The Engineer 1895 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1895 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABBOTT Tobe Expander, The, 77
Aber&man, Coal Washing Plant at Powell Duffryn Company's. Elliot Pita, 370, 371
Abstracts of Consular and Diplomatic Reports—Italy, British Engineering Firms at Naples, 110
Abt System, Railways Using tho, 201
Accidents, Board of Trade Inspectors and Rail¬way, 453
Accidonts on the Cicero and Proviso Electric Railway, Chicago, 155
Accidents on Electric Railways in Brooklyn and New York, 245
Accident, Lift, at Lloyd's, 203
Accidents, Railways, American, 355, 387
Accident, Railway, The Chelford, 10, 12
Accidents, Railway, in 1894, 423, 469
Accident, Railway, India, 201
Accident, Railway, between Marlborough and Swindon, 311
Accident, Railway, in Mexico, Terrible Derail¬ment, 245
Accident, Railway, on the Midland, 245
Accident, Railway, in Ohio, 401
Accident, Railway, at Sand own Junction, 245
Accident, Railway, near Southam, 423
Accidents, Railway, in the United States in November, 76
Accident, Railway, Waterford and Central Ireland, 441
Accidents to Rood Traffic in London, Data Con¬cerning, 507
Accidents and Suicides on the Railways of the United Kingdom, 423
Accident, Welland Canal, United States Lock, 486
"Accuracies and Errors,” Mr. A. P. Trotter's Lecture on, 113
Acetylene Gas, Proposed Compression of, into Liquid, 245
Acetylene as an Illuminant, 57, 84
Achill Extension Railway, Transfor of the, 473
Ackermann, Mr. A. W., Caissons r. Dock Gates, 33
Acland Hillside Gutter Plough, The, 442
“ Aco," Oil-carrying Steamer, 261, 265, 268, 328
Acts, The Merchandise Marks, 292
Acworth, Mr. W. M., on Light Railways, 158,159
Adams, Mr. W., Express Passenger Engine, London and South-Western Railway (Supple¬ment, March '22nd, 1895), 244, 319
Adams, of New York State, Engineer, Recom¬mends Electric Power for Canal Boats, 11
Admiralty Distribution of Naval Engineers in the Floot (Supplement, March 8th, 1895), 200 Africa, Light Draught Steamboats for, 379
Africa, Proposed Railway through German East, 532
Africa, Railways in, 154
Africa, West, Railways in, 547
Agricultural Implements in the Argentine Republic, 360
Agricultural Implements in Russia, 209
Agricultural Machines in South Russia, 134
Agricultural Society of Vienna, The, 117
Air by Flames and Respiration, Dr. F. Clowes on the Change of Composition Produced in, 476 Air Valve for Exposed Pipes, Automatic, 31
Aire and Calder Navigation Bill, 355
Albion Colliery Explosion, The Home Office
Report on the, 270
Alejjpo, Surveys at, in Connection with the New Alexander, Professor Peter, 239 Allen, Mr. W. D., Improved Furnace, 355
Alloys for Bicycles in Use in America, 135
Alloy, Melloid, A New, 376
Alloys, Rarer Metals and their, 238
Alloys Research Committee, The Third Report to the, 374
Alloys, The Study of, Mr. W. G. MacMillan on, 323
Alpine Railway—An Austrian Righi, 91, 99
Alpine Tunnel, Gunnison, Colo., Opened to Traffic, 497
Alternating Current Motors, On the Practical Application of, 232 Aluminium ? 225
Aluminium in the Iron Industry, Extensive Use of, 29
Aluminium, Refining Metal by Means of, 387
Aluminium Torpedo Boats for the French Govern¬ment, 305, 316, 317, 418 Aluminium Tubes >. 99
Aluminium Works at the Falls of Foyers, Pro¬jected, 338
Am Ende, Max, On the Calculation of Frame¬works with Superfluous Parts, 89, 131
American Cup, The, 241
America, Production of Wire Rods in, 532
America, Railroading in, 215
America, Records of Wire Rod Mills in, 62
American Breweries, 209
American Climate, Changeable Character of the. 423
American Engineering News, 40, 126, 146, 168, 210, 232, 254, 274, 298, 388. 454, 476
American Locomotives more Destructive to Per¬manent Way than English, 556
American Naval Comments on the Battle of the Yaloo River, 159
American Notes, 43, 86, 107, 129,149, 171, 192, 213, 234, 257, 301, 345, 367, 391,413, 435, 457, 479, 501, 520, 543, 567
American Pumpe, 75
American Railway for 1894, Annual Report of an, 228
American Tin-Plate Mills, The Wage Difficulty,
Arne ican Tin-riit) Works and Brands of Tin and Terne Platos, April, 1894, 460
Ammunition, Hebler's New Bullet, 62
Amoretti, M. P., Steam Tramways in Italy, 253, 297
Amphitrite, The Coast Defence Monitor, 507 ,
“ Anbud par Skinner," Tenders for Rails Marked, 11
Anchor, The Reliance Stockless, 406
Anchor, Tho Simplex Stockless, 316
Anchor and Steering Gear, s.s. “ Port Salisbury,” 482, 483
Anderson and Son, Messrs. D., "Wire-Webbed Silicate,” 532
Andrews, Mr. Thomas, On the Life of Railway Axles, 151
Annealing and Hardening Steel Wire, Mr. C. W. Bildt’s Process for, 423
Annual Dinner of the Old Students of tho Royal School of Mines, 106
Anthracite in the U.S., 219
Anzin, Furnace for Producing Steel of Extra Welding Quality, 76
Apple Mills and Cyder Presses, 493
Approximation to Earthwork Quantities, Rapid Method of, 443
Aquidaban, Projected Alterations to the, 76
Arc Lamp, Prof. S. P. Thompson on the, 76
Arc Lamps in the City of London, 201
Argand Burner, Proper Height of Flame of a 16-Candle, 76
Argentine Railways in 1894, Value of, 219
Argentine Republic, Agricultural Implements in the, 360
Argentine Republic, Condition and Prospects of the, 430
Argon, 109, 245, 272, 311, 329, 355, 384, 441, 515
Argon, M. Berthelot on, 245, 272, 311
Argon, on Mode of Obtaining, Prof. Guntz’s, 311
Argon in Atmospheric Nitrogen, M. Guntz's Experiment Demonstrating Presence of, 355
Argon Compound, M. H. Moissan's Attempts to Produce, 441
Argon, Compounds of, Prof. Ramsay on the, 329
Argon and Helium, Spectra of, 515
Argon, The Spectrum of, 384
Arizona, Tin Mine Discovered in, 423
Armanni's Belt Shifter, 508
Armour-clads for Sweden, 115
Armour, Face-hardened, 538
Armour Plate at Bethlehem, Pa., Successful Test of 12in. 453
Armour Plate Production, Increased, 404
Armour Plate Tests, U.S., 472
Armour Plate Trials at Indian Head, 473
Armour Trial, Harveyed, 226
Armour Plate, from the U.S. for a Foreign Government, First Shipment of, 507
Armstrong, Lord, his Exhibit at the Royal Society Conversazione, 515
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Messrs. W. G., British and Colonial s.s. Company’s New Cargo Steamers, 465, 466, 467
Armstrong Mountings for the New 12in. Wire Guns, Trial of, 423
Arsenic on Steel, Effect of, 416
Asbestos, Blue, South African Exhibition, 498
Asbestos Clothing for Firemen, 285
Aschkinass, Dr., Influence of Electric Waves on the Galvanic Resistance of Metallic Con¬ductors, 97
Ashworth, Mr. A. A., Evaporative Tests of Boilers, 326
Aspinall, Mr. John Audley Frederick, 360
Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., Express Locomotives, 504,
536, 537, 561, 564
Assam-Bengal Railway, Opening of, 263
Assam Publio Works, 83
Association, The Cleveland Ironmasters' Election of President and Vice-President, 29 Association op Engineers, The Lbeds : —
Corliss Valve Gears, Mr. Alfred Towler, 230
Discussion on the Metric System, 31
Executive, Names of the, 354
Testing Machine, Messrs. Joshua Buckton and Co., 100-Ton, 430
Association of Engineers, The Manchester Anniversary Dinner, The Thirty-ninth, 144 Presidential Address by Sir E. Leader Williams,
on the Suez and Manchester Ship Canals, 123
Association op Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London Annual Meeting and Report, 66 Boiler Materials and their Results in Construc¬tion and Working, Mr. A. K. Douglas, 341 Forty-second Annual Dinner, 378
Improved Method of Fixing Condenser Tubes, Debate on, 227
Association, The Geologists’ :—
Australian Engineering Notes, 518
Necessity of Competent Geological Surveys of Gold Mines, Mr. Nichol Brown, 515
Programme of Excursions for 1895, 176
Association of Mechanical Engineers, The Birmingham Annual Dinner, 139
Visit to the Works of the Birmingham Electric Supply Co., 241
Association of Municipal and County Engineers, The Incorporated :
Colne Valley Waterworks, Bushey Pumping
Station, Mr. E. Brough Taylor, 125
Nineteenth Voluntary Pass Examination, Report of, 304
Association of Portland Cement Manufacturers, Proposed, 33
Association, The South Staffordshire Coal- owners’ :
Meeting to Consider the Question of Gauging Boats as the Selling Weight of Coal, 29
Astronomer - Royal, His Report on the Lowest Temperature recorded during the Winter 1895, 556
Astronomy, Spectroscopic, 468
Athens, Permanent Industrial Exhibition, 355
Atkinson, Professor W. N., on Safety in Mining
Atlas Works, Glasgow, Machino Tool Making at the, 166, 157
Attorney - General r. St James’ and Pall Mall Electric Lighting Co., 223
Australia, Standard Zone Time adopted in, 113
Australian Engineering News, 432
Austria, Financial Status of Imperial Railways in, 201
Austria - Hungarian Man-of-War, “ Monarch,” The New, 344
Automatic Carriage Trials in France, 527
Automatic Mercurial Pumps, Professor Neesen’s, at the Berlin Physical Society, 556
Automatic Railway Signalling, 183, 319
Automatic Signalling, 284
Automatically Balanced Machinery, On Various Methods of Balancing Machinery, and on, 90
Axle Bearing, Richardson's, 31
Axle, Cause of Failure of an Engine Truck, 219
Axles, Life of Railway, 151
Ayrton, Professor, His Exhibit at the Royal Society Conversazione, 384
Ayrton and Haycroft, Messrs., on a Student's
Apparatus for Determining the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 11

BABCOCK and Wilcox Company, Reports Con¬cerning Explosion Incorrect, 289
Baden Krupp Gun Accident, The, 120
Baden-Powell, Lieutenant R., Kites—their Uses in War, 474
Baedeker, Herr J. D., on the Dortmund Mines, 113
Bailey, Mr. S. C., Railway Level Crossings, Gates, and Fencing, 252
Baker, Mr. G. T., The Hypothesis Concerning the Origin of Petroleum, 423
Balancing Machinery, On Various Methods of, 90
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Electric Locomotive, Messrs. Sprague, Duncan, and Hutchinson, 441
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Electric Motors at the, 135
Balfour, Mr. D., Main Sewerage of Usworth and Washington, 263
Ball, Bolt and Screw Forging Machine, 186, 187
Ballast of Burnt Black-wax Soil, Use of in Texas, 311
Ballasting Plant Company’s Prospectus, The, 29
Balloon Expedition to the Polar Regions, Mr. J. W. Andrée’s Report on the Project of, 532
Baltic and Black Seas, Ship Canal Between the, 245
Baltic Canal, The, 355, 441, 503, 509, 512
Baltic Canal, Opening Festivities at Kiel, 355
Baltic Canal, Slips in the Banks of, 441
Baltimore and Ohio Electrical Locomotives, The, I 360
Bandsept, M., On a Method of Burning Oxygen and Coal Gas under Liquid, 97
Bangalore, Quarrying by Means of Wood Fire { at, 135
Banket Formation at Johannesburg, Mr. A. B. Sawyer on the, 496
“Banshee" and " Contest,” Trial Trips of the, 76, 190
Barge "l’Idée,"Gas Engine Propelled, 175, 176, 209 252
Barker, Mr. J. H., On Newbum Bridge, 4
Barnes Bridge, Widening of, 97
Barnstaple, Light Railway at, 76
Barometer, Mr. J. Norman Collie's, 289
Barometer, Professor G. Heilman on the Invention of the, 201
Barrow Hematite Steel Company, Award of Ar¬bitrator, 376
Barrow Steel Works, Work Resumed at the, 423
Barry, Mr. Charles, Institution of Civil Engineers, New Buildings (Supplement, January 18/A, 1895), 49, 50, 52, 55
Barry, Mr. J. W., Application for Additional Remuneration in Connection with his Services as Engineer to the Tower Bridge, 29
Barry Dock and Railway Co., Projected Break¬water and Pier, 387
Barry Railway Co. ’s New Lines, Total Expenditure on, 219
Bartoli, Mr. A., On the Dependency of the Electrical Conductivity of Organic Salts on the Temperature, 97
Batey, Mr. J., Steam Pipe Safety Valve, 91
Bath, Sewage Works for, 289
Bath and West and Southern Counties Society’s Exhibition, 263
Bath and West and Southern Counties Society’s Show,(see Society, Bath and West and Southern Counties), 464
Batoum, Export of Petroleum from, 507
Battery, A Non-Polarising, 154
Battery, Secondary, M. Lucien Poincaré’s Descrip¬tion of, 289
Battle to the Death, A, 200
Battleship, Launch of a New First-class, 430
Battleships and Bilge Keels, First-class, 313
Battleships, Two New, for the U.S. Navy, 556
Battleships, Unarmoured Ends in, 284
Bayard and Marriott, Messrs., On the Frost of January and February, 1895, 360
Beam Engine, A Century Old Boulton and Watt, 454
Beam En£’nes> Triple Expansion Corliss, 424,
Bearing, Richardson’s Axle, 31
Bearings, Thrust (tee Thrust Bearings)
Beaumont and Sellou, Messrs., On Parliamentary
Procedure os Affecting Light Railways and Tramways, 204
Beauville, M. Jean Baptiste, 329
Beddow’s Epicycloidal Rose-cutting Apparatus, 516
Beehlor, Lieutenant W. H.,On the Solarometer, 474
Beer, Mr. Walter, Construction of Railway Bridges under 100ft. Span, 408
Beira Railway Completed to Chimoio, 135
Belfast Water Supply, ‘237, 246
Belgian Breweries and Brewing in Belgium, Mr. G. M. Johnson, 464
Belgian Government's Subsidy to the Congo Railway, 76
Belgian Scheme for a Line Along the Shores of the Persian Gulf, 532
Belgium, Coal Imports and Exports, 177
Belgium, Export of Briquettes from. 423
Belgium, Light Railways in, 259, 279, 325
Belgium, Railway Mileage of, 177
Belleville Boiler, The, 293, 341, 377, 387
Belleville Boilers in the American s.s. “North-West," Competence of the, 556
Belleville Boiler, H.M.S. “ Sharpshooter," and the, 315
Belleville Boiler Factory, Visit to the, 548
Belleville Boilers or Generators for the “ Rossya," 548
Belleville Boilers in the Mercantile Marine, 474
Belleville Boilers in the United States, 252
Belleville and Scotch Boiler, The, 10
Bells at Trieste, Effect of Earthquake on, 329
Beloe, Mr. C. H., Sewage Purification, 253
Belt Line Railway, Baltimore, Progress of, 135
Belt, Metallic Cotton, 62
Belt Shifter, Armanni's, 508
Bending of Rails in the United States by Heat, 556
Bengal, Canal Mileage in, 11
Bengal-Nagpur Line, Extension, 289
Benham Top, The, 146, 167, 181, 209, 267, 363 375, 445, 474
Benham Top, Light and the, 146, 167
Benicia, Floating Dry Dock Launched at, 423
Bentall and Co., Messrs. E. H., Mowing Machine, 493
Berend and Co., Messrs. 0., Automatic Air Valve for Exposed Pipes, 31
Berg, Mr. S. J., On the St. Gothard Mountain and Stanzerhorn Cable Railway, 28
Berlin Overhead Electric Railway, 423
Berlin, Underground Railways in, 289
Berry's Saw Bench with Rising and Falling Table, Berthelot, Professor, on Argon, 245, 272, 311
Berthon*8 Boats and Pontoons for Military Pur¬poses, 262
Berthon’s Collapsible Boats, 248
Bertin, M., The Amplitude of Rolling on a Non-synchronous Wave, 504
Bessemer Acid Converter, Experiments with, in France, 289
Bessemer Steel Production in the United States, 206
Bessemer Steel in the United States, 567 )
Bethlehem Iron Co., Penn., Armour-plate for Russia, 507
Betteley, Mr. J. H., Tram Car Brake, 274
Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Seventy-six Engines for the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln¬shire Railway Co., 355
Bicycle Mechanical Engineering, 511
Bicycles, How their Extended Use Affects Tramway Company’s Receipts, 556
Bildt, Mr. C. W., Hardening Steel Wire, 423
Bilge Keels, First-class Battleships and, 313
Bilge Keels, Influence of, 48
Bilge Keels, Influence of, on Steering and Speed, Billow, Mr. C. 0., Article by, on Oil Fuel and Average Evaporation of the Boiler Plant, 507
Bill, Steam Engines (Persons in Charge), 285, 293. 313, 319
Bills in Parliament, 1895, 216
Bills Passed by the Earl of Morley’s Committee on Unopposed Bills, 401
Bills Relative to the AVorking of the London Tramways, 311
Billy, M. E. de, Pig Iron Industry in South Russia, 311
Binne^/, Mr. W. M., Engine-room Practice at Sea, Bird, Mr. Thos., 113
Birmingham Electric Supply Co.’s Works, Visit Birmingham, Goods Traffic at, 263
Births and Deaths Registered in London, 11, 29, 155, 201, 263, 329, 441, 497 ’
Black, Mr. C. E. D., Proposed Railway Across Arabia put forward by, 532
Black Damp, Dr. John Haldine and W. N. Atkin¬son on, 185
Blackpool Tower, The, 263
Blackstone and Co., Messrs., New Implements at the Royal Agricultural Show, 553, 554
Blackwall Tunnel Works, Fall of a Steam Crane at, 97
Black-wax Soil as Ballast, Use of Burnt, 311
Blaikie, Mr. Walter B., on the Cosmospbere, 296
Blaikie, Mr. W. B., on the Retrogradation of the Shadows on the Sun Dial, 429
Blake-Marsden Stone-breakers, The, 554
“ Blanco Encalada,” Engines of the (Supplement, January ilh, 1895), 4
Blankenberghe Promenade Pier and Hall, 220,221, 224, 431
Blast Fired at the Penrhyn Quarries, 401
Blast Furnace Condensation of Dust and Metallic Fumes, 497
Blast Furnace, Direct Puddling of the Iron from the Blast, 382
Boiler Accidents, 92
Boilers and Air Pumps, United States Torpedo Boat, 3, 10, 26, 27
Boilers, The Belleville, 293, 341, 377
Boilers, The Belleville, in the Ameriram “ North-West,” 556
Boilers, Belleville, in the Mercantile Marine, 474
Boiler, The Belleville and Scotch, 10
Boilers of Different Systems, Coupling, 525, 538
Boiler Disincrustant, Liquid Carbonic Acid as a, 401
Boilers, Evaporative Tests of, Mr. A. Ashworth, 326
Boiler Explosions Act, Board of Trade Report under the, 135
Boiler Explosion, Fatal, 464
Boiler Explosions, Fatal Ship, 473
Boiler Explosions, Mr. W. H. Fowler on, 124
Boiler Explosion in Hoxton, The, 301
Boiler Explosion, Locomotive, Ireland, 263
Boiler Explosion, Pennsylvania, 180
Boiler Explosion, Portable Engine, Yeovilton, 155
Boiler Explosion at Redcar Ironworks, 525, 530, 559
Boiler Explosion, A Remarkable, 125
Boiler Explosion in Scotland, Serious, 155
Boiler Explosion, Yeovilton, The, 178, 180, 260
Boiler Gauges, Glass, 29
Boilers or Generators, The Belleville, 548
Boiler, H.M.S. “Sharpshooter” and the Belleville, 315
Boilers, Induced Draught as a Means of Developing the Power of Marine, 364
Boilers, Initial Condensation and Heat Waste in 1 Steam, 305
Boiler Materials and their Results in Construction and Working, 341
Boiler, The Mumford Water Tube, 486, 490
Boilers, Navy, 357, 363, 374, 400, 426, 431, 445
Boilers in the Navy, Water Tube, 340
Boiler, The Niclausse, Mr. Mark Robinson on, Boi?ere, Stops, 185,197
Boiler for Steam Yacht with Liquid Fuel Burners, 316
Boilers in the United States, Belleville, 252
Boilers, Water Tube, and Colonial Planters, 403
Boilers, Water Tube, for the Colonies, 431
Boilers, Water Tube, M. Normand on, 548, 564
Boilers, Water Tube, Mr. A. E. Seaton on, 454
Boilers, Water Tube, in the United States, 442
Boilers, Yarrow Patent Water Tube, Models of, Shown in the House of Commons, 387
Bowdon, Mr. E. N., Outfall Sewage Works of Moss Works, Manchester, 333
Board of Trade Inspectors and Railway Accidents, 453
Board of Trade on Street Transformer Chambers, 11, 62
Board of Trade, Marine Department of the, 533
Board of Trade Regulations under Electric Light¬ing Acts, Revised, 1882, 1888, 489
Board of Trade Report on Railway Accident in Ireland, 441
Boat, Aluminium Torpedo, Mr. A. F. Yarrow, 305, 316
Boats, Berthon's Collapsible, 248
Boats on Inland Waterways, Traction of, 303, 481
Bogie Truck, Brill’s Tramcar, 430
Boisbandran, M. Lecoq de, on the Formation of Crystals, 473
Bollinckx, A., Economical Compound Engine?, 133
Bolton, Dr. Meade, on the Effect of Metals on the Growth of Bacteria, 387
Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway, Sweating on the, 289
Bombay-Calcutta Mail Train, Accident to, 201
Bombay, 48in. Water-Main Burst, 472 Bombay Tramways, 219
Bonehill, Process of Direct Paddling, Mr. E. Bonetoll on the, 532
Bookbinders' and Printers’ Machinery, Improved, 63
Books Received, 59, 81, 101, 121, 143. 164, 185, 207, 227, 249, 271, 315, 337, 359, 383, 405, 427, 449, 471, 493, 515, 559
Bordeaux Exhibition, Applications for Space, 97
Bordeaux Exhibition, Date for Receiving Appli¬cations, 155
Bordeaux, Exhibition at—see also Exhibition, Bordeaux, 483
Bores, Tests of Cylinder and Trunk, 307
Boride of Iron, M. Henri Moissan’s Process of Obtaining a, 135
Boring, Facing, Turning, and Milling Machine, Horizontal, 550
Boring Machines, Crank Chamber and Cylinder, 309
Boring for Oil, On the Process of, 401
Boron Steel, MM. H. Moissan and G. Charpy on, 473
Boston and Charlestown, Proposed Bridge be¬tween, 155
Boston Harbour, New Red Range Lights for, 155
Boston, Underground Electric Ducts in, 329
Bottles for Compressed Gases, 431
Boulder, Gigantic, found near Waterloo, Indiana, 507
Boulton and Watt Beam Engines, A Century Old, 454
Bourdon, Mr. Ed., New Lubricators, 90
Bouzey Dam, Failure of the, 383
Bovet System, Towing by Electricity on the, 97
Bowers, Mr. Jas., Balanced Slide Valves and Piston Packings, 148
Boynton Bicycle Railway, Projected, 387
Brady, Mr. A. B., Low-level Concrete Bridge, Maryborough, Queensland, 395, 398, 399
Brake, The “ Reliance ” Tramcar, 274
Brake Trials upon the North-Eastern Railway, Mr. Clement E. Stretton, 496
Brandt’s Rock Drills, 74. 75
Branley, M. Edouard, on the Electric Resistance at the Contact of Two Metals, 401
Brass Trades and Allied Industries, Home Office Committee's Inquiry into the Condition of, 155
Brassey, Lord, Opening Address, as President of the Institute of Naval Architects, 281
Brauer, Prof. E., on Horse-power, 80
Brazil, Proposed New Railway Project in, 263
Brazilian Capital, Plans and Reports for a New, 355
Breakdowns at Sea, Mr. W. Welbury, 475, 498, 516
Breakdowns at Sea, and how they have been Repaired, 223
Bredng, G., on Ion Migration, 62
“ Brennus,” Trial Trips of the French Battleship,
Breslau Electric Railway Company, 387
Breweries, American, 209
Breweries and Brewing in Belgium, 464
Brewers' Exhibition, Machinery and Plant at the, 289
Brewery, Tube Well at a French, 535
Brewing Institute, The, 464
Brewster, Mr. E. H. G., On Water Waste P.oventer Cisterns, 155
Brick Kilns, 141
Bridge, Cantilever, over the Hudson, 11
Bridge, Cantilever, over the St. Lawrence, 168
Bridges, Compound Concrete and Steel, 431
Bridge, The Cost of a, 381
Bridges, Deflection of Iron, 263
Bridge w Germany, A Test to Destruction of a, 329
Bridge Girders, Indian State Railways, 82
Bridge, Girder, Tottenham and Forest Gate, Mr, A. C. Pain, 280, 288, 296
Bridge, Glasgow, 4
Bridge over the Hudson, Proposed New Suspen¬sion, 298, 507
Bridges in India, Rules for Working Stress on Girder, 473
Bridge, Iron Roof over Stone Arch Railway, 263
Bridge, The Ian-Ho, 377
Bridge, Low - level Concrete, Maryborough, Queensland, 395, 398, 399
Bridge, Montreal, 117
Bridge, The Neath River, 272 Bridge, Newburn. 4
Bridge over the Ohio, 97
Bridges, Railway, Rusting of Iron and Steel, 556
Bridge at Rome, Partial Reconstruction of a, 115
Bridge, The Ruthven, over the Spey, Kingussie, 295, 298
Bridges, Superstructure of Railway, 217
Bridge, Suspension, Proposed, over the Hudson, 298
Bridges under 100ft. Span, On the Construction of, 408
Bridge, Waverley, 263
Brighton, Municipal Engineering Works at, 408
Brill’s Tram Car Bogie Truck, 430
Briquettes Exported by Belgium, 423
Bristol, 453
Bristol, New Electric Tramway in, 197
Britannia Co , The, Beddow’s Epicycloidal Rose
Cutting Apparatus, 516
British, American, and Continental Iron and Steel Production, 514
British Association, The :
Annual Meeting to be held at Ipswich, 429
British and Colonial Steamship Company’s New Cargo Steamers, 465, 466, 467
British Engineering Firms at Naples, 110
British Fuses for Modern Guns, 338, 487
British Iron Prices, Cornering, 184
British Metals and Foreign Competition, 358
British Mines in 1894, 248
British Trading, Four Months of, 448
Brodie, Mr. John A., Tramways and Tramway Traction, 59
Brooklyn Bridge, Cables used on the Cable Railway, 532
Brooklyn Electric Railways, Accidents on the, and f Speed of the Cars, 387
Brooklyn, Funeral Trains, 507
Brooklyn, Speed of Electrical Cars in, Reduced, 532
Brooklyn, Speed Ordinances for Electric Cars, 401
Brooks Locomotive Works, Engines for Brazil, 67
Broomhall, Mr. C. M., Static Friction, 232
Brough, Mr. Bennett H., his Marriage, 135
Brown, Mr., On Cable Tramways, 216
Brown, Mr. Nichol, on the Necessity of Compe¬tent Geological Surveys of Gold Mines, 515
“Bruiser,” Speed Trials of H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 289
Brush-making Machinery ? 225
Bryce, Mr., on Electric Light Regulations, 441
Buchan, Mr. John, 322
Buckingham Sewerage Scheme, 311
Buckton and Co., Messrs. Joshua, Testing Machine, 430
Building Material in use in America, A New, 76
Buildings by Hot Water, Warming of, 430
Bulgaria, Railways in, 29
Bullet, Hebler’s, 62
“ Buluwayo,” The 8.S., 465
Buluwayo, Waterworks at, 422
Burma to the Upper Valley of the Brahmaputra, Railway Route from, 289
Burmeister and Wain, Slesars., Russian Imperial Yacht “Standart,” 353
Burmese Railway, Opening of, 423
“ Burner” Grate, Mr. M. Reynolds, 189
Bqrner Mantles, Incandescent, Invention to Pre¬vent Rapid Destruction of, 423
Burnet, Mr. Lindsay, 239
Buretall, Mr., on the Measurement of Cyclically Varying Temperature, 532
Bury, Electric Installation for, 219
Bushey Pumping Station, 125
Business is Business, 492
Boss or Best Governor? The, 491
Busse, Mr. Otto, Passenger Engines for the Danish State Railways, Messrs. Neilson and Co., 305, 312, 316, 318, 417, 421
Butler, Mr. D. B., Portland Cement, 317
Butters and Smart, Messrs. Chas., Plant for the Extraction of Gold by the Cyanide Process, 168
Byers and Co., Messrs. W. L., The “Reliance” Stockless Anohor, 406

