The Engineer 1856 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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MISCELLANEOUS

Abraham's Patent Cosy Carriage, 117
Accident, American Railway, 302
Accident, Caledonian Railway, 211
Accident, Colliery, 4
Accident in Ore l'it, 12
Accident, Cyclops Steel Works, 53
Accident at Dudley, the Fatal Mine, 353
Accident at the Dyffryn Coal Pit, 100
Accident, Panama Railroad, 320
Accident, Portsmouth Dockyard, GO
Accident, Prevention of, 7
Accident on Railways, 104, 211
Accident, Railway Liability for, 66
Accident, Shocking, 234
Accident, West India Docks, 259
Accident, Ystalyfera Iron and Tin Works, 105
Accidents, Five Fatal Pit, 329
Adam's New Rail, W. Bridges, 25, 30, 43, 05
Adam's Fish Jointing, 111
Adamson's Patent (Court of Chancery), 231
Address, Mr. Robert Stephenson's, 33
Address, Opening, 3
Adelaide, Water Supply and Drainage in, 273
Admiralty Consistency (Note Book), 219
Admiralty, Experiments in the (Now Book), 138
Adriatic, the Steamer, 232
Aerated Liquors, Rogers's Apparatus for Drawing off and Retaining, 104
Agricultural Statistic.' Bill, 224, 340
Agricultural Exhibition of 1856, French, 217, 227
Agricultural Implements, 80
Agricultural Show at Paris, 335
Agricultural Society of England, 295
Agricultural Statistics of Ireland, 104)
Agriculture during the last Fifteen Years, Progress of, by C. W. Hoskyns (Society of Arts), 122
Agriculturists, Important to, 342
Aid to Science, Government's, 392
Aldridge's Meters for Measuring the Flow of Liquids, 29
Algebra (A Literary Notice), 82
Alkali, Longmaid's Patent, 347
Allen's, Ed. E., Working Steam Expansively, 13
Allen's, Ed. E, Improvements in Steam Engines, 212
Alleyne and Stratford's Improvements in Railway Brakes, 109
Alloy, New Metallic, 5
Aluminium, 52
Aluminium from Cryolite, by Henrich Rose, 66
Aluminium, New Process of Coating with, 341
Aluminium, the New Metal, 131
Aluminium, on, by Rev. J. Barlow, 259, 274
America, Electric Communication with, 335
America. How Formed, 4
America, New Line of Steamers to, :145
America, Foreign Patent Law in the U.S. of, 140, 172
America, Perils of the Rail in, 1:35
America, Proposed Railroad and Telegraph in, 104
American Gun Machinery, 20
American Invention. The Hillotype, 37
American Inventions, 265
American Knitting Machine, 271
American Mail Steamer, Fulton, 129
American Railways, 52, 53
American Scientific Association, 255
American Treasury Minute Revoked, 205
Ammonium, Professor Hoffman's Experiments with, 302
Antistatic Process (Note Book), 9
Anchors, liatteley's Improvements in Ships', 53
Anchors, New Gun Metal, 292
Anchors, Ruston's Improvements in, 345
Anderston Foundry Company, Barclay and Co. versus, Court of Session, Scotland, 107
Andrews"rubular Steam Boiler, 73, 101, 113
Andrews' Strength of Cast Iron Cylinders. By John Orme, 114
Anemometers, 145
Anthony, J., Causes of Explosion in Steam Boilers, by, 81
Appeals (House of Lords). Mackenzie v. Dunlop, Wilson, and Co., 311
Application of Art to Manufactures, 330
Application of Steam in Metallurgical Operation. By J. G. Mastren, 257
Arch for Bridges, &c., Tabourin's Metallic, 108
Archer, on some of the Animal and Vegetable Products constituting the Foreign Commerce of Liverpool (Society of Arts), 122
Architecture, Iron Buildings, 100
Architectural Museum, 179, 336
Art to Manufactures, Application of, 330
Artesian Well at Bois do Boulogne, 132
Artesian Well at Pansy, 320
Artillery, Mr. Whitworth's, 239
Assessment of Mines, 291
Association of Foremen of Engineering Trade, Dinner to the, 50
Association, Gas-titters' Mutual, 217
Athentruin at Southampton, 72
Atherton, Chas., Tonnage Registration (Soc. of Arts), 31
Atlantic Steaming, 167
Atmosphere of Pressure, an, 95
Australia, Favourable Accounts from, 301
Australia. Its Trade, 3.53
Australia, New Route to, 320, 331
Australia, Postal Communication between England and, 107, 187
Australia, Steamers In, 302
Australia, Steam Communication with (Note Book), 57, 137. 217, 297
Australian Gold, 346
Australian Mails, 323, 347
Australian Mails, Irregularity of the, 174
Australian Royal Mail Steam Company, 217
Austrian Railways, 218, 312, 338
Axle Box and Spring Fittings for Railway Carriages, 228

Bail Court. Simmons r. Vansittart and others (Salary), 311, 323
Bally and Sons' Cast Iron Gate, 296
Balance Weights, Problem of, by A., 215
Balance Weights, Problem of, by C., 310, 198
Balance Weights, Problem of, by Chas. E. Conders, 286
Balance Weights, Problem of, by Hastings, 287, 214
Balance Weights, Problem of, by 11. F., 262, 230
Balance Weights, Problem of, by J. U. P., 239
Balance Weights, Problem of, by K. R. t`., 198, 136, 262
Balance Weights, Problem of, by Lovatt, J., 230
Balance Weights, Problem of, by W., 187
Ball or Float Cocks, Frost's Improvements in, 72
Balloons, A Passenger Line of, 317
Banks, 202
Bank Notes, Forgery of, 274
Bankruptcy, Court of, In re Mare, 153, 196, 288, 323
Bankruptcy, Court of, In re Richard Jenkin Polyglass, 334
Bankruptcy of G. Bennett, Iron Master, 313
Bankruptcy of J. II. Blackwell, 313
Bankruptcy of Green the Banker, 313
Barcelona, Trial Trip of the, 85
Barclay and Co. r. the Anderston Foundry Company (Court of Session, Scotland), 167
Bar-Cutting Tool, Tluls•'s, 34.5
Barlow and Co. Fees from British Applicants for American Patents, 287
Barlow's Wood-Planing Machine, 60
Barlow, M.A., F.R.S., V.P., Sec. R. I., on Aluminium, by the Rev. J., 239, 274
Barram, Jos., on the Subject of the Exhibition of Inventions at the Society of Arts, 187
Bath Gas Company, 224
Baths, New, 218
Batley, Wm., Portable Engines, 285
Battery Floating, built by Mr. Napier, of Glasgow, (Note Book), 125
Battery, by Geo. Mathmt, a Self-Sustaining, 1,16, 182, 219
Battery, the Nautilus, 130
Battery at Pembroke, New Drill, 211
Buttery, Proposed New, 43
Battery, Scotch Gun, 231
Battery on the Thames, Launch of a Floating, 250
Bayley and Quarmby's Machinery for Cording Fibrous Materials, 312
Beams, Sandwich, ' An Architect,' 309
Beattie's Group Mr., 202
Beattie v. The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, 347
Beattie, Mr. Trial (Note Bix)k), 349
Beaugrand and Gommes' Machinery for Manufacturing Metal Wares, 269
Belcher, Sir Ed. (Note Book), 21
Belfast and Fleetwood Line of Steamers, 63
Belfast School of Art, 38
Belgian Steamers, New Line of, 14
Belgique, the Steamer, 74
Bells, on Large, 86
Bellay's Improvements in Earthenware and China, 117
Bennock, Francis, on Thread or Fibre Gilding (Society of Arts), 210
Benthams, M. S., Fire-proof Buildings, 199
Bernard's Patent Machine Boot and Shoe Company, 333
Berthon, Rev. Mr. (Note Book), 33
Betts, E. L., Grand Trunk Canada Iktilway, 213
Betts' Patent Capsules, 335
Betteley's Improvements in Ships' Anchors' 53
Beyer and Peacock's Works at Gorton, near Manchester, Plan of Messrs., 332
Beyer and Peacock's Wall Engine, 314
Bidder, Mr. Geo., Mental Calculation by (Institution of Civil Engineers), 111, 123
Bidder, Mr. Geo., on Square and Cube Roots, 134
Bidder, Mr. Geo., 112
Bills Passed (House of Commons), 263
Bills, Parliamentary, 211
Bills, Parliamentary., Lancashire Railway, 153
Bills, Report of the Committees on Railway, 294, 313, 322, 334, 347
Birch's Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron, 100
Birkenhead to Liverpool, Submarine Tunnel from, 228
Birmingham Ironmasters' Quarterly Meeting, 26
Birmingham, Progress of, 43
Birmingham Trade, 202
Birmingham Waggon Company, 146
Bismuth upon Copper, Influence of, 5
Blame where it is Due (Note Book), 149
Bleach Works Bill, 201
Blowing Apparatus, 'luck's Improvements in, 133
Blythe and Another r. 'fityleur, 211
Board of Works, the Amusement of the (Note Book), 283
Boat, Deschamps and Vilcocq's Free Diving, 121
Boat, NI!. Inshaw's, 8
Boat, Life, Designed by James Peake, Esq., 20
Boat, Regent's Canal tug, 4
Boiler, Andrews' Tubular Steam, 73, 101, 113
Boiler, Cameron's Conical Fire-Box 17
Boiler,Canieron's Conical Fire-Box, W.Mi1lward,105,113
Boiler, Child's, II., 188
Boiler, Dewranee's, 77, 101, 108, 113
Boiler, Description of a New Duplicate Retort Steam, 195
Boiler, Thomas Dunn's Steam, 297, 337
Boiler Explosion, W. Adrews, 229, 219
Boiler Explosion, 38, 50, 181, 217, 261, 342
Boiler Explosion, Glasgow, 217
Boiler Explosion, Causes of, by Mr. W. K. Hall, U.S., America (Institution of Civil Engineers), 171, 133
Boilers, Feeding of, Jno. Player, C.E., 14
Boilers for Steam Carriages, Thomas's Improvements in, 208
Boilers and Furnaces, &c., Valuable Remarks on Steam, 102
Boilers, Incrustation in Steam, II. Childs, 26.
Boilers, Incrustation on Steam, NI. Duclos do Boussois (Note Book), 69
Boilers, Incrustation on Steam, Thos. Forsyth, 26
Boilers, Incrustation on Steam, Jas. Napier, F.C.S.' 6
Boilers, Incrustation on Steam, W. Wheelwright, 38
Boilers, Lees' Improvements in Marine and other, 52
Boilers, Macnaught's Improvements in Steam, 36
Boilers Manufactured at Messrs. Scott Russell's, 152
Boilers, Mellor and Young's Machinery for Supplying Water to Steam, 196
Boiler and Oscillating Valve, Cowburn's Cellular, 268
Boilers, Ramsbottom's Safety Valves and Feeding Apparatus for Steam, 96
Boilers, Rennie's Improvements in Marine Steam, 308
Boilers, C. Fred. Thou's, 113
Bois de Boulogne, Artesian Well in the, 132
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Co., 335
Bollard, Hull e. (Infringement), 211
Bolts rind Screw Minks, Rothera's Machinery for Making, 308
Book of Facts, Year, by .John Tinibs, F.S.A., 198
Books Lent, not Books Lost, 198
Borer, Tunnel, 65
Boulogne, New Sluices at, 176
Boydell'm Traction Engine, Experiments with, 183, 195
Braidwood, Assoc. Inst. C.E., Supt. Fire Brigade, on Fires and Fire-proof Structures (Soc. of Arts), 258
Brakes, Alleyne and Straffords' Railway, 109
Bramham Moor, 348
Brassey, Mr. 'I'., Grand Trunk Canada Railway, 215
Brasseur's Machinery for Winding 'Weft, 22.1
Brass Tubes of Boilers, 50
Brazilian Railway, SO
Breach of Contract, Important Decision, 120
Breech Loading Fire-arms, Minid's Improvements in, 18
Bricks, Drying and Burning, H. Chamberlain, 322, 337
Bricks, Experiments on the Power of (Note Book), 125
Bricks by Machinery, by Mr. 11. Chamberlain, C.F.., on the Manufacture of, 306
Bricks, Experiments on the Strength of Hollow and Solid, by Mr. H. Chamberlain (Society of Arts), 334
Bricks and Tiles, Weight and Green's Improvements in the Manufacture or, 121
Bridge in Canada, Fall of a Suspension, 320
Bridge, Draw, F.S., 197
Bridge, Isle of Wight Steam, 56, 152
Bridge in the Park (Note 1300k), 337
Bridge, London, Mr. S. O. Keefe, C.E., 137
Bridge, Rochester, New, 348
Bridge over the Rhine ialls 278
Bridge over the River Suir,Cast-iron, 336
Bridges, Progress of the New (Note Book), 297.
Bridges we are Going to Build, (Note book), 20
Bridget, Tabunrin's Metallic Arch for. 10$
Bridge at the Woodside Iron Works, Iron, 183
Bridgewater Canal, 62
Bridle for Over-ruling Fiery Horses, Guilbert and Guillemere's, 292
Brigg e. Beardsell (Vice-Chancellors Court), 275
Brighton (;as Company, 190
Brooman's Improvements in the Manufacture of Net, 108
Brough, Mr. Lionel, Inspector of Coal Mines, 66
British Association, 269
British Consul's Manual (Literary Notice), 82
British Workman (Literary Notice), 82
Brussels Congress, Hearty $ ipport of the Coming, 329
Buckingham Palace, Lighting of, 267
Buckled Platesallet's, 19
Budget, the, Dopes Deferred or Forlorn, 285
Buffers and other Springs, Myers' Improvements in, 152
Buildings in the Dockyards, who Designs the luflumtnable, by Ironstone, 215
Buildings, Fire-Proof, Lady Bentham, 199
Building, the Midland Institute, 202
Buoy, Life, 19
Bullough, Wm. and Walmsley's Warping Machinery, 83
Burch, J., on the Printing or Fabrics (Soc. of Arts), 246 Murders' Oil Feeders for Lubricating Machinery, 129
Burke's, Mr. F., Invention for Separating the Fibres of Different Vegetablos for Manufacturing Purposes, 33
Burn's, W., Engineer, Water-Pipes, 165
Bursting of a Mortar ut Woolwich, 171
Bush v. Sir Charles Fox and Others, 347
Butcher and Newey's Improvements in Forge Hammers, 44, 57
Bute Clock Ballast Men, 247
Butty Miner, the, 277

