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Psychical Research

SOCIETY FOR, an English society, founded in 1882, "for the purpose of making an organized attempt to investigate that large group of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritualistic." The results of its investigations are published in "Reports" and "Proceedings." There is a branch of the society in the United States.

Pteris

in botany, a genus of Polypodeæ. Sori continuous, linear, marginal; involucre scarious or membranous, confluent with the recurved margin of the frond. Known species 80, of worldwide distribution.

Pteroceras

in zoölogy, scorpion shell, or spider shell. Shell, when young, like that of Strombus; afterward the outer lip becomes prolonged into several long claws, one of them forming a posterior canal. Recent species 12, from India or China.

Pterodactyl

a remarkable genus of fossil lizards, peculiar to the Mesozoic strata. Collini, and other more eminent naturalists, referred it to the mammalia, finding its nearest ally in the bat. The careful investigations of Cuvier, however, showed that the pterodactyl was a true lizard, but possessed of the power of flight.

Ptolemaic System

the hypothesis maintained by Ptolemy in his "Almaside of the body, and the comparatively prevailed till Copernicus propounded what is now accepted as the true system of the universe. See COPERNICUS;

Ptolemy

CLAUDIUS. cient rulers, as follows:

Ptosis

in pathology, a falling; as cle which should keep the upper eyelid from falling.

Puberty

the age at which persons from falling. or bearing children; the period marked by the functional development of the generative system in both male and female, and creation. In botany, the period at which creation. a plant first begins to bear flowers.

Pubilius Volero

the author of the Pubilian law at Rome; a law by which the power of the plebs or people was greatly increased.

Publican

in Roman antiquities, a was greatly increased. taxes consisting of tolls, tithes, harbor duties, duties for the use of pasture lands, mines, salt works, etc., in Roman collector of revenues, or farmer of the taxes consisting of tolls, tithes, harbor lands, mines, salt works, etc., in Roman toll, tribute, customs, or the like.

Publicist

a term originally applied to a writer on international law, now used to denote a writer on current politics. of literature dealing with matters of 1,500,000 pamphlets and similar pieces health.

Public Prosecutor

an officer apted States his title is usually district attorney, though in some states special pointed to originate and conduct prosestate or municipal, on behalf of the pubprosecutors are assigned to minor courts.