CABLE between the French Red Sea and Port Obock, Proposed French, 387
Cables, Chain, 222
Cable for the Columbus Avenue Line, New, 387 ,
Cable and Electric Traction, Relative Economy of, 556
Cable Grapnels, Submarine, Messrs. Johnson and Phillips, 122
Cables nsed on the Cable Railway since the Open¬ing of Brooklyn Bridge, 532
Cable Tramway Scheme for Edinburgh, 100
Cable Tramways, Mr. Brown on, 216
Cairo City Sewerage Works. 135
Cairo and the Pyramids, Trolley Line Projected a between, 556
Caissons r. Dock Gates, Mr. A. W. Ackermann, 33
Cail, Visit of the Institution of Naval Architects to the Société des Anciens Establishments, 548
Calcium Phosphate of Milk, M. L. Vaudin on the, 355
Calculating Slide Rules? 357
Calculation of Frameworks with Superfluous Parts, On the, Mr. Max Am Ende, 89, 131
Calculation, Royal Roads to, 210
Calculator, Cherry’s, 134, 181
Calcutta, The Kidderpur Docks, 251
Caledonian Railway, Express Passenger Engine, Mr. John Lambie (Supplement*, May 10/A and May 31s<, 1895), 407
“Caledonia”, s.s., Electric Light Engines and Dynamo, 189
“ Caledonia ”, s.s., Record Passage of the P. and 0., 387
Calendars for 1895, 11
Calvert, Professor, Proporties of the Carbonates of Potash and Soda of Protecting Iron and Steel from Rost, 135
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, Their Exhibits at the Royal Society Conversazione, 384
Camera Club Conference, The, 328
Camera Club Photographic Conference, 218
Camera for Plate 7ft. by 5ft., 401
Campbell and Lovell, Messrs., On the Supposed Magnetic Fatigue, 387
Campion, Mr , First Sitting after the Easter Recess, 355
Canada Balsam nsed for Cementing Parposes by Opticians, 135
Canadian Government, Legal Space for Cattle on Spar Deck of Steamships Reduced by, 289
Canadian Railway Mileage, 245
Canal, The Baltic, 503, 509, 512
Canal, Baltic, Vessels to Represent England at the Opening, 401
Canal, Baltic and Black Seas, between the, 245
Canal Boats, Electric Power for Propulsion of, 11
Canal, Bridgwater and Taunton, to Connect, 113
Canal, Caspian and Black Sea, Proposed, between the, 464
Canal, Danube, with the Moldau and Elbe, to Connect the, 405
Canal, The Elbe-Trave, 497
Canals in Germany, 359
Canal, Grand Junction, 453
Canal, Harlem Ship, Opening of the, 532
Canal, Inauguration of the North Sea and Baltic, 245
Canal, The Jonage, 484, 485, 486
Canal, Leeds and Liverpool, 260
Canal to the Madras Harbour, Route of Proposed, 387
Canal, Manchester, 338
Canal, Marseilles and Rhone, 245, 311, 453
Canal Mileage in Bengal, 11
Canal Navigation, Mr. J. A. Sauer, 21
Canal, The Nicaragua, 315
Canal, The Panama, 401
Canal, The Panama, M. de la Tournerie’s Report, 387
Canal, Roy ton, 260
Canal, Ship, U.S.A., Proposed, 473
Canals, On the Suez and Manchester Ship, Sir E. L. Williams, 123
Canal, The Thames and Severn, 267, 453
Candle, Professor Crookes on the Merits of the, 423
Canet 12’6in. Guns in the Japanese Fleet, 102
Cantilever Bridge over the St. Lawrence, 168 Cantilever Strains? 513
Canvas and Spars, The “Defender's,” 454
Cape Asbestos Company, Blue Asbestos in Fibres, 498
Cape GovernmentRailways, Traffic Returns on, 76
Cape Liner “ Johannesburg," The New, 213
Cape Railways, Railway from Bloemfontein to
Kimberley, 401
Capelle, M., The Gas-Propelled Barge “Idéé,” 252
Capper, Professor, on Oil Engines, 276
Capstan, Sheppard’s, 316
Capstan, Windlass and Warping, s.s. “ Port Salisbury,” 482, 483
Car Lighting in Germany, Report on, 507
Carbon, Specific Heat and Boding Point of, 401
Carbonates of Potash and Soda against Rust, Properties of, 135
Carbonic Acid, Liquid, as a Boiler Disincrustant, 401
Cardew, Major, His Exhibit at the Royal Society’s ’ Conversations, 384
Cardiff Exhibition, The, 155
Carl Pieper’s Patent, 406
Carmichael, Mr. David, 398
Carriage of Coal by Rad, Important Alterations 1 in the, 143
Carriage of Compressed Gases, 375
Carriages, Automatic, in France, 527
Carriages, Mechanical, 529
Carriages, Self-propelled Pleasure, 533
Carson and Toone, Messrs., Chaff Cutters and Sifters, 493
Cartagena, Magdalena Radway Opened, 29
Cartridge Closing Machine, Improved, 115
Cassel Gold Extracting Company (Limited) The Cyanide Gold Recovery Syndicate (Limited), and Others, 341
Castel, M., on the Creusot Works, 113
Catalogues, 77, 204, 286, 315, 364, 418, 478
Catch, The " Pullopen,” Paragon Bolt Syndicate, 284
Cattle on Spar Deck of Steamships, Legal Space for, Reauced by the Canadian Government, 289
Caucasian and Transcaspian Lines, Proposed Radway to Connect the, 532
Caucasus, Total Output in 1893 of Manganese Ore, 401
Cauro, Mr. J., on the Electrostatic Capacity of 1 Resistance Bobbins, 177
Caversham Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, 113
Cell, The New Primary, and Electro-motive Force of ditto, 473
Cellulose, Substitute for, 506
Cellulose, Testing of the Marsden Corn-pith and < the Cocoa, 556
Celluvert Fibre, Pump Cups and Hats of, 135
Cement from Blast Furnace Slag, Manufacture of, 62 '
Cement, On Portland, 317
Cementing, Canada Balsam used by Opticians for, iaS
Census of the City, Day, 201
Central Asia Railway, Krasnovodsk, the Starting 1 Point of, 155
Ceylon, Railways in, 146
Ceylon, Railway Mileage in, 76
Chaff Cutter, Messrs. Marshall, 553
Chain Cables, 222
Chain Making, Mr. W. Cooper Penn, on, 376
Chain, A Monster, for Germany, 219 '
Chandler, Messrs., Copious Supply of Pure Water tapped at their Brewery, 219
Chaney, Mr. H. J., on the Weights and Measures in Use iD the United Kingdom, 263
Charon Gas Engines, Consumption of Gas by the, 263
Chart of the Milke Concession, Japan, showing Seam Depths, 151
Chatham Dockyard, Projected Changes in the Engine and Boiler Shop, 329
Chatham, New Docks at, 464
Chatwin, Mr. Thomas, Palmer and Blackmore’s Twist Drill Grinder, 398
Cheapening Production in Iron Manufacture, 292
Checking Engineering Calculations, Mr. A. Hanssen on, 69
Checking Workmen’s Entry at Factories, Apparatus for, 135
Cbelford Railway Accident, The, 10, 12
Chelford Railway Accident, Board of Trade Report, 135
Cheltenham, Municipal Electric Light Works at, 516
Chemical Industries, 534 - Chemical Manufacture in the North, 535
Chemulpo to Seoul, Railwav from, 387
Cherry’s Calculator, 134, 181
Chicago, Accidents on Electric Railway, 155
Chicago Auditorium, Search-light Signals of Weather Forecasts, 311
Chicago General Street Railway Company and the Chicago City Railway Company, Dispute between, and Wrecking of a Car, 387
Chicago, Water Used and Wasted in, 97
Cbignecto Ship Railway, The, 497
Chignecto Ship Railway, Extension of Time for Completion of, Applied for, 441
Chilian Cruiser “Blanco Encalada, ” Engines of the (Supplement, January 4th, 1895),
Chime Whistle for Locomotives on the Pennsyl¬vania Railway, 355
Chimneys, W. H. Wakeman on, 497
Chimneys on Factories, Rocking, 33
Chimneys, Should they Rock? 73, 116
China, English Engines in, 148
China, Extension of Tonkin Railways into, 556
China, The Lan-Ho Bridge, 377
China, Machinery Imports into, 80
China, Trade Possibilities in, 349
Chinese Criticism on Chinese War Policy, 4
Chinese Warships at Wei-Hai-Wei, Destruction of, 133
Christiania, Tenders for Rails, 11
Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution, 77
Chromogenic Power of Microbia, Action of Rays of Light on the, 355
Circlograph, Mr. J. Clarkson, 384
City of London Electric Lighting Co., Shelter and Menx’s Brewery Co. v., 506
City and Sonth London Railway Bill, 289
Civil Engineering, 1894, 13
Clarke, Mr. Hyde, 217
Clarkson, Mr. J., Circlograph, 384
Claudet, Mr. Arthur C., A Mexican Mine, 406
Clayton, Mr. J., on the Contraction with Frost of the Girth of Trees, 263
Clayton and Shuttle worth, Messrs., Oil Engine, 552
Cleveland Ironmasters' Association, Election of President and Vice-President, 29
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, Transport of Liquid Molten Iron by the, 556
Clocks on Locomotives, 473
Clowes, Dr. F., Limits of Explosive Mixtures of Various Combustible Gases with Air, 496
Clyde Builders, New Contracts for Steamers, &c., placed with, 441
Clyde, The Makiiig of the, 80
ClydebaDk, Strike at, 355
Coal in Suffolk, Boring for, 329
Coal Bunker Ventilation, Explosion caused by Insufficient, 497
Coal, Cheap, 375
Coal Consumption on Torpedo Boats, 489
Coal Contracts and Engineering, 514
Coal Contract for Gas Manufacture, 427
Coal Depóts to be Established in German East Africa, 387
Coal Dust as Fuel, New Device for Utilising, 245
Coaldust Commission, Report of the English, 423
Coal, English and Foreign Shipments, 315
Coal Export and Import, Belgian, 177
Coal, Gauging Boats as the Selling Weight of, 29
Coal in the Hills of the Esterel, 423
Coal Miner at his Vocation, The, “ Mining Work," Published in Germany, 62
Coal Mining in Japan, Recent Developments in, 151, 160, 173,179, 182
Coal Mining in Great Britain, 80
Coal Mining Project, Important Colonial, 177
Coal Output in France, 155
Coal by Rail, Carriage of, 143
Coal in the Ruhr District," 177
Coal Stacking in Water, 201
Coal from Tonquin, to be tried for French Torpedo Boats, 62
Coal Trade, The, 120
Coal Trade, New Wagon Regulations and the, 226
Coal Traders’ Conference, on the Increased Rail¬way Charges, 387
Coal in the United States in 1894, Total Product of, 507
Coal Washing Plant, Powell Duffryn Company’s Elliot Pits, 370, 371
Coalbrookdale Company, Horizontal Hydraulic Pumping Engines, 202
Coatbam Ironworks Offered for Sale by Auction, 401
Coating Pipes and Castings? Dr. Angus Smith's Composition for, 225
Cockbum and Montgomery, Messrs., Steam Grab Dredger, 356, 359, 375
Cocoa Nat Matting Machinery, 119
Oelostat, M. G. Lippmann on the, 497
Cole, Mr. H. A. B., British and Colonial a.s. Co.’s New Cargo Steamers, Designed by, 465, 466, 467
Cole, Marchent,and Morley, Messrs., “Prospect" Steam Pump, 122
Colomb, Vice-Admiral P. H., Elements of Force in a Warship, 283
Colombian Railway, The Great, 441
Colombo Harbour, Construction of, 62
Colonial Planters, Water Tube Boilers and, 403
Collett, Mr. Alfred, Monistrol-Montserrat Rack Railway, 28
Collie, Mr. J. Norman, Improved Form of Barometer, 2S9
Collier, Mr. T. B., Appointed Rolling Stock Con¬troller, 135
Collieries, South Wales, Revision of the Special Rules for the, 289
Colliers' Wages, The Scotch Miners' Conference on, 441
Colliery Accident near Radstook, 177
Colliery Explosion, Home Office Report on the C Albion, 270
Colliery Explosion, Malago Vale, 473
Colliery, Toe Rateau Fan at the Lens, 451, 452
Colliery Wagons, Steel, for Indian State Railways, 60
Collision with Lock Gates, 538
Collision, The Northallerton, 60
Collision on the Taff Vale Railway, Board of Trade Report on, 355
Colne Valley Waterworks, 125 Colombo Harbour, 176
Colours, Professor H. W. Vogel on the Perfection of, 76
Committee on Light Railways, The, 95, 119
Compound Locomotives in Germany, Orders for, 507
Compressed Air, Dredging with, 443 Compressed Air, Novel Use of, 113 (
Compressed Gases, Bottles for, 431 Compressed Gas, Carriage of, 363, 375
Compressed Gas for Locomotive Headlights in Brazil, 62
Compressed Cases, Safe Storage and Conveyance of, 332
Concrete and Stoel Bridges, Compound, 431
Condensation and Heat Waste in Steam Cylinders, 305
Condenser and Economiser, Steam, 243
Condenser Tabes, Debate on an Improved Method of Fixing, 227
Condensing Locomotives in Scotland, 11
Conductivity of Badly Conducting Sabstances, Determining the, 219
Condnits, Doulton’s Electrio Light Main, 123
Congo Railway, Progress of, 76
Conradi, junr., Mr., Superstructure of Railway Bridges, 217 1
Conservation of Energy, The, 382, 431
Constantinople Railway, The Salonica-Dedeagatch, 155
Contemporary Economy of the Steam Engine, 314
Continuous Current in Germany, Number of Central Stations Using the, 497
Contract for Portsmouth New Docks 14 and 15, 93 Contracts Opbn:
Indian State Railways and Assam Works, Bridge Girders, 82
Indian State Railways, East Bengal State Rail¬way, Girders for, 230, 231
Indian State Railways, Light Draught Ferry Steamers, 241
Indian State Railways, Muskaf-Bolan Railway, 83
Indian Stato Railways, Permanent Way Material, 174
Indian State Railways, Steel Colliery Wagons and Parts, 61
Indian State Railways, Underframes and Bodies for Covered Wagons, 386
Contraction with Frost of the Girth of Trees, 263
Contraction of Mud by Drying ? 469
Cook, Mr. Wm., “National" Straw Elevator, 554
Cook and Son's Offices at Leicester, 245
Cooper, Mr. Arthur, Metal Mixers as Used at the Works of the North-Eastern Steel Company, Lim., 405
Cooper, Mr. Theodore, Plans for Suspension Bridge across the Hudson, 245
Copeland's Wall Engine, Atlas Works, Glasgow, 156
Copper, Elimination of Impurities during the Process of Making, 374
Copper and Tin Deposits in Bengal, Mr. Robert Oats on the, 496
Copper and Tin, Pyrometric Examination of the Alloys of, 374 Cork Harbour, 453
Corliss Condensing Engines, Compound, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co. (Supplement, June 21rt, 1895)
Corliss Engine, Triple-expansion, Messrs. W. B.
Thompson and Co., 424, 428, 429
Corliss Valve Gears, Mr. Alfred Towler on, 230
Cornering British Iron Prices, 184
Cornish Down Bridge, Embankment near the, 311
Cornwall, Distress in, 11 Correction, A, 363
Corrosion of Iron and Steel Bridges, 556
Cost of a Bridge 1 381 Cost of Production, Reducing the, 162, 181
Cost of Torpedo Boat Destroyers, The, 413
Cost of Warships, Dr. F. Elgar on the, 528, 525, 549
Cotton Belt, Metallic, 62
Coupling Boilers of Different Systems, M. Pierre Sigaudy, 525, 538
Course Indicators, Prince Louis of Battenberg’s, 120
Ordered for the Navy, 76
Conrt, Mr. S. h, On Passenger Lifts, 252
Covering Pulleys with Leather or Paper, 473
Coward, Mr. H., Laundry Machine, 344
Coxe, Mr. Eckley B., 528
Crane, Fall of a Steam, 97
Cranes, Electrical, for Southampton Harbour, 532
Crane and Locomotive, Combined, 398
Cranes, Locomotives, 431
Crank Chamber Boring Machine, at Messrs. Willans and Robinson's Works, 309
Crank Shaft Forging, Willans and Robinson, 308
Craven Brothers, Radial Drilling, Tapping, and StuddiDg Machine, 308
Craven Brothers, Serious Fire in the Works of Messrs., 76
Creusot Works, M. Castel on the, 113
Crompton, Mr. R. E., Potentiometer, 384
Crookes and Dewar, Professors, on the London Water Supply, 355, 473
Crookes and Dewar, Professors, on the Upper Thames Water in December, 62
Crookes, Professor, on the Merits of the Candle, 423
Crosland's Paper Cutter and Paper Press, 63
Crossley Brothers, Limited, Messrs., First Award for Oil Engines at the Hobart Town Exhibition, 387
Crossley Brothers, Messrs., Gas Engines at Rhyl Sewage Works, 532
Crossley, Dr. Edw., His Reported Gift to the Lick Observatory, 355
Cruisers "DAvont” and "Jean Bart,” French Protected, 229
Cruiser Designed by Sir W. H. White, 329
Cruisers, The New, 359
Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Distribu¬tion of Certificates, 329
Crystals, M. L. de Boisbandran on the Formation of, 473
Cuba, Opening of a New Line in, 355
Cunningham, Blytb, and Westland, Messrs., New North Bridge. Waverley Station, Edinburgh E (Supplement, January 18/A), 61
Cut Nail Machinery, 247
Curve Tracing for Graphic Calculations, Practical, Mr. A. H. Shield, 137
Carves, On Transitional, 201
Cutting and Bundling Liqnonce Root, 30l
Cutting-off Machine, Messrs. Hurlbutand Ragers, 307
Cutting-off Machine, Tool-holder of, 307
Cyanide Patent Case, The, 335
Cyanide Practice, Mr. Alfred James on, 418, 452
Cyanide Process, The, 315, 335
Cyanide Process, Plant for the Extraction of Gold by the, 168
Cycle Works, The Humber Company's, 53, 54, 56
Cycles in Denver, Extended Use of, aud Effect I on Tramway Company’s Receipts, 556
Cycles, Leather instead of India-rubber Tires for, 556
Cycles, 1894, French Trade in, 62
Cycles, Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of, 401
Cylinder Bore, Test of, Messrs. Willans and Robinson, 307
Cylinder Boring Devioe, Messrs. Willans and Robinson, 309, 331
Cylinder, Exploded Oxygen, 310, 315
Cylinder, Steam, Cooker Co.'s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Show, 554

DAIRY Machinery, Bath and West and Southern Counties Society’s Show, 493
Dale, Mr. David, His Presidential Address, 405
Dam, Failure of the Bouzey, 383
Dam, Projected, New Stone Masonry, at Minneapolis, 556
Dams, Masonry, 162
Damascus, New Railway from, 473
Damp, Black, Dr. John Atkinson and W. N. Atkinson on, 185
Dana, Professor James Dwight, 339
Danish State Railways, Locomotives for the, 305, 312, 318
Danish State Railways, Passenger Engines for the, 305, 312, 316
Danube at the Iron Gates, New Loan Necessary ‘ for the Improvement of the, 473
DareDth, Roman Villa at, 289
Daubrée, Professor G. A., Hayden Medals Awarded to, 219
Davey, Mr. Henry, Steam Engine Economy, 320
Davies and Sons, Messrs., Improvements in Galvanising, 494
“ Davout,’’ The French Protected Cruiser, 229
Day, Mr. Lewis F., Stained Glass Windows, 77
Daymard, M. V., On the System of Calculating Tonnage, 504
Dean, Mr. F. W., Trials of a Recent Compound Engine with a Cylinder Ratio of Seven to One, 63
Dean, Mr. W., Express Locomotive, Great Western Railway(Supplement, June28th, 1895)
Dean, Mr. W., Fifty-five Feet Surface Turn- 1 tables, Great Western Railway, 136,137
Death Rate in tbe City as Compared with the Rest of London, 507 –t
Death Rate in London, 155
Deaths in London during the Cold, 177
Death Rate, London, and the Rise in Temporature, 245
Deaths Registered in Thirty-three Great Towns i. of England and Wales, 11, 29, 76, 177, 201, 219, 245, 203, 441
Debois, M., Patent Mixture to Withstand tbe Highest Temperatures, 245, 497
Decimal Weights and Measures in Turkey, Adop¬tion of, 62
Deerr, Mr. N. F., On tbe Thermal Constant C of ' i, the Elements, 556
“ Defender’s ” Canvas and Spars, The, 454
Deflection of Iron Bridges, Measuring, 263
Delagoa Bay Railway, The, 352
Delamare-Deboutteville and Malandin, MM., Gas Propelled Barge, 252
“ Delfino,” The Italian Submarine Boat, 311
Delta Metal Propellers, 377 i, Delta Metal Co., Report of the, 311
Demagnetisation of Watches, On the, 289
De Mare System, New Incandescent Gas Light, e 311
Denne’s Hydropneumatio Leaching Apparatus, i, 203
Denny, Mr. Archibald, The “ M. G. Meter," 504
Denny, Messrs., Steamers for the Dover and Calais Route, 507
Deposits on Tenders, 508
Derby to Ashbourne, Electrio Railway from, 507
Derrick in the World, The Largest, 263
De Segundo, Ed. C., on the Utilisation of Niagara,
Dessau, Street Railroad, 155 i.
Detroit Water Mains, Average Friction in the, 497
Devonport Dockyard, Electrical Drilling d Machines, 93
Devonport and Keyham, New Workshops at, and if the Navy Estimates, 507
Dew, Colours on which it will form and not form, 289
Dewar, Professor, on the Liquefaction of Gases, n 396, 417, 468
Dewar, Professor, on Phosphorescence and Photo- r graphic Action at LowTemperatures, 77
Diamond Washing Machines, Messrs. Wernher i, Belt and Co., 498
Diamonds, Uncut, The De Beers Consolidated Mining Co., 498
1 Diaphragms for the Electro-ohemical Reduction i, of Potash from Chloride of Potash, 473
Diastase, a Substitute for Malt, 11 ’1 Dibdin, Professor W. T., London Gas Testings,
401
a Dieppe Harbour, Alterations in, 245
Dilation of Water, M. S. de Lannoy on the, 423 J
Dinting and Mottram Viaducts, Mr. L. V. Warhurst on the Strengthening of the, 170
Direot Puddling of the Iron from the Blast Furnace, 382
Disinfectant Formaline, An Active, 113
Distilled Water, The Cubic Decimeter of 355
Division of Labour in Dockyards, The, 126
Docks at Chatham, New, 464
Dock, Floating Dry, Launch of, at Benicia, California, 423
Docks at Genoa, New Dry, 97
Dock and Harbour Trade, The Year’s, 176
Docks, The Kidderpur, Calcutta, 251
Dock; 14 and 15, Portsmouth New, 93
Dock at Port Talbot, New, 113
Docks, The Royal, not largo enough for the New Cruisers, 473
Dock Gates, Caissons v., 33
Dockyard Appointments, 304
Dockyards, The Division of Labour in, 126 Dominion Coal Company’s Railway, Completion of, 62
Doors for Hoists, Safety, Messrs. Lomnitz and Duxbury, 273
Door or No Doors in Water-tight Bulkheads, 535
Dortmund, Yearly Report on the Mines of, 113
Douglas, Mr. A. K., on Boiler Materials and their Results in Construction and Working, 341
Doulton’s Electric Light Main Conduits, 123 1
Dover Undercliff Reclamation Bill, 201
Drainage System of the Houses of Parliament, The, 526, 527
Drainage Works for Karachi, 245
Dredgor, Steam Grab, Messrs. Cockburn and Montgomery, 356, 359, 575
Dredging with Compressed Air, 443
Drills, Brandt’s Rook, 74, 75
Drills, Ingersoll-Sergeant, in South Africa, 76
Drill, The Optimus Rock, 5
Drilling Machines, Electrical, Devonport Dockyard, 76, 93
Driving Belts and Rope Gear, Comparative Ab¬sorption of Power by, 441
Dry Dock, Floating, Benicia, California, 423
Drying Wheat with an Electric Heater, 263
Du Bosquet, M., on Locomotives and Trains, 145 Dudgeon, Mr. Richard, 354
Duff-Bruce, Mr. W., on the Kidderpur Docks, Calcutta, 251 1
Dundee Jute Trade, and Excessive Working Hours in the Calcutta Jute Mills, 11
Dunlop and Company, Messrs. D. J., Oil Carrying Steamer, 261, 265, 268, 328
Dunlop and Company, Messrs., Tank Steamship “ Aoo,” 281, 265, 268,328
Duplex Pumps, Mumford Patent, 242
Duplex Pump, Smith and Vaile’s, 75
“ Dupuy.de-Lóme,” The Failure of the Cruiser, 135
Durham, Sewerage of, Premium Awards, 423
“ Duroline,” Substitute for Window Glass, 11, 62
Dust Fuel 1 381
Dutch Navy, Two Men-of-War for the, 289
Dynamo, Continuous Current Hinged Pole-piece, 31
Dynamo, The First Niagara Falls, 401
Dynamo, An Interesting, 423

EARL’S COURT Exhibition, Opening of, 479
Early Light Railways, 488
Earnock Colliery, Electrical Haulage at, 223
Earthquake Pulsations, Great Duration of, 556
Earthwork ? Estimating, 335
Earthwork Quantities, Rapid Method of Approxi¬mation to, 443
East and West Coast Railway, Progress of the, 401, 441
Eastern Railway Company of France, New Lines, 29
Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, Messrs,, Pumps at the West India Docks, 144
Easy Screw Jack, Mr. Geo. Tangye, 555
Eaton, Narrow Grange Railway for, 329
Economical Compound Engines, System, A. Bollinckx, 133
Economical Engines, 181
Economiser, Steam Condenser and, 243
Economy, Steam Engine, 320
Economy of the Steam Engine, Contemporary 314
Eddy, Mr., and the New South Wales Railways, 200
Edinburgh, Cable Tramway Scheme for, 100
Edmunds, Mr. K. C., New Freezing Mixture, 355
Edwards, Mr. Wynne, Harrow, 555
Egypt, Contract with a German Co. for a New Railway in, 473
Egypt, Railways in, 155
Egypt, Society for the Preservation of tbe Monu¬ments of Ancient, 145
Eight Hours Movement, The, 470 , 1895, Leader on, 13
Elba, Mr. H. Scott on the Iron Ores of, 417 ,
Elbe Disaster, The, 119
“ Elbe,” Loss of the, 100
Elbe-Trave Canal, Foundation Stone of, Laid, 497
Electrio Cars, Open and Closed, Milwaukee
Street Railway Co., 387 ’ Electric Car Overturned in New York, 11
Electrical Cars in Brooklyn, Speed of, 155, 387, 532
Electric Cars, Tractive Force Required to Move, 263
Electric Communication with Lighthouses and Lightships, 113
Electrical Communication with Light Vessels,
The Board of Trade and, 440
Electrical Conduit Mileage, Brooklyn, 155
Electric Construction Co., Dinner to the Staff , and Employees, 29
Electric Contact Micrometer Gauge, 310
Electrical Cranes for Southampton Harbour, New, 532
Electric Current, Professor J. A. Fleming on the Work of an, 77
Electric Currents, Professor Geo. Forbes, 350
Electric Currents, Alternating and Interrupted, Professor J. Forbes on, 396
Electric Currents, Magnetisation of Iron by, 417
Electrical Drilling Machines at Devonport Dock¬yard, 76, 93
Electric Ducts in Boston, Underground, 329 ,
Electric Endless Rope Haulage Plant for tho Buckleton Main Collieiy Co., 401 Electrical EngineeriDg, 510 Electrical Engineering, 1894, 18
Electrical Furnace, Professor Roberts-Austen, 515
Electric Glow Lamp, Lifebuoys with, 62
Electric Haulage at Earnock Colliery, 223
Electric Heater Applied to the Drying of Wheat, 263
Electric Incandescent Lamps, Mode of Treating the Filaments of, 263
Electric Lamp instead of Bell for Telephone Ex¬changes, 556
Electric Launohes, The “Immisch,” 497
Electric Launches for Passenger Traffic, 518
Electric Light, Arc Lamps in the City of London, 201
Electric Light Engines, 93
Electric Light Engines and Dynamos, s.a. "Cale¬donia,” 189
Electric Light Fittings, Improvements in, 423
Electric Light Mains, The Spence-Doulton Bare, 123
Electric Light Regulations, Question in tho House on, 441
Electric Light in Rome, 48
Electric Light Station, Dover, Proposed Electric Light Works at Cheltenham, Municipal, 516
Electric Lines, A Sliding Shuttle to replace the Trolley of, 423
Electric Lines in the United States, Horses Dis placed by, 556
Electric Lighting Acts, 1882-1888, Revised Board of Trade Regulations under, 489
Electric Lighting Enterprise in tho Metropolis, Mr. Hazell'8 Question in tbe House Relative to, 441
Electric Lighting of the Houses of Parliament, 361
Electrical Lighting Industries, Progress of, 135
Electric Lighting Plant at the Midland Railway Station, Leicester, 327, 334
Electric Lighting Plant at Rangoon, Tenders for, 311
Electric Lighting in Sheffield, Progress of, 556
Electric Lighting Station, Fire at an, 144
Electric Light Stations, Superheated Steam in, 228
Electric Locomotive, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 497
Eleotrical Locomotives, The Baltimore and Ohio, 360
Electric Locomotives for the French Western Railway Company, Heilmann Company, 855
Electric Locomotives for Mines, 168
Electrical Machinery for Working Lock Gates at Ymuiden, 441
Electric Meters, Transparent, 384
Electric Motive Power instead of Steam on the Niagara Falls Line, 311
Electric Motors at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 135
Electric Motors on tbe Nantasket Beach Railway, United States, 423
Electric Motor for Rowing Boats, The New Mayne, 304
Electric Motors for Steam Locomotives, Substitu¬tion of by the Pennsylvania Railway Company,
Electric Omnibus Road in Rome, Building of an, 556
Electric Plough, Messrs. F. Zimmermann and Co., 497
Electric Power Transmission Plant, Newcastle, Cal., 811
Electric Power, Use of, as a Means of Propulsion for Canal Boats in the United States, 11
Electric Rack Railway at Lucerne, Project of, 497
Electric Railroading between Buffalo and Niagara, 329
Electric Railways, Accidents on the Brooklyn and New York, 245
Electric Railway from Derby to Ashbourne, 507
Electric Railways of Europe, Distribution of tbe. 401
Electric Railway from Douglas to the Snaefell Mountain, 177
Electric Railway to Montmartre, 329
Electric Railway, Overhead, Barlin, 423
Electric Railways with Overhead Conductors, Landon County Council Decline Permission to Work, 97
Electric Railways for Russia, The Emperor’s Opinion Concerning, 532
Electric Railway, Single Roil, 168
Electric Railway, SDaefell, Isle of Man, Progress of, 311
Electric Range Lights for Boston Harbour, 155
Electric Resistance at the Contact of Two Metals, M. E. Branley, 401
Electrical Resistance of Wood and Stone and other Poor Conductors, 355
Electric Roads in Italy, 497
Electric Rudder Motor, The New Mayne, 304
Electric Signalling Apparatus, Mons. Nene, 29
Electrical Specifications, Publication of, 507
Electric Street Cars, Speed Ordinances in Brooklyn, 401
Electric Street Railway, The Hobart, 113
Electric Supply Works, Leicester (Supplement, June 21rt, 18951, 531, 635
Electric Telegraph Line, Germany, the First Country to have an, 29
Electrio Traction in Franoe and its Colonies, 311
Electric Tramcars in Use on the Continent, 245
Electric Tramway in Bristol, New, 197
Electric Tramways and District Railways, Mr. John M. M. Munro, 177
Electric Tramways in France, 401
Electric Tramways in Havre, 289
Electric Tramway from Kiel to Holtenau, 441
Electric Tramway, The Longest in the World, 289
Electric Tramways, Madras, 245
Electrio Tramway in Oporto, The French Thomas- Houston Co., 497
Electric Tramways at Rouen, Rails of the New, 473
Electric Tramways of Toronto, Use of, for Water¬ing, 263
Electric Tramways in Wales, Proposed, 135 Electric Tramway Schemes in Germany, 329
Electric Underground Railway from Stockwell to Clapbam Common, 401
Electric Waves, Influence of, on the Galvanie Resistance of Metallic Conductors, 97
Electrical Tramway with Underground Conductor, Lyons Exhibition, 250
Electrically-driven Augers for Felling Trees, Use
Electrically-illuminated Signalling Drum. Admiral Fane’s, 387
Electricity as Applied to Tramways, Commercial Value of, 109
Electricity Generated on the American Side of Niagara, Duty on, on the Canadian Side, 387
E.ectricity, Modern, 79, 138
Electricity, Motive Power Changed from Steam to, on a French Railway, 497
Electricity in Tin-plate Manufacture, 489
Electricity, Towing by, 97
Electricity, Static, in Paper Mills, New York, 311
Electricity, Water Power Applied to Gold Dredging by, 223
Electro-deposition. Mr. W. Gannon’s Experi¬ments on, 62
Electrograph, Messrs. Naicter Brc.-. 515
Electromagnet Pull, Mr. Max Weber on; 156
Electromotive Force of an Iodine Cell, Mr. A. P. Laurie, 245
Electrolysed Sea Water for Flushing Sewers, &o., 289
Electrolysis Nodules, Analysis of, 263
Electrolysis of Salt Solutions, Method of Dealing with Products Set Free in the, 177
Electrolysis of a Solution of Mixed Nitrate and
Sulphate of Soda, Dr. Gross on, 97
Electrolysis of Underground Pipes, On the Pre¬vention of, 473
Electrostatic Capacity of Resistance Bobbins, and its Influence in the Measurement of Coefficients
of Induction by the Wheatstone Bridge, Mr. J. Cauro, 177
Elevators, Safety Appliances for, 510 1
Elgar, Dr. F., on tbe Cost of Warships, 525, 528, 549
Elihu Thomson Electrical Energy Meter, The, I
and Prize obtained by, 113
Elswick Quick-fire Gun, The New, 165
Embankment near tbe Cornish Down Bridge, 311
Emden, Judge, Trial of a Case Arising out of the
Explosions on Southwark Bridge, 532
Emley, Sewerage Scheme for, 387
Empire of India Exhibition, 218, 241
Employment by Solicitors, 514
“ Empress,” The Mail Packet, Towed off, 29
Empress Theatre, Principals over the Roof of the, 241
Enamelling Pipes ? 357
Energy, The Conservation of, 382
Energy in the Spectrum of a Triplex Burner, On the Distribution of, 556
Engineering, Bicycle Mechanical, 511
Engineering, Civil, 1894, 13 1
Engineering, Coal Contracts and, 514
Engineering, Electrical, 1894, 18
Engineering Fallacies, 36
Engineering Heliographic Prints, Modern, 218
Engineering, Mechanical, 1894, 15
Engineering, Sanitary, 1894, 19
Engineering in Ships of War, 222
Engineering Works on the Thames, 287, 290, 307, 308, 309, 310, 331, 863, 375
Engineers, English, Measured by a French Standard, 358
Engineers’ Goggles, Messrs. Harry Vale and Sons, 387
Engineers and Ships of War, 205
Engineers on Spanish Ships to be only Spanish, 135
Engines of the “ Blanco Eacalada ’’ (Supplement, January 4th, 1895), 4
Engine, Boiler, and Employers' Liability Insur¬ance Co., Ld., The, 190
Engines and the Cambridge Trials, Oil, 285
Engine, A Century Old, 474
Engine, A Century Old Boulton and Watt Beam, 454
Engines, Compound Corliss Condensing, Leicester Electricity Works (Supplement, June 21tf, 1895), 531
Engine, Contemporary Economy of the Steam, 814
Engine with a Cylinder Ratio of Seven to One, Trial of, F. W. Doan, 63
Engines, Development of the Experimental Study of, 379. 397, 422
Engine Difficulty, A Peculiar Gas, 198
Engine Drivers Paid by Mileage, South Pacific Railway, 219
Engine Drivers at York, Mass Meeting of, 97
Engines and Dynamos, Electric Light, s.s. “ Caledonia," 189
Engines, Economical, 181
Engines, Economical Compound, 133
Engine Economy, Steam, 285, 320
Engine Economy, Steam, Mr. Henry Davey, 320
Engines for Electric Lighting, 93
Engine, Express Passenger, London and South-Western Railway (Supplement, March 22nd, 1895), 244, 319
Engines, Gas, Exhaust from, 53, 84, 93, 117, 138
Engines, Gas aud Oil, Exhibition in Paris, 11
Engines, Gas, Southall's, 272, 320, 363
Engines, Gas, Southall's Ideal, Messrs. Hardy and Padmore, 272
Engines, Gas v. Steam, 252, 266, 285, 375
Engines, Gear Steam, 431, 489
Engine Governing, 538
Engine Governors, Steam, 474
Engine, Great Northern, A New, 173
Engines, High Duty Steam, and the Action of Steam Jackets, 180
Engine, History of tbe Portable, 208
Engines, Horizontal Hydraulic Pumping, 202
Engine, Marine, of To-day, Mr. Hy. W. Roun-thwaite, 67
Engines, On the Mechanical and Electrical
Regulation of, 124 Engine, The Neil-Bennet, 381
Engines, Oil, 53, 242, 276, 552, 554
Engines, Oil, Prof. Capper on, 276
Engine, Oil, Messrs. Clayton and Sbuttleworth, 552
Engine, Oil, 40-Horse Power, Messrs. R. Hornsby snd Sons, 242
Engine, Oil, Howard's, 554
Engine, Oil, 40-Horse Power, Hornsby-Akroyd, 242
Engines, Passenger, for the Danish State Rail¬ways, 305, 312, 316, 318
Eogine, Portable Old, 252
Engines, Priming and Governing, 141
Engine Problems, Steam, 448
Engines, Pumping, 161
Engines, Pumping, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co,, 39
Enginoe, Quadruple Expansion, Lake Steamer,
“ North-West,” 111, 114, 115,118
Engine-room Practice at Sea, Mr. W. M. Binnev, 139
Eogine at Saltaire, Compound Mill, 34, 38
Engines, Southall's Gas, 285
Engines, Steam, and Boiler Attendants’ Bill, 489
Engines v. Steam, Gas, 222, 341
Engines, Steam, Oil, and Gas, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 552
Engine, Todd's Terminal Exhaost Steam, 450, 462
Engine, Theory of the Steam—tee Theory of tbe Steam Engine
Engines, Traction, 6, 7, 83, 93, 181, 551
Engines, Traction, on Common Roads, 181
Engine, Traction, Messrs. Wallis and Steevens, 551
Engines, Trip Gear Steam. 445
Engine. Triple Expansion Corliss. Moorlands Mill, Bolton, 424, 4M, 429 3
Engines, Triple Expansion, Oil-carrying Steamar 'Aco.” 281, 265, 268
Engine Truck Axle, Causo of Failure of an, 219
Engines, Vertical High speed, Messrs. J. P. Hall and Co., 352, 354
Engines, Vibrations of Steamships and, 335
Engines, Messrs. Willans and Robinson’s, 308, 309
Engines and Winding Gear, The Sandycroft Foundry Co., 295, 298
Engines, Winding, with Piston Valves, 295
Enfield Water Supply, 355
English and American Locomotives— see Locomotives, English and American
English and American Steel Tubes, 315
English and American Woodworking Machinery,
English Coal and Foreign Shipments, 315
English Engineers, Measured by a French Standard, 358
English Engines in China, 148
English and Foreign Locomotives, 1859 to 1894, 94, 95
English Torpedo Boats at Port Arthur, 223
Epicycloidal Rose Cutting Apparatus, Beddow's, 516
Errata, tee Paragraph Headed Messrs. Willans and Robinson's Works, 331
Erroneous Report, An, 341
Essex, Mr. E. H., His Appointment at Kettering, 155
Ettore Chlorine Cell, Illustrated Description of, 355
Eumorfopoulos, Mr., On the Determination of Thermal Conductivity and Emissivity, 87
Euphrates, Navigation of the, M. Tolars Scheme J for, 97
Euriob, Mr. H. 0., Friction of Water in Pipss, 284
Euston-road Explosions, Tbe, 110
Evaporation of Water, Latent Heat of, 242 Evaporative Tests of Boilers, 326 Evaporators, Marine, 230
Ewing, Professor, Instrument for Testing the Quality of Iron, 515
Ewing, Professor, Magnetic Tester for Hysteresis in Iron, 384
Excavator Blasting Auger, The Hardy Patent Pick Company, 274
Excavator for Blasting Coal and Tunnelling, 274
Excentric Reversing Gear, Single, Messrs. Mann and Charle8worth, 209
Exhaust from Gas Engines, 53, 84, 93, 117,138
Exhibit of Modern Engineering Heliographic Prints, 218
Exhibition, Athens, Industrial, at, 355
Exhibition, Bath and West and Southern Counties Society’s. 263
Exhibition, Belfast, Art and Industrial, 328
Exhibition, The Bordeaux, 155, 483
Exhibition, Tbe Brewers, 289
Exhibition, The Cardiff, 155, 289
Exhibition, The Earl’s Court, 479
Exhibition, The Empire of India, 218, 241
Exhibition, The Furniture, 360
Exhibition, International Building Trades, 239, 272, 283
Exhibition, International Shoe and Leather, 396
Exhibition, The Lyons, 250
Exhibition, Paris, Gas and Oil Motors, 11 ]
Exhibition, Paris International, Area for Exhibits, 401
Exhibition, Paris, The, Sanitary, 401, 432
Exhibition, Photographic, Imperial Institute, 219
Exhibition, Railway Appliances, Imperial Institute, 306, 441, 486, 609, 540, 547
Exhibition, The South African, 498
Exhibition, Strasburg, 201
Experimental Study of Heat Engines, Develop¬ment of the, 379, 397
Exploded Oxygen Cylinder, 310, 315 Explosions, Boiler, 124, 125
Explosion in Coal Banker at Dartmouth, 497
Explosion at the Cordite Factory, Waltham Abbey, 355
Explosion, Electric Installation, St. PancrasVestry’s, 177
Explosions, The Euston Road, 110
Explosion, Fatal Boiler, 464
Explosions, Fatal Ship Boiler, 473
Explosion at Fenchurch-street Station, 293, 310, 315
Explosion, Fire Damp, Briix Colliery, 62
Explosions at Junction Boxes, 33
Explosion of Natural Gas, United States, America, 401
Explosions, Street, 226, 306, 307
Explosions, On Subway, 497
Explosive “ Joveite,” The New, 311
Explosives, Mining, 495
Explosive Mixtures of Various Combustible Gases with Air, Dr. F. Clowes on the Limiting, 496
Explosives for the Naval Rifles, United States Navy, Tenders for, 62
Express Locomotives, Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, 504, 536, 537, 561, 564
Express Trains, Heavy, 183, 208
Express Trains, The Jubilee of, 217
Extract of Malt, Method of Determining, 464
Extracting Tan from Oak Bark, 57
Extraction of Gold by the Cyanide Process, Plant for the Extraction of, 168