'C.' Railway Practice and Mechanical Engineers, 15 27, 51, 75, 166
'C.' Ritchie's Locomotive Engine, 29, 45
'C.' Problem of Balance Weights, 198, 310
Cadmus, Launch of the, 314
Calculating Apparatus, Newton's, 121
Calculating Excavation and Embankment, by Ger. A. Simruonson, :122
Calcutta, Telegraph to, 228
Caledonian Railway, Accident on the, 211
Cameron's Patent Conical Fire-box Boiler, 17, 113
Cameron's Patent Conical Fire-box Boiler, W. Milward, 105
Cameron, Mr. James, Civil Engineer for Cape Town, 164
Campbell raid Others reran,. Prim, 118
Cumpain's Machinery for Filling Sacks, 77
Canadian Railways, ).68
Canal, Bridgewater, 62
Canal, Purification of the Bridgewater, 224
Canal, Practicability of a Ship, by the Valley of the Atrato, by F. M. Kelly, U.S. (Inst. C.E.), 226, 246
Canals in India, 167
Canal, Steam on the Birmingham, 341
Canal Traffic, It -ilway and, 153
Candidates Erected (Institution Civil Engineers), 67, 270
Candle Company, Price's, Manufacture uf, Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., (Society of A•ts), 41
Cannon, Dr. Church's Monster Breech Loading, 247
Cannon and Shot, Gower's Improvements in, 115
Cape of Good Hope Gas Company, 102
Cape Town, Mr. 1). Cameron, Civil Engineer for, 164
Caird and Co., Launch of a Screw Steamer from Messrs., 114
Caisse des Mines, 323
Car of Juggernaught, the, 253
Carcel and his Lamp, 22, 37, 43
Carding Fibrous Materials, Bayley and Quarmby's Machinery for, 312
Carlton Club, Ventilation of the, 312
Carpet Manufactory, by Alexander Whytock (Society of Arts), 110
Carriages, LVIllly'S Improvements In, 312
Carriages, the Patent raiiitemps, 112
Carriages, Prussian and English Railway, 323
Carriage Repository, Iron, 314
Carriage Steps, It. and E. Vezey's, 72
Cartridges, Manufacture of, 73
Cases fur Preserved Meats, 36
Cast-iron Ordnance, from Hird, Dawson and II areby, 141
Cathedral in Liverpool, 233
Cattle Market, the New, 247
Caulking Decks, &c., Macintyre's Apparatus for, 228
Cause and Effect (Note Book), 169
Caution (Note Book), 149
Caution to Mine and Colliery Proprietors, 153
Cavalry Equipments, Cruikshank's Improvements in, 32
Ceilings, Decks, &c., Macintyre's Apparatus for Caulking, 228
Celestial Bodies, &c., Rotary Movement of the, by James Nasmyth, Esq. 138, 150
Cemetery, City of Esq., 139
Cemetery Company, New, 265
Cemetery, Delay in Opening the City, 247
Cesspools Johnson's Machinery for Emptying, 76
Ceylon Railway Company, 350
Chadwick's Apparatus for Measuring Fluids, 256
Chain Trade, 218
Chairs, Davis's Improvements in Railroad, 256
Chairs. Hostage and Tatlock's Slide and Tongue Railway, 152
Chairs, Sand's Improvements in Securing Rails in Railway, 268
Chamber of Commerce, 234
Chamber of Commerce, Birmingham, 265
Chamberlain, H., Burning and Drying of Bricks, by,322, 337
Chamberlain, H., Manufacture of Bricks by Machinery (Society of Arts), 306
Chamberlain, H., Experiments on the Strength of Bricks, 334
Chance, Esq., William, Death of, 80
Chance's Glass-Flattening Furnaces, 76
Chance, IL, on the Manufacture of Glass, (Society of Arts), 78
Chance, the School of the Brothers, 289
Chatterway, Railways, their Capital and Dividends, by E. D., 138
Cheap Train Company. 152
Chelsea Bridge, 201, 323
Chemical Constitution of odies, 7
Chemical Influence of Electricity, Light, and 'Leal, 83, 99, 111
Chemical Trade on the Tyne, 1 ,
Chemistry, Importance of, 37
Chepstow Gas %Voris, 253
Child's, H., Boiler ant Pump, 188
Child's, H., Incrustation upon Steam boilers, 26
Child's, A., Oscillating Engine, 309
China, Bellay's Improvements in Earthenware and, 117
Cholera, French Academy (Note Book), 101
Church's, Dr., Monster Breech Loading Cannon, 247
Churches, Mr. Skidmore's Iron, 218
Churning. Greening's Machinery for Washing, Mangling and, 180
Chroom-Lahneraphy, 250
Chrimes, Eskholme and Morris's Improvements in Preventing Waste of Water 112
Circle, Quadrature of the, 13
City Observatory, the, 191
City Sewers, 183
City Commission of Sewers, 139, 192, 247, 295, 323
Civil Engineers, Institution of. 314
Civil Service, Estimates of, 148
Clark, D. K., Mr. Adam's New Rail, 25 and 26
Clark, D. K., Assoc. Inst. C.E., Improvement of Railway Stock, 306
Clark, Professor, M.D., Supply of Pure Water to the Metropolis (Society of Arts), 270, 282
Clarkson's Patent Pumps, Masts, and Tents, 336
Clay's Improved mode of Manufacturing Forged Iron, 96
Clernence's Improved Omnibus, 140
Cliaper Ship, Tiptree's, 12
Clock at the Crystal Palace, Monster, 320
Cloth, Dusautoys' Machinery for Cutting, 321
Coal, 147
Coal from Australia, 73
Coal Freights. GO
Coal from Liverpool, Shipment of, 314
Coal to the Metropopolis, Supply of, 26
Coal-Pits, Introduction of Gas into, 232
Coal Trade, 74
Coal, by the Steamer Panama, Saving in the Consumption of, 141
Coal, to Supply Paris with, 68
Coal, Uses of, 216
Coal-Whipper's Bill, 346
Coal, Van Dieman's Land, 53
Cochrane, Messrs., Woodside Iron Works, near Dudley, 183
Cocks, Frost's Ball or Float, 72
Cocks and Taps, Scully and Heywood's Improvements in the Construction of, 216
Coinage, the New (a Literary Notice), 82
Coinage, Weights and Measures, Decimal, 348
Coke. Narrow Escape from being Suffocated by Lighted, 129
Collier and Mine Owners, Important Case to, (Note Book), 150, 338
Collier, New Screw, 287
Colliers' Steamers, Compartments in the, 181
Collieries, Wolverhampton, 39
Colliery Accident, 4
Colliery Engine Brake, 202
Colliery Filled with Water at Gateshead, 24
Colliery Regulations, 60, 112
Collier'. Association, the Steam, Premium .e500 (Note Book), 33
Colliers' Strike, Scotch, 227
Collisions and Accidents at Sea, by J. C. Hutchison, 170
Collision at Sea, 142
Colouring Steel and Bell Metal, 52
Colt's Fire-arms, 60
Combustion, B,' 185
Commerce of Liverpool, on Sonic of the Animal and Vegetable Products Constituting the Foreign, Mr. Archer's Paper (Society of Arts), 122
Commercial Prospect of the Country, (Note Book), 297
Commission, a Subject for a Government (Note Book), 297
Commissioners of Patents (Note Book), 81
Commissioners, Report of the Exhibition, 259
Committees on Railway Bills, Reports of the, 287, 294, 313, 322, 334, 347
Committee of Works and Improvements, 213
Communication with Australia, Steam, 57, 1:37, 217, 247, 297
Communication with Australia, Postal, 295
Communication between Driver and Guard, A. Molson, 45
Communication with Ireland, Steam, 247
Communication between London and Dublin, 34:
Communication between London and Paris, Steam, 253
Communication, Metropolitan, 295
Communicator, Sibbald's Ship, 294
Companies, Joint-Stock, 1:39
Canpaniett, Prosperity of Indian Steam, 261
Company, Austra,ian Steam Navigation, 217, 290
Company, Banbury Gas Light and Coke, 290
Campany, Bath, Gas, 224
Company, Bernard's Patent Machine Boot and Shoe, 335
Company, Birmingham Waggon, 146
Company, Brighton Ga., 190
Company, British Slog. 348
company, Cape of Good Hope Gas, 192
Company. Ceylon Railway, 350
Company, Eastern Counties' Railway, 17
Company, Fibre and Paper Manufacturing, 294
Company, General Screw Steam, 171, 231
Company, Hultsdorf Mills, 350
Company, Imperial Lombardo-Venetian and Central Italian Railway, 247
Company, Miner's Electro-Chemical Reduction; 207
Company, New Gas, 218
Company, North and South Wales Fuel, 227
Company, Peninsular and Oriental S. P., 324
Company, Philadelphia Steam Ship, 147
Company, Proposed Lingfield Gas,194
Company, Report of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, 335
Company, Victoria London Dock, 271
Company, Whichelo, versus The Brighton and Hove Waterworks, 295
Compass, the, 22
Compass Committee (Note Book), 125
Compass, Experiments, 33, 45
Compasses, Adjustment of Ships', 261
Competition of Skill and Talent (Note Book), 247
Conclusion of the Miners' Strike, 326
Concrete, Use of New and Old, 44
Conder's, Chas. E., Problem of Balance Weights, 286
Condie, John, Butcher, and Newcy's Forge Hammers, 57
Conducting rowers of Metals, 62
Constantinople, 216
Constantinople, Telegraphic Communication with, 217
Conspiracy to Defraud, Extensive, 265
Conspiracy in one of the Iron Works, Extensive, 277
Consistency, Admiralty (Note Book), 249
Consumption of Smoke in the Navy, 140
Consul's Manual, The British (Literary Notice), 82
Contracts, 202
Contract with Government, by Messrs. Napier, Glasgow,) Contract in the Iron Trade, Alleged Breach of, 50
Contracts are Given, how Government, 152
Contracts for Rations, 72
Cooling's Improvements in Pumps, 212
Copper, Australian, 218
Copper, Influence of Bismuth upon, 5
Copper Smelting Monopoly, 185
Copper and Tin, 317
Copeock's and Robert' Improvements in Looms for Weaving, 56
Corn Planters, Improvements in, 14
Correspondents, To, 9, 21, 33, 45. 57, (39, 81, 101, 113, 125, 137, 149, 169, 185, 197, 213, 229, 249, 261, 273, 285, 297, 309, 325, 337, 349
Cossham's Views, Mr. Handel, 277
Cotsell's Improvements in Gutter and Kerb for Roads, 336
Cotton, Colonel A., upon the Chief Requirements of India, 289
Counterfeit Coin, 234, 253
Court of Chancery, In re Adamson's Patent, 231
Court of Chancery, In re Daines' Patent, 211
Court of Chancery, In re Lowe's Patent, 118, 139
Court of Chancery, In re Toison's Petition for Sealing a Patent, 263, 311
Court of Bankruptcy, In re Mare, 153
Court of Session (Scotland), Barclay and Co. against the Anderston Foundry Company. 167
Court-martial on Commander F. P. Warren, 138
Covent Garden Theatre, Fire at, 153, 170
Covent Garden Theatre, Fire at (Note Book), 137
Cowburn's Cellular Boiler and Oscillating Safety Valve, 268
Creditor, a Grasping, Rebuked, 277
Creditors of Messrs. Scott Russell and Co., Meeting of (Note Book), 81
Crimea, Iron in the, 255
Crow and Weallens' Improvements in Steam Engines, 136
Crushing and Grinding Grain, Turner's Improvements in. 40
Crushing Machine, Wm. Pattinson's Cornish, 81
Crushing Grain, W. and J. Wright's Machinery for, 248
Cryolite, Preparation of Aluminium from, 66
Crystal Palace, 84
Cruickshank's Improvements in Cavalry Equipments, 32
Cruickshank's Improvements in Cavalry Equipments (Note Book), 33
Cultivation by Steam (Society of Arts),Jno. Fowler, jun., Bristol, 54
Culture, Steam, G3
Cumberland Coal, 147
Cunningham's Improvements in Reefing Sails, 209
Customs Dues, United States, Reduction in the, 234
Cutlery, by James Wilson, Manufacture of Articles from Steel, particularly (Society of Arts), 200
Cutting Cloth, &c., Dusautoy's Machinery for, 321
Cutting Paper, Machine for, L,' 185
Cutting Paper, Card, &c., Ullmer's Improvements in Machinery for, 165
Cylinders, Strength of Cast Iron, by John Orm• Andrews, 114

Daine's Patent (Court of Chancery), 211
Dalton's Improvements in Furnaces for Smelting Iron Ore, 18, 45
Davey and Stanton's Warming and other Stoves, 72
Davis's Patent Parallel Vice, 36
Davis's Improvements in Railroad Chairs, 256
Dawson, Mr. Geo., M.A., Midland Institute, 301, 329
Dead by Burning, Disposal of the (Note Book), 33
Deaf, Valuable Instrument for the, 303
Death of W. Chance, Esq., 80
Death of the Fine Arts Prize Association, 329
Death of Mr. Mole, 218
Decimal Coinage, and Weights and Measures, 348
Decision as to Railway Travelling, 147
Decks, &c., Macintyre's Apparatus for Caulking, 228
Decorations, Architectural, a New Substance for, 38
Detective Mortars (Messrs. II. and M. D. Grissell), 187, 131
Delta, New Ship Launched for the P. and 0. Company, the, 294
Denmark, Claims of, 341
Dennison's, Mr., Anecdote of Cheap Train Company, 152
Dentun versus The Great Northern Railway, 56
Der Preusse, Launched from Messrs. Scott Russell Yard, 57
Deschamp and Vilcoq's Free Diving Boat, 121
Desert, Making a Sea of the Arabian, 26
Despotism. a Plea for (Note Book), 309
Dewrance's Patent Boiler, 77, 101, 108, 113
Dewrance's Improvements in the Frames of Piano, Fortes, 293
Diagrams Illustrative of Combustion of Smoke, 19
Dickens' Machinery for Spinning Silk, 292
Dickinson's Improvements in Making Piper, 293
Dickson's Mr. John, Permanent Way, 38, 57
Diggers, Gold, 298
Digging Machine, 257
Digging Potatoes, Hanson's Machinery for, 164
Dinner of the Society of Arts, Anniversary, 346
Discharging and Loading Vessels, 120, 152, 193
Discharging and Loading Vessels, J. Taylor and Co., 24
Diving Dresses, on Improvements in, by Mr. W. Heinke. 143, 183
Docks, Accident at the West India, 259
Docks, Extension at Newport. 217
Docks, North Shields and Tyncmouth, 228
Docks at Trieste, 284
Docks at Victoria, 298
Dock Company, Victoria (London), 271
Docks, Yarrow, 259
Dodge's Machinery for Spreading Waterproofing Compounds, 348
Donations to the Society of Arts, 105
Dowlais Waterworks, 343
Downing-street, Proposed Improvements in Pall-mall and, 145
Drainage of the Fens, 106
Drainage (I•eland) Advances Bill, 347
Drainage, South of London, 229
Drainage, South of London (Note Book), 197
Drake's, Dr., Ignition Engine, 8
Drawing off Aerated Liquors, Rogers' Apparatus for Retaining and, 104
Drawing Instruments, 14, 234
Drill, Knighton's Portable, 181
Drill, Nasmyth's Grooving Machine, or Recessing, 280
Drilling and Recessing Machine, by Messrs. Kershaw, 344
Drilling and Screw-cutting Machine, 25
Drying Purposes, Consumption of Smoke and its Economy for, 118
Drysdale, Assoc. Inst., C.E., Chas., on Steep Gradients of Railways and the Locomotives employed (I.C.E.), 199, 210
Dubrulle's Improvements in Safety Lamps,173
Dues, The Danish Sound, 341
Dues, Opposition to the Liverpool, 277
Dundalk and Enniskillen Linc of Rails, Sinking of t Portion of the, 52
Dunn's New Duplicate Retort Steam Boiler, 196, 297,33:
Dusautoy's Machinery for Cutting Cloth and other Sul, stances, 321
Dutch Engineers on a Tour of Inquiry, 329
Duty on Iron, Reduction of, 329
Dwelling for the Labouring Classes, 334
'Dyer,' Heating Water in Boilers, 69
Dyffryn Coal Pit, Fatal Accident at the, 106

