Engineering 1876 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

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ABBOTTS Ripton Collision, The, 120
Aberdare, Coal Raising at, 534
Aberdare and Plymouth Works, Progress of, 43
Aberdare Valley Colliers, Dispute with the, 19
Abertillery Tin Works, End of a Strike at, 117
Absorptions by the Great Western Railway Company, 71
Accident Commission, The Railway, 462
Accident at the Glass Houghton Colliery, 43
Accident, Serious, at a Grinding Wheel, Sheffield, 339
" Accidental Death," 485
Accidents, Railway, in January, February, and March, 1876, 522
Acts, The Factory, 252
African Iron and Coa1,498
Air Bags, Popoff's Experiments with, 486
Albert Bridge, across the River St. Lawrence, Progress of the, 288
Aldwarke Main Colliery, Extensions at the, 564
Algerian Minerals, 378
Algerian Railways, Progress of, 106
Allen, A. Jun., Appointment of, to the Surveyorship of St. Luke's, Middlesex, 37
Altona and Kiel Railway, A Contract for the, 390
Amalgamation of the Sheffield and North Staffordshire Railways, 20
Ambergate Junction of the Midland Railway, Platform Additions to the, 339
Ambergate Patent Railway Wheel Company, Winding up of the, 29
American Bessemer Steel Production, 188
American Bridge, Another Great, 202
American Car Building, Progress of, 288
American Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, The, 44, 82, 90, 297, 305, 376
American Civil Engineering, 43
American Coal and Iron, 106, 408, 425
American Coal Trade, Progress of the, 106, 297, 408
American Coast Navigation, 508
American Copper, Discovery of, 29
American Dock Building, 496
American Freight Cars, 43
American Iron and Steel Imports, 521
American Iron Trade, Progress of the, 59, 162, 471
American Locomotives, The Number of, 59
American Machinery for Siberia, 401
American Navy Yards, The, 149
American Ocean Steaming, 288
American Patent Office, Receipts of the, 288
American Patents, 376, 401
American Petroleum, The Exports of, 137
American Pig Iron, 137, 471
American Portland Cement, 496
American Public Buildings, 329
American Railroad Progress, 70, 496
American Rails, 496
American Rivers and Harbours, 401
American "Round House," An, 449
American Steam Canal Boats, 401
American Steam Navigation, 401
American Steam " Navvy," The, 515
American Steam Street Cars, 91
American Steamboat Boilers, The Inspection of, 360
American Telegraphy, Progress of. 43, 374,433
Americans Reviewing their Navy, The, 266
Amsterdam and Rotterdam Railway, Locomotives on the, 449
Amsterdam Ship Canal, The, 202
Anglo-French Submarine Tunnel, The, 222
Annual Reunion of the Employees of the Glasgow Corporation Gas Trust, 117
Anstruther Harbour, Recommencement of Works at, 419
Anthracite Coal, American, 425
Antipodean Telegraphy, Progress of, 425
Apparatus, The Scientific, at South Kensington Museum, 61, 459
Appeal the Freehold Coal and Iron Company, 43
Area of Hobart Town, The Capital of Tasmania, 105
Armour Plate, Rolling a Great, at the Cyclops Works, 211
Armour Plates, Great, for the Italian Government, 510
Artillery Trains, Traction Engines for, SO
Arts, Royal Scottish Society of, Meetings of the, 79, 137, 251, 297, 343, 396. 471
Arts, The Society of, 248, 371
Ashton Vale Collieries, Reduction of Wages at, 443
Asphalte Pavement, 67
Auckland, New Zealand, Proposed Graving Dock at, 162
Australia, South, Progress of, 313
Australia, South, Surveys in, 401
" Australia," Steamship, Arrival of the, at Sydney, 494
Australian Steam Navigation Company, Progress) of the, 359
Australian Steam Shipbuilding, Progress of, 551
Australian Telegraphy, Progress of, 239, 449, 486
Austrian Railways, Progress of, 182
Austrian Steel Works, Progress of, 401
Austro-Hungarian Railways, Progress of, 401
Auxiliary Steamship, Launch of, at Glasgow, 80
Avonmouth Docks, The, 179
Avonside Engine Works Co, Dividend of the, 199
Avonside Engine Works, Proposed Reduction of Wages at the, 42, 71, 99

Baie Verte Canal, Report on the, 288
Baird, James, Death of, 534
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Locomotives on the, 249
Baltimore Land Ohio Railroad, The Permanent Way on the, 288
Bank of France, Appointment of M. Gouin to the, 202
Barbadoes, Gas at, 168
Barnsley, The New Sewage Works at, 419
Barrow Steel Company's New Collieries, The, 29
Belfast Boiler Explosion, The; Errata, 210
Belgian Carriages for Her Majesty, 264
Belgian Coal Exports, 59, 162, 425, 54G
Belgian Coal Imports, 43:3
Belgian Coal Mining, Progress of, 400, 471
Belgian Coal Trade, Progress of the, 59, 137, 162, 249, 425, 433, 496, 546
Belgian Coke, The Export of, 288
Belgian Enterprise in South Africa, 425
Belgian Great Corliss Engine, The, 479
Belgian Industrials in Russia, 401
Belgian Iron Exports, 44, 162, 449
Belgian Iron Trade, Progress of the, 44, 59, 162, 222, 330, 449, 496
Belgian Locomotive Building, 157
Belgian Locomotive Tenders, 59
Belgian Rails, The Export of, 288, 388
Belgian Rails in Holland, 239
Belgian Steel, 71
Belgium and Canada, 302
Belgium, Coal in, 162
Belgium, English Coal in, 71
Belgium, Rails in, 498
Belgium, Rolling Stock in, 45
Belgium and South America, 396
Belgium, Steam Boiler Inspection in, 222
Bessemer Rails in France, 162
Bessemer Rails in the United States, 297
Bessemer Saloon Steamer, Sale of the, 443, 462
Bessemer Steel, Large Production of, at Rotherham, 247
Bessemer Steel Production, American, 188
Bessemer Steel in Russia, 251
Bessemer Steel Workers' Wages, Reduction of, at Wilson, Cammell, and Company's, Dronfield, 247
Bessemer Steel Works, The Phoenix, Sheffield, 20
Beyer, Charles, Death of, 492
Bill, The New Patent, 158, 227, 285, 468, 485
Bill, The Rivers Pollution, 508
Bill, The Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Railway, Progress of the, 297
Black Diamond. A Large, for the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 425
Blaenavon, Wages at, 29
Blake Steam Fire Engine, Trials of the, 467
Blast Furnacemens' Wages, Cleveland, Proposed Reduction of the, G7, 99, 109
Blast Furnaces, Dynamite Operations at, 99
Blast Furnaces, The Scotch, 79, 99, 136, 285, 347, 896, 443
Blast Furnaces, The Thorncliffe Iron Works, 540
Block Coal, Indiana, 207
Blowing up of Hell Gate, New York, Preparations for, 446
Board of Arbitration, The North of England and Strikes, 419
Boiler Explosion in Philadelphia, 239
Boiler Explosion, The Smethwick, 269
Boiler Explosion, A Strange, 4
Boilers, American Steamboat, The Inspection of, 360
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Company's Rail Mills, Resumption of Work at, 19, 238
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, Appointment of Mr. O. Currey as Secretary to the, 288
Boncath, Proposed Railway to, 71
Bo'ness Harbour Works, Progress of the, 211
Borough Survey of Oldham, 539
Boston, United States, Coal at, 202, 450
Bradford Corporation Water Works, The, 239
Bradford Midland Railway Station, Proposed Extension of the, 486
Bradford, Proposed Reduction in the Price of Gas at, 179
Branch Railway, Proposed, from Inverness to the Caledonian Canal, 43
Brendon Hills; Proposed Reduction of Miners' Wages at, 324
Bridge, The Albert, across the River St. Lawrence, Progress of, 288
Bridge, Another Great American, 202
Bridge, Another Great, over the River St. Lawrence, 44
Bridge, The Hammersmith Suspension, 285
Bridge, Menai Suspension, Fiftieth Anniversary of the Opening of the, 117
Bridge, New Railway, over the Clyde, 157, 401
Bridge, The Poughkeepsie, Contracts for, 162, 255
Bridge, Proposed, across the River Dee at Aberdeen, 351
Bridge, The Tay, Progress of, 99, 199, 371, 396, 491, 558
Bridges on the Madras Railway, 516
Bridges on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Models of for the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 288
Bridgewater Town Council, Meeting of the, 247
Bridgewater Water Supply, The, 199, 324
Bridging the River Danube, 471
Bridging the River Murray, 4:31
Bridging the River Schuylkill, Philadelphia, 105
Brisbane, Queensland, The Water Supply of, 162
Bristol Chamber of Commerce, Annual Meeting of the, 348
Bristol Channel, Lighthouse Arrangements in the, 239
Bristol and Exeter Railway, Progress of the, 28, 239, 247
Bristol Joint Station, The, 71
Bristol Tramways, Progress of the, 28, 90, 156, 324, 395, 443, 486
Bristol Wagon Works Co, Half-yearly Report of the, 534
Bristol Water Works Company, Annual Meeting of the, 284
Britannia Iron Co, The, Middlesbrough, Progress of, 109
Britannia Iron Works, Middlesbrough, Closing of the, 199, 211, 238, 247
British Association Meeting, 1876, 136
British Columbian Coal, 376
British Columbian Telegraphy, Progress of, 320
Brooklyn and New York, The Population of, 202
Brown, Bayley, and Dixon, Annual Report of, 199
Brown, John, and Company, Sheffield, Annual Report of, 510
Brussels, Tramway Receipts of, 449
Brynmawr Works, Proposed Stoppage of the, 79
Buckland, Quarrying at 71
Buildings, Exhibition, The Cost of, 106
Buildings in Philadelphia, Increase of, 129
Burntisland and Cowdenbeath Direct Mineral Railway, The, 251
Burntisland Dock Works, Progress of the, 99, 211, 251, 399
Burra Mine, South Australia, Progress of the, 255
Busby Water Works, near Glasgow, 443

