The Engineer 1900 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1900 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABBOTT and Co., Limited, Report for the last Financial Year, (200)

Accidents, Fires, Boiler Explosions, dec.:

Balloon, Count Zeppelin's, 318
Boiler Explosions, 483
iu the Year, Persons Killed and Injured by, (591)
1899, in Germany, (379)
Locomotive, at Westerfield, 314, 411, 413, 498
Lyons, (167)
Phenomena of, 496
near St. Helens, 615, (491)
Sutton Heath Pottery, 597
Sydenham, (250)
Tube Explosion, Belleville, on board tho Mntiue, (641)
Bursting of Main from Lake Vyrnwy, (163)
of Main Steam Pipe in Engine-house, Clydach Vale Collieries, (491)
Colliery Flooded, Cymmer, (452), (480)
Explosion, Great Central Railway Companies’ Gasworks, (87)
Great Western Railway Colliery, ( (124)
Fall of Roof, Slank Iron Mines, (33)
Fire, Handyside’s Britannia Foundry, Derby, (491)
Messrs. Nash and Sons Spado and Shovel Works, (504)
Oldbury Carriage Works, (114)
West Toxteth Dock, Liverpool, (33)
Halliwell, Mr. J., Killed through Falling down a Pit Shaft, (137)
Hoboken Disaster, Loss Sustained by the North German Lloyd, (163)
Horse Killed by a Telephone Wire, (508)
Landslip, Cornwall, (519)
Powell Duffryn Colliery, (163)
Railway Accidents see Railway
Roof, Engineering Works, Sterling Boiler Company, Limited, 119
Whitwell’s Ironworks, Thcrnaby, (62)
ADEN, Scheme of Public Wharves,and Tidal Basins, Government of Bombay refuse to Sanction it, (114)
Admiralty Committee on Naval Boi'ers, 134
Admiralty Surveys, Recent, 136
Aërial Experiment, An, 96
Ships, 139
Torpedoes, 67
Agricultural Implements, Opening for, in Asia Minor, (293)
Machinery and Implements in Smyrna, (33)
Machinery, Popularity of American, (291)
Machinery Wanted in Chile, (291)
Work, Application of Electric Power to, (137)
Air Compressor, The New Fisher Auxiliary, 376 Oscillating, 446
Means of Renewing, Discovered by Two Frenchmen, ("239)
Alcohol, Industrial Use of, The French Govern¬ment Endeavours to Promote, (508)
Algeria, Copper and Silver Ores Found in, (137)
Algeria, Mineral Oil in, (137)
Alkali Act, Cement Works and the, 170
Alloying Cast Iron with Aluminium, 118
Alloys Employed in the Gold and Silver Coinage of the Realm, (365)
Almanacs and Calendars, 590, 651
Aluminium, Alloying Cast Iron with, 118
on Carbon in Cast Iron, Influence of, Mossra. Melland and Waldron, 308
Cooking Vessels and Fuel Economy, (519)
and Copper, Future of, 166
Patents, 623
American Armour Plate, 516
Cement, 326
Competition in Iron Circles, (250)
Engineering Offices, 374
Engineers in Great Britain, Work
Secured by, by Publication of Open Contracts in United States Trade Journals, (504)
Machinery for the Far East, (136)
Steel Trade, The, 139
Tariff and the Iron Trade, Tbo, 38
Works Practice, 445
Ammunition—see Explosives

Appointments and Resignations:

Bowles, Naval Constructor F. T., Appointment, (591)
Campbell, Mr. Chas., Appointment, (22)
Cawthra, Mr., Appointment, (253)
Claydon, Mr. II. W., 378
Commandcr-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Appoint¬ment for the Post of, (11)
Dick, Mr. F. W., his Appointment and Succes¬sor, (160)
Holland, Mr. Riehard Groves, Electod Master Cutler, (149), (249)
Hornung, Mr. Chas., Resignation. (304)
Lunn, Mr. J. P., Appointment, (378)
Macaulay, Mr. John, (33)
McCauley, Mr. J., Appointment, (150)
May, Capt. 11. J.. Appointment, 261
Peddie, Mr. J. Dick, Appointment, (508)
Raw on, Mr. J., Appointment, (531)
Rny, Mr, App Jntment, (304)
Reeves, Mr. (>. B , Appointment, (519)
Ritherham, Mr. T. F., Appoin'tnen». (238)
Swansea Corporation E.eotrical Cunmiite Appin'ment of Mr. Cawtbra, (253)
Thomas, Mr. Fred. (1., Resignation. (304)
Trinham, Mr. J. S., Appointment, (304)
Young, Mr. Frank W., Appointment, (87)
ARDWICK Engineering Company, “Compact” Launch Machinery for America and for Steam Yachts, (73)
Argentine, Exportation of Wheat, (163)
Argentine Republic, Cultivation and Export of Wheat from the, (105)
Armour's Plant, Boiler Installation at, 151

Armour:

Brown and Co.’s, John, (21)
Camme’.l’s, 4in. K.N.C. Tests of, 117
Krupp, for Turkish Ironclads, (137)
Opensbaw Works, Extension of, (36,
Openshaw Works, Plate Trial, (36)
Plate, American, 546
Plate Contract Question, The U.S , (213)
Plate Trials, 334
Russian, Tested at the Bethlehem Steel Com¬pany’s Proving Ground, (137)
Tenders for, asked by the Ordnance Biroau of the United States Navy Department, 67
Term', 7
Plates, American, for Russian Battleships, 301
ARMSTRONG, Lord, 630
Armstrong, Professor Geo. Fred, 523
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, Dividend, 1900, June 30th, (304)
Artistic Accuracy, 499
Ashton-in-Makeitield, Electric Energy Supply for, (416)
Aspatria and Home Cultram Urban and Wigton Rural Districts Water Supply Scheme, (440)
Asphalt Pavements in Minneapolis, Cost of Cleaning, (190)
Asphalt Pavements in Brooklyn, Ruin of the, Dispute between tbo Gas Companies and tbo Railway Companies respecting, (316)
Assiout Barrage Works, Breach in the, (87)

Association fop the Advancement of Science, American:

Fly-wheel Explosions, Mr. C. H. Manning on, (62)

Association, American Railway Master Mechanics’ :

Power Transmission by Shafting r. Eleotricity, 146,173
Relative Advantages of Electricity and Shafting for Driving for Railway Shops, Conclusions orrived at by the Ccmmitteo Appointed to Consider, (87)
Water in Locomotive Boilers, Statistics of the Effect of Hard and Soft, (10)

Association, Central Technical College, Old Students':

328

Association of Cleansing Superintendents of Great Britain:

Motors for Street Watering and Dust Removal, Costs of, Mr. E. Shrapnel Smith on, 276

Association, Cold Storage and Ice:

Production of Distilled Water for Ice-making Plants, Hal Williams, 647

Association of Engineers, Birmingham:

Engineer and the Economical Development of Manufactories, The, by W. Arnold, 223

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

Election of President and other Officers, 601
Electric Traction Scheme, Manchester, Discussion on the Appointment of an Expert for, 601
Engines, Triple and Quadruple-expansion, Re¬lative Efficiency of, Mr. A. L. Mellanby, 651
Fly-wheels, Mr. Archibald Sharp, 436
Paris Exhibition :
Its Lessons and Suggestions for Engineers, 399, 477
S vllabus for the Winter Session, (361)
Visit to Boyer and Peacook’s Locomotive Works, Gorton, 401
Visit to the White Star Liner Oceanic, 99

Association, National Free Labour:

Employment of Militiamon with Permanent Work, 369

Association, Self-propelled Traffic:

Address by M. O. Forostier, (191)

Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, British:

Programme of Winter Session, (541)
Wa6t9 of Water, Relationship between Cost of,
end that of Detection and Prevention of, Mr. A. J. Jenkins, 7, 43
Assouan Dam. Progress of, (611)
Astronomy, Annual for Students, (480)
Atlantic Record, The, 185
Attraction, 344
Austen, Mr. Stanley, (304)
Australian Iron Manufacture, 372
Aysdalegate E-.tate for Sale, (426)

B

BAIN and Co.’s Concerns in West Cumberland Acquired by the Moss Bay Iron and Steel Company, (691)
Rikau Boycott, Japan, The, (45)
Balance Wheels, Novol Method of Constructing (62)
Balata Driving Belt, A, (467)
Balloon, Novel Experiments to be Carried Out by J. M. Bacon from a, (87)
Balloon, Trial Trip with Count Zeppelin’s Navi¬gable, (11)
Birr, Prof. Arch., On the Rise of the Mechanical Arts, (571)
Bar Rolling Mil), a Large, (310)
Birrow Hematite Steel Company's Works, Stop¬page of, (467)
Water Supply, 392, (519)
Bauer Forge, The, 301
Bauermann, Prof. H., Iron and Steel at the Paris Exhibition, 1900, 236, 376, 423, 448
Belfast Harbour Commissioners and the Glasgow Docks, 376
Belgian Metal Market, (190)
Bell, Sir I. L., on United States Competition, 569
Belleisle Experiments, 18, 32, 193, 261, 489
Belleville Boilers— x.r Boilers
Belt Pulley, Test of a, 504
Saddle, Mr. C. T. Powell, (10)
Surface-hardened Carrying, Rossendale Belt¬ing Company, (225)
Phoenix Sewn Cotton Duck, (219)
Bengal, Coal in, (141)
Bengal Pig Iron, Price of, in Australia and China, (637)
BarangerSiingl Apparatus for Purifying Feed- water, (291)
Berthelot, M., On the Boiling Points of Zinc and Cadmium, (ISO)
Bethnal Oreen Free Library, (619)
Bsvel Wheel Cutting, 212
Bioycle, The “ Free-wheel,” 66
in Siam, Demand for, (365)
for the South African Forces, Protest
against the War-office Specification, (591,
and Steel Ball Trade in Bavaria, Decline of. (137)
Trade in Moscow, American e. British, (512)
Bilbao and Z>ebrupge, Jetty Construction at, 434

Bills:

Cardiff Railway Company's, (624)
Dublin Electric Lighting, Rejected, 20
East London Water Company, (52)
Electric Power, 5, £0, (33)
French, for Naval Defences and Re-organisa¬tion of the Fleet, (11,
Landon County Council’s, for Using Electricity on their Tram Lines, (87)
London County Council's, for a Tunnel under the Thames, (62)
and South - Westorn Line under the Solent, (591)
Water Supply, 588
Metropolis, Electric Railways for, (587,
Moselle Canal, 14
Neath Harbour, (33)
Private, (508)
Railway and Canal Traffic Amendment, (33,
Rheidol Light Railway, (33)
Sheffield District Railway Company’s, (11)
South Wales Electric Power Distribution, (33)
Stockport, Water Supply, (637)
BINGHAM, Mr. Chas. Henry, (351)
Birmingham Gasworks, Holders at the, 561, 563, 607, 628, 629 (Supplement, December 21st, 1900,)
Birmingham Technical School, Engineering De¬partment of, to be Reorganised, (392)
Birmingham Welsh Water Scheme, The, 362, 363
Blackpool, Volcanic Stone Sea Walls, 146
Blast Furnaces, Coal Consumption in, and How it is affected by Moisture in the Air, (318, Furnace Smelting by Water Gas, 153
Board of Trade Education, South Kensington, 279

Boilers:

Admiralty Committee on Naval Boilers, The, 134
Belleville, 36, 39, 442
in the British Navy, (641)
in the Japanese Navy, 542
Machine Tools for the Construction of, 643
Explosions, Boiler—see under Accidents Phenomena of, 496, 498
Seleot Committee on, (62), 90
Flanged Fiue, Hawkesley, Wild, and Co., (303)
Flue Drilling Machine, 65, 620
Incrustation of Locomotive, Peculiarity in the, 641
of Locomotive. Scale Loosened by Constantly Changing the Water, (314)
in Preventing, Mr. Reis's Patent, (137)
Installation at Armour’s Plant, 161
Moscow Local Makers v. Lancashire, (519)
Navy, 67, 134
Niclausse, 96,118, 145, 413
Registration and Inspection, Report of the
Select Committee on, and Draughts Sub¬mitted, (62)
Scale in Locomotive, Observations made on the Central Argentine and on the Great Western Railways, (544)
Stirling Boiler Company's Show of Models, (HO)
Tubular, Experiments with, for the German Navy, (366)
Water-tube, Babcock and Wilcox, Demand for, (62)
Experiments on the llyac.nth, 415
Mr. G..schen i Memorandum on, 61, 70, 89, 134
in Merchant Shipi, 263
oa the Minerva, Trills, (313)
Water-tube, for the New Cruisers Encounter and Challenger, (440)
in Warships, L;sts of the Principal Typss, 26, 27, 56
BOLT, Lewis, 398
Bolt and Nut Company, Lanarkshire, Large Additions to their Woiks, (508)
Bombay Water Supply, (544)
Boring Machine, Cylinder, Socié c Alsacienne (iv. Supplem-nt. November 23rd, 1900)
Loco, Cylinder, Demoor (ii. Supplement, November 2'ird, 1900)
Sculfort et Fockedey (si. Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Mill, Horizontal, Smith and Coventry, Limited, 189
Bottling Machine, Aeiiited Liquid, 565
Bouhey, Usines, Paris. Machine Tools (Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
“Bowling” Iron, Evidence as to the World-re¬nowned, (318)
Bown, Mr. Wm., (114)
Boyer, Percussive Riveter, 446
Bradford Water Supply Work9, Mr. Watson on,
S9, 270, 271, 274 h for Electric Cranes, 538
Breech Screw, Krupp's Modified Welin, 243
Briar-root Industry, The, (114)
Bricks made from Wasto Heaps of St. Helens Glass Work», (318)

Bridges, Railway, and other:

Alais, Light Railway, 52
Building, American v. British, (637)
Canadian Pacific Railway over the Red River, _(611)
Cantilever for the Canadian Government, (253)
Strengthening the Niagara, 576
Foot, MadisoD, New Jersey, Plate Girder, 539
Newcastle, at the Side of the Bykor Bridge. (293)
Over the Spree, 374
Great Northern Railway over the Canal Basin, Nottingham, 219, 220
Malt Mill Lane, 257, 258
Hank-Tu, Rebuilding of, (440)
Heavy Draw, New York Central Railway, (72)
Limbatb, Re-building of, Recommended by the London County Council, (620)
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Contract Reported to have been Secured, (250)
London, Widening of, (392), 613
New, over the Thames at Lambeth, 414
Newcastle, Widening of Byker, (552)
Ottawa River, (86)
Siberian Railway, Across the Yenisei, 4
Stone Arch Railway, U.S.A., 67
Swing, Working by Electricity, 373
Sydney Harbour, (17)
Transporter over the Manchester Ship Canal and the Mersey, (591)
Tyne Harbour Mouth, Aerial Suspension, at, (519), (529)
Uganda Railway, American Contracts to Supply Thirty-four, 595
Warden, near Newcastle, New Suspension, (11)
BRISTOL Quays, 418
Britannia Rapids, Ottawa, Utilisation of, (544)

British Association:

Bradford, New Water Supply Works, Mr. Watson, 269, 270, 271, 274
Coalfields and Iron Ore Deposits of Shansi and Honan, Mr. J. G. H. Glass, 329 Combination Integrating Wattmeter and Maxi¬mum Demand Indicator, Mr. T. Barker, 272
Compressed Air, Experiments on the Ra-heating of, Mr. W. O. Walker, 326
Cost of Power by Steam, Water, and Gas, Mr. J. B. C. Kershaw, 269, 290
Dynamos at the Paris Exhibition, Professor S. Thomson on the Large, 272
Expanded Metal in Concrete, Ute of, Mr. A. T. Walmisloy, 269
Generating Stations, Design and Location of, Mr. A. II. Gibbings, 272
Leader on, 192
Machine Shop», Construction of, Mr. E. Kitson Clark, 290
Manchester and Liverpool Proposed Express on the Mono-rail System, Papers by Sir W. H. Preooe and Mr. F. J. Behr, 269
Measurement of the Tractive Force, Resistance, and Acceleration of Trains, Mr. A. Malloek, 323
Mechanical Science, Section B, List of Papers to l>o road before, 188
Photography in Textile Designing, Use of, Prof. Beaumont, 290
Presidential Address, Mr. Joioph Larmr.r, 235. 243, 272
Refuse Disposal, Mr. McTaggart on House, 269
Screw Ganges, Rapcrt on, 3C0
Screw Threads used in Gun and Cycle Con¬struction and for Screws subject to Vibra¬tion, by Mr. O. P. Clements, 302
Sitting of the General Committee, Innovati ms decided upon Grants made nt Bradford, 290
Steam, Wet and Dry, and a New Form of Calorimeter for Measuring it, Prof. J. Goodman, 290
Tractive Force, Resistance, and Accel rstim of Trains, Measurement of, Mr. A. Malloek, 269
Tramway Construction, Mr. W. Dawson cn Rtcant 2Z2
BRITISH Trade and Manufacturers, 118
Bronze Forging, A Large, COG Bronze, Scojuloria, 426
Brown-Boveri-Parsons Syndicate, Order received from the Frankfort Corporation by the, (87)
Brnnton and Trier’s Stone-dressing Machine, 446
Burley Sewage, Carr Bottom Reservoir, (190)
Barton, C. W., Machino Tools (Supplement, November 23r<7, 1903)
Bushey House Granted to the Rcyal Society (611)
Bute, The Marquis of, 862

C

CABLE from the Azores to New York, (114), (137)
German-American, New York to the Azores, (114)
Pacific, (508)
Cablegrams, Anglo-Garman, 570
Caird, Mr. Robort, Presidential Address, 443
Calamine Mines in Algeria, (187)
Calcium Carbide, Bleaching Powder, and Electro¬lytic Copper, Annual Produc¬tion of, (416)
as a Daoxidant in Foundry Practice, (467)
Industry in Norway and Swe¬den. (291), (365), (637)
Industry in United States, (291)
Manufacture of, (137)
and Portland Cement Works at Lauffen, (491)
Power Necessary to Produce, (508)
Calculator, Pocket, 321, 840, 364, 388, 475, 517
Calcutta, Coal Gasworks Flooded, (516)
Callipers, Graduated, (617)
Calorific Value of the Average Lindon Domestic Refuse, (239)
Cammed Armour Plate Tests, 117
Camphor Production, Formosa, (365)
Canadian Mail Services, (190)
Canadian Mineral Developments, 313

Canals:

Baltic and Black Sea, 322
Baltic and North Sea, 55
Central American Ship Canals, 405, 455, 464, 465, 509, 520, 560, 605, (611), 627 (Supplement, October 26th, 1900)
Danube-Save, (591)
Darien, Ship, 122
Grand Junction, 55
Hungary, Two New, (508)
Rennet and Avon, 550, 573, 593
Kiel, (511)
Leeds and Liverpool, Bursting of the Embankment, (11), 55
Locks, High-lift, 105
Manchester, Ship, (33), 239, 253, 822, (440),
Moselle, Bill to Authorise its Construction, 14
Nicaragua, (508), 605, 616
North Sea, to Amsterdam, Extensions and Improvements, (213)
North Sea and Baltic, Traffic through, (11), 55, (114), (365), (467), (508)
Panama, 405, 455, 464, 465, 509, 520, (611) (Supplement, October 26th, 1900)
Suez, (365), (611)
Worcester to Birmingham, Project for Improvement of, 225 .
sr« also Harbours and Waterways CAPE Colony, Value of Exports from, (544) Cardiff Intercepting Sewerage Scheme Carried, (554)
Cardiff Municipal Buildings, Proposed Delay, (137)
Cargo Conveyors, Philadelphia and Reading Rail¬way, 612, 614
Carnegie, Mr., Presentation of 381b. T-rail to, (426)
Projects, 344
Steel for England, 321, (378)
Catalogues, 23, 47. 67, 101, 124, 194, 220, 251, 314, 352, 402, 427, 453, 431, 507, 530, 554, 603, 651
Cellulose Export from Norway, (213)
Cement, American, 326
Export, German, (163)
Industry in the United States, (291)
Slag, Analysis of, 218
Testing, 162
Testing by the Modulus of Rupture for Transverse Strain, by John Paterson, 127
Works and the Alkali Act, 170
Works, Portland, (4C0)
Census of Greater New York, (190)
Chemical Pulp Trade of Norway, (213)
Cherbonnier, M. A., Piates for Welding Pieces of Iron or Steel, (33)
Chester, Sewage Purification Scheme, (318)
Chesterfield and Midland Counties Institution of Engineers, Proposed Change of Name, (293)
Chevalet Detartariser, The, 247
Chicago, Disadvantages under which Manufacturers Work, (253)
Chilian Exportation of Nitrates, (137)
Chilian Trade Mark Laws Revised, (213)
Chimney Gases at Barrow Steel Works, Appa¬ratus to Purify, (163, for Power Stations, American, 552
Stack in Gloucestershire, The Highest Ventilating Shaft for the Tower Works, Leeds, New Combined, 622
Cbin Kiang, Trade of, (87,
China’s Trade, (11)
Chromium, Carbon Steel, High, 384
City and Guilds of London Central Technical College, 379
Cleaning Asphalt Pavements, Cost of, (190,
Cleansing Superintendents of Great Britain, Conference of, (293)
Cleveland Iron Mining Company, Fiftieth Anniversary of its Organisation, (114)
Clyde Defences, (427)

Coal:

American, for France, (365), (558,
American Gas. for London Gasworks. (213)
Anthracite, Shipment from Pailadelphia to Cronstadt, (251,
Austria’s Steps to Check Rise in Prices, (637,
A(i9iy°Price of> ot the pit Mouth’i8v9,
Belgian Market, (114)
Bangal, (141)
Bills, Kul way Companies', 1CÖ
Brisbane,(365)
British, to the Netherlands, (1631 Cambrian, for French Railways, (304)
Canada, 313
Carbonised at the Manchester Gasworks, Can¬nel and, (163)
Cochrane, Mr., On the High Prioe of, 827
Conciliation Board, Scotch, (114)
Consumption in Blast Furnaces, and how it is affected by Moisture in the Air, (318) Consumption, A Cruiser's, (91)
Contracts, The Railway, (239), 570, 595
Cutters, Electric, (163)
Delivering, at Sea, 84, 85
Dividends Deolared by S>me of the Sheffield Colliery Companies, 225
Dust, Firing with (Freitag’s Method), (ICO)
Enormous Profits made by Colliery Owners, (21)
Exports, American, (114), 291, (331), 365 (558)
of, from Grimsby, during week ended October 12th, (392)
of, from Newcastle, N.S.W., (392)
Famine, Another, Circular to Lancashire and Yorkshire Coalowners, (62)
France, Import of British, into, and its Destination, (62)
Future Stores of, in Germany, North America and North China, Dr. Freeh on, (318)
German Foreign Trade in, from January to August, (403)
Germany, Crisis in the Trade, 268
Glass, Mr. G. H., On Shansi and II man, 329
Grimsby, Export from (190)
High Prices of, Mr. Cochrane on, 327
Homestead Colliery, Ontput Increasing, (45)
Hungarian Mountains, Extensive Field Discovered, (467), (514)
Imports into China in 1899 and 1898, (637)
of, into Italy, Diminishing, going to the Use of Water Power for Generating Electricity, (416)
India, English, in, 442 Indian, (253), (591)
Japan Production and Export, 176, (291), (637)
Kent Coalfield, Belgian and French Syndicate, and the, (87), (137)
Manchester Corporation Gasworks, Project for Buying a Coal Mine (253)
Michigan, (637)
Mills Stopped for Want of, (190)
MiniDg Companies, Increased Profits Earned by, (508)
New South Wales, (365)
New Zealand, 145, (365), (100)
Nottinghamshire District Output, (392)
Pas de Calais, (591)
Peat v. Coal in Sweden, 205
“ Poor Manufacturer's " Complaints of High Price (21,
Price of, 141, 216
of Locomotive, 14
of Nagasaki and Poeahontas, (611)
Paid by Manchester Gas Corporation, (62)
in South Staffordshire Advanced, (190)
of, on Taff Vale Railway and Effect on Receipts, (163), (217)
Pulverised, as Fuel on the Illinois Central, (478)
Rhodesia, (£08)
Rise of One Penny per Ton, Calculated on the Present Output, What it Represents for the Coalowners, (491,
in Price of, owing to Increase in Miners’ Wages, (318)
in Price of, on Scottish Railways, (392)
Ritchie, Mr., On The Export of, to Foreign Countries, (62) (87,
Russia, Steps to Prevent a Famine in, (365)
Sbanshi and Honan, Mr. J. G. H. Glass on, 329
Sheffield, Colliery Development near, 426
“Slump” in Derbyshire Foretold, (163,
Smoke Abatement Society, President's Letter to the Times on the Loss to Londoners by the , Present Mode of Burning Coal, (276,
South Wales, The Position in, 540, 559
Spain, Mines Development, (365)
Spitzborgen Coalfields, (544)
Staiths, American, (552,
Stations in the Red Sea, Germany and Russia, 523
Strike in France, (491)
Tar Derivative Fuchsin9, The, (416)
Trade with Hull Port, The, 166
North of England, Miners' Wages Advanced 12J per cent., (46)
The Scottish, 2l2
Warwickshire Output, Mr. W. H. Stokes on, 73
Washing Machinery, American, (98)
Welsh for the Navy, Storage Ground in Ports¬mouth Harbour, (213,
Yorkshire and Durham Gas, Mr. G. Livesey on the Relative Values of, (239)
Trado, (64), 216, 217, 316, (392), 419, 497, 670, 594
COFFEE Machinery, American, (319,
Coke, Dcsulpburlsation of, 229, 322
for Steam - raising Purposes, Lancashire Steam. Motor Company use, (33,
Colliers for Chinese Service, Repiiring American. 142
Wages, 145
Colliery, Bwlifa, Record Dividend Daclared by, 452
Littleton, (148)
Wages and Profits in South Wales, 313
Colmant, Maison, Paris, Machine Tools, Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900
Colne Street Improvements, Gasworks Extensions, he., Loan Sanctioned for, (137)
Colorado, States which Produce the Precious Metals, (87)
Colwyn Bay Sewerage Schome, (‘263,
Commercial Information Bureau in Germany, 194
Travellers in Switzerland, Activity of German as against English, (611)
Treaty with Germany, The New, 419
Compressed Air, On the Re-heating of, by Mr. W. G. Walker, 326 f
Concrete, Use of Expanded Metal in, Mr. A. T. Walmisloy, 269
Condensation in Steam Engine Cylinders, Obser¬vation on an Improved Glass
Revealer for Studying, Mr. B. Donkin, 410, 423, 447
Condensation on Windows, Preventing, 398
Consuls and Engineering, 113

Contracts:

Barry Graving Dock, Messrs. Prico and Wills, (392)
British Griffin Chilled Iron and Steel Company’s New Works at Barrow let to Gradwell and Co , Limited, (21)
Cial, The Railway Company’s (239), 570, 595
De Bergue and Co.’s, (149)
Government, Japan, 576
Greenock and Port Glasgow Tramways Com¬pany to Dick Kerr and Co., Limited, (467)
Ling Newton Reservoir, Mr. John Scott. (150)
Municipal Contract Scandal Manchester, (478)
Open, Prompt Publication of, by United States Trade Journals, and Consequences, (504)
Steel Work for Southport Pier Company placed with Messrs. Handyside, (123)
Union Switch and Signal Company, U.S.A., for South Africa, 145
War-office, Reforms in connection with, (33)
CONVERSIONS, Walker, Maynard, and Co. Warner and Co., 425
Conveyors, Cargo, The Brown Hoisting Machine and Conveying Company, 612, 614
Copper. 295, 504
and Aluminium, Future of, 166
Consumption, 78
Gold, and Silver Refineries in the United States, Eleotrolytic, (611)
Natal, Discovery of, (114)
Norway, Turn-out of the Riiros Mines, (163)
Ore, An Entire Mountain containing 5 per cent, of, (408)
Production, Germany, (318)
Production, United States, (33)
Smelting Plant at Nacosari, Mexico, (318)
Supply, The World’s, 364, 394
ana Tin Filings converted into Bronze by Pressure, (624)
Corea, Mineral Wealth of, (467)
Cork, Use of, in Isolating Vibrations and Noise of Machines, (611)
Cornish Mining, Revival of, Meeting in connec¬tion with, (591)
Cornish Tin-mining, 172
Corrosion of I’ip9 by the Earth, G’jolgardie Pipe Line, (318)
Corrosion of Soft Steel and Wrought Iron Reduced by Addition of Copper, (637)
Corsica, Defence of, (427)
Cotton, Artificial, Process for the Manufacture of, (11)
Import to Manchester, Usefulness of the Ship Canal, (239)
Spinniog Companies io the Royton Dis¬trict Stop their Mills for a Fortnight, (87)
Spinning and Weaving in Portugal, (213)
Counterbracing Girders, 80
Crane, Messrs. Wm. Doxford and Sons (553)
Cranes, Brakes for Electric, 538
Electric v. Hydraulic, The Clyde Navi¬gation, Trustees Comparison of, (611)
Floiting, for Lifting 80 Tons, New South Wales, (201)
Crank Shafts Built, 95
Crewe, Mr. Webb’s Presentation of a Loving Cup to the Mayor and Corporation of, (611)
Cridland and Kirsch’s Automatic Coupling, 395
Crowden’s Apparatus for Drawing Curves of Motion, 334
Cruse Controllable Superheater and Separator, A, 443, 475
Cuba, Mining in, (137)
Cubillo, Lieut.-Colonel L., On the Chemical Phenomena of Puddling, (552)
Curve of Equilibrium or Line of Thrust in Arched Ribs, Method of Calculating the, Mr. Chas. Lean, 110, 111
Cutting Steel at 150ft. per Minute, 232
Cutting-up Macbino, Automatic, Mr. E. G. Herbert, 68
Cycle Construction, Steel in, (15)
Exports, English and American, 424
Industry, Depression of, (62)
Shows, Th9, 547
Cycling Club's Competition, Catford, (291)
Cycling in Smyrna, Spread of, (62)
Cyclists and Cycle Makers, Competition interest-to (253)
Cylinder Proportions for Compound and Triple- expansion Engines, 97

D

DAIRY Show, 1903, 445
Dam, Concrete, Chaudicre Falls, Qiebec, (630)
Steel and Concrete, Denver, 98
The Wachu8ett, on the Nashua River, (319)
Davis, Captain Lewis, Cap Nut Block for Pro¬pellers, (33)
Dickeson, Sir Richard, (392)
Dickson, Mr. Geo. Workman, 4
Distilling Plant for Ice Factory, 647
Dean, Smith, and Graco, Machine Tools (Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
Death-rate and Temperature, Carves of, The Weekly. Mr. W. II. Dines on, (519)
Deering Harvesting Company’s, Self-moving Mowing Machine, (239)
Damoor, Ateliers, Brussels, Macbino Tools (Sup¬plement, November 23rd, 19C0)
Derby Sewerage Scheme, (318)
Desulphurisation of Coke, 229
Detartariser, The Chevalet, 247

Docks:

Amsterdam, Floating Graving, (190) Avonmouth, (440)
Baltic Ports, Number of Dooks in, to bo In¬creased, (467)
Berry, New Graving, (137), (392)
Bermuda, New Floating Dry, for, (87)
Bristol, Development Schemos, 55, 206, (416) 418, (602)
Bute, Cardiff, Sir W. T. Lewis Retires from the Post of Managing Director, (602) Clydebank, New, (32)
Dar-es-Salaam, New Floating, for. (87)
Dover, (491) '
Garston, 206
Oates for, Mr. F. K. Poach, 580
Gibraltar, Malta, and Hongkong, Progress of the Government's, (87)
Glasgow, Belfast Harbour Commissioners and the, 376
Goole, 295, 433 Grimsby, (65)
Hartlepool’s, North - Eastern Railway Com¬pany’s Plans to Improve. (479)
Havana, Floating. (62), (163), (293)
Hull, Proposed New, (62)
Leith, (508)
Llanelly, (402), (423), 433 Mersey, Financial Statement, (392)
Newport Extension, (22), (301)
New York Navy Yard, Stone and Concrete Dry, (137)
San Francisco, Dry, (291), (299)
Simons Bay, Dry, (163)
Sonth Brooklyn, Immense Floating Dry, (33)
Swansea, 206, (416), 426)
Trieste, Balance Floating Dock, (114), (190)
Uraga, Japan, 437, 439, (477)
Workington, 206

Dockyard Notes:

Albatross, Destroyer, to be Commissioned for the Instructional Flotilla, 218
Albemarle, Battleship, 641
American Cruisers, Reconstruction of, 232
Navy Board Look Round for a De¬fence against Submarines, 462
Navy, No more Destroyers or Tor¬pedo Boats for the, 462
Amphion, Square-rigged Mast lJwomed, 65
Ampbion, The, to Replace the Leander on the Australian Station, 337
Argentina, All Orders for Ships and Guns to be Sent to Germany, Report to this Effect, 388
Ariadne, H.M.S.,TheTruth about her “Narrow Eicapa ” 193
Austrian Naval Projects, 261
Ballard, Commander, His Essay on Ideal War¬ships, An Officer’s Comments on, 18
Barr and Stroud Transmitters, The, 524
Battleships of Last Year’s Programme, Names of the New, 442
Belleisle, Armour of, and the Globe Naval Correspondent’s Ignorance, 565
Experiments, 18, 82, 193, 489
Photograph of, 261
Belloville Boilers in the Recent Manoeuvres, 193
Ships with, 641
Tube, Bursting of a, 641
and Scotch Boilers and the Fuel they Burn, 91
Ships and the Cylindrical-boilered Ships daring the Matte avres, 134
Benbow's Guns, The, 65
Bilge Keeb Fitted to French Coast-defence Ships, 337
Blake, To ba put into Commission as a Trans¬port, 388
Blenheim durinz the Manoeuvres, The, 135
Bluejackets as Stokers, 641
British Cruisers, Admiral Sir J. Hopkins on the Speed of, 565
Bullfinch, The Destroyer, Trials of, 193
Bunkers, Half Empty, Valuable Experience with, Gained by the Manoeuvres, 118 Channel Fleet, The, 489, 547
Chinese Destroyer Captured at Taku and given to the French, Re-naming of the, 287, 337
Clydebank Destroyers and Short, Fat Fun¬nels, 193
Coal, American v. German in the matter of Producing Smoke, 287
Coal Consumption of the Ocean, the Renown, &c., 287
Coaling Average of the Furious and the Arro¬gant, 232
Average of one of the Cruisers at Portsmouth, 193
of the Channel Fleet, Highest Average made by the Repulse, 287
Point to be Constructed at Ports¬mouth, 218
“Commander, R N.,” The Army and Navy Gazette on a Letter Signed, 18
“Confidential Books,” Disappearance of, and consequent Action of the Admiralty, 412
"Confidential” Volume of Photographs of Foreign Warships, The, 4 42
Conqueror and Hero in the Manoeuvres, Their Presence causes Comment, 65
Cramp’s Yard, Philadelphia, Fire at, and Consequences, 32
Cressy, The Armoured Cruiser, 322, 337, 369, 383, 517
Cressy Glass, Dissatisfaction of Naval Officers with the, 322, 547
Craisers and Battleships, The Argument re¬specting, 218
Cruisers, The Huge Four-funnelhd, at Ports¬mouth, What is to become of them, 388
Cruiser—an Improved Drake, Rumour concern¬ing an Immense, 419
Delayed Ships, 547
Destroyer Hunter Repaired, The, 18
Destroyer Viper, a 35-Knotter, 232
Devonport Instructional Flotilla, Changes in, 388
New Building Slip at, (410)
Tags, Accidents to the, 388
Diadem Class Cruisers, Comments on the, 883
The Water-tube Boiler Commission and the, (412)
Drake, Rapid Progress of, 611
Ellipse to be Re-fitted, 287
Return of the Cruiser, 232
Ejonomy at the Royal Dockyards, 412
Eleotra’s Funnels, The, 193
Electric Hoists for the Navy, 135
Elswick and the British Naval Officer, 347
Turbine Destroyer Cobra to be attached to Portsmouth, and hor Cruise thither, 65, 91
Encounter, Second-class Cruiser, (440), 412
Essex, Machinery of the, 232
Europa, Trials at Spithead, 337
Report as to hor being Re-boilered, 412
Formidable, The, 193, 462, 489, 610
French Battleship Caravane, A “ Naval Pocket¬book Craft,” 442
Battleship St. Louis, Accident to, 388
Channel Fleet, Composition of the, 383
French Channel Fleet, A Pessimist’s View of the Light Division of the, 337
Cruiser Isly, Woodwork to be Replaced by Iron, 388
Cruiser Montcalm, 489
Destroyer Frame j, The Loet, 172
Devastation, Reoonstruction of, 517
Fleets, Reorganisation of the, 517
Gunboats, C icyte and Phlégóion, 517
llenri IV., Tho, ‘261
Ironclad Hoche, her New Rig, 322
Marceau Fitted with Niclausse Boilers, 489
Requin, Reoonstruction of, 261
Naval Programme, The Latest, 369
Neptune, Reconstruction of, 547
Submarine Farfadet Complete, 388
Torpedo Boat Wrecked, 232
Torpedo Boat Audacieux, Trials, 489
Funnels of Clydebank Destroyers, The, 193
Furious, Coaling Average of the Cruiser, 232
Gelderland, The, 419
Gorman Coast Defence Ship Hagen, 462
Cruisers, New, 261
Ironclads of the C, D, E, F, G, and H, Group, The New, 419
Kaiser Barbarossa and Kaiser Karl der Grosse, Funnels of the, 419
System of Reducing all Warships to a Common Denomination, 565
Germany Acquires a Coaling Station in the Red Sea, 388
Gibraltar, Breakdown of the, 91
Glatton, in Dock at Portsmouth, 610
Glory, The, Refuses to Steer, 524
Greek Ironclads Spetso'i and Hydra, Two Military Mast9, 419
Gun Shield, New Form of, 462
Guns at Dover, The Now, 442
Havock, Destroyer, Accident to and Recon¬struction of, 237, 610
Hogue, Launch of the Armoured Cruiser, 172
Holland, Mr., his New Submarine Boat, 524
Hood as Port-guard Ship at Pembroke, The, 419
Hopkins, Admiral Sir J., on the Training of
Bluejackets as Stokers, 641
Hotham, Admiral Sir C. F., Commander in-Chief at Portsmouth, 232
Hyacinth, Cruiser, Water-tube B eiler Trials of, 287
Fitted for Wireless Tele¬graphy, 388
Ideal Warships for the British Navy, Major Field’s Essay on, 337
Inflexible, Reconstruction and Armament of, 32, 610
Invincible, The, 547
Invincible, Fate of the, 388, 547
Iron Duke, The, to become a Training Ship for Stokers, 337
Isis, H.M. Cruiser, Average Speed of, to Hong¬kong, 193
Italian Cruiser Varese, The, 610
Destroyer Dardo, 524
Four-funnelled Destroyers, Alterations, 18
Ironclads Projected, New, 261
Lepanto, As to whether sho is a Cruiser or a Battleship, 218
New Type of Warship, M. Cuniberti’s Designs Approved, 524
Project of Naval Construction for 1901- 1912, 587
Jackson System of Wireless Telegraphy v. the Marconi, 135
Jane Naval War Game adopted by the United States Coast Artillery, 610
Japanese Battleship Asabi, Grounding of, and the Cause, 232
Hatsusi, 524, 565
Mikasa, 21, 225, 249, 282, 462, 489
Cruiser Adsnma, The, 172
at Eiswick, 232
Idz.imo nearly Completed, 232
Yakumo, Departure for Japan of, and Changes in Disposition of her Guos, 32
Yayeyama to be fitted with Niclausse Boilers, 524
Destroyer Niji, Engiues Salved, 524
High Explosive Shells adopted by the, 610
I «ate, 565
Mikasa, Expected at Portsmouth, 524 Projects, 610
Torpedo Boat Niji, Grounding of, 369
Twin-screw Ship Katsuragi, Disaster to, 524
Yakumo, a German Edition of the Asama Class, 610
Keit, New Armourod Cruiser, Progress ef the, 193
Limo in Water-tube Boilers, The Admiralty’s Stringent Orders on the Use of, 419
London, Her Masts Up, 489.
Lyddite Shell, 9 2in., Experiments with, 261
May, Captain H. J., his Appointment, 261
Mediterranean Fleet, The, 369, 547
Missing Rivets in the Bulkheads of Dockyard-built Ships, 442
Models of Ships as Toys, 565
Naval Engineers, Value of Heredity in, 641
Experts, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, and th9 Pall Mall Gazette, 841
Manoeuvres, 65,118, 135, 193
Manmuvres, Captain Vignot on our, 337
Navy and Mr. Watts of Eiswick, The, 547
Niger Torpedo Gunboat to be Re-engined and
Re-boilered, 337
Normand Boiler for Futnro Russian Cruisers, 261
Norwegian Government and tho Jane Naval War Game, 547
Obsolete Ship Crusade, The, 218
Ocean, Coal Consumption of the, 287 ,
“Old Navy,” Death of the, 218
Osborn, Staff Captaio, L?tter concerning Plymouth Sound, 587
Pandora Cruiser, Trials of, 611
“ Pleas for Modorate Dimensions,” Another Epidemic of, 587
Pomono, Bleychenlen Boiler*, 611
Portsmouth Destroyers Painted Black, 388
Portsmouth Dockyard, Roofs Pulled Down and Replaced, 587
Dockyard, Widening of Caisson, Leather and Co., 489
Prince of Wales, The, 587, 610, 641
Proserpine, Thornycroft Boilers, 641
Q teen and Prince of Wales, New Battleships, The, 587, 610, 641
Reserve Squadron, Projected Cruise of, 322
Results of the 788-Mile Race of the Mediter¬ranean Fleet in June, 287
Revenge and the Ilood to bo Re-armed, 218
Revenue Cutters, their Possible Use in War, Discussions and Suggestions on the Subject in the United States. 287
Rig, Advantages of a Uniform, 232
Royal Yacht, The New, 172
Russian Battleship Admiral Boutakoff, her Adventurous Career, 524,587
Another New, 135
Kniza Suwaroff, A New, 218
Poltava Leaves for the Far East, her Crew, 65, 462, 524, 547
Rotvisan Dj'.ayed, 32
Bogatyr, 419
Borodino Class, 565
Coast Defence Admiral Boutakoff, Altered Again, 587
Cruieer Boyarin, 388
Gromovoi, 462, 547
Nakimoff, Change in her Rig, 32
Normand Boilers Adopted for, 261
to be Built on the Black Sja, 610
Ironclad Sevastopol, Defect in her Armour, 261; her Crew, 521; her Destination, 462, 489, 547
to bo Constructed at Nico- laieff, 524
Under Orders for China, 388, 462
Kniaz Potemkin Tavitchky, 419
Pacific Squadron, Composition of the, 624
Pallada Design, Changes in the, 419, 547
Torpedo Cruiser Novik, 261, 419
Destroyers Ossetr, Kefal, and Losses, 524
Ruthven, Mr. I. R , on the Value of Heredity in Naval Engineers, 641
Seagull out for Trials, 610
Shields, Gun, 462
Ships Mobilised this Year, and Ships Fitted for Wireless Telegraphy, 32
Skipjack, The Speed of, 337
Sloops (Twin-screws), Two New, to be Laid Down at Sheerness, 369
Spain, Removal of Foremasts, 565
Spartiate, Trials, 489, 524, 610
Speed of Warships, Le Yacht upon the, 322
Stokers in the Italian Navy, 172
Sultan to be Used as a Depót Ship for Torpedoes at the Manoeuvres, 32
Swedish Torpedo Cruiser Psilander, Official Trial of, 193
Temperley Transporters in Government Colliers, Who is Responsible for the, 135
Tranporters to have the Special Tomperley Engine, 65
Thornycroft Boilers, The Proserpine, 641
Destroyer, Items re the Newest, 118
Destroyers have Large Exposed R-.dders, The Newer, 65
Torpedo Boats Sent to the Mediterranean, 287
Boats, Sunk, 232
Flotilla Commissioned for the Man¬oeuvres, 18
Turbine Destroyers for the Japanese Navy, 18
Turkish Fleets, “ Oversights,” 462
Uniform Rig, Advantages of a, 232
United States Battleships of the New Jersey Type, Designs for the New,
Cruisers, The New, 261, 419
Cruisers, Reconstruction of, 232
The Now York, What is the Length of her Belt, 419
Submarines, Names of the New, 218, 322
Vindictive, Fuel Burned in a Week by the, 91
Viper, a 35
Kuotter, The, 232
«i i. her Machinery Opened, 419
Warrior and Ruby, Fate of the, 888, 442
Water-tube Boiler Commission, The, (442)
Whitehead “Cup Team,” The Naval, 18
Winches, Power of, 193
Wireless Telegraphy for the British Navy, The Marconi System adopted, 218
The Jackson System v. the Marconi, 135
Ships Fitted with, 32, 883, 641
DONKIN, Mr. Bryar., on an Improved Glass Re¬vealer for Studying Condensation in Steam Engine Cylinders, 410, 423, 447, 477
Doran and Taggart’s Engine Indicator, 510
Dowlais Ironworks, Acquisition of, and Amalgamation with the Patent Nut and Bolt Com¬ply, (33)
Drainage System Wanted at Valparaiso, (213)
Drainage of the Western Volleys, Wales, (611)
Drawing Curves of Motion, Crowden’s Apparatus for, 334
Dredging on the Lower Dniepor, (114)
Dredging, Suction, Port of Ostend, 194
Dredgers, Hydraulic, for New York, (400)
Drill, Flue, Mr. J. Pollock, 446
Nancy Eleotric Rock, 562
Pneumatic, Whitelaw’s Patent, 446
Radial, Mr. Rogers MoGown, 476
Drilling Attachment, Flange, J. Pollock and Co., 662
Drilling Machine, Sculfort et Fockedey (xi. Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Smith and Coventry, Limited, 189
Boiler Flue, 65, 620
Drilling Machine, Radial, Bouhey (iii., Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
Radial, Chouanard (iv., v., Sup¬plement, November 23rd, 19C0)
Driving Belt, A Balata, (467)
Dundee Advertiser, Second Century of Publication, (544)
Dynamos—see Elootric
Dynamometer Car, A New, Prof. L. P. Brecken¬ridge, 60S

E

EARLY Birds in Reality Cold Stored? Are not the, (253)
Eirthquake, Bangor, (114)
Education and Trade, 639
Elder, Mrs., her Gift to the Borongh of Govan, (416)

Electric:

Alternators and Engines for Sheffield, (467)
Alternator for the Frankfort Corporation, Brown-Boveri-Parsons Syndicate, (87)
Alternator, 8000 Horse-power, Helios Actiën Gesellschaft, Paris Exhibition, 158, 159 Appliances for Use on Farms, A Bavarian Company, (519)
Cable, German-American, New York to the Azores, (114), (137)
Coal-cutting Plant, (163)
Coil, A Giant, (137)
Combination Integrating Watt Meter and Maxi¬mum Demand Indicator, Mr. T. Barker, 272
Cranes, Brakes for, 538
Cranes on the North-East Coast, The First, (160)
Dynamo, Direct-current, Electriciliits Actiën Gesellschaft (formerly Lahmeyer), Paris Exhibition, 468
High-speed, Laurence Scott and Co., Limited, 472, 473
at the Paris Exhibition, The Large, Prof. S. Thomson on, 272
Slow-speed Steam, 183
Earth Returns, 622
Electrolytic Copper, Gold, and Silver Refineries in the United States, (611)
Engineering, Prof. John Perry on, 494, 522, 627, 551
Foreign and English, 183
at Paris Exhibitions, 34, 35, 36, 385, 458, 513, 562, 603
Works, Alloa, on the Forth, New, (467)
Engineers from the War, 616
Engines and Dynamos, Smit and Co., Wm., Paris Exhibition, 384
Foreign and English Practice in Electrio and Technical Industry, 381, 483, 557
Generating Plant at the Armour Meat Pack¬ing Establishment, Chicago, (239)
Galloway’s Limited, and Mather and Platt, Limited, Paris Exhibition, 88, 92
Leeds Tramway, 589, 592
Stations, Design and Location of, Mr. A. II. Gibbings, 272
Generator, 500 Horse-power, Nancy, Paris Ex¬hibition, 562, 567
Gramme Machines at the Paris Exhibition, 608
Hoists for the Navy, 134
Hydro-eleotric Industries in Spain, Increasing Number of, (11)
Indicating Ship’s Log, American, (213)
Industryin Germany, Capital Invested in, (114), (392)
and Technical Industry, Foreign and English Practice in, 183, 381,483
Locomotion, Mr. W. Langdon on, (550), 570, 572, 599, (615), 620
Lorry, Electrically-propelled, (637)
Locomotives—sec Railway Locomotives Machine for Registering Compositions on the Piano, (253)
Machinery, Swiss Imports in, (544)
Oscillations and Electric Waves, Prof. J. A. Fleming, 570
Parsons, Steam Turbo Dynamos, 608
Plant for Gold Dredging, Victoria, Australia, (519)
Polyphase Alternator, Electricities Actiën Gesellschaft (formerly Lahmeyer), Paris Exhibition, 458, 459
Power Applied to Agricultural Work, (137)
Bills, 5, 30
Furnished by Waterfalls in Sweden, Utilisation of, for Railways, (223)
Gas, and Large Gas Engines for Central Stations, Mr. H. A. Humphry on, 6G9, 618
Plant, St. Lawrence, 576
Station, Bradford, (11)
Chimneys for, New York, (652), (591)
Economy obtainable in Large, Kansas City, (442)
Power Station, Manchester, Effect of a Thunderstorm at, (239)
Poplar, (365)
Power Station, Stockton, (637)
Syndicate, Yorkshire, (619)
Transmission, Los Angeles, (190)
by Shafting versus, 146, 173
Thury System of, Paris Exhibition, 513
in the Tyrol, Utilisation of a Waterfall, (611)
Printors’ Machinery, Holmes-Clatworthy, 41, 42, 528
Railways—w Railways, Electric Rhumkorp Coil, Tho Largest, (137)
Risk, Firo Insurance, 227
Rook Drill, Nanoy, Paris Exhibition, 562
Rotary Oil Pump. Mavor and Coulson's, 16
SanltSt. Marie, E ectro-Chemical Industry at, (239)
Steering Gear, An, (239)
Stoves for Cooking in New York Flats, (190)
Street Cars, House Removed by, (440)
Supply, Mr. W. A. Chamon on, (551)
Company and tho Vestry, The Metro¬politan, 397
Supply, Glasgow, Port Dundas Works, 269, 260, 261, 262, 266
Glasgow, St. Andrew's Cross Station, 316
Mains, 295, 299
Rathminee Works, 244, 245, 246
Schemes, Scotland, (213), (416)
Stations in Germany, Public, (190), (218)
Thury System of Transmission, Paris Exhibi¬tion, 513
Traction, Mr. Binyon on, (33)
Its Inllaeoco upon Magnetic Observa¬tions at Kew and Greenwich, Meet¬ing at the Board of Trade with reference to, (440)
Troubles in connection with the Cen¬tral London Railway, (544)
Tramcars, Life Guard for, Wilson and Bennett's, (851)
Vapour Preventer for Windows, 398
Works, Hackney, (416)
Morecombo, and Bare, (190)
Paisley, Mr. J. B. Whyte’s Report, (440)

Electric Light:

Ayr, (365)
Blackheath and Greenwioh Company's Central Station, 69, 60, 206, 207, 264
Boston, (416)
Crewe, (33)
Dublin, (20), (119)
Dudley, (376), (467)
Engine, Compound, Paris Exhibition, Robey and Co., Limited, 296, 237
Engineering, Foreign and English, Nos. I., II , III , 183, 381, 483
Incandescent Lamps, Wrede and Jangblatt, (213)
Installations, Faulty, Fires Caused by, The German Fire Insurance Companies and, (544)
Kansas City, Use of 200-Kilowatt Rotary Con¬verters as Alternating - current Generators, (416)
Lamps for Dogs in Portugal, (114)
Leeds, 190
Newport, Mon., (402)
New System of, 414
Oban, (440)
Manchester, Effoot of Tbundorstorm on, (239)
Poplar, (365)
for Railway Carriages, 30 Rome, Popularity of, (239)
St. Katharine’s Docks, (467)
Sheffield, (450), (467)
Shoreditch, Accounts of the Joint Electric Lighting and Refuse Destructor at, (491), 611
Stockton,(637)
Wolverhampton, (463)

Electricity:

Applied to Fox and Badger Hunting in Portugal, (114)
Cartridges Discharged by, (137)
v. Compressed Air as Motive Power for Street Railway, Berne, (213)
Generation and Dust Destruction Works, Bermondsey, (440)
Gloucester Supply Works, 93
Heating and Cookiug by, 518
Looms Worked by, St. Etienne, (213)
Mis-statements with Regard to, on the Under¬ground Railway, 570
Printing Machinery, Driving by, 41, 42, 628
Relative Advantages of Alternate and Continu¬ous Current for a General Supply of, (62)
Sawing and Cutting by, (591)
Use of, in Italy for Industrial Purposes, In¬creasing, (416)
Use of, in Mexico, (318)
Working Swing Bridges by, 373
Elevator, The Reno Inclined, 136
Empress Foundry, Manchester, 571, 674

Engineering; Engineers, Engines:

Engineering :—
Admiralty, 63, 264
Congress, Glasgow, 1901, International, 524
Consuls and, (113)
Electric, sec Electric
Electric, Professor John Porry on, 494, 522, 627, 561
Experience in Relation to, Mr. T. A. B. Carver on, (602)
Firms in the North, Amalgamation of Three Leading, 451
Laboratories at Liverpool, The Walker, (9)
Lighthouse, at the Paris Exhibition, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 138, 311, 858
Mechanical, English and American Methods, 215
Method and Organisation in, Mr. Wilson Hartnell, 403
at the Paris Exhibition, 34, 35, 86, 335, 458, 518
and Surveying, Act to Regulate the Practice of. in America, (11)
In Wales, Sir W. H. Preeoe, 602
Offices, American, 374
Engineers:
American, in Berlin, 109, 112
Consulting, 598
The, and the Economical Development of Manufactories, by W. Arnold, 223
English, Sent as Apprentices to Pittsburgh, (519)
Experiences of Tien-Tsin, An, 222
Mechanical, Training of, 293, 322, 34 0 343, 388, 413, 444, 474
Naval, Concessions to, 195
Naval, Value of Ilorodity in, (641)
and tho Trade Revival, American, 221
From the War, Electrie, (616)
What is a Civil, Mr. F. J. Rowan on, (571)
United States Navy, 469
Engines :
American Traction Trains for Russia, 313, 315
Auxiliary, in the Navy, (519)
BiiGrix Nicolet et Cio., 283
Borsig, (Supplement, July 20th, 1900), 60, 61,
Breakdo v: s, 320
Cail et Cie.’s, 106
Central Stations, On Power, Gas and Large Gas, Mr. H. A. Humphrey, 609, 618
Chemical Fire, 324
Compound Corliss, Mr. H. Bollinckx, 356, 357
Corliss, Paris Exhibition, 88, 92
Electric Light, Robey and Co., Paris Exhibition, 296, 297
and Horizontal, City and South London Railway, Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Limited, 346, 347, 348
Paris Exhibition, 88, 92,106, 107
Crépelle et Garauds, 106
Cylinders, Condensation in, Glass Revealer for Studying, Mr. B. Donkin on, 410
Proportions for Compound and Triple-expansion, 97
Eight coupled Mineral, Crewe, (650)
Ferranti, A Dynamo, 619
Frenoh Cruiser Kleber, Schneider and Co., C38, 641
Gas, 350
Horse-power, Crossley Bro3., Limited, 68
for Central Stations, Mr. H. A. Hum¬phrey on, 609, 618, 644
M. Hubert on their Superior Economy as Blowing Engines, (253)
Market for, in Greece, (62)
and Oil at the Paris Exhibition, 360,
406. 487, 533, 549
(250 Ilorso-power) Premier Gas Engine Company, Limited, 493
and Valves of, 96
High-speed, Reavell and Co., Limited, 472, 474
High-speed, Wellington Foundry, Lincoln, 245
Horizontal Compound, Ganz and Lang (Sup¬plement, September 2X,th, 1900), 310
Horizontal Compound Condensing (300 Horse¬power, Socicti Alsacienne de Constructions Mccaniqnes, 429
Horizontal Compound Steam, Erste Brunner Maschinen Fabrik, Paris Exhibition, Aus¬trian Section, 536
Horizontal Cross Compound, Tramway, John Fowler and Co., Limited, 588, 589
Horizontal and Vortical, Escher, Wyss, and Co., Paris Exhibition, 583, 584, 585, 586
Indicator, The Doran and Taggart, 516
Mill, Swiss, for Moscow, (519)
Oil, for Motor Cars, The Woleeloy, 420, 421, 422
Naval, 160, 469, 495, 517, 545, 548, 573, 593, 593, 618, 644, 645
New Theory of the Steam, W. H. Northcott, 413
Portable, R. Wolf, Paris Exhibition, 79
Prime Movers at the Paris Exhibition (Sup¬plement, August 24th, 1900), 51, 52, 79, 106, 179, 536
Proportions of Model Steam, (195)
Pumping, Boston Waterworks, 302
Gwynne and Co., Uraga Dock, Japan, 438
Triple-expansion, An Economical, (425)
Room Artificers for the Navy, (508)
Room Instruction at Devonport, (507)
Semi-portable, Herr R. Wolf, 310
Steam, New Theory of, 367, 413
Steam, Fire, Mr. W. A. Ranch on its Origin, 436
8.S. Canadian’s, 160
Straight-line, Letter from John E. Sweet, 499
Test of Steam, 241
Traction, Sapper Summoned at Salisbury for Driving, (213)
Triple-expansion, A. Borsig (Supplement, July 20th, 1900), 50, 51, 61
Triple-expansion Horizontal, Bromley Bros., Paris Exhibition (Supplement, November 16th, 1900), 483, 485
Triple and Quadruple-expansion, Compara¬tive Efficiency of, Mr. A. L. Mellanby,
Turbine Steam (Leader on), 417
Valves of Uas, 96
Valvee of Internal Combustion, Mr. J. D. Roots on, 49
Vertical Compound Condensing, 600 Horse-power, Sociétó Alsacienne de Constructione Mécaniques (Sup¬plement, November 2nd, 1900), 429, 431
Compound Surface Condensing, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham, Mr. A. G. Mumford, 69
Triple-expansion, 2500 Horse power (Supplement, Avgust 24 th, 1900), Vereinigte Maschinenf abn k Angsburg und Maschinenbau Gesell¬schaft, Nürnberg, 179
ENGLISH Relations with Italy, 141
Entrenched Positions, The Attack of, 165
Erratom, Mr. Robt. Boby in Mistake for William Boby, (570)

Exhibitions:

Browers’, (390), 412
Bnilding Trades, An Interesting Feature of, (619)
Cycle Shows, The Stanley Club’s, and the National, 547
Dairy, 1900, 373, 445
Engineering and Shipbuilding, Models, Draw¬ings, Ac., Connected with, to be held at Glasgow, (365)
Essex Manufacturers’, (471)
Gas Appliances, at tho Royal Aquarium, (602)
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The Scotch, Conversazione, (365), 497
Naval and Military, at the Crystal Palace, (365)
Pan-American, in Buffalo, 1901, (491), (622)
Paris—see Paris
Petersburg, Railway, (239)
Russian Industries in Riga, (195)
EXPLOSIONS, Boiler, Select Committee on, 90
Fly-wheel, (62)
At the Great Central Railway Com¬pany’s Gaswjrks, Sheffield, (67) —see alio Ac idon'.o

Explosives and Ammunition:

Aerial Torpedoes, 67
Cartridges Discharged by an Electric Spark. (137)
Export of, to China Prohibited by Government, (190)
Gun-cotton Stores Struck by Lightning, (190)
Report on, 86
Smokeless Powder for the United States Army and Navy, (291)
Substitute for Dynamite and Smokeless Powder, the Discharge of which is Effected by Elec¬tricity, (137)
Whitehead Torpedo Fired for a Test, (87)

F

FACTORIES Started in Hungary, 1899, (187)
Factory Inspector as Advertising Agent, The, 195
Falmouth, Drainage Schemes for, (114)
Falmouth Water Supply, (318), (416)
Fan Efficiency, 388, 413, 411, 498, 549, 573, 599, 619
Fellows' Gear Shaper, 201
Ferguson Fire-kindler, The, (69)
Ferro-silicon, G. G. Blackwell, Sons, and Co.’s
Production of High-percentage, (508)
Fibrolenm Prepared from Cuttings of Skin, (163)
Filtration, Mr. Jas. Mansergh on, 462, 470
Fire-boxes on Locomotives, Causes of Rapid Wear and Tear of, 630
Fires—sre under Accidents Fire Engine, Chemical, 324
Prevention Committee, British, Winter Pro¬gramme, 414
Engine, Origin of the Steam, 436
Engines, Motors for, (467)
Hose, 253
Kindler, The Ferguson, (69)
Insurance and E'ectrical Risk, 227 at the Oldbury Carriage Works, (114)
Tests, 95
FiriDg with Coal Dust, Freitag’s Method of, 100 Fine Drilling Machino, Boiler, 65 Flying Machine, Zeppelin’s, (87)
Fly-wheels, Mr. Archibald Sharp on, 436
Efficiency of, I 13
Explosions and Advantages of Wood- rimmed Wheels, Mr. C. H. Manning on, (62)
Foreign and English Practice, 381, 483, 557
Foreign Competition in Tools, &c., Trust Formed in Westphalia to Fight, (163)
Forge, Portable, Mr. J. Bauer, 301
Forges et Fonderie9 de Hautmont, Machine Tools (Supplement, November 23rd, 1900) Forges de VulcaD, Paris, Chouanard, Machine Tools (Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Forman, Mr. Jas. Richardson, 39
Foster and Co., Limited, Wm., Wellington Foundry, 245
Foundry, Lincoln, Wm. Foster and Co., Limited, 245
Manchester, The Empress, 571, 574
Free Trade as Opposed to Fair Trade, Ruinous Effect of, (304)
Frenoh Marine, The, 37
Scheme for Exploiting the Kent Coalfield, 87, 137
Friction of Wire Rope on Pulleys, 445
Fruit from Jamaica, (490)
Fuchsine, The Coal-tar Derivative, Origin of the Name, (416)
Fuel Gases, Notes on, 355
Liquid, 374
Mr. Edwin L. L. Orde on, 575
Natural Gas, An Ideal, (253)
Oil for the Thames Fire Brigade Steamer, (508)
Peat, (253)
Question in Sweden, 205
Fullers’ Earth, Florida, (163)
Furnace, Complete Combustion, American, 552
Mouth-drilling Machine, Mr. J. Pollock, 446
out of Blast, (467)

G

GAINSBOROUGH New Bering for Water, (23)
Galatz, Timber Tade of, (416)
Ganz et Cie., Budapest, Machine Tools (Supple¬ment, November 23«t, 1900)

Gas:

Acetylene, Bavaria, for Lighting Factories and Railway Stations, (291)
Buenos Ayres, (508)
Calcutta, (516)
Congress, Dusseldorf, 372
EUerbek, 414
Flame, Temperature of, (467)
Generators, 36, 223
in Germany, (163), (255), 491, 581, (037)
St. Michael's, 321, 364
Headlights for Locomotives, United States, (519)
Illuminating Power of, (239)
Liqnefaotion of, (591)
Maximum Temperature of Flame, (289)
New Purifying Material in the making of, (62)
Mr. E. L. Nichols on the Efficiency of, (611)
Apparatus to Purify Chimney Gases, (163)
Burners, Sngg’e, on Southwark Bridge, (519)
Coal, Illuminating Power of Incandescent, 526
Explosion, Great Central Railway Company’s Gasworks, Sheffield, (87)
Fuel, Notes on, 355
Glasgow and Incandescent, (345)
Holders at the Birmingham Gasworks (Supple¬ment, December 21s/, 1900), 561, 563, 607, 628, 629
Hygienic Value of, 192
Illuminating, from Sewage Sludge, 445, 517, 673
Incandescent, Sir F. Mappin on tho Advantages of, 268
Industry in Manchester and Salford District, Sir Wm. H. Bailey on, 277)
Lighting, High-pressure Incandescent, 397
Incandescent Mantle, Serious Trouble with, (637)
Liquid Carbonic Acid, Manufacture of, in Wiirtemberg, (491)
Motors in Greece, Market for, (62)
Natural, American Manufacturers, (253)
Decrease in the Fuel Value of, (191)
Oil, for Lighting Trains, 324
Southport, 361
Price of, in Loudon, (33), 65, 471
Smelting by Water, 153
Supply of the Metropolis, Nos. I., II., 2, 25, (33)
Water, Blast Furnace Smelting by, 153
Proposal to Lay Down Plant for Pro¬duction of, at Darlington, and Rate¬payers’ Opposition, (491)
Use of, in Manchester, (163)
West Bromwich New Plant, 225
Welsbach Burners from Gasworks, New System of Working, (392)
Wood, Petersburg, South Australia, to be Lighted by, (392)
Works, Boston, 313
Works, Viaduct, Nottingham, 218
GATHMANN Aiirial Torpedo Gun, 191
Gauge, Micrometer Wire, 220
Gear-cutting Machines, Bevel Gear Cutters, Bouhey (iii., Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Machinery, Bevel Gear Cutter, Monnerot (ix., x. Figs. 23, 24 Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Machines, Bevel Gear Shaper, Colmant (viii., Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Machinery, Gear Miller, Colmant (viii., Fig. 10, Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Machinery, Helical and Straight Gear Miller, Bouhey (ii., Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
Gear Shaper, Fellow, 204
Geological Survey. The United States, 197
German Customs Dnes, Revision of, 165
Gebrauchsmu8ter, can an Englishman hold a Valid, 364 . 388, 518
Imperial Post and Telegraph Administra¬tion, Receipts of, (239)
Import to Italy, (544)
Treaty, Proposed New, 546
Girder, The Braced, in Building Construction, 622
CounterbraciDg, 80
Depth of, 153
Old, 408
Weighing 70
Tons, Lifting of a, (443)
Glasgow, City Refuse Collection and Disposal, (293)
Facilities for Technical Education, 369
Lectures Descriptive of Corporation Schemes, (491)
Water Supply, 531
Glass, Mr. J. G. H., Coalfields and Iron Ore Deposits of Shansi and Honan, 329
Glass Revealer for Studying Condensation in Steam Engine Cylinders, Mr. Bryan Donkin, 410, 423, 447, 477
Gold Coinage Produced at the Royal Mint, (46)
Dredging, New Zealand, (478)
in Finmarken, Discovery of, (213)
in the Leao-Tong Peninsular, (114)
and Platinum, Rural District, (591)
Production, Corea, (637)
Japanese, 192
New South Walep, for August and October, (253), (467)
Russia, (637)
Victoria, (591)
West Australia, (213)
Goschen, Mr., 321
at Bay, on the Question of the Terrible and the Hermes, 13
His Memorandum on Water-tube Boilers, 64, 70, (73)
Graphite and Asphalte, Cuba, (137)
in Bavaria and Ceylon, (163)
as a Boiler Scale Preventative (349)
Greenock, Public Library for, Mr. A. Carnegie’s Gift, (291)
Greenwell, Mr. Goo. C., (467)
Greenwich Timo in Spain and the Balearic Islands, (163)
Grinding Machine, Kendall and Gent, 236
Guatemala, National Revenue of, (163)
Gutta-percha, Substitute for, (163)

H

HAESLER Pneumatic Tools, 446
Hammer and Oliver Combined, Steam, J. C. Nicholson Tool Company, 95
Tire, B. and S. Massey, 300

Harbours and Waterways:

Algerian Harbours, Improvement of, (137)
Antwerp Harbour Works, (187)
Baltic and Black Sea Canal. 322
Baltic and North Sea Canal, 55
Beira, Improvement of the Port, (384)
Bilbao and Zsebrugge, Jetty Construction at, 434
Bristol, 55, 206. 416, 418
Bristol Channel Ports to Birmingham, Improve¬ment of the Waterway from, (562), (554), (637)
Budaposth, Proposed Commercial Harbour near, Canal Hanlage, 433
Central American Ship Canals (Supplement, October 2&th, 1900), 405, 455, 464, 465, 509, 520, 560, 605, (611), 627
Ceylon, Extension, Expenditure, (190)
Channel Ports, Statistics showing Prosperity of, (124)
Chicago Drainage Canal, 434
Dantzig, (611)
Danube and Rhino, Improvement of the Water Communication between, (137)
Devizes Look, Kennet and Avon Canal, 550, 673, 699
Dover Harbour, Commissioners’ Prospective Outlay (491)
Dovor Harbour. Portable Salvage Plant for, 671
Freemantle Harbour, Australia, 55
Galveston, 434
German, 362
Goole, 295, 433
Grand Junction Canal, 55
Kherson to be made a Port for Ocean Steamed, (114)
Kiel, New Harbour Projected, (293)
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, (11), 55
Llanelly, (402), (426), 433, (554)
Manchester Ship Canal, 33, 239,253, 322, (410) 591
Mersey, The, 206
Mersey, Aunual Report on the State of the, (11)
New York Harbour Improvements, 162
New York Harbour, Shipping Piers in, 143
North Sea and Baltic Canal, 55
Ouse, The, 55
Panama Canal, Plan of (Supplement, October 26M, 1900), 405, 455, 464, 46a, 509, 520, (611)
Remarkable Old Waterway, A, 550, 573, 599
Rosario, Harbour Works, Projected, (365)
ScbeveniDg, (519)
Simons Bay, New Port and Dry Dock at, (163)
Swansea, 206, (491)
Sydney, Harbour Trust for tho Wharves in, (400)
Thames, Tho, 433
Vladivostok, (467)
Welsh Coast, Projected Harbour on the, (150)
Windau, Harbour Improvements at, (112) Workington Dock, 206
see also Canals
HARROWING, Mr. Robert, (304)
Hartman Pig Iron-casting Machine, 622
Haskinised Timber, Experiments with on Indian State Railway, (239)
llasselmann, Mr. Fritz, Wood Preservative, 108
Hawick, Public Library and Reading Room, Mr. A. Carnegie’s Gift, (392)
Head, Wrightson, and Co., Limited, Increase their Capital, (22)
Healey, Mr. B. D., on the Disposal of Town Refuse, 192
Ilealoy, Sewage Scheme, (190)
Heating and Cooking by Electricity, (518)
Hoating of Railway Carriages, 103
Henderson, Mr. John M., (440)
Heng8t's Sii-juloria Bronza, 426
Herbert, Limited, Alfred, Machine Toole (Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
Herscbmann, Mr. Arthur, on the Automobile Wagon for Heavy Duty, 96
Hey wood, Refuse Destructor Buildings and Plant, (291)
Higb-pressures for Killing Bacteria, Experiments at the West Virginia Agricultural Experi¬mental Station, 504
High Temperatures, New Method of Producing, Mr. E. Lange on, 308
Holmes-Clatworthy System Electrically-driven Printers’ Machinery, 41
Holmfirth Sewerage Schemes, (467)
Hose Armour, (619)
Hotel near Waterloo Railway Station, Ereotion of an American, (265)
Housing of the Working Classes, Conference, (82)
Hughes Gold Medal, The, (163)
Humphrey, Mr. H. A., On Power, Gas, and Large Gas Engines for Central Stations, 609, 618, 644
Hungary, 1899, Factories Started in, (137)
Hungary, Workmen’s Accident Insurance Scheme, 137
Hunt, Mr. R. W , Iron and Steel Rails in America, 5, 40
Huntington, Mr. Collis P., 168
Husson’s Acetylene Generator, 223
Hydraulic Embankment between Brooklyn and Rockaway Beacb, (400)
“ Hydraulicians,” (508)

I

ICE-IlANDLING Machinery, American, 552
Ice-making Plants, Production of Distilled Water for, 647
India-rubber Export from Brazil, (163)
Exports from Frenoh Guinea, (637)
Goods, Specifications for, 511
Pern, (637)
Indian Ink, 212
Indicator, The Mclnnes-Dobbie, 502
Indicator, Engine, The Doran and Taggart, 516
Indigo Production in Java, (163)
Ingham, Mr., On Detection of Waste in the Water Supply of Towns, 498, 500
Inspection Chamber Cover, Mr. John Jones, (338)

Institute, Cyole Engineers’:

Steel in Cycle Construction, Mr. D. Flather, (16)

Institute of Engineers, South Wales:

Drums and Pulleys, Discussion on the Relative Positions of, (74)
Pumping at the Elliott Collieries, Mr. Hann on Deep, (74)

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Presidential Address of Sir Wm. Roberts- Austen, 285, 301.325
Aluminium in Carbon in Cast Iron, Influence of, Messrs. Melland and Waldron, 308
American Standard Specifications and Methods of Testing Iron and Steel, Mr. A. L. Colby, 308
Autumn Meeting, Paris, Programme of Open¬ing and Address of the President, 146, (254), 285, 301
Excursions to Ilayange, St. Chamond, 831
High Temperaturos, New Methods of Produc¬ing, Mr. E. F. Lange, 308
Iron Industry in France, 1888 to 1898, Mr. II. Pinget, 285
and Phosphorus, Mr. Stead, 286
and Steel at the Universal Exhibition,
Mr. II. Bauerman, 286, 376, 423, 448
Papers taken as Road, 309
Rolling Mills, Suggestions for the Improvement of, Mr. Louis Katona, 308
Institute of Marine Engineers:
Heredity in Naval Engineers, On the Value of, Mr. J. R. Ruthven, (641)

Institute of Mining Engineers : American :

Signal Device for Mines, Mr. C. S. Herzig, 450
United States Geological Survey in Relation to the Mineral Resources of the Country, Mr. C. D. Walcott, 197

Institute, Sanitary :

Housing of the Working Classes, Conference to Consider, (82)

Institute of Sanitary Engineers :

Election of Members, 309
Institute: Staffordshire Iron and Steel:
Chemical Phenomena of Puddling, Lieut.-Col. L. Cubillo, (552)

Institute, Victoria:

Coal Reserves at the Close of tho Ninoteenth Century, Prof. Edward Hull on Our, 94

Institution, Blrkbeck:

Winter Session, Programmo, (287)

Institution, Chesterfield and Midland Counties :

Proposed Change of Name, (293)

Institution of Civil Engineers:

Reception at the Guildhall, 31
Presidential Address by Mr. Mansergh cn Fil¬tration. 462, 470
Awards, (352)
Dock Oates, Mr. F. K. Peach, 589
Leader on, 470
Signalling on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, Mr. S. B. Cottrell, 621
Outlying Siding Connections, Mr. A. W. Szlumper, 621
the Waterloo and City Railway, Mr. A. W. Szlumper, 621

Institution of Civil Engineers: Glas¬gow Association of Students of:

Civil Engineer ? What is a, Mr. F. J. Rowan, (571)
Introductory Address, Prof. Arch. Barr, (571)

Institution of Draughtsmen, British Manchester Branch:

Excursion to Liverpool, (94)
Linotype Company's Works Visited, (26)

Institution of Electric Engineers:

Annual Dinner, (448)
Inaugural Address of the President, Prof. Jas. Perry, en E'eotrio Engineering, 494, 522, 527, 551
Circular respecting Grant to Students to Visit Paris Exhibition, (68)
First Meeting, 369
Invitation to Members of the American Institute and Arrangements for their Stay in London, (56)
Mono Railway from Liverpool to Manchester, Mr. Bahr on his Proposed, 617
Students’ Grants, (142)
Subject for Discussion at the Joint Meeting in Paris of the American and English Institu¬tions, (62)
Sunday Trip on the Thames, A Briton on the Proposed, 96
Supersession of the Steam by the Electric Locomotive, Mr. W. E. Langdon, 506, (550), 570, 572, 599, 615, 620

Institution of Electric Engineers, Glasgow Section:

Presidential Address of Lird Kelvin, 551
Electricity Supply, Mr. W. A. Cbamen, 551

Institution of Engineers, Cleveland :

Election of Mr. W. II. Panton as President, (451)

Institution of Engineers and Naval Architects, Hull and District:

Address of the Now Secretary, Mr. H. Dunkerley, 506

Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders, East Coast:

Stress Produced in a Connecting-rod by its Motion, Mr, C. H. Innos, (116)

Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders, North-East Coast:

President, Mr. llenry Withy, Elected, (440)
Liquid Fuel, Mr. E. L. Orde, 575

Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders In Scotland:

Conversazione and Exhibition of Models and Drawings, (365), 497
Opening Meeting, (402)
Presidential Address of Dr. Robert Caird. 443, 524

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Annual General Meeting, 453
Bell, Sir Lowtbian, President, (402)
Metallurgy of Tin, Mr. J. H. Davy James, 621
Summer Excursion, (175)
Visit to tho AUhnsen Works of the United Alkali Company, 248
Durham College of Science, Engineer¬ing Department, 248
Eiswick Works, 248
the Generating Station of the Central Railway, Shepherd's Bush,
Newcastle and District Electric Light¬ing Company, 248
Sunderland Docks and Hylton Colliery, 248
Swan and Hunter’s Ship and Floating Dock-building Yards. 248
Tyne Improvement Commissioners’ Works, 248

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Condensation in Stoam Eagine Cylinders, Uoservation on an Improved Glass Revealor for Studying, Mr. B. Donkin, 410, 423, 447, 477
Ehotrio Traction, Polyphase, Prof. C. A. Carua-Wilzoa, 4
Electric Vehicles, Mr. J. S. Warner, 640
Error in Report, (514), (522), 550
First Monthly General Meeting, (352)
Locomotive Practice in France, Recent, M. Ed. San vage, 3
“Long Cecil" Described, 3
Power, Gas, and Large Gas Engines for Central Stations, Mr. H. A. Humphrey, 609, 618, 644
Railway Wagons, On the Capacity of, as Affecting the Cost of Transport, Mr. Twinberrow, 514, 522, (550)

Institution of Mining and Metal¬lurgy :

Appointment of Mr, C. M. Dermid as Secretary, 436

Iron:

Action of Free Carbonic Aoid in Water on, Herr 0. Kribnke, (87)
with Aluminium, Alloying Cast, 118
American, 577
Bengal Pig, (637)
Canadian, (226)
Conciliation Board, The Scotch Manufactured, (114)
in France, Production of Pig and Malleable, (554)
Industry in France, 1888 to 1898, M IL I’ingot, 285
of the United States, Great Depres- ion of, (62)
Magnetic Properties of, Increased by the Addition of Silioon to, (239)
Manufacture, Australian, 372
Manufactured, Sales during the Two Months ending October 31st, 1900, (553)
Ore Carrying on Lake Superior, Now Records made, 519, (637)
Deposits and Coalfields of Shansi and Honan, Mr. J. G. H. Glass, 329
Exports at Lule from Gellivara Mines, (564)
Output in Canada, Pig, (392)
Production in tho Bilbao District, (11)
and Phosphorus, Mr. Stead on, 286 Prices, May and June, 100
and the Glasgow Warrant Market, Mr. C. McLaren on, (11)
Production in the Ural District, (190)
and Steel, American Exports of Leading Articles of, (318)
American Imports of, (318)
American Standard Specifica¬tions and Methods of Testing, Mr. Albert Ludd Colby, 308
Goods from Amorica, (426)
Import Duties in Germany, The Question of, 165
Profits, 368
Swedish, (163)
Trade of the United States, 504
Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900, 286, 376, 423, 448
Universal Exhibition, Mr. H.
Bauerman on, 286 Works at Port Talbot, New, (286)
Trade, The American Tariff and the, 38
Trades, Falling off in the Midland, (253)
IRONWORKS near Bolton, New, (190)
Ironworks, Vale of White Ilorso, Purchased by Lord Wantage, (253)
Italians Employed in Wiirtemberg, (491)
Italian Export to Germany, and German Import to Italy, (544)
Italy, English Relations with, 141

J

JAMES Watt Anniversary Lecture, Professor A. Gray On " The Tides.” (365)
Japan, Meteorology in, (141)
Japanese Gold, 192
Jarrow, The Grit Nuisance in Connection with the Palmer Company's Steel Works, (163)
Jeffcock, Mr. Thomas, 136
Jefferies, Mr. J. R., 278
Jenkins, Mr. A. J., On Waste of Water, Cost of Detection and Prevention, 43
Jetty Construction at Bilbao and Zeebrugge. 434
Joint-stock Companies in Russia, (40)
Jones, Mr. John, Inspection Chamber Cover. (338)

K

KENDALL and Gent, Machine Tools, 236, 237
Kershaw, Mr. J. B. C., On the Cost of Power by Steam, Water, and Gas, 219, 290
King, Dr. J. T., 666
Kites, Traction by, 193
Klinger and Co., Isolating Stoam Valve, 628
Kröbnke, Herr 0., On the Destructive Action on Iron of Free Carbonic Action in Water, (87)
Krupp's Modified Welin Breech Screw, 248
Krupp, Herr von, Title Conferred on, (440)

L

Labour Questions, Strikes, and Trade Disputes:

Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
Support the North-Eastern Men's Demand for Advance in Wages, 378
Baglan Engineering Company’s Works, Wages Advance, (226)
Bjard of 'trade Labour Department, Sep¬tember and October-November Reports, (392), (494), (611)
Brassworkers’ Wages, (45), 116, 424
Burnley, Stoppage of Miners at, (190)
Charleroi Glass Workers, (305)
Chicago, Scarcity of Hands in, (253)
Coalownors’ Association and Miners’ Federa¬tion, Arrangement on the Wages Question between, 145, 149
Coal Strike, Fears of Another, (74)
in France, (491), (530)
at Resolven Cvlliery, (250)
TinJes Conciliation Bjard and the Scotch Miners, (121)
Colliers’ Wages, (145), (149)
Disputes in September, and Number of Work¬ people Involved, (392)
Dowlaie Colliers’ Strike, ICO
Duffrvn Works, Morriston, Advance Demanded, (’250)
Durham Miners’ Application for Advance in Wages, (137)
Emergency Signalmen and Objections of the Men, (491)
Employment Returns Issued by Trado Unions, (629)
Enginemen Connected with Northumberland Collieries, Advance of Wages Requested by, (H4), (124)
Erton Miners, Threatened Strike, (200)
Factories and Workshops, Report for 1899 of, (7)
Factory and Workshops Act, Section 40, to be Applied to Factories and Workshops in which Pens are Made, (87)
Federation Meetings, Pontypridd, ICO
Friction on the Taft' Vale Railway, (163), 194
Great Western, Midland, and London and North-Western Engine Drivers and Firemen, Meeting at Neath, (265)
Hamburg Dock Labourers’ Strike, (318)
Iron Plato Trado Society and Midland Counties Trade Federation, Operatives Ask for Ad¬vance, (249)
Ironworkors’ Wages, (318)
Labour Troubles, 262, 298, 322, 337, 373, 389, 412, 436, 466, 489, 525, 550, 566, 596, 610, 641
Law and Trades Unions, The, 523
Middlesbrough Dockers’ Dispute Ended, (124)
Miners’ Wages, (123), (121)
Minors’ Wages in South Wales, 559
National Free Labour Association, Arrange¬ments for the Employment of Militiamon,
369
Newcastle Branch of tho Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Advance of Wages Demand, (62)
Northumberland Colliery Mechanics, Wages Questions, (190)
Overtime Suspended on Account of the Heat, (62)
Pembroke Dockyard, Treasury Scheme for Compensation for Inquiry Accepted, (253), (293)
Penrhyn Slate Quarries Closed, (544)
Railway Conciliation Board, Proposed, 321
Employés Mooting at Neath, (265)
Labour, 242
and Other Strikes, 298, 340, (611)
Scottish Manufactured Iron Trade, Conciliation and Arbitration Board, Redaction in Wages, (544)
Sliding Scale Committee, Important Meeting, 12th November, (506)
Stevedores, Strike of, 100
Stoppage of Barrow Hematite Steel Works and
Damping Down of Askam Works, (467)
Strike of Guards, North-Eastern Railway, (611), (624)
and Lock-outs of 1899, 564
of Mineral Guards, Tyne Dock, (602), (624)
Suggestion for tho Prevention of, 340
Swansea Docks, Strike for One Halfpenny par Hour, (87)
Tuff Vale Railway Strike, 163, 194, 200, 238, 241
Tin-plato Trade Unions and the Search for New Markets, 14
Trade Disputes in November, (637)
Trade Unions in 1899, 617, 637
Unsteadiness of Workmen and its Results, Mr. I. Ward, of the Shipbuilding Firm of Wm. Denny and Bros., on the, (491)
Wages to bo Paid to the Steel Millmen at the Consett Works, (11)
Welsh Colliers’ Agitation, (124)
LANCASTER and Tonge, Limited, Method for Supporting the Piston-rod, 377 Langdon, Mr. W., on the Supersession of the Steam by the Electric Locomotive, (506), 550, 570, 572, 599, (615), 620
Larmor, Mr. Joseph, Presidential Address, 235, 243, 272
Lathe, Backing off Loewo (vii., viii., Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Backing off Roinecker (vi. Supplement, November 23rd, 1900, Figs. 17, 18, 19)
Brake, Domoor (ii., Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Crankshaft, Dean, Smith, and Grace (xiv., Fig. 28 and drawings, Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Horizontal, Boubey (iii., Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Horizontal, Société Alsacienne (iv., Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
Screw-cutting, Demoor (i, Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Semi-automatic Turret, 620
Taper Screwing Attachment to, Herbert (xii., Figs. 26, 27, and Drawings, Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
Three-spindle, 599
Three-spindle, Demoor (ii., Fig. 3, Supple¬ment, November 23rd, 1900)
Triplo-aotion Chucking, Broekie (xv., Sup¬plement, November 23rd, 1900)
for Turning Granite, 376
Turret, Sooiété Alsacionne (iv., Fig. 8, Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
12in. Gap. Reinevker (vi., Fig. 11, Supple¬ment, November 23>d, 1900)
Wheel, Hautmont (xii., Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
Launch Machinery, Ardwiok Engineering Com¬pany, (73)
Launches and Trial Trips, 23, 40, 67. 101, 125 151, 169, 170, 201, 212, 251, 279, 305, 329,379, 403, 427, 453, 480, 507, 631, 655, 603 025, 661
Law, Mr. Ily., 321
Liw and Trades Unions, The, 523
Lead Industry of North Cardiganshire, Revival In, (74)

Leaders:

Admiralty Engineering, 63
Aerial Ships, 139
Aluminium and Copper, Future of, 166
Amorioan Armour Plate, 546
American Coal in Europe, 291
Shipbuilding Developments, 418
Steel Trade, The, 139
Tariff and the Iron Trade, The, 38
Attraction, 341
Automatic Stokers, 63
Boiler Explosions, Phenomena of, 496
at St. Helens, 615
Select Committee on, 90, 217
Bristol Quays, 418
Cheap Power, 38
Coal, American, in Europe, 294
Price of, 216
Trade Crisis, German, 268
Coaling Stations in the Hod Sea, German and Russian, 522
Colliery Wages and Profits in South Wales, 343
Copper Supplies, 394
Education and Trade, 639
Electric Earth Returns, 622
Locomotion, Mr. W. Langdon on, 670
Locomotives, 615
Supply Mains. 295
Engine Breakdowns, 320
Engines, Turbine Steam, 417
Engineers, Naval, 469, 495, 545, 593
Engineers in the United States Navy, 469, 495
English and American Methods, (Mechanical Engineering), 215
Entrenched Positions, Attack of, 165
French Marine, The, 37
French Naval Reforms, 521
Gas, Price of North London, 470
Gathmann Aerial Torpedo Gun, 191
German Coal Trado Crisis, The, 268
German Customs Duos, Revision of, 165
Goods Tralli3, Conduct of, (Largo Wagons in United States), 216
GoscheD, Mr., at Bay, 13
GoscheD, Mr., his Memorandum, 64, 89, 217
Inland Navigation in Germany, 14
Institution of Civil Engineers, 4/0
Iron and Steel Profits, 368
Locomotives, Compound, 294
Locomotive Explosion at Westerfield, 393
London Streets, 546
Loree, Mr. L. F., his History of the Goods Wagon and Freight Car, 216
Machinery of Fighting Ships, 115
Machinery, Manufacture of, 441
Matter, Modern Views of, 140
Mechanical Engineers. Training of, 293, 343
Mercier—and After, 616
Motor Care, 14
Naval Engineers, 469, 495, 645, 693
Engineers, United States, 469, 495
Officers and Warships, 640
Suggestions, 594
Navy, The, 441
North-British Railway Accident, The, 267
Penalties, 116
Picketting, Injunctions against, 241
Railway Labour, 242
Speeds, 191, 471
Unpunctuaiity, 319
Wagons, 522
Rille Ranges, The Provision of, 90
Science and the Manufacturer, 496 Screw Gauges, 319
Shipbuilding in America, Cost of, 594
Simplicity and Complication, 36S
Smoke, Prevention of, 639
Speed in tho Navy, 89
Steam Engine, Now Theory of the, 367
Steam Jackets Useful ? Are, 470
Tost of Stoam Engines, A, 241
United States Armour-plate Question, Tho 242
Competition, 418 Competition, Sir I, L. Bell on 569
Water Supply, A Question of, 394
Water-tube Boilers in Merchant Ships, 268

Sub-Leaders:

Admiralty Boiler Committee, Selection of Mr. J. Inglis, 217
Aluminium Patents, 523
American Bridge Work for the Uganda Rail¬way, 595
Railroad Construction, 116
Steel Ship Plates, Rejection of, 523
Anglo-German Cablegrams, 570
Atlantic Record, The, 269
Boilers, Belleville, 39, 442
Brassworkers' Wages,'116
British Association, The, 192
Machinery Abroad, 369
Railway Orders in the United States,
Sir H. Vincent on, 516, 565
Carnegie Projects, 344
Carnegie Steel for England, 321
Clyde Shipbuilding, 845
Coal Bills, Railway Companies'. 166
Coalfield, Development of the Yorkshire, 64
Coal in India, English, 442
Price of, 141
Prices of Locomotive, 16
Trade with Hull Port, The, 166
Trade, Yorkshire, 419, 497, 694
Yorkshire Steam, end the Tuff Vale Strike, 217
Commercial Treaty with Germany, The New. 419
Copper, 295
Electricity on the Underground Railway, 670
Gas Lighting, Incandescent, 268
German Treaty, Proposed New, 546
German Shipbuilding Capabilities, 192
Glasgow’s Facilities for Technical EJueation, 369
Glasgow Tramways, 91
Goscben, Mr., 321
Japanese Gold, 192
Jubilee of the Submarine Cable, 217
Liw and Trade Unions, 623
Lengthening Vessels, 192
Locomotives, Cleaning, 442
London Water Supply, 497. 616
Machinery, Openings for, 344
Machinery Shipments, 39
Mechanical Flight, 192
Minos Drainage, 61
Portholes for Passenger Ships, E ilarged, 110
Railway Accident at Hind ley, 216
Coal Contracts, The, 570, 595
Companies' Coal Bil s, 166
Conciliation Board, Propo?ed, 821
Railway in the Balkans, 523
Speeds, 471
Russia, Northern Railway of, 623
Russia in the Red Sea, 623
Russian Navy, The, 395
St. Michael’s Acetyleno Installation, The, 321
Sultan’s Guns, The, 15
Telegraphic Communication with Southern and Eastern Asia, 395
Tin-plates, 497
Tin-plate Trade Unions and the Search for New Markets, 14
Tube Trade, The, 108
Turbine-propelled Channel Steamers, 91
United States Senate and the Nicaragua Canal, 616
Yorkshire Coa'owners and the Locomotive Con¬tracts, 570, 595
Yorkshire Coal Trade, The, 419, 497, 591
LEAN, Mr. Chas. Calculating the Curve of Equi¬librium or Line of Thrust in Arched Ribs, 110, 111
Lectures on Railway Management, (480)
Leeds Corporation, System of Collecting Tram Fares, (293)
Leeds Sewage, Treatment of, 232
Legal Intelligence:
The Crown v. A Bye-law Passed by a Local Authority, (213)
Whitehead v. Ramsden, Taylor, and Co. (Work¬man’s Property in his Invention), 121
Letters to the Editor:
Acetyleno Gas Generators, W. Doman, 36
Admiralty Engineering, Royal Navy, 261
Aürial Experiment, W. E. I., 96
Aürial Torpedoes, Lonis Gathmann, 67
Alloying Cast Iron with Aluminium, Wm. H. Siddle, 118
American Works Practice, Wm. C. Hogg, 415
Artistic Accuracy, Arthur Rigg, 499
Atlantic City Flyers, Crewe, 573
Belleville Boiler, Tho, A. R K. S., 86
Bevel-wheel Planers, John Richardson, 212
Blackheath and Greenwich Electric Generating Station, Reginald P. Wilson, 264
Boiler Explosions, J. C., 499
Boilers in the Navy, Soperintending Engineer, 67
British Exhibits at Paris, Wiilans and Robin¬son, Limited, 36
Trade and Manufacturers, Fair Trade, 118
Cement Testing, Chas. Lionel Smith, 162
Chevalet Detartariser, The, Wm. Boby, 217
Colliers’ Wages, F. B. Saunders, 145
Copper Supply, The World's, Reginald Enock, 364
Couplings, Autoratic Railway Wagon, T. A. Brockelbank, 415
Crank Shafts, Built, J. Brady, jun., 95
Dairy Show, 1900, Edw. C. Backbone, 415
Disulphurisation of Cok9, W. A. Jenkin, 322
Engines, Gas and Oil, at the Paris Exhibition, Edw. C. Blackstone, 549
Engine, The Straight Line, John E. Sweet, 499
Engineers, Consnliing, W. H. Thornbery, 598
English and American Railways, C. M. Wales, 619
English <•. American Tools, Francis H. Crittall, 549
Factory Inspector as Advertising Agent, The, Fred. Miller, 195
Fan Efficiency, Brattice, 388 ; W. A. Granger, 413, 498, 573, 619 ; P. W., 444, 549, 599, 619
Ferranti Engine and Dynamo, Test of a, N. Applebee, 619
Fly-wheels. Efficiency of, Volvox, 413
French Riilways, how they Impede the Deve¬lopment of the Country, Horus, 195
Gas from Sewage, W. Naylor, 517
Gas from Sludge, Elw. A. Harman, 573
German Gebrauchsmuster ! Can an Englishman
Hold a Valid, C. P. A., 388 ; Fell and James,
518 ; H. it W. Pataky, 364
Goods Traffic, Conduct of, J. D. Twinberrow, 217
Great Eistorn Suburban Extensions, Snares- brook,388
Heating Railway Carriages, C. A. Brantsen, 212
II jpper Drodger, La Puissante, Walter Robt. Kinipple, 264 ; Walter Brown for William
Simon and Co., Ltd., 322
Illuminating Gas from Sewago Slnlge, Elw. A. II irman, 445
Iodian Ink, A. E. S , 212
Institution of Electric Engineers, A Briton, 96
Lithes, Three-spindle, C. P., 599
Levelling Staff, J. Gould, 619
Lsvelliog Staff, G. W. Hardman, 699
lzghting of St. Michael's, Thorn and Hoddlo Acetylene Company, Limited, 361
Locomotives, Cleaning, A Reader, £18
Locomotive Engines at the Paris Exhibition R. v. Helmholtz, 18
Licomotive Explosion at We3terficld, Loco. Boiler Maker, 413
Lubrication, Question in, Ocean Tramp, 445
Machine Tools, English and American, J. S. V. Bickford, 195
Machine Tools, English and American, Wm. B. Pinching, 247
Mechanical Engineers, Training of, J. S. V. Bickord, 474 ; T. H. B.,338 ; Catapult, 388 ; Employer, 340 ; A. M. I. M. E„ 444, 474; On¬looker, 340 ; Poppet Head, 322; Robert H. Smith, 444 ; C. E. Wolff, 413
Mint, A Year's Work at the, E. G. King, 217
Motor Trial, The 1000 Miles, Purchaser, 67
Nature of Matter, The, Q, 195
Naval Engineers, Chief Engineer, 573, 698, 615;
Djm Spiro Spero, 548; Engineer, 618 ; Fid- ley House, 517, 598 ; Fleet Engineer, 618
J. Holley, 598 ; Mercantile Chief, 518 ; Naval Eocumbranco, 548,654; Naval Engineer, 645; Ona of tho Naval Engioeors, 614 ; R.N., 548 ; Stand Bye, 644 ; Weary One, 673
New Zealand Coal, J. Watson, 145
Niclansje Boilers, G. do Grave Sells, 118
Niclausso Bailers, Wiilans and Robinson, Limi¬ted, 98, 145
North of Franco Riilway, Eloctric Arrange¬ment on, Safety, 445
Novik, The, John I. Thornycroft and Co., 519
Oil Gav Lighting, Eirly, W. B. Paley, 36-1
Patents in Pretoria, Eiw. Evans and Co., 573
Patents and Trade Marks in the Orange River Colony, Wm. H. Taylor, 310
Pitchometers, J. Leitch, 517
Pockot Calculator, Professor Smith’s, Ily. Lea, 1
364; C. N. Pickworth, 388 ; Robt. H. Smith, 1 340 ; J. 11. Steward, 388, 517 ; Your Critic, 1 475 1
Portholes, A. A. C. Davies, 162
Power, Choap, John S. V. Bickford, 67
Prime Movers at the Paris Exhibition, Alf. Towler, 499
Proportions of Modol Steam Engines, Tho, Anxious, 195
Pumps, Centrifugal, Jos. Bernays, £99
Rails, Acid v. Basic, Lowthian Bell, 413
Railway and Other Labour, W. E. Back, 298, 340
Railway Shareholders and Automatic Couplings, T. A. Brocklebank, 67
Railway Speeds, C. L., 322; Norman D. Macdonald, 261, 340 ; W. S. M., 388 ; Share¬holder, 361; Clement E. Stretton, 298 ; Jas Tylor, 322 ; Hy. Wool ford, 322
Repairing a Tail Shaft at Sea, C. E. Stromeyor,
Riekie Compound Locomotive. Henry V. Arun¬del, 118, 212 ; Radix, 118 ! John Riekie, 247 ;
J. D. Twinberrow, 96, 162, 264
Ships, Ancient and Modern, R. R., 212
Ship Resistance and the Stream Line Theory, Marston Niles, 114
Soaring Flight, Note on, lloratio S. Greenhough, 499
S earn Rollers, Upkeep of, Robt. Phillips, 413
Trap3, Geo. T. Pardoo, 145
Turbines, Alfred Cotton, 475
Turbines, Chas. A. Parsons, 444
Steel Riils, Life of, E. E. Russell Tratman, 195
Strikes, Suggestion for the Prevention of, R. D. Summerfield, 340
Submarine Boats, F. G. Towell, 247
Superheater and Separator, II. Cruse, 475
Supersession of the Steam by the Electric Locomotive, W. Langdon, 599
Target Book, The, Handy Man, 573
Toeodolites and their Failure, W. J., 599
Theory of the Steam Engine, A New, W. 11. Northcott, 413
Tramways, Cornelius E. Curdew, 162
Trial Data of H.M.S. Diadem, Robert Mansel, 145
Typhoid and Flies, Attilio Cerutti, 499
Valves of Gas Engines, G. Hives Dawson, 96
Valves of Gas Engines, J. D. Roots, 96
Ventilation of Drawing Offices, J. Stephen, 518
Ventilation and Heating, Alf. J. Allen, 559;
EIw. A. Ilarman, 645; Wm. Ingham, 444, 649 ; R Gordon Mackay, 619: J. A. McLaren, 573 ; Os. Wheeler, 549
Victoria Nyanza, General, R.E., 619
Wagon Couplings, J. L. Cridland, 518
Wagon Couplings, Safety, 573
Waste of Water and its Prevention, An Assist¬ant, 264; Distribution, 96, 145, 212 ; A. J. Jonkins, 162; W. de Normanville, 118; Superintendent, 414 ; H. S., 44,145
Water, Molecular Constitution of, Jas. C. Richardson, 599
Supply, Delta, 573; Distribution, 499, 549; B. A. W. E.,619; R.C. Fraio,
549 ; R. Harding and Son, 499 ; R Gordon Mackay, 475 ; II. P. May-
bury, 517 ; R. R., 415
Waterway, An Old, Tyeth D. Bounsall, 573
Waterway, A Remarkablo Old, W. B. Paley, 599
Wire Rope on Pulleys, Friction of, T. R. K., 415
Wood Preservative, Now, M. do H. Duval, 14j
Letter’s from our own Correspon¬dents:
America, Engineering Notes from, 44, 72, 98, 122, 148, 174, 224, 278, 302, 326, 349, 376, 478, 501, 552, 576, 622
America, Notes from, 47, 74.101, 150,176, 200, 247, 279, 304, 403, 427, 452, 481, 606, 630, 554, 578, 625, 651
Australia, Notes from, 201, 400, 478, 555
England, North of, 21, 46, 73, 100, 121, 149, 175, 199, 225, 249, 277, 303, 328, 351, 377, 425, 451, 479, 505, 529, 553, 577, 601, 623, 650
Germany, 23. 47, 75, 101, 125, 151, 176, 201, 251, 279, 305. 329, 353. 379, 403, 426, 452, 480, 507, 530, 554, 579, 603, 624, 650
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birming¬ham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 21, 45, 72, 99, 122, 148, 174, 198, 225, 248, 277, 302, 327, 350, 376, 400, 424, 450, 478, 604, 528, 552, 577, 600, 623, 649
Japan, 45, 576
Lancashire, 21, 45, 73, 99, 122, 149, 174, 199, 225, 249, 277, 303, 327, 351, 377, 400. 424, 478, 504, 528, 552, 577, 601, 623, 649
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly
Trade Reports, 22, 44, 74, 100, 124, 151, 176, 200, 226, 278, 304, 328, 402, 426, 480, 506, 530, 554, 578, 802, 624
Scotland, 22, 46, 74, 124, 150, 176, 200, 226, 250, 278, 301, 352, 378, 402, 425, 451, 479, £03, 529, 553, 578, 602, 624, 650
Sheffield, 21, 45, 73, 99, 122, 149, 175, 199, 225, 249, 277, 303, 327, 351. 377. 401. 425, 479, 505, 529, 553, 577, 601, 623, 649
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 46, 74, 100, 124, 150, 176, 200, 226, 250, 278, 304, 323, 352, 378, 402, 426, 452, 480, 603, 530, 554, 578, 602, 624, 650
LEVELLING Staff, 599, 619
Lewis Bolt, A, 398
Life guard for Electric Tramcars, Wilson and Bennett’s, (351)
Life-saving Appliances at the Paris Exhibition, 421
Light, Comparison of Qualities of Rays given off by Different Sources of, 172
Light, Velocity of, Determined by M. Perrotin, (544,
Lighthouse on the Bass Rock, Now, (285)
Engineering at the Paris Exhibition, 311
Lighthouse at Jenningtrea Point, Steel Frame, Lantern, L’ile Vierga, France, 131, 132, 135, 138
North Devon,'A New, (78)
Lighting, Early Oil Gas, 3G4
Lighting of St. Michael's, 361
Linotype Machines, (26)
Linz Basalt for Sea Walls, 146
Liquid Air, Glowing up Wrecks by Use of, (62)
Factory, Los Angeles, (190)
How to Obtain an Exact Idea as to, (416)
Mr. Carl Linde on the Uses and Pro¬duction of, (54)
Keeping, (33)
Fuel, 374
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Acetylene, Hand-book for the Student and Manufacturer, by Vivian B. L9wos, with 228
Illustrations, (134), 281
Air, Water, and Food, from a Sanitary Stand¬point, by Ellen H. Richards and Alpheus G. Woodman, (273), (315)
A’ternating Currents, Elements of, by Franklin and Williamson, 167
American Institute of Architects Quarterly Bulletin, April 1st to July 1st, 1900, Com¬piled and Edited by Glonn Brown, (295,
Astral Gravitation in Natural Phenomena, Essays in Illustration of the Action of, W. L. Jordan, (384)
Atlas, World-wide, of Modern Geography, Political and Physical, with Introduction by John S. Keltie, W. and A. K Johnson, (471)
Australian Municipal Pocket-book of Engineer¬ing for the Use of Laymen, Compiled by J. H. Cardew, (369)
Automobiles and Motor Cycles, Horseless Vehicles, by G. D. Iliscox, 315
l’Automobile sur Route, Manuel Théoriqne et Pratique de, by Gérard Lavergne, 315
Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, Hand-book for Councillors, Engineers, and Surveyors, by Geo. Thudihum, (15)
Banker, How to Choose Ycu-, Manual for Customers and Inventors, Henry Warren, (471)
Banker, How to Dual with Your, by Henry Warren, (15)
Board of Trade, Labour Department, Report by Mr. Wilson Fox, (217)
Board of Education, Report of the, 1899-1900, (558)
Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, and Mast¬makers, Practical Treatise for the Use of, I., J., and U. Haddon, (595)
Bouclier et les Me,bodes Nouvelles de Perce- ment des Souterrains, par René Philippe, (134), 407
Bridge-building, Hundred Years of German, by Georg C. Meh rtens, 281, 383
British Association of Waterworks Engineers, Transactions of, Vol. v., (58)
Building Construction and Drawing, by C. F. Mitchell, assisted by G. A. Mitchell, (295)
Calculus for Engineering Students, Elementary Treatise on the, by John Graham, (471)
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China and the Present Crisis, by Joseph Wal¬ton, 167
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Eaux Potables et Industrielles, Recherche des, par Henri Boursault, 91
Electric Generators, by II. F. Parshall and H. M. Hobart (217)
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Motors to Machine Driving, Applica¬tion of, by Androw Stewart, (168), (182)
Wiring Tables, by Perren Maycock, (408)
Electricity, The ABC of, Wm. H. Meadow- croft, (315)
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Employers’ Liability Act, 1880, and the Work¬men’s Compensation Acts, 1897 and 1900, Alf. H. Ruegg, (641) -•
Engines, Gas, Oil, and Air, A Text-book on, by Bryan Donkin, (295), 559
Engines, High-speed Steam, by W. Norris and Ben. U. Morgan, (217)
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Footpaths, their Maintenance, Construction, and Cost, by A. Taylor Allen, (182)
Foundry Practici, Modern, John Sharp, (471), 610
Fowler, Sir John, The Life of, by Thos. Mackay, (381)
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Heat ? What is, and What is Electricity 1 Fred. Havenden, (535)
Horseless Vehicles, Automobiles, Motor Cycles —Operated by Steam, Hydrocarbon, Electric, and Pneumatic Motors, by G. D. Hiscox, (105)
House Drainage and Sanitary Fitments, by Gerard J. G. Jensen, (15)
Injectors: Their Theory, Construction, and Working, W. W. F. Pullen, (384)
Institution of Civil Eogineers, Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings, Vol. oxi., Part II., (168)
Institution of Civil Engineers, Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of. Vol. cxli., Session 1899- 1900, Part III., (369)
Institution of Civil E egineers, Excerpt Minntcs of Proceedings of,',Vol. exliii., Part IV., (595)
Inventor’s Adviser, or Every Min’s Own Patent Agent, by Reginald Hadden, (217)
Ions et l’Electrolyse, La Tnéorio de9, Aug. Ilollard, (512)
Iron and Steel, Stractura, : Text-book for Architects, Engineers, Builders, and Science Students, W. T. Twelvetrees, (558)
Land Surveying and Levelling, A. T. Walmis¬ley, (512)
Law and Practice Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions, by R. W. Wallace, (168)
Laws of Industrial Property and Copyright in the Library of the Post-office, Subject List of, (641)
Liwyers and their Clients, Practical Guide for the Latter, (595)
Lead Storage Battery : History, Theory, Con¬struction, and Use, Desmond G. Fitzgerald, (408), (535)
Lean's Royal Navy List, No. 91 (58)
Locomotive of To-day, The, (383)
Lubrication and Lubricants, by Leonard Arch¬butt and R. Mountfort Daeley, 430
Macdonald’s English Dictionary and Gazetteer, 1900 Edition, (91)
Magnetic Induction in Iron and other Metals, by J. A. Ewing, 217
Magnetism and Electricity, Preliminary Prac¬tical, by John Henderson, (345)
Mathematical, Drawing, and Measuring Instru¬ments: Construction, Uses, Qualities, &e., by W. F. Stanley, (273)
Mechanical Traction in War for Road Trans¬port, Lieut.-Col. Olfried Layriz, Translated by R. B. Marston, (512)
Mechanical World, The Pocket Diary and Year-book for 1901, Emmott and Co., (408)
Mechanics, Prinoiple3 of, Elementary Exposi¬tion for Students of Physics, Fred. Slate, Part I., (595)
Mechanics of Solids, Elementary, by W. T. A. Eueptage, (339)
Men of Note in Finance and Commerce, Edited by H. Bassstt, with which is incorporated Men of Offioe, Biographical Business Direc¬tory, (369)
“Melbourne Argus,”Tables of the Australasian Mails for 1901, (641)
Metal Plate Work, Practical, Edited by Paul N. Hasluck, (273)
Mines of the Transvaal, H. R. Mabson, 91
Motor Vehicles and Motors, their Design, Con¬struction and Working by Steam, Oil, and Electricity, by W. Worby Beaumont, (369)
Natural Philosophy, Exercises in, with Indi¬cations how to Answer them, Magnus Maolean, (471)
Navy Department for 1893, Annual Reports of the, Report of the Secretary of the Navy, (471)
Newspaper List, Handy, C. and E. Layten, (105)
Norfolk Waterways, Guide to the Navigable Waterways of the Norfolk Broad Distriot, by H. R. de Salis, (15)
Optical Tables and Data fortheUse of Opticians, Silvanus P. Thompson, (471)
Over the Alps on a Bicycle, by Elizabeth Rebins Pennell, (168)
Paper Making, Text-book of, by C. F. Cross and E J. Bevan, (295)
Patent Law, Law and Practice Relating to Letters Patent for Invuntim, by Reger Wallace and John Brace Williamson, 407
Patents for Inventions, Epitome of the Law anti Practice connected with, together with a Re¬print of the Patent Acts of 1883, 1885, 1886, by Jame3 and .1. 11. Johnson, (273)
Pavements and Paving Materials, Street, by O. W. Tillson and Wiloy and Sons, (881)
Penrose’s Piotorial Annual: The Process Year¬book, 1900, 559
Periodical Literature, Contents, Subject Index to, A. Cotgreave, (558)
Periyar Project, History of the, compiled by A. T. Mackenzie, (273), 471
Plague, Climatic Conditions necessary for the Propagation and Spread of, by Baldwin Latham, (273)
Pocket Companion, containing Useful Informa¬tion and Tables appertaining to the Use of Steel, as Manufactured by Carnegie Steel Company, by F. II. Kindi, (182)
Ports Modernos, Les, parC. de Cordemoy, (381)
Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century, Edw. W. Byen, (471), (512)
Pumping Machinery, Ily. Davoy, 534
Pumping Machinery, Principles, Construction, and Application of, by Hy. Davey, (295)
Pomps and Pumping Machinery, by Fred. Colyer, ^535)
Railed Roads: Manual for Local Boards, Dis¬trict Officers, &c., intended chiefly for the Madras Presidency, F. J. E. Spring, (471)
Railroad Construction, Theory and Praotice : Text book for tho Use of Students in Colleges and Technical Schools, by Walker Loring Webb, 104
Railway Congress, Bill etin of the Internal, Vol. xiv., No. 5, (58)
Railway Diary and Official Directory, 1901, (595)
Railway Officials, Universal Directory of, 1900, Compiled by S. R. Blundstone, (105)
Railway Runs in Three Continents, J. T. Burton-Alexander, (595)
Reclamation of Lands from Tidal Waters, by Alexander Beazeley, 58
Rivetage des Charpontes Métalliques des Navires et des Chaudióres, Traités Thóurique et Pratique du, G. Maugas, (595)
Road Making and Maintenance: Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors, &a., by Thos. Aitken, (430)
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of the, Third Series, Vol. xi., Part II. No. 42, 30th Juno, 1900, (15)
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of, Vol. xi., Part III. No. 43, (345)
Royal Navy List Diary and Naval Hand-book for 1901, (535)
Royal United Service Institution, Vol. xliv., 91 Sob iffbautechnischen G esellschaf t J ahrbuch der,
Erster Band, 168
Soa Story, a Century of our. Walter Jeffery, with Portrait of Nelson, (512)
Sowageand the Bacterial PuriÜcation of Sewage, by Sam Rideal, (15), 58
Sowage, Bacterial Treatment of, by Geo. Thudichum, (15)
Sewerage Engineer's Note-book, The, Albert Wollheim, (471)
Ships, Ancient and Modern, Part I., Wooden Sailing Ships, by Geo. C. V. Holmes, (168),
South Africa, Should I Succeed in, by a Suc¬cessful Colonist, (345)
Standard Piece Rates of Wages and Sliding Scales in the United Kingdom, Report on, (134)
Steam Engine Indicator, by Carl H. Peabody,
Steel Bridges, Specification for (Taken from "De Pontibus”), I. A. L. Waddell, (641)
Steel Rails through Use on Railways, Report of the Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to Inquire into the Lots of Strength in, 26
Stresses and Strains, their Calculation and that of their Resistances, by Formula; and Graphic Methods, Fred. Rich. Farrow, (471), 535
Structural Iron and Steel, Text-book for Archi¬tects, Engineers, Builders, and Science Stu¬dents, W. N. Twelvetree», (471)
Surveying with the Tacheometer, Practical Manual for the Use of Civil and Military Engineers and Surveyors, by Neil Kennedy, (105)
"Target Bjok,” No. I, France, 535
Tea Machinery and Tea Factories, by A. I. Wallis Taylor, (15)
Technical Words and Phrases, Eiglish-French and French-English Dictionary, J. A. Stand¬ring and C. A. Thimm, (512)
Technological Examinations, Programme of, Examinations Department, Exhibition-road, (182)
Thermodynamik, Technische, Von D. Gustav Fenner, (408)
Typographic Surveying, Including Geographic, Exploratory, and Military Mapping, by Her¬bert M. Wilson, 167
Tramways, Omnibuses, and Eleotric Railways, Duncan’s Manual of, (168)
United States Naval Institute, Proceedings of, (58)
Useful Arts and Handicrafts, Vol. ii., Edited by II. S. Ward, (471)
Useful Arts and Handicrafts, Planned by Chas. Godfrey Leland, (408)
Wages and Hours of Labour in the United Kingdom in 1899, Report on ChaDgos in Rates of, with Statistical Tables, Eyre and Spottiswoode. (369)
Wages in the United Kingdom in 1900, with Comparative Tables, Report on the Standard Time Rates of, Eyre and Spottiswoode, (346)
Waterworks Directory and Statistics, 1900, Re¬vised to August, 1903, Gasworks Directory and Statistics, 1900-1901, Revised to August, 1900,(471)
Waterworks Distribution: Practical Guide to tho Laying out of System) of Distributing Mains for Supply of Water to Cities and Towns, J. A. McPherson, (535,
Week-ends in Dickens' Land, Bijen Hand book for the Cyclist and Rambler, (512)
Who’s Who ? 1901, Annual Biographical Dic¬tionary, (641)
Workshop Mathematics, in Two Parts, by Frank Castle, (295)
Yachtsman, Manual Pratique du, (384) Year-book of the Scientific ant Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, Compiled from Official Sources, (15)
LIVERPOOL Water Supply, 69
Locks, High-lift Canal, 105
Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives Lodge, Dr. O., Modern Views of Mattor, 140
Loewe and Co.’s Works, Berlin, Backing-off
Lathe (Supplement, November 23rd, 1900, viii.), 82, 83. 109, 112
London, Port of, The Administration of, (544)
London Streets, 546
Streets, Cleansing and Scavenging of, (11)
Water Supply (253), (365), (467), 475, 497, 499, 517, 616
Water Supply and Sewage Treatment, (365)
Longridge, Captain C. C., Blast Furnace Smelt¬ing by Water Gas, 153
Lorry, Electrically-propelled, (637)
Los Angeles, Boiler Capacity in, (190)
Low Moor and Bowling Works, Dispute os to which Started First, (318)
Lubrication, Question in, 445
Lugansk and the Hartmann Machine Company’s Locomotive Works, 8,9, 10,12

