The Engineer 1857 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1857 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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A New Specks of Steamer, 27
A Patent Gunpowder, &c., 46
Abridgment and Sub-division of Labour in Agriculture, 332
Abridgment of Specification Relating to Drains, .tic. (Review), 2.4

Accidents, Railway, 142 (Note Book), 331

By Eastwood, K. 9
Millen and Kingston, 9
Halton, Thomas, 109
Speed and safety. 9
(Parliamentary Intelligence), 133, 174

Account of Muir's Minie Rifle Sights, by C. Partington (Review), 374
Across South America, 470
Adams' Improvements in Permanent Ways, 166
Adams' Improvements in Railway' Wheels, Axles, and Axle Boxes, 207
Adulteration of Bread, 314
Adulteration Detected, ac., by Arthur Hill Hassall M.D. (Review', 105
Advancement of Rents, 490
Aerating Liquids—Knight's Apparatus for, 7
Aeration of the Soil under Steam Culture (Note Book), 492
African Railroads and Agriculture (Note Book), 473
Aerial Chariot, The Carlingford, 467, 469
Aerial Chariot (Letters), by J. B., 509; J. A. D , 509; A, 509; Lord Carlingford, 489, 509
Aerial Navigation, The Practicability of; 459

Agricultural Education (Note Book), 373

Engineering, 12
Engines, Chandler and Oliver's Improvements in, Female Labourers (Note Book), 195
Implements, 4i3
Collins's Improvements in, 26
Labour (Note Book), 213
Labourers (Note Book), 152
Prospects, 1857, 31
Steam Engines, Holecroft's Improvements in, 446

Agriculture, Abridgment and sub-division Labour in (Note Book), 332

Influence of Improved Implements on (Note Book), 352
Mechanical Science in Relation to (Note Book), 432
Mr. Moreton's Lectures on, 34i
Rib Railways for (Note Rook), 251

Air Exhauster, Fruity &e., Preserver, 162
Allans. Permanent Ways, 416
Alleged Discovery of Guano. 451
Allen's Z Rail Permanent Way, 126
Alloyed Gold, 45
Alteration of London Streets, The Proposed, 25
Alum in Bread and ita Detection, Notes on, by Mr. Hadow (Chemical), 215
Aluminium at a Bell Metal, 45
American Automatic Steam Whistle, 443,
American Coal Burning Locomotive, by Baltimore, 209, by " Dial," 189
American Nautilus Machine, 206
American Commissioners of Patents, for 18-4, Report of the, by C. Mason, 261
American Railway Finances, by J. Sanborn, 409
American Railways (Note Book). 191, 211
American Railways. by Zerah Colburn, 401
American Tariff, 490
American View of the Effect of the Tariff on Iron, 369
An American Steam Battery, 5
Anchors, Dickinson's, 282
Animal strength (Note Book). 19:
Another Colliery Explosion, 423
Antipodes of English, The Chinese Customs (Letter), 123
Apparatus for Collecting Gases from Water and other Fluids, &c. (Chemical), 513
Application of Electro-Magnetism as a Motive Power. Paper read before the Inst. C.V. , by R. Hunt, F.R.S., 3:5
Application of Machinery in the War Department. Abstract of Paper read before the Society of Arts, b)
John Anderson, 93
Application of Rail for Horse Transit in the Streets of London. Abstract of a Paper read before the Society of Arts, by W. B. Adams, 121
Application of Sewage to Agriculture, by Dugald Campbell, 281, 301
Application of Sewage Manure, by B. O., 129
Application of Town Manures, Trial Works at Paris for the, 504
Approximate Rectification of Circular Arcs, 307
Appropriation Claws," 161
April Showers (Note Book), 313
Archer (The late Mr. Frederick Scott,) the Inventor of the Collodion Process, 4!8
Armoury Iron Works, Wrought Iron Chairs, 443
Army Floating Wagons, on Metallic Boats and, by Major Eyre, F.R.G.S. (Review), 373
Art-Manufacture Association ot Scotland, 189
Art, Schools of—Rocks Ahead (Note Book), 232
Arts' Exhibition. The Society of, 368
Art Treasures' Exhibition, The, 147.382
Art Treasures' Exhibition (Note Book), 392, 430, 471, 491
Art Treasures' Exhibition at Manchester (Note B.), 351
Art Treasures' Palace at Manchester, 280
Artificial Manure, (Note Book), 72, 245
Artificial Milk, 186
Assaying of Tin Ores, by M. A. Lavol (Chomical). 271
Association of Foremen Engineers, 211, 230
Association for the Prevention ot Steam Boiler Explosions, 190, 290
Atlantic Submarine Cable, 422, 469
Atlantic Telegraph, The, 82, 270,323, 490
Atlantic Telegraph Cable, by J. Pier.-y, 328
Atlantic Telegraph Cable, The Great, by W. Reid, C.E. 50,
Attraction of Gravitation, The, J. H. Elliot, 169, 209, 269; J. A. D., 149. 188, 248, 219, 269, 2e 8, 308, 368; Kru, 328; Steevenson, W.. 169, 218
Australasian. Launch of the, 468
Australia, Iron Smelting in, 313
Australia, Passenger Traffic in, 314
Australia, Public Works at,5
Australian Mails, The. 160
Austrian Agricultural Exhibition, 430

Bachoffuer’s Glass Shades for Gas and other Lamps, 416
Baird's Method of Freeing Wool, 27
Baker's Safety Valve, 270
Baking and the Smoke Act, 23
Bankruptcy of Fox, Henderson. and Co., 121
Barber's Machinery for Mill and other Engraving Rollers, 317
Barlow's Permanent Ways, 367
Barlow and Woodhouse's Method of Connecting Rails, 103
Beams, Strength of Iron. by R. H. Skaife 29
Beattie v The London. Brighton and South Coast Railway Company (Law Proceedings), 45
Bee-Hive, The Greet (Note Book), 35!
Begg's Mode of Preparing Textile, Ike., Materials, 313
Benson's Apparatus for Drying Grain, 463
Berresford and Wilkinson's Looms. 60
Bertram and McNiven's Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper. 513
Bessemer's Improvements in Pressing and Rollin:4
Malleable Iron and Steel. 70. 390
Best Position for Sleeping, 506
Betts v. Menzies and Willy (Law Proceedings;, 213, 502
Beckford v. Hayes (Law Proceedings), 445
Biddell's Oat Mill Roller. 23
Biddell's Railway Crossings, 22
Big Ben, 143
Big Ben of Westminster, 224
Bill to Amend the Several Acts now in Force in Relation to the Patent Office, 173
Binks' Paper on Nitrogen in Steel, 468
Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy, 210
Blackburn Mechanics' Institution, 410
Blackwood's Machinery for Doubling Yarns and Vacs ls, 110
Bleaching and Deodorising Tallow, &c., 226
Blind Rollers, Sall's Improvements in, 47
Boardman's Coal Burning Locomotive, 45
Boilers, Bougleux's Improvements in, 486
Boilers, Brayshay's Improvements in, 227