Earthenware and China, Bellay's Improvements in, 117
Eastern Counties Railway, 52, 53, 141
Eastern Counties Railway (Note Book), 21, 33
Eastern Counties Railway Company, 17
Eastern Counties Railway, State of the, 167
Eccentric Sluice Valve, Wailes's, 181
Economy for Drying Purposes, Consumption of Smoke and its, 118
Effect, Cause and (Note Book), 169
Egypt, Public Works in, 258, 311
Egyptian Railway, 53
Elected Candidates, Inst. of Civil Engineers, 67
Elected Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 199, 258, 67
Election of Directors of Eastern Counties Railway, 141
Election of Members of Society of Arts, 134
Electricity, Heat, and Light, Chemical Influence of, 83, 99, 111
Electric Communication with America, 335
Electric Motive Engines, 113
Electric Telegranhs, Walker and McKenzies Improvements in, 109
Ecetro-Chemical Reduction Company (Miners), 207
Electro Magnet, A.C.E., 125
Elevations, Stocqueler and Saunders' Apparatus for Obtaining, 173
Elliott, W. E., on Main Drainage (South London), 229
Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway, 287
Embankment and Excavation, Method of Calculating, by Geo. A. Simmonson, 322
Emering, Ernest, on Smoke Nuisance, 337
Employment of Workmen on Sundays, 211
Enamel, Paris's Patent, 234
Enfield Water Works, 32
Engine, Mesers. Beyer and Peacock's Wall, 344
Engine, Dr. Drake's Ignition, 8
Engine, Experiments with Boydell's Traction, 183, 195
Engine Framing, Messrs. Hawthorn's System of, 61
Engine, Igniter Gas, 190
Engine, A. Child's, Oscillating, 309
Engine, Dr. Tremblev's Steam Ether (Note Book), 45
Engine, Fairbairn's, 'Pumping, 183
Engine, Ritchie's, 8, 16, 29, 69
Engine, Ritchie's (Note Book), 9
Engines, Allen's Improvements in Steam, 212
Engines, Fire, 55
Engines, Improvements in Rotary, 7
Engines, Lawrie's Improvements in Marine Steam, 168
Engines, Morton and Hunt's Motive Power, 68
Engines, Wm. Bailey's, Portable, 285
Engines, Wellen's and Crow's Improvements in Steam, 136
Engines, Wharton's Improvements in Marine Steam, 48
Engines, Working Steam Expansively in Marine, 13
Engineers at Paris, Congress of, 341
Engineers' share in the late War (Note Book), 185
Engineering, Railway Practice and Mechanical, 15, 27, 51, 75. 166
Enniskillen Line of Railway, Sinking of a Portion of the Dundalk and, 52
Enterprise, a New Russian Field of (Note Book), 229
Equipments, Cruikshank's Improvements in Cavalry, 32
Ericsson, Accident to Mr. (Note Book), 9
Eskholme, Morris, and Corime's Improvements in Preventing Waste of Water, 112
Esplan's Apparatus for Regulating the Supply of Gas, 216
Esplanade, Thames, 7, 18
Essay on Smoke, the Prize (Note Book), 149
Estimates of Civil Services, 148
Etna, the, 212
Excavation and Embankment, Method of Calculating, by Geo. A. Simmonson, 322
Exchequer, Court of, Wood versus Bell and Others, 263
Expenses, by D. K. Clark, C.E., on the Improvement of Railway Stock, &c., 306
Exhibition for 1858, the Art, 295
Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester, 335
Exhibition, Commissioners, Report of the, 259
Exhibition, French, 257
Exhibition of 1856, French Agricultural, 217, 227
Exhibition of Inventions (Society of Arts), 171, 187
Exhibition of 1857, Manchester Art, 283
Exhibition Reports, Paris, 167
Exhibition of the Works of Art, Our Next (Note Book), 285
Exhibitors at the last Paris Show, Successful, 329
Experiment in Steam Navigation, 320
Experiments in the Admiralty (Note Book), 138
Experiments with Boydell's Traction Engine, 195, 183
Experiments in Gunnery, 208
Explosion at Bilston. Boiler, 265
Explosion, Boiler, 38, 50, 181, 247, 342, 253
Explosion, Boiler, Cannot be Prevented (Note Book), 198
Explosion, Boiler, W. Andrews, 229, 249
Explosion, Boiler, Masters' Cupidity and Engineers' Disgrace (Note Book), 213
Explosion of a Bomb Shell at Llandaff, 291
Explosion, Dreadful Colliery, 293
Explosion, Earl Granville's, Colliery, 341
Explosion in Glasgow, Dreadful Boiler, 217
Explosion at a Japannery, 253
Explosion, Prevention of Steam Boiler, 296
Explosion, Prevention of Steam Boiler (Note Book), 297
Explosion, to Prevent, 277
Explosion in Steam Boilers, Cause of, J. Anthony, 81
Explosion in Steam Boilers, Cause of, R.P.C., 26.1
Explosion in Steam Boilers, by Mr. W. K. Hall, United States (I.C.E.), 133, 171
Explosion of Sulphur, 253
Explosion at the Ynisdavid Pit, 320
Exports of Metals and Machinery, Increase in, 302 Exports of Metals, 1855, Imports and, 341
Expunging the Blots from the Statute Book (Note Book), 213
Extension of Newport Dock, 217
Extinguisher, A Gun Fire, 265
Eyre, Major Vincent, On Metallic Boats and Military Waggons, United Service Inst., by, 274

Fabrics, on the Printing of, by J. Birch (Soc. of Arts), 246
Factories Bill, 201, 212, 231, 334, 346
Factory Bill and Inspectors, 295
Factory Bill, the Millowners of Huddersfield and the, 259
Factory Inspectors' Report, 311
Failure of a Steam Navigation Company (Note Book), 309
Fairbairn's New Pumping Engine, 183
Fairbairn's Tank Locomotive, 321
Fairbairn's Tank Locomotive, by " E," 337
Fairbairn's, W., Usefull Information for Engineers, 57, 69
Fall of a Suspension Bridge in Canada, 320
Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S., on Certain Magnetic Actions and Affections (Royal Inst. of Great Britain), 122
Fatal Submarine Experiment, 7
Father of Screw Propulsion, the (Note Book), 249
Fawcett, Messrs., of Liverpool, 57
Feeders for Lubricating Machinery, Burdess' Oil, 129
Feeding Apparatus for Steam Boilers, Ramsbottom's Safety Valves and, 96
Fees from British Applicants for American Patents, Barlow and Co., 287
Fees to Engineers, Inquest, 265
Fees from Patent Office, Surplus, 77
Felkin, Win. Esq.. F.L.S., on the State of the Machine Wrought Lace Trade (Society of Arts), 294
Fens, Drainage of the, 106
F. H.,' Oscillation, by, 170
Fibrous Materials, Bayley and Quarmby's Machinery for Carding, 312
Fields of North Devon, Iron and Coal, 353
Fiery Cross, Ship, the, 211
File-Cutting Machinery, Newton's, 76
Filling Corn and other Sacks, Campain's Machinery for, 77
Filter, Cheap Household, 4
Fine Arts Prize Association, Death of the, 329
Fining a Pit Proprietor, 253
Fire-arms, Colt's, 60
Fire-arms, Minid's Improvements in Breech Loading, 18
Fire-arms and Railway Signals, Captain J. Norton's, 52
Fire Damp, Explosion of (Yensdavid Pit), 320
Fire Engines, 55
Fire at Covent Garden Theatre, 153, 170
Fire at Drury Lane Theatre, 142
Fire, How to Make a, 73
Fire Insurance, Reduction in, 190
Fire at Messrs. Scott Russell's Ship Yard, 140
Fires, Prevention of, W. W., 273
Fire-proof Buildings, M. S. Bentham's,199
Fires, Fire-proof Structures, (Soc. of A.), by Jas. Braidwood, Assoc. Inst. C.E., Sup. of L. F. Brigade, 258
Firing Guns by Galvanism, 191
Fireworks in the Parks, 247
Fisher's Screw, 311
Fishery, Pearl, 106
Fish Jointing, W. Bridges Adams', 111
Fish Joints, W. Bridges Adams', 6.5
Fish Joints, Robert Richardson, 100
Flattening Furnaces, Chance's Glass, 76
Flax, &c., Lowry's Machinery for Heckling, 208
Fleetwood and Belfast Line of Steamers, 65
Fluids, Chadwick's Apparatus for Measuring, 256
Flushing Apparatus for Sewers, Self-acting, 128
Food, Preservation of, i40
Foreign Patent Law, United States, 146, 172
Forge Hammers, Butther and Newey's Improvements in, 44, 57
Forgery of Bank Notes, 274
Forging Machine, Putman's, 28
Forrester and Co., Monster Mortar, Messrs. George, 164
Forsyth, Thomas, Incrustation on Steam Boilers, 26
Foundries in Liverpool, Manufacture of Enormous Pieces of Ordnance at, 38
Foundry Hoist and Cupola, a New, 265
Fountains, Cast-iron (Note Book), 69
Fowke, R.E., Captain, on an Improved Sword, 288
Fowler, jun., J. Bristol, on Cultivation by Steam, 54
Fowling-pieces, Improvements in, 265
Fox and Others, Bush e. Sir Charles, 347
Framing, Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn's System of Engine, 61
France, Mining in, 329
Francis' Patent Metallic Life Boats, Trial of Mr., 347
Frauds, Gas, 153
Free Trade and Free Industry (Note Book), 273
Free Trade with France, 329, 341
Free Trade, Progress of, 329
French Novelties, 8
Frigate, Shannon, 24
Frost's Ball or Float Cocks, 72
Fuel Company, North and South Wales, 227
Furnaces, Chance's Glass Flattening, 76
Furnaces, Juckes' Improvements in, 208
Furnaces for Smelting Iron Ore, Dalton's Improvements in, 18, 45
Furnaces, Valuable Remarks on Steam Boilers, &c., 102
Fullers and Williams' Improvements in Wrenches, Pliers, and Spanners, 32
Fuse, Captain Norton's Concussion, 109

Galvanism, Firing Guns by, 191
Gas, 66
Gas Apparatus Portable, 145
Gas, Apparatus for Purifying and Carbonising, 7
Gas Company, Bath, 224
Gas Company, Brighton, 190
Gas Company, 218
Gas Company, Cape of Good Hope, 192
Gas in Coal Pits, J. H. Little on, 249
Gas into Coal Pits, Introduction of, 232
Gas Engine, an Igniter, 190
Gas, Esplin's Apparatus for Regulating the Supply, 216
Gas Fitter's Mutual Association, 217
Gas Fitting, the Science of, 106
Gas Frauds, 153
Gas Company, Hanson's Oletlant, 308
Gas, Ignition of, 185
Gas, Mead's Regulator, 36
Gas, Melbourne Supplied with, 193
Gas, Peat, 250
Gas Company, Proposed Linfield, 194
Gas Question, the, 231
Gas Regulator, Young's, 80
Gas, Rowland's Apparatus for Purifying, 73
Gas, Stent's Improvements for Measuring, 132
Gas Supplied in our Street Lamps, Quantity of, 43
Gas Company, Usk, 260
Gas Light, Origin of, 124
Gas Works, Alleged Nu;sance of, 345
Gas Works, Chepstow, 253
Gate, Cast Iron, by Baily and Sons, 296
Gate in the Upper Danube, Removal of the Iron, 273
Gauges for Collieries, Steam Pressure, 45
Gauges, Gas and Water, 277
Gauge, Hopkinson's Steam Pressure, 104
Geographical Society, Royal, 295, 307
Geology, 65
General Screw Steam Company, the, 171
German Railways, 44
Gertrude, the Steamship, 338
Gilding on Thread and Fibre, by Francis Bennoch, 210
Girder Rail, W. Bridges Adam's New, 25, 30, 43
Girders, Hamilton's Iron, 73
Girders and Tubes, Mr. J. M. Heppel, Inst. Assoc., C.E., (Institution Civil Engineers), 27
Girders, which is the Best Treatise on, 125
Glasgow Iron Trade, 10
Glasgow Waterworks, 294
Glass-Flattening Furnace, Chance's, 76
Glass, Manufacture of, by Mr. H. Chance (Society of Arts), 78, 18
Glass, New Ornamental, 353
Glass Product, Artistic, 277
Gloomy (Note Book), 150
Gold, Australian, 346
Gold Diggers, 298
Gommee and Bcaugrand's Machinery for Manufacturing Metals Wares, 269
Goodall's Grinding Machine, 215
Good's Straw Shakers of Threshing Machines, 141
Government Contracts are Given, How, 151
Government Patronage and Science (Note Book), 325
Government Treatment of Inventors (Note Book), 325
Gower's Improvements in Cannon-shot, 145
Gradients of Railways and the Locomotives Employed, on Steep, by Mr. Charles Drysdale, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 199, 210
Grain, Nalder's Improvements in Winnowing, 144, 169
Grain, Turner's Improvements in Crushing and Grinding, 40
Grain, W. J. Wright's Machinery for Crushing, 248
Grantham, Mr., on Shipping (Note Book), 9
Granville's Colliery, Explosion at Earl, 341
Grates, Redmayne's Improvements in Stoves and, 105
Great Eastern Steamer, Messrs. Scott Russell and Co.'s, 250
Great Northern Railway, Denton v. the, 56
Great Mammoth Steam-ship, 268
Green and Wright's Improvements in the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles, 121
Greening's Machinery for Washing, Mangling, and Churning, 180
Greenock, 02
Griffith's, Mr., Trial of his Screw Propeller (Note Book), 57
Grimsby, 86
Grinding, Crushing, &e., Patterson's Machinery for, 348
Grinding and Crushing Grain, Turner's Improvements in, 40
Grinding Machine, Gordall's, 245
Grinding Mills, Improvements in, 209
Grinding Saws, Southwell's Machinery for, 232
Grissells', Messrs., Iron Lighthouse, '225
Grissells', Messrs., Mortars, 131
Grissells', Messrs., Mortars (Note Book), 137
Grooving Machine, or Recessing Drill, Nasmyth'i, 280
Guano in the Arabian Coast (House of Commons), 295
Guano, How to Apply, 269
Guernsey, 195
(Wilbert. and GuiIlemere's Bridle for Over-ruling Fiery Horses, 292
Gulf Stream, the, 14')
Gun, Completion and Removal of the Mon.ter, 296
Gun Machinery, American, 20
Gun at the Mersey Steel and Iron Company's Works, the, 106
Gun, the Monster, 132, 232
Gunboat Launch at Northern, 29
Gunnery, Experiments in, 208
Guns by Galvanism, Firing, 191
Gutta Percha Tube for every Train (Note Book), 21
Gutter and Curb for Roads and Streets, Cotse11's Improved, 336