Cable, An Australian Submarine, 239
Cable, The New Zealand, 317, 375
Caerphilly District, The, and the Sliding Scale, 199
Cail and Company, Profits of, 71
Callander and Oban Railway, Progress of the 515
Cambrian Railways; Decision of the Railway Commissioners, 239
Cammell, C., and Company, Annual Report of, 486
Canada and Belgium, 302
Canada Economising, 330
Canada Southern Railway, Proposed Extension of to Sarnia, 288
Canadian Canals, The Proposed Enlargement of, 242
Canadian Lighthouses, 59
Canadian Metallurgical Industry, 162
Canadian Pacific Railway, Progress of the, 129, 239, 359
Canadian Railway Station, New, at Hamilton, Ontario, 162
Canadian Railways, Progress of, 247
Canadian Ship Canal, A New, 471
Canadian Telegraphy, Progress of, 44
Canadian Timber; Annual Report of the Crown Lands Commissioner of Ontario, 51
Canal, The Amsterdam Ship, 202
Canal, Baie Verte, Report on the, 288
Canal, Another Great, Proposed, 29
Canal, Lachine, Tenders for Work on the, 329
Canal and Railway Company, The Monmouthshire, Progress of, 157, 179
Canal, The Suez, 117, 222, 263, 376, 401, 425, 496, 531
Canal, The Welland, Tenders for, 182
Canals, New York, Proposed Sale of, 222
Candidates for the Secretaryship of the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, 43
Canterbury Cathedral, Trials of Merryweather and Sons' Steam Fire Engine for the Protection of, 563
Capital, English, in Tennessee, 471
Capitol, An Expensive, 329
Car Building, American, Progress of, 288
Car Coupler, A Self-Acting, 264
Cardiff Coal Exports, 179
Cardiff. Dock Extension at, 395, 558
Cardiff and New York, Proposed Passenger Steamships between, 28
Cardiff, Shipping at, 42
Cardiff, Trade at, 43, 117, 515
Carmichael Statue in Dundee, Uncovering of the, 515
Carntyne Iron Works, Glasgow, The, 347
Carriage and Wagon Department, New, for the Midland Railway, at Derby, 563
Carriages, Belgian, for Her Majesty, 264
Cartridges in Turkey, The Manufacture of, 491
Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, The, 44, 82, 90, '297, 305, 376
Certified Colliery Managers' Association, Annual Meeting of the, 297
Central Pacific Railroad, Progress of the, 137
Chapeltown, near Sheffield, Water Supply for, 20, 118
Chemical Manufactory, A, Destroyed by Fire near Pontefract, 67
Chesterfield and Derbyshire Institute of Engineers, Meetings of the, 297, 510
Chicago and Alton Railroad, Rolling Stock on the, 401
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, Rolling Stock on the, 471
China, The First Railway in, 455
China, Locomotives in, 360
Chubb, Mr. H., on the Metropolitan Gas Supply 328
Civil Engineering, American, 43
Civil Engineers, The Institution of, 24, 45, 129, 160, 178, 199, 274, 285,,34'2, 371, 438, 462, 492, 558, 563
Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Annual Meeting of the, 539
Clapp's Coal-Cutting Machinery, Trial of at Newport, 219
Cleveland, Coal and Coke Trades, 19, 29, 47, 67, 99, 109, 137, 179, 211, 238, 285, 324, 340, 372, 390, 483, 539
Cleveland Engineering, Progress of, 19, 47, 99, 109, 157, 211, 238, 247, 285, 324, 340, 390, 419, 483, 539
Cleveland Finished Iron Trade, The, 19, 29, 47, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179, 199, '211, 238, 247, 285, 324, 340, 372, 390, 419, 443, 462, 483, 510 539, 558
Cleveland Institution of Engineers, Meetings of the, 67, 238, 247, 324
Cleveland Iron Market, The, 19, 47, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179, 199, 211, 238, 247, '285, 324, 340, 872, 390, 419, 443, 462, 483, 510, 539, 558
Cleveland Ironmasters' Association, Returns of the, 29, 109, 199, 285, 483
Cleveland Ironstone Miners, The, 19, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179
Cleveland Ironworkers' Wages Question, The, 19, 29, 47, 67, '285, 324, 443
Cleveland Shipbuilding, 19, 47, 99, 109, 157, 211, 247, 285, 324, 340, 390, 419, 483, 539
Cleveland Steel Rails, Experiments on, 483
Cleveland Trade, Prospects of the, 19, 47
Clifton Suspension Bridge Company, Meeting of the, 71
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, Progress of the, 179, 285
Clyde Trust, Harbour Works Extension, The, 2381
Clyde Trust, Meetings of the, 297, 483
Clyde-built Ships, Remarkable Sailing of Two, 515
Coal, American Anthracite, 42.5
Coal in Belgium, 162
Coal at Boston, United States, 202, 450
Coal, British Columbian, 376
Coal Combustion, Spontaneous, 425
Coal Congress in France, A Proposed, 418
Coal-Cutting Machine, The Gartsherrie, 179
Coal Dirt, Utilisation of, 425
Coal Exchange, The Proposed Glasgow, 117
Coal Exports, Belgian, 59, 162, 425, 546
Coal Exports from Hull in 1875, 43
Coal Exports from Maryland, 156
Coal Exports from South Wales, 43
Coal, German, in the Saarbruck Basin, 351
Coal Imports, Belgian, 433
Coal, Indian; Inspection of the Warrora Collieries by Mr. Morris, 251
Coal and Iron, African, 498
Coal and Iron, American, 106, 408, 425
Coal and Iron Exports from Cardiff, 29, 179
Coal and Iron Exports, South Wales, 297
Coal and Iron Trade of South Wales, The, 419
Coal Lading, Economy in, '284
Coal Market, The Boston, U.S.A., 450
Coal, Maryland, Decrease in the Production of, 266
Coal Mining, Belgian, Progress of, 400, 471
Coal Mining, French, 471
Coal Mining, Russian, 360
Coal, New South Wales, The Total Production of, 297
Coal, New Zealand, 496
Coal, Northern Pacific Railroad, 449
Coal, Nova Scotian, 428
Coal on the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 449
Coal, Pennsylvanian, 59, 71, 137, 160, 335, 425, 485
Coal Pits, The Nantymoel, Progress of, 117
Coal in Queensland, 388, 426
Coal Raising at Aberdare, 534
Coal in the Rhondda Valley, 156
Coal in the Rhymney Valley, 156
Coal at Sheffield, Reduction in the Price of, 98, 138, 179, 274
Coal in Spain, 491, 555
Coal Trade, The American, Progress of, 106, 297, 408
Coal Trade, The Belgian, Progress of, 59, 137,162, 249, 425, 433, 496, 546
Coal Trade, The French, Progress of, 239, 247, 479, 491
Coal Trade, The German, Progress of, '297, 429
Coal Trade, The Glasgow, Progress of, 43, 117
Coal Trade at Newcastle, New South Wales, Progress of the, 461
Coal Trade, The Pennsylvanian, Progress of, 485
Coal Trade, Somersetshire, Dispute in the, 219, 239
Coal Trade, The Welsh, Progress of, 28, 43, 71, 117, 179, 419, 462, 486, 558
Coal Traffic on the Central of New Jersey Railroad, 425
Coal Traffic by Railway to London from South Yorkshire, 138, 239, 324, 419, 540
Coal on the Union Pacific Railroad, 378
Coal in the United States, 71
Coal, Virginian, 449
Coal Wealth of Pennsylvania, 425
Coal, Welsh, for Ireland, 239
Coal in Western Kentucky, 461
Coal Winning at Maerdy Colliery, 117, 157
Coal Winning at Trimsaran, 137
Coal, Wyoming, Quantity Produced in 1875, 348
Coalfield, New, at Irvine, Scotland, 462
Coalfield, New, at Wishaw, 251
Coast Navigation, American,:508
Coke, Belgian, The Export of, 288
College, The Working Men's, 231
Collieries, New, The Barrow Steel Company's, 29
Collieries at Cwmavon, Progress of, 42
Collieries, The Glymeath, Progress of, 137
Collieries, New, in South Yorkshire, 239, 462
Collieries, North Wales, Proposed Reduction of Wages at, 157
Collieries, Powell Duffryn, Notices at the, 371
Collieries, Rhondda Valley, Notices at the, 371
Collieries, Risca, Dispute at the, 219
Collieries, J. and G. Wells', near, Sheffield, Sale of, 149
Colliers, Aberdare Valley, Dispute with the, 19
Colliers, Earl Fitzwilliam's, Reductions in the Wages of, 462, 540
Colliers' Strike at Llantwit, 43
Colliers' Wages at Ruabon, 71
Colliers' Wages, South Yorkshire, Proposed Reduction of the, 199, 211, 239, 247, 274, '297, 339, 462, 486, 510, 564
Colliers' Wages in South Wales, 19, 239
Colliery Company, The Great Western, Progress of, 71
Colliery Company, The Stanhope Silkstone, Progress of, 29
Colliery Enterprise in South Yorkshire, 43, 239
Colliery Explosion, Another, near Sheffield, 564
Colliery, The Great Western, New Shaft for, 534
Colliery, New, near Sheffield, 462
Colliery Operations in Ogmore Valley, 371
Colliery, Rhondda Mountain, Dispute at the, 219
Collision, The Abbotts !Upton, 120
Commercial Treaties, Revision of, 180
Company, The John Cockerill, Progress of, 82
Company, Limited Liability, Contemplated, at Middlesbrough, 157
Company, The South Wales Atlantic Steamship, 43
Compensation Bill, Mr. Macdonald's, Petition in favour of, 370
Completion of the Dam Flask Reservoir, Sheffield, 20
Composite Vessels, 137
Compound Cylinder Locomotives, Trial of, on a French Railway, 479
Conductors, Lightning; Lecture by Dr. R. J. Mann, at South Kensington, 495
Conference of the Miners' Union at Aberdare, 348
Conference of Somersetshire Miners and Colliery Proprietors, 297
Conference, A Telegraphic, in New South Wales, 374
Conner, Benjamin, Death of, 117
Constant Service Mains in London, 527
Constantinople Metropolitan Railway, Progress of the, 202
Constantinople, The Population of, 474
Constantinople Tramways; Resignation of the Manager, 239
Construction of Railways in Turkey, The, 106
Contract, Large, for Water Pipes at Glasgow, 79
Contracts for Glasgow, 99
Contracts with Workmen in South Wales, Notices to Terminate, 516
Co-operative Colliery, at Shirland, The Miners', Progress of, 29
Copper, American, Discovery of, 29
Copper, South Australian, 54G
Copper, Spanish; Profits of the Huelva Copper Mines Company, 401
Corliss Engine, The Great Belgian, 479
Corliss Engine, A Large, at Kirkcaldy, 238
Cornwall Minerals Railway, Progress of the, 462, 558
Courvieres Mines, The Productions of, 528
Crewe, The 2000th Locomotive finished at, 443
Crookes, Mr., on the Radiation of Light, 99
Crown, The, and Patentees, 171
Cumberland Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science, Annual Meeting of the, 371
Curiosities of the Patent Office, 19
Currey, C., Secretary to the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 288
Cwm Garw, Striking a Seam of Coal at, 179
Cwmavon Collieries, Progress of, 42
Cyfarthfa Works; Deputation to Mr. Crawshay 156, 179

Dam Flask Reservoir, Sheffield, Completion of the, '20
Danube, River, Bridging the, 471
Darien Ship Canal Question, The, 137
Davenport, Mr. S. T., Death of, 87
Day and Son's Tender for the Sewers at Cardiff, 324
" Death, Accidental," 485
Death of James Baird, 534
Death of Mr. Charles Beyer, 492
Death of Mr. Benjamin Conner, 117
Death of Mr. S. T. Davenport, 37
Death of Mr. Dabs, Locomotive Builder, 348
Death of Mr. John Kane, 238
Death of Mr. John Key, Kirkcalday, 462
Death of Mr. Henry R. Marsden, 71
Death of Mr. James Stirling, O.E., 29
Dee, River, at Aberdeen, Bridge Proposed across the, 351
Defences at Port Jackson, New South Wales, The, 471
Defences of South Australia, The, 359
Delegate Meeting of the Ironworkers' Association, 324
Depression in the Steamship Trade, Great, 508
Depth of the Sea, The, 168
Detroit, Michigan, The Population of, 288
Devon and Somerset Railway, Progress of the, 179
Devonport Dockyard, Steam Engine for Driving the Spinning Machines at, 239
Devonport, Proposed New Docks at, 247
Dewsbury Water Works Bill, The, 149
Dinner, Annual, of the Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 563
Dividend of the Avonside Engine Works Company, 199
Dixon v. the London Small Arms Company, 171
Dock Building, American, 496
Dock Extension at Cardiff, 395, 558
Dock, The New Graving, in the Tees, 179
Dock, New, at the Port of Hull, 339
Dock Works, The Burntisland, Progress of, 99, 211, 251, 399
Docks, The Avonmouth, 179
Docks Company, The Milford, Half-Yearly Meeting of the, 219
Docks at Devonport, Proposed New, 247
Docks at Lisbon, Contract for, 239
Docks, The Plymouth (treat Western, Progress of, 99
Docks, The New Swansea, 515
Double-Shift System, The, at Merthyr Vale Colliery, 297
Doubling the Erie Canal, 496
Dowlais, Additional Water Supply for, 297
Dowlais Iron Works, Progress of, 19, 2S Dowlais Meeting of Colliers at, 99
Drainage Operations at Leith, Extensive, 462 Drainage at Paisley, 29
Draining North Brisbane, 449
Draughtsmen, Engineering and Shipbuilding, Glasgow, Meetings of the, 79, 117, 179, 187, 239, 285, 348, 396, 443
Dredger for Port Adelaide, A, 431
Dredger, A Steam, for Queensland, 43, 401
Dronfield Gas Light and Coke Company, Annual Report of the, 486
Dronfield Water Supply, The, 540
Dabs, Mr., Death of, 348
Dumbarton, New Shipbuilding Firm at, 443
Dundee Graving Dock, Another Burst at the, 179
Dundee Harbour Board, Meetings of the, 443, 483
Dunedin, New Zealand, Imports and Exports at, 240
Dunfermline Sewage Works, Progress of, 29
Durham Miners, Another Reduction in the Wages) of the, 510
Dyce Cay, C.E., Harbour Engineer for Aberdeen, Arrangements of, 19
Dynamite, Experiments with, near Sheffield, 67
Dynamite, Explosions of, 274, 297, 534
Dynamite Operations at Blast Furnaces, 99