Boilers, Stephen's Improvements in, 467

Wright's Improvements in. 46; and Fire Boxes, Gray's Improvements in, 87
Bougleux's Improvements in, 486
Brayshay's Improvements in, 11.1
Stephen's Improvements in, 467
Wright's Improvements in, 46
Deposit In (Letter.)—
By Aerigenetes. 29
G. H., 148 11111. Samuel, 128
James Johnstone. 188
Naylor, William, 89
Onion., John, 108
Pro Bono Public°, 127
William: Charles ‘V)e, 108, 127, 118, 1c8, 188.26;
Boilers, Dunn's Improvements in (Letters)—
By A. C. 48
Dunn. Thomas, 9, 29, 67
Engineer, An, 48
Gibson, James, 29
Locomotive Engineer, 29
Operative Engineer, 48
Shaw, Henry, 9, 48
Boiler Explosions (Note Book) 111, 131
Boiler Explosions (Letters) :—
By Barrans. Josh.. 128
Harrison, Thomas, h9
J. T. L., 48
Johnstone. James, 268
Shaw, W.,9
Boiler Explosions, Fatal. 208
Boiler Explosions, Mr. Longridge's Report on, 81
Boilers, incrustations of Steam in (Note Book), 151
(Letters)—
By Aerigenetes, 108
Childs. Henry. 108
Harrison, T., 128
Johnstone. James, 108
J. M. J., 308
Looker on. A, 148
Onions, John. 108
Pro Bono Public°, 219
Richards, Frederick, 108
Smith, J.. 108
Boilers. Use of Fresh Water in, by W. B., 148
Isle of Man. 148
Boiler Plates, Crystallisation of, by an Engineer, 9;
Bombay Mechanics' Institution. 429
Booth v. Kennard (Law Proceedings), 315
Boring and Drilling, Harvey's Machinery for, 117
Boring and Sinking, Gard's Bits for, 382
Bottle Reservoir—Water Companies. Aquator, 267
Bougleux's Improvements in Taps, 486
Bovill u. Keyworth and Another (Chancery Proceedings), 423
Boydell's Traction Engine, 441
Boydell's Traction Engine, by Titus Robottom, 469
Brakes, Railway, Guerin'a Mode of Working, 103
Brayshay's Improvements in Boilers, 227
Bread, the Adulteration of, 314
Breaks, Schiele's Expansion Gear and Oscillation, 287
Brick-Making Machinery, 162
Bridge of Boats across the River Hooghly, at Calcutta, 224
Bridge of Boats at Calcutta. by John James, 218
Bridge over the " Aare," Iron Lattice, 470
Bridges, Metropolitan Communication and Thames, (Review), 4:44
Bridge over the Kentucky River, on the Line of the Louisville and Lexington Railway, 454
Bridgewater Foundry, '1' he, 26
Britain, The Great, 113
British Colonies, Free Emigration to the, 173
British Museum, The New Library at the, 9
British Museum, New Reading Rooms and Libraries of the, 315
Brooke v. Aston (Law Proceedings), 502
Brooman's Machinery for Cutting Stone, 507
Brown's Machinery for Making Iron, 7
Brown's Improved Signal Lantern, 267
Brown's Improvements in Taps or Valves, 362
Bricks. Platt and Whitehead's Machinery for, 130
Brussell's Exhibition of Designs, &:., in the Industrial Arts, 329

Cables, The Great Atlantic Telegraph, by W. Reid, C.E.,
Cadet's Improvement in Taps, 486
Cadiat's Application of Centrifugal Force for Purifying Liquids, 282
Cage for Mines, Simpson's, 287
Caithness's, Earl of, Improvements in Cutting Stone. 290
Calculation, On Mental, by G. Parker Bidder, .11, 61, 81, 101
Calcutta, Bridge of Boats at, by John James. 248
Calvert'. Machinery for Cleaning, Sm. Cotton, 122
Cameron's Improvements In Cranes, 1117
Camphor an Effectual Antidote to Strychnine, 161
Canadian Dargan. A. 289
Canal between Kostendje, on the Black Sea, and the Danube. 429
Candles. Cowper's Improvements in. 263
Capillary Attraction. the Cause of, W. Steevenson, 269
Carding Engines, Newton's Improvements In, 419
Carlingford Aerial Chariot, The, 467. 469 •
Carlingford Screw Propeller, The (Letter) by Lord Carlingford, 69
Carr's Mode of Operating Hammers, 383
Carrert's Motive Power Engines, 30
Carriages, R. Hazeldine's Improvements in, 426
Carriage Ways. Metropolitan (Letters)13y J. B. L.. 249
J. Rockcliffe. 269
Carts and Carriages, Porter's Improvements in, 126
Cartwright’s Improvement* In Chain Harrows. 266
Cato, Miller and Co.'s Improvements In Ships' Knees, 506
Cause of Capillary Attraction, W. Steevenson, 269
Cause of the Explosion at Lundhill, 428
Causes of Fires in London. 407
Cause of Mirage. Inc., by W. Steevenson, 249
Cawkwell r. Day (Law Intelligence). 156
Census of New South Wales. 423
Certain Peculiarities of Climate during part of the Permian Enoch, by Professor A. C. Ramsay, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 448
Ceylon Coolie Transport and Steam Navigation Co., 43
Ceylon. The Railway Survey, 253
Chain Cable and Timber Testing Machine, Dunn's, 207
Chain Cable and Timber Testing Machines, Paper read before the Indt. C. E., by Thomas Dunn. 166
Chain Harrows, Cartwright's Improvement. in. 266
Chandler and 011‘er'$ Improvements in Agricultural Engines. 110
Charcoal " Sel(.COnSUMIllg " Stoves, 189
Chariot, The Carlingford Aerial k Let tc rs) —
By A.. 509
(7arlIngfc rd, 489, 509
J. A. D.. 609
L. B., 509
Chatham Dockyard, 100, 146. 280, 341)
Chemical Properties of Aluminum. Sec., by M. H. Sainte Claire Deville (Chemical). 251
Chenot's Improvements in Sorting Ores, 147
Reduction of Metallic Oxides, 169
Chinese Custom, the Antipodes of English. 123
Chollet v. Hoffman (Law Proceeding.), 3.5, 3 V>, 388
Choosing 'lea. 189
Chronometers, Johnson's Method of Mounting Marine, 6
Circle, Rectification of the (Letter.)—
By Gibsone Burford. 217
High 'Wrangler, 26:
Old Engine, 188. 228. 267, 368
Skwarcow, John, 188
Walker. W. E,. 228, 319, 408
Circular Arcs. The Approximate Rectification of, by Firineach. 307
"Claws." Approximation, 161
Clay and Harris' Improvements in Iron and Steel, 330
Clay Land Farming (Note Rook), 493
Clay Retorts, Discussion on Mr. Church's Paper on, at the Inst. C. E.. 225
Cleaning, &c., Cotton, Calvert's Machinery for, 122
Cleaning, &c., Cotton. Johnson's Machinery for, 142
Cleaning the Tubes of Boilers, Moriarty’s Brushes for,126
Clark's Machinery for Producing Butter, 116
Clark's Improvements in the Manufacture of Illuminating Gas, 10
Clibran's, W. and J., Apparatus for Regulating and Measuring Gas. 227
Clifford's Mode of Lowering Boats, 5. 120. 112
Clissold's Apparatus for Regulating the Water to Water Wheels, 506
Coal Burning Engines, English v. American, by Dial, 2,8
Coal Burning Locomotives, by Dial, 189
By Baltimore, 209
Coal Mines Inspectors. 213
Coal Mines, Ventilation of. by Robert Davison. 219
Coat Mines, Ventilation of, by J. 'Wadsworth. 32$
E. P. H. Vaughan, 328
Coal, Mode of Working, 245
Coal Ports, The, 306
Coal Mining, Lecture on, 201
Coals to Marine Furnaces. Transmitting, by F. II. W., 409.429
Coating Iron Tank., by A. C. Currie, 218
Coating Tanks, Solid and Molten Metals, Boydell's Engine, &c., by A Graduate, :.).18J. J. Rock life, 269
Coffee v. Smith (Law Proceedings), 365
Coke and Charcoal. On the Manufacture of, Paper read before the Inst. M. E.. by Mr. Rogers, 105
Cold Metal Floating in Molten Metal, Old Engine, 268
Coleman's Implements for Ploughing Sc • 6
Collier's Improvements 1n Piled Fabrics. 406
Colliers' Life, A. 269
Collier's Machine for Combing Wool, Hargreave's Improvements in, 266
Calm' Relief Fund, 281
Colliers' screw. 10
Colliers' Strike, 389

