144, 151, 230.
Parkman, Ebenezer, 223.
Parkman, Francis, as an historian, 194-222; his birth, 223; his boyhood, 226-230; his first journey to Europe, 233-235; his life among Indians, 235-246; his ill-health, 238, 239, 246-250, 254, 256, 261; how he composed "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," 249-251; his marriage, 253; his house at Jamaica Plain, 255, 256; his garden and greenhouse, 257, 258; his eminence in horticulture, 258; his pamphlets, 263; his death, 264; greatness of his work, 264.
Parkman, Rev. Francis, 224, 225.
Parkman, Samuel, 223.
Parsons, Theophilus, 300.
Parthenogenesis, 345-348.
Passionists, a monastic order, 234.
Pasteur, Louis, 29.
Pauncefote, Sir J., 166.
Peaceful tendencies of commerce, 187, 188.
Peirce, Benjamin, 313.
Peloponnesian War, 289.
Pembroke, Earl of, 367.
Pendulum, 27.
Penn, William, 134, 138.
Pennsylvania, 137.
Perpetual motion, 417.
Perspective, historic, 195, 196.
Petersham, Mass., a religious community in, 444-452.
Phlogiston, doctrine of, 2-4.
Phokion, his estimate of popularity, 334.
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