Haekett's Safety Valve for Boilers, 268
Hall, Mr. W. K., United States, on the Causes of Explosions of Steam Boilers (Inst. Civil Eng.), 133, 171
Hamilton's Iron Girders, 73
hammers, Butcher and Newry's Improvements in Forge, 44, 57
Hammer, Gigantic Steam, 164
Hammer, New Steam, Longwell, 301
Hampstead Heath, 295, 334
Hampstead Heath. Purchase of (Note Book), 350
Hannon'a Machinery for Digging Potatoes, 164
Hanson'. Olcfinnt Gas Company, 308
Hanwood and Welatipool, Shrewsbury, 7
Harbour and Breakwaters, the Holyhead, 187, 313
Harbour, Ramsgate, 347
Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics, 100 Meting'. Balance Weights, 0., 214, 287
Hainwes, Wm., on the Manufacture of Soap (Society of Arts), 172
Hawthorn's, Messrs. R. and W., System of Engine Framing, 61
Heat and Light, Chemical Influence of Electricity of, 83. 99, 111
Heat, Motion and. 315
Heating Water, Plan for, MLA., 61
Heating Water, Plan for, T. W. Witkinion, 261
Heating Water, Plan for, II. Child'., 273
Heckling Flax, 8te., Lowry's Improvements fur, 208
Heinke, Mr., on Improvements in Diving Drown and other Apparatus for Working under Water, 143, 1143
Helmet, M., Iron Girders and Tubes (Inst. C. E.), 27
Hepplewhite, Improvements in Spare Rudders for Ship. 141
Improvements Improvements in Propelling Vessels, 96
Hewitt's Machinery for Pulverising by Means of Pestle and Mortar, 168
Hexamicus, London Sewerage, 311
Heywood and Scully'. Improvements in the Construction of Cocks and Taps, 216
Heywood and Scully'. Improvements in Locks and Latches, 132
Hillotype, On American Invention, 37
Hirudine, Propeller by W., 230, 286
Hirudine, Propulsion, J. H. Pideock, 262, 310
Hirudine, Propulsion, K. it. U., 335
Hoare', D. J., Screw Propeller, .tag
Hobb’s Lock Picked, 3 3
Hoffman's, Professor, Experiment with Ammonium, 302
Hollow Spherical Italie, 7
Holidays and Early Payment of Wages, Half, 234
Holyhead Harbour and Breakwaters, 313
Holyhead (Harbour Howie of Commons), 187
Hook, Hunt's Patent Safety, 13, 21, 33, 45, 113
Hopkinnon's, Jun., J., Boiler, 325
Hopkinson's So am Pressure Gauge, 194
House Rake, Smith's Improved, 232
Hoskyn's, C. W., The Progress of Eng(ah Agriculture during the last Fifteen Years (Society of Arts), 122
Hospital at Sheerness, Military, 179
Hostage and Tatlock's Slide and Tongue Railway Chair, 152
House of Commons, 187, 201, 211, 231
House of Lords, Contract Mortars, 142
House of Lords, St. James's Park, 231
Hull versus Bollard, Infringement, 211
Hulee'. Bar Cutting Tool, 345
Hultoulorf Mills Company, 350
Humber, Submarine Telegraph Across the, 248
Humphrey and Other., Union Steam Collier Company r., 118
Hunt and Morton's Motive Power Engines, 68
Hunt's Patent Safety Hook, 13, 21, 33, 45, 113
Hunter, Geo. J., Hunt's Patent Safety Hook, 113
Hydraulic Machinery at Woolwich, 284
Hydraulic Presses, gorbury's Improvements in, 245

Igniter, Gas Engine and, 190
Implements of Agriculture. New, 329
Implements, Agricultural, SO
Important to Agriculturists, 342
Import, and Exports of Metal., 1855, 341
Improvements, Metropolitan (Note Book), 338
Improvements in Pall-mall and Downing-street, Propertied, 115
Improvement... who Is Benefited by Industrial, 39
Incapacity, Official. by M.P., 286
Incrustation upon Steam Boller., 11. Child's, 26
Incrustation upon Steam Boilers, M. de Itoussois', 67
Incrustation upon Steam Boiler., Thos. Forsyth, 26
Incrustation upon Steam Boilers, by James Napier, F.C.S., 169
Incrustation upon Steam hollers, Preventing the, 265
Incrustation upon Steam Boilers, Mr. Wheelwright, 38 India, Canals, in, 167
India, Communication with, 295
India-Rubber Springs, New Omnibus on, 335
India-Rubber, Steam Packing, 1.2
Indian Patent Law (Note Book), 273
Indian Railways, East, 233
Indian Steam Company, Prosperity of the, 261
Indicator, Self-Acting Supply Valve Alarm Whistle and, 218
Industrial Arts, Metal. and the, 112
Industrial Improvement's. w ho is Benefited by, 39
Infernal Machine, Submarine. 353
Inflammable Buildings in our Dockyards? who Designs (Note Book), 169
Inflammable Building., by ' Ironstone,' 215
Infringement, Hull, ',rams Bollard, 211
Ingram, Building-yard, Launch of a Gun-Boat from Messrs., 115
'Inquirer,' Properties of Water without Air, 13
Inshaws, Mr., Boat,
Inspector of Coal Mines. 66

INSTITUTION or CIVIL ENGINEERS

-Calculations, Mental, by Mr. Geo. Kidder, 111, 123
Candidate. Elected, 07, In, 270;
Diving Dresses and other Apparatus for Working under Water, by Mr. W. Heinke, on Improvements in, 143, 183;
Docks, by Mr. Murray, M I.C.E., Progressive Construction of the Sunderland, 268, 270, 283
Explosions of Steam Boilers, by Mr. W. Kemble Hall (U.8.), on the Causes of, 133;
Girders and Tubes, Mr. J. Si. Heppe', 31.1.C.8., Iron, 27; Ocean.. and the Practicebillty of a Ship Canal without Locks by the Valley of the Atrato, Mr. F. M. Kelley (U 8.), on the Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific, 220. 240;
Railways, British, Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., 15
Railways and the Locomotives employed, by Mr. Chas. R. Drytelale, Assoc. Inst. C.E., on Steep Gradients of, 199, 210;
Railway, Locomotive Stock and Reduction of the Working Expenses, by D. K. Clark, Assoc. Inst. C.E., on the Improvement of, 300;
Reply of Mr. Robt. Stephenson, 31.P., to Observations on the Second Report of the Postmaster- General, Abstract of the, 294;
Thames, by Mr. H. Robinson, Assoc, Inst. C.F.., the Pant and Present Condition of the River, 43, 35, 67

Institution of Civil Engineers, 311
Institution of Great Britain, Election of Members of Royal, 199, 2.58
Institution of Great Britain, on the Origin and Transformations of Motive Power, by Professor Wm. Thomson, F.1t.8., 226
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 79, 258
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham (Note Book), 57
Institution, United Service, on Metallic Boots and Military Waggon., be Major Vincent Eyre, 274 Institute, the Midland, 277
Instruments, Drawing, 234
Insurance, Reduction in Fire, 190
Inventions, Exhibition of (Society of Arta), 171, 187
Invention., Government Treatment of (Note Book). 325
Investigation, North Western Committee of, Mr. Whitworth, 101
Irregularity of the Australian Mail, 174
Ireland, Agricultural Statistics of, in-
Iron, Birch's Improvements in the Manufacture of, 100
Iron Buildings, n Novelty in Architecture, 106
Iron, Clay's Improved Mode of Manufacturing Forged, 96
Iron, Cleveland, an
Iron in the Crimea, 255
Iron Girders, Hamilton's, 73
Iron Manufacture (Society of Arts), 21
Iron, Native and Colonial (Note Book), 170
Iron Ore in Prumin, 273
Iron Pavement. 52
Iron Region of Lake Superior, 23
Iron Roadways, 104, 113
Iron Roadways In London, 48
Iron Shipbuilding on the Tyne, 84
Iron Trade, 74
Iron Trade, Alleged Breach of Contract in the, 50
Iron Trade, Annual Report of the British, 189
Iron Trade, Glasgow, 10
Iron Trade in the Neighbourhood of Leeds, Extension of the, 105
Iron Trade, South Staffordshire, 10
Iron Wheel., Pellenz's Improvements in, II
Iron Work. in the Cleveland District, 111
Ironmasters' Quarterly Meeting, Birmingham, 26
Ironmasters' Quarterly Meeting. Wolverhampton. 26
'Ironstone,' who Designs the Inflammable Budding in our Dockyards! 169
Isle of Wight Steam Bridge, 56, 152
Isthmus of Suez, 16
Isthmus of Sues (Review), 81

Jenkins', F., Criticisms on Mr. Fairbairn's Book, 197
Jewellers' Sweeps, Refining, 330
Johnson'. Improvements in Pins, 18
Johnson's Improvements in Transmitting Motive Power Applicable to Horse Mills, 124
Johnson's Machinery for Emptying Cesspools, 76
Johnson's Machinery for Rolling or shaping Metals, 216
Joint Stock Bill, 211
Joint Stock Companies, 139
Joint Stock Companies' Bill, 130, 346
Jointed Ships, 65
Jointed ship, Macaweney'a, 224
Joints, W. B. Adams' Fish, 65, Ill
Joints, Robert Richardson'. Fish, Lou
Joints of Pipe. and Tubes, Parsons' Improvements in Securing, 257
Juckes' Improvements in Furnaces, IOR
Judicial Committee of Privy Council, Betts' Patent Capsule., 335
Judicial Committee of Privy' Council, Longmaid's Patent Alkali, 347

Kelley, F. M., Mr., Practicability of a Ship Canal by the Valley of the Atrato (Inst. C.E.), 226, 216
Kensington Gore, Museum of Art and Science, 214, 215
Kensington Gardens, Orchestra in, 253
Kent Line. North (Note Book), 9
Kershaw, Drilling and Recessing Machine by Messrs., 314
Kidman's Improvements in Tillers or Yokes, 1130
Kite Paddle Steam Vessel, the, 151
Knife Trade, Table, 314
Knighton's Portable Drill, 181
Knitting Machine, American, 271
Knowledge, Importance of Engineering, 287
Knowles and Threlfall'a Looms for Weaving, 269
K.R U., Hirudine Propeller, 215, 335
K.R.U., Problem of Balance Weight*, 136, 198, 262

Labels, Postage, 323, 334
Labour in Melbourne, the Demand for, 343
Lacy's Trenching Plough, 248
Lace Trade, Mr. Felkin on the State of the Machine. wrought, 294
Laird, Launch of Boats from the Building Yard of Mr., 141
Laird, Launch of Mortar Boats front the Building Yard of Mr., 171
Laird, Launch of Two Gun Boats from the Building Yard of Mr.. 112
Lamp, Cared and his, 22, 37. 43
Lamps, Carcel and Watts' (Note Book), 33
Lamps, Dubrulles' Improvements in Safety, 173
Lamps, Price* Paid for Public, 234
Lamps, Quantity of Gas Supplied in our Street, 43
Lamps, Wilkins Improvements in, 72
Lancashire Railway Bills in Parliament, 153
Landing Stage, Liverpool, 109, 196
Lanterns, Rogers' Improvements in Ships' Signal, 129
Latches, Scully and Heywoodn' Improvements in Locks end, 132
Launch of an American Frigate at New York, 151
Launch of Boat. from the Building Yard of Mr. John Laird, 141
Launch of the Cadmus, 314
Launch of a Floating Battery on the Thames, 2.50
Launch of a Gun Boat from Messrs. Ingram's Building Yard, 145
Launch of an Iron Steamer, the Annie Vernon, from
Messrs. Vernon and Sons' Building Yard, 112
Launch of nn Iron Screw Steamer from Messrs. J. and W. Smiths', North Shields, 14a
Launch of a Large Screw Collier from Messrs. Scott Russell's Yard. 102
Launch of Mortar Boats from Mr. Laird's Yard, 171
Launch of Mortar Vessels from Messrs. Mare and Co., 172
Launch of Mortar Vessels from Messrs. Scott and Sons' Building Yard, 141
Launch of the New Screw Steamer, Neva, 324
Launch of the New Ship Delta, for the P. and Os Company, 294
Launch of the Nimrod, 234
Launch at Northern, Gunboat, 29
Launch of the Itrynard, 245
Launch of Screw Steamer from Messrs. Samuelson.', 326
Launch of a Screw Steamer from Messrs. Caird and Co.,114
Launch of the Severn in Chatham Dockyard, 66
Launch of the Six Mortar Vessels, from Messrs. John Scott and Sons, II 1
launch of the Terror, 253
Launch of the Torino, 314
Launch of the Two Gun Boats, from Mr. John Laird's Building Yard, 112
Launch of the Two Gun Boats, from Messrs, J. and W. Smith's, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 130
Launch of the Victor Emmanuel, 217
Law Proceeding., Lowe.' Patent (Court of Chancery), 118
Law Proceedings, Pim versus Campbell and Others, 118
Law Proceedings, the Union Steam Collier Company versus Humphreys and Others, 118
Lawrie's Improvements in Marine Steam Engines. 108
Leeds, Extension of the Iron Trade in the Neighbourhood of, 105
Lee's Improvements in Marine and other Boilers, 52
Lenny'. Improvements in Carriages, 312
Liability for Railway Accidents, 66
Liability of Managers, loo
Liability of Shipowners (Note Book), 330
Liberality of Ironmasters,
Lichfield Bank Failure, 2.53
Life Boat, Designed by James Peake, Esq., 20
Life Boats, 335
Life Boat, Trial of Mr. Francis' Metallic, 347
Life Buoy, 49
Light, Chemical Influence of Electricity, Heat and, 83, 99, 114
Light upon Plante, Effect of, 44
Lighthouse Constructed by Mesa's. Grissell, Iron, 22;
Lights for Sailing Ship. (Howse of Lords), 311
Lighting of Buckingham Palace, 207
Lille Cathedral Committee, Medal from the, 341
Lincoln's-inn-Field., a Thoroughfare North and South through, 311
Little, J. H., GA. in Coal Pit., 249
Liverpool and American Lino of Steamers, 338
Liverpool Cathedral, 253
Liverpral, the Floating Landing Stage, MO, 196
Liverpool, Literary and Philosophical Society, 3R
Liverpool, Manufacture of Enormous Pieces of Ordnance at, 38
Liverpool, Polytechnic Society, 79
Liverpool, Port of, 293
Liverpool, Railway and Dock., 294
Liverpool as a Shipbuilding Port, 2$
Liverpool, Strike of Ship Painters, 233
Liverpool, Submarine Tunnel from Birkenhead to, 22s
Liverpool, Town Duca, 253, 301
Loading and Discharging Vessels, 120, 152, 193
Loading and Discharging Vessel., James Taylor and Co., 24
Loch Katrina Water Scheme, the Glasgow, 272
Lock, a New Bank, 265
Lock. and Latches, Scully and lleywood'. Improvements in, 132
Locomotive, a Hot Air, 205
Locomotive, New, 167
Locomotive of Messrs. Tod and McGregor (Note Book), 9
Logic, Vindication of Mr. Fairbairn's (Note Book), 149
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, Beattie •em.; the, 317
London and North Western Railway Company, 104
London Waterworks, 101
Longinnitra Patent Alkali, 347
Loom'. for Weaving, Roberts and Coppock's Improvements in, 50
Looms for Weaving, Threlfall and Knowles', 269
Lord Ward's New Works, 234
Loss of Property, Mr. Tod's, 10%
Loss of the Steam Frigate Polyphemus, 65
Loss, why Carry at a (Note Book), 149
Lost Steamships' 181
Lovett, Balance Weiglita by J., 230
Lowe's. Patent (Court of Chancery), 139
Lowe's Apparatus for Propelling Vowel., 30R
Lowry'. Ntichinery for Heckling Flax, arc., 208
Lubricating Machinery, Burdess's Oil Feeders for, 129
Ludbrook's Improvements in Railway Wheels, 192
Luklns', A. S., Regulator, 273