Colliery Explosions ( Note Book), 312

Explosions. 300
Explosions, by W. R.. 187, 228
Explosion near Barnsley. The, 200 #
Explosions, The Late (Note Book), 192
Explosions in 5Ionmouthshlte, 467

Collins' Agricultural Implements, 26
Collodion Process, The late Mr. Frederick Scott Archer, the Inventor of the, 44
Colonial Cotton Supplies(Note Book), 393
Colonial Labour Market, Our (Note Book),
Colonies and New Countries. Railways for the, 231, 242
Colonies, Traction Engines for our, 2:32
Colonisation (Note Book), 333
Colonisation. Canada (Note Book), 51
Colonisation, Convicts and (Note Book), 133
Combing Fibrous Substances, Newton's Machinery for, 306
Comet, The, 487
Comet, The Great, 314
Comet, The Threatened, 186
Commercial Year, The. 4
Communication on Ships, 5
Composition and Products of the Cassava Root. By M. Payen (Chemical). 351
Connecting Rails, Barlow and Woodhouse's Method of, 103
Conservation of Force, On the, by Professor Faraday. D.C.L. F.R.S., 261
Conservation of Force, by W. Steevenson, 408
Consumption of Smoke. by Carbon, 409
Consumption of Smoke upon Railways, 25
Contrivances. Rough and Ready (Note Book), 511
Contrivances for Securing Corn Against Vermin, 407
Conversion of Iron into Steel. 401
Conversazione at the Inst. C. E.. 421; At the Society of Arts. 365, !SI Mechanics' Institution. 260
Convicts and Colonisation (Note Book). 132
Convicts. Disposal of our (Note Book/1433
Convict Labour. &c. (Note Book). 113
Convict system, Our (Note 13,;ok), 153
Cooking by Electricity, 489
Coroner and his Jury again. 215
Cotton in India. Growth of (Note Book). 313
Cotton be Obtained ? flow Can the Increased Supplies of by 1. B. Smith, M.P. (.4ociety of Arts). 331
Cotton Supplies. Colonial (Note Book), 393
Supplies. India (Note Book). 352
Supply and Indian River Navigation, The. 415
Cottrill's Filing Machinery. 386
Coulson's Apparatus for Ventilating Mines. 326
Coupling, Spencer's Locomotive Feed Pipe, 210
Cowper's Improvements in Candles. 263
cranes, Cameron's Improvements in, 187
Cranes, Fletcher's Weighing. 302
Crank, Theory of the (Letters)—
Goosequill, 29, 69, 87, 129. 168
J. M I)., 69
Knight. Jun , R. V. J., 29, 68, 109, 229
Old Crank, 12, 8/1168
Old Engine, 49.89. 109, 129, I43, 2.19
Salle. 118
T. O. E., 8
Turner, H., 69
Cressey's Machinery for Cutting, &c., Staves, 366
Cressy's Machinery for Jointing Staves, 429
Crichton and Cathcart’s Looms for Weaving, 316
Criminals, What Shall We Do with Our (Note Book).172
(Review), 233
Crossings, Biddell's Railway (Tour in the Provinces), 22
Crushing Mill, Turner's, 222
Crystal Palace. Great Organ at the. 305
Crystallised Chromium and its Alloys, by M. E Frener, (Chemical), 391
Crystallisation of Boiler Plates, by Thomas Harrison, 128
By An Engineer. 69
A Looker On. 148
Cuba, Railways in, 481
Culture. Steam, Rope Traction (Note Book), 272
Cure for Sore Hands Caused by Chemicals, 161
Curious Effect upon Telegraph Wires. P.6
Curtis' Mode of Lighting and Ventilating Railway Carriages. 146
Cushioning Steam. by J. Robinson. 189
Cutting Dye Woods. Roscow's Method of. 427
Cutting Round Files, Newton's Machinery for. 3(7
Cutting, &c. Staves, ertSSC).* Machinery for. 36;.;
Cutting Stone, Brooman's Machinery for, 507
Cutting Stone. The Earl of Caithness's Improvements. 2S0
Cylindrical Wheels on Railways, by W. J. Rankine. 319