FACE-HARDENED Armour, 538
Factory and Workshop Act, 1891, Amendment No. 2, Bill, Second Reading of the, 454
Fan, The Rateau, at the Lens Colliery, 451, 452
Fane, Admiral, His Signalling Apparatus, II
Fane, Admiral, Further Trials of his Electrically Illuminated Signalling Drum, 387 Faoa, Ventilating, for the Simplon Tunnel, 103
Faraday Medal Conferred on Lord Rayleigh, 245
Fast Railway Run Reported from the United States, 423
Fanoon, M. J., On the Refining of Metal by Means of Aluminium, 387
Feed -water Filter, Reeves, 509
Feed Water Heaters, 267, 270, 319
Feed Water Heaters, Railway, 267
Fellin, Narrow Gauge Railway to Connect the Town of, with the Walk-Pernau Railway, 401
Felling Trees with Electrically-driven Angers, 245
Fenchurch-street Oxygen Cylinder Explosion, 310, 315
Ferranti Fly-Wheel Alternators at Portsmouth, * The, 97
terry Steamers, Light Draught.. Indian State Railways, 240, 241
Férj, M. Ch., On Gratings usod in Photogravure,
Fielding and Platt, Messrs., Hydraulic Forging Press, Swindon Works, 547
Filaments of Electric Incandescent Izimps, Mode of Treating, 263
Files, Mr. Welbourn on the Manufacture of, 181
Filey Drainage Scheme, 329
Filter, Reeves’ Feed Water, 509
Filters at the Say Sugar Works, 7
Fire-box Stays, 146, 313
Fire-box Stays, Steel v. Iron, 291
Fire Brigades, London and Foreign, 142
Fire Brigade, Strength of the Metropolitan, 113
Fire-damp Explosion, Briix Colliery, 62
Fire-damp by Sound, Detection of, 401
Fire at an Electric Lighting Station, 144
Fire Extinction on French Warships, Increased Powers of, 135
Fire at Perth Station, 507 Fires, 329
Fires, Preventing or Extinguishing, Prize offered by the Bologna Academy of Sciences for the bést System or Apparatus, 289
Fixing Condenser Tubes, Improved Method of, 227
Flamache, Mons. A., on Railway Working, 11
Fleet, A Great Steamship, 492
Fleming, Prof. J. A., Synchronising Alternating Current Motor and Contact Maker, 384
Fleming, Prof. J. A., On the Work of an Electric Current, 77
Fletcher, Mr. Alfred E., Retirement of, 532
Floods in the Avon Valley, 294
Floods and Frost, 199
Floods in Somersetshire, Mr. W. O. E. Meade- i King’s Proposal to Connect Bridgwater and Taunton by a Ship Canal, 113
Floods in the Thames Valley, 154
Flour Industry of Minneapolis, 29
Flying Machine, The, 32
Flying Machine, Professor Fitzgerald and the ' Lilienthal, 289
Foerster, Mr., On the Decomposition of Glass by Water, 263
Fog Signalling, 340
Foot-plate, On a Great Western, 472
Forbes, Professor Geo., Alternating and Interrupted Electric Currents, 396
Forbes, Professor Geo., Electrio Currents, 351
Forbes, Professor Geo., His Exhibit at the Royal Society Conversazione, 384
Forecasting of the Meteorological Office, Success¬ful, 329
Foreign-made Projectiles, 154
Forging Machine, Clutch and Reversing Gear, 186
Forging Press, Hydraulic, Swindon Works, 547
Formaline, an Active Disinfectant, 113
Formenophone, The, M. E. Hardy, 197
Foucault Pendulum at Dublin, 289
Foundry Cupolas? 99
Fowler, Mr. W. H., On Boiler Explosions, 124
Foxlee, Mr., His Retirement from Office, 113
Frameworks with Superfluous Parts, On the Calculation of, Mr. Maxam Ende, 89, 131
France, Aluminium Torpedo Boats for, 418
France, Automatic Carriage Trials in, 527
France, Exports and Imports of Manufactured Goods, 113
France, The First Railway in, on which the Motive Power is to be Changed from Steam to Electricity, 497
France, Glass Blowing in, 192
France, New Railway Works in, 29
France and Spain, Two New Lines between, 29
France and the United States, Population of, 177
Frazer, Mr. Alexander, Graphic Method of Re¬cording Weather Observations, 359
Free Trade or No Trade, 445, 474, 489, 511
Freezing Mixture, Mr. K. C. Edmund's Patent, 355
Freezing Quicksand by means of Compressed Air, 556
French Armoured Ships, Stability of, 425
French Battleships “Magenta” and “Hoche,” 70, 78
French Brewery, Tube Well at a, 535 i
French Cable between the French Red Sea, Port Obock, and Drjihoutil, 387
French Cruiser “ Friant,” Forced Draught Trials of the, 355
French Cruisers, Recent Trials of, 81
French Trade in Cycles, 1894, Total, 62
French Liners, The New, 66
French Navy, The New Shipbuilding for, 11
French Protected Cruiser “ Davout," The, 229
French Railways, Mileage of, 135
French Railway Receipts for 1894, 497
French Thomas-Houston Company, Electrical Tramway in Oporto, 497
Frenoh Warships, Extra Powers of Fire Extinc¬tion Provided for on, 135
French Western Railway Company, Electric Loco¬motives for the, 355
Friction Head, Average, in the Detroit Water Mains, 497
Friction of Water in Pipes, Mr. H. O. Enrich, 284
Frost of 1895 in Scotland, Mr. R. C. Mossman on the, 387
Frost, Floods and, 199
Frost, A Great, What it can Do, 314
Frost, The Great, and What it Did, 534
Frost of January and February, 1895, over the
British Isles, On the, 360
Frost Post, Hydrant, 133
Frost and Water Supply, 222, 223, 226, 252
Frosts and Water Supply, F. Botting on, 223
Fryer, Mr. Walter J., on the Practical Applica¬tion of Alternating Current Motors, 282
Fuel, Liquid, 57, 138
Fuels, Percentage of Nitrogen in, 441
Fuel, Railway and Canal Facilities for Handling the Increased Tonnage of, 11
Fuller, Mr. Edmond, His Award Relative to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, Rail¬way Extension, 219
Fuller, Mr. H. J., Hit Appointment, 387
Furpaoe, Mr. S. Jordan’s, 497
Furnace, Mr. W. D. Allen’» Improved 355
Furnace Plant, Our Idle, 58
Furnace Lubricator, Tbe, 335
Furniture Exhibition, The, 360
Fuses, British, for Modern Guns, 487
Fuses for Modern Guns, British, 33S

GAISBERG Rack Railway, The, 350
Gale of December, 1894, over the British Isles, Mr. C. Harding on, 59
Galton, Mr. Franck, Photograph» of Finger Prints, 384
Galloways, Limited, Messrs., Rolling Mill for the Johnson Co., Lorain, U.8.A-, 446, 453
Galvanising, Recent Improvements in, 491, 511
Gannon, Mr. W., Experiments on Electro-deposi¬tion, 62
Gas and Arc Lamps Extinguished and Lighted in the City of London, 219
Gas, Carriage of Compressed, 363
Gas Cylinders, Inquiry into and Report on the Manufacture, 4tc., of, 566
Gas Cylinders, Gentlemen Appointed to Report on the Manufacture, btc., of, 497
Gas, Discussion on the Newly Discovered, 76
“Gas-electric ” Explosion at Rochester, 113
Gas Engines and Centrifugal Pumps, 83
Gas Engines, Consumption of Gas by, 263
Gas Engine Difficulty, A Peculiar, 198
Gas Engine Driven Train Car System in Dresden, 506
Gas Engines, Exhaust from, 53, 84, 93, 117, 138
Gas Eogine, The Neil-Bennet, 381
Gas Engine Propelled Barge, “l’Idée,” 175, 176 209
Gas Engines, Southall's, 272, 285, 320, 363
Gas Eogiue, Southall's Ideal, Messrs. Hardy and Padmore, 272
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, 222, 252, 266, 285, 341, 375
Gas, Explosion of Natural, U.S.A., 401
Gas Industry( Prizes Offered in France in Con¬nection with the, 135
Gas Light, New Incandescent, 311
Gas Manufacture, Coal Contracts for, 427
Gas Meters, Prepayment, 122
Gas Motors, Scavenger Charge in, 181
Gas Propelled Barge, M. Capelle’a, 252
Gas, Purifying Water, 507
Gas Supplied to the County of London, Week Ending May 25tb, 1895, 473
Gas Supply, 20
Gas Testings, Professor W. J. Dibdin’s Return of, 289
Gas Testings, London, 401
Gas, Testings of, Supplied to the County of London, 113
Gas Tramcars that Cut through Snow, 497
Gas, Water, 11
Gas, Water, Dr. Strachf on a Welxbach Mantle Worked with Ordinary, 11
“Gascogne,” Accident to the, 135
Gases, Bottles for Compressed, 431
Gases, Carriage of Compressed, 375
Gases, Kinetic Theory of, 7, 33, 139, 340
Gases, Liquefaction of, 396, 417, 468
Gases, Liquefaction of, Professor Dewar on the, 417
Gases, Safe Storage and Conveyance of, 332
Gange, Direct Reading Micrometer Wire, 429
Gauge, Electric Contact Micrometer, 310
Gauges, Glass Steam Boiler, 29
Gauge Glasses for High Pressure ? 35
Gauges, Railway, 375
Gear Steam Engines, 431, 445, 489
Genoa, New Dry Docks opened, 97
Geographical Congress, The Sixth International 329
Geological Field Class, The London, 329
Georgi, Herr M., His Mining Work, 62
Germany, Central Station in, Using the Continuous Current, 497
German East Africa, Proposal for Railway throngb, 532
German E»st Africa, Traffic Opened on the New Railway in, 289
German Railroad Commission, Respective Merits of Simple and Compound Locomotives, 113
German Railways, Second-class Sleeping Care on, 497
German Railway Statistics, Some, 197
German Torpedo Boats, Intended Re-arming of, 177
“Germanic’s” Record Passago, The White Star
Steamer, 498 Germany, Canals in, 359
Germany, Car Lighting in, 507
Germany, Oatput of Pig Iron in, 97
Gibb, Mr. Allan, On the Elimination of Imparities during the Process of Making Copper, 374
Gigantic Wheel at Earl's Court, Last Bolt driven in, 387
Giles, Mr. Alfred, 199
Girder Bearings, 291
Girders of the Bourse, Philadelphia, Weight of, 542
Girder Bridges in India, Rnlea for Working Stress on, 473
Girder Bridge, Tottenham and Forest Gate, Mr. C. Pain, 280. 288, 296
Girders for Indian State Railways, 230, 231
Glasgow Bridge, 4
Glasgow, Collision at St Enoch's Station, 329
Glasgow District Snrvey, 227
Glasgow v. Manchester, 267
Glasgow, Progress of Underground Works at, 83
Glasgow Weir, 101, 142
Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, 381
Glass Blowing in France, 192
Glass, Classification of, According to Hardness, 423
Glass is made to Represent Polished Wood, Pro¬cess by which, 507
Glass, Silvering, 29
Glass Steam Boiler Gauges, 29
Glass, Tectorium, A Substitute for, 11, 62
Glass by Water, Decomposition of, 263
Glass Water Gaugee with Wire Glass Protectors 225
Glass Window Panes, Porous, 11
Gloasop, Sewerage Works for, 219
Glover and Company, Messrs. W. T., Mr. G. B.
Samuelson taken into Partnership by, 29
Glow Lamps, Testa of, Mr. Medley and Professor Ayrton, 146
(Joggles, Engineers', 387
Gold-bearing Quartz in the Isle of Man, 76
Gold Dredging, Water Power Applied by Elec¬tricity to, 223
(.'«old, Extraction of, by the Cyanide Process, Messrs. Charles Butters and Smart, 16S
Gold Extraction, Improvements in, 187
Gold Mines, On the Necessity of Competent
Geological Survey of, 515
Gold Mining Appliance?, Messrs. R, llornsby and Sons, 498
Goodman, Professor, Experiments with Anti¬friction Alloys, 374
Gortchakotf, M., His Report to the Czar on Elec- trio Railways, 532
Gotch, Professor, and Dr. H. 0. Forbes, The A/alapterurus electricus, 384
Governing Engine, 538
Governing and Priming Engines, 141
Governing of Steam Engines by Throttling, and by Variable Expansion, Captain II. R. Sankey, 351, 373, 3S5, 394, 400, 409
Governors, Steam Engine, 474
Grab Dredger, Steam, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 356, 359, 375
Gradient Indicator, Mr. Wimshurst, 384
Grain Exports from Russia in one Week, 329
Grain, Shrinkage of, 263
Grand Canal Company, 260
Grand Junction Canal, 453
Granite Working Machinery and Appliances, Mr. T. M. Henderson, jun., on, 135
Graphic Calculations, Practical Curve Tracing for, Mr. A. H. Shield, 137
Graphic Mothod of Recording Woather Observa¬tions, 359
Graphites, M. H. Moissan on the Preparation of,
Graphite, M. Henri Moissan on the Varieties of, 76
Grapnels, Submarine, Messrs. Johnson and Phillips, 122
Grate “Burner,” 189
Grates, Rocking, for the Fire-boxes of Anthracite Coal Burning Engines, 401
Gratings Used in Photogravure, 329
Gravel, Mr. N., Underground Railway Project for Berlin, 289
Graving Dock on the Tyne, New, 59
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 68 lb. Rails and Iron Sleepers, 263
Great International Congress, 1895, 219
Great Northern Engine, A New, 173
Great Western Railway, Bala and Festiniog Line Cleared, 155
Great Western Railway Bill, The, 289
Great Western Railway, Footplate on a, 472
Great Western Railway, Heating of their Rolling Stock, 11
Great Western Railway, History of the, 201, 337, 363
Great Western Railway Locomotive Works, “Short Time ” at, 263
Great Western Railway, Project of a Light Rail¬way, 11
Great Western Railway Works, Swindon (Supple¬ment, June 28th, 1895), 545, 546, 547, 555
Greener, Mr. John H., 311
Greener's Method of Protecting Iron and Steel Against Rust, 497
Griffiths, E. H., Latent Heat of Evaporation of Water, 242
Grinder, Twist Drill, 398
Gross, Dr., on the Electrolysis of a Solution of Mixed Nitrate and Sulphate of Silver, 97
Gronssel, M., His Proposal to Sink a Shaft of 1500 m., 556
Guatemala Railway, Opening of Portion of the Northorn, 497
Guatemala, Tenders for Construction of Railways in, Invited by the Government of, 532
Gubbins, Mr. R. R., Bellows made of Heat- resisting Fabric, 298
Guildford Lino Restored Through St. Katherine’s Tunnel, 289
Guildford Tunnel, Board of Trade Report on the Collapse of, 423
Gunboats for Madagascar, River, 76
Gunboats, SpaiD and Home-built, 427
Gunboats for the Spanish Navy, 473
Gun Factory, Washington, The, U.S. Naval, 372, 373, 380, 393, 402
Guns, British Fuses for Modern, 487
Guns, Japanese, at Yalu, 102
Gnns and Mortars tried at Sandy Hook, 441
Gun, The New Elswick Quick-tire, 165
Guns of Six Millimetre Calibre for the United States, 532
Gun Story, A, 550
Gun, Testing of a Light-Weight Maxim Rapid- firing, 556
Gun, 12in., On the “Excellent,” Recoil Springs replaced by Hydraulic Recoils, 387
Gnntz, Prof., his Mode of Obtaining Argon, 311
Gutta Percha, Prospect of Permanent Supply of, 532

HALL Signals on the Illinois Central Railway, 215
Hall and Co., Messrs. J. P., Vertical High-speed Engines, 352, 354
Halley, Mr. David, 29
Handyside and Co., Messrs. Andrew, The Lan-Ho Bridge, 377
Hanley, Extensions to the Electric Works at, 387
Hannssen, Mr. A., On Checking Engineering Calculations, 69
Harbours and Waterways, 1894,17
Harbours and Waterways :
Bristol, 453 Colombo, 176 Cork Harbour, 453
Grand Canal Company, 260
Grand Junction Canal, 453 Hartlepool, 260
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 260
Libau, Harbour Works at, 97
Marseilles and Rhone Cana), 453
Mersey, The, 175
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 260
New York, 176
Poole Harbour, 453
Royton Canal, 260
Severn, The, 453
Thames, The, 70
Thames and Severn Canal, 463
Wear, Tbe, 260
Year’s Dock and Hsrbour Trade, The, 176
Hat hour Works at Lilian, 97
Harbour Works at Riga and Odessa, 355
Harbour at Varna, Projected, 401
Harbour Works at Vera Cruz, 441
Hardening Steel Wire, Process for, 423
Harding, Mr. C., on the Gale of Dacember 21st, • 1894, 59, 135
Hardingstone Local Board, and the Sowage of Far Cotton and Cotton End, 497
Hardwood Sleepers, 209
Hardy, M., Method of Detecting Fire Damp by Sound, 401
Hardy, M. E., The Formonophono, 197
Hardy Patent Pick Company, Excavator for Blasting Coal and Tunnelling, 274
Hardy and Padmore, Messrs. Southall's Gas Engine, 272
Hardy Patent Pick Company, The Vibromotor, 508
Hartield and Company, Messrs., Windlass and Warping Capstan, s.s. “ Port Salisbury," 482, 483
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Fire in thoir Works, 329
Harlem Ship Canal, New York, Opening of the, 532
Harrow, Mr. Wynne Edwards, 555
Hartlepool Breakwater, 260
Harvesting Machines, The Royal Agricultural Society's Prizes for, 29
Harveyed Armour Trial, 226
Haskin, Colonel S. E., Vulcanisation of Wool, 320
Haslam Foundry and Engineering Co., Refri¬gerating Plant, 61
Hatnorn, Davey, and Co.’s Pumps in China, 148
Hanghton, Mr. H. B , Presentation to, for Saving the “ Blackrock ” from Fire, 473
Havre, Bill for the Improvement of the Port of, 10
Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Combined Crane and Locomotive, 398
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Engines of the British and Colonial Steamship Company's New Cargo Steamers, 465, 466, 467
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Launch of H.M.S. “Snnfish,”473
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Testimonial to their Managing Director, 401
Hay, Mr. Robert, Water Power Applied by Electricity to Gold Dredging, 223
Hay Tedders, Bath and Western and Southern Counties Society’s Show, 493
Hay Waterworks, The, 29
Haycroft, Messrs. Ayrton and, On a Student’s Apparatus for Determining the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 11
Hayden Medal Awarded to Professor Daubrée, 219
Heat, Bending of Rails in the United States by the, 556
Heat, Datermining tto Mechanical Equivalent of,
Heat, Economy of, M. Bandsept, Paper on, 97
Heat Engines, Experimental Study of, 379, 397, 422
Heat of Evaporation of Water, Latent, 242
Heat of Ice, Specific, 180
Heat, Waste, in Steam Cylinders, Initial Conden¬sation and, 305
Heaters, Feed-water, 270, 319
Heaters, Railway Feed-water, 267
Heating and Lighting Cars in the United States, Mr. C. H. Peterson on, 556
Heating Railway Carriages, Whether the Expense is Warranted, 135
Heating Railway Carriages by Steam, 245
Heating Railway Trains, 222
Heating Rolling Stock, The Great Western Rail¬way Co.’s Measures for, 11
Heats of Vaporisation of Various Organic Liquids, On the Measurement of the Latent, 87
Heavy Express Trains, 183, 208
Hebler’s New Bullet, 62
Heilmann Co., Electric Locomotives for the French Western Railway Co., 355
Heilmann Locomotive Trials, The, 441
Heliographic Prints, Exhibit of Modern Engi¬neering, 218
Helium, Professor Ramsay's Discovery, 263
Helmann, Professor G., On the Invention of the Barometer, 201
Helmholtz, Professor, Memorial to, 401
Henderson, Mr. Thomas, 174
Henderson, jun., Mr. T. M., On Granite Working Machinery, 135
Henry, M. Charles, Experiment on the Trans¬mission of Optical Signals, 387
Herbert and Co., Messrs., Full-way Combination Valve, 352
H.M. Armoured Cruiser “Immortality,” Refit and Completion of, 387
H.M. Cruiser “Melampus,” Defects Discovered in, 329
H.M. Gunboat “ Excellent,” Danger to, 245
H.M.S. “ Indefatigable,” Trial of Ordnance of, 62
H.M.S. “ Magnificent” and “ Majestic,” 5, 8
H.M.S. “ Majestic,” The Floating of, 112
H.M.S. “Majestic,” Sheathing of the Un-armoured Ends of, 244
H.M.S. “Marlborough,” Fire on, 329
H.M.S. “Renown,” 489
H.M.S. “ Royal Arthur,” 376
H.M.S. “ Sharpshooter ”and the Belleville Boiler, 315
H.M.S. “Sultan,” Approaching Steam Trial of, 62
H.M.S. “ Sultan,” Partial Refit of, 146
H.M.S. “ Sultan,” Results Obtained by Engines of, 497
H.M.S. “Terrible,” 442
H.M.S. "Terrible,” Launch of, 464, 471 H.M.S. “Vulcan,” 134
H.M. Ships “ Vulcan,”" Hood,”and “Trafalgar,” 167
H.M.S. “Victorious,” Soon to be Ready for Launching,” 473
II M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Lynx," 155
H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Sunfisb,” launch of, 473
Herreshoff, Messrs., Their Bid to the Spanish Government, 401
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co, Messrs., Compound Corliss Condensing Engines (Supplement, June 2Ut, 1895)
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., Messrs., Compound Mill Engine at Saltaire, 34, 38
Hicks, Professor W. M., His Exhibit at the Royal Society's Conversazione, 384
High Duty Pumping Engines, 161
High Duty Steam Engines and the Action of Steam Jackets, 180
Higligate Hill Tramway, 483
Hill and Smith, Messrs., Galvanised Iron Troughs, Ac., 193
Hobart Electric Street Railway, The, 113
Hobson, Mr. J. A., On tbe Meaning and Measure of Unemployment, 269
Hoists, Safety Doors for, 272
Hoists, Safety Doors for, Messrs. Lomnitz and Duxbury, 273
Holborn to the Strand, Proposed New Street from, 432
Holden and Brooke, Messrs., Standard Combina¬tion Injector, 443
Holehonse and Morley's Patent Steam Pump, 122
Holland, Submarine Boat for the United States Navy, 355
Holland Torpedo Boat Company, Sec. Herbert’s Intended Contract with the, 29
Home Office Report on the Albion Colliery Explo¬sion, 270
Honduras, Extension of Railway from San Pedro to Pimiento, 387
Hontleur, Silting up of the Port of, 473
Hopkinson, Dr., His Exhibit at the Royal Society's Conversazione, 384
Hopkinson, Dr., On the Magnetisation of Iron by Electric Currents, 417
Horizontal Hydraulic PumpiDg Engines, 202
Hornsby and Sons, Messrs. R., 40-H.P. Oil Engine, 242
Hornsey Slnice, Professor Kennedy’s Report on a Pumping Engine at, 131, 140
Horse Power, A Professor on, 80
Hose between Eogine and Tender, and Tender and First-class, Average Life of, 556 Hot Water, On the Warming of Buildings by, 430
Hours of Telegraph Factory Hands, 154
Houses of Parliament, Drainage System of the, 526, 527
Houses of Parliament, Electric Lighting of the, 361
Howard’s Oil Engine, 554
Howden, Mr., on Boilers for the Navy, 357
Hudson River, Project for Cantilever Bridge over the,11
Hudson's Steam Condenser and Economiser, 243
Huggins, Dr. Williams, Spectroscopic Astronomy,
Hull and Barnsley Railway, Signalling Appliances on the, 239
Humber Co.’s Cycle Works, Beeston, The, 53,54, 56
Humboldt Engineering Co., Coal Washing Plant, Pvwell, Duffryn, and Co.’s Elliot Pits, 370, 371
Humphry, Tennant, and Co., Messrs., Engines of the Blanco Encalada (Supplement, January 4tk, 18y5), 4
Hungarian Minister of Commerce, Bill for New
Railways in Transylvania, 201 Hutchinson, Dr. C. T., on the Electric Locomo¬tive, Finished by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 497
Hutchinson, Major-General, Presentation to, 62
Hydrant Frost Post, Lambeth Brass and Iron Co., 133
Hydraulic Lias Lime, Total Output of, by the South Wales Portland Cement and Lime Co., Limited, 263
Hydro-carbon Oils, Patent for Vaporising and Burning, 532
Hydrogen, Critical Temperature and Boiling Point of, 289
Hydrogen Wall, Mr. L. Pyke, 384
Hydro-Pneumatic LeachiDg Apparatus, Denne's, 203
Hygiene, Street Paving and, 7
Hysteresis in Iron, Magnetic Tester for, 384