Machinery of the 19th Century, 19a
Mecintyre's Apparatus for Caulking Decks, Ceiling's, and Floors, 228
Mackenzie rersua Dunlop, Wilson and Co. (Appeal, House of Lords), 311
Mackworth's Improvements in Washing and Separating Metals, 148
Mactiught's Improvements In Steam Boilers, 36
Macsweney's Jointed Ships, 2!4
Magnay, Messrs. G. F. Young, Son and, Shipwrights Absenting themselves from the Service of the Firm of, 347
Magnetic Actions and Affections, on Certain, by Prof. Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S., R. 1. Great Britain, 122
Magnetism of Iron Ships, Inquirer, 125
Magnets, Electric, 45
Mails to Australia, 323, 347
Mulls in Ireland (House of Commons), 263
Mails, Irregularity of the Australian, 174
Mails to Suez, Conveyance of, 323
Maladministration (Note Book), 285 Buckled Plates, 19
Mancini Mr. Robert, Design of Monster Mortar (Note Book), 33
Management by Direct Action, Railway, 46
Managers, Liability of Railway, 104)
Manchester, Art Exhibition, 1857, 283
Manchester, Exhibition of Art Treasures at, 335
Manchester, Literary and Philosophical Society, 37
Manchester School of Art, 245, 3.3
Manchester, a Tour in the Provinces: Messrs. Beyer, Peacocks, and Co.'s, 332
Manchester, a Tour in the Province. Mr. Fairbairn's, 324
Manchester, a Tour in the Provinces Messrs. Mather and Platt. 344
Manchester, Tour in the Provinces: Mr. Nasmyth's, 280
Manchester, Tour in the Provinces, Mr. W hitworth'a, 304
Mansfield, Suicide of Mr. V. D., 174
Manslaughter, Verdict of, 205
Manufactures. on Progreso, in Design. as Applied to, by George Wallis (Society of Arts), 134
Mangling, Greening'. Machinery for Washing, Churning, and, 180
Marchinton'a Improvements in Vices, 293
Mare and Co.'s, Messrs., Despatch in the Completion of Orders, 33
Mare and Co.'s, Messrs., Launch of Mortar Vessels, 172
Mare's, Mr., Bankruptcy, 196
Mare's, Chas..1. (Court of Bankruptcy), 153, 208, 323
Marine Engines, Working Steam Expansively in, E. E. Allen, 13
Marine and other Boilers, Lee's Improvements in, 52
Marine Steam Engines, Lawrie's Improvements in, 168
Marine Steam Engines, Wharton's, 48
Markets, 14, 26, 38, 50, 62, 74, 86, 106, 118, 130, 142, 154, 174, 190, 201, 217, 233, 341, 353, 234, 205, 277, 289, 301, 313, 329,
Marlborough, Trial of the, 239
Marshes, Woolwich, 342
Martieu, Application of Steam, &c., in Metallurgical Operations by Mr. J. G., 257
Masts, and Tents, Clarkson's Patent Pumps, 336
Masters and Workmen (Note Book), 111, 211, 231, 247, 349
Mathematics (Literary Notice), 82
Mather and Platt's Establishment, Manchester, Messrs. 344
Mathiot, a Self-sustaining Battery, by George, 146, 182
Maurice on Schools, the Rev. F. b., 277
Mead's Dry Gas Regulator, 36
Meandre, S:ew Screw French Steamer, 80
Measuring Fluids, Chadwick's Apparatus for, 256
Measuring Gee, St.ent's Improvements for, 132
Mechanics, Harrowing, Theory and Practice in, 100
Mechanics, Practical, 105
Mechanics, in Schools, Description of Apparatus for 'reaching, by Prof. 11 Mk, F.R.S. (Soc. of Arts), 183
Medal from the Lille Cathedral Committee, 341
Meetings of Ironma.ters. Quarterly, 2u2
Melbourne, Demand for Labour in, 345
Melbourne Supplied with Gas, 193
Mellor and Young's Machinery for Supplying Water to Steam Boilers, 1,96
Members, Election of, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 67, 199
Members, Election of, Society of Arts, 134
Mental Calculation, by Mr. bidder (Inst. C.E.), Ill, 123 M
Mensuration (Literary Notice), 82
Mercantile Law Amendment Bills, 130
Mercury, Purifying, • C.E.D.,' 337
Mersey Steel and bon Company's Works, the Monster Gun at the, 106
Metallurgy, Practical, by Jo'. Napier, F.C.S., 39, 54 Metallic Alloy, S
Metallic Arch for Bridges, &c., Tabourin's New System of, 101l
Metallic Boats, by Major Vincent Eyre, United Service 'institution, on, 274
Metals for Casting, 1113
Metal Ware^, Gomme and Benugrand's Machinery fur Manufacturing, 269
Metals, Conducting Powers of, 62
Metals, Imports and Exports of, 1655, 341
Metals, Johnson's Machinery for 'tolling or Shipping, 216
Metals and the Industrial Ails, 142
Metals and Manufactures in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Districts, '234, 254, 206, 278, 290, 3112, 314, 330, 342, 354
Metals, Page's Improvements in Moulding or Shaping, 129
Meters for Measuring the Flow of Liquids, Aldridgo's Improvements in, 29
Metford's Traversing Theodolite, 103, 113
Metropolitan Board of Works, 131, 151, 182, 195, 211, 231, 247, 2113, .:74, 287, 205, 311, 32•, 3.14, 317
Metropolitan Improvements (Note Book), 3.18
Metropolitan Local Management, :140
Metropolitans School of Science, I-,
Metropolitan Subway. Proposed New Street and, 9.57
Midland Institute, Commencing of the, 289
McGregor. Mr., upon the Probability of Free Trade with France, 277
McKenzie and Walker's Improvements in Electric' Telegraphs, 109
Milford Haven and the South of Ireland, Steam Communication With, 228
Military Preparations at Portsmouth, 141
Mill, the First Paper, Ill
Mills, Improvements in Grinding, 209
Mills, Johnson's Improvements in Transmitting Motive Power Applicable to Horne, 124
Mills in the Royal Dockyard, 191
Miller's Patent Omnibus, 112
Millowners of Huddersfield on the Factory Bill, 259
Miliward, Wm. (Cameron's Boiler), 103
Minerals, Mackworth's Improvements in Washing :it'd Separating. 148
Minerals, Newton's Improvements In Washing and Separating, 192
Mine., Assessment of, 294
Mines, Bill and Failure of Similar Measure' in 1797 and 160)3, New Rating of, 265
Mines Bill, Report of, 311
Mines, Rating of, 330
Miners' Electro-Chemical Reduction Company, 207 Miners' Strike, 27H
Miners' Strike, Origin and Extent of the, 259
Nfieie's Improvements In Breach Loading Fire-Arms,18 Mining, Damage* by, 234
Mining in France, 3211
Mining, Progress of, by J. Yellaby Watson, F.0.8.,138
Molson, Esq., Alfred, Communication between Driver and Guard, 45
Money, the Unrestricted Use of, 337
Money and War, 11. B., Southampton, 150
Monster Gun. the, 132
Monster Mortar, Messrs. Geo. Forrester and Co., 164
Monster Projectile, 14
Moor, Bramham, 34e
Monument of Geo. Stephenson, Proposed, 317
Morality, Parliamentary, twill. Trade (Note Book), 229
Mortars, Contract (Meow of Lord.), 142
Mortars, the Defective, 131, 167, 231
Mortar, Messrs. Geo. Furrester and Co.'s Monster, 164
Mortar, Hewitt's Machinery for Pulverising by Means of Pestle and, 168
Mortar Ship, Sealiorse, 227
Mortars, Trials with it Now, 330
Mortars, the Tree.. Note Book), 149
Mortar at Woolwich, Bursting of a, 171
Mortar Vessel. from Messrs. John Scott and Sons, Launch of Six, 111
Morris, Chrimes, and Yakholme'a Improvements in Preventing Waste of Water, 112
Morton and H ant'• Motive Power Engine, 68
Motion and Heat, 345
Motion, Perpetual, 73
Motive Power Et-rinee, Morton and Hunt's, 68
Motive Power app legible to 1: orne Mills, Johnson's Improvements in Transm !ling, 1 et
Motive Power, on the Origin of, by Professor W. Thompson, F.R.S. (Inst. of Great Britain), 2.0
Moulding or Shaping Metals, Page's Improvements in, 129
Moulding and Shaping Metals, Page and Robertson.'" Improvements In, 200
Murray, Mr., M.I.C.E., Progress and Construction of Sunderland Docks (Society of Arts), 258, 270, 283
Museum, Architectural, 170, 336
Museum of Art and Science, Kensington Gore, 214, 245
Myers' Improvements in Buffers and other Springs for Railway and other Carriages, 152

Nail Rods, Increase of Price in, 265
Nail Trade, 353
Nails, Machinery to make Cut, 218
Nalders' Improvements in Winnowing Grain, 144, 169
Napier, Mr., of Glasgow, Floating Battery, built by (Note Book), 21, 125
Napier, Jan , F.C.S., Incrustation upon Steam Boilers,
Napier, Jam., F.C.S., Practical Metallurgy, 39, 54
Napier, Jas., F.C.S., Sheathing of Ships, 107. 110, 131
Nasmyth's Grooving Machine or Rectasi tag Drill, 280
Nasmyth, E.g., Rotary Movements of the Celestial Bodies, by Jas., 138, 150
National Gallery, 323,334, 347
Naval Construction, Iron (Note Book), 197
Navigation of the River, Impediments to the, 347
Navigation, Interesting Experiments in Steam, 320
Navy, Consumption of Smoke in the, 140
Navy, the steam, 259
Navy, the Strength of the British, 250
Neath Harbour, improvements in, 250
Nesbit, on the Effects of Science, Professor, 277
Net, Brooman'n improvements in the Manufacture of Figured, 104
Nowey and nutcher'e Improvements in Forgo Hammers, 44, 37
Newport Dock, Extension of, 217
Newport Town Council (Note Book(, 113
Newton's File-cutting Machinery, 76
Newton's Improved Calculating Apparatus, 121
Newton's Improvement/. in Separating Minerals, 192
New York, 8.ii-building in, 40
Nile, Steam-Tugs on the, 324
Nimrod, Launch of the, 234
Norbury's Improvements in Hydraulic Presses, 243
Normandy's New Circular Weaving Machine, 124
Norton's Concussion Fuse, Capt., 100
Norton's Frictional Shell, 140
Norton's Invention. of Railway Signals and Fire-arms, 52, 152
Nuisance of Cu Works, Alleged, 345
Nuisance, Smoke to B C , 285
Nuisance, Smoke, C. W. Williams, 297
Nuisance, Smoke, with Diagram, 19, 30, 42
Nuisance, Smoke, Ernest Emering, 337

Oatmeal, Phosphorus in their (Note Book), 21
Observatory, the City, 191
Ocean SteanbLiner from Havre. the New, NZ
Oceans, Traitsit between the Atlantic and Pacific (Moto Book), 309
Official Incapacity, be M. I'., 266
Oil-Feeders for Lubricating Machinery, Burdess'e 129
O'Keefe, C.E., M. T., Improvements at London Bridge, 137
Omnibus, American, 128
Omnibus, Mr. Clemence's Improved, 140
Omnibus, New, 260
Omnibus on India-rubber Springs, 33.5
Omnibus, 31111,, Improved Patent, 112
Omnibus, the Patent Cosy Express, 117
Omnibus, the Patent Saloon, 100
Omnibus, Premium for the best Design of (Note Book), 113, 101
Omnibus, Mr. Richard Roberta' Patent, 321
Opening Address, 3
Opposition, Railways running in (Note Book), 69 Ordnance, Cast Iron, 141
Ordnance, Manufacture of Enormous Pieces of, at Liverpool Foundrics, 38
Ordnance, Mr. Page's (Note Book), 9
Ordnance Survey of Scotland, the, 293
Origin of Gaslight, 124
Oscillation and Balance Weights, by A., 213
Oscillation and Balance Weights, by Basting., 214
Oscillation and liteance 'Weight', by 1r.. F. 170
Oscillation and Balance Weight, by W. F.,
Owners, Important case to Collier mind Mine (Note Book), 130, 3314