CHEMICAL

Apparatus for Collecting the Gases from Liquids, :43
Assaying of Tin Ores, by M. A. Sevol. 274
Chemical Propensities of Aluminium and the Variation of its Affinities with Temperature, by 11M. Sainte-Claire Devine, 254
Composition and Products of the Cassava Roots, by M. Payen, 354
Compound. of Tantalum. 485
Decomposition of Uric Acid in Animal Economy, by M. C. Neubauer, 231
Difference of Temperature at which Ether and Sulphide of Carbon I nthine, by M. Morcelein Berthold, 394
Dry Collodion, On. 274
Employing Sulphate of Lend instead of Carbon of Lead or Flake White, in the making of Lace. by M. H. Masson. 428
Estimation of Boric Acid, by M. Sfromeyer, 351
Existence of Silver in Sea Water, 191
Experiments upon the Artificial Formation of the Hydrocarbonates of the Alkaline Earths or 11 eta's, by M. A. Damour, 375
Formation of Crystallised Sulphocyanlde of Silver, by 11. Gossmann, 331
Gold Assaying, 453
Gold in the Form of Malleable Sponge, by D. Forbes, Esq.. F.G.S., 191
Immediate Principles of Human Excrement, by M. Marcet. 375
Magnetism. its Preparation and Volatilisation, by MM. Sainte-Claire Deville and Caron, 331
Memoir of the Anasthetic Action of Carbonic Acid Cu, by M. G. Tourdes, 271
Methylated Spirit and tome of its Preparations. &c. , 474
Vine Disease, by M. Louis, 375 31ode of Ascertaining the '• Original Gravities 9 of Beer, &c., 215.231
Natural Mineral Phosphates and their Application in the Preparation of Manure, 191
New Application of Alumina, 485
New Method for Detecting the Presence of Iodine and Bromine in Mineral Water, by M. M. O. Henrie, Jun.. and E. Humbert, New Oxide and Chloride of Silicon). .05
Note upon Crystallised Chromium and its Alloys, by M. E. Freney. 391
Notes on Alum in Bread, and its Detection, Paper read before the Chemical Society, by Mr. Hadow. 215
Notes on the Tannin of Galls, .185
Observations upon Rock by M. Marguerite. 271
Preparation of Aluminum by Meant of Cryolite. 194
Preparation of Methionic Acid, by M. A. &teat r.. 414
Preparation and Properties of Manganese, by M. Brunner, 391
Prism in Qualitative Analysis. by Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S.. Paper read before the Chemical Society. 215
Process for Dying Black with Chromate of Potash, 485
Production of White Sapphires in Limpid Isolated Crystals, by the Heat of a Force Fire in Ordinary Crucibles. 474
Reaction of Cloride of Lime upon Hippuric Acid, by M. Gossman, 354
Recent Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron, by F. A. Abel, Esq., 193
Researches upon Fluorine, Action of Acids upon Glass, 474
Researches on Silica, by Colonel Philip Yorke F.R.S., 4'48
Researches upon Tantalum, 512
Researches upon Tungsten and its Compounds. by M. A. Riche, 414
Results Obtained at the Orphan and Foundling Hospital, Paris, upon Unemployed Amylene, as an Anesthetic Agent. by M. Giraldin, 354
Review of the Ordinary Methods Employed in Preparing some of the Elements, by M. Sainte-Claire Devine, 453
Some Methods of Analysis Applicable to Mineralogical Researches, by M. Barreswill, 474
Some Points in the Composition of Wheat Grain. 8:c. by J. B. Lewes. F.C.S., and J. H. Gilbert, Ph.D.. F.C.S., 334
Some Remarkable Circumstances Tending to Disguise the Presence of Various Acids and Bases in Chemical Analysis, 2.4
Sweet Sorgo (Halcus Sacharatus), by W. Stier, 215

Darcey’s Improvements in Filtering Water, 346
Damping Paper, Magnay and Whitehead's Mode or, 446
Danduran's Swimming Apparatus, 263
Dartmouth Packet Station, 70
Davit's Apparatus for Re-measuring the Leakage of Vessels, 105
De la Rue and Others v. Dickenson (Law Proceedings), 425
De la Rue and Others v. Dickenson (Law Intelligence). 155
Deadening Walls and Ceilings. 360
Decimal Coinage (Parliamentary Intelligence), 186
Decimal System as a whole in its Relation to Time. Measure, Weight, and Money, by Dover Statter (Review), 172
Decomposition of Uric Acid in the Animal Economy, by M. C. Neubauer (Chemical), 251
Deep Sea Fishing, 330
Defries' Roof Lamps, for Railway Carriages, 246
Delettrez, Pere and Co.'s Apparatus for Raising Water, 322
Demand for Land, 23
Deposit in Boilers (Letters), By Aerigenetes, 29
G. H.. 148
Hill, Samuel, 128
Johnstone, James. 189
Naylor, William. 89
Onions, John. 108
Pro Bonn Publico, 127
Charles Wye Williams, 108, 127, 148,168. 188, '268
Description of the Method of Building Bridges upon Brick Cylinders in India, by Mr. G. B. Bruce, C.E., before the Inst. C.E , 424
Description of the iron Suspension Bridge at Harper's Ferry, 184
Description of the Railway across the Blue Bridge, at Rock-Fish Gap. in the State of Virginia, by Charles Elliot, Jun., C.E., 73
Description of a New Sphygmoscope, by G. 8. Alison, M .D., 21
Designs for Government Offices (Note Book), 372
Design for Public Offices, The (Parliamentary Intelligence), 502
Desjardins Bridge. The, 350
Dewsbury Water Works, 306
Dickenson's Improvements in Anchors. 283
Difference of Temperature at which Ether and Sulphide of Carbon inflame, by M. Bertheld (Chemical), 391
Different Systems of Steam Culture (Note Book), 372
Disc Pump, The, 107
Discoveries of Gold in South Australia, 310
Discovery of Magnetism. 302
Discussion on Mr. Hearder's Paper on Induction Coils, Society of Arts, 164
Disinfection, Information on, 311, 374
Diseases in the Metropolis, Rise and Decline of Curable (Note Book), 492
Disinfectants, On, by R. Angus Smith. Proceedings at the Society of Arts, 321
Disinfection (Note Book), 331
Disposal of our Convicts (Note Book), 433
Distilling Beet-Root, Burrell's Apparatus for, 190
Distilling Oils from Petroleum, 8cc., White's Apparatus for. 329
Disturbances of Suspension Bridges and Modes of Counteracting them, by Messrs. A. S. Lukin, and C. E. Conder. Paper read before the Inst. C.E., 424
Docks, Napoleon, Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., and the, 95
Donkin's Improvements in Glazing Paper, 247
Doubling Yarns and Threads, Blackwood's Machinery for, 110
Dover Mails, The, 249
Dr. Normandy's Mode of producing Pure, &c., Water from Sea Water, 65
Drainage Fallacies, Land (Note Book), 9e, 112
Drainage in France, 323
Draining Marshes, by Pro Bono Publico, 469
Drainage, The Metropolitan. 5
Dray's Champion Reaper, 203
Dray and Co.'s, Farningham Experiments at Messrs. 101
Dreadful Colliery Explosion, &c., 160
Dreadnought Hospital Ship, The, 209
Drainage of the Thames Marshes (Note Book), 32
Dressing Waste Silk, Fairbairn and Newton's Machinery for, 450
Dry Collodion, &c., On (Chemical), 271
Drying Grain, Benson's Apparatus for, 453
Dumery's Improvements in Steam Engines, 303
Duncan's Motive Power Engines, 230
Dunn's Chain Cable and Timber Testing Machine, 267
Dunnicliffe and Dexter's Warp Machinery, 443
Dunn's Boiler (Letters) :—
By A. C., 48
Dunn, Thomas, 91, 29, 67
Engineer. An, 48
Gibson, James, 29
Locomotive Engineer, 29
Operative Engineer, 148
Shaw, Henry, 9, 48
Duties and Capabilities of Elementary Schools (Note Book), 132
Duty and Merit, 360
Duvoir's Improvements In Steam Engines, 266
Dwellings of London, The Middle Class, 423
Dwellings of the London Poor, The, 100
Dwellings Wanted, 343
Dynamometer, Elves' Improved, 129