ICE in a Boulder, Discovery of, 97
Ice-breaking Steamer “Saratovski Ledokoi," Trial Trip of the, 501
Ice by Cold Air Ice Machines, Average Produc¬tion of, 473
Ice, Specific Heat of, 180
Ice on the Volga, Railway Over the, 473
Ice and Water Pipes, 117,139
l’Idée, Gas Engine Propelled Barge, 175,176, 209, 252
Uluminant, Acetylene as an, 57, 84
Illumination of Lighthouses, Mr. Keigwin on the, 442
Illumination by Means of Water-gai, 473
“ Immisch Electric Launches,” The Pamphlet Entitled, 497
“ Imperieuse,” Trial Trip of the 201
Incandescent Gas Light, New, 311
Incinerators in India, Use of, 245
India, Jute Iodustry in, 289
Indian Head, Armour Plate Tests, 472, 473
Indian Railways, 29, 39, 43, 60, 76, 82, 83, 91,
135, 154, 163, 174, 177, 230, 231, 240, 241, 245, 263, 289, 311, 329, 386, 387, 401, 423, 441, 473, 497
Indian Railways, Assam Public Works, 83
Indian Railways, The Bima-Guna Railway, 401
Indian Railways, Girders for, 82, 230, 231
Indian Railway Bridges, Rules for Working Stress on, 473
Indian Railways and Canal Works, 329
Indian Railways, Doubling the Line between Virar and Pulhar, 497
Indian Railways, Equalisation of Rates on Com¬peting Lines, 329
Indian Railways, Rolling Stock, Floors to be entirely of Wood, 76
Indian Railways, Extension of, 163,177, 289, 441
Indian Railways and Indian Capital, 29
Indian Railways, Light Draught Ferry Steamers, 240, 241
Indian Railways, Map of, 91
Indian Railways, Mogaung to Myitkina, 135
Indian Railways, Mushkaf-Bolan Railway, 83
Indian Railway, Narrow Gauge, 289
Indian Railways, New, 423
Indian Railways, Proposed Bridge over the Gogra, 401
Indian Railways, Reduction of Guaranteed In¬terest on Capital Employed in, 311
Indian Railways, Sibi to Quetta, 441
Indian State Railways, Sleepers for, 174
Indian Railways, Statistics of Bengal and tbe Punjab, 473
Indian Railways, Steel Colliery Wagons and Parts, 60
India, Survey Department of, Re-orgarisad, 497
Indian Railways, Underframes and Bodies for Covered Wagons, 386
Indian Railway, Wind-Cutting Shield on an, 245
Indicator, Reservoir Level, 243
Indicator Springs, Mr. J. C. S. Lawson’s Experi¬ments to Test, 284
Ingersoll-Sergeant Drills, Work Done by, in South Africa, 76
Initial Condensation and Heat Waste in Steam Cylinders, 305
Injectors, Locomotivo, 443
Innsbruck, Congress of Scientific Societies and Academies at, 155
Inland Waterways, Traction of Boats on, 481
Inspector of Weights and Measures in the City, Annual Report of, 401
Instability in Ships of War, 491
Institute of Brewino, The:—
Belgian Breweries and Brewing in Belgium,
Mr. G. M. Johnson, 464 Method of Determining the Extract of Malt,
Mr. A. L. Stern, 464
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, The Tramways :—
Traction Up-to-Date, Mr. W. G. Laws on, 355
Institute, The Imperial, 219, 336
Institute, The Iron and Steel:—
Annual Meeting, Report of the Council, 405
Arrangements for tbe Annual Meeting, List of
Papers to be Read and Discussed, 354
Effect of Arsenic on Steel, Messrs. F. W. Harbord and A. E Tucker, 416
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. David Dale, 405
Iron Ores of Elba, Mr. Herbert Scott, 417
Metal Mixers as Used at the Works of the
North-East Steel Co, Limited, Mr. Arthur Cooper, 405
Institute for Kingston, Technical, 76
Institute of Marine Engineers :—
Raising Wrecks and Sunken Vessels, Papers to be Read on, 33
Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engi¬neers, The North of England:—
Presentation to Mr. C. E White, 245
Institute, The South Staffordshire, 378
Institute of Technology, Boston, Torsion Test¬ing Machine, 76
Institute, The West of Scotland Iron and Steel:—
Election of Professor A. Humboldt Sexton as President, 355
Institution of Civil Engineers, The :— Annual Dinner of, 180, 263
Annual General Meeting, Report, and List of Awards, 488
Arrangements Consequi nt on the Rebuilding, 3o4
Boiler Explosions, Mr. W. H. Fowler, 124
Development of the Experimental Study of
Heat Motors -The James Forrest Lecture- Prof. W. C. Unwin, 219, 379, 397
Electrical Haulage at Earnock Colliery, Mr. Robert Robertson, 223
James Forrest Lecture, “ Development of the Experimental Study of Heat Engines,” Prof. W. C. Unwin, 219, 379, 397
Kidderpur Docks, Calcutta, Mr. W. Duff Bruce, 251
Mechanical and Electrical Regulation of Steam Engines, Mr. John Richardson, 124
Monistrol-Montserrat Rack Railway, Mr. Alfred Collett, 28
New Buildings, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55
Number of Members of all Classes on the Books of the, 289
Plant for the Extraction of Gold by the Cyanide Process, Messrs. Charles Butters and Edgar Smart, 168
St. Gothard Mountain and Stanzerhorn Rail¬ways, Mr. Sigvard Johnson Berg, 28
Steam Engine Economy, Condensing Engines. Mr. Hy. Davey, 320
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Messrs. Thornycroft and Barnaby 286
Usin Mountain Railway, Japan, Mr. C. A. Pownall, 28
Water Power Applied by Electricity to Gold Dredging, Mr. Robert Hay, 223
Institution of Civil Engineers, Association of Birmingham Students :—
Annual Dinner, The Tenth,
Institution of Civil Engineers, Glasgow Association of Students:—
Electric Tramways and District Railways, Mr.
John M. M. Munro, 177
Institution of Civil Engineers, The Man¬chester Association of Students:—
Outfall Sewerage Works of Moss Side, Man¬
chester, Mr. E. N. Bowdon, 333 Manufacture and Inspection of Railway
Carriage and Wagon Wheels and Axles, Mi. Norton, 256
Modern Permanent Way, Mr. C. G. Salter- thwaite, 294
Institution of Civil Engineers, Newcastlb- upon-Tyne Association of Students :— Eighth and List General Meeting of the Session, 397
Evaporative Tests of Boilers, Mr. G. H. Sheffield. 326 ’
Newburn Bridge, Mr. Barker on, 4
Railway Level Crossings, Gates and Fencing. Mr. S. C. Bailey, 252
Sewage Purification, Mr. G. H. W. Rogers, 164
Institution of Civil Engineers, Yorkshire Students’ Association :—
Report of the Council and Election of Officers. 310
Visit to the Leeds Forge Company, 551
Institution of Electrical Engineers, The:— Remaining Meetings of the Session to be held at the Society of Arts, 322
Institution of Civil Engineers, The Man¬chester Association of Students in Con¬nection with :—
Eighth Annual Dinner, 96
Strengthening of the Dinting and Mottram Viaducts, Mr. L. V. Warhurst, 171
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, Mr. Con¬radi, jun., 217
Institute of Engineers and Naval Archi¬tects, The Hull and District:— signalling Appliances on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, Mr. R. Pawloy, 239
Some Remarks on Water-Tube Boileis, Mr. A. E. Seaton, 454
Institution of Junior Engineers, The :- Anniversary Dinner, 106
Marine Engine Design of To-day, Mr. Henry M. Rounthwaite, 67
Study of Alloys, Mr. Walter G. Macmillan, 323
Visit to Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field's Works, 117
Visit to the Stations at Hampton of the South¬wark and Vanxhall, the Grand Junction, and the West Middlesex Waterworks, 5
Visits of the Members, 359
Warming of Buildings by Hot Water, The, Mr. H. J. Young, 430
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Anniversary Dinner, 373 General Meeting, 315
Elimination of Impurities duriDg the Process of Making Best Selected Copper, Mr. A lan Gibb, 374
Governing of Steam Engines by Throttling and by Variable Expansion, Capt. H. R. Sankey, 351, 373, 385, 394, 400
Pyrometric Examination of the Alloys of Copper and Tin, Mr. Alfred Stansfield, 374
Summer Meeting in Bristol, 173
Third Report to the Alloys Research Com¬mittee, Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, 374
Institution of Mining Engineers, The Fede¬rated
Address of the President, Mr. W. N. Atkinson, 495
Banket Formation at Johannesburg, Mr. A. R. Sawyer's Remarks on, 496
Black Damp, Dr. John Haldine and Mr. W, N. Atkinson, 185
Canal Navigation, Papers to be Read at the Next Meeting on, 21
Change of Composition Produced in Air by Flames and by Respiration, Dr. Clowes, 496
Copper and Tin Deposits of Chota-Nagpore, Bengal, India, Mr. Robert Oats, 496
Gold-milling Process atPestarena, Italy, Mr. A. G. Charleston, 495
Limiting Explosive Mixtures of Various Com¬bustible Gases with Air, Dr. F. Clowes, 496
Magnetic Survey of the United Kingdom, Pro¬fessor A. W. Riicker, 496
Mining Explosives, Mr. Vivian B. Lewes, 495
Petroleum in Lower Alsace, Mr. L. Van Werveke, 496
Programme of Eighteenth General Meeting, 430
Sampling, Hand, Mr. J. Garland, 495
Sampling, Machine, Mr. T. Clarkson, 495
Search for Coal Over the East Boundary, Fault of the South Staffordshire Coalfield, Ac., Mr. T. G. Meacham, 185
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Cyanide Practice, Mr. Alfred James, 418, 452 Mexican Mine, A, By Mr. Mr. Arthur C. Claudet, 406
Institution of Naval Architects :— Aluminium Torpedo Boat Built for tbe French
Government, Description of, by Mr. A. F. Yarrow, 305, 316
Amplitude of Rolling on a Non-syncbronous Wave, Mons. Emile Bertin, 504
Annoal Meeting in Paris, June 11-15, Papers to Read and Discussed at, 493
Cost of Warships, Dr. Francis Elgar, 525, 528 548, 549
Coupling Boilers of Different Systems, M. Pierre Sigaudy, 525, 538
Elements of Force in a Warship, Vice-Admiral P. H. Colomb, 283
Entertainment at St. Germain, 549
Induced Draught as a Means for Developing the Power of Marine Boilers, Mr. W. A. Martin, 364
Initial Condensation and Heat Waste in Steam Cylinders, Prof. R. H. ThurstoD, 305
Leading Article on the Paris Meeting, 558
Light Draught River Steamers, Mr. Geo.
Rickard, 305
L:gbt Scantling Steamers, Mr. B. Martell, 525
M. G. Meter, Mr. Archibald Denny, 504
Niclausse Water-tube Boiler, Mr. Mark Robinson, 559
Notes on Further Experience with First-class Battleships, Sir Wm. White, 281
President’s Opening Address, Lard Brassey, The, 281
Reception at the Palais d'Elysees, 549
Summer Meeting at Paris, 503
Solid Stream Forms and the Depth of Water Necessary to avoid Abnormal Resistance of Ships, Mr. D. W. Taylor, 305
Steam Pipes, Mr. J. T. Milton, 305, 341
Tonnage, Circulation of, M. V. Daymard, 504
“Vibrations of Higher Orders in Steamers,” and “ Torsional Vibrations,” Mr. Otto Schlick, 327, 335
Vibrations in Marine Engines, Method of Preventing, Mr. Mark Robinson and Captain H. Riall Sankey, 327, 332, 335
Vibrations of Ships and Engines, Mr. Mallock, 327, 335
Visit to the Belleville Boiler Factory, 548
Visit to tbe Eiffel Tower, and to the Society des Anciens Etablissement? Cail, 548
Visit to M. Raoul Pictet’s Laboratory, 525
Visit to the Workshops of M.M. Sautter,
Harlé and Co., The “Lightning Light”— their Speciality, 548
Water-tube Boilers, M. Normand, 548, 564
Wood and Copper Sheathing for Steel Ships, Sir Wm. White, 504, 506
Institution, The Royal—see Royal Institu¬tion :—
Institution, The Surveyors’:—
Light Railways, Mr. Arthur C. Pain, 167
International Railway Congress, 49
International Railway Congress to be Opened by
the Prince of Wales, 62 International Ship Canal Scheme, 39
Inundations in the Upper Thames, Meeting at
Windsor respecting the, 103 Inventor of the Turret. 511
Inwards, Mr. E., on Weather Fallacies, 59
Inwards, Mr. R., His Exhibit at the Royal
Society’s Conversazione, 384
Iodine Cell, On tbe Electromotive Force of an, 245
Ion Migration, G. Bredrig on, 62
" Iowa,” Oval Turrets for tbe U.S. Ship, 473
Ireland, Light Railways in—see Light Railways in Ireland
Irish Railway Working, 162
Iron with Air and Electricity, Process for Treating, 473
Iron from the Blast Furnace, Direct Puddling of the, 382
Iron Bridges in Switzerland after Thirty-eight Years’ Service, Experiments on the Metal of, 177
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 21, 40, 65, 84, 104, 126, 147, 169, 190, 210, 232, 254, 274, -299, 320, 342, 361, 389, 410, 432, 455, 476, 499, 518, 540, 565
Ironclads in the Neva, Five Incompleted, 497
Iron Industry, The Pig, io South Russia, 311
Iron, Instrument for Testing the Quality of, 515
Iron on Ladle Cars, Transport of Liquid Molten, 556
Iron, Magnetic Tester for Hysteresis in, 384
Iron, Magnetisation of, by Electric Currents, 417
Irish Mail Service, New Vessels for the, 514
Iron Manufacture, Cheapening Production in, 292
Iron Market, Rigging the, 292
Iron Ores of Elba, Mr. H. Scott on the, 417
Iron Ore from the lake Superior Mines, Ship¬ments of, 532
Iron Ore Shipments from Lake Superior Ports in Winter, 62
Iron Ore, Swedish, in Germany, 387
Iron Prices, Cornering British, 184
Iron Producing Regions in European Russia, 219
Iron Reservoir at Bordeaux, 30, 31
Iron Roof Over Stone Arch Railway Bridge, 263
Iron, Slow Changes in the Magnetic Permeability of, 289
Iron and Steel Industries, Changes in, since the Foundation of the Iron and Steel Institute, 405
Iron and Steel Railway Bridges, Facts Bearing on the Corrosion of, 556
Iron and Steel Against Rust, Protecting, 497
Iron and Steel Mills in West Pennsylvania, Advance in Rates of Wages, 423
Iron and Steel Production, British, American, and Continental, 514
Iron and Steel at Welding Temperatures, 239
Iron Tiles for the Siberian Railway, 473
Iron Trade of the Philadelphia District, 173
Iron Tunnels and Shield Construction, Messrs. Brunel, Cochrane, and Barlow v. Mr. Great- head, 29
Irrigation Work, Masonry in Tropical, 469
Isle of Man, Gold in the, 76
Italian Railways, Snow on, 62
Italy, British Engineering Firms at Naples, 110
Italy, Electric Roads in, 497
Italy, Steam Tramways in, 253, 297
Ivatt’s Speed Diagram, 505
Irrigation in Lincoln County, Neb., 556

JACOB, Mr. Arthur, 143 James, Mr. Alfred, on Cyanide Practice. 418, 452 James Forrest Lecture, The, 219, 379, 397, 422 Jane's Naval Annual, “ Per Mare," 423 “Janus,” Reed's Patent Water-tube Boilers ou the, 245 Japan, Coal Mining in, 151, 160, 173, 179, 182 Japan, Locomotives for, 35 Japan, Railway System of Yezo, 76 Japan, Usui Mountain Railway, Mr. C. A. W. Pownall, 28 Japanese Guns at Yaln, 102 “Jean Bart,"The, 229 Jennings, Mr. George, Reservoir Level Electrical Indicator, 243 “ Jigs ” for Connecting Rods and their Brasses, Messrs. Willans and Robinson, 307 “ Johannesburg,” The New Caps L’ner, 213

Johnson, Mr. G. M., Belgian Breweries and Brewing in Belgium, 464

Johnson Company, Lorain, U.S.A., Rolling Mill for the, 446, 453 Johnson, Matthey and C., Metals of the Platinum Group, 384 Johnson and Phillips, Messrs., Submarine Cable Grapnels, 122 Joints, Pipe, 352 Joints ( Strength of Rolled and Riveted, 340 Joints, Strength of Rolled and Riveted, 291 Joists, Strength of Rolled and Riveted, 375 Joly, Dr. J. F., Photographs in Natural Colours, 515 Jonage Canal, Tbe, 484 , 485, 486 Jones, Mr., On tbe Measurement of Magnetic Induction in Uniformly Magnetised Bars, 311 Jones, Mr. D., Express PasseDger Locomotive, Highland Railway (Supplement February IjZ, 1895), 90 Jopp, Mr. Charles, 326 Jordan, Mr. S., Economical Furnace, 497 “ Joveite,” The New Explosive, 311 Joy’s Valve Gear, 33 Juanacatlin, Mexico, Water Wheels at the Falls of, 97 Jubilee of Express Trains, The, 217 Janction Boxes, Explosions at, 33 Jungfrau, Proposed Railway up the, 11, 532 Jnte Industry in India, The, 289 Juto Trade in Dundee, and Calcutta Working Hours, 11

KAISER, Herr E., On Phenomena connected with the Mingling of Two Masses of Liquid, 76 Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., Rail¬ways Round, 387 Kaolin, White, in the Allair, France, 155 Karachi, Drainage Works for, 245 Karachi Harbour, State of, 251 Karikal-Perulam Railway, Company Formed in France to Construct, 329 Karwin Colliery, Silesia, Work Resumed, 113 “ Katahdin," Speed Trial of the, 401 Kater's Invariable Pendulum, Mr. E. F. J. Love on, 329 Kaye and Sons, Messrs. J., Locks, 284 Keeler, Professor, on the Rings Round Saturn, 329 Kegworth Waterworks, Tenders for, 124 Keigwin, Mr., Illumination of Lighthouses, 442 Keigwin, Mr. A. D., Manchester Ship Canal, 276 Kelly, Mr., on the Modern Locomotive, 124 Kendall’s Patent Full-way Combination Valve, 352 Kennedy, Profeswr, Report on a Pamping Engine at Hornsey Slnice, 131, 140 Kensington aod Knightsbridge Electric Lighting Co.’s Report, 135 Kent Uniform Flow Water Meter, The, 8 Kidderpur Docks, Calcutta, 251 Kinetic Theory of Gases, 7, 33, 139, 340 King and Gray, Messrs., on the Wanning of Buildings by Hot Water, 430 Kingston, Technical Institute for, 76 KiDgussie, Bridge over the Spey, 295, 298 Kites, their Uses in War, Lieutenant R. Baden-Powell on, 474 Koblravsch, Dr. Friedrich, His Appointment by the Emperor of Germany, 497 Kiinig, Professor, and Dr. Ruben, on the Distri¬bution of Energy in the Spectrum of a Triplex Burner, 556 Krauss Locomotive Works, Rack Rail Looomotive, Schafberg Railway, 91, 99 “ Krushite,” Mr. James T. Pearson, 198 Krasnovodsk, the Starting Point of the Central Asian Railway, 155 Kiihne, Mr. Hermann Junker's Patent Calori¬meter, 384 Kynoch and Co., Annual Meeting of Shareholders of, 497

LABOUR and Luxuries, 10, 33, 65, 73, 92, 139, 167, 208
Labour Opposition to Machinery, 383
Lackawanna Iron and Steel Co.’s Contract for Stoel Rails for California, 355
Lackawanna Iron and Steel Co., Rapid Rail Rolling Record Made by, 387
La Gascogne’s Mishap, 204
Lake near Leprignano, Formation of a, 329
Lake Superior Mines, Shipments of Iron Ore from the, 532
Lambeth Brass and Iron Company, Hydrant Frost Post, 133
Lambie, Mr. John, 113
Lambie, Mr. John, Ex. Pass. Eng., Cal. Railway
(Supplement, May 31s/, 1895), 407
Lamont, Secretary, Vetoes the Project for Canti¬lever Bridge over the Hudson, 11
Lamp Bulbs, New Process for Exhausting, 387
Lamp, “ l’Eclatant9,” Tbe New Wickless Petro¬leum, 155
I-ancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway,
Opening of First Portion of, 497
Lanchester, Mr. F. W., his Addition to the Slide Rule, 384
Lan-Ho Bridge, China, The, 377
Lang’s Gear Cutter, Atlas Works, Glasgow, 157
Lang and Sons, Messrs. John, Makers of the
Cylinder Boring Device, Designed by Messrs. Willansand Robinson, 331
Lannery, M. S. de, on the Dilation of Water, 423
Latent Heat of Evaporation of Water, 242
Latent Heats of Vaporisation of Various Organic Liquids, On the Measurement of, 87
Lathes, Treadle, 84 Lathes, TnrniDg Attachment for, 516
Launches, Steam, at the Royal Aquarium, 316
Launches and Trial Trips, 40, 62, 67, 76, 81,
87, 97, 107, 112, 129, 149, 171, 190, 193, 201,
213, 235, 257, 263, 277, 289, 301, 323, 329,
345, 367, 391, 401, 413, 430, 435, 457, 464,
471, 479, 498, 501, 507, 521, 543, 567
Laundry Machinery, Mr. H. Coward on, 341
Laundry, Tenders for Steam, Mile End, 543
Laurie, Mr. A. P., On the Electromotive Force of an Iodine Cell, 245
Laws, Mr. W. G., Traction up to Date, 355
Lawson, Mr. J. C. S., on tbe Testing of Indicator Springs, 284
Leachiog Apparatus, Denne’s Hydro-pneumatic, 203

LEADERS

1895, 13
Acetylene as an Illuminant, 57
American and Russian Petroleum, 403
Automatic Railway Signalling, 183
Baden Krupp Gan Accident, The, 120
Berthon's Collapsible Boats, 248
Bessemer Steel Production in tbe United Stites, 206
Boats, Berthon's Collapsible, 248
British, American, and Continental Iron and Steel Production, 514
British Metals and Foreign Competition, 358
British Mines in 1894, 248
Business is Business, 492
Cable Tramway Scheme for Edinburgh, 100
Carriage of Coal by Rail, Important Altera¬tions in, 143
Cheapening Production in Iron Manufacture,292
Chemical Industries, 534
Chemical Manufacture in the North, The, 535
Civil Engineering in 1894, 13
Coal Contracts and Engineering, 514
Coal Contracts for Gas Manufacture, 427
Coal Mining in Great Britain, 80
Coal Trade, The, 120
Collapsible Boats, Berthon’s, 248
Committee on Light Railways, 119
Conservation of Energy, The, 382
Contemporary Economy of the Steam Engine, 314
Concerning British Iron Prices, 184
Cyanide Patent Case, The, 335
Direct Puddling of the Iron from the Blast Furnace, 382
Doors or No Doors in Water-tight Bulkheads, 535
Eight Hours Movement, The, 470
Electrical Engineering, 1894, 18
Employment by Solicitors, 514
Engineering Fallacies, 36
Engineers and Ships of War, 205
English and American Steel Tubes, 315
English Coal and Foreign Shipments, 315
English Engineer measured by a French Stan¬dard, The, 358
Feed Water Heaters, 270
First-c’ass Battleships and Bilge Keels, 313
Four Months of British Trading, 448
Frost Can Do, What a Great, 314
Frost and Water Supply, 226
Gas Supply, 20
Girder Bearings, 291
Glasgow District Survey, 227
Glasgow Weir, 142
Governing Engines and Priming, 141
Harbour and Waterways, 1894, 17
Harveyed Armour Trial, 226
Heavy Express Trains, 183
High Duty Pumping Engines, 161
Home Office Report on the Albion Colliery Explosion, Tbe, 270
Howden, Mr., on Boilers for the Navy, 357
Imperial Institute, The, 336
Increased Armour Plate Production, 404
Indian Railway Extension, 163
Instability in Ships of War, 491
Institution of Naval Architects in Paris, 557
International Miners’ Congress, The, 513
Irish Railway Working, 162
Labour Opposition to Machinery, 383
Leicester Trade Dispute, The, 357
Light Railways, 35, 143
Liquid Fuel, 57
Locomotive Engine Boilers, 557
London and Foreign Fire Brigades, 142
London Gas Companies, The, 513
Loss of the “Elbe,” The, 100, 119
Low Prices in Shipbuilding, 142
Machinery Imports into China, 80
Machinery of our Ships of War, The, 100
Madagascar Flotilla, The, 271
Making of the Clyde, The, 80
Making of Steam, The, 247
Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 533
Masonry Dams, 162
Masonry in Tropical Irrigation Work, 469
Measures, Popular and Scientific, 336
Mechanical Engineering, 1894, 15
Merchandise Marks Act, The, 292
Metallurgy, 1894, 17
Mines, British, in 1894, 248
Modern Electricity, 79
More Miners than Work, 469
Navy Boilers, 426
Navy Estimates, The, 225
New Unionism at Work, The, 37
New Vessels for the Irish Mail Service, 514
New Wagon Regulations and the Coal Trade, The, 226
Official Reports on the London Water Question, 205
Our Idle Furnace Plant, 58
Paris Exhibition of 1900, 358
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 120
Parliamentary Procedure, 383
Parliamentary Procedure on Railway Bills, 426
Priming, and Governing Engines, 141
Professor on Horse-power, A, 80
Railway Accidents in 1894, 469
Railway Speeds, 36
Railway Working aDd Strikes, 206
Reducing Costs of Production, 162
Regulation of Mines, The, 447
“Rigging” the Iron Market, 292
River Tyne, The, 163
Sailing Ships, 184
Sailing Vessels, Steamers and, 337
Sanitary Engineering, 1894, 19
Stif-propelled Pleasure Carriagos, 533
Stability of French Armoured Ships, 425
Standards of Light, 447
Ships of War, Instability in, 491
Small arm Ammunition, 557
Spain and Home-built Gunboats, 427
Spurt in Shipbuilding, A, 58
Steam Engines Bill, The, 313
Steam Engine Problems, 448
Steam, The Making of, 247
Steam, The Work of, 491
Steamers and Sailing Vessels, 337
Steamship Fleet, A Great, 492
Steel v. Iron Fire-box Stays, 291
Street Explosions, 226
Taxation of Machinery and Ratepayers, 37
Thermodynamics, Physicists aud Engineers, 404
Tin Plate in Wales and the United States, 99
Trade Outlook, The, 100
Tramways on Mountain Roads, 248
Tyne, The, 163
Tyne River Works, The, 448
Unemployment, 226, 269
Utilisation of the Nile, 142
Utilisation of the Severn, The, 381
Vibrations of Steamships and Engines, 335
War Materiel, 1894, 16
Water Supply, 20
Water-tube Boilers and Colonial Planters, 403
What the Great Frost Did, 534
Work of Steam, The, 491
Work of Scotch Railways, 292
Yorkshire Miners’ Demonstration, The, 535

Leather Tires for the Army Cycles in place of India-rubber, 556
Lebel Rifle, Result of the Trials with, 219
Leblanc's Compound Sugar Mill, 38
Lse-Metford Magazine Rifle, Seamen and Marines of the Fleet to be equipped with, 62
Leeds Forge Company, Visit to the Works of the, 551
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 260
Legal Intelligence :—
Attorney-General r. St. James’s and Pall Mall Electric Lighting Company, 223
Carl Pieper's Patent, 406 Cassel Gold Extracting Company, Limited
The Cyanide Gold R aco very Syndicate, Limited, and Others, 339
Nobel’s Explosives Company, Limited r. Ander¬son, 209
Shelter v. Tbe City of London Electric Lighting
Company, and Meux’s Brewery Company r. the same, 506
Shoe Machinery Company, Limited r. Cutlan, 529
Wise v. The Metropolitan Electric Supply Com¬pany, 272
Lehigh Valley Railway Company, Rocking Grates used by tbe, 401
Leicestershire, Early Tramroads and Railways in, 230
Leicester Electricity Works (Supplement, June 21st, 1895), 531, 535
Leicester Station, Gas Engine Electric Lighting Plant, 327, 334
Leicester Trade Dispute, The, 357
Leicester Tramways Company, Summonses against the, 113
Leigh and Southern Central Lancashire Railway Bill thrown out, 441
Leighton Buzzard Water and Sewerage Works,
Laying of Memorial Stone of the Water Tower, 473
Lens Colliery, The Rateau Fan at the, 451, 452
Lepierre, M. Charles, Action of Rays of Light upon the Chromogenic Power of Microbia, Leprignano, Formation of Lake near, 329