Pacific, the, 153, 103
Pacific, Supposed Remains of the, 266
Packing, Patent India-rubber Stesni, 152
Paddle Wheel, 192
Page's Improvements in Moulding or Shaping Metals 129
Page and Robertson's Improvements in Moulding of Shaping Metals 260
Pall-mall to Buckingham-gate, Road from, 323
Pall-mall and Downing-street, Proposed improvement) in, 145
Palmer's Improvement; in Propelling Vessels, 50
Palmer's Ship Propeller, 96
Palmer, of Jarrow, Messrs., Constructing Battery (Note Book), 33
Panama Railway, 235
Panama Railway. Accident on the, 320
Paper, Card, &e., Ulimer's Machinery for Cutting, 162
Paper, Dickiroam's improvements in Making, 20:t Paper Duty, 334
Paper Manufacturing Company, Fibre and, 294
Paper Mill, the First, 111
Paper Trade, Important Discoveries in the, 48
Paratempo Carriage, the Patent, 142
Paris Ethibition Reports, 167
Paris, Subterranean, 7
Paris, %Trial between Steel Pen Manufacturers at 66
Park, Bridge in the (Note Book), 337
Park, Design for a New Roadway under St. James's, 128
Park, St. James's, 120
Parliamentary Intelligence, 142, 187, 201, 211, 231, 247, 261, 298, 205, 311, 323, 334, 341
Parliament r. Trade Morality (Note Book), 220
Parson'• Improvements in Securing Joints of Pipes and Tubes, 257
Partnership Bill, 130
Partnership Reform (Note Book), 197
Passage Etraordinary, GO
Patents, Commissioners of (Note Book), 81
Patents, Fees from British Applicants for American, Barlow and Co., 287
Patent Law, Indian (Note Book), 273
Patent Journal, IC, 22, 34, 46, Sa, 70, 67, 102, 115, 126, 139, 153, 175, 188, 203, 219, DO, 231, 203, 275, 258, 298, 313, 326, 3:18, 350
Patent Law, United States, Foreign, 146, 172
Patent Office Fees, Surplus from, 77
Patents, Statistics, 76
Patterson's Machinery for Grinding and Crushing, fie., 343
Pattinaan, Mr., Cornish, (.7 ushing Machine, 81
Patronage and Science, G a^trument (Note Book), 323
Pavement, Iron, 32
Peace, Consequences of, 77
Peacock's Improvements in Shipbuilding, 209
Peacock's Work. at Gorton, near Manchester, Messrs. Beyer and 312
Peacock's Wall Engine, Messrs. Beyer rind, 344
Peak, Esq., James, Life Boat designed by, 20
Pearl Fishery, 106
Peat-bog, Secrets of the, 130
Peat Gas, Pullen, 2i0
Pellenz's Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron Wheels 41
Pembroke, New Drill Battery at, 211
Peninsular, and O. S. P. Company, 7. 320
Penn and Son, Messrs.. to Supply High-pressure Engine. 'Note Book), 21
Pension on Mr. F. I'. Smith, 67
Peru Screw Steam Ship, 11
Pere, Steam Ships Valetta and, 168
Perfumes,
Perils of the Rail in America, 135
Permanent Way, John Dickson, 39, 57
Permanent Way, Letter from L. C. E., 187
Permanent Way, Spencer'), 49, el, 67, 69, 70
Perpetual Motion, 73
Perry'a Improved Printing Machine, S
Persia, the Cunard New Steamer, 39
Persia at Liverpool, the, 20A
Persia, the (Note Book), 114
Persia, the, Steam Ship, 231
Persia, Sailing of the, 136
Pestle and Mortar, Hewitt's Machinery for Pulverising by means of, WS
Peters, Mr., Improved Mode of Casting follow and Spherical Bodies, 7
Petition in Favour of the Local Dues and Shipping Bill, 203
Philadelphia Steam Ship Company, 147
Phillips, IL Laveroek, Omnibus, 128
Philosophy of Railways, Mechanical, 8, 26
Photo-Galvanography by Herr Paul Fretsch, Sofa, n7
Photographic Room at Chatham, New, 314
Photi,grapha on Silk, 233
Photograph). under Water, 283
Pianofortes, ruction of, 65
Pianofortes, Dewrauce's Improvements in the Frames of, 293
Pidcock, J. IL. Itiradine Propulsion, 262, 310
Pidcock's, J. 11., Hirudine Propeller (E. W. Y.), 325
Pidcock, J. IL, a LeVer in Reference to Mr. Nasmyth's Suggestions Respecting the Origin of the Rotary Movement of the Celestial Bodies, 150
Pidcock's Method of Propelling Vessels, 180, 187
Pig Iron, Improvements in, 2.54
Pig Iron, Tendency to a Decline in the Price of, 253
Pilotage Returns, 165
Pim realm Campbell and Others, 118, 203
Pins, Johnson's Improvements in, 18
Pipes, William Burns, Engineer, Water, 16.5
Pita, Open, 253
Pittsburg, Steel Manufacture at, 105
Planets to be Discovered, 112
Planing Machine, Barlow's Improvements in, GO Planes Effect of Light upon, 44
Planters, Improvement. in corn, 14
Plates, Mallet's Buckled. 10
Platt and Mather's Establishment, Manchester, Messrs., 344
Player, C. E., John, Feeding Boilers, 14
Pliers, and Spanners. Williams and Fuller's Improvements in Wrenches, 132
Plough, Lacy, Trenching, 249
Ploughs, Williams' Machinery for Driving and Actuating, 97
Plumstead, Description of the Waterworks at, 284 Poisoning Cases (Note Book), 69
Poisoning, Suspicion of, 50
Polishing Saws, Southwell's Machinery for Grinding or, 242
Polyglase, In re Richard Jenkin (Court of Bankruptcy), 331
Polyphemus, 1,0%.4 of the Steam Frigate, 05
Polytechnic Institution, Royal, 314
Polytechnic Society, Liverpool, 79
Pontoon Mortar Raft, 75
Poop, Tucker, Hoskin. and Co.'s Description of the Patent Safety, 101
Portable Gas Apparatus, 145
Portrait Galled, National Iliatorical, 323
Portsmouth Dockyard, Accidental, 60
Portsmouth, Military Preparations at, 141
Postage Labels, 3 '3, 334
Postage Stamps for Newspapers. 334
Postal Communication with Australia, 107, 187, 231
Postal Guide and Postal Anomalies, the (Note llook), 285
Postmaster General's Reply to Observations in Second
Report of the, by R. Stephenson, Esq.. M.P.), 294
Potatoes, Hansom's Improvements in Machinery for Digging, 164
Postmaster-Ch•eral, Mr. Stephenson r,rates the (Note Book), 208
Practical Mechanics, 105
Practice, Mechanical Engineering, Railway, 15, 27, 51, 75,116
Presentation, 121
Pressure of Steam in the Boiler, Dyer, G9
Preservation of Food, 140
Pressure, an Atmosphere of, 95
Pretach, Herr Paul, on Photo-galvanorraphy, 227
Preventing site of ^%ater, Morris, Chrimee, and F-skholme'. Improvements in, 112
Prevention of Accidents, 7
Prevention of Boiler Explosions, R. W., 297
Prevention of Fires, W. W., 273,
Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions, 290
Price's Candle Company (Society of Arts), G. F. Wilson, Esq.. F.R.S., 41
Prince Albert, New Bust of, 299
Printing of Fabric*, by Joseph Birch (Soc. of Arts), 216
Printing Machine, Perry's, S
Pr sting Patent, the Tunes, 19
Prize Essay on the Prevention of the Smoke Nuisance, by Chats. Wye Williams, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 163, 179, 191, 297, '221, 213, 2;5, 267, 279, 2-1, 30 319, 343
Process of Crating with Aluminium, New, 311
Process of Iron Manufacture, New, 341
Professor Ehrenberg's Microscope, 130
Proger's Improvements In Ships' Signal Lantern's, 129
Progress of the New Bridges (Note Book), 297
Praia.. of Shipbuilding, 164
Projectile's, Trial of, 291
Propeller, Ilirucline, by 215
Propeller, 1). J. Floare's Screw, 188
Propeller, Hirudine, by W., 2 tO, 286
Propeller, Hirudine, by E. W.Y., J. U. Pideock's, Propeller, Palmer'. Patent Ship, 86
Peopensirs, Whitaker'. Improvement* in Screw, 37
Propelling Vessels, Hewitt'. Improvements in, 96
Propelling Vessels, Lowe's Apparatus for, 308
Propelling Vessels, Palmer's Improvements in, 36
Propelling Vessels, Pideock's Method of, 180, 187
Propulsion, the Father of Screw (Note Book), 219
Propulsion, Hirudine, J. 11.
Pideock, 262, 310, 335
Proprietors, Caution to Mine and Colliery, 133
Prosecution for Causing an Explosion at Earl Graneille's Colliery, 341
Prospects, of the Country, Commercial (Note Book, •07
Prosperity, Our Railway (Note Book), 273
Prussia, iron Ore in, 273
Public Works' Bill, 201, 211
Pump, II. Child's Boiler and, 188
Pumps, Bilge, 218
Pumps. Cooling's Improvements In, 212
Pump., and Tents, Clarkson's Patent Masts, 336 Pumping Engine, Fairbairn's, 183
Pumping and Shearing Machines., 13
Purification of the Bs idgewater Canal, 224
Purifying Gus, Rowland'. Apparatus for. 7.l
Putman's Ituproved Forging Machine, 2,

Quarmby and Bayley's Machinery for Carding Fibrous Materials, 312
Queen's Bench, Court of, Beattie vers. the London and Brighton Railway Company, 347
Queen's Bench, Court of, Beattie vers. the London and Brighton Railway Company (Note Book), 349
Queen's Bench, Court of, Pint versus Campbell and Others, 118, 263
Queen's Bench, Court of, Union Steam Colliery Co. versus Humphrey, 116

Raft, the Pontoon Mortar 75
Rags fur Paper Making, Importation of, 271
Rail, W. Bridges Adams' New, 25, 30, 43
Rails, Axles, and Tyres, Patent, )1:3
Rails, Compound Wedge for, 7
Railroad, a Crooked, 104
Railway Accident, 104
Railway, Brazilian, 86
Railway Company, Denton e. the Great Northern, 50
Railway and Canal Traffic, 133
Railway, Eastern Counties, 52, 53
Railway, Egyptian, 53
Railway, the Forth and Clyde Junction, 314
Railway Liability for Accidents, 66
Railway Company, London and North-Western, 104 Railway Lord, A, 7
Railway Management by Direct Action, 40
Railway, Mediterranean and Jerusalem, 287
Railway from Paris to the Mediterranean, 64
Railway Practice, Mechanical Engineering, 15, 27, 51, 75, 101
Railway Reform, 49, 96
Railway Servant., 196
Railway, Sinking of a Portion of the Dundalk and Enniskillen,
Railway, Southampton and Dorchester, 247
Railway Speculation, 14
Railway Travellers, Important Decision to, 120, 147
Railway War, 119
Railways, American, 52, 53
Railways, Austrian, 248, 312, 338
Railways, British, Robert Stephenson, Esq. (Institution Civil Engineers), 15
Railway., their Capital and Dividends, by Edward Chattaway, 138
Railways, hart Indian, 233
Railways, German, 44
Railways, Mechanical Philosophy of, 9, 26
Railways, Russian, 97, 231, 312
Ramsbottom's Safety Valves and Feeding Apparatus for Steam Boilers, 116
Ramsgate Harbour, 347
Ramsgate Harbour (House of Commons), 263
Rating of Mines, 350
Rating of Mines' Bill, 311
Ration., Contract for, 72
Receipt•, Telegraphic Despatches, 73
Recessing Machine, by Messrs. tierahaw, Drilling anc1, 314
Recorder, the, 193
Redmayne's Improvements in Stoves and Grates, 105
Reduction of Duty on Iron, 329
Reduction in Fire Insurance, 100
Reefing Sails, Cunningham Improvements In, 209
Reeling Sails, ltowett's Improvements, in Fitting and, if; Reform, Partnership Note Book', 197
Reform, Railway, 19, 96
Reform, Railway (Note Book), 186, 2.29
Regent's Canal Tug-boat, 4, 8
Regulator, A S. Judkins', 273
Reguator, Mead's Dry Gas, 36
Regulator Young's Gas, 60
Rejoicings, the Forthcoming Peace, 217
Relations between the Boiling Points, Specific Volumes, and Chemical Constitution of Bodies, 7
Removal of the Iron Gate in the Upper Danube, 273
Rennie's, Improvement. in Marine Steam Engine Boilers, 308
Report of Mr. Adam.' Girder Rail (Note Book), 21
Report of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Company, 335

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. -

Books Lout, Not Books Lost, 198;
British Consul's Manual, the, 82;
British Workman, the, 82;
Coinage, the New, 82; Isthmus of Suez, 81;
Letters addressed to her Majesty's Secretary of State, with regard to the operation of invention for the consumption of smoke, 114, 125;
Machinery of the Nineteenth Century, the, 198;
Mathematics, Arithmetic, and Algebra, 82; Mensuration, 62;
Origin of the Rotary Movements of the Celestial Bodies, /cc., by Jas. Nminyth, Esq., 138,150;
Progress of Mining in 1855, by Jos. Jellaby Watson, PALS., 138;
Railways, their Capital and Dividends, by J. D. Chattaway, 138;
Things not generally Known, by John Timbs, 108;
Useful Information for Engineers, Wm Fairbairn, 57, lb;
Valuable Remarks on Steam Boilers and Furnaces, tie., 102;
Year Book of Facts-for 18.50, by Jn . Tim lm, F.8.A., the, 198

Report of the British Iron Trade, Annual, 189
Report, the Factory Inspectors'. 311
Report Read, Annual (Royal Inst. Great Britain), 238
Report of the scotch Trade. Thos. I horburn's, 190
Reports of Committees on Railway Bills, 287, 333, 322, 334, 347
Repository, Iron Carriage, 314
Retort Steam Roller, Description of a New, 11-5
Revenue Returns, 301
Rewarded, Two Seamen, 174
Reynaird, Launch of the, 245
Rhine Fall, Bridge over the. 278
Richardson's, Robert, Fish Joints, 1t0
Ritchie's Engine, 8, 10, 29, 69
Ritchie's Engine (Note Book), 9
Riveting, Double, 45
Road from Pall-3I.11 to Buckingham-Gate, 323
Road from St. James's Park, New, 223
Road in St. James’s Park (Note Book), 123, 137, 325
Roadway under St. James's Park, Design for a New,128
Roadways, Iron, 104, 113
Roadways in London, Iron, 48
Robert and Coppock's 1,401. for 'Weaving, 56
Roberta' Patent Otnnibu•, Mr. Richard, 321
Robertson and Page's Improvements in Moulding or Shaping Metals, 200
Robinson, C.E., Mr., on the Condition of the River Thames (Institution Civil Engineers), 43, 55, 07
Rochester Bridge, New, 348
Rogers' Apparatus for Retaining and Drawing off Aerated Liguori., 101
Rolling or Shaping Metals, Johnson,s machinery for, 210
Rolls' Court, Whichelo, r. the Brighton and Hove Water Works Company, 295
Roots, Square and cube, by Mr. Bidder, 134
Ropes, Strength of Wire, 203
Ropes, Wire, 253
Rose Ileinich, Aluminium from Cryolite, 06
Rotary Movements of the Celestial Bottles, by James Nwonyth, Esq., 135, 150
Rothera's Machinery for Making Bolts, Screw Blanks, 308
Route to Australia, New, 32u, 334
Rowett'a Improvements in Reefing Sails, 16
Rowland'. Apparatus for Purifying Gas, 73
Royal Albert, Cause of Accident to the (Note Book), 101
Royal Institution of Great Britain, 07
Royal Institution of Great Britain, Mr. Faraday on Certain Magnetic Actions and Affections, 122
Ruabon Iron Works, North %1 ales, Unprecedented make, of Iron at the, 266
Rudder. for Ships, Hepplewhite's Improvements in Spare, 141
Russell and Co., Statement of the Affairs of Messrs J. Scott, 14
Rusida, Public Works in, 235
Russian Field of Enterprise, New (Note Book), 229 Russian Railways, 97, 231,312
Ruston's Improvements in Anchors, 345