Eaborn and Robinson's Sugar Crushing Machinery, &c., 246
Earth's Magnetic Polarity and the Aurora Borealis, by W. Steevenson, 188
East Indian Patents, 404
East Indian Submarine Telegraph, via the Red Sea, 234
Economising Fuel, Smith and Kalthoff's Improvements in, 123
Economy of Food, Abstract of a Paper read before the Society of Arts, n) Dr. Letheby, 244
Education Bill, The New (Note Book). 192
Education, Agricultural (Note Book), 373
Education in the Coal, &c., Districts, 149
Education, The Factory System of (Note Book). 171
Education of the Working Classes (Note Book), 472
Elves' Dynamometer, 129
Elves' Machinery for Extracting Oil from Seeds, 101
Electric Induction, by W. Steevenson, 308
Electric Lamp, Lacassagne and Thiers' Improved, 426
Electric Telegraphs, On Submarine, by F. R. Window, A.I.C.E., at the Inat. C.E., 44
Electro-Magnetism as a Motive Power. Paper read before the Inst. C.E., by R. Hunt, F.II.S., 325, 364
Electric Signals observed in Submarine Conductors, Experiments on the Retardation of, by Wildman Whitehouse, Esq., 62
Elementary Art, On the Promotion of (Note Book), 332
Elementary Schools, The Duties and Capabilities of (Note Book), 132
Elephants' Ivory, 5
Emigration of Artisans, 383
Emigration of Government Artisans, 40;9
Emperor of Japan's Yacht, 317
Employing Sulphate of Lead instead of Carbonate of Lead in the Making of Lace, by M. H. Masson (Chemical), 428
Employment of 'Bubble B6ton or Concrete in Works of Engineering, 1bl. Paper read before the Inst. C.E., by Mr. Rennie. C.E.. F.R.S., 385
Endless Railway, The (Note Book), 232, 513
Endless Railway Company, 214
Energy and Force, Mr. Faraday's Lecture on (Note Book), 291
Energy and Momentum, by Goose Quill, 408
A. H. Patterson, 508
J. B.. 489
Enfield Rifle Factory, The (Note Book), 452
Engineer for Preston Waterworks. 369
Engineering, Agricultural (Note Book), le
Engineering, Submarine, by Major Scars. Paper read before the Society of Arts. 203
Engineers at Manchester, Meeting of (Note Book), 512
Engines for Driving Screw Propellers, Maudslay's, 210
Engines, Freight, by Ross Winans, 121, 141,
Engines on the Great Western (Canada) Railway, 286
English Boiler Iron, 36 cents per lb., 475
English Engineering in Brazil, 145
English Gold, 465
English Iron in Trouble, 475
Engraving Rollers, Barber's Machinery for, 317
Ermen's Machinery for Finishing Yarns or Threads, 417
Estimation of Boric Acid, by M. Sfromeyer (Chemical), 354
Excluding Dust, &c., from Doors, Gollop's Method of, 122
Exhibition, The Art Treasured', 491
Exhibition of Art Treasures (Note Book), 392, 430, 471, 491
Exhibition of Art Treasured. 147, 383
Exhibition of Designs for the Government Offices. 429
Exhibition of Designs and Models in the Industrial Arts, at Belgium, 329
Exhibition of Inventions ( Note Book), 257
Exhibition, Machinery at the Paris (Note Book), 371
Exhibition of Plans in Westminster Hall (Parliamentary Intelligence), 155
Exhibition, The Society of Arts'. 211
Existence of Silver in Sea Water, On the, by F. Field, F.C.S. (Proceedings of the Royal Society), 194
Exodus, 475
Experiments upon the Artificial Formation of the Hydro-Carbonates of the Alkaline Earths or Metals, by M. A. Damour (Chemical), 375
Experiments at Chatham, 269
Experiments at Messrs. Dray and Co.'s Beet-Root Distillery, Farningham, 101
Experiments on the Retardation of Electric Signals observed in Submarine Conductors, by Wildman Whitehouse, Ecq., 6
Experiments at Woolwich. 4, 300
Explosions, Boilers (Note Book), 111, 131 (Letters)—
By }limns. Joseph, 128
Harrison. Thomas, 89
J. '1'. L., 48
Johnstone, James, 29
Shaw William, 9
Explosions, Fatal Boller, 208
Mr. Longridge s Report on Boiler, 81
Colliery (Note Book), 312
Colliery, by W. R., 1b7.228
Edgehill, The Fatal Boiler, 388
Of Gas on Board a Belgian Vessel, 180
At an Iron Foundry, 4
On the London and North Western Railway, 374
At Lundhill. The Cause of the, 428
On Mines (Note Book), 251, by S. Bickerton, 319
Explosions in Mines (Letters), By G. A. Booth, C.E., 169, 169
One who has Tasted and Smelt the Blazing Hydrogen, 268
At Sough, "The late. 114
Extraordinary Power of Calculation, 260
Eye-Glass, Napoleon III, 162

Factory Operatives and Deficient Cotton Supply, 403
Factory System of Education, The (Note Book), 171
Factory System of Education. Abstract of a Paper read before the Society of Arts, by Alexander Redgrave, 161
Factory System, Machinery and the, 213
Facts and Fallacies of the Sewage System of London, by S. W. Rogers, Esq., C.E. (Review), 351
Fairbairn and Newton's Machinery for Dressing Waste Silk, 450
Fall of a Railway Bridge, 110
Faraday's Lecture, Mr., Energy and Force (Nate Book), 291
Farm, How to, Profitably, by Mr. Sheriff Mechi (Review', :333
Farm Labourers in the Midland Counties (Note Book), 312
Farm Yard Manure, Liquified (Note Book), 93
Farming Clay Land (Note Book), 493
Fatal Accident—Railway Collision, 311
Fatal Boiler Explosion, 208
Fatal Boiler Explosion at Edgehill, 3S8
Fatal Explosion at Sough, The, 111
Fayot v. Fouchier (Law Intelligence). 156
Feauveau and Legrand's Apparatus for the Purification of Gas, 282
Feed Water, Heating, by R. E. R., 169
L. S. E., 229
Feeding Steam Boilers, McConnell and Richardson's Improvements for, 410
Fenton's Railway Signal Apparatus, 171, 417
Fernihough and Farrows' Apparatus for Regulating the Supply of Air to Furnaces, 466
Ferrier's Machinery for Sweeping Roads, 86
Filing Machinery, Cottrill's, 386
Filtering Water. Darcey's Improvements in, 346
Finch's Masts and Bowsprits, 367
Fire-Balls, Bricks, &c., by J. A. D , 469
Fire Boxes, Longridge and Richardson's, 403
Fish-Joint. Gregory's, 286
Fletcher's Weighing Cranes, 302
Flying snit Swimming. The Mechanism of, 174
Food, The Economy of, Abstract of a Paper read before the Society of Arts, by Dr. Letheby, 241
Foreign Manures, 206
Force. On the Conservation of, by Professor Faraday, D.C.L.. F R.S.. 261
Goose Quill, 348
W. Steevenson, 408
Foremen Engineers, Association of, 211, 230
Forged Screw Thread, 470
Formation of Crystallised Sulphocyanlde of Silver, by M. Gossmann (Chemical, 354
Forsyth's Improvements in Locomotive Engines, 510
Fossil Remains of a Gigantic Bird, 323
Fowler's and Worby's Machinery for Ploughing by Steam, 250
Fox, Henderson, and Co., Messrs., and the Docks Napoleon (From Galignani), 95
France's Electric Telegraph Apparatus (Note Book), 490
Francis's Metallic Boats. 69
Free Emigration to the British Colonies, 173
Freight Engines, Ross V mans on (Note Book), 271
Freight Engine., by Ross Winans (From the American Railway Times), 121, 141, 161
French Agricultural Invention, 319
French Railway Traffic, 462
French Transatlantic Navigation, 403
Fresh Water in Boilers, Use of, by W. 11.0 118
Isle of Man, 148
Friction Coupling for Transmitting Power, Wrigley's 363
Fruit, Vegetable, &c., Preserver. Air Exhauster, 162
Fuel In Russia, 207
Furnace Bars, Jukes' improvements. 46

