SECTION IV. — BIOGRAPHY. 233

Pfingsten, Johann Hermann. [Cont'd.]
For fuller title and details, see the same, in Section V. The volumes contain biographies and portraits of Walch, Gesner, Briickmann and Hundert- mark.
Phipson, Thomas Lamb.
BouvERiE, C. J. The Scientific and Literary Works of Thomas Lamb Phipson, with a short biographical notice. London, 1884. pp. 32, 8vo.
PiESSE, George William Septimus.
Obituary. J. Chem. Soc, London, xliii, 255 (1883).
PiRiA, Raffaele.
Obituary. J. Chem. Soc, London, xix, 512 (1866). * Cannizzaro, Stanislao. Discorso sulla vita e sulle opere di Raffaele Piria il giorno 14 marzo 1883, nella regia university di Torino inaugurandosi un busto del Piria. Torino, 1883. pp. 88, 8vo. With portrait (photograph) and facsimile of a letter.
Dumas, J. B. Necrologie de R. P. Bull. soc. chim., vol. 4, p. 182
(1865). Matteucci, Ch. Necrologie de R. P. Bull. soc. chim., vol. 4, p. 184
(1865).
Planche, Louis Antoine.
BouDET, F. Eloge de Louis Antoine Planche, pharmacien ; membre de I'Academie royale de medecine, etc. Paris, 1841. 8vo. [Ne en 1776, mort le 7 mai, 1840.]
Planche, Louis Antoine. Ne'crologie de, see Girardin, Jean.
Playfair, Sir Lyon.
Life and portrait. Pop. Sci. Mon., xxviii, 117, Nov., 1885.
Plunkett, William.
Obituary. J. Chem. Soc, London, xlv, 618 (1884).
Poggendorff, J. C.
Obituary. Am. J. Sci. [3], xiii, 246 (1877).
PoissoN, Simeon Denis. Life of, see Arago, Fran9ois.
PoRRETT, Robert.
Obituary. J. Chem. Soc, London, xxii, vii (1869).
Pott, Johann Heinrich.
Pott, Robert. J. H. P., ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Zeitalters der Phlogistontheorie. Jena, 1876. pp. 23, 4to.
234 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHEMISTRY.
Potts, Lawrence Holker.
Obituary. Q.J. Chem. Soc, London, iv, 346 (1852).
PouLTiER d'Elmotte. Vie de J. B. Van Helmont. See Helmont, J. B. van. Prausnitz, G. See Richter, Victor von.
Prentice, Edward Henry.
Obituary. J. Chem. Soc, London, xxv, 352 (1872).
Prescott, Albert B. Life of H. B. Parsons, see Parsons, H. B.
Prescott, Albert Benjamin.
Benjamin, Marcus. Biographical sketch of A. B. P. Scientific Am.,^
vol. Lxv, p. 119, Aug. 22, 1 89 1. Index to the American and European Publications of Original Articles oni Chemistry and Pharmacy, and works on Analytical Chemistry by A. B. P. n. t. p. [Ann Arbor] [1880] 8vo.
This bibliography of Prescott embraces 46 numbers.
Priestley, Joseph.
Portrait in Neues all. J. Chem., Gehlen, vol. vi. Frontispiece. 1806. Nekrolog. Neues all. J. Chem., Gehlen, vol. 11, p. 706, 1804.
* Memoirs of Joseph Priestley to the year 1795, written by himself, with
a continuation to the time of his decease, by his son Joseph Priestley ; and observations on his writings by Thomas Cooper and the Rev. William Christie. London, 1803. 2 vols., 8vo. Portrait by Part- . ridge after Stuart.
* Bolton, Henry Carrington. Scientific Correspondence of Joseph
Priestley. Ninety-seven letters addressed to Josiah Wedgwood, Sir Joseph Banks, Capt. James Keir, James Watt, Dr. William Withering, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and others. Together with an Appendix : I. The Likenesses of Priestley in Oil, Ink, Marble, and Metal. II. The Lunar Society of Birmingham. III. Inventory of Priestley's Laboratory in 1791. Edited with copious biographi- cal, bibliographical and explanatory notes. New York, privately printed, 1892. pp. vii-240, 8vo. Portraits of Priestley and Wedg- wood. *CoRRY, John. The Life of Joseph Priestley, etc., etc., with critical observations on his works. Birmingham, 1804. pp. 112, i8mo. Portrait.
* Fonvielle, W. de. Celebration du premier centenaire de la decou-
verte de I'oxygene ler aoiit, 1774. La vie et les travaux du Docteur Priestley. Paris, 1875. 36 pp., i8mo.
A lecture delivered August 2d in the Salle des Ecoles, Paris. Contains an engraving of the Birmingham statue.