Sacks, Campaign's Machinery for Filling Corn and Other, 77
Safes, Patent Iron, 253
Safety Lamps, Dubrulle's Improvements in, 173
Safety Poop, Description of the Patent, Tucker, Ilos.. kin., and Co., 101
Safety of Railway Travelling, 123
Sailing of the Persia, 136
Sails, Cunningham's Improvements in Reefing, 209
Sails, Rowett's Improvements in Fitting, Handling, and Reefing, 16
Sale of a Colliery, 277
Sale of Debris, Extraordinary, 294
Salford, the Collection at, 2,0
Saloon, Omnibus, 100
Silt-water to London, Supply of (Note Book), 249
Sands' Improvements in Securing Rails in Railway Chairs, 208
Sandwich Beams. An Architect, 300
San Fioreneo, a 50 Gun Vessel, 229
Sanitary Matters, Cows in the City, 247
Saunders and Stoqueler's Apparatus for Obtaining Elevations, 173
Saving in the Consumption of Coal by the Steamer Panama, 141
Saw Mills in the Royal Dockyard, 191
Saws, Suuthwell's Machinery for Grinding and Polishing, 232
School, of Art, Belfast, 38
School of Art, the Manchester, 303, 315
School of Art, Warrington, 38
School of Science, Metropolitan, 210
Schools of Art, Removal of, 323
Schools, the British Mining, 253
Schools at Bristol, 277
Schools of Science and Mechanics, 277
Schools for Unedueated Workmen, 253
Science, Advancement of, 323
Science of Gas Fitting, 106
Science, Government Aid to, 329 •
Science, Government Patronage and (Note Book), 321
Science, Metropolitan school of, 210
Scientific Association, American, 253
Scotch Gun Battery. 231
Scotch Iron Trade, Thos. Thorburn's Report of the, 190
Scotch steamships, 11
Scott, Russell and Co., Building Mortar Boats (Note Book), 21
Scott, Russell and Co., Great Eastern Steamer, 250
Scott. C.E., Mr. Ballot, 278
Scott, ltuasell and Co.'s Ship Yard, Extensive Fire at Messrs., 110
Scott, Russell and Co.'s Suspension of Payment (Note Book), 69
Scott and Son's Building Yard, Launch of Mx Mortar Vessels from, 111
Scott and Sons, Launch of a Mortar Vessel from Messrs., 1.11
Screw Blanks, Ace., Rothera's Machinery for Making Bolts and, 308
Screw Block Ships, 270
Screw Cutting Machine, Drilling and, 25
Screw, Fisher's. 211
Screw Propeller, D. J. Hare's, 188
Screw Propellers, Whittaker's Improvements in, 37
Screw Steam Company, 231
Screw Steamship, 'the Belgique, 10 71
Screw Steamer, from Messrs. Caird and Co.'s, Launch of la, 114
Screw Steamer, Meander, 80
Screw Steamship, I'era, 11
Screw Steamers, Purchase of, 73
Scully and Heywood's Improvements in Locks and Lactic., 132
Scully and Heywood's Improvements in the Construction of Cock. and Taps, 216
Sea of the Arabian Desert. Capt. s% alley, 26
Sea, Collision* and Accidents at, 142, 170
Sea-horse, the Mortar Ship, 227
Seamen Rewarded, Two, 174
Sebastopol, 60, 05
Secretaryship, Society of Arts, Assistant, 302
Securing Joints of Pipes and Tubes, Parsons' Improvements in, 257
Securing Rails in Railway Chairs, Sands' Improvements in, 268
Self-acting Flushing Apparatus for Sewers, 128
Self-sustaining Voltaic Battery, By George 'Mathiot,146, 182, 210
Senators of London, the (Note Book), 229
Separating Minerals. Mackworth's Improvements in Washing and, 118
Separating Minerals, Newton's Improvements in, 192 Servant, Emblem of a Good, 123
Servants, Railway, 106
Services, Estimates of Civil, 148
Sessions, Liverpool, Blythe v. Tayleur, 211
Sessions, Liverpool, Hull e. Bollard, Infringement, 211
Sessions of Scotland Court, Barclay and Co. c. the Anderston Founder Company, 167
Sewage of Great Cities, 227
Sewerage, to December, 1847, London, 113
Sewerage to December, 11117, London, 166
Sewerage from December, 1817, to December, 1835, 194, 1146, 213, 235
Sewerage from lst January, 1830, 235
Sewerage of London (Note Book), 119
Sewerage of London, by ' Ilexatuicus,' 311
Sewers, City, 183
Sewer., City Commission of, 139, 167, 192, 247, 287, 295, 323
Sewers, Self-Acting Flushing Apparatus for, 128
Sewing Machines, 102
Severn, in the Chatham Dockyard, Launch of the, 6-
Shakers of Threshing Machines, (Sood's Improvementa in Straw, 141
Shannon, New Frigate, 24
Shareholder, Model Railway, 37
Shaw, LL.D., Simeon, Railway Signals and Self-Actir Breaks, 113
Shearing and Punching Machines, 13
Sheathing of Ships (Note Book) 114
Sheathing of Ships, 'Iss. Jas. Napier, F.C.S., 107, 119, E
Sheerne's, Military Hospital .it, 179
Shell, Captain Norton's Frictional, 140
Shell Experiments at Woolwich, 75
Sherman, Henry, Steam, 9
Shields, North, and Tynemouth Dock, 228
Shipbuilding, 298
Shipbuilding, Iron, 324
Shipbuilding in New York, 40
Shipbuilding, Peacock's Improvements in, 209
Shipbuilding Port, Liverpool as a, 28
Shipbuilding, Progress of, 161
Shipbuilding, Rendering Timber Uninftammable for, 6,
Shipbuilding on the Tyne, 85
Ship, a Clipper, the Tiptree, 12
Ship, Macsweney's Jointed, 224,
Ship, Screw Steam, Pert, 11
Ship, a Veteran, 62
Shipowners, Liability of, 330
Shipping Trade, Liverpool, 14
Shipping Returns, 55
Shipping Statistics, 296
Ships' Anchors Betteley's Improvements in, 53
Ships' Compasses, Adjustment of, 261
Ships Jointed, 65
Ships' Signal Lanterns, Progers' Improvements in, 129
Shipwrights Absenting themselves from the Service of Messrs. Young, Son, and Magnay, 317
Shipwrights' Strike (Note Book), 326
Shipwrights, Want of, 335
Shot, Gower's Improvements in Cannon and, 145
Shot Tower, Cast-iron, 12
Shot Tower, New York (Note Book), 9
Show at Paris, Airricultur I, 335
Shrewsbury, Hanwood and Wclshpool, 7
Sibbald's Ship Communicator, 294
Signal between Driver and Guard, 81
Signal, Captain Norton's Railway, 39, 152
Signal Lanterns, Progers' Improvements in Ships', 129
Signals and Self-acting Break., S. Shaw, LL.D., 113
Silk, Dicken's Machinery for Spinning, 292
Silk Manufactures, by Mr. Thos. Winkworth, on the British (Society of Arts), 283
Simmons, versus Vansittart and Others (Bail Court), 3_3, 311
Sitting in Error, Bush, versus Sir Chris. Fox, and Others, :147
Skill and talent, Competition of (Note Book), 249 Slag, Applications ef, 7
Slag Company, the British, 343
Sluice Valve, Welles's Eccentric, 181
Sluices at Boulogne, 174
Smelting Iron Ore, Dalton's Furnaces for, 18
Smelting Monopoly, topper (Note nook), 185
Smith's Improved Horse Rake, 232
Smith, A., Hunt's P(Lent Safety Hook, 21
Smith's, Messrs T. and W., Launches of Gun-boats and large Iron Steamer at, 126
Smith's, North Shields, Launch of an Iron Screw Steamer from, 14e
Smith's, Mr. F. P., Pension, 67
Smithfield, 201
Smoke, its Economy for Drying Purposes, Consumption of, 118
Smoke, Letter addressed to the Secretary of State on the Consumption of, 114, 123
Smoke Nuisance, 326
Smoke Nuisance Abatement Bill, 213, 323
Smoke Nuisance, by Mr. Chus. Wye Williams, Assoc. Inst. C.E., IL Prize Essay on the, 163, 179, 191, 207, 223, 243, 255, 267, 279, 291, 303, 319, 343
Smoke Nuisance, (A B C), 285
Smoke Nuisance, Ernest Emering, 337
Smoke Nuisance, Chas. We Williams, 297
Smoke Nuisance, with Diagrams, 19, 30, 42
Smoke in the Navy, Consumption of, 140
Smoke Prevention (House of Lords), 203
Smoke Prevention, 185
Smoke Prevention, a Smoker, 18.5
Smoke Prevention, a Working Man, 169
Smoke, the Prize Essay on (Note Book), 149
Snow, a Winding-sheet of, 106
Soap, on the Manufacture of, by Wm. Hawes, Soalety of Arts, 172
Societe Generale des rlippers Franois, 267

Society of Arts -

Agriculture: During the last Fifes n Year., by Mr. C. M. Hoskins, the Progress of English, 122;
Bricks, by Mr. H. Chamberlain, Drainage Engineer, on the Drying and Buniii,g of, 322;
Bricks, by Mr. H. Chamberlain, Drainage Engineer, Experiments on the Strength of Hollow and Solid, 334; Bricks by Machinery, by Mr. H. Chamberlain, Drainage Engineer, on the Manufacture of, 306;
Candle Company, by G. F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., on the Manufacture of Price's Patent, 41; Carpet Manufacture, by Mr. Alex. Whytock, 110; Commerce of Liverpool, by Mr. Archer, on some of the Animal and Vegetable Products Constituting the Foreign, 122;
Cutlery, by Mr. Jas. Wilson, on the Manufacture of Articles from Steel particularly, 200; De•igli as applied to Manufactures, by Mr. Geo, Wallis, Progress in, 134; Donations, 105; Exhibition of Inventions, 171, 187;
Fire., the best means of Preventing and Arresting them, by Mr. Jas. Braidwood, Assoc. Inst. C.E., Superintendent of London Fire Brigade, 258; Gilding, by Mr. Francis Bennoch, on Thread or Fibre, 210; Glass, by Mr. Hy. Chance, on the Manufacture of Crown alai Sheet, 78, 98; Iron Manufacture, the British, 21; Lace Trade, by W. F'elkin, Esq., F. L.S., on the History and Present State of the ]Machine Wrought, 291; Mechanics in Schools, by Prof. Willis, F.R.S., Description of Apparatus for Teaching, 153; Members, Election of, 134; Photo-Galvanography, or Engraving by Light and Electricity. by Herr Paul Pretach, on, 227; Printing of Fabrics with Special Reference to Shawls and Carpets, by Mr. Jos. Burch, on the, 1S3;
Silk Manufacture, by Mr. Thos. Winkworth, on the British, 283;
Soap, Mr. Wm. Hawes, on the Manufacture of, 172;
Steam, its Past History and Probable Prospects, by Mr. Jno, Fowler, Jun., Bristol, on Cultivation by, 64;
Tonnage Registration, Mr. Chas. Atherton, 31;
Water Free from !Wanecs and from Organic impurity, by Prof. Clerk, M.D., Aberdeen, on Means available to the Metropolis and other Places for the Supply of, 270, 282

Society of Arts, Examination., 277
Society of Arts, the One Hundred and Second Anniversary, 341
Society of Arts, the One Hundred and Second Anniversary Dinner, 346
Society of Arts Reinstated, 341
Society for the Encouragement of Arta, Manufactures, and Commerce, London, 302
Society of England, Agricultural, 293
Society, Geological, 307
Society, Liverpool Literary and Philosophical, 38
Society, Liverpool Polytechnic, 79
Society, Manchester Literary and Philosophical, 37
Society, Royal Geographical, 295
Society, Statistical, ln7
Soiree at Yornton Locomotive Works, 73
Southampton, an Athenreum, 72
Southampton Omnibus Association, 233
Southampton, A. it., a Letter on the subject of Money and %% ar, 150
South Staffordshire, State of Trade, t4
Sutha ell's Machinery for Grunting or Polishing S.A., 232
Spanners, Williams and Faller's Improvements in Wrenches, Pliers, and, 132
Spare Rudders for Ships, Hepplewhite's Improvements in, )41
Specific Volumes and Chemical Constitution of Bodies, 7
Specifications of Old Patents, 234
Speculation, Railway, 41
Spencer's Permanent Way, 49, (31, 67, 79
Spherical Bodies, Improved Mode of Casting Hollow, 7
Spike, a New Railway, 302
Spinning Silk, Dickens' Machinery for, 292
Spreading ^A aterproofing Compounds, Dodge's Machinery for, 34S
Spring Fittings for Railway Carriages. Axle Box and, 228
Springs, Meyer's Improvements in Buffers and Other, 152
Springs, New Omnibus on India-Rubber, 335
Square and Cube Roots, Mr Bidder, 134
Staffordshire, South, Iron Trade, 10
Stainton and Davey's Warming and other Stoves, 72
Stamps for Newspapers, 334
Stanley's Improvements in weighing Machines, 173
State of the Eastern Counties Railway, 167
Statement of the Affairs of Messrs. J. Scott Russell and Co., 84
Statistical Society, 107
Statistics, Agricultural Bill, 224, 263, 346
Statistics of Ireland, Agricultural, too
Statistics, Shipping, 296
Statistics of \\ yi.eks, 95
Statute Book, Expunging the Blots from the (Note Book), 2)3
Steam Culture, 63
Steam Engine, The Best Work on the, 125
Steam Frigate Poly ikhemus, Loss of the, 65
Steam Hammer, HA
Steam, Heating of, Henry Sherman, 9
Steam in Metallurgical Operations, by Mr. J. G. Marticu, Application of, 257
Steam, II. Sherman, 9, 33
Steam, Washing by, 232
Steam, Working Expansively, Ed. E. Allen,13
Steamer, the Adriatic, 232
Steamer, the I'ersia, 38
Steaniers to America, New Line of, 345
Steamers in Australia, 292, 303
Steamers, Compartments in the Colliers', 181
Steamers, Fleetwood and Belfast Line, 65
Steamers, Liverpool and American Line of, 33S
Steamers, New, 260, 342
Steamer, New American mail, Fulton, 129
Steamers, New Line of Belgian, 14
Steamers from St. Petersburg, Arrival of the First, 314
Steamer Vesnvius, 174
Steaming, Atlantic, 167
Steamship, Gertrude, 338
Steamship Lost, 181
Steamship, Scotch, 11
Steamships Valetta and Vera, 168
Steamship N'anderbolt, 17
Steel and Bell Metal colouring, 52
Steel, Manufacture of, 2l6
Steel Manufacture at Pittsburg, 105
Steel Pen Manufactures, 66
Steering and Propelling Vessels, Pidcock's Method of, 180, 187
Stephenson, Address, Mr. Robert, 33
Stephenson, British Railway, (I. C. E.), Mr. Robert, 27
Stephenson, Proposed Monument to Mr. George, 347
Stephenson, M.P., Reply to Observations in the - econd
Report of the Postma_ster-General, by Mr. Robert (I. C. E.), 294
Stephenson, Mr., versus the Postmaster-General (Note Rook) 297
Stent's Improvements for Measuring Gas, 132 Steps, It. and E. Vezey's t arrnige, 72
St. James' Park, 1I0, 211,216, 334
St. James' Park, Design for a New Roadway under, 128
St. James' Park, New Road in, 223, 231
St. James' Park, New Road (Note Book), 123, 137, 325
Stock and Reduction of Working Expenses, by D. K. Clark, Assoc. Inst. C.E., on the, 306
Stocqueler and Saunders' Apparatus for obtaining Elevation. 173
Storehouse, Woo,svich, 11
Stoves, Stainton and Davey's Warming and other, 72
St. Petersburg, Arrival of the First Steamer from, 314
St. Petersburg, the First British Merchant Steamer at,302
Strafford and Alleyne's Improvements in Railss ay Breaks, 109
Straw Sh.ikers of Threshing Machines, Good's IruT roved, 141
Stream, the Gulf, 140
Street;mod Metropolitan Subway, Proposed New, 257 Strike, Colliers', 254
Strike, Colliers', Scotch, 227
Strike, Conclusion of the Miners'. 326
Strike, Origin and Extent of the Miners', 259, 278
Strike of the Ship Painters in Liverpool, 253
Strike of the Shipwrights, 326
Submarine Experiment s atal, 7
Submarine Tunnel from Birkenhead to Liverpool, 228
Subway, Prupo.ed New Street and Metropolitan, 37
Suer. t 0mm...ion (Note Book), 113
Suez, I on•eyance of Mails to, 323
Suez Project, the, 118
Suicide of Mr. F. Mansfield, Melancholy, 174 Cast-lion Bridge over the River, 336
Sunday Labour, 211
Sunderland 1 socks by Mr. Murray, M.S.C.E., at Society of Arts, on the Progressive Construction of, 25S, 270, 283
Superior, Iron Region of Lake. 23
Supply of soil to the Metropolis 2G
Supply, House of Commons, 346
Supplying Water to Strap. Boilers, Mellor and Young's Machinery for, 196
Surplus from Patent Office Fees, 77 sweeps, Refining Jeweller.% 350
Symptoms of Weakness (Note Book), 261