Gard's Bits for Boring and Sinking, 382
Garrotte Preventing Stock, How's, 263
Gas, Brayshay's Improvements in Measuring, &c., 227
Clark's Improvements in the Manufacture of Illuminating, 10
Feauveau and Legrand's Apparatus for the Rectification of, 282
Smith and Taylor's Machinery for Measuring, 383
Gas Meters (Letter), by C. R. Mead, 26
Gas Stoves, Neall's improvements in Union, 367
Ganges, Water (Note Book), 171
Gauges, Water—Patent Laws, by M. Morgan, 219
Generating Steam, Pearce's Apparatus for, 47
Geological Discovery, 165
Geological Society. Papers by Professor Owen, Mr. Salter, and Dr. Thompson. 44
George v. Westwood, (Law Proceedings), 388
George Stephenson, 481. 501
George Stephenson in Conversation, 520
Glazing Paper. Donkin's Improvements in, 247
Gold. Alloyed. 45
Gold, Assaying (Chemical), 453
Gold Quartz, Liquefaction, 210
Gollop's Method of Excluding Dust, &c. from Doors and Windows, 122
Gold in the Form of Malleable Sponge, by D. Forbes, F.G.S. (Chemical Gazette). 191
Good News for Engineers, 451
Good News for Mothers. 46
Goodman v. Spencer (Law Proceedings), 325
Government Mine Inspectors (Note Book), 232
Government Offices. The Designs for (Note Book), 372
Governor, Slide Valve. by H. Booth, 189
Governors, or Regulator. Wells, 150
Governor and Throttle Valves. Schiele’s, 367
Grand Architectural Competition, 249
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, The, 363
Grassi's Screw Locomotive. 386
Gray's Improvements in Boilers and Fire-Boxes, 871
Gravitation, The Attraction of (letters) :—
By Elliot, J. H., Jun.,169, 209, 289
J.A.D.. 149. 188, 218, 249, 269, 288, 308, 386
Kr% 328
Steevenson, W., 169, 249
Great Bee-Hive (Note Book). 351
Great Britain, The. 113
Great Central Railway of France, 310
Great Comet, The. 311
Great Eastern, The, 430.520
Great Eastern. Launching the (Letter), by An Old Collier, 69
Dunn, Thomas, 29
R. W., 49
Great Handel Festival (1857), 454
Great Landing Stage. 415
Great Organ at the Crystal Palace, 305
Great Western Docks. 189
Great Western Railway Company's Station, 107
Great Wrought Iron Gun. 349
Greave's Improvements in Permanent Ways, 27
Greave's Looms for Weaving, 226
Gregory's Fish Joint. 286
Grinding Gun Barrels, &c., Lawrence's Machinery for, 46
Growth of Cotton in India (Note Book). 313
Guano (Parliamentary Intelligence), 186
Guano, 4
Guano. Supply of, 263
Guerin's Mode of Working Railway Brakes, 103
Guiana, Penal servitude (Note Book), 452
Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, 380
Gun, The Great Wrought Iron, 349
Gunpowder, Willett's Improvements in, 67
Guns in Russia, America, and England, Large, by Vulcan, 61

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Fish Remains from the River Teme, by Sir Philip Egerton, 261
General Meeting of the Institution, 125
Remains of Elephants, &c., by Dr. Falconer, Remains of Mammal from the Eocene Tertiaries of the Isle of Wight, Paper on the, by Professor Owen, 41
Remains of Mammalia procured by Mr. Beccles from the Portland Oolite, by Dr. Falconer, 215
Silurian Rucks of Scandinavia, by Sir Roderick Murchison, 385

Hall, Wylde and Waite's Improvements in Steam Engines,. 267
Hardacre's Improvements in Preparing Materials for Spinning. 16,1
Hard)'s Improvements in Windlasses, 421
Hargreave's Improvements in Collier's Machine for Combing Wool. &c.. 266
Harper's Ferry. Iron Truss Bridge at, by J. Kean, 247
Harvest, Hay (Note Book), 473
Harvey's Machinery for Boring. &c., 147
Hauenstein Tunnel, Accident at the. Haut Commerce of Paris, 303
Hay Harvest (Note Book). 473
Hay Harvesting by Steam, by Agricola, 503
Hazeldine's improvements in Carriages, 426
High Speed Steam Navigation. Paper read before the lust. C. E.. by Mr. Armstrong. 22:1
Hills, On the 51alvern. Paper read before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, by Professor John Phillips. M.A., &c. &c., 361
Hendles' Valves, &c. for Governing Steam Engines. 331
Health of London, The, Thomas W. Wilkinson, 248
Heat, by Kru, 348
Heat of the Earth, 4S7
Heat, Energy. Momentum. itc. (Letters):-By A. H. Patterson, 5(8
J. B.. 4S8
Heating Feed Water (Letters) :13y R. E. R., 10
W . A. Rastrick, 187
L. C. E.. 229
Heppell's Improvements in Ventilating Mines, 166
Heron's Machinery for liaising, &c., 26
Holcroft's Agricultural Engines. 466
Haldin's Machinery for Washing Rags. 146
Holt and Bentley's Improvements in Weaving Stuffs. 486
Holyhead and Kingstown (Parliamentary Intelligence), 133
Horses' Collars, Carberry's Improvements in, 507
Hooghly, at Calcutta, Bridge of Boats Across the River, 224
Houses. as they Were. Are, and Ought to Be, by John W. Papworth, F.R.I.B.A., Paper read before the Society of Arts, 301
Houses with steam Power, 305
Howard and Baker’s Machinery for Tilling Land. 65
How to Farm Profitably, &c., by Mr. Sheriff Mechi, 334
How Can the Increased Supplies of Cotton be Obtained. Paper read before the Society of Arts, by J. B. Smith. M.P., 381
How's Garrotte Preventing Stock, 263
How's Pump and Fire Engine, 331.1
Huddersfield College, 507
Hudson's Bay Territory, A British Pacific Railway, 44
Hurry's Railway Crossings, 286
Hustler's Improvements in Lot.ms, 350
Hutton's Lubricators, 470
Hydraulic Engineering, Watering Grass Lands (Note Book), 413
Hydraulic Engines, Joy and Holt's, 407
Hydraulic Pumps and Presses, Nasmyth’s and Wilson's,4S7
Hydro Steam Engines, 341