Earl Fitzwilliam's Colliers,. Reduction in the Wages of, 462, 540
Eastern Railway of France, Rolling Stock and Working Expenses on the, 471
Ebbw Vale, Deputation from the Rail Straighteners at, '285
Ebbw Vale Ironworkers, Reduction in the Wages of the, 43, 324
Ebbw Vale, Progress of Trade at, 419
Ebbw Vale Water Works, Progress of, 247
Ecclesfield, A New Railway Station for, 339
Economising in Canada, 330
Economy in Coal Lading, 284
Edinburgh and Leith Engineers' Society, Meetings of the, 79, 117, 157, 199, 297, 443
Endowment of the Engineering Chair in the University of Glasgow, '251
Egyptian Mail Route, A New, 44
Electric Lights for Railways, 106
Engine, A Largo Corliss, at Kirkcaldy, 238
Engine Works, Avonside, Proposed Reduction of Wages at the, 42, 71, 99
Engineering in Cleveland, Progress of, 19, 47, 99, 109, 157, 211, 238, '247, 285, 324, 310, 390, 419, 483, 539
Engineering Company, Hydraulic, Progress of the, 211
Engineering Projects in South Yorkshire, 199 Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, (Glasgow, Meeting of the, 79, 117, 179, 187, 239, 285, 348, 396, 443
Engineering Students' Society, Glasgow University, Meeting of the, 157
Engineering Trade at Kirkcaldy, Progress of the, 419
Engineering Trades, Glasgow, Progress of the, 211
Engineers, The Chesterfield and Derbyshire institute of, Meetings of the, 2J7, 510
Engineers, Civil and Mechanical, Annual Meeting of the, 539
Engineers, Cleveland Institution of, Meetings, 67, 238, 247, 324
Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London Association of Foremen, 107, 156, 187. 226, 350, 388
Engineers, The Institution of Civil, 24, 45, 129, 160, 178, 199, 274, 285, 342, 371, 438, 462, 492, 568, 563
Engineers and Shipbuilders, Scotland, Meetings of the Institution of,79, 117,157,199, 239, 348, 396
Engineers, The South Wales, Visit of, to the, South Yorkshire Coalfields, 564
Engines for India, Marine, from the Clyde, 157
Engines, Traction, Important to Owners of, 297
English Capital in Tennessee, 471
English Coal in Belgium, 71
English Steel in Belgium, 521
Enlargement of Canadian Canals, The Proposed, 242
Enterprise, Colliery, in South Yorkshire, 43, 239
Enterprise in South Africa, Belgian, 425
Erie Canal, Doubling the, 496
Erie Railroad Company, Locomotives for the, 479
Erimus Iron Works, Middlesbrough, The, 29
Errata, 168, 179, 210, 462, 558
Eupion Gas Company, The, 168
Europe, The Extent of Railways in, 106
Exeter Water Company, New Works of the, 534
Exhibition Buildings, The Cost of, 106
Exhibition, The Centennial International, Philadelphia, 44, 82, 90, 297, 305, 376
Expedition for Exploring Sumatra, 4
Expensive Capitol, An, zs29
Experiments with Dynamite near Sheffield, 67
Explosion, Boiler, A Strange, 4
Explosion, Another Colliery, near Sheffield, 564
Explosion of Dynamite, 274, '297, 534
Explosion of a Locomotive in Scotland, 251
Explosion, The Swaithe Main Colliery, 29, 43, 118, 138
Export of English Rails to the United States, 44
Exports of Coal from Hull in 1875, 43
Exports of Coal and Iron from Cardiff, 29, 179
Exports of Coal from South Wales, 43
Extension of the Recife and Sao Francisco Railway, 306
Extensions at Aldwarke Main Colliery, 564
Eyam Lead Mining Company, Annual Report of the, 443

Factory Acts, The, 252
Fairfield Association, Meeting of the, 79
Fall of a Railway Bridge near Sheffield, 211
Fall of a New Wagon Shed at Cowlaire, 117
Fast Sailing of Two Clyde-Built Ships, 515
" Fell" Locomotives for New Zealand, 90
Ferndale Colliery Company, Tylor's, Progress of, 117
Fiji, A Telegraph Cable for, 283
Finished Iron Trade, The Cleveland, 19, 29, 47, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179, 199, 211, 238, 247, 285, 324, 340, 372, 390, 419, 443, 462, 4S3, 510, 539, 55S
Finished Iron Trade, The Glasgow, Progress of, 443
Fire Brigade, The Metropolitan, 227
Fire, A Chemical Manufactory Destroyed by, near Pontefract, G7
Fire Engine Factory, Merryweather's; A House with a History, 449 •
Fire Engine, Steam, The Blake, Trials of, 467
Fire Engine, Steam, for Oldham, 425
Fire Engine. Steam, for Paisley, 29
Fire at the Grand Trunk Railway, 59
Fire, The Protection of Canterbury Cathedral from; Trials of Merryweather and Sons' Steam Fire Engine, 563
Fire, The Protection of Dockyards from, 154
Fire at a Sheffield Gas Works Depot, 118
Fires and the City Water Supply, 529
Fireboxes, Steel, on American Railways, 491
First Railway in China, The, 455
Fitting heavy Guns, 531
Fitzwilliam, Earl, and his Colliers, 462, 540
Flexible Steel Wire Hawser, 515
Floating Dock, The Nicolaieff, Progress of, 507
Floating Dock, A Turkish, 222
Floating Harbour, The Port Talbot, Contract for, 486
Floods in Otago, New Zealand, 71*
Floods in the River Ouse, 364
Foreign Mining, 283
Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London Association of, 107 ,156, 187, 226, 350, 388
Forest of Dean, Settlement of a Strife in the, 371, 534
Forest of Dean, Trade in the, 19, 419
Forest of Dean, Wages in the, 28, 42, 117, 374 44 .534
Formation of Natural Crystals; Lecture by Professor Daubree, at South Kensington, 494
Fortifications, Turkish, 202
Foundations, House, 67
Four-Masted Ship, A, 19
France, Bessemer Rails in, 162
France, The Production of Rails in, 239, 274, 425
France, Puddlers in the North of, 401
Frankfort, Steel in, 498
Frankfort Tramways, Progress of, 479
Fraserburgh Harbour Board, Meeting of the, 211
Free Miners, the Rights of, 531
Freehold Coal and Iron Company, The, and the Court of Appeal, 43
Freight Cars, American, 43
French Coal Congress, Proposed, 418
French Coal Mining, 471
French Coal Trade, Progress of the, 239, 247, 479, 491
French Iron Trade, Progress of the, 107, 329, 449, 471, 485, 496
French Railway Extensions, 471
French Railway Traffic, 162
French Steam Navigation, 449
French Steel, Increased Production of, 325
French Telescope, A Great, 449
Frith, J., Secretary of the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, 149
Fuel on the Madras Railway, The Cost of, 546
Fuel Works, Patent, 179

Gadlys Iron Works, Progress of, 99
Gartsherrie Coal-Cutting Machine, The, 179
Gas at Barbadoes, 168
Gas at Bradford, Proposed Reduction in the Price of, 179
Gas Companies' Prices, South Yorkshire, Reduction in, 239
Gas Company, The Eupion, 168
Gas Company, The Imperial, 186
Gas Company, The Newport, Monmouthshire, Progress of, 156
Gas in Leeds, Reduction in the Price of, 274, 339
Gas Light and Coke Company, The Chartered, Report of, 286
Gas in Melbourne, 401
Gas in New Zealand, 455
Gas in Paris, 137, 266, 329, 374, 449, 496
Gas at Philadelphia, 202
Gas Question, The, 43i Gas at Salisbury, Reduction in the Price of 486
Gas Supply, The Leeds, 20
Gas Supply, The Metropolitan, 328
Gas and Water Works, Chesterfield, Annual Report of the, 211.
Gas in the West Indies, 162
Gas Works Depot, Sheffield, Fire at a, 118
Gas Works, The Leeds, Extension of, 54,9
Gas Works, The Rotherham Corporation, 510
Gauge, Alteration of, on the Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, 251
Gauge, The Narrow, and North Cornwall, 247
Gauge, The Narrow, in the West of England, 117
Genoa, Proposed improvement of the Port of, 25,
Geological Society of Glasgow, Meeting of the, 137
Geological Survey in Pennsylvania, Progress of, 62
German Coal in the Saarbruck Basin, 351
German Coal Trade, Progress of the, 297, 429
German Iron Trade, Progress of the, 222
German Ironclads, No Mote, 4
German Navy, The, 449
German Railways, Progress of, 162, 211
German Torpedo Boat, Launch of a, 32'
" Germanic," White Star Line Steamer, Rapid Passage of the, from New York, 467
Germany, Steel Rails in, 496
Glamorganshire Tin Works, Meeting of Delegates at Swansea, 219
Glasgow Coal Exchange, The Proposed, 117
Glasgow Coal Trade, Progress of the, 43, 117
Glasgow Corporation Gas Trust Employ6s, Annual Reunion of the, 117
Glasgow Engineering Trades, Progress of the, 211
Glasgow Locomotive Works, Progress of, 79
Glasgow Malleable Iron Trade, The, 29, 43, 99
Glasgow Mining Trade, The, 19, 43
Glasgow and Paisley Railway, Widening the, 157
Glasgow Pig-Iron Market, The, 29, 43, 79, 99, 117, 136, 157, 179, 199, 211, 238, 251, 285, 297, 324, 347, 371, 396, 419, 443, 462, 483, 515, 534, 558
Glasgow Pipe-Founding Trade, The, '29, 79
Glasgow Water, Docks, and Harbour Improvements, Contracts for, 99
Glass Houghton Colliery, Accident at the, 43
Glynneath Collieries, Progress of, 137
" G.M.B." Iron, 324
Gold, New Zealand, Exports of, 394
Good Voyage, A, to Melbourne, 263
Gouin, M., Appointment of, to the Bank of France, 202
Gower Iron and Tin-Plate Company, The, 19
Grand Trunk Railway, Fire at the, 59
Graving Dock, Proposed, at Auckland, New Zealand, 162
Graving Dock, Dundee, Another Burst at the, 179
Graving Dock in the Tees, The New, 179
Great Britain," Steamship, Dimensions of the, 88
"Great Eastern" Steamship, Repairing the, 219
Great Northern Railway in Derbyshire, Extensions of the, 396
Great Northern Railway, The, at Doncaster, 138
Great Northern Telegraph Company, Progress of the, 202, 359, 470, 471
Great Western Colliery Company, Progress of, 71
Great Western Colliery, New Shaft for the, 534
Great Western Dock Company, Plymouth, Progress of the, 219
Great Western Railway Extension and Absorptions, '29, 71, 117
Great Western Railway, The, and Portishead Docks, 247
Great Western Railway, Special Fast Trains on the, 19
Greenock Harbour Trust, Meeting of the, 19
Grinding Wheel, Serious Accident at, 339
Gun, A Big Krupp, for the Sultan of Turkey, 297
Guns, Krupp, at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, J05
Guns, Fitting Heavy, 534
Guns, Krupp, for Turkey, 401