M

MACHINE Shops, Construction of, Mr. E. K. Clark on, 290
Tools, Combined Steam Hammer and Oliver, 95
Continental and British (Supplement, November 23rd, 1900)
English v. American, 195, 217, 549
Paris Exhibition, 188, 187 188, 189
Machinery, British, Abroad, 369
of Fighting Ships, The, 103, 115
into Russia viA Riga, Import of, (190)
Manufacture of, 441 Openings for, 344
Shipments, 39
Machine Tools (Supplement, November 23rJ, 1900):—
Backed-off Cutter, Reinecker, vii., viii., Fig. 16
Bolt-turniog Machine, Domoor, ii., Fig. 4
Drill and Toot Grinder, Domoor, ii.
Hsadstock Section, Socié 6 Alsacienne, iv., Fig. 9
Headstock Lathe, Dean, Smith, and Grace, xiv., xv.
Headstock Section, Roinecker, vi., 12 Hob, Reinecker, vi., 11
Reversing Motion, Sculfort and Fockedey, xi., Diagram
Vertical Turret, Sccióté Alsacienne, iv., 10
Withdrawing Device, Demoor, i.,
Diagram Withdrawing Device, Loewe, vii.
Worm-wheel Hobbing Machine, Reinecker, vi., 13, 15
Mclanes-Dobbie Indicator, The, 502
Maclean, Sir Andrew, 517
Magnetic Field of Electric Tramways, Prof. A. W. Rucker on the, 641
Magnetic Observations, Regulations with Refer¬ence to the Effect of Electric Traction on, (440)
Magnifying Glasses for the Navy, (491)
Main at Cole Brook, Bursting of a, (163)
Mallock, Mr. A., On the Measurement of the Tractive Force, &c., of Trains, 323
Manchester Corporation, Project for Buying a Coal Mine to Supply the Gasworks with Fuel, (253)
Municipal Contract Scandal, (478) Sewage Disposal. (62), (217)
Water Supply, (33)
Mansel, Robt., Mechanical Theory of Steamship Propulsion, 179
Mansergh, Mr. Jas., Presidential Address on the Filtration of Water, 462, 471

Maps:

Central American Isthmus, 405
New York, Watersheds near, 460
Nicaragua Canal, Map of the Proposed Route 605
Panama Canal (Supplement, October 26M, 1900)
Siberia and North China, 119
Uganda Railway, 336
MARCONI’S Wirelesi Telegraphic Apparatus on View at the Essex Exhibition, (508)
Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company Apparatus, Completed for the Admiralty, (03/)
Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph System, The Jack- son System v., 135
Marine Notes, Amorican, (302)
Marloid, a Substitute for Celluloid, (163)
Mathematics, Professor Perry on the Teaching of, 151
Mather and Platt, Limited, The Ridgway Dis¬tributor, an Aid to Sewage Purification, 601
Matthews, Mr. Thos., New Works at Pendleton Salford, (P23)
Matter, Mod9rn Views of, 140
Matter, Nature of, 195
Mixim, Mr. Hiram, On Mechanical Flight. 192
Mechanical Flight, 192
Mechanical Theory of Steamship Propuls’on. bv Robt. Mansel, 179 f > ï
Melville, Rear-Admiral G. W., Machinery of the United States Navy Armoured Cruisers, 103,
Mercier—and After, 616
Mersey, Annual Report on the State of the,
Metals, D.ffusion of, by Pressure, (624)
and Metal (roods Imported into Chris¬tiania in 1899, (163)
and Minerals in Cuba, (137)
Meteorology in Japan, (111)
Metric System, Adoption of, by the British 140^0r Absolutely InlLpensablo,
Metrical System of Weigh's and Measures to be Introduced in Russia, (467)
Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, The, 397
Metropolitan Water Supply, Water Supply Mica in Gorman East Africa, Discovery of, (508)
Micromotor Wire Gauge, 220
Milling Machine, Smith and Coventry, Limited, 189
Radial Drill and Vertical, [Forriijn Sii/i/ilt iiiiiil Noefiiiliir 23rd, 1990), 237
Mill, Bar Rolling, (340)
Mills, Rolling. Suggestions for their Improvement, Mr. Lcuis Eaton», 308
Milton Forge and Engineering Company, Limited, (200)
Mineral Oil in Algeria, (137)
Oil Production in India, (637)
Products of New South Woles, Value of, (163)
Products of the United Spates, 617
Resources of the United States, 197
Mineralogical Returns, New South Wales, (508)
Miners' Federation of Great Britain, Annual Con¬ference, (402)
Miners’ Provident Society, Quarterly Report, 278
Mines Drainage, 64
Mines, Signal Device for, 450
Mining in Algeria, (137)
Mining in Cornwall, A Revival of, Meeting to Consider, (611)
in Cuba, (137)
Department at Bangor University College, Proposed, (426)
History, Landmark in American, (114)
Machinery in Chile, Demand for, (213)
Mint, A Year’s Work at the, 209, 247
Morgan, Mr. David, 39
Morton, Mr. Andrew Home, A Miller Prize Awarded to, (213)
Motor Vehicles:
Accidents to, (265), (318)
Autocars Declared for Taxation in Franca, (318)
Automobile Club of Great Britain, Trials of, Organised by, 360, 462
Club’s Tria’s and Projected Run from Paris to Berlin, (4), 31, (410), (489)
in the French Army, (137)
Industry in the United States and in France (416)
Wagon for Heavy Duty. Arthur Herschmann, 96, 120, 121, 147
Automobilism up to Date, Mr. Shrapnel Smith, (617)
Bicycle, A New, 547
Capol’s Motor Carriage, 113
Carriage Propelled by Liquid Air, (611)
Cars as Tramway Feeders, 436
Congress in Paris, 58
Decauville Carriages at the Crystal Paiac 3,
Peformances of, (508)
Discussion on Professor Hele-S'aaw’s, Paper on, 14
Dust Cart, Tenders Invited for a, (440)
Electric, Card of Electric Stations in France where Electro-mobiles can be Charged, (416)
Electrically-propelled, Capacity of Batteii.sfor, (637)
Engineering Works, Pueblo, California. Motor Vehicle for Conveying Workmen to, (392)
Familiarisation of Horses with, (26)
Furious Driving at Bournemouth, Drivers Summoned, (213)
Furious Driving, M. Caron Sentenced, (114)
Heavy, Superiority of French, (416)
Henriod, Trial with, (440)
Highway for, in America, Projected, (11)
Imported into this Country, (265)
Lancashire Steam Motor Company’s Steam Wagon, Coke Fuel, (33)
Locomobile, Four-seated Carriage, 476
Locomobile of Importance for the Spirit In¬dustry, A Gorman, (318)
Manufacture in Paris in Five Years, (318)
Motors, Mr. J. S. Warner on, (540)
for Fire Engines, (467)
for Street Watering and Dust Removal, Mr. E. Shrapnell Smith on, 276
Wagons, Kent Fruit Growers’ Associa¬tion and, (519)
Mowing Machine, Paris Exhibition, (239)
Munich Streets, Consular Report on the Auto¬car Traffic, (114), (440)
Oil Engine for, 420
Operated by Explosion Engines in America, Master Patent which Covers all, (33)
Panhard-Levassor Motor Carriage, 39
Paris Exhibition, 54, 58, 130, 229, 253
Paris Trials of Heavy, 389 Petroleum Cans for, (265)
Petroleum, Spirit, and Alcohol, Relative Values of, as Motive Agent for, (440)
Rome, Opening for Eoglisli-mide, (239)
Speed Regulations under Consideration, (11)
Steam Car Driven by M. L. Serpollet, The Prince of Wales’ Trip on. (318)
Carriage, Offered to the United Stat03 War Dopartment, (637)
Motor Carriage, American, 476
Truck for the Adams Express Company, 120, 121
Stuttgart, for Street Traffic, (544)
Tbornycroft’s Steam Tipping Wagon, 31 1000-mites Trial, 67
Tires to the Steering Wheels, Importance of Securing the, (416)
Trials of Electric, Organised by the Auto¬mobile Club of Great Britain, 462
Triiyoles. Improvement in, by the De Dion Firm, (440)
for War Purposes in France, (291)
Wolseley Car, The, 421
MUMMY Cloth and tho Manchester Buyer, (114)
Munich Sewers, The, (137)

N

NAILS, Cut, (4)
Nails, Vulcanite or Ebonite, (87)
Natal, Trado Statistics, (544)
Naval Architecture, yUsthotic Principles of 307 429 455
Naval Engineer Appointments, 21, 82, 56, 118, 176, 194, 251, 287, 313. 315, 369, 395, 436, 466, 506, 541, 590, 633
Engineers, 195, 251, 469, 495, 517, 645, 548, 573, 593, 598, 618, 644, 645
Admiralty Scheme for Im¬proving Pay of. 251
Concessions to, 195
Officers, Instruction of Junior, 481 and Warships, 640
Suggestions, 594 Target Book, The, 573
Navy, The —sec Ships
Nevada, Gold Production in, (291)
Newport Sheet Ironworks of John Lysaght, Limited, 327
Newspapers and Periodicals Published in Paris, (190)
Nowspapers Printed in One Year throughout the World, (163)
New York, Population of, (190)
Now York Water Supply, 458
Niagara Falls Power Plant, Extension of, 326
Nickel Production, New Process, (213)
Nickel Steel for Locomotive Forgings, Employ¬ment of, (114)
Nickel Steel, Recaleseent Point of, (213)
Nile Irrigation Works, (611)
Nitrates, Chilian Exportation of, (137)
to Europe, Shipments of, (163)

O
Obituary:
Armstrong, Lord (with Portrait), 630
Armstrong, Prof. Goo. Fred, 523
Arthur, Mr. John Fred, (393)
Austen, Mr. Stanley, (304)
Bingham, Mr. Chas. Henry, (351)
Biroh, Mr. John Grant (with Portrait), (114), 116
Bown, Mr. Wm., (114)
Brown, Capt. Chas. Orde (with Portrait), 233
Buts, Marquis of, 362
Crossley, Mr. John, (393)
Davidson, Mr. Alfred, (191)
Dickeson, Sir Richard, (392)
Dickson, Mr. Goo. Workman, 4
Forman, Mr. Jas. It, 39
Greenwell, Mr. Geo. C.,(467)
Halliwell, Mr. J., (137)
Harris, Mr. Elw., (215,
Harrowing, Mr. ltobt., (304,
Henderson, Mr. John M., (140)
Huntington, Mr. Collis P., 168
Jeffcock, Mr. Thos., 136 (278)
Jespor, Mr. Chas., (519), (529), (602,
King, Dr. J. T., 566
Law, Mr. Hy., 321
Maclean, Sir Andrew, 517
Morgan, Mr. David, 39
Morgan, Mr. John (416)
Olander, Mr. Edmund, (436)
Ord, Mr. J. R.. (190)
Rowan, Mr. W. R. (with Portrait), 241
Sells, Mr. Chas, (with Portrait), 536
Smith, Mr. Hamilton. 65
Swan, Mr. John G., (650)
Vaughan, Mr. Thos., (578)
Wilson, Mr. Jas., 86
Wilson, Mr. W. J., (190,
OIL Deposits in Fietching Wells, (646)
Fuel for Fire Brigade Vessel on the Thames, (508)
Apparatus on s.s. Khodoung, Burmah, 614
Gas Lighting, 364
Lighting System in WUrtomberg, A New, 648
Production in California, (213)
Reduction in the Price of American Pale, (167)
Olandor, Mr. Edmund, (436)
Orde, Mr. E. L., On Liquid Fuel, 575
Ordnance:
American 16in. Gun, The New, 399
Artillery, Forty-two 4 7
Guns for the, Vickers,
Sons, and Maxim, (508). (577)
Disappearing Guns, in America, to be Replaced by Fixed Mountings, (392)
Dover, New 45
Calbrcs 9'2in. Coast, 442
Gathmann Aerial Torpedo Gun, 191
Kiangnan Arsena1, 7
" Long Cecil,” De Beera Company, 3
Machine Gun, Centrifugal Quick-firing, Mr. J. Judge. (291)
for the Household Cavalry, (33)
Paris Exhibition, 210, 282, 332
Quick-firing Siege Guns for China, 112
6in.,at Sea, Notable Improvement in the Use of, (318)
Sultan’s Guns, The, 15
Supplied to England by a German Firm, (591)
Thunderer’s Disabled 29-Tcn, (491)
United States Navy, Trial of tne 40 Calib.-e 12in. ,(611)
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, 1900 1901. 2S2-285. (649)
Vickers’ Guns for the Mikasa, (225), 282
ORE-HANDLING Machinery, (4C0)
Overtime at the Royal SmaL-armi Factory, Sus¬pension of, (62)
Owens College, Manchester, Opening of New Physical Laboratory, (11)

P

PACIFIC Cable, Projected, (508)
I’acking of Merchandise for the Tropics, 194
Palmers’Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited Dividend for 1900, June 30th, 301 Palmers’ Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Orders Secured by, (226)
Panama Canal, 405, 455, 464, 465 Pap9r from Turf, (253)
from Waste Hulls of Cotton Seed, (514)
Used in Norway, (137)
Paris Exhibition:
Automobiles at, 51, 58, 130, 229, 251
Awards Bestowed, Number of, 255
Balance Sheet of, (611)
Bolgian Ssotion, Prime Movers, M. II. Bob linckx, 355
Borsig Locomotive with Schmidt'» Superheater (Supplement, September 7th, 1900), 238 British Exhibits at, 1, 36
British Visitors to, French View Concerning, (213)
Class 19, Names of the Members of the Jury in, 2
Crépelle et Uaraiid's Corliss Engines, 106
Cutting Steel at 150ft. per Minute, Bethlehem Steel Company, 212
Electric Engineering at, 34, 35, 36, 385, 458, 513, 562, 567, 008
Engineering at, Kolben 1000 Horse¬power Alternator, 34, 35, 36
Locomotive, Sociétó Suisse, Winter¬thur, 316, 317
Electricity Generating Plant, Galloways, Limi¬ted, and Mather and Platt, Limited, 38, 92
End of th*. 490, (491)
Engines, Bietrix Nioolet et Cie., 233
Borsig Triple-expansion (Supplement, July 20/A), 51, 62, 61
Compound, 88, 92, 106, 107, 151, 356 Corliss, M. H. Bollinckx, 356
Eleotric Light, Robey and Co., 296, 297
Gas and Oil, 360, 403, 487, 533, 549, (559)
Horizontal Compound and Vertical Compound, Socié.é Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (Sup¬plement, Xoeemb.r 2nd, 1900), 429, 431
Horizontal and Vertical, Eicher, Wyes, and Co., 583, 584, 585, 586, 587
Hungarian State, 156 Portable, R. Wolf, 79
Werk-Nurnberg, Paris Exhibition
(Supplement, Avyust 24th, 1900), 179
Eaglinh Agricultural Engines, 1
Electric Manufactures, 1 Machine Tools, 1, 186,187
Mechanical Section, Steam Engines, Textile Industries, 1
Fire, Precaution against, 169
Free Day at, (467)
French Railway Employé/ Request to the Companies for Leave to Visit, (22)
Gear Shaper, Fellows', 204
Gramme Machines at, 608
Helios Exhibit, 3000 Horse-power Alternator, 158, 159
Iron and Steel at the, Prof. II. Bauerman on, 286, 376, 423, 448
Lessons of the, 399, 477, 590
Life-saving Appliances at, 421
Lighthouse, Engineering, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135,138,311,358
Lee emotive, Borsig, with Schmidt’s Super¬heater, Russian State Railway, (Supplement, September 7 th, 1900), 233
Electric, Société Suisse, Winter¬thur, 316, 317
Engine, with Auxiliary Driving Axle, Krauss and Co., 18
Exhibits at Vincennes, Mr. Rous- Marten (Supplement. December 7th, 1900), 256, 288, 557
Four - cylinder Compound, No. 26 II, MM. de Bousquet and de Glehn, Chemin de Fer du Nord (Supplement, December 7th, 1900), 567
Four - cylinder Compound, E. Railway of France (Supplements, July 6th and 13th, 1900), 2, 28, 29
Four-cylinder Compound, Signor II. Plancher, No. 3701, S. Railways of Italy (Supplements, October 6th and 19/A, 1100), 84, 333, 396, 432
Machine Tools, 1, 186, 187, 204, 236, 237
Machinery Pavilion Bought by Mather and Platt, (611)
Parsons’ Steam Turbo Dynamos, 608
Prime Movers (Supplement, September 28th, 1900), 51,52. 79, 106, 107, 154, 155, 156, 179, 234, 254, 310, 355, 429, 483, 499, 583
Société A'sacionne de Constructions Méca- niques, Horizontal and Vertical Compound Engines (Supplement, November 2nd, 1900), 429, 431
Secié é FranQaise de Constructions Mécaniques, Engine and Dynamo Coupled-direct, 106, 107
Statistics of Number of Visitors, (318)
Stme-dressing Machine, Brunton and Trier’s, 446
Thary System of E'.ectric Transmission, Chaux de Fonds and Lode, 513
Turbines, 80, 81, 254
Turbine with Hydraulic Relay Governor, Ganz and Co., 80, 81
War Material at, 210, 282, 332, 382 Wood working Machinery, 838, 339
PARIS Drainage and Water Supply, 682
Paris Water Supply, 83
Patent Act Amendment, Canadian, (114)
Liws, Inquiry at the Board of Trade,
Law? Practical Lectures on, 501
in Pretoria, 573

Patents, Selected American:

Air Compressors, E. M. L. Deval, 152
Air Compressor and Cooler, O. P. Ostergren, 626
Alarm for Boilers, Low-water, L. Meyer, 454
Apparatus for Taking and Reproducing Ani¬mated Scenes and Sounds, A. Baron, 608 Axe Sieve, T. Johnson, 280
Bearing for Centrifugal Machines, C. A. Mathey, 152
Bo Ier, N. P. Town, 428
Marine, H. Lawson, 48
Steam, C. W. Cox, 102
Steam, C. D. Mosher, 556
Bjsh-plate, Kerr and BrowD, 228
Bridge L'ft, F. La Pointe, 532 I
Briquettes for Testing Purposes, Making, 7. Miller, jun., 508
Patents, Selected American (continutd)'. Burner, Incandescent Vapour, L. S. Pfontz.
24
Calcining Furnace, G. Hughes, 354
Carbon and Globe Holder for Arc Lamps, A. Holliger, 102
Carburettor for Petroleum or other Engines, A. and L. Lamicre, 404
Casting Apparatus, D. T. Croxton, 76
Chuck, Smith and Coventry, 652
Compressed Air, Ru-heatiDg, T. A. Edison, 604
Compressing Air, E. Gobho, 580
Cooling Means for, Explosive Engines, W. Rsa,
Corrugated Birs, W.'Maciejewski, 253, 280
Cupolas, A. Eidie, 152
Cutter Bars, Compound, Bradford and Ashton, 253
Cutting Gear Wheels, II. Bikram, 454
Disintegrating Machines, G. II. Pond, 280
Dredging Bucket, C. H. Smith, 401
Electric Furnace, A. II. Cowles, 652
Electric Furnace, H. Leleux, 330
Engine, Gas, Multiple cylinder, R. A. Fishbie, 482
High-speed, A. F. Scott, 76
Operating and Governing, C. Robinson, 454
Rotary, P. T. Perkins, 152
Starting Device, G. S. Strong, 102
Steam, E. H. Gollings, 380
Evaporating Apparatus, E. J. Duffe, 580
Excavator, O. Hetlesaeter, 48
I. P. Lambing, 228
Expansion Compensating Device for Steam Cylinders, E. König, 604
E (plosive Engine, C. R. Daellenbacb, 253
Feeding Comminuted Fuel to Locomotives, J. F. Hay, 532
Feed Rolls for Rolling Mills, D. D. Lewis, 3C6
Feed-wator Heater and Auxiliary Condenser, F. M. Wheeler, 126
Flanging Tubes, F. W. Barthels, 482
Flue Construction for Steam Carriages, R. C. Mudge, 626
Forgings, Handling, J. Lanz, 380
Fuel Supply of Engines, Regulating, R. Diesel, 280
Furnace, Calcium Carbide, Zimmermann and Prenner,‘152
Charging Apparatus, B’ast, J. Ken¬nedy, 76
Feeding, T. Morrison, 228 Ore-roasting, J. C. Teller, 76
Gear cutting Machine, J. Summer, 451
Hatchet, Metallic, J. R. Payson, jun., 428
Hydraulic Elevator, E. H. Evans, 354
Ingot Extracting, Morgan and Taylor. 482
Injector, Double-tube, E. J. Young, 24
Joints for Pipes, Flexible, A. Leitelt, jun., 252
Journal-box, P. Brown, 76
Key-seating Machine, A. D. Catlin, 428
Lamp, Spirit Incandescent, K. Lehmann, 152
Locomotive Engine, A. Mallet, 508
Mill, Cane, O. B. Stillman, 482
Mining Machine, A. Ochtinsky, 152
Motors, Gas or Petroleum, J. Rambaud, 306
Motor Vehicles, F. E. and G. O. Stanley, 556 ; Nut Locks, Marshall and Loucks, 451
Ordnance, Charging, Dawson and Horne, 252, 330
Ordnance, Supplying Charges to Turret or Bar¬bette Guns, Dawson and Horne, 626
Ore Crusher, T. Smith, 428
Packing and Puppet Valves for Air Compressor», <kc., M. Bulkley, 280
Paving Brick, A. C. Stich, 24
Peat, Treating, A. Rom, 626
Pig Ejector, White and Semple, 102
Piston Valves, W. Buckley, 306 ,
Pneumatic Hammer, C. H. Johnson, 401
Power Transmission, A. Lumis, 354
Projectiles for Ordnanco, II. S. Maxim, 76
Projectiles, Securing Caps to, O. Hartmann, Pump Ejector, C. A. Dryer, 48
Pumping Engine, C. L. Heisler, 354
Rail Chair or Support, G. F. Dewdney, 48
Ramming Chargers of Guns, Apparatus for, Dawson and Horne, 303
Reaming and Boring Tool, W. Cunningham, 202
R:frigerators, Storagoand Circulation Tank for, J. J. Bailey, 102
Riveting Machine, C. H. Johnson, 580
Shaping Metal Objects by Means of Fluid Pres¬sure, G. Huber, 102
Smoke Consumer and Steam Generator, Bishop and Hughes, 178
Steel, Open-hearth, Apparatus for Manufac¬turing, S. T. and C. II. Wellman, 21
Steam Turbine, Ring of Blades, Parsons, Stoney, and Fullagar, 428
Steel Producing, E. M. Johnson, 354
Stuffing-box for Ammonia Compressors, F. A. Fisher, 532
Suction Pipes for Dredges, Mouthpiece for, A. W. Robinson, 556
Tamping Inetrument, F. Sheppard, 202
Telegraphy, Wire or Space, I. Kitsee, 532
Threshing Machine, Thomas and Culdwell, 404
Tiles, F. Furness, 330
Tool for Cutting Mortises, I. Schurman, 126
Tool for Reaming out and Trimming Pipes, J. McDermott, 126
Track-sanding Device, J. H. Walters, 652
Truing Device for Crank Pins, I. Culver, 178
Twisting Woodon Rods into Rope Form, A. II. Ordway, 76
Valve, Balanced, II. Lentz, 178
for Explosion Motors, A. do Dion and G. Bouton, 24
Gear, G. B. Eddy, 680
Gear, Spring Tension Device for, L. G. Wulburn, 626
for Locomotives, Relief, S. M. Vauclain, 532
Steam-actuated, F. M. Metcalf, 76
Vice, V. J. McDonnell, 652
Water Gate, H. A. Icke, 556
Winch Head, S. Mattson, 306
Worm Gearing, C. M. Jones, 632
PATENTS and Trade Marks in the Orange River Colony, 340
Patent ? What is “ Infringement” of a, 92
Paterson, Mr. John, Testing Cement by the Modulus of Rupture for Transverse Strain, 127
Patriotic Counterblast, A, (614)
Paving Blook Sawing Machine. J. Pickles and Son, 17
Paving, New Wood for Street, 466
Peat v. Coal in Sweden, The Question of, 235
Peat Fuel, (137), 328, (467)
Penny Postage, New Zealand, (190)
Perpetual Motion, Australian Claims to have Discovered, (440)
Perry, Prof., on the Teaching of Mathematics, 151
Perry, Prof. John, Presidential Address on Elec¬trical Engineering, 494, 522, 527, 551 Petroleum in Algeria and Cuba, (137)
Deposits, Fletohing, (646)
Gasoline or Pentane, Proportion of Vapour of, which Air can Take Up, (519)
Industry, Roumanian, (392) in Norway and Sweden, No Local Re¬finery in Sweden, (519)
Phosphates Occurring in Algeria, (163)
Phosphoric Limestone as Substitute for Puddler's Tap, (425)
Photo-bacteria, Illumination by, (611)
Photography in Textile Designing, Use of, Prof. Beaumont, 290
Piccadilly, Widening of, (365)
Pier Construction, Steel, New York, 224
Kilindini, Uganda Railway, 342
Piers in New York Harbour, Shipping, 143
Pig Iron Casting Machine, The Hartman, 622
Production in tho United States, De¬crease of, (213)
Pipe Corrosion by the Earth, (318)
New Kind of Wooden, (591)
Piston-rod, Method for Supporting, 377
Pitchometers, J. Leitcb, 518
Planing Machines, Bouhey (iii. Supplement, November 23rd, 19C0) Sculfort et Fockedey (xi. Supplement, November 22rd, 1900)
Plano-milling Machine, Kendal and Gent, 236
Platinum in North America, 527
Ploughs, American, Prejudice for their Lightness overcome (410)
Double-disc for Cuba in Demand, (30)
Pneumatic Labour-saving Tools, 416
Riveting, Advantages and Disadvan¬tages of, (611)
Tools in Railway Shops, 566
Tube Systems for Mails, United States, (213)
Pocket Calculator, Prof. Smith’s, 321, 340, 361, 388, 475, 517
Pollock's Flue Drill, 446 Population of Berlin, (611)
Portholes for Passenger Ships, Enlarged, 110
Portland Cement Works,'Pennsylvania, (400)
Post-office Work for Year ended March 31st, 1900, (190)
Potato Machinery Wanted in Canada, (611)
Potatoes Planted and.Harvested by Machines in the United States,’(253)
Powder Magazines from Lightning, Protection of, (190)
Powell, Mr. C. T., Bolt Saddle, (10)
Power, Cheap, 38, 67
by Steam, Water, and Gas, Cost of, Mr. J. B. C. Kershaw, 269, 290
Proece, Sir W. H., On Engineering in Wales, 502
Preservative, New Wood, 108, 145
Press for Striking Gold Medals, 142, 143
Prime Movers at the Paris Exhibition, 151, 155, 156
Printers’ Machinery, Electrically-driven, 41
Printing Presses, Electrically-driven, 41, 42, 528
Propellers, Cap Nut Block for, (33)
Protection of Industrial Propeity, (559)
Puddlers’ Tap, Substitute for, (425)
Puddling, Chemical Phenomena of, Lieut.-Col. L. Cubillo on, (552)
Pulleys, Friction of Wire Rope on, 445
Pulley, Test cf a Belt, 504
Pumps, Centrifugal, 599
Electric Rotary Oil, Mavor and Coulson, 16
New Type of, Ashley's Patent, 587
Rotary, American, 224
in Smyrna, American Preferred, (33)
Pumping Machinery, South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Commissioners, 377
Plant, Dry Dock, San Francisco, 326
Q
QUEDRACHO Wood, The Most Profitable in Paraguay, (291)
Questions for Students, A Few, 295
Quicksilver, Great Falling-cff in the World’s Supply, (253)