Ice. Piatti's Improvements in the Production of, 406
Immediate Principles of Human Excrements, by W. Marcet, N1.1). (Chemical), 375
Implements, Steam Culture , Note Book), 433
Important to Agriculturists, 519
Important Discovery, 25
Important Discovery in Tree Growing, 53
Important Invention for Omnibus Proprietors, 218
Important to Iron Merchants--Bailey. Brothers and Cu. v. Gonna!, 475
Important to Railway Shareholders. 446
Imports and Exports of Metals at the Port of IrIndon, 18, 39. 59. 78, 99, 119, 139, 17)8, 178, 199, 218, 2.314, 259, 279, 299, 319, 338, 358, 379, 398, 419, 440, 460, 480, 51)0. 520
Improved Motive Power, by J. Jones, 5O Improved Street Paving, by W. Smith, C.E., 149
Improvements in Iron. 147
Improvements in the Metropolis, by W. Austin, C.E., 129
Improvements in Moulding Meta14, 226
In Paris, 210
Improvements in Teaching Drawing (Note Book), 5692
Incrustation of Steam Boilers (Note Book), 151
Incrustation of Steam Boilers (Letters)—
By Aerigentes, 108
Childs, Henry, 103
Harrison, T., 128
Johnstone, James, 108
J. M. J., 308
Looker On, 118
Onions, John, 108
Pro Bonn Publico, 249
Richards, Frederick, 108
Smith, J.. 103
India, Cotton Supplies (Note Book), 352
India, The Patent Law of, 381. 401
India, The Progress of (Note Book), 271
India, Telegraphic Communication with, 363
India, Trainwa) a in ( Note Book ). 412
India Rubber. how Produced, 210
India Rubber Valves, Perreaux', 366
Indian Army, Remarks on the, by Nlaj(.4. Andrew Crawford, .Cc. (Review), 333
Indian Junction Telegraph Company, 109
Indian River Navigation, The Cotton Supply and, 415
Indicator, May's Steam Engine. 463
Induction Apparatus. On an Improved, by Emile Stohrer, 1
Induction, Electric, by W. Steevenson, 308
Induction Coil, Abstract of a Paper on a New, by Mr. Hearder, read before the Society of Arts, 111
Discussion on, 161
Industrial Museum (Parliamentary Intelligence), 174
Information on Disinfectants, 341, 374
Influence of Improved Implements on Agriculture (Note Bcok), 352
Inking, &c. Surfaces, Lancaster's Machinery for, 190
Inland Book Post, The, 375
Inland and Submarine Telegraph Communication, 293
In re C. J. Mare. Court of Bankruptcy, 340
Inspectors. Coal Mines. 213
Institute of Engineers (Note Book), 371
Institution, The Manchester Royal, 501
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Manchester, 505
General Meeting of the Members of the, 369
Institutions, Training, by J. Rockliffe, 449
Intending Emigration of Artisans, 269
Interesting Discoveries, 302
Interesting to Spinners, 451
Introduction of Gas for Railways, 427
Instruction of Young Persons in Employment, 422
Instrument for Measuring the Velocity of Currents, 362
Inventors. Exhibition of (Note Book), 251
Inventions, Repatenting of Old. 185
Letter by &chard Cort, 248
F. J. Bramwell, 318
Iona, The, 520
Irish Labourers for England, 519
Is there Coal ? 60
Iron (from the Boston and American Railway Times), 201
Iron in America, 147
Iron, American View of the Effects of Tariff of, 389
Iron Beams, Strength of, by R. H. Skaife, 29
Iron, Brown's Machinery for Making, 91
Iron. 33 cents. per lb , English Boiler, 475
Iron Discoveries at Scinde, 113
Iron Lattice Bridge over the Aare, 406
Near Berne, 470
Ironmaking, Re-inventing (Note Book), 311
Iron Merchants, Important to. 475
Iron Ordnance, Lette7 to the Tidies, by Lon; Range, 81
Iron Question, The, Considered in Connection with Theory, Practice. and Experiment, by Josh. 153
Iron Screw Vessels and the Whale Fishing, 313
Iron Shipbuilding, 501
Iron Shipbuilding, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 309
Iron Smelting in Australia, 313
Iron Trade, 29
Iron, English, in Trouble, 475
Iron Truss Bridge at Harper's Ferry. by J. Kean, 217
Iron and Steel, Bessemer's Improvements in, 390
Iron and Steel, Clay and Harris' Improvements in, 330
Iron and Steel Manufacture, 306
Iron and Steel, Manufacture of, Paper read before the Society of Arts, by Christopher Bulks, 421, 441
Ivory. Elephant's, 5
Iron, Coal, and General Trade of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and other Towns, 19. 39, 59.79. 99, 119.139. 159, 179, 199. 219, 239, 260, 279, 299, 319, 33S, 3:8, 379. 399, 419, 438, 458, 478, 499, 518
Institution of Civil Engineers—
Annual Conversazione, The, 424
Application of Electro Maznettsm as a Motive Power, by Mr. Robert Hunt. F.R.S., 325
Discussion on the, 361
Chain Cable and Timber Testing Machines, by T. Dunn, C. E.. 186
Clay Retorts, Discussion on Mr. Churcb's Paper on 225
Disturbances of Suspension Bridges and Method of Counteracting them, 421
Employment of Ruble 1.16ton, &c., by Mr. Rennie, Discussion on, 405
High Speed Steam Navigation, by Mr. Armstrong, 225, 284
Laying of the Permanent Way of the Bordeaux anti Bayonne Railway, by Mr. T. R. Condo., C.E., 305 Manby Testimonial, The, 461
Method of Building Bridges upon Brick Cylinders in India, by G. B. Bruce, Esq., C.E., 124
Submarine Telegraphs, by Mr. F. It. W inflow, 41 Discussion on, 101
Varieties of Permanent Ways, by Mr. W. B. Adams, 123
Discussion on. 145
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland—Maintenance of Macadamised Roads, by John Hill, Address to Members, 444
Physical Cause of the Increased Deflection of Girders or Bridges exposed to the transverie Strain of a Rapidly Passing Load, by R. Mallet, Esq., 425
The Annual Meeting at Birmingham, 105

Jackson's Self-acting Cab Brake, 3S9
Jeffries' Smoke Consumers. 115
Jobard's Improvements in Lamps, 302
Jobson's Machinery for Making 3ioulds for Casting Metals, 86
John, Jonathan, and Note Book, 92
Johnson's Machinery for Bleaching. &c., Cotton, 142
Johnson's Method of Mounting Marine Chronometers, 6
Joints. Rail, by W. B. Adams, 2‘9
Jucke's Improvements in Furnace Bars, 46
Jury. The Coroner and his. 221
Joy and Holt's Hydraulic Engines. 407
Kensington Museum, The South, 423
and Schools (Note Book), 451
Knight's Apparatus for Aerating Liquids, 7
Knowle's Safety Winding Apparatus for Mines, 423
Kostendje on the Black Sea and the Danube, Canal between, 429