LETTERS to the Editor

Acetylene as an Illuminant, Frank Wright, 84
Agricultural Society of Vienna, The, F. Stockinger, 117
Aluminium? F. O. F., 225
Aluminium Tubes? H. G. 8., 99
American Breweries, London Brewor, 209
Ancient Railway Relics, G. A. Sekon, 538
Automatic Railway Signalling, Signal Engineer, 319
Automatic Signalling, E. E. Russell fratman, 284
Pelleville Boilers in the Mercantile Marine, Navalis, 474
Belleville Boilers in the United States, Robert Logan, 341
Belleville Boilors in the United States, Miers Coryell, 252
Belleville Boilers in the United States, N. E., 252
Belleville and Scotoh Boiler, The, Ralph Hart Tweddell, 10
Benham Top, The, C. E. Basevi, 267, 445
Benham Top, The, Chas. E. Benham, 209, 375, 474
Benham Top, The, M. A., 363
Bicycle Mechanical Engineering, Kuklos, 511
Boiler Accidents, Blind Flange, 92
Boilers in the Navy, John Brown and Co., Ld., 445
Boilers in the Navy, Thomas Hill and Co., 400, 431
Boilers in the Navy, E. Petersen, 400
Boilers in the Navy, Superintendent Engineer, 374
Boilers in the Navy—tee also Navy Boilers
Bottles for Compound Gases, Charles Herbert, 431
Brick Kilns? A. B., 141
Brush-making Machinery? C. W. T., 225
Bus3 or Best Governor? R. S. O., 491
Calculating Slide Rules? G. G. S., 357
Cantilever Strains ? Rosquare, 513
Carriage of Compressed Gas, F. R. M. Bonell, 363
Carriage of Compressed Gases, H. Joshua Phillips, 375
Century Old Engine, A, E. C. G., 474
Chain Cables, (For Henry P. Parkes and Co.,
George Barklam), 222
Cherry’s Calculator, Henry Cherry, 181
Collision with Lock Gates, Robert McGlasson, 583
Cocoanut Matting Machinery ? H. G., 119
Compound Conorete and Steel Bridges, M. W. D.
Contract for Portsmouth Docks, 14 and 15, John Price, 93
Contraction of Mud by Drying ? A,. P., 469
Correction, A, Otis Elevator Company, Limited, 363
Cost of a Bridge ? The, Oxford, 381
Cut-Nail Machinery ? Manufacturers, 247
Cutting and Bundling Liquorice Root ? A. L., 381
Delivery of Air to Bessemer Converters ? Air, 557
Dr. Angus Smith’s Composition for Coating
Pipes and Castings ? B. D., 225
Donaldson's Oil Mill ? T. C. M., 403
Dust Fuel ? Fine Carbon, 381
Early Light Railways, W. R. Paley, 444, 488
Economical Engines, Andrew Alison, 181
Electrical Drilling Machines at Portsmouth Dockyard, Fred. John Rowan, 93
Electricity in Tin Plate Manufacture, W. Step¬ney Rawson, 489
Enamelling Iron ? Irish Reader, 425
Enamelling Pipes ? J. B., 357
Engine Governing, W. Walker, 538
Engineering in Ships of War, C. P., 222
Engines for Electric Lighting, Mark Robinson, 93
English and American Locomotives, Veritas, 71
English and American Wood-working Machi¬nery, Jsneas Smith, 7
Estimating Earthwork? J. E. B., 335
Exhaust from Gas Engines, Bib Cock, 84
Exhaust from Gas Engines, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 93
Exhaust from Gas Engines, Enquirer, 93
Exhaust from Gas Engines, R. J., 117
Exhaust from Gas Engines, Onlooker, 53, 138
Exhaust from Gas Engines, J. D. Roots, 138
Explosions at Junction Boxes, D. J., 33
Extracting Tan from Oak Bark, E. P., 57
Face Hardened Armour, A. A. Ackermann, 538
Feed Water Heaters, C. J. Brown, 319
Filters at the Say Sugar Works, Thwaites Brothers, Limited, 7
Fire Box Stays, J. D., 313
Fire Box Stays, Stay Bolt, 146
Flying Machine, The, Robert McGlasson, 32
Fog Signalling, L. F. G., 340
Forty-ton Gun, Erroneous Report on (For Sir W. G. Armstrong and Co., Limited), Edw. W. Lloyd, 341 Foundry Cupolas? S., 99
Free Trade and No Trade, W. Bulstrode, 474
Free Trade and No Trade, W. A. S. B., 489, 511
Free Trade and No Trade, A Trader, 445
Free Trade and No Trade, A. WilliamsoD, 489, 511
Free Trade and No Trade, X., 511
Frost and Water Pipes, R., 167
Frosts and Water Supply, F. Batting, 222
Frost and Water SupDly, W. A. S. B., 252
Furness Lubricator? 'The, D. P., 335
Gas Engine Propelled Barge, ‘’l’ldee,” B. H. Thwaite, 209
Gas Engines r. Steam Engines, Anthracite, 266
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, Arthur Bollinckx, 222, 266, 341
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, Ed. Delamare-Deboutteville, 285, 375
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, J. Emerson Dow8on, 266
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, J. H. Hamilton, 252
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, J. W. Hartley, 285
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, Internal Com¬bustion, 252
Gas Engines v. Steam Engines, I. C. R. O., 252
Gauge Glasses for High Pressure ? S. F. G., 35
Gear Steam Engines, J. Dunlop, 489
Gear Steam Engines, The, Colonial Engineer, 431
Glasgow v. Manchester, D. S. V., 267
Glass Water Ganges with Wire Glass Pro¬tectors, A. S. D., 225
Hardwood Sleepers, Wm. T. Foxley, 209
Heating Railway Trains, Robert Bell, 222
H.M. Ships “Vulcan,” “ Hood,” and “Trafal¬gar,” Robert McGlasson on, 167
Heavy Express Trains, A. B., 208
Heavy Express Trains, E. B. D., 208
Heavy Express Trains, W. H. M. E., 208
High Duty Steam Engines and the Action of Steam Jackets, Geo. T. Pardoe, 180
History of tbe Great Western Railway, W. P. M., 363
History of the Great Western Railway, G. A. Sekon, 363
History of tho Portable Engine, J. W. B., 208
Ice and Water Pipes, Jack Frost, 117
Ice and Water Pipes, S. M. S., 139
Ice and Water Pipes, Chas. L. Wilkin, 139
International Railway Congress, W. M. Acworth, 474
Inventor of the Turret, The, C. 8., 511
Joy’s Valve Gear, 1). Joy, 33
Kinetic Theory of Gases, C. E. Basevi, 7, 33, 139, 340
Kinetic Theory of Gases, Average Time Interval between Collisions and LeDgth of Free Path, C. E. Basevi, 7, 139
Labour and Luxuries, W. A. S. B., 33, 92, 139, 208
Labour and Luxuries, Capel Court, 10, 92, 167
Labour and Luxuries, H. Leopold, 10
Labour and Luxuries, H. L., 73
Labour and Luxuries, W. R. L , 65
Labour and Luxuries, Evacuates A. Phipson, 139, 208
Labour and Luxuries, Chas. Spackman, 10
Labour and Luxuries, Y. X., 73
Lift Accident at Lloyd’s, John M. Garvey, 223
Light and the Benham Top, M. A., 146, 181
Light and the Benham Top, C. E. Basevi, 167
Light Railways, W. M. Acworth, 181
Light Railways, A. J. Hamilton-Smythe, 65
Light Railways in Ireland, G. A. E. Hickson,
Light Railways and Tramways, Zero, 166
Liquid Fuel, Taite and Carlton, 138
Locomotive Cranes, C. Brown, 431
Locomotives for JapaD, Takata and Co., 35
Locomotives and Trains, Percy Caldecott, 73
Locomotives and Trains, E. B. D., 72
Locomotives and Trains, Wm. Edwards, 32
Locomotives and Trains, D. Joy, 73
Locomotives and Trains, Norman D. Macdonald, 73, 222
Locomotives and Trains, Louis G. Maynall, 65
Locomotives and Trains, J. A. P., 53
Locomotives and Trains, Chas. Rous-Marten, 10
Locomotives and Trains, Sydney Shedden, 139
Locomotives and Trains, Clement E. Stretton, 32, 64,73, 116
Locomotives and Trains, H. Reginald Sutton, 32
Locomotives and Trains, W. S., 53, 92, 167
Locomotives and Trains, W. B. Thompson, 32, 73, 92
Locomotives and Trains, F. Turton, 10
Locomotives and Trains, A. Warburton, 73, 139,181
Locomotives and Trains, F. G. W., 73
London and South-Western Express Loco¬motives, E. B. D., 819
Machinery for Cottmg Combs ? A. W., 161
Machinery for Cutting Corks ? A. W., 161
Machinery for Extracting Fish Oil ? H. J. W., 99
Machinery for Making Lead Pellets and Shot I W. S., 513
Machinery for Making Seamless Drawn Tubes ? G. T., 425
Match Box Making Machinery ? H. H., 513
Mechanical Carriages, John Henry Knight, 529
Melloid, The Phosphor Bronze Co., 400
Mild Steel and Cast Iron Columns ? P. E. C., 291
Modern Electricity, G. P., 138
Modern Naval Battle, A., Pig Tail, 65
Montreal Bridge, W. H. T., 117
More Miners than Work, Benjamin C. Browne, 511
Navy Boilers, Laird Brothers, 363
Navy Boilers, Superintendent Engineers, 374
Neil-Bennett Gas Engine, M. J. W., 381
New Patent Law for Portugal, W. P. Thomp¬son and Co., 320
New-street Station, Birmingham, C. R. S. Kirkpatrick, 267
Nut-Locks, J. S. V. Bickford, 319
Oil Engines and the Cambridge Trials, Internal Combustion Engine, 285
Old Portable Engines, W., 252
Patent Bill, The New, J. Sinclair Fairfax, 400
Patent Bill, The New, A Forty Years’ Patent Agent, 400
Pitchometer, A Simple, John C. Bull, 431
Portland Cement, James Morris, 146
Portland Cement Industry, James Morris, 93
Portland Cement Industry, The, Percy J. Neate, 117
Promenade Pier and Hall, Blankenberghe, Belgium, E. Wyhowski, 431
Propellers of the “Standart,” The, The Delta Metal Co., 400
Proposed Association of Portland Cement Manufacturers, Macevoy and Holt, 33
Quick Locomotive Building, R. Atkinson, 181
Quick Locomotive Building, James Campbell, 33
Quick Locomotive Building, Erector, 53
Quick Locomotive Building, The Hunslet Engine Co., 73
Railways in Ceylon, F., 146
Railway Feed-water Heaters, Franz A. Thayer, 267
Railway Gauges, W. P. M., 375
Recent Improvements in Galvanism, Rich. Heathfield, 511
Red Lead or White Lead Paints? Foreman Painter, 425
Reducing the Cost of Production, C. P., 181
Revised Board of Trade Regulations Under Electric Lighting Acts, 1882,1888, E. Garcke, Kenric B. Murray, 489
Rigidity of Path Projectiles, The, Vitacamirs,
Royal Agricultural Society of England Trials of Oil Engines, On Trial, 53
Safety Lift Appliances, Ed. C. De Segundo, 223
Safety Lift Appliances, P. A. Sharman, 267
Safety Lift Appliance, R. Waygood and Co., 252
Scavenger Charge in Gas Motors, E. G. Allison, 181
Shamokin Boiler Explosion, Pennsylvania, John Batey, 180
Should Chimneys Reck, W. Cooper, 73
Should Chimneys Rock ? J. Gilchrist, 11C
Should Chimneys Rock ? Rocker, 116
Should Chimneys Rock ? W. H. Thorpe, 73
Siberian Railway, Ivan Andrejew, 208
Signalling on Railways, J. C. Chapman, 363
Slide Rule Makers? G. G. S., 425
Sodium Fluoride? F. I. H., 13
Southall's Gas Engines, Hugh Campbell, 285, 363
Southall’s Gas Engines, Joseph Southall, 320
South-Eastern Railway, The, Clement E. Stretton, 529
Specific Heat of Ice, Wm. H. Harrison, 180
Speed of Steamships, The Record, 469
Steatite, E. L. 8., 403
Steam Engines Bill, Engineer, 319
Steam Engines Bil), R.M., 319
Steam Engines and Boiler Attendants’ Bill, George T. Pardoe, 489
Steam Engines and Boilers Bill, Engineer, 400
Steam Engine Economy, Wm. H. Harrison, 285
Steam Engine Governors, George T. Pardoe, 474
Steam Grab Dredger, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, H. A. Phillips, 375
Steam Pipes, J. T. Milton, 445
Steam Rents, Inquirer, 57
Steam Rents, G. F. Ransome, 79
S.S. “North-West,” Marine Engineer, 146
Steamship Resistance, R. de Villamil, 319
Steel Stays, T., 167
Street Paving and Hygiene, W. B. Bromley, 7
Strength of Rolled and Riveted Joists, Edward J. M. Davies, 340, 375
Strength of Rolled and Riveted Joints ? Puzzled, 291
Stresses in a Polygonal Truss, Chas. Dean, 72, 92
Stresses on a Polygonal Truss, D. W. M., 85
Swing Bridges, Engineer, 469
Testing Railway Axles, A.. Linton Logan, 474
Theory of Conservation of Energy, The, H. A. Cookson, 431
Theory of the Steam Engine, Peter Alexander, 6, 91, 116, 139, 166, 180
Theory of the Steam Engine, Henry Cherry, 32, 92
Theory of the Steam Engine, Maurice Cross, 32, 116, 166, 208, 223, 252
Theory of Steam Engine, J., 84
Thompson and Marsden Recorder, The, E. D. Thomas, 116
Thrust Bearings, Stephen H. Terry, 6, 33
Thrust Bearings, W. Walker, 33
Tin-plate Trade, The, Nemo, 117
Tin-plate Trade, The, Observer, 167
Traction Engines, Isaac W. Boulton, 93
Traction Engines, C. T. B., 6
Traction Engines, Walter J. Fletcher, 7
Traction Engines, E. C. G., 33
Traction Engines, Experientia, 116
Traction Engines, J. and H. McLaren, 6
Traction Engines on Common Roads, J. W. B., 181
Tramways on Mountain Roads, A. Percival Heywood, 267
Transmission of Heating Gas over Long Distances, Economy, 73
Treadle Lathes, A. H. Roylance, 84
Treating Ramie Fibre, Hy. Hemans, 117
Trip Gear Steam Engines, Robey and Co., 445
Unarmoured Ends in Battleships, Thin Armour, 284
Utilisation of Niagara, Ed. C. de Segundo, 223
Utilisation of the Severn, The, E. D. Marten, 400
Walker Wilkins Non-polarising Battery ? The, E. G. T., 469
Water Supply Pumps Driven by Oil Engines? Borough Engineer, 225
Water-tube Boilers for the Colonies, Conrad Knap and Co., 431
Water-tube Boilers in the Navy, N. E , 340
Willans and Robinson's Works, Messrs., J. C. Peache, 363
Willans and Robinson’s Works, Messrs., Mark Robinson, 375
Work of Steam, The, Michael Longridge, 474, 520
Work of Steam, The, W. H. Shaw, 529

Level Crossings, &c., Mr. S. C. Bailey on, 252
Le Verrier, Mons. U. L., On the Blast Furnace Condensation of Dust and Metallic Fumes, 597
Lewes, Mr. Vivian B., On Mining Explosives, 495
Lewes, Professor V. B., Preparation of Acetylene
from Calcic Carbide, 384
Liban, Harbonr Works at, 97
Lichfield, Proposed New Railway, 263
Lifebuoys with Electric Glow Lamp, German Manufacture, 62
Lift Accident at Lloyd’s, 203, 223
Lift Appliances, Safety, Ed. C. de Segundo, 223
Lifts, Passenger, Mr. S. h Court, 252
Light and the Benham Top, 146, 167, 181, 209
Light Draught Ferry Steamers, Indian State Railways, 240, 241
Light Draught River Steamers, Mr. George Rickard, 305
Light Draught Steamboats for Africa, 379
Light or Narrow Gauge Railways, Average Earn¬ings of the Swedish, 355
Light Railways, 11, 33, 76, 95 , 97, 113, 119, 135,
143, 158, 159, 166, 167,181,188, 204, 259, 279,
325, 388, 444, 488 Light Railways, Early, 444, 488
Light Railway at Barnstaple, 76
Light Railways in Belgium, and Map Showing, 259, 279, 325
Light Railways in Great Britain, 388
Light Railways, Great Western Railway Com¬pany and, 11
Light Railways in Ireland, 33
Light Railways for Wales, 135
Light Railways, Mr. W. M. Acworth on, 113, 158, 159
Light Railways, Mr. Bryce on, 97
Light Railways, by P. W. Meik, 188
Light Railways, Arthur C. Pain on, 167
Light Railways, Report of Committee of Confer¬ence, 95, 119
Light Railways, The Royal Agricultural Society’s
Circular Respecting, 11
Light Railways and Tramways, On Parliamentary Procedure as Affecting, 204
Light Railways—tee also Railways, Light Light Scantling Steamers, Mr. B. Martell, 525
Light, Standards of, 447
Lighthouse, Dover, New, 311
Lighthouse at Dover, Laying of the First Stone of a New, 507
Lighthouse at Paris Island, Bon Royal Sound, S. C., 556
Lighthouse, Rattray Head, 322
Lighthouses in the World, 263
Lighting of Railway Cars in Germany, 507
"Lightning Light” for Mineral Oil, A, 548
I.ilienthal FlyiDg Machine, Prof. Fitzgerald's Experiments with a, 289
Liners, The New French, 66
Lippmann, M. G., on the Celostat, 497
Lippmann, M. G., on the Measurement of Time in Astronomy, 252
Liquefaotion of Gases, 468
Liquefaction of Gases, Professor Dewar of the, 396, 417
Liquid Fuel, 57, 138
Liquids Holding Solid Substances in Solution, On the Critical Point of, 113
Lissajon's Curves, Dr. H. T. Oosting’s Contri¬vance for Producing, 441
Lister & Co., Messrs. R. A., Dairy Machinery, 493

LITERATURE:

American Brewery Plant, by Professor Schwackhüfer, 100, 121
American Electrical Street Railways, their Con¬struction and Equipment, with Notes on the Cost of Installation and Maintenance, and of the Advantages of Electrical Traction compared with other Methods, by Killing- worth Hedges, 59
The British Fleet: the Growth, Achievements and Duties of the Navy of the Empire, by Commander Charles N. Robinson, R.N., 37
Calcareous Cements: their Nature and Uses, with some Observations upon Cement Test¬ing, by Gilbert R. Redgrave, 293
Catalogue of the Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the World’s Columbian Exhibition, 143
Chemical Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes, Professor R. Benedikt, 359
Cyanide Process for the Extraction of Gold, and its Practical Application on the Wit- watersrand Gold Fields in South Africa, M. Eissler, 315
Development of the Locomotive: A Popular History, by Clement E. Stretton, 58
Electrical Engineering as a Profession: How to Enter it, and Guide to the Engineering Pro¬fession, by A. D. Southam, 143
Elementary Properties of Elliptic Functions, by Alfred Cardew Dixon, 81
Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics, Part III.: Kinetics, by Alexander Ziwet, 249
Elliptical Orbits, by Henry Larkin, 101
Engineer’s Year Book of Formulie, Rules,
Data, Tables, and Memoranda in Civil Marine, and Mine Engineering, by H. R. Kempe, 249
Face Hardened Armour, by Lieut. Ackermann, 449
Geometrical Conics, by Charles Smith, 249
History of the Great Western Railway, being the Story of the Broad Gauge, G. A. Sekon, 337
History of the Tower Bridge, and of other Bridges over the Thames Built by the Cor¬poration of London, including an Account of the Bridge House Trust from the Twelfth Century, Based on the Records of the Bridge House Estates Committee, by Charles Welch, and J. Wolfe Barry, with Introduction by the Rev. Canon Benham, 163
Illustrated Modern Art and Literature, Monthly, 59
Indicator and its Practical Working, The, by A. G. Brown, 293
Integral Calculus for Beginners, by Joseph Edwards, 249
Marches of Wales, by Charles G. Harper, 249
Mechanics for Colleges and Schools: Statics, R. T. Glazebrook, 337
Mechanics and Dynamics: An Elementary Text¬book, by R. T. Glazebrook, 163
Metallurgy of Gold, The, by T. Kirk Rose, 227
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of
Civil Engineers, vols. exv., exvi., exvii., cxviii., with Forty Plates, 206
Motive Powers and their Practical Selection, by Reginald Bolton, 492
Naval Annual for 1895, by Lord Brassey, 427, 470
Our Locomotives, by J. F. S., 558
Photographic Lenses, by John A. Hodges, 248
Plating and Boilermaking, by A Foreman Pat¬tern Maker, 185
Popular Engineering, by F. Dye, 207
Proceedings of the South African Association of Engineers and Architects, vol. i., 227
Progress of Science: Its Origin, Course, Pro¬moters, and Results, by J. Villin Marmery, with an Introduction by Sam. Laing, 143
Safe Building, A Treatise, by Louis de Coppet Berg, 185
South-Eastern Railway, The, by G. A. Sekon, 514
South Eastern Railway : Its Passenger Services, Rolling Stock, Locomotives, Gradients, and Express Speeds, by the Author of “ British Railways,” 535
Steam Engine and other Heat Engines, by J. A. Ewing, 58
Steam and the Marine Steam Engine, by John Yeo, 163
Steam Power and Mill Work Principles and Modern Practice, by Geo. W. Sutcliffe, 293
Telephone System of the Continent of Europe The, by A. R. Bennett, 558
Text-book of Mechanical Engineering, by Wilfrid J. Lineham, 81
Theoretical Mechanics: Solids, by Arthur ThorntoD, 249
Traité Pratique de la Construction des Machines A Vapeur Fixes et Marines, by Maurice Demoulin, 514
Traité Théorique et Pratique des Moteurs h Gas et h Pétrole, par Aimé Witz, 383
Tramways : Their Construction and Working, &c., by D. Kinnear Clark, 207
Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, vol. xv., 271
Treatise on Bessel Functions and their Appli¬cation to Physics, by Andrew Gray and G. B. Matthews, 315
Treatise on Industrial Photometry, by A. Paia?, 293
Watt’s Dictionary of Chemistry, Revised and Entirely Re-writtcn by M. M. Pattison Muir and IL Foster Morley, 81
Works’Managers’ Handbooks of Modern Rules, Tables and Data for Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Millwrights, and Boiler Makers, Ac. Ac., by W. S. Hutton, 404
Zur Frage der Ingenieur Erziehung, Von Prof. A. Riedler, 227

Liverpool, Improvement of the Victoria Tunnel in, 76
Liverpool Lifeboat Service, Telegraphio and Telephonic Communication with, 97
Liverpool, The Lord Mayor of, and the Trade of the Port of, 29
Liverpool, St. Helens, and South Lancashire Railway, The, 177
Liverpool Trade, Railway Charges and, 43
Liverpool, Trial Trip on the New Railway, 497
Liversidge, Professor A., Sections of Gold Nuggets, 384
Liversidge, Professor A., His Photographs of Sections of Gold Nuggets, 515
Livonia, Branch Railway from Walk to Pernau Commenced, 401
Lloyd’s, Lift Accident at, 223
Lock Accident, Welland Canal, United States, 486
Lock, Automatic Safety Wedge Railway, Messrs. Joseph Kaye and Sons, 284
Lock Gates, Collision with, 538
Lock Gates at Teddington, Condition of, 507
Lock Gates at Ymuiden, Electrical Machinery for Working, 441
Lockroy, M., Comparing Cost of Naval Construc¬tion in England and France, 219
Lockwood, Mr. Crosby, 227
Lockyer, Mr. Norman, Photographic Spectrum of a Orionis, 384
Locomotives, American, More Destructive than English to Permanent Way, 556
Locomotives for Australia, Messrs. Neilson and Company, 289
Locomotives, The Baltimore and Ohio Electrical, 360
Locomotive Building, Quick, 33, 53, 73, 181
Locomotive, Caledonia Railway Express Passen¬ger, Mr. John Lambie [Supplement, May 31ri, 1895), 407
Locomotives for the Chili Government Railways, 497
Locomotives, Clocks on, 473
Locomotives, Compound, in Germany, 507
Locomotives, Condensing, in Scotland, 11
Locomotive Cranes, 431
Locomotives for the Danish State Railways, 305, 312, 316, 318
Locomotive, Electric, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 497
Locomotive Engine Drivers’ Hours, 117
Locomotives, English and American, 71
Locomotives, English and Foreign, from 1859 to 1894, 94, 95
Locomotives, Express, Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, 504, 536, 537, 561, 564
Locomotives, Express, Great Western Railway, Mr. W. Dean [Supplement, June 2£>lh, 1895)
Locomotives, Express Passenger, Highland Rail¬way [Supplement, February 1st, 1895), 90, 114
Locomotives, Express Passenger, Caledonian Railway [Supplement, May 10th, 1895), 407
Locomotive, Four-Coupled Bogie, London and South-Western Railway [Supplement, March 22nd, 1895), 244, 319
Locomotive, Grease Recipe for a, 311
Locomotive Headlights, Compressed Gas for, 62
Locomotive, The Heilmann, 441
Locomotives on Highways, Bill to Amend the Law with Respect to the Use of, 565
Locomotive Injectors, 443
Locomotives for Japan, 35
Locomotive Lifting Tackle, Messrs. Sharp,
Stewart, and Company’s, 156
Locomotive Load, A, 67 Locomotive, On the Modern, Mr. Kelly, 124 Locomotive, A New Great Northern, 173 Locomotives, Oils Employed for, by the Conti¬nental Railway Companies, 473
Locomotive, Passenger, Danish State Railways, 417, 421
Locomotive, Rack Rail, Schafberg Railway, 91, 99
Locomotives on Roads, 535
Locomotive, Road, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 552
Locomotives, Re-building of, in Consequence of the Demand for Heavy Ones, 401
Locomotive Repairing Work, On, 232
Locomotives, Respective Merits of Simple and
Compound, 113
Locomotives by Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., 94 95
Locomotives and Trains. 10, 32, 53, 65, 72, 73, 92, 116, 138, 145, 167, 222
Locomotives and Trains, M. du Bosquet on, 145
Locomotives, Types of Rack Railway, Maschinen Fabrik Esslingen, 420
Locomotive and Wagon Shops, Swindon [Supple¬ment, June 28th, 1895)
Lodge and Glazebrook, Messrs., Prizes Offered to, by Prof. Elihu Thomson and others, 113
Lomax and Lomax, Messrs., Sewerage Works for Glossop, 219
Lorn nitz and Duxbury, Messrs., Safety Doors for Hoists, 272
London and Bexley Heath Railway, Opening of, 329
London County Council Bills for the Acquisition of the Undertakings of the Water Companies, Fate of, 113
London County Council, Resistance to the, 245
London Death Rate, 245, 311
London Death Rate and the Rise in Temperature, 245
London daring the Cold Weather, Health of, 155
London and Foreign Fire Brigades, 142
London Gas Companies, The, 613
London Geological Field Class commence their Excursions, 329
London and North-Western Railway Company’s Annual Card and Pamphlet of the Principal Agricultural Shows, Ac., 532
London and North-Western Railway Company’s Bill Deposited for Next Session, 62
London and North-Western Railway Company's Coal Consumption per day, 355
London and North-Western Railway Company’s Line from Greenfield to Holywell, 219
London and North-Western Railway Company’s New Goods Station at Sheffield, 311
London and North-Western Railway Company’s Report, Train Mileage, be., 135
London and North-Western Railway Company, Urged to Construct New Lines, 219
London Street Tramways Company’s Bill, 245
London and South-Western Express Locomotives (Supplement, March 22nd, 1895), 244, 319
London Tramways, Bills Relative to the Working of the, 311
London Water Question, Official Reports on the, 205
London Water Supply, 02, 155, 245, 355, 418, 473
London Water Supply, Average Daily, 155
London Water Supply, Average Daily from the Thames during January, 245
London Water Supply, Profs. Crookes aud Dewar on the, 473
London Water Supply, Profs. W. Crookes and Jas. Dewar on, 62, 355, 473
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge, Progress of the, 97
Love, Mr. E. F. J., on Kater's Invariable Pendu¬lum, 329
Low Prices in Shipbuilding, 142
Lowe's Process for the Purification of Water Gas, 507
Lubricators, New, Mr. Ed. Bourdon, 90
Lubricator, The Ottewell Sight-feed, 495
Liihrig Gas Motors, Street Railroad Worked by, 155
Luxuries, Labour and—see Labour and Luxuries Lyman and Hewitt, Messrs., Tests of the Tractive Force Required to Move Electric Cars, 263
Lynton Railway Company, Bill for the Incorpora¬tion of, 177
Lynx, H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 155
Lyon, Mr. H. Thomson, Parabolograph, 515
Lyons Electricity and Power Supply Works, The Jonage Canal and, 484, 485, 486

McCULLOCH, Mr., on the Relative Economy of Cable and Electric Traction, 556
McDonald Nut-lock, The, 264
McDougall's Oil Extractor and Separator, 164
MacFarlane, J. R. H., on the Occurrence of Seiches in Lake Derravaragh, 311
McGlasson Reversing Propeller, “l’Idée,” 176
Machine Guns of Six Millimetre Calibre for the United States, 532
Machine Tool Making at the Atlas Works, Glas¬gow, 156, 157
Machinery, On Automatically Balanced, 90
Machinery for Extracting Fish Oil ? 99
Machinery Imports into China, 80
Machinery, Labour Opposition to, 383
Machinery for Making Lead Pellets and Shot? 513
Machinery? Match Box Making, 513
Machinery, On Methods of Balancing, 90
Machinery of our Ships of War, The, 100
McMillan, Mr. Walter G., Study of Alloys, 323
McIntosh, Mr. J. F., His Appointment to the Caledonian Railway, 355
McPhail and Simpson’s Superheater, 228
Madagascar Flotilla, The, 271
Madras Electric Tramways, 245
Madras Harbour, Route of Proposed Canal to, 387
Madrid, Railways North of, blocked by Snow, 118
“Magenta” and “Hoche," French Battleships, 70, 78
“Magenta,” Tested Stability of the Ironclad, 473
Magnetic Fatigue, Messrs. Campbell and Lovell on the Supposed, 387
Magnetic Induction in Uniformly Magnetised Bars, Measurement of, 311
Magnetic Pavilion in Greenwich Park, Provision for the Erection of, 556
Magnetic Permeability of Iron, Slow Changes in the, 289
Magnetic Survey of the United Kingdom, Prof. A. W. Riicker on the, 496
Magnetic Tester for Hysteresis in Iron, 384
Magnetisation of Iron by Electric Currents, Dr. John Hopkinson on, 417
Magnets, How Influenced by Low Temperature, 201
“Magnificent” and the “Charlomagne,” The, A Comparison, 264
“ Magnificent" and “ Majestic,” H.M.S., 5, 8
Maia, Senhor, On Textile Machinery, 145
Mail Cars to be Run on Cable Railroads in New York, 329
Main and Co., Messrs. A. and J., Mowing and Reaping Machines, 493
"Majestic,” H.M.S., 11 “Majestic,” H.M.S., Floating-out of, 62, 112
“ Majestic,” H.M.S., “ Magnificent ” and, 5, 8 “Majestic,” H.M.S., Progress of tbe, 201
“Majestic,” H.M.S.,Sheathingof the Unarmoured Ends of, 244
Malago Vale Colliery, Bristol, Mines Inspector’s Report of the Explosion at, 473
Malap/entrus Ftcctricus, Living Specimen of the, 384
Malay Peninsula, M. Murtelet’s Data concerning Tin Supplied from the, 245
Malay Peninsula, Tin Supplied by, 473
Mallock, Mr., on Vibrations of Ships and Engines, 326
Malt Diastase, A Substitute for, 11
Malt, Method for Determining the Extract of, 464
Manchester Cold Stores and Chill Rooms, Open¬ing of, at, 355
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company and the Metropolitan Company, Terms of Agreement between the, 441
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Extension, Mr. E. Fuller’s Award Relative to, 219
Manchester Ship Canal, 29, 97, 154, 177, 276, 338, 441
Manchester Ship Canal Co., Assistance to Meet its Interest Charges, 441
Manchester, Ship Canal Co.’s Half-yearly Report, 177
Manchester Ship Canal, Mr. A. D. Keigwin oq the, 276
Manchester Ship Canal, Sir Edward Leader Williams, Partial Retirement, 29
Manchester Ship Canal, Pollution of the, 154
Manchester Ship Canal and the Sheffield Trade, 97
Manchester Waterworks Committee, Appeal for Economy in the Use of Water, 473
Manganese Ore from the Caucasus, 289
Manganese Ore in Caucasus, 1893, Total Output of, 401
Mann and Charlesworth, Messrs., Single Exeen- tric Reversing Gear, 209
Map in General Waiting-room at Philadelphia, The Largest in tho World, 507
Map of India, Railway, 91
Map of Light Railway System in Bolgium, 259
Map Showing Available Water Supply Districts, Belfast, 237
Map Showing Proposed Line of the Simplon Tunnel, and Sections of the Same, 1, 25
Map Showing Water Supply Districts of Belfast, 237
Map of the Site of the Niagara Falls Electric Power and Hydraulic Station, Tunnel and Property, 195, 196
Map, Stanford’s Metropolitan Improvements, 129
Marine Boilers—see Boilers, Marine Marine Department of Board of Trade, 533 Marine Engine Designs of To-day, Mr. Henry M. Rounthwaite, 67
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding on the Thames, 539
Marine Evaporators, Mr. D. B. Morison on, 230
Marks Act, The Merchandise, 292
Marquette Building in Chicago, and Adjacent Erections, Foundations of, 532
Marriott, Mr. W., Account of the Thunderstorm of January 23, 155
Marsden Corn-pith Cellulose, and the Cocoa Cellulose, Testing of the, 556
Marsden, Mr. H. R , Stone Breaker, 555
Marsden, M., Substitute for Cellulose, 506
Marseilles and Rhone Canal, Tbe, 311, 453
Marshall's, Miss Dorothy, and Professor Ayrton’s
Paper Read at tho Meeting of the Physical Society, 87
Marshall, Mr. Frank, Testimonial to, 401
Marshall, Messrs., Chaff Cutter, 553
Marshall, Sons and Co., Messrs., Road Loco¬motive, 552
Marshall's Valve Gear, 468
Martell, Mr. B., Light Scantling Steamers, 525
Martin, Mr. J. S., Report on the Malago Vale Colliery Explosion, 473
Martin, Mr. W. A., Induced Draught as a Means for Developing the Power of Marine Boilers, 364
Martini-Henry and Lee-Metford Rifles Con¬demned by the Hon. J. C. Paterson, 289
Maschinen Fabrik, Esslingen, Table giving Par¬ticulars of Mountain Railways, ‘ ‘ System Rig- genbach,” 419
Mason, Mr. Charles, Street Subways for Large Towns, 475
Masonry Dams, 162
Masonry in Tropical Irrigation Work, 469
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Torsion Testing Machine, 76
Match Box Making Machinery 1 513
Matter et Cie., MM., “ l’Idée,” 175
Maxim, Mr. Hudson, His Experiments with Smokeless Powders, 473
Maxim, Rapid-firing Gun, Testing of, at Sandy Hook, 556
May, Mr. Francis J. C., Brighton and its Muni¬cipal Works, 408
Meacnem, Mr. T. G., on the Search of Coal Over the East Boundary Fault of the South Staffordshire Coalfield, 185
Meade-King, Mr. W. O. E., His Proposal to Con¬nect Bridgewater and Taunton by a Ship Canal, 113
Measure for Securing Places in Railway Carriages, French, 311
Measurement of tbe Latent Heats of Vaporisa¬tion of Various Organic Liquids, 87
Measurement of Time in Astronomy, Mr. G. Lippman's Method, 252
Measurement of Water Supply, The, 8
Measures, Popular and Scientific, 336
Measuring a Cyclically Varying Temperature, Mr. Burstall on, 532
Measuring tbe Deflection of Iron Bridges, 263
Mechanical Carriages, 529
Mechanical and Electrical Regulation of Steam Engines, On the, 124
Mechanical Engineering, 1894, 15
Mechanical Engineering, Bicycle, 511
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Determining the, 11
Medley and Ayrton, Mr. and Prof., on lests of Glow Lamps, 146
Meik, P. W., Light Railways, 188
“ Melampus,” Faulty Riveting, &c., 423
Melloid, A New Alloy, 376 Merchandise Marks Act, The, 292
Merchandise Marks, Conference on, 97
Mercury, Effect of Chlorine on, 401
Merivale, Prof., on the Calculation of Pipe Friction, 329
Mersey, The, 175
Mersey Bar, Deepening the, 198
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 29, 76, 260
Mersey Estuary, Report of the Acting Conserva¬tor, 353
Metallurgy, 1894, 17
Metal Mixers, Mr. Arthur Cooper on, 405
Metals and their Alloys, Rarer, 238
Metals, British, and Foreign Competition, 358
Metals on the Growth of Bacteria, Effect of, 387
Metal, Refining of, by Means of Aluminium, 387
Metals in Tasmania, Production of, 62
Meteorite seen in the Region of the Pyrenees, 355
Meter, The “ Venturi ” at Chicago, 9
Meter, The Kent Uniform Flow Water, 9
Meter, The “M. G.,”504 Meter Competition Prizes, 113
Metropolitan District Railway Company, Bill Relating to Revision of Fares, 441
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Strength of the, 113
Meux's Brewery Company v. The City of London Electric Lighting Company, 5C6
Mexican Mine, A, 406
Mexico, Derailment Accident in, 245
Mexico, Railways in, 215
Microbes in Thames Water, Dr. E. Frankland on , the, 387
Micrometer Gauge, Electric Contact, 310
Micrometer Wire Gauge, Mr. J. C. Smith’s Direct Reading, 429
Middleton, Mr. Wm., Pelton Wheel Experiments, 284
Midhurst Water Supply, Toe, 112
Midland, Accident on the, 245
Midland Great Western of Ireland, Opening of New Line, 62
Midland Railway, Locomotive Engine Drivers’ Hours, 11"
Midland Railway Company, Additional bhaiee and Loan Capital required by, 97
Midland Railway Company and Goods Traffic at Birmingham, 263
Midland Railway Company's Report, Train Mile¬age, Ac., 135
Milan to Pavia, Line Blocked by Snow, 62
Mild Steel and Cast Iron Columns ' 291
Mileage of Railways in Belgium, 177
Mileage of the Railways of the Globe at the End of 1892, 177
Mileage of Railways per Ten Thousand Inhabi¬tants, 177
Milk, Calcium Phosphate of, M. L. Vaudin on, 355
Milking Machine, Dr. Sbiels, 554
Milk Separators, Bath and West and Southern Counties Society’s Show, 493
Mill Engine at Saltaire, Compound, 34, 38
Mill, The Leblanc's Compound Sugar, 38
Mill, Rolling, Messrs. Galloway, 446, 453
Milling Under Various Temperatures, 354
Milton, Mr. J. T., Remarks on Steam Pipes, 305, 341
Mine, A Mexican, 406
Mine Ventilators, On the Running of, 401
Mineral Oils, Relation of, to Each Other, 263
Mineral Well, Drying Up of, in Consequence of Railway Operations, 289
Miners’ CoDgress, The International, 513
Miners’ Demonstration, The Yorkshire, 535
Minera’ National Union,, Tbe, 349
Miners than Work, More, 469, 511
Mines, Data of the Depth of Existing, 556
Mines of Dortmund, Yearly Report on the, 113
Mines in 1894, British, 248
Mines, Electric Locomotives for, 168
Mines Explosion, Malago Vale, 473
Mines, Regulation of, 447
Mining Explosives, Mr. Vivian B. Lewes, 495
Mining, Professor W, N. Atkinson on Safety in, 495
Mining Work, New and Practical, Published in Germany, 62
Minneapolis, Flour Industry of, 29
Minneapolis, The New Dam at, 556
Miscellanea, 11, 29, 62, 76, 97, 113, 135, 155, 177, 201, 219, 245, 263,289, 311, 329, 355, 387, 401, 423, 441, 473, 497, 507, 532, 556
Miscellaneous Implements at the Royal Agricul¬tural Show, 553
Mitchell, Mr. Joseph, 359
Modern Electricity, 79, 138
Modern Engineering Heliographic Prints, Ex¬hibit of, 218
Modern Naval Battle, 65
Moissan, M. Henri, Attempts to Produce Argon Compounds, 441
Moissan, M. Henri, on Graphite, 76
Moissan, M. Henri, on the Preparation of Gra¬phites, 97
Moissan, M. Henri, Process of Obtaining a Boride of Iron, 135
Moissan, M. Henri, on Titanium, 177
Moiasan and Charpy, MM., on Boron Steel, 473
“ Monarch,” The New Austro-Hungarian Man-of-War, 344
Monistrol-Montserrat Rack Railway, Mr. Alfred Collett, 28
Monitor, “ Amphitrite,” The Coast Defence, 507
Monitors, The Sea-Going Efficiency of, 75
Montreal Bridge, 117
Mordey, Mr. W. M., on Slow Changes in the Magnetic Permeability of Iron, 289
Morewood and Rogers, Messrs., Improvements iD Galvanising, 494
Morison, Mr. D. B., “ Marine Evaporators,” 230
Morley, Earl of, on Electrical Communication with Lighthouses and Lightships, 113 Moon's Influence on the Mean Atmospheric Con¬ditions, M. A. Poincaré on, 387 Moorland's Mill, Bolton, Triple Expansion Cor¬liss Engine, 424, 428, 429
Moormann, Mr., Compressed Air Dredging Appar¬atus, 443
Moseley and Sons, Messrs. D., Pump Cups and Hats of Celluvert Fibre, 135
Mossman, Mr. R. C-, on the Frost of 1895 in Scotland, 387
Moss Works, Manchester, Outfall Sewage Works, 333
Motive Power from Steam to Electricity, Change of, on French Railway, 497
Motors, Practical Application of Alternating Current, 232
Mott, Mr., on Phototyping, 475
Moulding and Shaping Machine, Vertical Spindle Irregular, Messrs. J. Sagar and Company, 283
Mountain Railways, "System Riggenbacb,” Table Giving Particulars of, 419
Mourne Scheme, Belfast Water Supply, 237, 246
Mowat Mr., On the Tower Bridge, 532
Mowing Machine, Messsra. E. H. Bentall and Co., 493
Mowing and Reaping Machines, Messrs A. and J.
Main and Co., 493 Mumford Patent Duplex Pump, 242
Mumford Water-tube Boiler, 486, 490
Mundella, Mr., On the Hours of Railway Men, 329
Municipal Engineering Works at Brighton, 408
Munro, Mr. J. M. M-, Electric Tramways and District Railway, 177
Murtelet, M., Data of Tin supplied by the Malay Peninsula, 473