Halliday and Pickard, Messrs., in South Wales and Monmouthshire, 43
Hammersmith Suspension Bridge, 285
Harbours, The Anstruther, Recommencement of Works at, 419
Harbour Extension at Kirkwall, Progress of, 43
Harbour Improvements, The Newhaven, Scotland, Progress of, 157, 324
Harbour Improvements, Proposed, for Port Adelaide, Australia, 71
Harbour, The Napier, New Zealand, Progress of, 140
Harbour, New York, A Statue for, 449
Harbour Works, The Bo'ness, Progress of, 211
Harbour Works Extension, Glasgow; The Clyde Trust, 238
Harbour and Railways in North Australia, 128
Harbours and Rivers, American, 401
Hawser, Flexible Steel Wire, 515
Hell Gate, New York, Preparations for the Removal of, 446
Hematite, Sinking for, 443
H.M.S. " Serapis," The Performances of, 418
H.M.S." Tourmaline," inspection of, 340, 890
Hickson, R., Appointment of, as Engineer to the Marine Board of South Australia, :325
Highland Railway Carriages, Improvements in the, 29
Hobart Town, Tasmania, 105
Hobson's Bay, Sea Lights in, 51
Hoisting Engines, Williamson's, 455
Holland, Belgian Rails in, 239
Holyhead Harbour, Progress of, 137
Hour, The, on Tunnelling, 182
House Foundations, 67
House with a History, A; Merryweather and Sons' Original Factory, 449
Hall, The New Dock at the Port of, 339
Humber's Treatise on the Water Supply of Cities and Towns, 435
Hydrants for the Metropolis, 172
Hydraulic Engineering Company, Progress of the, 211

Illinois Railroads, Progress of, 402
Imperial Gas Company, The, 186
Imports and Exports at Dunedin, New Zealand, 240
Improvements, Railway, near Doncaster, 297
Improvements, Railway, in South Yorkshire, 419
Improvements at Swansea, 419
Indian Coal; Inspection of the Warrora Collieries by Mr. Morris, 251
Indian Light Railways, A Conference at Allahabad, 329
Indian Manufacturing Industry, 452
Indian Postal Service, The, 549
Indian Telegraphy, Progress of, 527
Indiana Block Coal, 207
Indicators, Revolution; Gold Medal to T. A. Hearson for his " Strophometer, 436
Industrial Coal and Iron Company, Report of the, 211
" Inflexible," Twin Turret Ship, Preparations for the Launch of the, 239
Ingot of Pennsylvanian Steel for the American Centennial Exhibition, 332
Inspection of Boilers in Philadelphia, 239
Inspection of the Tay Bridge Works, 99
Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 24, 45, 129, 160, 178, 199, 274, 285, 342, 371, 438, 462, 492, 558, 663
Institution of Engineers, Cleveland, Meetings of the, 67, '238, 247, 324
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Meetings of the, 79, 117, 157, 199, 239, 848, 396
Intercolonial Railway, Progress of the, 71
Intimidation by Welsh Unionists, 486
inventor of the Reaping Machine, Proposed Statue to the, 419
Inverness toll the Caledonian Canal, Proposed Branch Railway from, 43
Iquique, The Water Supply of, 198
Ireland, Narrow Gauge Railways in, 455
Iron and Coal Trade of South Wales, The, 419
Iron Company, The Britannia, Middlesbrough, Progress of, 109
Iron Company, New, The Tredegar, 348
Iron Exports, Belgian, 44, 162, 449
Iron, " G.M.B.," 324
Iron Market, The Cleveland, 19, 47, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179, 199, 211, 238, 247, 285, 324, 340, 372, 390, 419, 443, 462, 483, 510, 539, 558
Iron Mines Tasmanian. Progress of, 374
Iron, Pig, Sold by Auction at Middlesbrough, 137
Iron Rails, Contracts for, at the Thy-le-Chateau Works, 388
Iron Sand, Taranaki, 378
Iron Sheets Thinner than Paper, 342
Iron Shipbuilding Firm, New, at Montrose, 29
Iron Shipbuilding at Queensland, 355
Iron in Southern Russia, The Discovery of, 450
Iron and Steel Imports American, 521
Iron and Steel Institute, Annual Meeting of the, 247
Iron and Steel Rails at Philadelphia, The Price of, 137
Iron and Tin-Plate Company, The Gower, 19
Iron Trade, American, Progress of the, 59, 162, 471
Iron Trade, The Belgian, Progress of, 44, 59, 162, 222, 330, 449, 496
Iron Trade, The French, Progress of, 107, 329, 449, 471, 485, 496
Iron Trade, The Glasgow Malleable, 29, 43, 99
Iron Trade, The German, Progress of, 222
Iron Trade, The Glasgow Finished, Progress of, 443
Iron in the 'United States, Rolled, 474
Iron Works, The Britannia, Middlesbrough, Closing of, 199, 211, '238, 247
Iron Works, The Carntyne, Glasgow, 347
Iron Works, The Cyfarthfa; Deputation to Mr. Crawshay, 156, 179
Iron Works, The Dowlais, Progress of, 19, 28
Iron Works, The Gadlys, Progress of, 99
Iron Works, The Milton, Elsecar, Improvements at, 247
Ironclads, No more German, 4
Ironmasters' Association, Cleveland, Returns of the, 29, 109, 199, 285, 483
Ironstone Mines and Miners, The Cleveland, 19, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179
Ironworkers' Association, Delegate Meeting of the, 324
Ironworkers' Delegates, Meeting of, at Merthyr, 71
Ironworkers' Dispute at Stockton, The, 443
Ironworkers' Strike at Rotherham, Termination of. 297
Ironworkers' Wages Question, The Cleveland, 19, 29, 47, 67, 285, 324, 443
Ironworkers' Wages, Sheffield, Proposed Reduction of the, 98, 274, 297, 372, 462
Ironworkers at Sheffield, National Annual Conference of. 486
Irwin, Scotland. New Coalfield at, 462
Ismalia, Progress of, 288
Italian Government, Great Armour Plates for the, 510
Italian Railways, Progress of, 360

Java Railways, Progress of the, 106
Jenissei in Siberia and the North Sea, Discovery of a Navigable Route between, 44
John Cockerill Company, Progress of the, 82
Joint Station, The Bristol, 71
Jura-Bernois Railway, Progress of the, 471

Kane, John, Death of, 238
Key, John, Death of, 462
Khedive's Sugar Factories, The, 401
Kingston, Canada, Proposed Public Park at, 44
Kirkcaldy, Progress of the Engineering Trade at, 419
Kirkwall Harbour Extension, Progress of, 43
Krupp Guns at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 305
Krupp Guns for Turkey, 297, 401

Labour in Wales, 71
Lachine Canal, Tenders for Work on the, 329
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Alteration of Gauge on the, 251
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, Progress of the, 137
Lakes, Soda, at Wyoming, 377
Landore Steel Works, Dispute at, 19, 29, 219, 419, 462, 486
Large Black Diamond, A, for the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 425
Launch of an Auxiliary Steamship at Glasgow, KO
Launch of the First Great Span of the Tay Bridge, 371
Launch of a German Torpedo Boat, 329
Launches, Yarrow and Company's Portable Steam, for Lake Nyassa, 419
Lead Mining Company, The Magpie, Annual Meeting of, 419
Lead Mining in North Derbyshire, 247
Leeds, Castleford, and Pontefract Junction Railway Company, Half-yearly Meeting of the 179
Leeds Gas Supply, The, 20
Leeds Gas Works, Extension of the, 540
Leeds New Railway Extension, The, 247
Leeds, The Price of Gas in, 274, 339
Leeds Water Works Extension, The, 564
Leeds Water and Gas Works, Annual Accounts of the, 118
Leeds Water Works Reservoirs, Progress of the, 510
Leeds and Wetherby Railway, The, 339, 396
Leith and Edinburgh Engineers' Society, Meetings of the, 79, 117, 157, 199, 297, 443
Leith, Extensive Drainage Operations at, 462
Light, Mr. Crookes, F.1t.S., on the Radiation of, 99
Light Railways, Indian, A Conference on, at Allahabad, 329
Light Railways in the West, 486
Light Registering Apparatus; Lecture by Professor Roscoe at South Kensington, 497
Lighthouse Arrangements in the Bristol Channel, 239
Lighthouses, Canadian, 59
Lightning Conductors; Lecture by Dr. R. J. Mann, at South Kensington, 495
Lightning, Powder Mills Destroyed by, 274
Lights, Electric, for Railways, EX Limited Liability Company, Contemplated, at Middlesbrough, 157
Lisbon, A Contract for Docks at, 239
Liverpool Landing Stage, Reopening of the, 302
Llandaff Ironworkers, Strike of the, 285
Llanfabon, The New Coal Pits at, 71
Llantwit, Colliers' Strike at, 43
Llynvi and Ogmore Railway, Progress of the, 284
Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington, The, 459
Locomotive Building, Belgian, 157
Locomotive, Explosion of a, in Scotland, 251
Locomotive, The Nursery of the, 340
Locomotive, An Old, for the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 266
Locomotive Performance on the Illinois Central Railroad, 425
Locomotive Tenders, Belgian, 59
Locomotive Works, Glasgow, Progress of, 79
Locomotives, American, The Number of, 59
Locomotives on the Amsterdam and Rotterdam Railway, 449
Locomotives on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 249
Locomotives in China, 360
Locomotives, Compound, Trial of, on a French Railway, 479
Locomotives for the Erie Railroad Company, 479
Locomotives, Light Street, for New Orleans, 521
Locomotives for New Zealand, 90, 137
Locomotives on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 202
Locomotives in Russia, 59
Locomotives in Saxony, 324
Locomotives on the Union Pacific Railroad, 425
London Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, 107, 166, 187, 226, 350, 388
London and County Bank, Half-yearly Report of the, 09
London, Huron, and Bruce Railway, Progress of the, 69, 277
London and North-Western Railway, The, in Wales, 137
London and North-Western Railway Works at Crewe, Public Luncheon arid Bazaar at, 443
London and South-Western Railway, Extension of the, to Devonport 419
London Street Watering, 198
London Water Supply; Deputation to Mr. Cross, 252
Long Words in Telegrams, The Charge for, 449
Low Tide at Cardiff, 239
Lydbrook, Proposed Reduction of Wages at, 615
Lydney Tin-Plate Workers, The, 19, 534