R

RADIAL Drill', see Drills and Drilling
Railway:
Railway Accidents:
Amberswood Junction, (87), 314
Caledonian, Anderston Cross Station, (213)
Caledonian Railway, Motherwell Station, (38)
Central London Railway, First Fatal Accident, 365
Choisy-le-Roi, (491)
City and South London Railway, Breaking Down of the Armaturo of tha Locomotive, (190)
Deaths and Iojuries while Coupling and Un¬coupling Vehicles during the First Three Months of 1900, (416)
Great Eastern, Locomotive Explosion at Westerfield, 893
Northern at King's Cross, Fire in the Goods Yard, (239)
Northern, Knebworth Station, Collision, (239)
Western, Caused by a Bull, (87)
Western Engine, Lagging the Boiler of a, Catches Fire, 365
Greenock, Inch Green, near, Col. Yorke’s Re¬port, 365
Hindley, near Wigan, 146, 216
Illinois Central, Train Robbed, (137)
India, Caused by Wind, (62)
Indian Railwayp, 1899, (318)
Japan, Hokuyetsu Line, Oil-bnrning Locomo¬tive on Fire, (45)
Kent House Station, near Penge, (190)
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, near Brighouse, (514)
Lancaster and Yorkshire Railway, near Sand¬hills, Report to Board of Trade, (525)
Lancaster Station, Gradient South of, (544)
Locomotive Boiler Explosion, Westerlield, 314, 411, 413
London, Brighton, and South Ccast, near Battersea Station. (190)
London and North-Western. Amberswood .Junc¬tion and at Standon Bridge, (87). (291); Hindley, near Wigan, 146 ; Ilulwell Station, (163); Liverpool and Crewe, (114), Remark¬able Escape, (11); Stafford, Damages Awarded to a Passenger by Dublin Jury, (611)
London and South-Western, Collision, Water¬loo Station, (239)
Manchester Central, Throstle Nest, (213)
North British, near Charing Cross Station, Glasgow, Board of Trade Report on, 267
Offenbach, near Frankfort-on-Main, (491)
Russia, Collision near Plevna, (190)
Russia during 1893, 1895, 1896, (137)
Siberian Railway, Derailments on, (591)
Slough, (467), (519)
Sad Express, between Bayonne and Dax, Mr. Rous-Marten on, 615
Switzerland, between Sierre and Greuchon, (318)
Trolley Car, at Tacoma, Washington, (11)
United Kingdom, Returns of, during the First Three Months of 1900, (416)
United States, Derailment at Jenkintown, Pa., (62)
United States, May, June, Augnst, September, October, (62), (213), (416), (467), (591)
Year’s, A, 305
Railways, British, Colonial, and Indian :
Africa, Cape, 256, (508)
African, Cape to Cairo, Extension, (508)
Australian :
Ling Run from Adelaide to Sydney, 633
New South Wales, (201), (239), (555), 597
Queensland, Report upon the General Work¬ing, (467)
Southern, 438
Tasmanian, Report for 1898, 1899, (400)
Victorian, (265), 575
Beira, (58)
Belfast and Northern Counties, Traffic and Mileage, (137)
Birmingham, Coventry, and Leicester, Scheme for Connecting, (318)
Caledonian, Half-yearly Report, (291)
Canadian, Grand Trunk, (114), (163), (218), (392)
Great Northern, Contract with the Leyland S.S. Line, (611)
TJnes Owned by Government. (591)
Pacific, Fast Run on the, (508)
Yukon District, (11)
Canterbury to Whitstable, Unique English, 141
Cape, 256, (508)
Cardiff, Sir W. T. Lewis, Managing Director, (602)
Central London (Supplement, J uqusl Sul, 1900), (87). 103, (114), (213), (298), (365), 467
Average Running Speed, (167)
First Six Weeks' Receipts, (298)
Advantages of, as Regards Ozone, (365)
Chemulpo and Seoul, (62)
Cheshire Lines, New Rolling Stock for the Manchester and Liverpool Express Service, (163)
Chester and Holyhead, Jubilee of, 386
Connel Ferry and Ballachulish, The, 488
Crewe to Liverpool Line, Ettensions, (318)
Devon and Somerset, Purchase of, by the Great Western, (291)
English and American, 619
Furness Railway, Half-yearly Report, (190)
Glasgow and South-Westorn and Midland, N w
Corridor Train, (4)
Glasgow and South-Western and Midland, Total Receipts of, for Six Months, (291)
Gold Coast, 209
Great Central, Doubling of a Section of the Main Line, (365)
Luggage Rates, (33)
No more Locomotives from America, (440)
Great Eastern, Dividends Last Year and this, (87)
Extensions, 388, (544)
Luggage Rates, (33)
Great Norttcrn, Ilitchin to Canvey Island Ex¬tension Scheme, (467)
Improved Services in Prospect, (213)
Lien Valley Extension, (365)
New Line at Nottingham
(Illustrated). 164,170,171, 218, 219, 266
Great Western, Ely Valley, Service of Trains, New Route to Weymouth, 616 Stourbridge to be Made the Centre of the Signal Works for the West Midland Dis¬trict, (011)
Stert to Westbury Extension, Hall, Barnsley, and ^Vest Riding Junction, Extensions Projected, (611)
India, Net Return on the Capital Cost of, Rail¬ways Open Last Year in, (87)
Indian, Automatic Vacuum Brakes on, (190)
Bengal-Central Extension, (365)
Bengal and North-Western, Half-yearly Report, (508)
Bjmbay, Baroda, and Central, Reconstruction of its Metre-gauge Lines at Delhi, (392)
British and Indian, Coal Consumption on, (440)
Ceylon, Electric Traction Suggested and Opposed, (365
Ceylon, Mileage and Earnings, (519)
Darjeeling-Ilimalayan, Traffic Interrupted, (163)
Earnings in April, May, and June, (163)
East, Half-yearly Report, (163)
Hyderabad-Godavery, (62), (190)
Insufficiency of Rolling Stock on, (392)
Madras Railway, Capital and Revenue Accounts, (62)
Midland ami Great Indian Peninsula, Amalgamation of, (365)
Mileage of New, on the Aletre Gauge, (190)
Mileage Open for Traffic on March 31st, 1900 (87)
N.W.. Wear of 1001b. Steel Rails, „(163)
Peshawar to the Khyber, (11) Simla-Kalka, (511)
South Indian Mileage Open, (62)
Ireland, Belfast and Northern Counties, (137)
Cork and Ros?lare, Operation? at the Wexford End, (191)
Midland Great Western, Coal Con¬tracts for 1900. 1899, 1898, (239)
Midland Great Western System Amalgamated with Great Southern and Western, (239)
Waterford nnd Trantoro, Single L’no. (637)
Kent Railway Arrangements, Grave Dissatis¬faction with, ('inference and Meeting, (392)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Dividends Last Year and this, (87)
Widening of the (239)
Liverpool and Manchester, Seventieth Anni¬versary of the Opening, 312
Liverpool Overhead, Half-yearly Report, (163)
London. Brighton, and South Coast, Dividends List Year and this, (87)
London and Edinburgh Expresses, Result of the Running of the, (508)
London and North-Western, Huddersfield to Leeds Extension, (291)
London and North-Western, Trains Allowed to Pass Atherstone at Ordinary Speed, (163)
London and South-Western, East Service to Devonport, (11); Graving Dock. 800ft. long, (511); Improvement in Time Kept, (591); Line Projected under the Solent, (591)
Lymiogton to Sway, with a Tunnel under tho Solent, (519)
Maryport and Carlisle Riilway Company's Half-yearly Report, 7 per cent. Dividend, (190)
Manchester and Liverpool Proposed Express on the Mono-rail System, Papers by Sir W. H. Preece and Mr. F. J. Behr, 269, (291)
Merrybent Mineral, Acquired by the North- Eastern Railway Company, (304)
Metropolitan Distriot, Eloctricity as Motive Power on, (114)
Metropolitan District, Extension to White¬chapel and Bow, 78,(114)
Midland, Extensions, Skegness to Lincoln, (511)
Midland, Half-yearly Report, (163)
New Zealand, 398, (140), (178)
North British, The Luggage Question on the, (365)
North - Eastern, Branch Line to Eaglescliffo, (553)
Disclaims any Idea of Racing to Edinburgh, (591)
Lines taken over by, (291), (304). (378)
New Dock Contoraplatod at Hull, (62)
Re-arrangement of Ofliies, (602)
Running Powers to Edinburgh and Leith will be Applied for by, (508)
North London, Traffic Returns and Mileage, (137)
North Staffordshire and Mid-Derbyshire, Pro¬jected, (467)
Pontypridd, A Loop Line Opened at, (508)
Rhodesia, Salisbury and Gwelo Line, (392)
Scottish Caledonian, (291)
Glasgow and South-Western and Mid¬land, (4), (291)
Rise in Price of Fuel, (392)
Seabam and Sunderland Passenger and Mineral
Line, Transfer to the North-Eastern, (291), (301)
South Eastern and Chatham and Dover, Ex¬tensions Projected, (591); Grievances against, (419), (467); Mileage, (114); New Ro ling Stock, (392); Dividends Last Year and this, (87)
Soutbport and Cheshire Lines, Extension, (544)
South-Western New Works, 16
Uganda (with Map), (213). (239), 3:6, 342, 385, 337, 391, 409, 410, 415, 491, ÖVÓ
United Kingdom, Mileage Worked in 1893, 1898, (239)
Traffic Returns for List Yeir, (137)
Vacuum Automatic Brakes on, (190), (239), (265)
Wales, Tho Cambrian to Aberystwitb, («7) Cardiff, (602)
Tuff Vale, Kevouuo, Price Paid for Coal, tii. (163)
Strike, (163), 221
West Coast Company's Accelerated Services, (541)
Whitechapel and Bow, 78, (114)
Yorkshire Dales with the North-Eastern System,
Connection of, (519)
from Skipton to Grassington, (33)
New Linos Projected in Don Valley, (637)

Railways, Electric:

Belgium, Brussels and Antwerp, (11)
Berlin and Zehlendorf, (190)
Brussels to Antwerp, (440)
Central London {Siipplrmmt, Auy"»l 2rrl, 1900), (87), 108, (114), (125), (508) (544)
Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead, (392)
City and South London, 346, 347
Germany, Increase in Number of, (291)
Great Eastern, Ilford to Liverpool-street,
Underground, (365)
Kidderminster and Bewdley, (291)
Liverpool and Manchester, Overhead Express, (Bill), (544)
London Underground, 570
Lyndhurst to Lyndhurst-road Station, 591
Manchester and Liverpool Express, 269, (291)
Manhattan, Elevatod, (11), (239) (508), (637)
Metropolitan and District, (412), (519), (587)
Naples to Rome, (491)
New York State, between Albany and Hudson, (338)
Port Madoc to Bedgellert. (291)
Porto Rico Projected, (168)
Russia, Winnilzx, (291)
Saalburg to Homburg, Extension to Frankfort, (440)
St. John's, Newfoundland, (159)
Victoria Skation and Putnoy, (Bill), (619)

Railways, Foreign:

Algeria, (137)
American, Centrifugal, (378)
American Construction, 116
America, Inter-Oceanic, Honduras, (7)
America, Central, Guatemala, New Sleepers Needed, (137)
American, North, Atchison, Topeka, and Sinta Fé, (190)
Central of New Jersey, Extra Firemen During the Heat, (163)
Chicago and Alten, Colours of Fixed Signal Lamps, (637)
Chicago and East Illinois, Mr. T. A. Lawes' Table of High speed Trains, (440)
Chicago Elevated, (72)
Chicago and North-Western, New Round-house at Clin¬ton, (163)
Great Northern,Washington, A Great Tunnel, 397
Gross and Net Earnings during Six Months of 19U0, (265)
Mileage Built during S.x Months of 1900, (265)
New York Central and Hod¬son River, Fast Run, (137)
Number of Employ éi on, (190)
Pennsylvanian Extensions, (87)
Pittsburgh and Wistera Railway, Half-yearly Kj- port, (508)
Texas, Iowa, Mississippi, , New Lines, (62)
Total Capital Invested, (190)
Total Length of New, (62)
Total Single-track Mileage in 1899, (190)
American, South, Chile, (213)
Uruguay, (591)
Austria, New Line between Germany and Trieste, 535
Auitria, Vienna Metropolitan, (213)
Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company, Electric Plant in their Locomotive Works, (637)
Balkans, 523
Buenos Ayres and Pac lie, Report of the Work¬ing of for 1899-1900, (392)
Bulgarian, (213), (440)
Central Asiatic Branch Line to Bokhara, (508)
China, 32
Korea, Sojul-Wiju, Contract Secured by French Engineers, (440)
Shantung Line, (114)
Taku to Ysing-Tsun, Lino under Russian Control, (365)
Tientsin and Pekin, Doable Line, (265)
Chinese Lines, The Construction of, (6111
Cuba, Mileage, and Reduction of Duties, (137)
France, North of, Electric Connection with the Train by which Signalmen could Stop Trains, 415
Seven Hours from London to Pari?, (467)
Tests of the Permanent Way, (611)
Paris-Orleans, Chas. Rous-Marten, 157
Paris Underground, (87), (137)
French, How they Impede the Development of the Country, 195
German, Receipts of, since August, 1899, (318)
Germany, Barmen-E berfeld-Voh winkel Suspension, (416)
Gold Coast, 209
Greece, Athens to Piré, (318)
and Thessaly, (568)
Italian, Tenders Invited, (62)
Japan, Amount Invested in, and Total Mileage of Railways in, (611), (637)
Hakodate, (318)
Orders for Railroad Material to Eng¬land and the United States, (365)
Java, Ironware and Iron Piping, Tenders In¬vited by the Netherlands Colonial Ministry, (114)
Mexico, (318), (591)
Norwegian, New Lino Proposed between Nor¬way and Sweden, (591)
Poland, New Lines Proposed, (591)
Kiumania, Mileage and Revenue, (416)
Russian, 590
Russia, Akkerman to Odessa, (318)
Branch Line from Plevna, (163)
Fourth Claes for Workmen, (566)
Kertch to Theodosia, (637)
Kherson New Lines, (508)
Kherson with Nikolaiev, Proposed L!na to Connect, (365)
Kieff to Slobm and Kieff to Chernikoff and Briansk, (508)
Mileage of Working Riilways and under Construction, (62)
Northern of, 523
North, Need of Railways io, (491)
Odessa to Petersburg, (318)
Port Arthur, (103)
Siberian, 4, 62, 119, 239, (385), 369, (392), (505)
Building tho Bridge across the Yenissei, 4
Its Prospects, 369, and Mr. Mark Stirrup on, (505)
Trans Baikal Opened, (62)
Two New State Lines, (167)
South Pacific System, Control of, Secured by a Syndicate, (440), (460)
Sumatra, A Rack Railway, (611)
Sweden, Gothenburg to the Norwegian Frontier, (137)
Swiss, Jungfrau Line at a Standstill, (265)
Nationalisation of, (611), (491)
Simplon Tunnel and the lntorcs'.s of France, The, (412)
Trans-Ca«pian, Lino Washed Away, (190)
Transvaal. (137), (365)
Turkish, Iledjaz, 494
United States—see American, North Val d*Ao:ta, Extension to St. IXdisr, (491)

Railways, Light:

Act, 1896. (262)
Algeria, (137)
Applications for Orders Authorising Construc¬tion of, (591)
Agentine Republic, (137)
Blackburn and Burnley, (3651 Canterbury and Ilerno Bay, (421)
Commission, Mr. R. H. Suottcr on the Work of the, 10
Commissioners, Dates for the Holding of Local Inquiries by, (62)
(krewe, (491)
Darby and Ashbourne, (591)
France, 52, 180
Goole and Marthland Extension Scheme, (116) (491)
Goole and Marshland and Isle of Axholme, and Haxey to Tickbill, (491)
Hyde and Dukinfield, (291)
Doland, Working of the Twenty one, (818)
Kidderminster and Bewdley. (87), (416)
Kingcclero and Il'ghclere, (238)
Kingston, (87)
Lyndhurst and Lyndhurstroad Station (591)
Orders for, Confirmed by the Beard of Trade, (13), (163), 467, 611
Port Madoc to Beddgellerl(291)
Rbeidol, (33)
Rhondda Valley, (467)
Scotter, Mr., At the Paris Congress on, (318)
Surrey, (213)
Swansea, (467)
Wales, Glamorgan, (811)
and Laughton, (451)
Tavat Valley Line, (611)
Witney and Andoversford, (lit)

Railway Locomotives:

American, (99), 122, (137), (17*), (278) (291), (318), 437, 491, 519, 622
Atlantic City Flyers, 460, 461
Baldwin Works, Electric Machine Shop Driv¬ing, (174)
Beyer and Peaccck’s, New South Wales, 400
Borsig, with Schmidt's Superheater {Supple¬ment, September 7th, 1900), 233
Brunig Railway, 181
Building in Germany, (114)
Cast Steel Bolsters for, 33
Cleaning, 441, 618
Compound, 3, 55, 56, 57. 84, 96, 118, 157, 162, 212, 246, 217, 261, 288, 289, 291, 511, 557 {Supplement!, Octobirbth, 19th, Xoecmber39th, December 1th, 1900)
Express, Four-cylinder, Chemin de Fcr du Nord, M.M. Bosquet, and
do Glehn, 288, 289 Four-cylinder. South Italian Rail¬way, Paris Exhibition, 81
R'ekie's, 55, 56, 57, 96, 118, 162, 212, 247, 264
and Simple, Soc'é 6
Suisse, Winter¬thur, 541 {Supplement, Xorember 3CM, 1900)
Compounding M. de Glchn's Letter on his Par¬ticular Method of, 288
Contracts Placed with Glasgow Builders, Im¬portant, (416)
Yorkshire Coalowners, and the, 570
Denver and Rio Grande Railway, with Novel Fitting (33)
E'gbt-coupled, Pittsburgh Works, 142 Electric, 316, 317, 615
Electric, La Société Suisse, Winterthur, Paris Exhibition, 316, 317
English Passenger, Fifty-four Years’ Service, (11)
Erie Railway, Re-fitted with Larger Boilers and Cylinders, (487)
Exhaust Pipe for, Mr. J. Jones' Invention, (637)
Exhibits at Vincennes, Mr, Ron? Marten on the {Supplement, December 7 th, 1900), 266, 288, 557
Exported from the United States, ( 318)
Express, {Supplements, July 6th, 13th, October bth, 19M, 1900),' 2, 28. 29, 84, 99, 157, 288, 289, 333, (365), 392, 396. 432, 460, 461, (637)
Eistern Railway of Frame, Four- cylinder Compound {Supplements July 6th, 13th, 1900 ) 2, 28, 29
Pennsylvania Railway, (99)
Russian State Railways, (637) Six-coupled, Signor IL Plancher {Supplements, Oclob rbth, 19th, 1900), 333, 396
Ferguson's Firo-kindler for, (69)
Finland S,ate Railways, American, for, (137)
Fire-boxes of, Mr. R. Woalherburn on vno Cause of their Rapid Wear and Tear, 630 Forgings in America, Employment of Nickel Steel for, (114)
Four-couplod Express, Midland Railway, (365)
Four-cylinder Compound American Goods, Ten-coupled, 437 ; Coemin de Fer du Nord, MM. Du Bosquet and do Glebn {Supplement, December 7th, 1900), 667 ; Eastern Railway of France (Supplements, July 6th, 13th, 1900), 2, 28, 29; Southern Railway of Italy (Supple¬ments, October bth, 19th, 1900), 84, 833, 396, 432 ; Vauclain for the Atlautic City Flyers, 480, 461 ; Discussion on, at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 3; Express, Paris- Orleans Railway, M. de Glehn’s System, M. Solacroup, 157 ; in Hand at Crowo, (265)
French (Supplements, July 6th, 13M), 2 3, 18, 28, 29
German, (114), 213
German and English in Belgium, 213
Goods, (291), 364, 370, 371, 466, 622
Goods, South-Eastern and Chatham, Mr. H. S. Wainwright, 364, 370, 371, 466
Great Central, No More American, for the, (110)
Heaviest in the World for the Pittsburgh, Bessemer, and Lake Erie Railway, (11)
Heavy, 11, 122. 278, (291), 622
Heavy Goods, Pittsburgh Works, 622
Illinois Central Railway, 100, for, (637)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Power of the New, (11)
Landqnart-Davos Railway, 181
Light Railway, Narrow-gauge Tank, 52
Lighting tho Fires of, (69)
Metre Gauge, for French Rai'ways. 180, 181
Midland Railway Company's New Four-coupled Express, (365)
Mountain, New Type of, (146)
New Zealand, American, tor, 291
New Zoaland Government Railways, Mr. F. T. Rotherham, 468, 472
Number of. on the Siberian Railway, last Sum¬mer, (392)
Number of, Owned by the Midland, the North- Eastern, and the London and North-Western, Average Mileage and Average Earnings ptr, (291)
Oil Bornirg in California, (392)
Oil Fuel for, in Unitod States, (190)
Open Stacks instead of Diamond Ones on the Union Pacific's, (11)
Odors for, Booked by Neilson, Raid, and Co., DiM)3 and Co., and Sharpe, Stewart, and Co., ( 426)
Paris Exhibition (Supplements, July 6th, 16th, September 7th, December 7<h, 1950), 2. 3, 18, 28, 29, 233. 256, 288, 316, 317, 233, 132, 557
PatsoFger, (11) (191)
Perorojance, Cb’cago and North - Western Railway, (278), (#1)
Pittsburgh Works, 622
Practice in France, M. El. Sauvage on Recent, 3, 19
Rie'cio Compound, (Letters on, 93, 118 212, 246, 264)
Rogers' Works, (235), (318)
Saddle Tank, Burry Port and Gwcndraeth Valley Railway, Mr. R. A. Carr, 625
Schenectady Eight-wheel Passenger, (191)
Schenectady, Ton for the Government ot Cape C.lony, (519)
Siberian Railway, 239
Single-wheel Express for the Great Central, Gorton Works, (637)
Six-coupled Express, Southern Railway of Italy, Signor H. Plancher (Supplements, Cctubsr Ith and 19th, 1900), 84, 333, 396, 432
Soció'.é Suisse pour la Construction de Locomotives et do Machines, 180, 181
South-Eastern and Chatham, Twenty Now First-class Expresses for, (392)
Supersession of the Steam by the Electric, Mr. W. Langdon, (550), 570, 572, 599, (615), 620
Ten-coupled Four-cylinder Compound American Goods, 437
United States, Complaints of the Firemen in Connection with the Use of Heavier, (114)
United States, June, 1899, (190)
Vauclain Express Compounds (Four cylinder) of the “Atlantic” Typo for the Atlantic City Flyers, 460, 461
Vincennes— see Paris Exhibition Vladikavkas Railway, (416)
Water Used by, on the South of Austrian Railways, (837)
Witwatersrand Uold M.'nos, (416)
Works, Lugansk and tho Hartmann Machine Company’s, 8, 9, 10, 12
Works, Marcinolle, Belgium, New, (143)
Yard, Central London Railway, Huns et Engine Company (Supplement, A u j. 3rd, 1900), 108