NALDER Bros., Messrs., Electrograph, 515
Naphtha, as a Cleansing Substance in Wool
ScouriDg, 219
Narrow Gauge Railway to Eaton Hall, 329
Nasmith, Mr. J., On Prepayment Gas Meters, 122
Nationalisation of tho Railways, Scheme for the, 62
Naval Annual, Jane's, 423
Naval Battle, Modern, 65
Naval Engineer Appointments, 90, 110, 148, 174, 213, 228, 252, 264, 301, 315, 351,378, 413, 462, 493, 508
Naval Engineers in the Fleet, Admiralty Distribu¬tion of (Supplement, March 8th, 1895), 200
Naval Guu Factory, Washington, The United States, 372, 373, 380, 393, 402
Navigation, Submarine, 461
Navigation of tbe Thames, Effect of the Richmond Lock on tbe, 11
Navy Boilers, 357, 363, 375, 400, 426, 431, 445
Navy Estimates, The, 225, 507
Navv Estimates, Sum to be included in for, Work¬shops at Devonport and Keyham, 507
Navy Yard Ships, 164 Neath River Bridge, The, 272
Neil-Bennet Gas Engine, The, 381
Neilson and Co.. Messrs., Express Locomotive “Sir George,” 114
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Locomotives for Australia, 289
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Passenger Engines for the Danish State Railways, 305, 312, 316, 318, 417, 421
Neney and Sons, Messrs., Combination Hammer and Mallet, 201
Nene, Mons., E'ectric Signalling Apparatus, 29
Newbume Bridge, Mr. J. H. Barker, 4
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Sewerage Scheme for, 76
New-Mayne Electric Rudder Motor, 304
Newport Harbour Commissioners', Weekly Trade
Report, 232. 254, 274, 301, 345, 366, 391, 410, 434, 454, 478, 501, 518, 542, 566
New South Wales, Grades to be Lessened between Wellington and Dnbbo, 329
New South Wales, Railway Mileage, 263
New-street Station, Birmingham, 267
Newton Brothers, Messrs., “Trisect” Packing, 201
New Unionism at Work, 37
New York Central Railway Co., Electric Motive Power Substituted for Steam, 311
New York Central Railroad, Purchase of Land, 263
New York City, Daily Water Consumption in, 401
New York Harbour, 176, 423
New York Harbour, Defences of, 423
New York Railroad Law, Amendment of the, 532
New York, Value of Town Refuse in, 507
Niagara Falls; Dynamo, Run at Full Speed of the First, 401
Niagara Falls and Lewiston Electric Railway, Progress of Work on the, 507
Niagara Ice Skating Hall, 32
Niagara River, Overhead Cable Tramway Across the, 311
Niagara, the Utilisation of, 195, 196, 223
Nicaragua Canal, The, 315, 355
Nicaragua Canal Co., Commission to Look into the Plans and Estimates of the, 355
Niclausse Boiler, Mr. Mark Robinson on the, 548, 559
Niehls, Mr. W., Scale of Hardness for Glass, 423
Nile, Utilisation of the, 142
Nitrogen in Fuels, Percentage of, 441
Niz ira's State Railway, Easing the Heavy Gradients on, 289
Nobel's Explosives Co., Limited, v. Anderson, 20g
Non-polarising Battery, A, 154
Nordenskiüld, M., On a New Type of Wells in tbe Granite Recks of Sweden, 401
Normanby Ironworks Company, Use of Slag from their Hematite Furnaces as Manure, 355
Normand, M., on Water-tnbe Boilers, 548, 564
Northallerton Collision, The, 60
North Bridge, Waverley Station, Edinburgh (Supplement, January 18M), 61
North British Railway Company’s Offer to the Corporation of Edinburgh accepted, 135
North British Railway Company, Waverley Bridge, 263
North British Railway's Tunnel, Glasgow, Im¬provements in, 311
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Bill for Next Session, 135
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Report, Train Mileage, Ac., 135
North-Eastern Railway, Cost of Maintenance of, 135
North-Eastern Railway Train Mileage, 113
North-Eastern Railway Works, Ealargemcnt of, 97
North of England, 22, 41, 66 , 85, 105, 127, 147, 191, 192, 211, 233, 255, 275, 299, 321, 343, 389, 411, 433, 455, 477, 500, 519, 511, 565
North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway, Opening of, 289
North Pembrokeshire Railway Completed, 113
North Sea and Baltic CaDal, Inauguration of tbe, 245
North Sea and Baltic Cana’, Vessels to Represent Eogland at the Opening of, 401
North Staffordshire Tramways System, Renewal of Licence to Use Steam as the Means of Traction, 423
“ Northwest,” Passenger Steamer, for tho Great Lakes, 111, 114. 115, 118. 146
North-Western Railway, Effect of tbe Decrease of Trade on the Mileage on the, 355
Norton, Mr., on the Manufacture and Inspection of Railway Carriage and Wagon Wheels and Axles, 256
Norwegian Defence Committee, Ladies' Branch of, Advertises for a Torpedo Catcher, 188
Notes from Germany, 22, 42, 66, 86, 106, 128, 192, 212, 234, 256, 276, 300, 322, 344, 390, 412, 434, 456, 478, 500, 520, 542, 566
Notes from Lancashire, 21, 40 , 65, 85, 104, 126, 169, 190, 210, 232, 254, 274, 299, 320, 342, 364, 389, 411, 432, 455, 476, 499, 519, 540, 565
Notes and Memoranda, 11, 29, 62, 76, 97, 113, 135, 155, 177, 201, 219, 245, 263, 289, 311, 329, 355, 387, 401, 423, 441, 473, 497, 507,
532 556
Notes from Scotland, 22, 42, 66, 86, 106, 128, 170, 192, 211, 234 256 , 276, 300, 322, 344, 366, 390, 412, 434, 456, 478, 500 520, 542, 566
Notice to Correspondents, 13, 35, 57, 79, 99, 119, 141, 161, 183, 205, 225, 247, 269, 291, 313, 335, 357, 381, 403, 425, 447, 469, 491, 513, 533, 557
Nuswortb, Mr. H. S., His Appointment, 311
Nut-locks, 319 Nut-lock, Another, 110
Nut-lock, The McDonald, 264

OATS, Mr. Robert, on the Copper and Tin Deposits in Bengal, 496

Obituary:—

Alexander, Professor Peter, 239
Bird, Mr. Thomas, 113
Buchan, Mr. John, 322
Burnet, Mr. Lindsay, 239
Carmichael, Mr. David, 398
Clarke, Mr. Hyde, 217
Coxe, Mr. Eckley B., 528
Dana, Professor James Dwight, 339
Dudgeon, Mr. Richard, 354
Giles, Mr. Alfred, 199
Greener, Mr. John Henry, 311
Halley, Mr. David, 28
Henderson, Mr. Thomas, 174
Jacob, Mr, Arthur, 143
Jopp, Mr. Charles, 326
Lambie, Mr. John, 113
Lockwood, Mr. Crosby, 227
Mitchell, Mr. Joseph, 355
Owen, Mr. Dyson, 187, 201
Read, Mr. T. C., 177
Rsynolds, Mr. E., 59
Smith, Mr. Challoner, 245, 339
Stannard, Mr. Harry Laurie, 185
Tasker, Mr. John, 96
Tyrwhitt, Mr. Montague Dymook, 135
Vawdry, Mr. Wm., 37
While, Mr. Charles, 474

“Oceanic,” The White Star Steamer, 398
Oddone, Dr. E., on the Great Duration of Earth¬quake Pulsations, 556
Official Reports on the London Water Question, 205
Ohio, Bridge Over the, 97
Oil-Carrying Steamer “ Aco,” Messrs, Dunlop and Company, 261, 265, 268, 328
Oil Companies io Scotland, Rise in Prices, 329
Oil Engines and the Cambridge Trials, 285
Oil Engine, 40-Horse Power, Messrs. R. Hornsby and Sons, 242
Oil Engines, Professor Capper, 276
Oil Engine, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, 552
Oil Engines. Royal Agricultural Society’s Exhibi¬tion, Trials of, 53
Oil Extractor and Separator, McDougall's, 164
Oil Fuel and Average Evaporation of the Boiler Plant of Water per Gallon of Oil, 507
Oil, On the Process of Boring for, 401
Oil Well at Rockwood, 29
Oils Employed by Continental Railway Com¬panies, 473
Oi's, Mineral, Their Relation to each Other, 263
Olive Oil in Italy, Production of, 329 )
Olive, Mr. W. T., Appointment to Cape Town, 263
Olszewski, Professor, Critical Temperature and Boiling Point of Hydrogen Determined by, 289 i
Oosting, Dr. H. T., Contrivance for Producing Lissajoa’s Carves, 441
Opera Houses and Theatres, Mr. E. 0. Sachs and Mr. A. E. Woxirow on, 219
Optical S gnals, Transmission of, 387 ;
Optimus Rock Drill, The, 5
Ordnance of H. M. S. “Indefatigable,” Trial of, .62
“ Oroya ” in Dock, Tbe s.s., 536
Osmond, M., on the Microscopical Analysis of, 245
Ottewell Sight-feed Lubricator, The, 495
Oval Turrets for the U.S. “ Iowa,” 473
Overbridge Bombay, Opening of a New, 329
Overland Route, New, 11
Owen, Mr. G. D., 201
Owen, Mr. Dyson, 187
Oxygen Cylinder, Exploded, 310, 315
Oxygen Cylinder Explosion, Fenchurch-street, 310, 315

PACKING, “Trisect,” 201
Pain, Mr. A. C., Girder Bridge, Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway, 280, 288, 296 Pain, Mr. Arthur C., on Light Railways, 167
Paint for Ships' Bottoms, Recipe for, 289
Paint Spraying Machine, Messrs. A. C. Wells and Co., 385
Palmer and Blackmore's Twist Drill Grinder, 398 Panama Canal, M. de la Tournerie's Report, 387 Panama Canal, Labourers Engaged for Work on, 401
Panhard Carriage Driven by Petroleum Engines, 507
Paper Cutter and Paper Press, Crosland’s, 63
Paper Mills, Static Electricity in, 311
Parabolograph, Mr. H. Thomson Lyon, 515
Paris Death Rate and Sanitary Engineering Improvements, 29
Paris International Exhibition 1900, Area De¬signed for Exhibits at, 401
Paris-Lyons Mediterranean Company, Clocks on their Locomotives, 473
Paris Metropolitan Railway, Tbe, 120, 230
Paris Metropolitan Railway, 230
Paris, Report on the Tramways in, 507
Paris, Tramway Concessions for, 507
Parker, Mr. Thomas, Continuous Current Hinged Pole Piece Dynamo, 31 Parliamentary Notes:
Belleville Bailers, The, 293, 377
Construction of Railways in India, 154
Construction of Ships, The, 154
Explosion at Fenchurch-street Station, The, 293, 315
Floods in the Thames Valley, 154
Foreign Made Projectiles, 154
H.M.S. “ Sharpshooter ” and the Belleville Boiler, 315
H.M.S. “Vulcan,” 134
Hours of Telegraph Factory Hands, 154
Locomotives on Roads, 535 Nicaragua Canal, 315
Railways in Africa, 154
“ Sharpshooter ’’ Trials, The, 535
Ships’ Boilers, 185, 197
Shipwrights as Fitters, 134
Steam Engiues (Persons in Charge) Bill, The, 293
Uganda Railway, The, 154
Parliamentary Procedure, 383
Parliamentary Procedure as Affecting L'ght Railways and Tramways, Messrs. Worby Beaumont and Stephen Sellon, 204
Parliamentary Procedure on Railway Bills, 426
Parliamentary Return of Railway Accidents, 1894, 423
Parry, Mr. W. Kaye, Appointment of, os
Examiner in Practical Sanitary Engineering at the Dublin University, 113
Pascall and Stocker, Messrs., Apparatus for Checking Workmen’s Entry at Factories, 135
Passenger Engines for the Danish State Railways, 305, 312, 318
Patent Bill, Reading of the New, 401
Patent Law for Portugal, New, 320
Patent Nut and Bolt Co., Annual Meeting and Report, 155
Patents Applied for in 1894, 62
Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Acts (1883 to 1888) Amendment Bill, 339
Patents, Twelfth Report of the Comptroller- General of, 561
Patents in the United States, 29
Paterson, The Hon. J. C., Condemns Martini- Henry and Lee-Mitford Rifles, 289 Paving and Hygiene, Street, 7
Paving, An Improved, 423
Pawley, Mr. R., on the Signalling Appliances on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 239
Pearson, Mr. James T., “Krushite,” 198
Pease, Sir Joseph W., Chairman of the North- Eastern Railway Company, 29, 113 Pease's Split Tube and Concrete Construction, 272
Peirce, Mr. W. G., His Presidential Address. 112
“ Peloru8,” Construction of H.M.S , begun, 497
Pelton Wheel Experiments, Mr. Wm. Middleton, 284
Pendulum, A Foucault, at Dublin, 289
Pendulum, On Kater’s Invariable, 329
P. and 0. Co., New Steam Shipping under Con¬struction, 76
P. and 0. s.s. “ Caledonia’s ” Record, The, 301
P. andO. s.s. “Caledonia”—tee. also “ Caledonia ’’ 8.8.
Penn Mr. W. Cooper, on Chainmaking, 376
Penrhyn Quarries, Blast Fired at the, 401
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Artesian Well at Philadelphia, 62
Pennsylvania Railroad, Results from Long Rails on the, 155
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Substitution of Elec¬tric Motors for Steam Locomotives, 423
Penwarden’s Sorew-cutting Gear, 123
Peris, M.. Signalling between Stations and Run¬ning Trains, 4
Permanent Way in America, 215
Permanent Way, American Locomotives more Destructive than English to, 556
Permanent Way on Approach of Thaw. 201
Permanent Way, Hardwood Sleepers, 209
Permanent Way Material, Indian State Railways, Contract for, 174
Permanent Way, Modern, Mr. C. G. Salter- thwaite on, 294
Permanent Way Pot and Trough Sleepers, 547
Permanent Way, Production of Rails in the United States, 532
Permanent Way, Specimens of. Presented to the Leicester Town Museum, 177
Permanent Way, Steel, in France, 113
Permanent Way, Tender for Rails, Christiania, 11
Permanent Way in the United States, Effect of the Heat on the. 556
Permanent Way, Wooden Rails in Florida, 329
Perth Station, Fire at, 507
Petersen, Mr. C. H., on Safety Car Heating and Lighting, 556
Petroleum, American and Russian, 403
Petroleum Exported from Batoum, 507
Petroleum, Hypothesis Concerning its Origin, 423
Petroleum in Lower Alsace, Mr. L. Van Werweke on, 496
Petroleum, Refining, with Salpburic Acid, 219
Petroleum Tank Struck by Lightning in Harburg, 497
Philadelphia, Artesian Well to be Sunk at, 62
Philadelphia, Contract Price for Street Cleaning in, 11
Philadelphia District, Iron Trade of the, 173
Philadelphia, Money Collected in Car Licences and Taxes on Dividends from Railways in, 263
Philadelphia, Paved Streets of, 263
Phillips, Mr. H. Joshua, Safe Storage and Con¬veyance of Compressed Gases, 332
Phonograph, A. Kdltzow on a Simplified, 387
Photographic Exhibition, Imperial Institute, 219
Photogravure, Gratings Used in, 329
Phototyping, Mr. Mott on, 475
Picksley, Sims, and Co., Messrs., Phillips’ Patent Double Swathe Turner, 553
Pictet, M. Raoul, on the Critical Point of Liquids Holding Solid Substances in Solution, 113
Pictet, M. Raoul, on the Influence of Low Tem¬perature on Magnets, 201
Piecework, Messrs. Priestman Brothers and, 117
Pieper’s Patent, 406
Pier, Belgium, Blankenberghe, 220, 221, 224
Pierce, Mr. B. 0., on the Electrical Resistance of Wood and Stone and other Poor Conductors, 355
Pig Iron in the German Empire, Output of, 97
Pig Iron in the United States, Production of, 532
Piatsch Gas Co., Gas Furnished Daily by, 401
Pintsch*8 Patent Lighting Co., Removal of Offices, 11
Pintsch System in Brazil, Compressed Gas for Locomotive Headlights on the, 62
Pipe Friction, Calculation of, 329
Pipes, Ice and Water, 117 Pipe Joints, 352
Pipes, Steam, 305, 341, 445
Piston Packings, Balanced Slide Valves and, 148 Piston Ring Turning Machine, 308 Pit Experience in Yorkshire, A, 181
Pitchometer, A Simple, 431
Pittsburg to Chicago, Run of a Train from, 507
Plates, Steel, Largest ever Rolled, 387
Plateway Scheme for Communication between Liverpool and Manchester, kc., 76 Plough, The Acland Hillside Gutter, 442
Plough, Electric, Messrs. F. Zimmermann and Co., 497
Poincaré, M. A., on the Moon's Influence on the Mean Atmospheric Conditions, 387
Poincaré, M. Lucien, Description of his Secondary Battery, 289
Pollution of the Manchester Ship Canal, 154
Poole Harbour Bill, 355, 453
Pooley and Son, Messrs. H., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Show, 555
Population of France and the United States, 177
Porous Glass Window Panes, 11
Port Arthur, English Torpedo Boats at, 223
Port Talbot, New Dock at, 113
Portable Engine, History of the, 208
Porter, Mr. A. W., on the Influence of the Dimensions of a Body on the Thermal Emis¬sion from its Surface, 87
Portland Cement, 33, 93, 117, 146, 317 5
Portland CeraeDt, Mr. D. B. Butler, 317 'g,
Portland Cement Industry, The, 93, 117
Portland Cement Manufacturers, Proposed Asso¬ciation of, 33
Portsmouth Dockyard, Difficulties Connected id with tbe New Docks, 76
Portsmouth Electric Mains, Extension of, 358
Portsmouth New Docks, 14 and 15, Contract for, to 93
Portugal, New Patent Law for, 320 r-
Portuguese Cliamber of Commerce, Tenders for Shipbuilding Yard for Lisbon, 62
Portuguese Railway Transfer of the West of India, 473
Post, Herr Albert, Invention for Silvering Glass, 29
Pot and Trough Sleepers, 547 >n
Potteries and Shrewsbury Railway, Reconstruction of the, 155
Powell Doffryn Company's Colliery, Coal Washing Plant, 370, 371
“Powerful” and "Terrible,” No Dock large 2 enough for the, 473
Pownall, Mr. C. A. W., Usni Mountain Railway, Japan, 28
Prepayment Gas Meter, Mr. J. Nasmith on, 122
Preservation of tbe Monuments of Ancient Egypt, Society for the, 145
Priestman Bros., Circular relative to Piecework, Messrs., 117
Primary Cell, New, and Electro-motive Force of ” ditto, 473
Priming aod Governing Engines, 141
Principals of Empress Theatre Roof, Empire of
India Exhibition, 241 it
Private Bill Legislation, 101
Private Bill Office, Petitions Lodged against Railway Bills at the, 155
Private Bill Office, The Woodford District :- Council's Petition against the London County Council Bill, 155
Production, Redncing the Cost of, 162, 181
Projectiles, Foreign Made, 154
Projectiles, Machinery for Making, 513
Projectiles, Rigidity of Path of, 511
Promenade Pier and Hall, Blankenberghe, Belgium, 220, 221, 224, 431
Propellers, The “ Standard's,” 377
“ Prospect ” Steam Pump, The, 122
Protection for Gun Crews on British and French Cruisers, 229
Protecting Rear of Trains, Track Torpedo Device, 155
Puddling, On the Bonehill Process of Direct, 532
Puddling of the Iron from the Blast Furnace, Direct, 382
Puddling of Molten Pig Iron in Belgium, 329
Pulleys with Leather or Paper, Covering, 473
“ Pulopen ” Catch, The, 284
Pomps, American, 75
Pumps, Automatic Mercurial, 556
Pumps, Direct Action High Pressure, 122 Pump, Duplex, Smith and Vaile, 75 Pumps, Mumford Patent Duplex, 242
Pumps at the West India Docks, 144
Pumping Engines, English, in China, 148
Pumping Engines, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 39
Pumping Engines, High Duty, 161
Pumping Engines, Horizontal Hydraulic, 202
Pumping Engine at Hornsey Sluice, Professor Kennedy's Report on a, 131, 140
Pyke, Mr. L, The Hydrogen Wall, 384
Pyrenees, Government Subvention to the New Railway Across the, 387

QUARRYING at Bangalore by Wood Fire, 135
Queenborough and Flushing Mail Route, The, 461
Queensland, Low-level Concrete Bridge, Mary¬borough, 395, 398, 399
Quick-fire Gun, The New Elswick, 165
Quick Locomotive Building, 33, 53, 73, 181