Macdonald's Compensation Bill, Petition in favour of, 370
Machinery, American, for Siberia, 401
Machinery for Turkey, 239
Madras Railway, Bridges on the, 516
Madras Railway, Cost of Fuel on the, 516
Maerdy Colliery, Coal Winning at, 117, 157
Mail Route, A New Egyptian, 44
Mail Station, A Plymouth, '28
Make and Disposal of Pig Iron, The; Cleveland Irommasters' Returns, 483
Making the Best of Matters, 25
Malaga, Tramways Proposed at, 252
Malleable Iron Works, Glasgow, Reduction of Wages at the, 462
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Progress of the, 43, '239
Manufacturing Industry, Indian, 452
Marine Board of South Australia, Appointment of Mr. R. Hickson as Engineer to the, 325
Marine Engines for India from the Clyde, 157
Marsden, Mr. Henry R., Death of, 71
Maryland Coal Exports, 156
Maryland Coal, Decrease in the Production of, 266
Mechanical Stoking : Errata, 558
Meeting, Annual, of the Bristol Water Works Company, 284
Meeting, Annual, of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, 348
Meeting, Annual, of the Certified Colliery Managers' Association, 297
Meeting, Annual, of the Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 539
Meeting, Annual, of the Cumberland Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science, 371
Meeting, Annual, of the Iron and Steel Institute, 247
Meeting, Annual, of the Magpie Lead Mining Company, 419
Meeting, Annual, of the Mill Dam Lead Mining Company, North Derbyshire, '247
Meeting, Annual, of the Native Guano Company (A B 0 Process), 455
Meeting, Annual, of the Phosphor-Bronze Company, 157
Meeting, Annual, of the Victoria Philosophical Institute, 467
Meeting of the Bridgewater Town Council, 247
Meeting of the British Association, 1876, 136
Meeting of the Clifton Suspension Bridge Company, 71
Meeting of Colliers at Dowlais, 99
Meeting of the Fairfield Association, 79
Meeting of the Fraserburgh Harbour Board, 211
Meeting of the Geological Society of Glasgow, 137
Meeting of the Glasgow University Engineering Students' Society, 157
Meeting of the Greenock Harbour Trust, 19
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the Leeds, Castleford, and Pontefract Junction Railway Company, 179
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the Leeds Tramway Company, 138,179
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the Milford Docks Company, 219
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, 179
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the North-Eastern Railway, Company, 149
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway Company, 179
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the Swindon, Marlborough, and Andover Railway Company, 157
Meeting, Half-yearly, of the Wakefield Water Works Company, 138
Meeting of Ironworkers' Delegates at Merthyr, 71
Meeting of Masters and Men of the South Wales Coal Trade as a Conciliation Board, 462
Meeting of the Newport Alexandra Dock Company, 247
Meeting of the Newport Harbour Commissioners, 117
Meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow to consider the Patent Bill, 285
Meeting of the Port Pirie Wharf Company, 359
Meeting, Quarterly, of the North of England Iron Trade, 29
Meeting of the Rothsay Harbour Trust, 297
Meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 239
Meeting of Shipowners at Swansea, 19
Meeting of the Society of Arts, 371
Meeting, Special General, of the Sirhowy Railway Company, 462
Meeting of the Swansea Harbour Trustees, 515
Meeting of the Swindon and Highworth Light Railway Company, 42
Meeting of the Tin-Plate Trade at Swansea. 247
Meeting of the Tiverton and North Devon Railway Company, 117
Meeting of the Wakefield Rolling Stock Company, 118
Meeting of the \Vest Riding Geological and Polytechnical Society, 372
Meetings of the Chesterfield and Derbyshire Institute of Engineers, 297, 510
Meetings of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 67, 238, 247, 324
Meetings of the Clyde Trust, 297, 483
Meetings of the Dundee Harbour Board, 443, 483
Meetings of the Edinburgh and Leith Engineers'
Society, 79, 117, 157, 199, 297, 443
Meetings of the Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Glasgow, 79, 117, 179, 187, 239, 285, 348, 396, 443
Meetings of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Scotland, 79, 117, 157, 199, 239, 348, 396
Meetings of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 79, 137, 251, 297, 348, 396,471
Meetings of the Sliding Scale Committee at Cardiff, 117, 247
Melbourne, Gas in, 401
Melbourne, The Water Supply of, 288
Menai Suspension Bridge, Fiftieth Anniversary of the Opening of the, 117
Merry, Mr., Retirement of, from the Iron Trade, 515
Merryweather's Fire Engine Factory; A House with a History, 449
Merryweather and Sons' Steam Fire Engine for Canterbury Cathedral, Trials of, 563
Merthyr Vale Colliery, The Double-Shift System at, 297
Metallurgical Industry, Canadian, 162 Metropolitan Fire Brigade, The, 227
Metropolitan Gas Question, The, 435
Metropolitan Gas Supply, The, 328
Metropolitan Nuisances, 563
Metropolitan Railway, The; Number of Passengers on Whit Monday, 515
Metropolitan and South-Eastern Railways, Omnibuses between the, 37
Metropolitan Water Supply, The, and the Use of Hydrants, 172
Middlesbrough, The New Railway Station at, 179
Middlesbrough Steel Works, Progress, of, 199
Midland Iron Company, Annual Report of the, 149
Milford Haven, Proposed Fog-Signal House at, 137
Milford Haven Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, The, 28
Milford Haven, Visit of Mr. E. J. Reed to, 419
Milton Iron Works, Elsecar, Improvements at the, 247
Mine, The Burra, South Australia, Progress of, 255
Mineral Oil Trade, The Scotch, Progress of, 534
Mineral Railway, The Burntisland and Cowdenbeath Direct, 251
Mineral Trophy, An Australian, 239
Minerals, Algerian, 378
Minerals, Pennsylvanian, at the American Centennial Exhibition, 330
Minerals Railways, Cornwall, Colonel Yolland's Inspection of, 462, 558
Miners' Association, The South Yorkshire, 67
Miners' Co-operative Colliery at Shirland, Progress of the, 29
Miners, Glasgow, Disputes with the, 43
Miners, Durham, Another Reduction in the Wages of the, 510
Miners' Union, Conference of the at Aberdare, 348
Miners in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, Great Strike of the, '297, 324, 339, 372, 396, 419, 443
Mines, The Courvieres, Productions of, 528
Mines, The Wallaroo, South Australia, Progress of, 408
Mining Casualties in Pennsylvania, 288
Mining, Foreign, 283
Mining, Tin, Progress of, 25, 360, 401, 426
Mining Trade, The Glasgow, 19, 43
Miramichi Valley Railway, Progress of the, 376
Miscellaneous Matters of Interest in South Yorkshire, 149
Mississippi, The River, Improvements on, 71, 329, 496
Models of Bridges on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad for the Centennial Exhibition, 288
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, Progress of the, 157, 179
Montreal, Deaths in, 402
Moorfoot Water Works, Tenders for the, 179
Motherwell District, The Malleable Iron Trade in the, 99
Motherwell Water Works, The, 19, 285
Motors for Tramways, 266
Mountains of New South Wales, The, 28S Mountains, The New Zealand, 329
Moxahala Tunnel, The, on the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway, 474

Namur and Brussels Railway, Progress of the, 471
Nantymoel Coal Pits, Progress of the, 117
Napier Harbour, New Zealand, Progress of the, 140
Narrow Gauge Line, A Tennessee, 25
Narrow Gauge Railways in Ireland, 466
Narrow Gauge, The, in the West of England, 117
National Annual Conference of Ironworkers at Sheffield, 486
Native Guano Company (A B C Process), Annual Meeting, of the, 455
Natural Crystals, The Formation of; Lecture by Professor Daubree, at South Kensington, 494
Navigable Streams, The Pollution of, 191
Navy, The Americans Reviewing their, 266
Navy, The German, 449
Navy, The Turkish, 106, 401
Navy, The United States, 25, 187, 222
Navy Yards, The American, 149
Navy Yards, Philadelphia, The Sale of the, 329
" Navvy," The American Steam, 515
Navvy, A Steam, in Scotland, 239
Neath Tramways, Reduction of Tolls Paid by the, 179
Now River Company, Sinking a New Well for the, 539
Now South Wales Coal, The Total Production of, 297
New South Wales, The Mountains of, 288
New South Wales, Hallway Progress in, 71, 106
Now York and Brooklyn, The Population of, 202
New York Canals, Proposed Sale of the, 222
New York and Cardiff, Proposed Passenger Steamships between, 28
New York Central Railroad, Rolling Stock on the, 137
New York and Erie Railroad, Progress of the, 288
New York and Philadelphia Railroad, Opening of the, 471
New Zealand Cable, The, 317, 875
New Zealand Coa1,496
New Zealand, Gas in, 455
New Zealand Gold, Exports of, 894
New Zealand, Locomotives for, 137
New Zealand Mountains, The, 829
New Zealand Patents, 401
Now Zealand Railways, Progress of the, 419
New Zealand Tunnel, A, 471
Newcastle, New South Wales, The Coal Trade in, 461
Newfoundland Railways, Progress of the, 521
Newfoundland, a Survey of, 51
Newhaven Harbour Improvements, Scottish, Progress of, 157, 324
Newhaven and Seaford Sea Wall, Inspection of the, 486
Newport Alexandra Dock Company, Meeting of the, 247
Newport Harbour Commissioners, Meeting of, 117
Newport, Monmouthshire, Gas Company, Progress of, 156
Newport, Trade, at, 43, 895, 615, 534
Newport Tramways, Progress of the, 71
Nicolaieff Floating Dock, Progress of the, 507
Normansell, The late Mr. John, Subscriptions for his Widow and Children, 29, 43
Normanton, Proposed Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Works at, 443
North Brisbane, Scheme for the Drainage of, 449
North Cornwall and the Narrow Gauge, 247
North-Eastern Railway Company, Half-yearly Meeting. of the, 149
North of England Board of Arbitration, The, and Strikes, 419
North Esk, Purification of the, 43
North Wales Collieries, Proposed Reduction of Wages at, 157
North Wales Quarrymen's Union, Second Annual Conference of, 443
Northern Central Railway Company, Report of the, 262 ..
Northern Pacific Railroad, Progress of the, 222, `239
Northern Pacific Railroad Coal, 449
Northern of Spain Railway, Progress of the, 288
Notices for the Stoppage of Plymouth Works, 157, 199
Notices to Terminate Contracts with Workmen in South Wales, 516
Nova Scotian Coal, 428
Nova Scotian Railways, Progress of the, 25, 106, 376, 449
Nuisances, Metropolitan, 668
Nursery of the Locomotive, The, 310

"Oberon," H.M.S., Torpedo Experiments on, 528
Observatory, Vienna, Large Telescope for the, 'Z66
Ocean Steaming, American, 288
Office, The Patent, 419
Ogmore Valley, Colliery Operations in, 871
Oil Trade, The Scotch Mineral, Progress of, 534
Old Locomotive, An, for the American Centennial Exhibition, 268
Oldham, Borough Survey of, 539
Oldham, Steam Fire Engines for, 425
Omnibuses between the Metropolitan and South-Eastern Railways, 37
Omnibuses in Paris, 283
Onliwyn, Strike of Colliers at, 239
Ontario, Railway Progress in, 162
Opening of the Leeds and Wetherby Railway, 896
Opening of the New York and Philadelphia Railroad, 471
Opening of the Pontardulais Tin Works, 371
Opening of the Taff Bargoed Railway, 19, 28
Operative Engineers, Edinburgh, Annual Soiree of the, 251
Orleans Railway, Rolling Stock on the, 471
Ossett Water Works, Progress of the, 354, 462
Otago, New Zealand, Floods in, 71
Ovenden Water Supply, The, 824