Tabourin's New System o Metallic Arch for Bridges, &c., 108
Taff Steamer, Trial of the, 208
Tank Locomotive, Mr I nirbairn's, 324
Tank Locomotive, E,' 337
Taps. Scully and Heywood's Improvements in the Construction of Cocks and, 21G
Tariff, French, 26S
Tayieur, fil% the and Another versus, Claim for Delay in Completing a Vessel, 211
Tatloek and Hostage's Slideand Tongue Railway Chair, 152
Teaching Mechanics in Schools, Description of Apparatus for, by Professor Willis, F.R.S. (Society of Arts), 183
Tees Conservancy, 287
Telegraphs at the Antipodes, Electric, 314
Telegraphs on Board Ship, Electric, 253
Telegraph to Calcutta, 228
Telegraph from Constantinople to Alexandria, 24
Telegraph, the Magnetic, 302
Telegraph, the Newfoundland and American, 302
Telegraph, Submarine, Across the Bumps r, 24s
Telegraph, Submarine, Connecting the Two Shores of the Bosphorus, 65
Telegraphs, Walker and McKenvie's Improvements in Electric, 109
Telegraphic Communication between London and St. Petersburg, 268
Terror, Launch of the, 233
Testimonial to Mr. Costa, 253
Thames Esplanade, 7, 18
Thames, the Past and Present Condition of the River (Inst. C. Eng.), by Mr. II. Robinson, C.E., •3, 55, 67, 98
Theatre, Fire at Covent Garden, 153, 170
Theatre, tiire at Drury Lane, 142 ,
Theodolite, Metford's Traversing, 103, 113
Theory and Practice in Mechanics, Harmony in, 100
Things not Generally Known, by Jno. F.S.A., 198
Thomas's, R. H., Signal between Driver and Guard, 8
Thomas's Improvements in Bullets for Steam Carriages, 208
Thompson, F.R.S._ on the Origin and Transformation of Motive Power (Inst. Gt. B.). by Prof. Win., 226
Thorburn'•, Thomas, Quarterly Report of the Scotch Iron Trade, 190
Thorn•', Cha-. Fred., Boiler, 113
Thoroughfare, North and South through Lincoln's-inn-fields, 311
Thoroughfares in the Metropolis, New (House of Lords), 323
Threlfall and Knowles' Looms for Weaving, 269
Threshing Machines, Good's Improvements in Straw Shakers of, 141
Threshing Machines, Trial of, 259
Tillers or Yokes, Kidm-n's Improvements in, 180
Tiles, Wright and Green's Improvenient, in the Manufacture of Bricks and, 121
Timber for Ship Building, Uninflarnmable, 66
Times Printing Patent, the, 19
Timbs', Jno., Things not Generally Known, 198
Timbs', Jno., F.S.A., Year Book of Facts. 198
Tin and Copper Wanted. N Note Book), 337
Tin for Soldering Silver, Block, 86
Tod, Mr., l.oss of Property, 105
Tolson's Patent. In re (Court of Chancery), MI
Tonnage its gistration, C. Atherton (Soc. of Arts), 31 Torino, Launch of the, 314
Tortoiseshell Bookbinding, 261
Tour in the Provinces, Manchester, 280, 304, 324, 332, 344
Tower, Cast-Iron Shot, 12
Town Dues, Live rpool, 218
Trade, Alleged Breach of Contract in the Iron, 50
Trade with America, 265
Trade, Annual Report of the British Iron, 189
Trade, Important Discovery in the Paper, 48
Trade, Iron and Coal, 86, 106, 130, 142, 154. 190
Trade, South Striffol &hire, 84
Trade, Thus. Thorburn's Report of the Scotch Iron, 190
Trade on the T)nee the Chemical, 173
Trades of Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the Iron and Coal, 218, 234. 233, 265, 277, 189, 201, 313, 329, 341, 353
Traffic Bill, Railway and Canal, 334, 133
Train, Newly Improved, 294
Transit between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Note Rook), 309
Travelling, Decision as to Railway, 147
Travelling', Safety of Railway, 123
Tremble0i, Dr., Steam and Ether Engine (Note Boa:), 43
Trial of the Marlborough, 259
Trial of Threshing Machines, 259
Trial Trip of the Taff Steamer. 208
Trials with a New Mortar 330
Tubes of hollers Brass, 30
Tubes, Parsons Improvements in Securing Joints of, 257
Tubular Steam Boilers, Andrews, 73
Tuck, r, Hoskins and Co.'s, Description of the Patent Safety Poop, 11,1
Tuck's Improvements in Blowing Apparatus, 132 rug Boat, Regent's Canal, 4
Tugs on the Nile, Steam 324
Tunnel between England and France, 48
Tunnel Borer, 65
Tunnel through Mount Cenis, 64
Turbines, the most Recent Publication on, 125
Turner's Machinery for Crushing and Grinding Grain, 41
Tyne, the Chemical Trade on the, 173

Ullmer's Improvements in Machinery for Cutting Paper, Card, &e., 165
Uneducated Workmen, 253
Union Steam Collier Company versus Humphrey and Others, 118
Use of Money, the Unrestricted, 337
Useful Information for Engineers, by Mr. W. Fairbairn, 57, 69
Usk Gas Company, 260
Usury, 277

Valetta and Pera Steam Ships, 168
Value of Steamers in Australia, Depreciated, 292
Valve, Alarm Whistle and Indicator, Self-Acting Stipp, v, 248
Valve for Boilers, Hackett's Safety, 268
Valve, Cowburn's Cellular Boiler and Oscillating, 268
Valve, Wailes's Eccentric Sluice, 181
Valves, Feeding Apparatus for Steam Boilers, Ramsbottom's, 96
Vanderbilt, American Steamship Company, 17
Vase for Prince Albert, a Gem Enamelled, 218 .
Vegetation, the Beginning of, 130
Ventilation of the Carlton Club, 312
Vernon, Messrs., Launch of the Annie Vernon, from. 112
Vessel, Blythe versus Tayleur, Claim for Delay in Com- 1 pleting a, 211
Vessel, Victor Emmanuel, 11
Vessels. lieu itt's Improvements in Propelling, 96
Vessels, on Loading and Discharging, 120, 1.52 193
Vessels, on Loading and Discharging, Jas. iaylor and Co., 24
Vessels, Lowe's Apparatus for Propelling, 308
Vessels, Palmer's Improvements in Propelling, 56
Vessels' Pidcock's Method of Steering and Propelling, 180, 187
Vesuvius, the Steamer, 171
Vezey's, It. and E. Carriage Steps, 72
Vice-Chancellor's dourt, Brigg versti4 Beardsell, 275
Vice, Davis's Patent Parallel, 36
Vices, Marchinton's Improvements in, 293
Vices, Warrens Improvements in the Construction of, 224
Victor Emmanuel, Launch of the, 217
Vilcocq and Deschamp's Free Diving Boat, 121
Vindication of Mr. Fairbairn's Logic (Note Book), 149
Voltaic Battery, by Geo. Mathiot, Self-Sustaining, 146, 182, 219

W., Problem of Balance Weights, 187
Waddington, Mr., 7
Waddington, Mr., and Mr. 1'. Ashcroft (Note Book), 45
Waddington's, Mr., Reply ( • ote Book), 9
Waggon Company, the Birmingham 146
Waggons, by Major Vincent Eyre, United Service Inst., Military, 274
Wailes's Eccentric Sluice Valve, 181
Wales Fuel Company, North and South, 227
Walker and McKenzie's Improvements in Electric Telegraphs, 109
Walmsley, Bullough, and Willan's Warping Machine, 80
Wallis, Geo., on Progress in Design as Applied to Manufactures (Society of Arts), 134
Want, the Great, 261
Want of Shipswrights, 33.1
War, Engineers' Share in the Late (Note Book), 185
War, a Letter on the Subject of Money and, by H. B. Southampton, 150
War Machine, 50
War Railway 119
Ward's New Works, Lord, 289
Warlike Preperations 336
arnali without Fuel or Motirn (Note Book), 9
Warping Machinery, Bullough, Milian, and Walmsleys', sO
Warren's Improvements in the Construction of Vices, 224
Warrington School of Art, 38
Washing, Mangling, and Churning, Greening's Machinery for, 180
Washing and Separat;ng Minerals, Maekworth's Improvements in, 148
Washing by Stearn, 232
Washhouses, Baths and, 247
Water without Air. Properties of, Inquired, 13
Water for Maiine Swan, Boil( rs, Fresh, .1
Water to the Metropolis, by Pro!essor Clarke, M.D., or the Supp.^ of Pure (Societ) of Arts), 270, 282
Water, Morris, Chrimes, Eskholmes Improvtments it Preventing Waste of, 11
Water Pipe-, m. Burns, Engineer 165
Water, Plan for Heating, Ilenry Childs, 273
Water, P^an for Heating, 11. L. T., 261
Water, Pan for Heating, Thomas W. Wilkinson, 261
Water, Pure, 132
Water Scheme, the Glasgow Loch Katrine, 272
Water to Steam Boilers, Mellor und Young's Machiner: for Supplying, 1E6
Water St ppl) and Di &linage, Adelaide, 273
Water to Wolverhampton, Supply of, 245
Waterplooting Compounds, Dodge's Machinery fo Spreading, 348
waters °nig, Dowlnis, 343
Waterworks Bill, Edinburgh, 211
Waterworks at Enfield, 32
Waterworks, the Glasgow, 294
Waterworks, London, 1115
Waterworks at Plumstead, 283
Waterworks, South Staffordshire, 112
Watson, F.(i.S., the Progress of Mining, by Josep' Yeliaby, 138
Way, Permanent, Jno. Dickson's, 38
Way, Permanent, Mr. Spencera's 49, 61, 67, 79
Way, Permanent, a Letter from L. C. E., 187
Weakness, ,)mptonis of (Note Book), 261
Weallens and Crow's Improvements in Steam-engine; 136
Wearing Msehine, Normandy's New Circular. 121
Weaving, Robert Coppock's Improvements in Looms for, 66
Wedge for Rails, Compound, 7
Weft, Brasseur's Machinery for Winding, 224
Weighing Machines, Stanley's Improvements, 173
Weights, the Problems of Balance by A, 21.5
Weightn, the Problems of Balance by C, 310, 198
Weights, the Problems of Balance, by Chatles E. Condors, 280
Weights, the Problem of Balance by H. H., 230, 262
Weights, the Problem of Balance by IlastIngo, 287, 214
Weights, the Problem of Balance by K. It. U., 1i8, 136, 262
Weights, the Problem of Balance, by J. Lovett, 230
Weights, the Problem of Balance, by J. IL P., '430
Well in the Bois de Boulogne, Artesian, 32
Well at PAM, Artesian, 32u
Welchpool, Shrewsbury, Hanwood, and, 7
Westrion-ter Bridge, state of, 2'8, 2153
Wharton's Improvements in Marine steam Engines, 48
Wheel, New Puddle, 192
Wheels, Ludbrook's Improvements in Railway, 192
Wheels, Pellenz's Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron, 41,
Wheelwright, William, Incrustation upon Steam Boilers. 38
Whichelo versus the Brighton and Hove Waterworks' Company, 295
Whittaker's Improvements in screw Propellers, 37
Whitehall, Spencer's Permanent Way, GO
Whistle and Indicator, Self-acting supply-valve Alarm, 248
Whitworth's, Mr., Artillery 259
Whitworth's, Mr. and the North western Committee of Investigation (Note Book), 101
Whitworth's, Mr., Tour in the Provinces, 304
Whylock, Alexander, Carpet Manufacture (Society of Arts), 110
Wilkins' Lamps, 72
Willan, Walmsley, and Bullough's Warping Machinery, 80
Williams and Fuller's Improvements in Wrenches, Pliers, and Spanners, 1a2
William's Improvements in Machinery for Driving or Actuating Ploughs, 97
Williams, M.R.C.s., a Letter in reference to Mr. Nasmyth's suggestions respecting the Origin of the Rotary Movement of the Celestial Bodies, &c., 150
Williams, Mr. C. Wye, Assoc. lnstit. C. E., Prize Essay on the Prevention of the -rs oke Nuisance, 163, 179, 191, 207. 223, 243, 255. 2 7, 27a, 343, 2151, 303, 319
Williams, Mr. C. Wye, smoke Nuisance, 297
Willis, FR.- ., Prof.. Description of Apparatus for Teaching Mechanics in Schools., by (-oc. of Al. 183
Wilson, Esq., .Manufacture of Price's Patent Candle Company (society of Arts), 41
Wilson, James, Manufacture of Article+ from Steel (Society of Arts), 260
Winding Weft, Brasseur's Machinery for, 224
Windlasses,
Windsor Castle, Improvements at, 283
Winkworth, Mr. Thomas, a Paper on the British Silk Manufacture (soviet) of Arts), 283
Winnowieg Grain, Nalder's Improvements in, 144
Willoughby, James, Hunt's Patent Hook, 45
Willoughby, James, Causes of Boiler Ex. !onions, 125
Wolverhampton Chamber of Coa.wcrcc, 253
Wolverlitimpton Collieries, 139
Wolverhampton, Ironmusters' Quarterly Meeting, 26
Wolverhampton, supply of Water to, •45
Wolverhampton Trades, 265
Wood, Bell, rand others, Exchequer Chamber, 263
Wood, Mr. Chief Eng., of the late Polyphemus, 112
Woodside Iron Works, Public Inspection of an Iron Bridge, 183
Woolwich Arsenal, 268
Woolwich, Bursting of a Mortar at, 171
Woolwich Marshes, 342
Woolwich storehouse, 11
Works of Art, our next Exhibition of the (Note Book), 285
Works, the Amusement of the Board of, 24.5
Works in Egypt, Public, 258, 311
Works at Gorton, near Manchester, 3lessrs. Beyer and Peacock's, 332
Works and Improvements Committee (Note Book), 213
Works, Metropolitan Board of, 131, 151, 18-, 195, 211, 231, 247, 263, 274, as 7, 295, 311, 323. 334, 347,
Works, Metropolitan Board of (Note Book), 109, 185, 197
Works in Russia, Public, 2.-5
Workman and Masters, 201, 211, 231, 247
Wrecks, statistics of, 95
Wrenches, Pliers and spanners, Williams and Fuller's Improvements in, 132
Wright and Green's Improvements in the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles, 121
Wright's Machinery for Crushing Grain, Messrs. W. and J., 2-1t4
Wrought Iron Ordnance, 201
Wylde, J., Jun., 1). J. Hoare's 'crew Propeller, 188
Wynne, Capt., Eastern Counties Railway (Note Book), 21

Yarrow Docks, 239
Yokes, Redman’s Improvements in Tillers or 180
Young's Gas Regulator, 80
Young, on and Magnay, Messrs. G. and F., Shipwrights Absenting themselves from the Service of the Firm of, 3.17
Young and Mellor's Machinery for Supplying Water to tram Boiler s, 196
Ystalyfera Iron and Tin Works, Fatal Accident at tke, 105

Zollverein, Progress of Trade with the, 313 S 1

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