RACK Railway, Electric, for Lucerne, 497
Rack Railway, The Gaisberg, 350
Rack Railway, The Snowdon Mountain, 311
Rack Rail Locomotive, Scbafberg Railway, 91
Rack Railway Locomotives, Types of, Maschinon Fabrik Esslingen, 420
Radford, Mr. W. H., Sewers and Sewage Disposal Works for Bath, 289
Radial Drilling, Tapping, and Studding Machine, Messrs. Craven Brothers, 308
Radstoek, Colliery Accident near, 177
Railroading in America, Signalling, Permanent Way, Ac., 215
Railroading, Record of Rapid, 387
Rails for the Trans-Siberian and Ussuri Railways, 387
Rails in tbe United States, Production of, 532
Railway Accidents in 1894, 469
Railway Accidents, Board of Trade Inspectors and, 453
Railway Accident, Tbe Chelford, 10, 12
Railway Accident, Fatal, 286
Railway Accidents in the United States in Novem¬ber, Record of, 76
Railways in Africa, 154
Railway Antiquity, A, 110
Railway Appliances, Exhibition of—see Exhibi¬tion of Railway Appliances, 486
Railway Appliances and Inventions, Exhibition of—see Exhibition of Railway Appliances and Inventions, 540, 547
Railway Axles, The Life of, 151
Railway Axles, Testing, 474
Railways in Belgium, Mileage of, 177
Railway Bills, Parliamentary Procedure on, 426
Railway to Biserta, New, 29
Railway Bridges, Superstructure of, 217
Railways in Bulgaria, 29
Railway Campaign in Wales, The Great, 289
Railway and Canal Bills, Committee to Deal with, 219
Railway and Canal Facilities for Handling tbe Increased Tonnage of Fuel, 11
Railway Carriage and Wagon Wheels and AxIbb, Manufacture and Inspection of, 256
Railway, Tbe Cartagena, Magdalena, 29
Railways in CeyloD, 146
Railway Charges and Liverpool Trade, 43
Railway Collision, Glasgow, 329
Railway Conferonco, International, at Amster¬dam, 511
Railway Congress, The International, 49, 123, 219, 444, 474, 504, 523, 524, 536, 537, 559
Express Locomotives, Mr. John A. F. Aspinall, 504,536, 537, 561
Measure of the Speed and Capacity of a Loco¬motive, Mr. Thomas N. Ely, 504
Railway, The Delagoa Bay, 352
Railway Feed Water Heaters, 267
Railways, Four New, Opened for Traffic, 497
Railways Between France and Spain, Two New, 29
Railway, The Gaisberg Rack, 350
Railway Ganges, 375
Railways of the Globe, Mileage of the, 177
Railways in India, 43, 76, 154, 177, 245
Railway Level Crossings, Gates and Fencing, Mr. S. C. Bailey on, 252
Railways, Light, 33, 35, 65, 95, 113, 143, 119, 158, 159, 166, 167, 181,188, 204, 259,279, 325, 488
Railways, Light, Mr. W. M. Acworth on, 113
Railways, Light, Belgian, 259, 279, 325
Railways, Light, Early, 488
Railways, Light, in Ireland—«r Light Railways in Ireland
Railways, Light, by P. W. Meik, 188
Railways, Light, Mr. Arthur C. Pain on, 167
Railways, Light,The Royal Agricultural Society’s Circular Respecting, 11
Railway Lock Automatic Safety Wedge, Messrs. Joseph Kaye and Sons, 284
Railway Map of India, 91
Railway Matters, 11, 29, 62, 76, 97,113, 135, 155, 177, 201, 219, 245, 263, 289, 311, 329, 355, 387, 401, 423, 441, 473, 497, 507, 532, 556
Railway Men, Hours of, and the Act Relating to, 329
Railways, Mexican, 245
Railway Mileage, Canadian, 245
Railways, Mileage of, Per Ten Thousand Inhabi¬tants, 177
Railway Mileage in Europe, 201
Railways, Nationalisation of the, and Saving to the Nation, 62
Railway, The Projected Jungfrau, 11, 532
Railway Rates, Increase of, Complaints of
Members of the London Chamber of Commerce Respecting, to be Lodged with the Board of Trade, 97
Railway Record, Annual, Published in Germany, 113
Railway Reform Association, The, and The Nationalisation of the Railways, 62
Railway Relics, Ancient, 538
Railways for Russia, New, 201
Railway Schemes, Scotch, 164
Railways in Siam, 507
Railway, Siberian, 208
Railways, Signalling on, 363
Railway Signalling, Automatic, 183, 319
Railway Speeds, 36
Railway Speed in the United States, 154
Railway to Square Mileage in Madras and Bom¬bay, Proportion of, 256 Railway Statistics, Some German, 197
Railway Traffic in the North and the Severe Weather, 97
Railway Trains, Heating, 222
Railways and Tramways, Light, Parliamentary
Procedure as Affecting, 204
Railways and Tramways, Light, Report of Com¬mittee of Conference, 95, 119
Railway, The Uganda, 154
Railways in West Africa, Construction of, 547
Railway Working, Mons. A. Kamache, 11
Railway Working, Irish, 162
Railways, Working of Scotch, 292
Railway Working and Strikes, 206
Rain, Energy Represented by Falling, 11
Rainfall over the Thames Valley in 1894, 177
Rajpipla State Railways, Tenders Invited, 387
Ramie Fibre, New Process for Extracting, 81
Ramie Fibre, Treating, 117
Ramsay, Professor, on the Compounds of Argon, 329
Ramsay, Professor, Discovery of Helium, 263
Ramsay, Professor W., Spectra of Argon and Helium, 515
Ramsay, Professor, and Miss Dorothy Marshall,
On the Measurement of the Latent Heats of Vaporisation of Various Organic Liquids, 87
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Messrs., “New
Implements ” at the Royal Agricultural Show, 553
Rapid Work Achieved by the North British Rail¬way Company, 311
Rarer Metals and their Alloys, Prof. Roberts-Austen on the, 238
Rascb, Dr., on the Prevention of Electrolysis of Underground Pipes, 473
Rateau Fan at the Lens Colliery, 451
Rathenau and Rubens, M.M., on Telegraphing without Wires, 113
Rattray Head Lighthouse, 322
Ravensthorpe, Off the Rails at, 286
Rayleigh, Lord, on Photographing by means of the Electric Spark, 219
Rayleigh, Lord, Faraday Modal Conferred on, 245
Rayleigh, Lord, Waves and Vibrations, 166, 200, 238, 262, 296, 328
Read, Mr. T. C., Killed by the Collapse of an Hydraulic Lift, 177
Recoil Springs Replaced by Hydraulic Recoils in the New Gun Mounting on the “Excellent," 387
Recorder, Thompson and Marsden, 93, 116
Red car Ironworks, Boiler Explosion at, 525, 530, 559
Reducing the Cost of Production, 181
Reid’s Patent Water-tube Boilers for the “Janus,” 245
Refuse Destructor Apparatus of the City of London Commissioners of Sewers at Lett’s Wharf, 201
Refuse Removed from the Streets of the City of London, 219
Reeves’ Feed-water Filter, 509
Refrigerating Plant, 61 Reliance Stockless Anchor, The, 406
“Renown, ' H.M. First-class Battleship, 489
“ Renown," Launch of H.M.S., 430
Rents, Steam, 57, 79
Reservoir, Iron Covered, Bordeaux Water Supply Works, 30, 31
Reservoirs for Irrigation Purposes in the Madras Presidency, 263
Reservoir Level Electrical Indicator, 243
Resistance of Ships, Solid Stream Forms and the Depth of Water necessary to avoid Abnormal, Retrogradation of the Shadow on the Sundial, Mr. W. B. Blaikie on the, 429
Reversing Gear, Single Exccntric, Messrs. Mann and Charles worth, 209
Revolving Observation Towers, United States of America, 135
Reynolds’ “ Burner” Grate, 189
Reynolds, Mr. E., Death of, 59
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, Completion of, 245
Rhone, Water Power of, to be Used for Electric Light and Power Work, 329
Rhyl, Sanitary Works at, 518
Rhyl Sewage Works, Gas Engines Built by Messrs. Crossley Bros., 532
Richards, Mr. T. W., On the Atomic Weight of Strontium, 441
Richardson's Axle Bearing, 31
Richardson, Sir B. W., Electrical Cabinet, 384
Richardson, Mr. John, On the Mechanical and
Electrical Regulation of Steam Engines, 124
Richmond Lock, Complaints of the Effect of the, II
Rickard, Mr. George, Light Draught River Steamers, 305
Riga and Odessa, Harbour Works at, 355
Riggenbach System, Mountain Railways Constructed by the Maschinen Fabrik, Esslingen, 419
“ Rigging” the Iron Market, 292
Riggs, Mr. J., On Electrolysis Nodules, 263
Rigidity of Path of Projectiles, 511
River Steamers, Light Draught, 305
Road Locomotive, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 552
Roberts-Austen, Professor, Electrical Furnace, 384, 515
Roberts-Austen, Professor, On the Rarer Metals and their Alloys, 238
Robertson, Mr. Robert, On Electrical Haulage at Earnock Colliery, 223
Robinson, Mr. Mark, On the Niclausse Boiler, 548, 559
Robinson, Mr. Mark, and Captain H. Riall Sankey, On a Method of Preventing Vibrations in Marine Engines, 327, 332
Roberts-Austen, Professor W. C., Third Report to the Alloys Research Committee, 374
Robinson and Co., Messrs. T., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Show, 555
Robinson and Oldfield's Feed Motion, Atlas Works, Glasgow, 156
Rock Drills, Brandt’s, 74, 75
Rock Drill, The Optimus, 5
“ Rocking ” Chimneys on Factories, 33
Rocking Gates for Anthracite Coal-burning Engines, 401
Rogers, Mr. G. S. W., Sewage Purification, 164
Rois, Mr. J. D., Day Census of the City, 201
Rolled and Riveted Joints, Strength of, 340
Rolling Machine for Ball Bearings, 186
Rolling Mill for the Johnson Co., Lorain, U.S.A., Messrs. Galloway, Limited, 446, 453
Rolling on a Non-synchronous Wave, The Ampli¬tude of, 504
Rolling Stock by Steam Heating, 245
Roman Villa at Darenth, 289
Rome, Electric Lighting of, 48
Rome, Electric Omnibus Road to be Built in, 556
Rome, Partial Reconstruction of a Bridge at, 115
“ Rossya,” The Belleville Generators for the, 548
Rouen, The New Electric Tramwavs, 473
Rous-Marten, Charles, A New Great Northern Engine, 173
Rubens, Dr., on Telegraphing to a Distance with¬out Wires, 113
Riicker, Professor A. W., Magnetic Survey of the United Kingdom, 496
Rudder Motor, The New-Mayne Electric, 304
Ruhr District, Coal in the, 177
Rupee Basis, Building of Tributary Lines in India on the, 311
Russia, Agricultural Implements in, 209
Russia, Agricultural Machines in South, 134
Russia, New Lines in, 97
Russia, One Week’s Grain Exports from, 329
Russia, Projected Railway Construction in, 201
Russian Coal-producing Neighbourhood, Exhaus¬tion of Forests in the, 245
Russian Imperial Yacht “Standart,” 353
Russian Minister of Finance, Sum Set Apart by the, for Two Steamers for the Volunteer Fleet, 387
Russian Navy, The, 262
Russian Navy, Keels of Four New Ships Laid for the, 496
Russian Navy, Thick Plates for the, Ordered in Pennsylvania, 97
Russian Pig Iron Industry, 311
Russian Railways, 97, 155, 401
Russian Railways, New, 97, 155, 401
Russian Railways, Railway between St. Petersburg and the Ural, 401
Russian Waterways, Total Length of and Traffic on, 245
Rusting of Iron and Steel Railway Bridges, Facts bearing on the, 556
Rust, Iron and Steel Protected from, by the Carbonates of Potash and Soda, 135
Rusting of Niagara Bridge from Salt Drippings and Composition used to Protect the same, 556
Ruthven Bridge over the Spey, Kingussie, 295, 298
Royal Agricultural Society :—
Albion Cultivator, Messrs. Blackstone, 554
Blackstone and Co., Messrs., Exhibits, 553, 554
Chaff Cutter, Messrs. Marshall, 553
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Exhibits, 553
Cook, Mr. Wm., Exhibits, 554
Crossley Bros., Messrs., Exhibits, 552
Cylinder Steam Cooker Company, Exhibits, 554
Darlington Meeting of the Show, 401, 551
Double Vibromotor Scalper, Measrs. Turner, 553
“Easy" Scrow Jack, Mr. Geo. Tangye, 555
Edwards, Mr. Wynne, Plate Harrows, 555
Hardy Patent Pick Company, Exhibits, 554
Hornsby and Sons, Messrs., Exhibits, 553
Howard, Messrs. J. and F., Exhibits, 552, 554
Kohinoor Purifier, The, 555
Locomotive, Road, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 552
Marsden, Mr. H. R., Exhibits, 554
Marshall, Sons, and Co., Messrs., Exhibits, 552, 553
Meeting in 1897, 401 Milking Machine, Dr. Shiels, 554
Miscellaneous Implements at the Show, 553
“ New Implements,” Machines Entered as, 553, 555
Oil Engine, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, 552
Oil Engines, Messrs. J. and F. Howard, 552, 554
Picksley, Sims, and Co., Messrs., Exhibits. 553
Pooley and Sons, Messrs. H., Exhibits, 555
Prizes for Hay Making and Clover Machines, and Conditions Attached, 29
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Messrs., Exhibits, 553
Robinson and Sons, Messrs. T., Exhibits, 555
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at the Show, 551, 552, 553
Tangyes, Messrs., Exhibits, 552, 555
Thistle Mechanical Milking Machine Company Exhibits, 554
Traction Engine, Messrs. Wallis and Steevens, 551
Turner, Messrs. E. R. and F., Exhibits, 553
Wallis and Steevens, Messrs., Exhibits, 552
Weyman and Hitchcock, Messrs., Exhibits, 553
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Their Circular about Light Railways, 11
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Trials of Oil Engines, 53
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Total of Shed¬ding at, 441
Royal Agricultural Show, Darlington, Dates when
Applications of Space and Entries must be made, 219
Royal Agricultural Society in 1897, Meeting of the, 401
Royal Aquarium, Steam Launches at the, 316
“ Royal Arthur," H.M.S.,376
Royal Dockyards,The “Powerful”and “Terrible” too Large for the Docks of the, 473
Royal Dublin Society:
Occurrence of Seiches in Lake Derravaragh, County Westmeath, Staff - Commander J. R. F. Macfarlane, R.N., 311
Royal Institution, The:
Alternating and Interrupted Electric Currents, Professor George Forbes, 351
Annual Meeting, Report, and Election of Officers, 408
Christmas Lectures, Professor J. A. Fleming, 77
Electric Currents, Professor George Forbes, 396
Electric Spark, Photographic Qualities of an, Lord Rayleigh on, 219
Gaseous Bromine, Experiment Showing Effect of Low Temperature on, by Professor Dewar, 418
Lecture Arrangements after Easter, 249
Liquefaction of Gases, Professor Dewar, 396, 417, 468
Magnetisation of Iron by Electric Currents, Dr. John Hopkinson, 417
Phosphorescence and Photographic Action at Low Temperatures, Professor Dewar, 77
Spectroscopic Astronomy, Dr. Wm. Huggins, 468
Stained Glass Windows and Painted Glass, Mr. Lewis F. Day, 77
Waves and Vibrations, Lord Rayleigh’s Lectures on, 166, 200, 238, 262, 296, 328
Royal Meteorological Society, The :—
Discussion on Mr. C. Harding’s Paper on the Gale of December 21st, 1894, 135
Frost of January and February, 1895, Messrs. F. C. Bayard and W. Marriott, 360
Hints on Photographing Clouds, Mr. Birt Acres, 360
Thunderstorm and Squall, January 23rd, 1895, Mr. W. Marriott on the, 155
Royton Canal, 260
Royal Roads to Calculation, Mr. A. P. Trotter on, 155, 210
Royal School of Mines, Dinner of Old Students, 62, 106
Royal Scottish Society of Arts :—
Direct-Reading Micrometer Wire Gauge, Mr. J. Ciceri Smith, 429
Royal Society, The :—76
Iron and Steel at Welding Temperatures, Mr. T. Wrightson, 239
Conversaziones, List of Exhibits at, 384, 515
Royal United Services Institution :—
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Mr. John I. Thorny- croft, 440

SACHS, Mr. E. 0., and Mr. A. E. Woodrow, on Modern Opera Houses and Theatres, 219
Safety Lift Appliances, 223, 252, 267, 510
Safety Appliances for Elevators, 510
Safety Doors for Hoists, Messrs. Lomnitz and Duxbury, 272
Safety, Rules for, United States State Railroad Commission’s, 497
Sagar and Company, Messrs. J., Wood-working Machinery, 283
Sailing Ships, 184
Sailing Vessels, Steamers and, 337
St Catharine’s Tunnel Collapse, 266, 289
St Catharine's Tunnel, Line Restored Through, 289
St Gothard Railway Blocked by Avalanches, 62
St Gothard Mount, and Stanzerhorn Cable Rail¬way, Mr. S. J. Berg on the, 28 St. James’ and Pall Mall Electric Lighting Com¬pany, The Attorney-General v., 223
St. Pancras Vestry’s Electric Installation, Explo¬sion Connected with, 177
“St Paul," Failure to Launch the New American Liner, 263
Salmon, Speed Record of the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 401
Salomons, Sir David, His Exhibits at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 515
Saloon Steamer for the Thames, A New, 517
Salt Drippings from Refrigerator Cars, Effect of, on Niagara Bridge, and Means Taken to Pro¬tect it from Rusting, 556
Saltaire, Compound Mill Engine at, 34, 38
Salterthwaite, Mr. C. G., on Modern Permanent Way, 294
Sandown Junction, Collision at, 245
Sandy Hook, Defence of the Entrance to New York Harbour, 423
Sandy Hook, Mortar and Gun Trials at, 441
Sandycroft Foundry Company, Winding Engines with Piston Valves, 295
Saner, Mr. J. A., Cinsl Navigation, 21
Sanitary Engineering, 1894, 19
Sanitary Engineering of London and tbe Death Rate, 177
Sanitary Exhibition in Paris, 401
Sanitary Exhibition, International, 432
Sanitary Works at Rbyl, 518
Sankey, Captain H. R., on the Governing of
Steam Engines by Throttling, and by Variable Expansion, 141, 351, 373, 385, 394, 400, 409
Sankey, Captain H. Rial, and Mr. Mark Robinson on a Method of Preventing Vibrations in Marine Engines, 327, 332
“ Saratovski Lsdokoi,” Trial Trip of the, 501
Sitnrn, Professor Keeler’s Discovery Concerning tbe Rings Round, 329
Saunders, Dr., on the Daath Rate in tbe City, 507
Sautter, Harle and Co., Messrs., The “ Lightning Light,” 548
Saw Bench with Rising and Falling Table, Mr. A. E. Berry, 122
Sawyer, Mr. A. B., on the Banket Formation at Johannesburg, 496
Say Sugar Works, Filters at the, 7
Scavenger Charge in Gas Motors, 181
Sceaux Railway, Underground Extension of, 230, 401
Schafberg Railway, Rack Rail Locomotive, 91, 99
Schlick, Mr., Vibrations of Higher Order in Steamers and Torsional Vibrations, 326
Schiilar's New Wickless Petroleum Lamp, 155
Science and Art Department’s Circular, 97
Science in 1894, 47
“Scientist,” Some Well-known Men on the Word, 11
Scotch Boiler, The Belleville and, 10
Scotch Miners’ Representatives, Conference on
Colliers’ Wages, The, 441 Scotch Railway Schemes, 164
Scotch Railways, Working of, 292
Scott and Mountain, Messrs., Large Electric End¬less Rope Haulage Plant, 401
Scotter, Sir Charles, 11
Screw-cutting Gear, Penwarden’s, 123
Sea-going Efficiency of Monitors, The, 75
Sea at St. Margaret's, Encroachment of the, 97
Search-light Signals of Weather Forecasts from the Chicago Auditorium, 311 Seasoning Wood, 320
Seaton, Mr. A. E., on Water-tube Boilers, 454
Second-class Sleeping Cars on German Railways, 497
Seeley, Professor H. G-, on the Nature and Forms of Hills and Valleys, 177
Seiches in Lake Derravaragb, on the Occurrence of, 311
Seine, Main Sewer Under the, 320
Selected American Patents, 24, 44, 68, 88, 108, 130, 150, 172, 194, 214, 236, 258, 278, 302,324, 346, 368, 392, 414, 436, 458, 480, 502, 522,544, 568
Self-propelled Pleasure Carriages, 533
Servia, Railway Mileage in, 62
Severn, Tbe, 453
Severn, Utilisation of the, 381
Seville Waterworks Company, Tenders for a Foot¬bridge over the Guadalquivir, 177
Sewage of Far Cotton and Cotton End, 497
Sewage Purification, Mr. C. H. Beloe, 253
Sewage Purification, Mr. G. S. W. Rogers on, 164
Sewage Works of Moss Works, Manchester, 333
Sewer Outfall Pipe, Sunk to the Bottom of the Rhine, Cologne, 177
Sewer nnder the Seine, Construction of a Main, 320
Sewerage Scheme for Grangetown, Sunderland,
Report on, Mr. D. Balfour, 135
Sewerage Scheme for Newcastle-on-Tyne, 76
Sexton, Professor A. Humboldt, His Election, 355
Shadow on the Sundial, On the Retrogradation of the. 429
Shamokin Boiler Explosion, Pennsylvania, 180
Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Messrs., Locomotives by, 94, 95
Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Messrs., Locomotive Lifting Tackle, 156
" Sharpshooter ” Trials, The, 535
Shaw-Lefevre, Mr., Text of his Bill to Amend the Law with respect to the Use of Locomotives on Highways, 565
Shaw, Mr. W. N., His Exhibit at the Royal Society Conversazione, 384
Sheathing for Steel Ships, Wood and Copper, 504, 506
Sheffield Chamber of Commorce on the Trade Depression of 1894, 97
Sheffield City Council and the Water of the Porter and Little Don, 29
Sheffield District, 21, 41,65, 85, 105, 127, .147, 169, 191,211, 233, 255, 275, 299, 321, 343, 365, 389, 411, 433, 455, 477, 499, 519, 541, 565
Sheffield, Electric Lighting in, 556
Sheffield and Goole, Canal Communication between, 29
Sheffield to Keadby, Waterway from, 468
Sheffield and Sonth Yorkshire Navigation Co. and the Navigation of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railwav, 201
Shelter r. the City of London Eloctric Lighting Co., 506
Sheppard’s Capstan, 316
Shield, Mr. A. H., Practical Curve Tracing for
Graphic Calculations, 137
Shield, Mr. A. H., A Rapid Method of Approxi¬mation to Earthwork Quantities, 443
Shields, Dr. John, his Exhibit at the Royal Society
Conversazione, 384 Shiels, Dr., Milking Machine, 554
Ship's Boilers, 185, 197
Ship Boiler Explosions, Fatal, 473
Shipbuilders in the North, and the Severity of the Weather, 97
Shipbuilding in 1894, 26
Shipbuilding Firms of the United Kingdom, The Three First, 62
Shipbuilding for French Navy, New, 11 Shipbuilding, Low Prices in, 142 Shipbuilding, A Spurt in, 58
Shipbuilding on the Thamos, Marine Engineering and, 539
Shipbuilding on the Tyne, The Story of, 393
Shipbuilding in the United States, 84
Shipbuilding Yard for the Port of Lisbon, Tenders for, 62
Shipping Trade, Signs of Improvement in the, 441
Ships, Abnormal Resistance of, Depth of Water Necessary to Avoid, 305
Ships’ Bottoms, Recipe for Paint for, 289
Ship Canal Project to Unite the Great Lakes with the Atlantic, 39
Ship Canal for Somersetshire, Proposed, 113
Ship Canals, On the Suez, and Manchester, Sir E. L. Williams, 123
Ship Canal, U.S.A., Proposed, 473
Ships, Construction of, 154
Ships and Engines, On Vibrations of, 320
Ships, Navy Yard, 164 Ships, Sailing, 184
Ships, Stablity of French Armoured, 425
Ships of War, Engineering in, 222
Ships of War, Engineers and, 205
Ships of War, Instability in, 491
Ships of War, The Machinery of Our, 100
Shipwrights as Fitters, 134
Shoe Machinery Co., Limited, v. Cutlan, 529
Shone System for Karachi, Drainage Works on the, 245
Shuttle, Sliding, to Replace the Trolley of Electric Lines, 423
Siam, New Railway in, 387
Siam, Railways in, 507
Siberia and Turkestan, Proposed Connection of, by Railway, 387
Siberian Railway, 208, 311, 441, 473, 532
Siborian Railway, Gross Mismanagement and
Waste of Money on, 311
Siberian Railway, Iron Tiles for, 473
Siberian Railway, Rumoured more South Route Proposed for the, 441
Siborian Railway, Superintendence of, 632
Siberian Railway, The Trans-Baikal Section of the, 473
Siemens Bros, and Co.’s Works, Visit to, 232
Sigaudy, M. Pierre, Coupling Boilers of Different Systems, 525, 538
Signalling Apparatus, Admiral Fane’s, 11
Signalling Appliances on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 239
Signalling, Automatic, 284
Signalling, Automatic Railway, 183, 319
Signalling, Fog, 340
Signalling, Railway, 363
Signalling, Railway, in America, 215
Signalling between Stations and Running Trains, 4
Signalling Drum, Further Trials of Admiral Fane’s Electrically Illuminated, 387
Signals, Transmission of Optical, 387
Signals of Weather Forecasts, Search Light, 311
Silicate Cotton, Wire-webbed, 532
Silvering Glass, Albert Post's Invention for, 29 Simplex Stockless Anchor, The, 316 Simplon Tunnel, The, 1, 25, 45, 69
Simplon Tunnel, Italian and Swiss Conference on the, 177
Simplon Tunnel, Ventilating Fans for the, 103
Simpson and Co., Messrs., Combined Steam En¬gine and Air Compressor, Houses of Parlia¬ment, 527
Simpson and Co., Messrs. James, Triple Expansion Worthington Pumping Eogine at Hornsey Sluice, 131, 140
Slag from Hematite Furnaces as Manure, 355
Sleepers, Hardwood, 209
Sleepers for Indian State Railways, 174
Sleeping Cars, SecoDd-class, on German Railways, 497
Slide Valves and Piston Packings, Balanced, 148
Sloan, Mr., On Submarine Cables, 159
Smith, Dr. Angus, his Composition for Coating Pipes and Castings, 226
Smith, Mr. A. H. Newsam, On Locomotive Repairing Work, 232
Smith, Mr. Chaloner, 245
Smith, Mr. John Chaloner, 339
Smith, Mr. J. Ciceri, on his Direct Reading Micrometer Wire Gauge, 429
Smith, Mr. Morris F., Revolving Observation Tower, 135
Smith and Vale Duplex Pump, 75
Smokeless Powders, Mr. Hudson Maxim’s Ex¬periments with, 473
Snow, Italian Lines blocked by, 62
Snowdon Mountain Rack Railway, Messrs. Richard White and Sons, and the, 311
Snowdon Railway, The, 39, 329
Snowdon Railway, Progress of the, 329
Société des Anciens Etablissements Cail, Visit to the, 648
Society of Arte, The:—
Arc Lamps, Prof. S. Thompson on the, 76
Light Railways, Mr. W. M. Acworth, 113, 158
Papers to bo Read after Easter, 323
Society of Arts, The Royal Scottish Adaptation of tbe Welsbach Incandescent
Light for Ordinary Optical Lantern Work as Improved by Special Oxygen Supply Attachment, Mr. Wm. Penman, 359
Graphic Method of Recording Weather Obser¬vations, Mr. Alexander Frazer, 359
Society, Bath and Western and Southern Counties of England
Chaff Cutters Sifters, Messrs. Carson and Toone, 493
Dairy Machinery, Messrs. R. A. Lister and Co., and the Dairy Outfit Company, 493
Hay Tedder, Mr. T. G. Shipper, 493
Iron Farm Requisites, Galvanised Iron Troughs,
&c., Messrs. Hill and Smith, 493
Mowing Machines, Messrs. E. H. Bentall and Co., 493
Mowing and Reaping Machines, Messrs. A. and J. Main and Co., 493
Show to bo held at Taunton, 46-1
Society, Bristol University College Engi¬neering :—
Textile Machinery, Senhor Maia, 145
Society, Caiidridge Philosophical Method of Determining tho Conductivities of
Badly Conducting Substances, Prof. J. J. Thomson, 219
Society, The Chemical:—
Argon, On the Compounds of, Remarks by Prof.
Ramsay, 329
Electro-motive Force of an Iodine Cell, Mr. A. P. Laurie, 245
Faraday Medal conferred upon Lord Rayleigh, 245,329
Society of Civil Engineers, The American:— Static Friction, Mr. C. M. Broomall, 232
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’:— Annual Report of the Committee of Visitors
and Election of New Members, 408
Caissons and Dock Gates, Mr. A. W. Ackermann, 33
Chain Making, Mr. W. Cooper Penn, 376
Checking Engineering Calculations, Mr. A. Hanssen, 69
Construction of Railway Bridges under 100ft. Span, by Mr. Walter Beer, 408
Engine-room Practice at Sea, Mr. W’. M. Binny, 139
Laundry Machinery, Mr. H. Coward, 344
Passenger Lifts, Mr. S. h Court, 252
Visits of the Members, 311
Water Waste Preventer Cisterns, Mr. E. H. G. Brewster, 155
Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, French :—
Microscopic Analysis of Steel, M. Osmond, 245
Society of Engineers
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. W. G. Peirce, 112
Parliamentary Procedure as Affecting Light
Railways and Tramways, 204
Portland Cement, Some Points in its Testing,
Uses, and Abuses, Mr. D. B. Butter, 317
Premiums Awarded, 112
Safety Appliances for Elevators, Mr. H. W. Umney, 510
Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated :—
Nomination of Candidates, 329
Society, The Physical, Berlin, 97:—
Automatic Mercurial Pumps and Valve, De¬scribed by Prof. Neesen, 556
Distribution of Energy in tho Spectrum of a
Triplex Burner, Experiments made by Prof.
König and Dr. Rubens, 556
Influence of Electrio Waves of the Galvanic Resistance of Metallic Conductors, Dr. Aschkinass on the, 97
Perception of Colours, Mr. H. W. Vogel, 76
Telegraphing without Wires, Dr. Rubens and Messrs. W. and E. Rathonau’s Experiments on, 113
Society, King’s College Engineering :—
Cable Tramways, Mr. Brown, 216
Illumination of Lighthouses, Mr. Keigwin, 442
Manufacture of Files, Mr. Welbourn, 181
Modern Locomotive, Mr. Kelly on the, 124
Phototyping, Mr. Mott, 475
Submarine Cables, Mr. Sloan, 159
Tower Bridge, Mr. Mowat, 532
Society, Liverpool Enoineering
Marine Evaporators, Mr. D. B. Morison, 230
Tramways and Tramway Action, Mr. John A. Brodie, 59
Various Methods of Balancing Machinery and on Automatically Balanced Machinery, On, 90
Visits during the Forthcoming Summer, 449
Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American :—
Trials of a Recent Compound Engine with a Cylinder Ratio of 7 to 1, Mr. F. W. Dean, 63
Society, The Physical :—
Determination of Thermal Conductivity and Emissivity, Mr. Eumorfopoulos, 87
Influence of the Dimensions of a Body on the Thermal Emission from its Surface, Mr. A. W. Porter, 87
Measurement of a Cyclically Varying Tempera¬ture, Mr. Burstall, 532
Measurement of Latent Heats of Vaporisation of Various Organic Liquids, Prof. Ramsay and Miss Dorothy Marshall, 87
Passage of an Oscillator Wave-train through a Plate of Conducting Dieletric, Mr. G. U. Ynle, 87
Students' Simple Apparatus for Determining the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, by Prof. W. E. Ayrton and Mr. H. C. Haycroft, 11
Tests of Glow Lamps, Mr. Medley and Prof. Ayrton, 146
Thermal Constant C. of the Elements, Mr. N. F. Deerr, 556
Society, Physical, The French :—
Method of Burning Oxygen and Coal Gas under Liquid, M. Bandsept on a, 97
Society for the Preservation of the Monu¬ments of Ancient Egypt :—
Scheme for Survey, 145 Society, Royal Meteorological:—
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Inwards, Dealing with " Weather Fallacies,” 59
Society, The Royal—see Royal Society Society, The Royal Agricultural—see Royal Agri¬cultural Society
Society, Steam Engine Makers’ :—
Annua! Report, Mr. James Swift's, 189
Societe Technique de l’Industrie du Gas en France:—
Prizes Offered by, 135
Society of Vienna, The Agricultural, 117
Society, The Yorkshire College Engineer¬ing :—
Breakdowns at Sea, and how they have been Repaired, Mr. Wm. Welbury, 223, 475, 490,
Friction of Water in Pipes, Mr. H. O. Eurich, 285
Pelton Wheel, On Experiments with the, Mr. Wm. Middleton, 284
On the Testing of Indicator Springs, Mr. J. C. S. Lawson, 285
Sodium Fluoride'! 13
Soho Foundry, Tho, 288
Soho Foundry, Sale of the, 449
Solarometer, The, 474
Solicitors, Employment by, 514
Sooysmith and Co., of Now York, Freezing
Quicksand by Means of Compressed Air, 556
South African Exhibition, 498
Southall’s Gas Engines, 272, 285, 320
Southam, Railway Accident near, 423
Southampton, Application for Extension of the Borough Boundaries, 177
Southampton Harbour, Three New Electrical Cranes for, 532
Southampton Main Drainage, 345
South-Eastern Railway, The, 529
South-Eastern Railway, A Correspondent on the Defects of the, 532
South-Eastern Railway, Widening of the, 113
Southend Pier, The Extension of, 11
South Indian Railway, Strengthening the Girders, Ac., of the, 289
Sonth Pacific Railways, Engine Drivers Paid by Mileage, 219
South Sban States to Kyang Chang, New Line from, 289
South Staffordshire Coalowners’ Association De¬cide not to Gauge Boats as the Selling Weight of Coal, 29
Sonth Wales Collieries, Revision of the Special Rules for the, 289
South Wales Portland Cement and Lime Co., Ld., Total Output of Hydraulic Lias Lime, 263
Southwark Bridge Explosion Inquiry, The, 117
Southwark Bridge Explosions, Trial of a Case Arising out of the, 532
South Yuba Water Company, Electric Power Transmission Plant at Newcastle, Cal., 311
Spain and Home-built Gunboats, 427
Spain, New Railways in, 473
Spanish Government Order, Relative to Spanish Engineers, 135
Spanish Navy, Gunboats for the, 473 Specific Heat of Ice, 180
Spectroscopic Astronomy, Dr. W. Huggins on, 468
Spectrum of a Triplex Burner, On the Distribution of Energy in the, 556
Speed of Steamships ? 469
Speeds at which Electric Cars are Run, 155
Spence-Donlton Bare Electric Light Mains, The, 123
“ Spitfire,” Launch of the, 507
Sprague, Duncan, and Hutchinson,Messrs., Elec¬tric Locomotive, 441
Spurt in Shipbuilding, A, 58
Stability of French Armoured Ships, 425
Stability in Ships, Principles of Statistical, 148
Staff Holder, Great Southern and Western Rail¬way, Ireland, 114
Staffordshire through Derbyshire and Notting¬hamshire, Proposed Railway from, 97
Stained Glass Windows, Mr. Lewis F. Day, 77
Standard Zone Time, Adoption of, by the Austra¬lian Colonies, 113
Standards of Light, 447
“Standart's” Propellers, The, 377
“Standard,” The Russian Imperial Yacht, 353
Standard Orders Committee, Bills that have Passed, 355
Standing Orders, Compliance with, Certified by Examiners, 201
Standpipe, Lambeth Brass and Iron Co., 133
Stanford's Metropolitan Improvements Map, Session 1895, 129
Stanley Exhibition of Cycles, 401
Stannard, Mr. Harry Laurie, 185
Stansfield, Mr. Alfred, On the Pyrometric Exa¬mination of the Alloys of Copper and Tin, 374
Stanzerhorn Cable Railway, Mr. S. J. Berg on the, 28
Static, Electricity in, 311
Static Friction, Mr. C. M. Bromall, 232
Stays, Steel, 167
Stead, Mr., On the Effect of Arsenic on, 416
Steamboats for Africa, Light Draught, 379
Steam Condenser and Economiser, Hudson's, 243
Steam, On the Determination of the Wetness of, 141
Steam Engines and tbe Action of Steam Jackets, High Duty, 180
Steam Engines Bill, The, 313, 319
Steam Engines and Boiler Attendants Bill, 489
Steam Engine, Contemporary Economy of the, 314
Steam Engine Economy, 285, 314, 320
Steam Engine Economy, Mr. Henry Davey, 320
Steam in Electric Light Stations, Superheated, 228
Steam Engines, Gas v., 252, 266, 285
Steam Engines, Gear, 431, 445, 489
Steam Engine Governors, 474
Steam Engines (Persons in Charge) Bill, 285, 293, 313, 319, 441
Steam Engine Problems, 448
Steam Engine, Theory of the—see Theory of the Steam Engine
Steam Engines, Trip Gear, 445
Steam Grab Dredger, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 356, 359, 375
Steam Launches at the Royal Aquarium, 316
Steam Laundry, Mile End, Tenders for, 615, 543
Steam, The Making of, 247
Steam Pipes, 445
Steam Pipes, Mr. J. T. Milton on, 305, 341
Steam Pipe Supply Valve, Mr. J. Batey, 91
Steam Rents, 5/, 79
Steam Traction on Common Roads, Mr. S. H. Terry, 134
Steam Tramways in Italy, 253, 297
Steam, The Work of, 474, 491, 529
Steamers, British and Colonial s.s. Company’s New Cargo, 465, 466, 467
Steamers for the Dover and Calais Route, Two New, 507
Steamers, Light Draught Ferry, Indian State Railways^ 240, 241
Steamers, Light Draught River, 305
Steamers, On Light Scantling, 525
Steamer, A New Saloon, for the Thames, 517
Steamer, Oil Carrying, " Aco,” Messrs. Dunlop and Co., 261, 265, 268
Steamers for the Russian Volunteer Fleet, New, 387
Steamers and Sailing Vessels, 337
Steamer, A Wonderful, 398
S.S. “Bulluwayo," The, 465
S.S. “Caledonia”—see “ Caledonia” s.s. Steamships and Engines, Vibrations of, 335
Steamship Fleet, A Great, 492
S.S. “Port Salisbury,” Windlass and Warping Capstan, 482, 483
S.S. “ Oroya ” in Dock,” 536
Steamship Resistance, 319
Stern and Hafferl, Messrs., The Schaf berg Rail¬way, 91, 99
Steel, Boron, 473
Steel and Cast Iron Columns ! Mild, 291 Steel Castings, 391
Steel Colliery Wagons and Parts, Indian State Railways, 60
Steel, Effect of Arsenic on, 413
Steel of Extra Welding Quality, Furnace at Anzin for Producing, 76
Steel Forging and Ball Bearing Company, Rolling Machine for Ball Bearings, 186
Steel Ingots for Armour Plates, Manner of Cast¬ing at the Nan Works, 219
Steel v. Iron Fire-Box Stays, 291
Steel, Microscopical Analysis of, by M. Osmond 245
Steel Obtained by the Silicon Superheating Pro¬cess at Isbergues, 289
Steel Plate, Largest ever Rolled, 387
Steel Production in the United States, Bessemer, 206
Steel Rails for California, tho Lackawanna Steel Company, 355
Steel Rails for French Railway Companies, 113
Steel Rails for India, Supply of, 219
Steel Ships, Wood and Copper Sheathing for, 504, 506
Steel Stays, 167
Steel and Stone, Relative Resistance of the Hardest, 423
Steel Tempering in a Bath of Lead, 607
Steel Tubes, English and American, 315
Steel Wire, Process for Hardening, 423
Steering Gear, Anchor and, s.s. “ Port Salis¬bury,” 482, 483
Steps and Platforms, Car, Controversy, 29
Sterilising Fluid, Electrolysed Sea Water as a, 289
Stern, Mr. A. L.. Method for Determining the Extract of Malt, 464
Stern Wheel Steamer for the Oceana Company,
Messrs. Yarrow and Company, 452
Stockless Anchor, The Reliance, 406
Stockless Anchor, The Simplex, 316
Stone Breaker, Mr. H. R. Marsden, 555
Storage and Conveyance of Compressed Gases, On the Safe, 332
Strasburg Industrial Exhibition, 201
Strasburg and Mulhouse and Paris, Railway
Communication, 29
Street Cleaning in Philadelphia, Contract Price for, 11
Street Explosions, 226, 306
Street Explosions, T. E. Thorpe on, 307
Street Paving and Hygiene, 7
Street Railroad in Dessau, 155
Street Railway Mileage in the United States, 219
Street Subways for Large Towns, 475
Street Transformer Boxes, London County Council's Interference with, Checked, 11, 62
Stresses on a Polygonal Truss ? 35, 72, 93
Stretton, Mr. Clement E., on Brake Trials upon the North-Eastern Railway, 496
Strength of Rolled and Riveted Joists? 291
Strength of Rolled and Riveted Joists, 340, 375
Strike at Clydebank, 355
Strikes, Railway Working and, 206
Strontium, Atomic Weight of, Redetermined, 441
“ Sturgeon,’’.Another Unsatisfactory Trial of the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 387 “Sturgeon,” Official Speed Trial of the, 329
Submarine Boat, The Italian, 311
Submarine Boat for the United States Navy, Ths “Holland,” 355
Submarine Boats, Experiments with, United States Navy, 133
Submarine Cable Grapnels, Messrs. Johnson and Phillips, 122
Submarine Cables, Mr. Sloan on, 159
Submarine Navigation, 461
Submarine Vessel, the “Gustave Zédé,” Trial Trips of, 76
Subway Explosions, On, 497
Subways for Large Towns, Street, 475
Suez and St Mary's Falls Canals, Increasing
Average Size of Vessels Using the, 532
Sugar Mill, Mr. Leblanc’s Compound, 38
Sulman, Mr. H. L., Improvements in Gold Ex¬traction, 187
Sulphuric Acid, Instance of the Great Dissolving Powers of, 135
“ Sultan ” Battleship, Refit of tbe Old, 473
Sulzer Bros., Brandt's Rock Drills, 74, 75
Sunderland Sewerage Scheme, 135
Sun Dial, Mr. W. Blaikie on the Retrogradation of the Shadow on the, 429
Suporheated Steam in Electric Light Stations, 228
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, Mr. Conradi, jun., on, 217 Supplements :—
Admiralty Distribution of Naval Engineers in the Fleet, March 8th, 1895
Express Locomotive, Great Western Railway, Details of Frames and Bogies, Mr. W. Dean, June 28tb, 1895
Compound Corliss Condensing Engines, Leicester Electricity Works, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., June 21st, 1895
Express Passenger Engine, Caledonian Railway, Mr. John Larnbie, May 10th, May 31st, 1895
Express Passenger Locomotive, Highland Rail¬way, Mr. D. Jones, February 1st, 1895
Four-coupled Bogie Express Engine, London and South-Western Railway, Mr. W. Adams, March 22nd, 1895
Great Western Railway Locomotive and Wagon Shops, Swindon, Mr. W. Dean, June 28tb, 1895
Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, Mr. Chas. Barry, January 18th, 1895
New North Bridge, Waverley Station, Edin¬burgh, Messrs. Cunningham, Blytb, and Westland, January 18th, 1895
Triple Expansion Engines of the Chilian Cruiser, “Blanco Encalada, Messrs. Humphrys, Ten¬nant, and Co., January 4th, 1895
Surat Waterworks, Pumps for, 62
Surveying by H.M.S. “ Triton,” 329
Suspension Bridge Across the Hudson, Plans and Estimates for, 507
Sutton-in-Ashfield Sewerage Works, 177
Sweating on an Indian Railway, 289
Sweden, Armour-clads for, 115
Swedish Iron Ore finds a Good Markot in Germany, 387
Swedish Light or Narrow Gauge Railways, Aver¬age Earnings of the, 355
Swedish Railway System, Opening of the North Section of, 473
Swedish Railways, Purchase of, by the State, 401
Swift, Mr. Jas., Annual Report of the Steam Engine Makers' Society, 189
Swindon, Great Western Railway Works (Supplement, June ‘i&lh, 1895), 545, 546, 547, 555 Swing Bridges ? 469
“Swinging^’ of Vessels of the Royal Navy to be Discontinued, 219
Sydney Harbour Collieries Project, The, 177
Synchronising Alternating Current Motor and Contact Maker, Prof. J. A. Fleming, 384
Syphon in the Form of a Timber Flume, An In¬verted, beneath the South Platte River. Neb., 556