Paisley, Drainage at, 29
Paris, Gas in, 187, 266, 329, 874, 449, 496
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, Progress of the, 471, 449
Paris, Omnibuses in, 283
Parisian Tramways, Progress of the, 491
Park, Proposed New, at Kingston, Canada, 44
Parkgate Iron Works, Termination of the Strike Patent Bill, Meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow to consider the, 285
Patent Bill, The New, 158, 227, 285, 468, 485 Patent Fuel Works, 179
Patent Law Reform. Petition for, 171
Patent Office, The, 419
Patent Office, The American, Receipts of, 288
Patent Office, Curiosities of the, 19
Patent Railway Wheel Company, Ambergate, Winding up of the, 29
Patentees and the Crown, 171
Patents, American, 876, 401
Patents, New Zealand, 401
Pavement, Asphalt°, 67
Pembroke Dock, The Water Supply for, 419 Pembrokeshire, Wages in, 179
Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway Company, Half-yearly Meeting of the, 179
Pennsylvania Coal, 59, 71, 187, 160, 335, 425, 485
Pennsylvania, Mining Casualties in, 288
Pennsylvania Railroad, Progress of the, 401
Pennsylvania, Rolling Stock in, 829
Pennsylvania Steel for the American Centennial Exhibition, 882
Pennsylvanian Geological Survey, Progress of, 62
Pennsylvanian Minerals at the American Centennial Exhibition, 880
Permanent Way on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, The, 288
Permanent Way on the Madras Railway, Cost of the, 25
Permanent Way on the Union Pacific Railroad, 449
Persia, Proposed Railways in, 264
Petroleum, American, The Exports of, 137
Philadelphia Navy Yard, The Sale of the, 829
Philadelphia, Progress of, 129, 202, 874, 401, 449
Philadelphia and Beading Railroad, Locomotives on the, 202
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Progress of the, 471
Phoenix Bessemer Steel Works, Sheffield, The, 20
Phosphate Sewage Company, The, 187
Phosphor-Bronze Company, Annual Meeting of the, 157
Pickard and Halliday, Messrs., In South Wales and Monmouthshire, 43
Piecework, 99
Pier Extension, Swansea, Progress of, 486
Pig Iron, American, 187 471
Pig Iron, The Make and Disposal of; Cleveland Ironmasters' Returns, 483
Pig Iron Market, The Glasgow, 29, 43, 79, 99, 117, 136, 157, 179, 199, 211, 238, 251, 285, 297, 824, 847, 371, 396, 419, 443, 462, 483, 515, 534, 558
Pig Iron Sold by Auction at Middlesbrough, 137
Piggford, Mr., Retirement of, from the Risca Collieries, 199
Pilot Service, The, at Port Jackson, New South Wales, 48
Pipe-Founding Trade, The Glasgow, 29, 79
Platform Additions to the Ambergate Junction of the Midland Railway, 839
Plymouth and Aberdare Works, Progress of the. 48
Plymouth Great Western Docks, Progress of the, 99, 219
Plymouth a Mail Station, 28
Plymouth, New Railway Station at, 157
Plymouth Steam. Shipping Trade, Progress of the, 137
Plymouth Works, Notices for the Stoppage of the, 157, 199
Pointsmen on the Caledonian Railway, Wages of, 239
Pollution of Navigable Streams, The, 191
Pollution of the River Thames, The, 346
Pontardulais, Tin Works, Proposed, at, 117, 371
Pontymister Tin Works, The, 631
Pontypridd Water Works, Progress of the, 157
Popoff's Air Bags, Experiments with, 486
Population of Constantinople, The, 474
Population of Detroit, Michigan, Increase in the, 288
Population of Victoria, Australia, 135
Port Adelaide, Australia, Proposed Improvement at, 71
Port Adelaide, A Dredger for, 431
Port Clarence, Proposed Steel Works at, 372
Port of Genoa, Proposed Improvement of, 25
Port Jackson, New South Wales, The Defences of, 471
Port Pixie Wharf Company, Meeting of the, 359
Port Talbot Floating Harbour, Contract for the, 48G
Portable Steam Launches, Yarrow and Company's, for Lake Nyassa, 419
Portishead Docks and the Great Western Railway, 247
Portland Cement, American, 496
Portugal, Railway Progress in, 109, 359
Portuguese Railways, Progress of, 359, 492
Postal Service, The Indian, 649
Poughkeepsie Bridge over the River Hudson, Contracts for the, 162, 255
Powder Mills Destroyed by Lightning, 274
Powell Duffryn Collieries, Notices at the, 371
Powell Gellagaer Coal Company, The, at Llanfabon, 71
Preparing for the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 297
Preserved Timber, 162
Price of Steam Coal, The, at Sheffield, 67
Profits of Cail and Company, 71
Propeller, Steamship, and Rudder Experiments, 516 •
Protection of Dockyards from Fire, 154
Public Buildings. American, 329
Public Lands of the United States, The, 25, 45
Public Works in Victoria, 106, 136, 461, 521
Puddlers in the North of France, 401
Puddling Machines, Rotary, at Middlesbrough, 87'2
Pullman Sleeping Cars on the Continent, 71
Purchase of the Wakefield Water Company, Proposed, 610
Purification of the North Esk, 43

Quarrying at Buckland, 71
Quarterly Meeting of the North of England Iron Trade, 29
Quebec Railways, Progress of, 62, 158 Queensland, Coal in, 388, 425
Queensland, A Dredger for, 401 Queensland Iron Shipbuilding, 255
Queensland Railways, Progress of the, 71, 350
Queensland Steam Navigation, 829

Radiation of Light, Mr. Crookes, F.R.S., on the, 99
Rail Making, Stool, at Cleveland, 247
Rail Mill, Steel, at Dowlais, New, 462
Rail Mills, Bolckow, Vaughan, and Company's, Resumption of Works at 19, 238
Rail Straighteners at Ebbw Vale, Deputation from the, 285
Rail Straighteners at Rhymney, The, 247
Rail Straighteners at Tredegar, Settlement of the Dispute with the, 284
Railroad Building, American, Progress of, 496
Railroad, Central, of New Jersey, Coal Traffic on the, 425
Railroad, The Central Pacific, Progress of, 137
Railroad, Chicago and Alton, Rolling Stock on the, 401
Railroad, The Illinois Central, Locomotive Performances on, 425
Railroad, The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Progress of, 137
Railroad, The New York and Erie, Progress of, 288
Railroad, The New York and Philadelphia, Opening of, 471
Railroad, The Northern Pacific, Progress of, 222, 289
Railroad, The Pennsylvania, Progress of, 401
Railroad, The Philadelphia and Reading, Progress of, 471
Railroad Progress, American, 70,496
Railroad Progress in Ohio, 162
Railroad, The Union Pacific, Progress of, 850, 378, 401, 425, 449
Railroads in Illinois, Progress of, 402
Rails, American, 496
Rails, Belgian, The Export of, 288, 888
Rails in Belgium, 498
Rails, Bessemer, in the United States, 297
Rails in France, The Production of, 239, 274, 425
Rails, Iron, Contracts for, at the Thy-le-Chateau Works, 888
Rails at Philadelphia, The Price of, 137
Rails, Steel, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, 496
Rails, Steel, on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, 449
Rails, Steel, on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, 244
Rails, Steel Headed, Experiments with, at Detroit, 449
Rails, Steel, on the Northern Central Railroad, 521
Rails, Steel, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 813
Rails, Steel, in the United States, 401
Railway Absorptions, Great Western, 117
Railway Accident Commission, The, 462
Railway Accidents in January, February, and March, 1876, 522
Railway, The Altona and Kiel, A Contract for, 390
Railway, Proposed, to Boncath, 71
Railway Bridge, New, over the Clyde, 157, 401
Railway Bridge near Sheffield, Fall of a, 211
Railway, The Bristol and Exeter, Progress of, 28, 239, 247
Railway, The Callander and Oban, Progress of, 515
Railway, The Canada Southern, Proposed Extension of, to Sarnia, 288
Railway, The Canadian Pacific, Progress of, 129, '239, 369
Railway, The Cornwall Minerals, Progress of, 462, 558
Railway Carriage Warming in France, 449
Railway Carriages, Highland, Improvements in the, 29
Railway in China, The First, 455
Railway City Warehouses, Now, 479
Railway Coal. Traffic to London from South • Yorkshire, 138, 239, 324, 419, 640
Railway Company, The Tiverton and North Devon, Meeting of, 117
Railway, Constantinople Metropolitan, Progress of the, 202
Railway, The Devon and Somerset, Progress of, 179
Railway Extensions, French, 471
Railway Extensions, The Great Western, 29, 71, 117
Railway Extensions, The Leeds New, 247
Railway Extensions, Western, 462
Railway, Glasgow and Paisley, Widening The, 157
Railway, The Great Northern, Extensions of, in Derbyshire, 396
Railway, The Great Northern, at Doncaster, 138
Railway Improvements near Doncaster, 297
Railway Improvements in South Yorkshire, 419
Railway, The Intercolonial, Progress of, 71
Railway, The Jura-Bernois, Progress of, 471
Railway, The Leeds and Wetherby, Progress of, 839, 396
Railways, The Llynvi and Ogmore, Progress of, 284
Railway, The London, Huron, and Bruce, Progress of, 59, 277
Railway, The London and North-Western, in Wales, 137
Railway, London and South-Western, Extension of the, to Devonport, 419
Railway, Madras, Cost of the Permanent Way on the, 25
Railway, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Progress of the, 43, 239
Railway, The Metropolitan; Number of Passengers on Whit Monday, 515
Railway, The Miramichi Valley, Progress of, 375
Railway, The Namur and Brussels, Progress of, 471
Railway, A New Spanish, 59
Railway, The Northern of Spain, Progress of, • 288
Railway, A Nova Scotian, 26
Railway, The Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, Progress of, 471, 449
Railway, Progress in Now South Wales, 71, 106
Railway Progress in Ontario, 162
Railway Rolling Stock, Improved, for the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 239
Railway, The Proposed Sydney and Ilwarra, 59
Railway, The, Royal Portuguese, Progress of, 109, 359
Railway, The St. Ives, Progress of, 19
Railway, The Scindia State, Contract for, 248
Railway, The South Devon, Progress of, 71
Railway, Southern of France, Cost of Repairing the, 419
Railway Station, The Bradford Midland, Proposed Extension of, 486
Railway Station, A New Canadian, at Hamilton, Ontario, 162
Railway, A New, for Ecclesfield, near Sheffield, 330
Railway Station at Middlesbrough, The New, 179
Railway Station, New, at Plymouth, 167
Railway, The Taff Bargoed, Opening of, 19, 28
Railway, Tasmanian Main Line, Progress of the, 106, 162
Railway Traffic, French, 162
Railway Wagon Company's Operations, South Yorkshire, 99
Railway, The Waitara and Wanganui, New Zealand, Progress of, 129
Railway to Whithorn, Contract for the, 483
Railway, The Wye Valley, Progress of, 6
Railways, Algerian, Progress of, 106
Railways, Austrian, Progress of, 182
Railways, Austro-Hungarian, Progress of, 401
Railways, Cambrian; Decision of the Railway Commissioners, 239
Railways, Canadian, Progress of, 247 •
Railways in Europe, The Extent of, 106
Railways, German, Progress of, 162, 241
Railways and Harbours in North Australia, 128
Railways in Ireland, Narrow Gauge, 455
Railways, Italian, Progress of, 360
Railways, Java, Progress of the, 106
Railways, Light, in the West, 486
Railways in Newfoundland, Progress of the, 521
Railways, New Zealand, Progress of the, 419
Railways in Nova Scotia, Progress of, 26, 106, 376, 449
Railways in Persia, Proposed, 264
Railways in Portugal, Progress of, 359, 492
Railways in Quebec, Progress of, 62, 168
Railways, Queensland, Progress of the, 71, 360
Railways, Roumelian, Progress of, 308, 401
Railways, Russian, Progress of the, 51, 90, 140, 470
Railways, South Australian, Progress of the, 222
Railways, South Italian, Progress of, 401
Railways in the Transvaal Republic, 266
Railways, Turkish, Progress of, 29, 106
Railways, The Tunisian, Progress of, 468
Railways, The Venezuelan, Progress of, 496
Railways, Victorian, Progress of the, 162, 425, 436
Railways in the West of England, 616
Raising of the " Vanguard,' The, 510
Ransome's Artificial Stone, 339
Rapid Passage from New York by White Star Line Steamer "Germanic," 467
Reaping Machine, Statue Proposed to the Inventor of the, 419
Reaping Machines, South Australian, Trials of, 266
Recife and Sao Francisco Railway, Extension of the, 306
Reduction of Bessemer Steel Workers' Wages at Wilson, Cammell, and Company's, Dronfield, 247
Reduction in Gas Companies' Prices, South Yorkshire, '239, 274, 339
Reduction in the Price of Coal at Sheffield, 98, 138, 179, 274
Reduction of Wages at the Ashton Vale Collieries, 443
Reed, Mr. E. J., Visit of, to Milford Haven, 419
Registering Apparatus, Light, Lecture by Professor Roscoe at South Kensington, 497
Registration of Trade Marks, 226, 485
Reopening of the Liverpool Landing Stage, 302
Report, Annual, of Brown, Bailey, and Dixon, 199 Report, Annual, of John Brown and Company, Sheffield, 540
Report, Annual, of Charles Carmel' and Company, 486
Report, Annual, of the Chesterfield Gas and Water Works, 211
Report, Annual, of the Dronfield Gas Light and Coke Company, 486
Report, Annual, of the Eyam Lead Mining Company, 443
Report, Annual, of the Midland Iron Company, 149
Report, Annual, of the Parkgate Iron Company, 443
Report, Annual, of the Rotherham, Masborough, and Holmes Coal Company, 149
Report, Annual, of the Whittington and Sheep-bridge Colliery Company, '247
Report of the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company, 286
Report, Half-yearly, of the Bristol Wagon Works Company, 534
Report, Half-yearly, of the Engineer of the Tay Bridge, 199
Report, Half-yearly, of the Leeds Tramway Company, 138
Report, Half-yearly, of the London and County Bank, 99
Report, Half-yearly, of the Severn Bridge Railway, 137
Report, Half-yearly, of the Sharpness New Docks company, 371
Report, Half-yearly, of the Sheffield United Gas Light Company, 324
Report, Halt-yearly, of the Taff Vale Railway Company, 137
Report of the Industrial Coal and Iron Company, 211
Report of the Northern Central Railway Company, 262
Report of the Sheffield Water Works Company, 297
Reservoirs, The Leeds Water Works, Progress of, 610
Resignation of Mr. B. Woodcroft, Clerk to the Commissioners of Patents, 187
Retirement of Mr. Merry from the Iron Trade, 515
Revision of Commercial Treaties, 180
Revolution Indicators; Gold Medal to T. A. Hearson for his " Strophometer," 436
Rhondda Mountain Colliery, Dispute at the, 219
Rhondda Valley, Wage' in the, 19, 137, 157, 371
Rhondda Valley, Coal in the, 156
Rhymney, Trade at, 443
Rhymney Valley, Coal in the, 156
Rights of Free Miners, The, 534
Risca, Collieries, Dispute at the, 210
Risca Collieries; Retirement of Mr. Piggford, 199
Rise in the Price of Tin, 443
River Dee at Aberdeen, Bridge Proposed across the, 351
River Mississippi, Improvements on the, 71, 329,, 496
River Murray, Bridging the, 4.31
River Nile, The Sources of the, 359
River Ouse, Floods in the, 364
River St. Lawrence, Another Great Bridge over the, 44
River Seine, Steamers on the, 162
River Tees, Tunnel Proposed under the, at Middlesbrough, 109
River Thames Pollution, The, 346
Rivers Pollution Bill, The, 508
Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Bill, Petitions against the, 483
Rolled Iron in the United States, 474
Rolling a Great Armour Plate at the Cyclops Works, 211
Rolling Stock in Belgium, 45
Rolling Stock on the Chicago, 3urlington, and, Quincy Railroad, 471
Rolling Stock Company, United States, Progress of the, 329
Rolling Stock on the New York Central Railroad, 137
Rolling Stock on the Orleans Railway, 471
Rolling Stock in Pennsylvania, 329
Rolling Stock and Working Expenses on the Eastern Railway of France, 471
Rotary Puddling Machines at Middlesbrough, 372
Rotherham Corporation Gas Works, The, 510
Rotherham, Masborough, and Holmes Coal Company, Annual Report of the, 149
Rothsay Harbour Trust, Meeting of the, 297
Roumelian Railways, Progress of, 308, 401
" Round House," An American, 449
Royal Scottish Society of Arts, Meetings of the, 79, 137, 251, 297, 348, 396, 471
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Meeting of, 230
Ruabon, Colliers' Wages at, 71
Russia, Bessemer Steel in, 251
Russia, Number of Locomotives in, 59
Russian Coal Mining, 360
Russian Railways, Progress of the, 51, 90, 140, 470