Railway News, Various:

Acetylene Gas Headlights on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa FtS Railway, (519)
Aerial, to Newport, Mon., 17
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Mr. Unwin’s Case, (544)
Anniversary, Memorable, 312
Automatic Couplings, Cridland and Kirsch’s, 395
Barry Railwayman, Concessions to the, (87)
Bonuses to Emplojéi on Russian Railways, (3?)
Brake Shoes, Friction of, Mr. R. A. Smart ou the, (491)
Brakes, Vacuum, South-Eastern and Chatham. (23)
Brakes, Vacuum and other Automatic, on British Railways. (190), (239), (265)
Brandon Bridge Company, Limited, of Mother- well, Contract Secured by the, (239)
Bridges for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Widening, Order for, (239)
Bridges, Railway—see Bridges, Railway, and other
“Brighton in Sixty Minutes," The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 400
British Railway Orders in the United States, 546
Calais-Moditerranean Express, The, (400)
Capital of the Railways of the United Kingdom, Total Nominal, (114)
Carriage of Cyolos, 345
Centrifugal Railways, United States, 622
Coal Bills of Railway Companies, 166
Coal Contracts, 595
Conciliation Board, Proposed, 321
Dividends Declared by Various English Railways this Year, (87)
Dynamometer Car for Automatically Recording Defects in Permanent Way, 502
Emplojés for Service in South Africa, (538)
Engine Driver Deserts his Engine on a Journey to Portland, (11)
Exhibition, St. Petersburg, (293)
Fast Runs, 230, (508)
Fast Run on the Canadian Paci6c, (5C8)
Financial Statistics of British Railways, (582)
Firemen in the United States, Complaints of the, (114)
"Flying Bootsman,” Lord Balfour’s Decision as to the Timing of, (519)
Friction of Brake Snoes, Mr. R. A. Smart on the, (491)
Grand Trunk Railway, Mr. G. B. Reeves Appointed General Manager, (619)
Great Eastern Railway Company’s Booklet of New Continental Tours, (33)
Half-yearly Reports, Maryport and Carlisle Company, Furness Railway Comiuny, New South Wales Railways, (190), (239,
Haskinised Timbar Experimented with on Indian State Railway, (239)
Highland Railway, Air. Yarrow’s Ratiromont and Successor, (till)
History at the Leicester Museum, 151
Incrustation of Boilers, Prevention of, on Austrian and Russian Railways, (2)5)
India-rubber Goods, The Railway Companies and the Manufacturers of, 511
Iron Passing through Lancashire Ports, Extra Charge on, Imposed by the Railway Com¬panies, 401
Italian Railways, Tenders to be Invited for, (1M)
J espur, Air. Chas., General Goods Manager of the North-Eastern, (519)
Kent Fruit-growers' Association, Project for Forwarding Produce by Motor Wagons to London, (519)
Loctures on Railway Alanagement., (480)
“ Lloyd’s Bonds," (508)
London and North-Western, Superannuation Fund Society, Prosperous Condition of, (365)
Long Distance Runs, 230, 633
Luggage Rates on British Railways, (33), (114)
Macaulay, Mr. John, Appointment (<f3)
Metropolitan Railway Company’s Dividend, (114)
Mileage Open in Great Britain and Ireland and the United States, (33)
Moving Stairways for tho Alanhattan Elevated Stations, (114)
Non-paying Lines in Victoria. Mileage of, (265)
North of France, Seven Hours from London to Paris, (467)
Oil Fuel for Locomotives in Southern States of North America, (190)
Par's Exhibition, Passenger Traffic with the Continent Caused by, (87)
Petroleum Consumption by Locomotives, Romanian State Railways, (519)
Paeumatic Tools in Railway Shops, 566
Points Worked by Electricity, Special System of, Introduced at a Petersburg Station, (508)
Punctuality, Greater on the London and South-Western, (591)
Race to Scotland in 1848, 16
Rates for Carriage of Coke to the West Coast,
Railway Companies that have Increased, (611)
Rates for Hire of Railway Companies’ Wagons Raised, (11)
Rates, Luggage, (33), (114)
Returns, 1899, British, (416)
Runnings of the London and Edinburgh Expresses, (508)
Runs, Fast and Long, 230, 508, 633
Shareholders and Automatic Couplings, 67
Shunting Pole with Electric Lamp and Battery, (637)
Signalling, E'ectric and Other, Mr. A. W. Szlumper and Air. S. B. Cotterell on, 621
Signalmen, Emergency, Rumoured Creation of a Class of, by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, (491)
Smoke Consumption by Locomotives, Device for, (519)
South- E istern and Chatham Railway, Grievances against, (419), (467)
Speeds, 191, 261, 298, 322, 310, 364, 388, 470
Station, London-road, Nottingham, Great Northern, 259
Station, Southwick Junotion, Projected Im¬provements, (248)
Station Shops, Average, in America and Here, (621
Statistics, English, 598
Track-laying Apparatus for the Union Pacific Railway, (11)
Trans-Siberian, Cheap Fares on, (365)
Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, Railway Clerks Asked for, (365)
Tuunol, Coehen, on the Coblenz-Trier Line, The Longest in Germany, (491)
Tunnel from Gibraltar to Tangiers, M. Berber’s Plan for, (467)
Underground Traffic, and Average Stops on, (33), (62)
United States Railways, Eirniogs in the First Half of 1900, os Compared with Two Previous Years, (33)
Unpunotuality, 319, (419), (467)
Vibration Due to Traffic on the Central London Railway, (508)
Winter Service to the Riviera, (460)

Railways, Permanent Way:

Acid ». Basic Rails, Lowthian Bell on, 413
American, for Ireland, (416)
American, for the Turkish Government, (3C4)
Creeping of Rails, Best Alethod to Prevent, (611)
Demand for, for Electric Roads in Canada, (318)
Dynamometer Car for Recording Defects on, Prof. L. P. Breckenridge, 502
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, New Process for Rolling, (544)
Exchanging Old for New, at a Profit, (318)
Exported from United States, (318)
Foreign, for British Railways, 516, 565
Heavier, on Suburban and Main Lines, (301)
Iron and Steel, in America, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 5, 40, 94
Loss of Strength io Steel through Use, Report of the Committee to Inquire into, 26, (33)
Presentation to Mr. Carnegie of a Section of an Original 361b. T Riil, (426)
Price of, Reduced in the United States, (392)
Sleepers on Guatemala Railways, Wear of Wooden, (137)
Steel fcr the Capo Government, Contracts Booked by the Carnegie Steel Com¬pany, (291)
for the Great Eastern from the Carnegie Company, (591)
Rails, 100 lb., on the North-Western of India, Favourable Report, (163)
Rails, Life of, 77, 105
Sleepers on the Huntingdon and Broad-Top Railway, United States, (174)
United States, Production, (365)
for West Australian Government, Order Booked by Ebbw Vale Company, (544), (554)
T-Kail, Mr. Guest’s 36 lb., (426)
Tests of, between Paris and Calais, The North of France, (611)
Ashbury Company, Important Orders Secured by. (21)
Brake, Either-side, 617
Brown, Marshalls, and Co., for South African Field Forces, (123)
Corridor Dining Trains on East Coast Route to Scotland, by Chas. Rous-Marten, 112
Corridor Train, Glasgow and South-Western and Midland (4)
Couplings, Wagon, Mr. Hill, 690 395, 618, 573, 590
Automatic, T. A. Brocket-bank, 445
Cridland and Kirsch, 395, 518
Dynamometer Cars, American, 196
Electric Lighting for, 30
Freight Cars, Capacity of, 625
Goods Traffic, Conduct of, 247
Wagons, American, for France, (221), 247
of Fifty Tons Capacity in the United States, (174), 247
Heating of, 103, 212
Insufficiency of, on Indian Railways, (392)
Italian Railways, Tenders to be Invited for, (114)
Java Skate Railways, Tenders Invited by the Dutch Government, (544)
Locomotive Saloon for the London and North- Western, 316
Nagasaki, English and American for, (637)
Natal, Large Orders for, (1491
New, for Indian Railways, (239)
New, for the Manchester and Liverpool Express Service of the Cheshire Lines, (163)
Russia, Fourth-class Carriages for Workmen, (508)
South Africa, (149), (544)
South-Eastern and Chatham, 1500 New Car¬riages, (392)
Steel Wagon, Weight of American 50-Ton, » (137)
Stephenson and Co., Limited, Robt., New Works at Darlington, (62)
Tenders to be Invited for, by the Italian Southern Railway Company, (62)
Traction Engine Trains for Russia, American, 313, 315
Trans-Baikal Railway, (234)
Vladikavkas Railway, (416)
Wagons, On the Capacity of, as Affecting the Cost of Transport, Mr. Twinberrow on, 514, 522, 526
Wagons for the Rand Mines, Reported Order for, 300, 303
Wanted on Siberian and Indian Lines, (3921
Wheels, Invention for Reduoing Noise, (318)
Wheels, Uneven Flange Wear of Railway, and its Cause, (11)
Witwatersrand Gold Mines, (416)
RAINFALL of the British Isles, Mr. H. Mellish on the, 641
Rathmines Electricity Supply Works, 244, 215, 246
Rays given off by Different Sources of Light, Comparison of Qualities of, 172
Refuse Destruction and Steam Raising, 539
Destructor and Electric Lighting Undertaking, Shoreditch, Accounts of the, (491)
Destructor for the Strand, 462
Disposal, House, Mr. McTaggart on, 269
of Town, 192
Works, Syracuse, New York, 564
Reineckor, J. E., Gablentz-Chemnitz, Machine Tools (Supplement, November 2'ird, 1900)
Reis, Mr. A., Patent Mixture for Preventing In¬crustation in Boilers, (137)
Removal of Brick-lined Steel Chimney, Newark, New Jersey, (467)
Removal of House by Electric Street Cars, (440)
R9no Inclined Elevator, The, 136
Repairing a Tail Shaft at Sea, 364
Reservoir Improvement, Spot Pond, Boston, 98
Reservoirs at Walshaw Dean, First Sod Cut, (291)
Ribble Joint Committee, Moeting of the, and Mr. Naylor’s Roport, (253)
Rice Cleaning and Milling Machinery for Brazil, Demand for, (114)
Richardson, Mr. Joseph, Froedom of Stockton-on- Tees to bo Conferred on, (121)
Richardson, Westgarth, and Co, Limited, The New Firm, (479)
Ridgway Distributor, The, 501
Rille, New Automatic, 426
Range at Ponders End, Proposed, (11 4)
Ranges, Position of, 90
Riveter, Boyer Percussive, 446
Riveting, Pneumatic, as against Hand, (611)
Roberts-Austen, Sir Wm., His Address at the
Opening of the Autumn Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, Paris, 235, 301, 325
Robinson and Son, Limited, Thomas, Wood¬working Machinery, Paris Exhibition, 339
Röntgen Rays, Restoration of Hair by, (519)
Roof, Rapid Erection of a Steel (Kansas City), 118
Roots, Air. J. D., Valves of Intornal Combustion Engines, 49
Rous-Marten, Air. Cbas., On the Locomotive Exhibits at Vincennes (Supplement, December 1th, 1900), 256, 288, 557
Royal Agricultural Society:
Reported Permanent Showground of the, (11), (H4,

Royal Institution :

Arrangements before Easter, 620
Monthly Aleetings and Programme of Christ¬mas and other Lectures, (475), (578), (600)
Royal Meteorological Society:
Rainfall of the British Isles, Mr. 11. Alellish on the Seasonal, 641
Wuokly Death-rate nnd Temperature Curves, Mr. W. H. Dines, (519)

Royal Society :

Adjudication of Aledals, (475)
Bushey House Granted to, by the Queen for a
National Physical Library, (611)
Hughes, Prof. D. E, His Bequest to the Society and the Object to which it is to be Devoted, (163)
Russia, Aleans of Communication in, 590
Russian Navy, The, 395 Russia in the Red Sea, 523
Russian Reinforcements for China, 611, 642

S

ST. MICHAEL’S Acetylene Installation, The, 821
Salvage Plant for Dover Harbour, Portable, 571
Sault St. Marie, Centre of Electro-chemical Industry at, (239)
Sauvage, M., On Locomotive Practice in France, 3, 19
Sawdust Briquettes for Fuel in Austria, (611)
Sawing Machine, Paving Block, 17
Sawyer, The “ Absent-minded,” (411)
Schueron, Mr. Van der, Suction Dredging at Ostend Port, 194
Science and the Manufacturer, 496
Scotch Steelworks and the Fair Holiday Period, (87)
Scotter, Mr. R. H., Work of the Light Railway Commission, 10
Screw Ganges, 319
Ganges, Report on, 300
Press and Squaring Shears, Taylor and Challen, Limited, 142, 143
Threads used in Gas and Cycle Construc¬tion and for Screws Subject to Vibra¬tion, Mr. O. P. Clements, 302
Screwing Apparatus, &c., Mr. J. U. Widdowson’s, Improvements in, 249
Screwing Machine, Duplex, Kendall and Gent, 238
Sculfort et Fockedey, Maubaugo, Machine Tools (Supplement, November ‘2Hrd, 1900)
Sails, Mr. Chas., with Portrait, 566
Sowago, Gas from, 445, 517, 573
Leeds, 232
Purification, Mechanical Aids to, 501
Schemes, Burlev, Healey, and Tamworth, (190)
Scheme, Vera Crnz, (591)
Sludge, Illuminating Gas from, 445, 517, 573
System at Petersburg, Competitive Plans for, (633)
Treated at the Sewage Works of the London County Council, (365)
Works, Sutton, (348)
Seymour, Major Lewis L., 17
Shafting v. Electricity, Power Transmission by, 146, 147, 173
Shafts, Built Crank, 95
Coating Tail, 6, (33)
of Nickel and Carbon Steel Made Under the Hydraulic Press, (440)
Protecting Large, German Method, (33)
Sheffield Corporation’s Proposal to Form a Works Construction Department, (291)
Ships:
Battleships British:
Albemarle, The (641)
Ariadne, 293, (337)
Belleisle Experiments, Tho, 18, 32, 96, 193, 261, 489, 565
to be Fitted with Sections of Modern Armour, (253), 489
her Engines to be put into Working Order, (392)
Camperdown Fitted for Wireless Telegraphy, 32
Europa, The, 337, 442
Formidable, 193, 462, 489, 610
Glory Fitted with Wireless Telegraphy,
and Leaves for China, (544)
Glory, Singular Mishap to, (519), 524
Hood, Rearmament of, with Quick-firers, Trial of her Machinery, 218, (491)
Implacable, (544)
Indexible, Tne Construction of the, 32, 610
Indexible, Tho 4 7in. Quiok-firers, 32
Invincible, The, 388, 547 London, 489
Lang, Range Firing by, (365)
Majestic Fitted for Wireless Telegraphy, 32
Majestic in the Gunnery Trials, Per¬formance of, (318)
Names of the New, (467)
Ocean, Coal Consumption of, 287
Prince of Wales, The, 442, 587, 610, (611), (641)
Queen, The, 442, 587, 610
Removed from the Effective List, 398
Revenge, Re armament of, with Quick-firers, 218
Vestal Steam Trials, (190)
Terrible, Speed of, 13
Thunderer, (475), 480
Warrior, The, 388, 442
Battleships, Foreign:
American, Coaling at Sea, 84, 85
French, Dévastation, 547
Henri IV., 261
Janreguiberry, 542
Marceau, 489
Neptune, 547
Requiu, 261
St. Louis, 388
German, to be Fitted with Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, (83)
German, Wittelsbach and Fiirst Bis¬marck, 646
Italian, New, Projected, 261, 587
Japanese Asahi, 232
Japan, Cbihaya, Launched, (45)
Japanese, Hatsuso, 232, 524, 565
Japanese, Iwate, 565
Japan, Mikaen, (21), (225), 232, (219), 282, 462, 489
Japan, Nikasi, (123)
Japanese, Yakumo, 610
Russian, (151)
Admiral Butakoff, 524
Alexander IL, (151)
American Plates for the New, (301)
Anothor New One, 134
Borodino Class, 542, 543, 565
Five Now, to be Built in America, (467)
Gromovoi, 641, 642
Kniaz Suworow, 218
to bo Supplied with Belleville Boilers without Economisers, (508)
Pacific Fleet, 641, 642
Poltava, 65, 388, 547, 641, 642
Retvizan, 32, (416), 542
Russian, Sevastopol, 261, 462, 489, 547, 641, 642
Tsarevitch, 542
Unitod States Alabama, Mr. W. Capps on the Ventilation of, (440)
Five New, (137), 148
Georgia, 487, 492
Kentucky, her Final Trial Trip, (87)
of the New Jersey Type, 18
Rhode Island, 487
Virginia, 487
Wisconsin, Shafts Forged from Fluid Compressed Nickel Steel, (440)

Cruisers, British:

Arrogant, Coaling Average of, 212
Bedford, of the Essex Class, 361
Berwick, 442
Blake, The, 388
Blenheim, during the Manoeuvres, 134
Cornwall, 442
Cressy, Tho, 322, 837, 369, 388, 647 (620)
Cumberland, 442
Diadem, 32, 145, 388, 442
Donegal, 442
Eclipse, 232, 287
Encounter, (544)
Encounter, Belleville Boilers Ordered for, (416)
Essex, Four of her Class, 361, 366
Europa, her Coal Consumption: Paid off, (91), (416)
Four First-class Armoured, Specifica¬tions to be Issued for, (253)
Furious, Second-class, Trial of, (213), 232
Hermes, (Second - class High-speed), Breakdown of, 13, (519)
Highflyer, 232
Hogue, First-class, (21), (123), (149), 172, (175)
Hyacinth, 287, 388, (416), 445, (467), (508), 619
Isis, Average Speed of, 193
Kent, 193, 361
Lancaster, 442 Long-range Firing by, (365)
Minerva, Trial of Water-tube Bailers on, (318)
Monmouth, of the Essex Class, 361
New Armoured, Names, 435, (462), (467)
Pandora, Trials, (611), (641)
Ringarooma, Torpedo Lost by, (33)
Seagull, 610
Spartiate, 489, (519), 521, (535)
Suffolk, 442
Undaunted, Projected Alterations, (322)
Cruisers, Foreign:
American, Atlanta and Boston, 232
Austrian, “ E " and Szigetvar, 251
French, Isly,388
K'cber, Engines of, 638, 641
Montcalm, 489
Two New, (62)
Gorman, Amazane, Third-class, (365), 435
“C,” “Thetis,” “Nymphe," and “ Niobe,” 261
Prinz Heinrich, 292, 297
Japanese, Adsuma, 172
Idznmo, 232
Iwate, 232, 565
Yakumo, 32, 610
Yayeyma, 524
Russian, Admiral Nakhimoff, 32
Bayan, 211
Bogatyr, 291, 419
Boyarin, 388
Gromovoi, 462, 547 New, (253). (610)
Normand Boiler to be Adopted for Future, 261
Novik, 261, 419, 486, 549
Pallada, (419), 547
Variag, Shafts Forged from
Fluid Compressed Carbon Steel, (440)
Spanish, Cataluna, (491)
Swedish, I’silander, 193
United States, Machinery for the, by
Rear-Admiral G. W. Melville, 103, 115
New, (137), 261
Tenders Invited for Six Armoured, (392)

Torpedo Craft, Gunboats, &c. British :

Bullfinch, Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 193, (416)
Clydebank Destroyers, Funnels of, 193
Cobra, Elswick Turbine Destroyer, 65, 91
Devonport Instructional Flotilla, The, 388
EspitSglo, Twin-screw War Sloop, Launched,(591)
Gunboats, Order for Two Shallow- draught, Placed with Yarrow and Co., (293)
Gunboats at Portsmouth, Experimental, (392)
Havock, The Reconstructed, 610
Hunter, Destroyer, Repaired, 18
Hydraulic Power Mountings for tho
Experimental Gunboats at Portsmouth, (392)
Lee, Twin-screw Torpedo Boat Destroyer, (440)
Niger Torpedo Gunboat, The, (337)
Opossum, Destroyer, 388
Skipjack Torpedo Gunboat, The, (337)
Speed of Torpedo Boat Destroyer*, American Journal on the, (148)
Speedwell, Torpedo Gunboat, Trial of the, Serious Disaster Averted, (365)
Spitfire, Destroyer, New Gun-mounting Trial, (87)
Sprightly, Thirty-knot Torpedo De¬stroyer, Launch of, (318)
Thrasher, Torpedo Destroyer to be Docked for Repairs, (253)
Tiger, Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Accident to Stokers, (519)
Torpedo Flotilla Commissioned for the Maca'uvres, 18
Viper, Torpedo Boat Destroyer, (62), 68, (190), 282, (239), 419
VixeD, Torpedo Boat, (21)
Torpedo Craft, Gunboats, &c., Foreign:
American Submarine Boats, 247
French Destroyer Framée, 172
Submarine Farfadet. £88
Submarine Gustave Zcié, (440)
Torpedo Boat Audacieux, 489
Torpedo Bouot – Villaumcz Wrecked, 232
Italian Destroyer Dardo, 524
Japanese, 18
Japanese, Torpedo Boat Niji, Grounding of the, 369, 524
Russian Destroyers Skat and Kais ilka, Kit, and Dolphin, 547
Russian, Five New Torpedo Beats, (253)
United States, Holland, Mr., bis New Submarine Beat, 239, 329, (519), 524
Launch of a Mysterious Submarine Boat, (253)
Monitor Arkansas, (544)
Partially-submerged Tor¬pedo Boat on the Ber¬ger System, (544)
Mercantile, Passenger, and other, British:
Ancient and Modern Ships, (168), (212)
Atlantic Record, The, 185, 269
Balmoral High-speed Paddle Passenger Steamer, 56
Channel Steamors, Turbine-propelled, 91
Clan Line, New Steamers for the, (440)
Clyde and Palatial Steam Yaohts, The, 255
Dover-Calais Service, New Twin-screw Steamer the Canterbury, (611)
Indian Twin-screw Troopship Hardinge, Fairfield Company, 169
Ireland Steamship Sold to a “Sheffield Gentleman.” (190)
McMillan and Sons, A New Steamer for the Clan Line, (440)
Merchant Navies of the World, Net Register Tonnage of, (519)
Ship Development, (537)
Ships, Water-tube Boilers in, 268
Racing Cutter for the German Emperor, Mr. G. L. Watson, (554)
Royal Yacht, The, 172, (190), (213), (392), (491)
Steamship Canadian, R. and W. Haw¬thorn, Leslie, and Co., Ltd., 161
Talus, Repairs to the Ship, (395)
Thames Passenger Steamboat Service.
105, 184, 286, 309, 357, 432, (491) 631
Troopship Hardinge, The Indian, (551)
Vestal, H.M. Sloop, Special Trials, 310,
(519)
Wooden, for the Marine Biological Sta¬tion at Millport, Islo of Cumbrae, R. McAlister and Co., (382)
Yachts, Clyde and Palatial Steam, 255
Mercantile, Passenger, and other, Foreign:
Air Ship, Count Zeppelin’s, (392) American - Hawaiian Steamship Com¬
pany, Formation of the, (137,
Marine Notes, (122) Passenger Steamer, The
Hartford, 376
Atlantic City Flyers, The, (573)
Service, Two Ocean Tramp
Steamers for the, 302 Speed Records, The, 185, (239)
Carnegie Company, Lake Steamers Secured for the Atlantic Winter Trade, (304), (365)
Castle Union Lino, Cargo Steamers for South African Trade, (544)
Continental Merchant Marine, Progress of, 636
Czir’s Yacht Standart, Eoonomisers to be Removed, (508)
Dredger La Puissante, The Stern-well Hopper, 168, 230, 231, 261, 322
Emerald, Trial of, in Sydney Harbonr, 323
French Line Twin-screw Steamship La Lorraino, Average Speed, (163)
Gorman Mercantile Marino, Progress of, 633
Gorman South Pole Expedition, Ship boing Built at Kiel for the, 321
Germany, Sieamors of a Capacity over 10,000 tons, (392)
Hamburg - American Liner Augusta Vic¬toria, Automatic Telephone Pay Sta¬tion on the, (440); Line, Capacity of Steamers of, (125); Liners Chartered for Transport to China, (87); Liner Deutschland Breaks the Record, 91, 185,(190), (239); Liner Launched at Stettin, (291) ; Liners, Load-lines to be Marked on, (519) ; Line,A New Steam¬ship Ordered Longer than the Oceanic,
Japanese, 104
Japanoso Transport, Sanuki Mari, (74) Lightship for Swedish Pilot Service,
Novel Steam, (213)
Merchant Navies ot the World, Net Register Tonnage of, (51P)
Norddeutscber Lloyd’s Losses in Con¬nection with the Hoboken Disaster, (163); Steamers Chartered for Trans¬port to China, (87); Steamors, Kaisor Wilhelm II. and Kronprinz Wilhelm, 185, 190, (291), (365) ; Steamer Witto- kind, Lengthened and Refitted, 11 ; Twin-screw Steamer Nuen Tung Launched, (87)
Oceanic Steamship Company, San Fran¬cisco and Sydney, (400)
Russian Icebreaker, Ermak, Recon¬structed, (291), (304), (451)
Icebreakers for Port Arthur, Two Now (467)
Mercantile Marine, The, (318)
Sailing Vossels with Auxiliary Power, American, (478)
Six-masted Schooner, First of that Rig, Launched in America, (213)
Suez Canal Company, Stern-woll Hopper Dredger, La Puissante, 168, 230, 231, 264, 322
Transatlantic Freight Service, Mr. Audrew Carnegie’s New, (416)
White Star Liner Oceanic, (99), (318)
White Star Liner Suevic, Launched, (691)

Shipbuilding, British and Colonial, Naval and Mercantile:

American Steel Ship Plates, Rejection of, Con¬signment to Glasgow Explained, 523, (603)
Carnegie Steel Plates for Scotch Shipbuilders, (591)
Clyde, 18, (114), (250), 345, 438, (452), (558)
Naval Works on the, 105 and New Naval Contracts, The, 435
Denny and Brothers, Wm., Dumbarton, Mr. J. Ward on the Unsteadiness of Workmen and its Results, (419)
Dundee, 412
English Builders, Tonnage Launched in June and May this Year and Last(33)
Tonnage Launched in Sep¬tember and Octob9r, (467)
English for the Ten Months of this Year, 1900, (488)
Fairfield Shipyard, Recent Extensions at, 161
Fairfield Shipyard Management, Mr. R. Samp¬son, (446)
Inehdoune and Inchmarlo, Superheaters Fitted to, 597, (606)
Laird Brothors, Limited, Work of the Year 1900, (649)
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Tonnage under Construction in the United Kingdom, Juno 30th and September 30th, (62)
Navy List for November, The, Does Britannia Rule tho Waves ! 524
Naval Architecture, .Esthetic Principles of, 307, 429, 455
North of England District, Orders for New Steamers, (200)
Orders Booked by Elder, Dempster, and Co., Swan and Hunter, R. Craggs and Sons, W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., and other Northern Firms, (451)
Portholes, Question of Enlarged, 140, 162
Returns for the Year, (637)
Scheme, Extensive, (392)
Scotch Builders, Tonnage Launched in June and August, May, September, and October, (38), (253), (467)
Steamboats between Richmond and Ramsgate, 1823 1831, 286
Sunderland, November, (544)
Tonnage under Construction in the United Kingdom on 30th September, (392)
Warships under Construction on Juno 30th and September 30th, (62), (392)
Warships and their Machinery Building in England, Progress of, 632
Wear Builders, Output for the Year, (33)

Shipbuilding, Foreign, Naval, and Mercantile:

American, Cost of, 594
Developments, 418
Firms, (300)
Yacht Defender, Contract Placed with Herreshofs, 523
Continental, 457
Cramp’s Yard, Philadelphia, Hands Employed, (253)
France, Naval Construction in, 383
French Projects, (11)
French Yard, Forges et Chantiers do In Mediterranean, Torpedo Destroyers for Russia, 524
German, Activity iD, 192, (291)
Holland, Mr., his Now Submarine Boat, 521
Italian Mercantile Marine, The, (541)
New Type of Warship, According to M. Cnniberti’s Designs, 524
1899, 1900,(611)
Lengthening Vessels in Germany, 192
Melville, Rear-Admiral, On the Machinery of Fighting Ships, 103, 115
Nicolaieff on the Black Sea, 524
Norway (137)
Russian Naval Estimates for 1901, (378)
Shafts, Protection of Tail, Motto! iu Use in Germany, 6
Spanish Projects, (691)
Steamers Plying on the Great American Likes, Innovations in the Construction of, (11), 376
Trieste, Important Contracts in Hand at the, Estabilimento, Tocnico, (440)
Turkish Government, Contract with Krupp's, (137)
United States, Naval Construction in the, 526
Navy Department’s Contract, (137)
New Works, San Francisco, 445
A Record Output, (318)
Returns, July, August, Sep¬tember, October, 1900, (491)
Tonnage, (62)
Vladivostok, Construction of Two Yards, (467)
Vulcan Shipbuilding Company’s Meeting nt Bremen, Capital to be Raised, (190), (291)
Wood, in America, 264
Yards on the Continent, Now, (291)

Shipping Accidents:

American Liner St. Paul, Serious, (467)
Border Knight, Replacing her Screw and Tail Shaft nt Sen, (125)
Gibraltar, Breakdown of tho, 91
Glory, Singular Mishap to tho New Battleship, (519)
Groat Western Mail Steamer Ibex Raised, (87)
Harbour Fire in New York, and the Question of Enlarged Portholes for Ships, 140, 162
Havock, Accident to the Destroyer, 287
Hoboken Disaster, North German Lloyd's Losses, (163)
Japanese Katsuragi, Disaster off the Chinese Coast to the, 624
Japanese Torpedo Boat Niji, Grounding of, 369, 624
Manx Qaeen, Mail Steamer, (608)
Mutine, Bursting of Belleville Boiler Tube, (641)
Ocean Liner Dolayed by a "Burnt Piston,” (263)
Oceanio, Accident to tho, (318)
Thunderer, Battleship, (476), 480
Tiger, Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Accidont to Stokers, (619)

Shipping News, Various:

Aürial Ships, 139, (392)
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, The, (137)
American Shipping, Condition of, (554)
Antwerp Shipping Returns, (93), (163)
Antwerp and Rotterdam Returns for the First Half of 1900, (163)
Belleville Boilors, Ships with, (641)
Boston, U.S.A., 1899, Total Number of Foreign Vessels which Entered, (137)
British Admiralty and Barr and Stroud Transmitters, 521
British, to the Baltic, Decrease in, (163)
British Tonnage, Second-hand, Price Paid by
our Foreign Competitors for, (33)
Canada and the Southern Ports of Jamaica, Pro¬jected Service between, (87)
Castle Union Line, Orders Placed with Barclay, Curio, and Co., (544)
Christiania and Foreign Countries, 174
Coaling Competition at Berehaven amongst Ships of the Navy, (491)
Compagnie Maritime de la Seine’s Direct Goods Service between Paris and London, (33)
Engines, Auxiliary, in the Navy, (519)
Engine-room Artificers Serving in the Channel Squadron, Admiralty Regulations respecting the Drafting of, 494
Engineers in the United States Navy, 469, 495
Foreign Shipbuilders Continue to Enlist British Hands, (62)
French Naval Reforms, 521
French Navy, Increase of the, 581
German Joint-Stock Shipping Companies, Capital of, (392)
German Steamship Fleet, Increase of the, (137)
Greek Fleet, Proposal of the Greek Press with Reference to, (62)
Japan, Tenth in the List of Maritime Nations, (544)
Japanese, 104
Japanese Navy, Belleville Boilers in the, 542
July, 157
Lake Shipping Developments, 168, (637)
Steamers, American, (44)
Steamers, American, Iron Ore Cargoes Carried by, (519)
Machinery of Fighting Ships, Rear-Admiral Melville on the, 103, 115
Marine Notes, American, (44), (72)
Masts Ordered at Portsmouth, High, (163)
Mechanical Theory of Steamship Propulsion, by Robert Mansel, 179
Naval Engineers, 517, 545, 548, 593, 598, 618
in the United States Navy, 469, 495
Value of Heredity in, (641)
Officers and Warships, 640
Suggestions, 594
Navy, The, 441
List for November, The, Does Britannia Rule tho Waves ? 524
Magnifying Glasses to be Introduced into the (491)
Russian Ironclad to be Constructed at Nico¬laieff, 521
Pacific Squadron, Composition of, 524
Reinforcements for China, 641, 642
Screw and Tail Shaft of the Border Knight Replaced at Sea, (125)
Shipping Subsidy Bill, Discussion on the, in the Senate at Washington, (508)
Speed Records Across tho Atlantic, (239)
Tonnage Entered at Ports in the United King¬dom during the Seven Months end¬ing July 30th, 1900 and 1899, (163)
of all the Merchant Navies of the World, (519)
of Steamers owned in Groat Britain and other Countries, (5191
Traffic at Genoa, (392)
at Hamburg, (416), (392)
Maritime, between Hamburg and the Rhine, (416)
United States Navy Estimates, (544)
Naval Constructor F. T.
Bowles to be Appointed Chief Constructor of the, (591)
Vossels Fitted with Water- tube Boilers, 26, 56
Vessels Launchod in Juno and May this Year and Previous Years in Eng¬land (33)
in Juno and May this Year and Previous Years in Scotland, (33)
in November by English Shipbuilders, (59l)
in November by Scotch Ship¬builders, (508)
in the United Kingdom this Year and Previous Years, (33)
in the United Kingdom in the First Eleven Months of this Year and Last, (508)
Lost, Ac., Lloyd's Quarterly Return for Three Months ending December 31st, 1899,(213)
Statistical Tables of, Compiled by Lloyd’s Rogister, (44)
Totally Lost, Condemned, &o., Lloyd’s Register of, (239)
White Star Line Company’s Pamphlet, “ From the First Oceanic to the Second,” (33)
Steamer to Touch at Plymputh November Next, (33)
Wire lots Telegraphy, Ships fitted with, 82, (641)
Siberia, Area and Population, (619)
Signal Device for Mines, Mr, C. S. Herzig, 450
Simon, Mr., Invention for Sending a Type-written Message by Telephone, (318)
Simons and Co., Hopper Dredger La Puissante, 168, 230, 231, 240, 261
Simplicity and Complication, 368
Simplon Tunnol and the Interests of France, The, 412
Slag Cement, Analysis of the Finished, 218
Slag Cement, Road Made of, (416)
Slipways, Amorioan, 174
Smelting of Ore, Direot, (44)
Smelting by Water Gas, Blast Furnace, 153
Smith and Coventry, Limitod, Bovol Wheel Shaper, 186, 187, 188
Mr. Hamilton, 65
Mr. Shrapnel, On tho Coats of Motors for Street Cleansing, 276
Prof. R. IL, Training for Competition with the World, 319
Smithfield Club Show, (549)
Smoke Abatement, (32)
Nuisanco, Ilatilago Contractor Summoned for Causing, (440)
Prevention, 445, 639
Smyrna, Pumps and Agricultural Machinery in, 33
Snake Story, Tbo Latost, (11)
Soaring Flight, Note on, 499

Society, Aeronautical:

Flying Machine, Mr. P. T. Alexander on Count Zeppelin’s, (87)

Soclete Alsacienne de Constructions Mecanlques, Belfort:

Machine Tools (Supplement, November 23rd 1900)

Society of Arts:

Electrio Ojcillation, and Electric Waves, Prof. J. A. Fleming, 570
Opening Meeting and Arrangements for the Meetings before Christmas, (499), (530)

Society, Bath and West and Southern Counties:

Datos of Show, 1901, (11)

Society, Boilermakers’ and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders’:

Monthly Report, The Council Complain of Members Losing Time through Drinking and Neglecting their Work, (392)
Quarterly Report, (491)

Society of Civil Engineers, American:

Iron and St9el Rails in America, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 5
Official Reception in Groat Gaorge-strooC,
Westminster, President Sir Douglas Fox, 5
Visit to Ludwig Loewe and Co.’s Works, Berlin, 82, 83

Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’:

Annual Dinner, 10
Steam Engine Valves, Prof. R. II. Smith on, 600
Training for Competition with the World, Pre¬sidential Address, Prof. R. H. Smith, 349, 600

Society of Engineers, The Amalga¬mated :

Forty-seventh Annual Meeting, Election of Council and Officers, Premiums for Papers, &c., 621
Annual Dinner, (572), (600)
Jubilee, Celebration of its, (73), (530)
Lodge in Sheffield, Another, (225)
London District Committee’s Action with Regard to Raising the Minimum Rates of the Trade, (213)
Monthly Report and Appointed of Mr. J. Anderson, (424), (425)
Quarterly Report, 199

Society, Glasgow University Engineering:

Automobilism up to Dato, Mr. Shrapnel Smith, (617)
Engineering Experience in Relation to Re¬search, Mr. T. A. B. Carver, (602)
Visit to the Works of Alley and McLellan, (535)

Society, Glasgow and West of Scot¬land Technical College Scientific:

Opening Meeting, 397
Paper by Mr. H. I). Jackson, On the Organisa¬tion of a Workshop, (499)

Society, Manchester Geological:

Election of President, Mr. G. C. Greenwell, and Report, (377)
Geogological Features of Victoria, Australia, Mr. Jas. Stirling on, (377)
Siberian Railway, Mr. Mark Stirrup on the Great, (505)

Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American :

Automobile Wagon for Heavy Duty, Arthur Horschemann, 96, 120, 121
Cylinder Proportions for Compound and Triple- expansion Engines, Mr. B. C. Ball, 97
Total Membership, 213 Society of Model Engineers, The:
Annual General Mooting and Conversazione, Dates of, 504
Engine of his Now Model Torpedo Boat Described by Mr. Hastings, (66)
Glasgow Branch, (535)
Great Eastern Trains and Times, Mr. C. E. Oxbrow, 287
Sixth Monthly Meeting, (254)
Visit to tho Southwark nnd Vauxhall Water¬works Pumping Station, (87)

Society, Miners' Provident:

Quarterly Report, 278
Society, National Lecture:
Lectures on British Industries, (114)

Society, Physical:

Magnetic Field of Electric Tramways, Prof. A. W. Rucker, 641

Society of Railway Servants, Amal¬gamated :

Bell, Mr., Elected M.P. for Darby, Maddison, Mr., Rejected for Sheffield, (365)
Support the North-Eastern Men for Advance in Wages, (378)
SOUTHWOLD Sewage Extensions, [21
Speed Controller, Consolidated, 212
Sponges, Artificial, Process for Making, (440)
Spraying Machine for the Vine, A New, (137)
Staiths Coal, American, 552
Stairways, Moving, for the Manhattan Elevated Stations, (111)
Steam Rollers, Upkeep of, 413
Traps, 145
Trap, The Tunley, 97
Turbines, 441, 475
Valve, Isolating, 528
Wet and Dry, and a New Form of Calori¬meter for Measuring it, Prof. J. Good¬man, 290
Steel, American, Increasing Arrivals of, (554)
American, from Lake Erie, for Avonmouth, (191)
Balls, American Machine for Making Spherical, (11)
Casting Plant, American, (14)
Chains, Weldlese, 537
and Concrete Factory Construction, Pitts¬burgh, 327
Cutting at 160ft. per Minute, 232
in Cycle Construction, Mr. D. Flather on, (15)
High Chromium and Low Carbon, 384
Hotel, near Waterloo Railway Station, American, (265)
in India, Manufacturo of Cast, over 2000 Years old, (11)
and Iron Exports from the United States, (163)
New Tool, (247)
-making Process, The Talbot Continuous, (527)
Manufacture, Progress in, 15
Output, France, (554)
Output, United States, by the Basic and the Acid Process, (365)
Plates and Angle Steel for Scotch Ship¬builders, Carnegie, (591)
Progress in the Southern States, (589)
Roof, Rapid Erection of a (Kansas City), 148
Ship Plates delivered to Workman, Clark, and Co., R»jecti.n of American, (523), (603)
Ship Plates, Reaction of American Con¬signment to Glasgow, explained, 523
into Swansea, Sir J. Jenkins on the Effect of American Importation of, (491)
Trade, American, 139
Viaduct Construction, New York, 327
Works, Japanese Government’s, 357
Stephenson and Co., Limited, Messrs , New Engineering Works at DarliDgton, (46)
Sterilisation, Water and Sewage, 437
Stevenson and Bros., Belts, (249)
Stirling Boiler Company’s Show of Models, (440)
Stockport Water Supply, (440)
Stokers, Automatic, 63
Stone-dressing Machino, Brunton and Trier's, 446
Strathern's Weldless Steel Chains, 537
Stream-Line Theory, Ship Resistance and the, 141
Street Cleansing and Watering, Costs of Motors for, 276
Street Widening in London, Cost of, (33)
Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange of Chicago, Automatic Switch Purchased by the German Government, (239)
Students, A Few Questions for, 295
Subway, Pedestrian Traffic through the Mansion House, (416)
Sugar Refineries, Japan, (637)
Sulphur Mines in Chili, Company Formed to Work the, (392)
Sulphur Ore Works in Russia, at Dugbestan, (291)
Superheater and Separator, A Controllable, 443, 475
Soperheater>, s.s. Inchdoune and Inchmarlo, 597, (606)

Supplements:

Eig'ne and Dynamo, Horizontal Compound, L. J^ng and Ganz and Co., Paris Exhibition, September 28tb, 1900
Triple-expansion, A. Borsig, Paris Exhi¬bition, July 20th, 1900
Triple-expansion Horizontal, Bromley Brothers, Moscow, Paris Exhibition, November 16th, 1900
Vertical Compound, 600 Horse power, Sociétó Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, November 2nd, 1900
2500 Vertical Triple-expansion, Verein- igte Maschinen Fabrik Augsburg und Mascbinenbau Gesellschaft, Nürn¬berg, August 24th, 1900
Gasholders at Saltley, Four-lift, Mr. H, Hack, December 21st, 1900
Locomotive, Compound Express, Eastern Rail¬way of Franco, July 6th and July 13th, 1900
Locomotives, Compound and Simple, Socié.é Suisse, Winterthur, November 30th, 1900
Locomotive, Express, Prussian State Railways, Herr A. Borsig, September 7th, 1900
Fonr-cylinder Compound, Chemin de Fer du Nord, MM. du Bos¬quet et de Glehn, Docember 7th, 1900
Six-coupled Express, Southern Railway of Italy, Sig. Henry Plancher, Paris Exhibition, Octo¬ber 5th and 19th, 1900
Machine Tools, Some Continental and British, November 23rd, 1900
Panama Canal, Plan of the, October 26th, 1900 SWAN, Mr. John G., (650)
Switzarland, Total Imports into, (611)
Sydney, Cleansing of the City, (201)
Sydney Harbour Collieries, Extension Works. (291)
Harbour Trust, (400)
Symons, Mr. G. J., Memorial to, (510)

T

TALBOT Continuous Steel Process Limited Com¬pany, The, (527)
Tamworth Sewage Schemes, (190)
Tamworth Waterworks Extension Scheme, (114)
Taps with Metric Screw Threads, (249)
Taylor and Challen, Limited, Screw Press and Squaring Shears, 142, 143
Technical Education Board of the London County Council, Total Expenditure of the, (291)
Schools in Argentine, (365)
Training in Germany to include One Year in a Workshop, (318)
Technological Work of the Board of Education, The, (508)
Telegraph Line, French Congo, (318)
Telegraphic Communication with South and East Asia, 395
Telegraphy, Wireless, 32, 33, (83), (114), (213), 218, 318, 329, (416) ; between Portsmouth and Portland, (213); Cruiser Diadem, 32 ; Experi¬ments between Ilfracombe and the Welsh Coast, (114); German Warships to be Fitted with, (83); Marconi’s System Adopted for the British Navy, 218 ; Prof. Baum’s Experiments with his System, (318); Mr. Ritchie and, (33)
Telephone Competition in Russia, Important, 148
Decision, Important to Users of, (544)
Lines from Germany, (114)
Pay Station, Automatic, on an Atlantic Liner, (440)
Service in Guatemala, 162
System in Indiana, A Cheap and Novel, (163)
Transmission of Type written Message by, (318)
Telescope, A New Large, (402)
Telescopes, The World’s Largest, 314
Temperature of the Free Air, Dr. Hergesell’s Paper on the, (87)
Tempering Tools, French Plan for, (87)
Tenby Water Supply, (557)

Tenders:

Armour, Ordnance Bureau of the United States Navy Department Asks for, 67
Cruisers, Six Armoured, United States Invites, (392)
Harbour at Scheveningen, The Netherlands Government Invites, (519)
Ironware and Iron Piping for State Railways in Java, Netherlands Colonial Ministry Invite, (114)
Motor Dust Cart, London, (440)
Port at Simons Bay, Sir John Jackson's Accepted for New, (163)
Water-tube Boilers for the Challenger and Encounter, Devonport Dockyard Invited by the Admiralty, (440)
THEODOLITES and their Failure, 599
Thermometer in Gormany, The Centigrade in, (213)
Thornycroft’s Steam Tipping Wagon, 31
Thunderstorm at Manchester, its Effect on the Electric Light and Power Station, (239)
Tides, Lecture on, to be Delivered at Greenock, (365)
Timber, Haskinised, Experiments with, on Indian Railway, (239)
Preserving, (440)
Trade, Dantzig, (230)
Trade, Galatz, (416)
Trade, White Sea, (491)
Tin Mining, Cornish, 172 Plates, 497
Plate Works Offered for Sale, South Wales, (591)
Plating not a Poisonous Trade, Dr. Legge Declares, (163)
Tire Hammer for Railway Wheels, New Form of, 300
Tools, English v. American, 549
Machine, Continental and British—see Supplement, November 23/W, 19C0
Pneumatic Labour-saving, 446
Steel. New, (247)
Traction by Kites, 193
Tractive Force, Resistance and Acceleration of Trains, Mr. A. Mallock on the Measurement of, 269, 323
Trade and Business Announcements, 23, 46, 74, 101, 125, 176, 226, 279, 305, 329, 353, 379, 427, 453, 480, 507, 531, 555, 579, 603, 625, 651
of Chin Kiang, Report on the, (87)
Trade-mark Case, Japan, Another, (45)
Training for Competition with the World, Prof. R. H. Smith, 349
Training of Mechanical Engineers (*w Engineers)

Tramways, Electric, and other:

Astraohan, (163)
Australian, (400), 491
Bath and Environs, (114)
Beckenham to the Crystal Palace and Croydon, Proposed,(591)
Bjlton, Bad Condition of the Lines, (611)
Bradford, 272
Buenos Ayres, (637)
Cardew, Cornelius C.’s Letter Headed, 162
Cars Operated by Compressed Air in New York and Chicago, (637)
Castleford, Electric, (440)
Chester, (365)
Chicago, Underground System, (174)
Derby Electric, (440)
Dudloy and Sedgley, (114)
Dundee, Electric, A Protection Guard for the Cars, (440)
Durham County, (265)
Edinburgh, Portobollo Section, New Cable Power Station, (440)
Folkestone, (318)
Frankfort, (137)
German, Accidents and Brakes on, 263
Glasgow, 91
Gloucester, (392)
Great Orme's Head, A Mountain, (265)
Kertch, in Yenikale, (637)
Kingston Yalo to Esher, Opposed by the Duke of Cambridge, (11)
Lake District, (265), ('291). (467)
Lancaster to Morecambe, (137)
Leeds, Collection of Fares, (293)
Corporation Electric Tramways Gene¬rating Station, New- Engines and Boiler-house, (291)
Tramway Plant, 588, 589, 592
Liverpool, (163), (239)
Locomotive, Lyons-Neuville Lines, Sooiété Suisse, Winterthur, 541
London, Camberwell Green to Vauxhall, Elec¬tric, (440)
County Council’s Bill, (87); Sohomes for, (402), (544); Appoint an Elec¬trical Engineer, (611)
Extensions, 118
Prof. Kennedy's Underground Con¬duit System Approved for, (508)
Madrid, (114)
Magnetic Field of Electric, Prof. A. W. Rucker on, (641)
Maidstone District, (291), (400)
Manchester, (410), (544), (601), (611)
Morecambe, (190)
Moscow, Electric, (519)
Munich, (213)
New South Wales, 597
New York, 117, (318)
Norwich, (137)
Oldham, (137), (392)
Oran in Algeria, (137)
Paris Congress, Mr. Scotter on the Distinction between Light Railways and, (318)
Paris and Suburbs, (190)
Poltawa, (291)
Power Consumption of Electric Tram Cars, Mr. A. H. Binyon on, (33)
Preston, (239)
Rhyl, (318)
Richmond to Acton, Kew Observatory Officials' Opposition to, (508)
Scotch, Port Glasgow through Greenock, (467)
Sheffield, (137), (440), (467)
Shepherd's Bush to Acton, (508)
South Lancashire, (519)
Steel Rails, Life of, 77
Sunderland, (137), (163), (265)
Surrey, (265)
Swansea, Electric, (22)
Sydney North Shore, Comparison as between Cable and Electric Working, (478)
Tramway Construction, Recent, Mr. W. Dawson on, 272
United States, Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach, (400)
Vera Cruz, (591)
Wrexham, (137)
TROLLEY, The Lombard Gorin, 269
Trust Formed in Germany by Manufacturers of First-class Tools and Iron and Steel Goods, (163)
T-square Club, 504
Tube Trade, The, 166
Tunley Steam Trap, The, 97, 145
Tunnel, Gibraltar to Tangiers, Project for, (467) Great, (397)
Simplon, Progress of, (365)
Thames, Proposed and Authorised, (31), (62)
Turbine-propelled Channel Steamers, 91
Turbines, Steam, 444, 475
Turf, Paper Made out of, (253)
Turf Works in Russia, (253)
Twinberrow, Mr.. On the Capacity of Railway Wagons as Affecting the Cost of Transport, 514, 522, 526
Tyne Improvement Commissioners, 299
Tynemouth Water Supply, (416)
Type-writtenMessagesTransmitted by Telephone, (318)
Typhoid and Flies, 499

U

UNION Switch and Signal Company, Contract Secured by, (145)
United States Colleges and Technical Schools, Munificent Gifts to, (291)
Competition, 418
Exports for the Fiscal Year End¬ing June 30th, (11)
Geological Survey, The, 197
Population of, (440)
Senate and Nicaragua Canal, 616
University College, Liverpool, (290)

V

VALPARAISO, Drainage System Neodcd, (213)
Valparaiso, Foundries at, (239)
Valves, Gas Engine, 96
Internal Combustion Engine. 19
Isolating Steam, Richard Klinger and Co., 528
and Valve Gearing, Prof. R. II. Smith on, 600
Vapour Preventer Company, Electric Vapour Pre¬venter, 398
Vaughan, Mr. Thos.,,(578)
Ventilation, 444, 475
Ventilation of Drawing-offices, 518
Ventilation and Heating, 441, 475, 519, 573, 599, 619, 645
Viaduct Gasworks, Nottingham, 218
Vulcanite or Ebonite Nails, (87)
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, War Material, Paris Exhibition, 282
Victoria Nyanza, Tbo, 619
Vincent, Sir Howard, his Strictures on the Great Eastern Railway Directors for Ordering Rails Abroad, 546, 565
Voloinic Stone Sea Walls, 146
Vulcin Ironworks for Sal®, (426)

W

WALCOTT, Mr. C. D., Tho United States Geological Survey, 197
Walker Engineering Laboratories, Liverpool, (9)
Walker, Maynard, and Co., Limited, Launch of the Firm of, (553)
War Material, Paris Exhibition, 210, 211, 282, 285, 332, 382
War-office, Contractors to the, Circular sent to, (33)
Ward, Leonard, System of Driving Printing Machinery by Electricity, 528
Waste Gases from Blast Furnaces in Germany, Utilisation of, (114)
Waste of Water and its Prevention, 145, 162, 212, 261
Waste in Water Supply of Towns, Recording Meter for Detection of, 498, 500
Watches, Output of, in Switzerland, (591)
Watch Trade in Turkey. Impetus to the, (33)
Water, Gainsborough, New Boring for, (23)
Gauge, Reflex, Aluminium, R. Klinger and Co., (508)
in Locomotive Boilers, Effects of Hard and Soft in, (10)
Meters Introduced in Bombay, (372)
Molecular Constitution of, 599
Power, Ottawa’s, (491)
and Sewage Sterilisation, 437
Water Supply, 445, 475, 499, 517, 549, 573, 619
of Chicago, (467). 576
East London Water Company’s Bill, (52)
Glasgow, 531 India, (508)
Liverpool, 69
London, (253), (365), 467, 475, 497, 499, 517, 588, (591), 616
Metropolitan, (33), (137), (467), 497
New York, 458
Paris, 83
Penzance, (611)
Question of, 394, 499
Stockport, (637)
Tenby, (611)
Towns, Recording Meter for Detention of Waste in the, 498, 500
Tunnels of Chicago, 576
Water Waste of, Cost of Detention and Preven¬tion, Mr. A. J. Jenkins on, 7, 43
Water Waste and its Prevention, 95, 96, 118, 145, 162, 212, 264, 444
Weatherburn, Mr. Robt., On the Causes of the Wear and Tear of Fire-boxes of Locomotives, 630
Weights and Measures Act, Board of Trade’s Report on their Proceedings under the, (591)
Welding Experiments, M. Spring’s, (624)
Welding and Tempering Compound, Mr. Melvin C. Dean’s Patent, (467)
Weldless Steel Chain Patents, 537
Welding Two Pieces of Iron or Steel, Plates for, (33)
Welin Breech Screw, Krupp’s Modified, 248
Wellington Foundry, Lincoln, 245
Wheat Export for Bahia Blanca, (163)
Wheatley Kirk, Price, and Co., Jubilee of the Firm of, (11)
Wheel Cuttting, Bevel, 212
Whitehead Torpedo Fired for a Test, (87)
Whitelaw Pneumatic Drill, 446
Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, 231
Williams, Hal, on the Production of Distilled
Water for Ice-making Plants, 647
Wilson and Bennett’s Life-guard for Electric Tramcars, (351)
Wilson, Mr. Robt., on Glasgow’s Water Supply, (531)
Wire Gauge Micrometer, 220
Wireless Telegraphy for the Admiralty. (637)
at Inishtrahull, North Ire¬land, (611)
The Marconi System adopted for the British Navy, 218
between Portsmouth and Portland, (213)
Ships Fitted with, 32, £3, 218, 388, 544
see also Telegraphy, Wireless Wohler’s Laws, On, 203
Wood, Fireproofing and Preserving, (440)
Preservative, A New, 108, 145
for Street Paving, A New, 466
Working Machinery, Paris Exhibition,338, 339
Workmen’s Compensation Act:
Ball, Wm., r. Bolsover Colliery Company, 162
Falconer, Andrew, v. London and Glasgow
Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company, Limited, 512
Ferguson v. Green, 575
Hathaway v. Argus Printing Company, Limited, 576
Law, Jas., v. Craven Brothers, 436
Pattiiwon and Son Stevenson, 32
Raine <•. Johnson, 146
Reynolds, Alf., <•. Cravens, Limited, 512
Workmen’s Compensation and Employers’ Lia¬bility Acts, 159
Workmen’s Property in his Invention, A, 112
Wiirtemberg, Italians Employed in the Manu¬factories, (491)

X Y Z

XYLOSOTE, 108
Yorkshire Coal Trade—Coal Trade, Yorkshire Young’s Dovetailing Machine, Paris Exhibition, 338
Zeppelin’s Flying Machine, (87), (318), (611)
Zinc and Cadmium, Boiling Points of, (190)

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