TAFF.Vale Railway, Collision on the, 355
Taff \ ale Railway Men, Friction amongst the. 355
Tii Taff, Weiring the, 289
Tan from Oak Bark, Extracting, 57
Tangyes, Limited, Messrs., “ Easy Screw Jack, Til
Tangyes, Limited, Messrs., Gas Engines and Centrifugal Pumps, 83
Tank, 8.S. '• Aeo,” The, 261, 265, 268, 328
Takamine, Diastase as Produced by the Japanese Scientist, 11
Tarakeswar and Mogra, Narrow Gauge Railway between, 289
Tasker, Mr. John, 90
Tasmania, Production of Metals in, 62
Taxation of Machinery and Ratepayers, 37
Taylor, Mr. E. Brongb, On the Colne Valley To Waterworks, 125
Taylor, Mr. D. W., Solid Stream Forms and
Depth of Water Necessary to avoid Abnormal Resistance of Ships, 305
Tayntor and Co., Messrs. C. E., Derrick in the Granite Quarry of, 263
Technical Institute for Kingston, 76
Tectorium, A Substitute for Window Glass, 11, 62
Teddington Lock Gates, Condition of, 507
Telegraph Factory Hands, Honrs of, 154
Telegraph Lines, World’s Mileage of, 76
Telegraph Rates between Great Britain and Africa, Redaction of, 245
Telegraphic Communication through India to China, 263
Telegraphing to a Distance without Wires, Dr. Rubens on, 113
Telephone Communication between London and Berlin, 263
Telephone Exchanges, Electric Lamp instead of Bell for, 556
Telephone Service, Mr. Forbes’ Evidence on the, 441
Telephone Trunk Lines completed by the Post Office, 507
Temperature, Average, of the Water of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, 219 Temperature of Incandescent Filaments, On the Normal, 311
Temperature daring the Winter 1895, Lowest Recorded, 556
Tempering Steel in a Bath of Lead, Process of, 607
Tenders, 475Ï
Deposits on, 508
Kegworth Waterworks, 124
New Weir at Glasgow, The, 101
Steam Laundry at the Infirmary, Bancroft-road, E., 515, 543
Timber and Concrete Wharf and Coal Shed for 1 Messrs. Neill, 56
Upper Stour Valley Main Sewerage—High Level Main Outfall and Subsidiary Sewers, 249
Tenders, Deposits on, 508
Tenders for Rails, Christiania,
Tenders for Semi-Armour Piercing Shells for
Naval Rifles, Navy Department, Washington, 62
Tenders for Shipbuilding Yard for the Port of 1 Lisbon, 62
Terminal Exhaust Steam Engine, Todd’s, 450, 462
“ Terrible,” Launch of H.M.S., 464, 471
Terry, Mr. Stephen H., Steam Traction on Common Roads, 134
Tesla, Mr. Nikola, his Laboratory Destroyed by Fire, 289
Tester for Hysteresis in Iron, Magnetic, 384
Testing Connecting Rods in Batches, 310
Testing Machine, The Yorkshire College, 430 Testing Railway Axles, 474
Tests of Boilers, Evaporative, 326 Tests of Cylinder and Trunk Bores, 307 '
Textile Machinery, Senhor Maia on, 145
Thames, The? 70
Thames during January, Highest and Lowest ' Point of the Water in the, 245
Thames Locks, Proposal to connect them by ' Telegraph, 243
Thames, Navigation, The Richmond Lock and ' the, 11
Thames, Normal Cold Weather Condition of the, 62
Thames and Severn Canal, The, 267, 453
Thames Valley, Floods in the, 154
Thames Valley, Rainfall over the, 177
Thames Valley Floods, Rate of Flow, 29
Thames Water in December, Upper, 62
Thames Water, Dr. E. Franklana on the Microbes in, 387
Thames Water at Hampton, Molesey and Sun- ' bury, Highest and Lowest Points, 155
Theory of Conservation of Energy, 431
Theory of the Steam Engine, 6, 32, 84, 91, 92, 116, 139, 166, 180, 252
Thermo - Chemical Carbon Battery, M. Désiré 1 Korda’s, 289
Thermal Conductivity and Emissivity, On tbe Determination of, 87 1
Thermal Constant C of the Elements, Mr. N. F. Deer on the, 556
Thermal Emission from its Surface, On the Influence of the Dimensions of a Body on the, 87
Thermodynamics, Physicists and Engineers, 404
Thermometers to Measure a Cyclically Varying Temperature, 532
Thermometer for Measuring Low Temperature, French, 135
Thirlmere Manchester Water Supply, The, 40
Thistle Mechanical Milking Machine Company’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Show, 554
Thompson and Co., Messrs. W. B., Triple Ex¬pansion Corliss Engine, Moorlands Mill, Bolton, 424, 428, 429
Thompson, Professor S. P., on the Arc Lamp, 76
Thompeoo and Marsden Recorder, 93, 116
Thomson, Messrs. G. and J., H.M.S. •'Terrible," 442
Thompson, Professor J. J., on a Method of Deter¬mining the Conductivities of Badly Conduct¬ing Substances, 219
Thornycroft, Mr. J. L, On Torpedo Boat De¬stroyers, 440
Thorpe, T. E., on Street Explosions, 307
Throttle Valves, On, 351, 373, 394, 400, 409
Thrust Bearings, 6, 33
Thunderstorm and Squall of January 23rd, Mr. W. Marriott on, 155
Thuiston. Prof. R. EL, on Initial Condensation and Heat Waste in Steam Boilers, 305
East India Dock, Extraordinary, 97
Tin Mining Industry in Cornwall, Depression in,
Tin Mine in Arizona, Discovery of, 423
Tin-plate Indnstry in the United States, 347, 369, 415, 437, 459
Tin-plate Manufacture, Electricity in, 489
T*DTl*te Mills, Wage Difficulty in the American, Tin-plate Trade, The, 117, 167, 71
Tin-plate Trade in Wales The, 200
Tin-plate in Wales and the United States, 99 .
Tin Supplied from the Malay Peninsula, 245, 473
Tires for Army Cycles, Leather instead of India-rubber, 556
Titanium, Mr. H. Moissan on, 177 Tobin Bronze, Use of, for the America Cup, 241 Todd’s Terminal Exhaust Quadruple Expansion Engine, 462
Todd's Terminal Exhaust Steam Engine, 450 “
Tokio, Cast Iron Pipes for the Waterworks System, Contract Secured by American Firm. 401
Tola, M., his Scheme for the Navigation of the Euphrates, 97
Tonkin Railways into Chinese Territory, Extension of, 556
Tonnage for 1894, Three First Shipbuilding
Firms of the United Kingdom as Regards ,62 1
Tonnage, M. V. Daymard, On the Calculation of, 504
Tonquin Coal to be Tried at Toulon, 62
Tool Expander, Tully and Schreiber's, 123
Tool, A General Purpose, 550
Toronto, Use of Electric Tramways in, for Watering, 263
Torpedo Boat, Aluminium, Mr. A. F. Yarrow, 316, 317
Torpedo Boats, Coal Consumption on, 489
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Mr. J. I. Thornycroft q on, 440
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Messrs. Thornycroft q and Barnaby on, 286
Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Banshee,” and Contest, Trial of, 76
Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Boxer,” Speed Record,
Torpedo Boat Destroyer " Boxer,” Trial of, 62.
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, The Cost of, 413
Torpedo Boat Destroyers Ordered by the Admiralty, New, 391, 532
Torpedo Boat Destroyer “Spitfire,” Launch of,
Torpedo Boat Destroyer " Sturgeon,” Trial of, q 329, 387
Torpedo Boat for the French Government, Aluminium, 305, 316, 418
Torpedo Boats at Port Arthur, English, 223
Torpedo Boat, Submarine for the United States,
Torpedo Boat for the United States Navy, Third Class, 3, 10, 26
Torpedo Boat “Zouane,” Second Trial of the q French, 76
Torpedo Catcher for the Ladies' Branch of the, Norwegian Defence Committee, 188
Torsion Testing Machine, Boston, 76
Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway, Girder Bridge, 280, 288, 296
Toulon Dockyard, Extension Works, 62
Tonrnerie, M. de la, Departure for Panama, 113
Tower Bridge, Mr. J. W. Barry’s Application for Additional Remuneration, 29
Tower Bridge, Mr. Mowal, on the, 632
Towers, Revolving Observation, United States t America, 135
Towing by Electricity on the Bovet System, 97
Towler, Mr. Alfred, Corliss Valve Gears, 230
Town Refuse in New York, Value of, 507
Track Torpedo Device for Protecting the Rear of Trains, 155
Traction of Boats on Inland Waterways, 303, 481
Traction of Boats on Inland Waterways, W. H. Wheeler 303
Traction up to Date, Mr. W. G. Laws, 355
Traction Engines, 6, 7, 33, 93, 116, 181, 551
Traction Engine, Messrs. Wallis and Steevena, 551
Traction Engines on Common Roads, 181 I
Tractive Force Required to Move Electric Cars, e, 263
Trade and Business Announcements, 59, 91, 129, 134, 159, 181, 209, 227, 249, 271, 296, 322, 337, I 388, 396, 418, 449, 474, 520, 535
Trade, Depression of, 97
Trade Disputes of 1894, The Labour (jaztllt on, 441
Trade Outlook, The, 100
Trade Possibilities in China, 349 n- Trading, Four Months of British, 448
Traffic on the United States Railways in 1894, 263
Train Accidents on American Railways, 387
Train Car System in Dresden, The Gas Engine Driven, 506
ré Trains, Heavy Express, 183, 208
Trains, Locomotives and—set Locomotives and lie Trains
Tramcar Bogie Truck, Brill’s, 430 N- Tramcar Brake, The “ Reliance,” 274
Tramcars, Electric, on the Continent, 245
The Tramcar Lines in Buffalo, U.S., no Horses Used, an 155
Tramcars, The Advantages of Gas over Electric, 04 in Snow, 497
Tram roads and Railways in Leicestershire, Early, 230
Tramways, Bombay, 219
Tramway in Bristol, New Electric, 197 1
Tramways, Cable, 216
Tramway, Cable, for Edinburgh, 100 54
Tramway Co.’s Bill, London Street, 245
Tramway Co.'s Receipts Affected by Extended ill, Use of Bicycles, 556
Tramway Concessions for Paris, 507 76
Tramway, Electric, in California, 289
Tramway, Electric, for Oporto, 497
Tramways, Electric, in Germany, 329
Tramway, Electric, at Ronen, 473
Tramway, Electric, in Wales, 135, ct
Tramways, Electricity as Applied to, its Commer¬cial Value, 109
Tramways in Havre, Electric, 289
Tramway, Highgate Hill, 483
Tramways in France, Electric, 401
Tramways, Madras Electric, 245
Tramways on Monntain Roads, 248, 267 Ir,
Tramway, Overhead Cable, Projected, Across the Niagara River, 311
on Tramways in Paris, Report on the, 507
Tramways, Steam, in Italy, 253, 297
Tramways, Steam as a Means of Traction, North Staffordshire, 423
Tramway, Steam, Tarkeswar Mugra, 155
Tramways and Tramway Traction, Mr. John A. Brodie on, 59
Tramway with Underground Conductor, Elec¬trical, 25G
Tramways in Wales, Purchase of, 289
Tramways Worked by Luhrig Gas Motors, Street, 155
Tramways, Working of the London, 311
Transitional Curves, Mr. E. E. Woodman on, 201
Transmission of HeatiDg Gas over Long Distances, 73
Transmission of Optical Signals, Experiment on the, 387
Transylvania, Railways in, 201
Treadle Lathes, 84
Trip Gear Steam Engines, 445
“ Trisect ” Packing, 201
Trolley Line between Cairo and the Pyramids, 556
Tropical Irrigation Work, Masonry in, 469
Trotter, Mr. A. P., on Accuracies and Errors, 113
Trotter, Mr. A. P., Royal Roads to Calculation, 155, 210
Truck, Brill’s Tramcar Bogie, 430
Trunk Bore, Test of, 307
Trunk Drilling Machine, Messrs. Willans and ! Robinson, 307
Trunk Slotting and Trunk Drilling Machines, Messrs. Willans aud Robinson, 307
Truro Main Drainage Scheme, 355
Tube Expander, Ashbury, 77
Tube Expander, The Abbott, 77
Tube Tool, Tully snd Schreiber’s Combination, 123
Tube Well at a French Brewery, 535
Tubes, Improved Method of Fixing Condenser, 1 227
Tubes, Steel, English and American, 315
Tully and Schreiber’s Combination Tube Tool, 123
Tungsten. Specific Hest of, 201
Tunis and Biserta, Bailway Communication, 29
Tnnnol, Glasgow, The North British Railways, 311 '
Tunnel, Guildtrd, Collapse of St. Catharine's, ' 266, 289, 42
Tunnel, Gunnit), Colo., Opened to Traffic, 497
Tunnel, The Siblon, 1, 25, 45, 69, 103
Tunnel, SimploiVentilating Fans for the, 103
Turkey, Adopt) of Decimal Weights and Measures in,

Valenciennes, Coalfield of France, Output of the 155
Valve, Full-way Combination, 352
Valve Gears, (jorlisa, 230
Valve, Steam Pipe Safety, 91
Valvometer, Wnkinson’g, Messrs. Nalder Bros. and Co., 284
Vaporisation of Various Organic Liquids, On tbe Measurement of the Latent Heats of, 87
Vaporising and Burning Hydrocarton Oils, Patent for, 532
Varna, Proposed Harbour at, 401
Valve for Exposed Pipes, Automatic Air, 31
Valve Gear, Joy’s, 33
Vawdry, Mr. William, 37
Vehicles Driven by Petroleum Engines, Competi¬tion of, 507
Velocities, Table of Wind, 507
Venezuela, Railway Contract for, 29
Ventilating Fans for tho Simplon Tunnel, 103
Ventilation of the Underground Railways, 97
Venturi ” Meter at Chicago, The, 9
Vera Cruz. Harbour Works at, 441
Vertical Spindle Irregular Moulding Machine
with Roller Feed, Aiessrs. Sagar and Co., 283
Vessels for the Irish Mail Service, 514
Vessels Using the Suez and St. Mary’s Falls Canals, Increase of the Average Size of, 532
Viaducts, Strengthening of the Dinting and Mottram, 170
Vibrations in Marine Engines, A Alethod of Pre¬venting, 327, 332
Vibrations of Higher Order in Steamers and Tor¬sional Vibrations, Mr. Schlick on, 326
Vibrations of Ships and Engines, Mr. Alallock on, 326
V ibrations in Steamships and Engines, 335
Vibromotor, The, 508
Vibromotor Scalper, Double, Aiessrs. Turner, 553
Vickers, Messrs., J. W., Calendar and Almanack, 11
Victoria Embankment, The, 400
Victoria Tunnel, Liverpool, Projected Improve¬ment of, 76
Violle, M. J., On the Specific Heat and Boiling Point of Carbon, 401
Visibility of Lights at Sea, Experiments as to the, 556
Vogel, Prof. H. W., on the Perception of Colours,
Volcanic Eruptions, Relative Violence of, Present and Past, 401
Volcano, Position of a, 311
Volga, Railway over the Ice on the, 473
Vulcan, “H.AI.S.,” 134
Vulcanisation of Wood, 320

WAGE Difficulty in the American Tin-plate Mills, 62
Wages in the Iron and Steel Mills of West Pennsylvania, Rise of. 423
Wagon Regulations ana the Coal Trade, The New, 226
Wainwright, Mr. H. S., his Appointment, 507
Wakefield, Now Sewage Works for, 201
Wakeman, W. H., On Chimneys, 497
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 42, 66, 86,
106,128,148, 170, 192, 212, 234, 256, 276, 300, 322, 344, 366, 390, 412, 434, 456, 478, 500, 520, M2, 566
Wales, Railway Rates and Charges and Railway Extension in, 532
Wales, The Tin-plate Trade in, 200
Wales and the United States, Tin-plate in, 99
Walker-Wilkins Non-Polarising Battery ? The, 469
Wallach, Mr. Julius, Metallic Cotton Belt 62
Wallace, Mr. A. R., On the Relative Violence of Present and Past Volcanic Eruptions, 401
Wallis and Steevens, Messrs., Traction Engine, 551
Walrand and Legenisel, Steel Produced by their Silicon Superheating Process, 289
Waltham Abbey, Explosion at, 355
Ware, Herts, Decline in the Water Supply of. 423
Warhurst, Mr. L. V., Strengthening of the Dint¬ing and the Mottram Viaducts, 170
War Material, 1894? 16
Warming of Buildings by Hot Water, Messrs. King and Gray on tbe, 430
Warship, Elements of Force in a, Vice-Admiral P. H. Colomb, 283
Warships, Dr. F. Elgar on the Coet of, 525, 528. 549
Warships at the Opening of the Baltic Canal, 509, 512
Watches, Demagnetisation of, 289
Water, The Cubic Decimetre of Distilled, 355
Water, On the Dilation of, 423
Water Gas, Illumination by Means of, 473
Water Gas, Purification of, Lowe’s Process for, 507
Water Gas, Old Iron Gas Pipes and, 11
Water Gas Passed through Sulphuric Acid, 11
Water, Latent Heat of Evaporation of, 242
Water Level Indicator, Mr. G. Jennings, 243
Water Liberated by Hole Onesixteonth of an Inch in Diameter, 311
Water-pipes, Ice and, 139
Water-pipes in London, Mileage of, 155
Water Power Applied by Electricity to Gold Dredging, 223
Waters, Air. Sidney, bis Exhibit at tho Royal
Society’s Conversazione, 384 Water Supply, 20
Water Supply, Belfast, 237, 238, 246
Water Supply, Frosts and, 222
Water Supply, London, 155, 177, 245
Water Supply to London, The Thames, 155
Water Supply to London from the Thames, January, 1895, 177
Water Supply Pumps Driven by Oil Engines 1225
Water-tight Doors of H. M. Ships, Tho Admiralty’s Attention to tho Question, 76
Water-tube Boilers and Colonial Planters, 403
J Water-tube Boilers for the Colonies, 431
Water-tube Boiler, The Alumford, 486, 490 23
Water-tube Boilers in tbo Navy, 340
Water-tube Boilers, M. Normand on, 548
Water-tuto Boilors, Mr. A. E. Seaton on, 454
Water-tube Boilers in the United States, 442
Waterways, Traction of Boats on Inland’ 481
Water AA aate Preventer Cisterns, Mr. E. H. G. j?Dg Brewster, 155
Water-wheels at tho Falls of Juanacatlin, Mexico. 97
Waterworks at Buluwayo, 422
Watt Anniversary Celebrations, 103
Wattelar Works, Jumet, Monster Chain in Courso of Manufacture at, 219
Watteyne, Mr. Victor, Observations on the Dangers of Coaldust, 423
Waverley Bridge, Reconstruction of, 263
Waves and Vibration, Lord Rayleigh, 166, 200, 238, 262, 296, 328
Wear, Revenue on the, 260
Weather Fallacies, Mr. E. Inwards on, 59
Weaver Navigation, Tho, 295
Webb, Mr. F. W., Address to the Delegates of the Mutual Insurance Society, 355
Weber, Professor, on the Normal Temperature of Incandescent Filaments, 311
Weber, Mr. Max, On Electro-Magnet Pull, 155
Webster, Dr. A., Prize Awarded to, by Professor Elihu Thomson, 113
Weights and Measures, 209
Weights and Measures, Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of, 401
Weights and Measures in Use in tho United Kingdom, 263
Wei-hai-Wei, Destruction of Chinese Warships at, 133
Weir at Glasgow, The New, 101
Welbourno, Mr., On the Manufacture of Files, 181
Welbury, Mr. W., Breakdowns at Sea. 223. 475, 498, 516 ...
Welding Temperatures, Iron and Steel at, 239 Well Tube, 535
Welland Canal, United States, Lock Accident, 486
Wells and Co., Messrs. A. C., Paint Spraying Machine, 385
Wells, On a New Type of, in the Granitic Rocks of Sweden, 401
W'elsbach Incandescent Gas Light, Mr. W. Pen¬man, on the Adaptation of, for Ordinary Optical Lantern Work, 359
Welshach Mantle Worked with ordinary Water Gas, On a, 11
Wengern Alp up the Jungfrau, Proposod Rail¬way from the, 532
Werner and Son, Messrs., Camera taking a Plate 7ft by 5ft, 401
Wernher, Bell, and Co., Messrs., Diamond Wash¬ing Machine, 498
Worweke, Mr. L. van, Petroleum in Lower Alsace, 496
West Africa, Construction of Railways in, 547
West, Mr. H. H., Principles of Statical Stability in Ships, 148
West, Mr. J., Flower-pot Making Machine, 283
West Highland Railway Cleared, 135
West India Docks, Pumps at the, 144
West of England Portuguese Railway, Transfer of the, 473
Weatinghouse Brake, Severe Test of a, 423
Wheat Bearing Acres of the World in 1884 and 1894, 135
Wheel, The Great, West KsnsiDgton, 311, 387
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Traction of Boats on Inland |
Waterways, 303, 481 While, Mr. Charles, 474
Whistles, Chime, as Standard for Locomotives, 355
White, Mr. C. E., Presentation to, 245
White Kaolin in the Department of the Allier, France, 155
White and Sons, Messrs. Richard, The Snowdon
Mountain Rack Railway, 811
White, Sir William, Further Experiments with First-class Battleships, 281
White, Sir William, Wood and Copper Sheathing for Steel Ships, 504, 506
White Star Steamer “ Germanic's ” Record Pas¬sage. 498
White Star Steamer “ Oceanic,” The, 398
Wilkinson’s Valvometer, 284
Wilkinson and Sons, Messrs. G., Horizontal Boring, Facing, Turning, and Milling Ma¬chine, 650
Willans’ Crank Shaft Forging, 308
Willans and Robinson’s Works, Messrs., 287, 290, 307, 331, 363, 375
Williams and Co., Messrs., Tnbe Well, 535
Williams, Mr. G. S., on the Friction in the Detroit Water Mains, 497
Williams, SirE. L., His Presidential Address, 123
Williams, Sir Edw. Leader, Relinquishes Active Control of the Works on the Manchester Ship Canal, 29
Wimborne, Mr. Harry, Belfast Water Supply, 237, 246
Wimshurst, Mr., Gradient Indicator, 384
Wind-cutting Shields on Indian Railways, 245
Winding Engines with Piston Valves, 295
Winding Engines with Piston Valves, Sandycroft Foundry Co., 295, 298
Windlass and Warping Capstan, s.s. “Port Salisbury,’’ 482, 483
Windmill near a Highway, Summons for Erection of a, 504
Wind, Table giving Velocities of the, 507
Wire Cable, Six Miles of, carried through New York, 423
Wire Gauge, Direct-reading Micrometer, 429
Wire Rod Mills in America, Records of, 62
Wire Rods in America, Production of, 532
Wire-webbed Silicate, 532
Wire Wove Roofing Company, “Duroline,” 11,
Wirral Railway Company, Extension to Seacombe, Opening of, 473
Wise v. Tbe Metropolitan Electricity Supply Com-
Witstroem’s Process for Treating Iron with Air and Electricity, 473
Wood, Mr. Lindsay, Elected Director of the North-Eastern Railway Company, 97
Wood-preserving Process, A New, 320
Wood for Warships, Rendering it Non-inflammable, 263
Wooden Floors for Railway Wagons in India Declared Essential], 76
Wooden Rails in Florida, Use of, 329
Woodford District Conncil’s Petition against the London County Council Bill, 155
Woodman, Mr. E. E.. On Transitional Curves, 201
Wood, Use of, Forbidden, in Construction and Equipment of War Vessels for the German Navy, 76
Woodward, Mr. C. J., Effect of Chlorine on Mer¬cury, 401
Woodworking Machinery, English and Ameri¬can, 7
Work of Steam, The, 474, 491
World’s Mileage of Telegraph Lines, 76
Worthington Pumping Engine at Hornsey Sluice, Prof. Kennedy s Report on a, 131, 140
Wreck a Train, Attempt to, and Judge’s Lenient Sentence, 76
Wrexham on the East Denbighshire Railway Bill,
Wright, Mr. Arthur, Electricity Supply at Brighton, 408
Wrighteon, Mr., Expansion of Cast Iron Balls when Submerged in Molten Iron, 374
Wrightson, Mr. T., Iron and Steel at WeldiDg Temperatures, 239

XYLONITE Set Square, Mr. S. W. Wilkinson's Patent, 219

YACHT “ Standart,” Tbe Russian Imperial, 353
Yaloo River, American Naval Comments on the Battle of the, 159
Yaln, Frequent Conflagrations at, and Precaution¬ary Measures of the French Government, 135
Yalu, Japanese Guns at, 102
Yarrow, Mr. A. F., Aluminium Boat for the French Government, 305, 316, 317
Yarrow, Mr. A. F., Description of an Aluminium Torpedo Beat tor the French Navy, 305, 316, 317
Yarrow Patent Water-tube Boiler, Models of, Shown in the House of Commons, 387
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Stern-wheel Steamer for the Oceana Co., 452
Yarrow and Co., Torpedo Boat for the Austrian Government, 311
Yeovilton, The Boiler Explosion, 178, 180, 260
Yorkshire College Testing Machine, The, 430
Yorkshire Miners’ Demonstration, The, 535
Yule, Mr. G. U., On the Passage of an Oscillator Wave Train through a Plate of Conducting Dieletric, 87

ZIMMERMANN and Co., Messrs. F., Electric Plough, 497
Zinc Ore Deposits, Discovery of, near Liège, 507

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