St. Gothard Tunnel, Progress of the, 7, 249, 521
St. Ives Railway, Progress of, 19
Sale of the West Central Wagon Works, 515
Salisbury, Reduction in the Price of Gas at, 486
Saloon Steamer, The " Bessemer," Sale of, 443, 462
San Francisco, Progress of 376
Saundersfoot Collieries, Reduction of Wages at the, 199
Saxony, Locomotives in, 324
Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Bridging the, 105
Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington, The Loan Collection of, 61, 459
Scindia State Railway, Contract for the, 248
Scotch Blast Furnaces, The, 79, 99, 136, 285, 347, 396, 443
Scotch Roads and Bridges Bill, Petitions against the, 483
Sea, The Depth of the, 168
Sea Lights in Hobson's Bay, 51
Sea Wall, The Newhaven and Seaford, Inspection of, 486
Secretaryship of the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, Candidates for the, 43
Self-/Wing Car Coupler, A, 264
" Serapis, H.M.S., The Performances of, 418
Service Mains in London, Constant, 527
Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Railway Bill, Progress of the, 297
Severn Bridge Railway, Half-yearly Report of the, 137
Sewage Company, The Phosphate, 187
Sewage Works, Dunfermline, Progress of, 29
Sewerage Improvements at
Torquay, 29 Sewerage Works, The New, at Barnsley, 419
Sewerage Works, The Torquay Main, Progress of, 29, 247
Sewers at Cardiff, Day and Son's Tender for the, 324
Sharpness New Docks Company, Half-yearly Report of the, 371
Sheffield, New Colliery near, 462
Sheffield and North Staffordshire Railways, Amalgamation of the, 20. .
Sheffield Tramways, Progress of the, 179, 199, 510
Sheffield United Gas Light Company, Half-yearly Report of the, 324
Sheffield Water Works Company's &Tint, 297
Ship Canal, A New Canadian, 471 ,
Ship Canal, Another Great, Proposed, 29
Ship Canal Question, The Darien, 137
Ship, A Four-Masted, 19
Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Progress of, 19, 47, 99, 109, 157, 211, 247, 285, 324, 340, 390, 419, 483, 539
Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, The Milford Haven, 28
Shipbuilding Firm, New, at Dumbarton, 443
Shipbuilding Firm, Iron, at Montrose, New, 29
Shipbuilding on the River Yarra, 126, Shipbuilding Trade, The Clyde, Progress of, 179, 285
Shipping at Cardiff, 42
Siberia, Discoveries by Swedish Professors in, 44
Siemens Steel Works, The Landore, Proposed Reduction of Wages at, 419
Sinking for Hematite, 443
Sirhowy Railway Company, Special General Meeting of the, 462
Sleeping Cars, Pullman's, on the Continent, 71
Sliding Scale Award in the Caerphilly District, 199
Sliding Scale Committee, Meeting of the, 117, 247
Smethwick Boiler Explosion, The, 269
Society of Arts, The, 248, 371
Soda Lakes at Wyoming, 377
Soiree, Annual, of the Edinburgh Operative Engineers, 251
Somersetshire Coalflel4s, Wages in the, 219, 239, 297
Sources of the River Nile, The, 359
South America and Belgium, 396
South Australia, The Defences of, 359
South Australia, Progress of, 313
South Australia, Steamers for, 425
South Australian Copper, 546
South Australian Railways, Progress of, 222
South Australian Reaping Machines, Trials of, 266
South Devon Railway, Progress of the, 71
South Italian Railways, Progress of, 401
South Wales Atlantic Steamship Company, The, 43
South Wales Coal, 558
South Wales Coal and Iron Exports, 297
South Wales Coal Trade, Meeting of Masters and Men as a Conciliation Board, 462
South Wales Trades, Progress of, 28
South Wales, Wages in, 137
South-West Coal Trade, Meeting of the Sliding Scale Committee, Cardiff, 117
South Yorkshire Collieries, The New, Progress of, 239, 46'2
South Yorkshire Miners' Association, The, 67, 149
Southern of France Railway, Cost of Repairing the, 419
Southern Russia, Iron Ore in, 450
Spain, Coal in, 491, 555
Spanish Copper; Profits of the Huelva Copper Mines Company, 401
Spanish Railway, A New, 59
Spanish Telegraphy, Progress of, 317
Speed on German Railways, 240
Spinning Machines at Devonport Dockyard, Steam Engine for Driving the, 239
Spontaneous Coal Combustion, 425
Stanhope Silkstone Colliery Company, Progress of, 29
State of Trade in Scotland, 483
Statue, The Carmichael, in Dundee, Uncovering of, 515
Statue for New York Harbour, A, 449
Steam Boiler Inspection in Belgium, 222
Steam Canal Boats, American, 401
Steam Coal, The Price of, at Sheffield, 67
Steam Dredger, A, for Queensland, 43
Steam Engines for Tramways, Experiments with, 443
Steam Fire Engine, The Blake, Trials of, 467
Steam Fire Engine for Oldham, 425. Steam Fire Engine for Paisley, 29
Steam Navigation, American, 401
Steam Navigation, The Australian, Progress of, 359
Steam Navigation, French, 449
Steam Navigation, Queensland, 329
Steam Navy, A, in Scotland, 239
Steam Shipbuilding, Australian, Progress of, 551
Steamer, Shipping Trade at Plymouth, Progress of, 137
Steam Street Cars, American, 91
Steam Tram Engines, Trial of in Yorkshire, 418
Steamer, New, for the Pilot Service at Port Jackson, New South Wales, 43
Steamers on the River Seine, 162
Steamers for South Australia, 425
Steamship " Australia," Arrival of the at Sydney, 494
Steamship, The " Great Britain," Dimensions of, 88
Steamship, " Great Eastern," Repairing the, 219
Steamship Rudder and Propeller Experiments, 515
Steamship Trade, Great Depression in the, 508
Steel, Belgian, 71
Steel, Bessemer, Large Production of at Rotherham, 247
Steel, English, in Belgium, 521
Steel Fireboxes on American Railways, 491
Steel in France, Increased Production of, 325, 498
Steel Headed Rails, Experiments with at Detroit, 440
Steel Rail Making at Cleveland, 247
Steel Rail Mill, New, at Dowlais, 462
Steel Rails on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, 449
Steel Rails, Cleveland, Experiments on, 483
Steel Rails on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, 244
Steel Rails in Germany, 496
Steel Rails on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, 496
Steel Rails on the Northern Central Railroad, 521
Steel Rails on the Pennsylvanian Railroad, 313
Steel Rails in the United States, 106, 137, 162, 401
Steel Works in Austria, Progress of, 401
Steel Works, Landon:), Dispute at, 19, 29, 219, 462, 486
Steel Works at Middlesbrough, Progress of, 199
Steel Works, Proposed, at Port Clarence, 372
Steel Works in the United States, Progress of, 496
Stirling, Mr. James, C. E., Death of, 29
Stockton, The Ironworkers' Dispute at, 443
Stockton and Middlesbrough, The Water Supply of, 443
Stoking, Mechanical: Errata, 558
Stone, Ransome's Artificial, 339
Sto1ppage, Proposed, of the Brynmawr Works, 79
Street Locomotives, Light for New Orleans, 521
Street Watering, London, 198
Streets of Philadelphia, The, 374
Strike at Abertillery Tin Works, End of, 117
Strike of Colliers at Onilwyn, 239
Strike in the Forest of Dean, Settlement of a, 371, 534
Strike of Ironworkers at Rotherham, Termination of, 297
Strike of the Llandaff Ironworkers, 285
Strike of Miners, Great, in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, 297, 324, 339, 372, 396, 419, 443
Strike at Parkgate Iron Works, Termination of the, 43
Strike of Sheffield Ironworkers, Settlement of, 372
Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 492, 563
Submarine Cable, An Australian, 239
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 140
Submarine Telegraphy, Progress of, 87. 360
Subscription for the Widow and Children of the late Mr. John Normansell, 29, 43
Subterranean Telegraphy, Proposed, in Philadelphia, 325
Suez Canal, The, 117, 222, 263, 37G, 401, 425, 49G, .531
Sugar Factories, The Khedive's, 401
Sumatra, Scientific Expedition for Exploring the Interior of, 4
Survey of Newfoundland, A, 51
Surveyorship of St. Luke's, Middlesex, Appointment of A. Allen, Jun., to the, 37
Survey in South Australia, 4Q1
Suspension Bridge, The Hammersmith, 285
Swaithe Main Colliery Explosion, The, 29, 43, 118, 138
Swansea Colliery Company, Winding-up of the, 117
Swansea Harbour Trustees, Meeting of the, 515,
Swansea, Improvements at, 419
Swansea, Meeting of Shipowners at, 19
Swansea New Docks, The, 515
Swansea Pier Extension, Progress of, 486
Swansea, Trade at, 43
Swindon and Highworth Light Railway Company, Meeting of the, 42
Swindon, Marlborough, and Andover Railway Company, Half-yearly Meeting of the, 157
Sydney and Illawarra Railway, The Proposed, 59
Syren Fog-Signal House, Proposed, at Milford, 137

Taff Bargoed Railway, Opening of the, 19, 28
Taff Vale Railway Company, Half-yearly Report of the, 137
Taranaki Iron Sand, 378
Tasmanian Iron Mines, Progress of, 374
Tasmanian Main Line Railway, Progress of the, 106, 162
Tay Bridge Works, Progress of the, 99, 199, 371, 396, 491, 558
Telegrams, The Charge for Long Words in, 449
Telegraph Cable, A, for Fiji, 288
Telegraph Cable, The New Zealand, 375
Telegraph Company, The Great Northern, Progress of, 202, 359, 470, 471
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 140
Telegraph Repairs, Submarine, 360
Telegraphic Conference in New South Wales, 374
Telegraphs, Underground between Halle and Berlin, Proposed, 211
Telegraphy, American, Progress of, 43, 374, 433
Telegraphy, Antipodean, Progress of, 425
Telegraphy, Australian, Progress of, 239, 449, 486
Telegraphy, British Columbian, Progress of, 329
Telegraphy, Canadian, Progress of, 44
Telegraphy, Indian, Progress of, 527
Telegraphy, Spanish, Progress of, 317
Telegraphy, Submarine, Progress of, 87, 360
Telegraphy, Subterranean, in Philadelphia, 325
Telescope, A Great French, 449
Tennessee Narrow Gauge Line, A, 25
Texas, Water Works in, 353
Thames Pollution, The, 346
Thorncliffe Iron Works Blast Furnaces, The, 540
Tide, Low, at Cardiff, 239
Timber, Canadian; Annual Report of the Crown Lands Commissioner of Ontario, 51
Timber, Preserved, 162
Tin Mining, Tasmanian, Progress of, 25, 360, 401, 425
Tin, Rise in the Price of, 443
Tin Works, The Glamorganshire; Meeting of Delegates at Swansea, 219
Tin Works, Proposed, at Pontardulais, 117, 371
Tin Works, The Pontymister, 534
Tin Works, New, at Ystalyfera, 156
Tin-Plate Trade, Meeting of, at Swansea, 247
Tin-Plate Trade, South Wales, Wages in the, 157
Tin-Plate Workers, The Lydney, 19, 534
Tin-Plate Works, The Upper Forest, 117
Tiverton and North Devon Railway Company, Meeting of the, 117
Tondu and Maesteg Iron Works, Wages at the, 247
Torpedo Boat, German, Launch of a, 329
Torpedo Experiments on H.M.S. " Oberon," 528
Torquay, Sewerage Improvements at, 29, 247
"Tourmaline," H.M.S., Inspection of, 340, 390
Traction Engines for Artillery Trains, SO
Traction Engines, Important to Owners of, 297
Trade at Cardiff, 43,117, 515
Trade, The Cleveland, Prospects of, 19, 47
Trade at Ebbw Vale, Progress of, 419
Trade in the Forest of Dean, 19, 419
Trade Marks, Registration of, '226, 485
Trade at Newport, 43, 395, 515, 534
Trade at Rhymney, 443
Trade, State of, in Scotland, 483
Trade at Swansea, 43
Trades of South Wales, Progress of, 28
Tramway Company, The Leeds, Half-yearly Report and Meeting of the, 138, 179
Tramways, The Bristol, Progress of, 28, 90, 156, 324, 395, 443, 486
Tramways at Brussels, Progress of, 449
Tramways Company, Sheffield, Half-yearly Dividend of the, 179, 199
Tramway; Constantinople; Resignation of the Manager, 239
Tramway; Experiments with Steam Engines for, 443
Tramways at Frankfort, Progress of, 479
Tramways at Malaga, Proposed, 252
Tramway; Motors for, 266
Tramways, Neath, Reduction of Tolls Paid by the, 179
Tramways, The Newport, Progress of, 71
Tramways, Parisian Progress of the, 491
Tramways, The Sheffield, Progress of, 29, 179, 199, MO
Transvaal Republic, Railways in the, 266
Travelling on the Great Western Railway, 19
Treaties, Commercial, Revision of, 180
Tredegar Iron Company, The New, 348
Tredegar, Settlement of the Dispute with the Rail Straighteners at, 284
Trial of Clapp's Coal-Cutting Machinery at Newport, 219
Trial of Steam Tram Engines in Yorkshire, 418
Trimsaran, Coal Winning at, 137
Trophy, An Australian Mineral, 239
Truro Water Company, A Proposed, 99
Tunisian Railways, Progress of the, 4G8
Tunnel, The Anglo-French Submarine, 222
Tunnel, The Moxahala, on the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway, 474
Tunnel, A New Zealand, 471
Tunnel under the River Tees at Middlesbrough, The Proposed, 109
Tunnel, The St. Gothard, Progress of, 7, 249, 521,
Tunnelling, The Hour on, 182
Turkey, Machinery for, 239
Turkey, The Manufacture of Cartridges in, 491
Turkey and the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 376
Turkey, Wages in, 297
Turkish Floating Dock, A, 222
Turkish Fortifications, 202
Turkish Navy, The, 106, 401
Turkish Railways, Progress of, 29, 106
Turnford, New Well at, for the New River Company, 539
Twin Turret Ship. The " Inflexible," Preparations for the Launch of, 230
Tylor's Ferndale Colliery Company, Progress of, 117

" Uhlan," German Torpedo Boat, Launch of,329
Underground Telegraph, Proposed, between Halle and Berlin, 211
Union, North Wales Quarrymen's Second Annual Conference of, 443
Union Pacific Railroad, Coal on the, 378
Union Pacific Railroad, Progress of the, 350, 378, 401, 425, 419
United States, Coal in the, 71
United States, Export of English Rails to the, 44
United States Navy, The, 25, 137, 222
United States, Public Lands of the, 25, 45
United States Rolling Stock Company, Progress of the, 329
United States, Steel Rails in the, 106, 137, 162,401
University of Glasgow, Endowment of the Engineering Chair in the, 251
Upper Forest Tin-Plate Works, The, 117
Utilisation of Coal Dirt, 425

" Vanguard," The Raising of the, 510
Venezuelan Railways, Progress of the, 496 Vessels, Composite, 137
Victoria, Australia, Progress of, 106, 135, 461, 521
Victoria Philosophical Institute, Annual Meeting of the, 467
Victorian Railways, Progress of the, 162, 425, 436
Vieille-Montagne Zinc Mines and Foundries Company, Profits of the, 49G
Vienna Observatory, Largo Telescope for the, 266
Virginian Coal, 449
Visit of South Wales Engineers to the South Yorkshire Coalfield, 564
Voyage, A Good, from Plymouth to Melbourne, 263

Wages at the Avonside Engine Works, Proposed Reduction of, 42, 71, 99
Wages at Blaenavon, 29
Wages, Cleveland Blast Furnacemen's, Proposed Reduction of the, 67, 99, 109
Wages of Colliers in South Yorkshire, Proposed Reduction of the, 199, 211, 239, 247, 274, 297, 339, 462, 486, .510, 564
Wages, Ebbw Vale Ironworkers', Reduction of, 43, 324
Wages in the Forest of Dean, 28, 42, 117, 371, 443, 534
Wages of the Ironworkers at Sheffield, Proposed Reduction of, 98, 274, 297, 372, 462
Wages at Lydbrook, Proposed Reduction of, 515
Wages in Pembrokeshire, 179
Wages of Pointsmen on the Caledonian Railway, 239
Wages of the Rail Straighteners at Rhymney, 217
Wages, Reduction of, at the Malleable Iron Works, Glasgow, 462
Wages in the Rhondda Valley, 19, 137, 157, 371
Wages at the Saundersfoot Collieries, Reduction of, 199
Wages in the Somersetshire Coalfields, 219, 239, 297
Wages in South Wales Collieries, 19, 239
Wages in the Tin-Plate Trade, South Wales, 157
Wages at the Tondu and Maesteg Iron Works, 247
Wages in Turkey, 297
Wagon and Carriage Department, New, for the Midland Railway, at Derby, 563
Wagon, Railway Company's Operations, South Yorkshire, 99
Wagon Shed at Cowlairs, Fall of a New, 117
Waitara and Wanganui Railway, New Zealand, Progress of the, 129
Wakefield Rolling Stock Company, Meeting of the, 118
Wakefield Water Works Company, The, 510 Wales, Labour in, 71
Wallaroo Mines, South Australia, Progress of the, 408
Warehouses, City, New Railway, 479
Warming Railway Carriages in France, 449
Water Company, The Exeter, New Works of the, • 534
Water Company, Proposed, at Truro, 99
Water and Gas Works, Leeds, Annual Accounts of the, 118 •
Water Pipes, Large Contract for, at Glasgow, 79
Water Scheme, The Motherwell, Progress of, '285
Water, Sewerage, and Drainage Works at Normanton, Proposed, 443
Water Supply of Bridgewater, The, 199, 324
Water Supply of Brisbane, Queensland, The, 162
Water Supply for Chapeltown, Sheffield, 20, 118
Water Supply for the City and Fires, 529
Water Supply for Dowlais, Additional, 297
Water Supply, The Dronfield, 540
Water Supply, Mr. Humber's Work on, 435
Water Supply of Iquique, The, 198
Water Supply, The London; Deputation to Mr. Cross, 252
Water Supply of Melbourne, The, 288
Water Supply, The Metropolitan, and the Use of Hydrants, 172
Water Supply, The Ovenden, 824
Water Supply for Pembroke Dock, The, 419
Water Supply of Philadelphia, The, 449
Water Supply of Stockton and Middlesbrough, The, 443
Water Works Bill, The Dewsbury, 149
Water Works, The Bradford Corporation, 289
Water Works, The Busby, near Glasgow, 443
Water Works Contract, The Motherwell, 19, 285
Water Works, The Ebbw Vale, Progress of, 217
Water Works, Leeds, The Extension of, 564
Water Works, The Moorfoot, Tenders for, 179
Water Works, The Ossett, Progress of, 354, 462
Water Works, The Pontypridd, Progress of, 157
Water Works in Texas, 353
Welland Canal, Tenders for the, 182
Well, Sinking, a New, at Turnford, for the New River Company, 539
Wells' Collieries, near Sheffield, Sale of the, 149
Welsh Coal for Ireland, 239
Welsh Coal Trade, Progress of the, 28, 43, 71, 117, 179, 419, 462, 486,558
Welsh Unionists, Intimidation by, 486
West Central Wagon Works, Sale of the41515
West of England, Railways on the, 516 •
West Indie, Gas in the, 162
West Riding Geological and Polytechnical Society, Meeting of the, 372
West Yorkshire Miners' Wages, The, 564
Western Kentucky, Coal in, 461
Western Railway Extensions, 462
Whithorn, Contract for the Railway to, 483
Whittington and Sheepbridge Colliery Company, Annual Report of the, 247
Williamson's Hoisting Engines, 455
Winding up of the Swansea Colliery Company, 117
Wingate, Thomas, and Company, Engineers, &c., Glasgow, Change of into a Limited Liability Business, 534
Wishaw, New Coalfield at, 261
Woodcroft, B., Clerk to the Commissioners of Patents, Resignation of, 187
Working Expenses and Rolling Stock on the Eastern Railway of France, 471
Working Men's College, The. 231
Works, Bolckow, Vaughan and Co.'s, 19, 238
Works, Steel, in the United States, Progress of, 496
Wye Valley Rail ay, Progress of the, 515
Wyoming Coal, Quantity Produced in 1875, 348

Yarra, River, Shipbuilding on the, 126
Ystalyfera, Proposed New Tin Works at, 156

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