Labourers, Agricultural (Note Book), 152
Labourers, Agricultural Female (Note Book`, 193
Labour, Agricultural.(Note Book), 213
Labour in Canada, 146
Labour Act. Convict (Note Book), 113
Labour, Machine and Hand (Note Book), 231
La Cabra's Improvements in Pianofortes, 487
Lacassagne and Thier's Improved Electric Lamp, 423
Lakin, Thompson, and Co.'s Spinning Machinery, 123
Lamps, Jobard's Improvements in, 302
Lamps for Railway Carriages, Defu ies', 216
Lamps, Westwood's Hand, &c., 163
Lancashire, Steam Engines In, (Note Book), 152
Lances, er's Method of Inking Surfaces, 190
Land—The best Deodoriser of Town Sewage (Note Book), 51
Land Drainage Fallacies (Note Book), 92, 112
Language of Specifications of Letters Patent for Inventions, b) J. Macgregor, &c. &c., 153
Land Corps, Our (Note Book), 133
Large Guns in Russia, America, and England, by Vulcan, 64
bora Large Plates, 110
Late Colliers Explosions, The (Note Book) 192, Launch of the '• Australasian," 468
Launching the Mammoth Ship (Letter), by J. R. Mansfield, 167
Launch of a Monster Screw Collier, 422
Launch of the Neptune. &c., 245
Launch of the Racoon, 319
Launch at Rutherglen, 520
Launching the Great Eastern, by T. Dunn, 29
R. W., 49
Laying the Atlantic Cable, 347
Laying the Permanent Way of the Bordeaux and Bayonne Railway. Paper read by Mr. Conder before the Inst. C.E., 305
Law and Inglis's Improvements in Moulding Metale, 363
B) an Old Collier, 69
Lawrence'. Machinery for Grinding Gun Barrels, 46
Lawrie's Improvements in Steam Engines, 10
Laws, Patent (Letters), By An Old Boiler, 28
Anthony, John, 28
Camper'. F. W., 149
Dunn, I hos , 69
Edwards, F. W., 149
Salle, 149
L. G.. 28
Laws, Patent, Reform, by Thomas Dunn, 49
Hughes, E. J., 28
Leakage of Vessel., Davies' Apparatus for Measuring, 150
Lecture on Coal Mining, '201
Lee's Lubricating Apparatus. 290
Lengthening an Iron Ship, 145
Leigh's Machinery for Spinning Cotton, 286
Leuchard's Locks for Travelling Bags, 230
Library at the British Museum, The New, 9
Library, St-+tistica of the Sa ford Free, 24
Life-Boat, 210
Lifting and Lowering, Morrison's Machinery for, 387
Lighthouse in the China Seas (Parliamentary Intelligence), 155
Lighting, &c Railway Carriages, Curtis's Mode of, 466
Lighting the Town of Sonderburgh, 165
Lights at Sea, 5
Liquid Manure (Note Book), 12
Liquified Farm-Yard Manure (Note Book), 93
Lister v. Leather (Law Proceedings), 65, 365, 388, 474
Liverpool Free Library, &c., 304
Liverpool Polytechnic Society, 24
Liverpool Polytechnic Society. 375
Locking Jars, Stevens and Fitch's Mode of, 506
Locks for Travelling Bags, Leuchard's 230
Locks and Keys, Machine-made, 448
Locomotives, Boardsman's Improvements in Coal Burning, 44
Grassi's Screw, 386
McConnell's Improvements in, .13
Whitgrave's Improvements in (Letters), By Elliott, H. 28
Graduate, A., 28
J. A., 28
Jewsbury, J., 8
Kean, J., •r8, 48
One who hopes to become an Engineer, 48
Whitgreave, J., 8, 28
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company 103
London General Omnibus Company, 133, 474
London, The Health of, 95
London to Lahore; or the Euphrates, Scinde, and Punjaub Hallways (lte‘iew). 413
London and North Western lailway Company, Salt and the, 44
Explosion on the, 375
London. Statistics of, 485
Longridge's, Mr.. Report, by Thomas Baldwin, 168
Longridge and Richardson's Locomotive Fire Boxes, 403
Longwood, Mechanics' Institution, 507
Look to sour Provisional Specifications, by W. Spence, C. E., 493
Looms for Weaving, Crichton and Cathcart's Improvements in, 346
Greave's Improvements in, 226
Improvements in, 350
Sumner's Improvements in, 403
Todd's Improvements in, 447
Wilson's Improvements in, 427
Pickers (or (Letter) by C. C. Wilken, 168
Lord Palmerston and the Society of Arts, 208
Lowering Boats, 126
Lubricators. Hutton's Improvements in, 470
Lubricating Apparatus, Lee's, 290
Lubricating. Tidmarsh's Apparatus for, 210
Luce's Seed Sower (from the Scientific American), 102
Lundhill Colliery Explosions, 309

LAW PROCEEDINGS—

Beattie v. The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. 45
Berry David, charged by Thomas Maugham at Bradford Ast.izes with having wounded him, &c., 225
Betts v. Menzies and Wildy, 245
Becklord v. Hales. 445
Booth v. Kennard (Exchequer). 345
Bo‘ill v. Ke) worth and Others, 45,425
Cawkwell v. Day, 156
Chollet v. Hoffman (Queen's Bench), 325, 345, 388
Cone) v. Smith, 365
De la Rue and Others v. Dickenson and Co., 155, 425
Fayol v. Fouchier, 156
George anti Others v. Westwood and Others, 388
Goodman v. Spencer. 325
In re 51edwin and Hall, 425
Lister v. Leather, 65, 365, 388, 474
McIntosh v. Great Western Railway Company, 65, 344
Moses v. Baylis (Vice-Chancellor's Court), 344
Needham v. Andrews, 45
Price's Candle Company v. Bouwen's Candle Company, 155
Prideaux v. Bunnet, 45
Tetley v. Easton (Common Pleas), 325
Trotman v. Hingley, 388

Mabie's Improvements in MowIng,283
Macadamised Roads, On the Maintenance of, by Jobn Bill. rroceedings at the Inst. C.E. of Ireland, 444
Machine and Hand Labour (Note Book), 231
Machine-Made Locks and Keys, 448
Machinery and the Factory system, 243
Machinery at the Paris Exhibition (Note Book), 371, 411
Magnesium, Its Preparation and Volatilisation, by M. Sainte-Claire Devine, 8r.c., 334
Making Manures, 233
Malvern Hills, Paper read before the /loyal Inst. of Great Britain, by Prof. asor Phillips, M.A., &c., 361
Mammoth ship, Launching the (Letter), by J. B. Mansfield, 167
Manby Fund, The (Note Book), 51
Testimonial, Inst. C.E., 464
Fund, 90
Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition (Note Book), 351, 391, 431, 471. 491
Manchester Art Measures Building, 388, 428
Manchester Meeting of Mechanical Engineer., 492, 512, 505
Manchester Royal Institution, 502
Manufacture of Cast Steel, 370
Manufacture of Guano in London, 302
Manufacture, The Iron, 293
Manufacture of Iron and Steel. Paper read before the Society of Arts, 421, 441
Manufacture of Wallosin. 510
Manufactures in the Vicinir) of Cardiff, 246
Manures, Artificial (Note Bock), 12
Manures, The Making of, 233
Manuring, Liquid (I'o'e Book),12
Rugby Sewage (Note Book), 73
Marine Propulsion, by Observer, 19
Marshes, Draining, by Pro Bono Publico, 469
Martineau and Smith's Taps for Drawing off Liquids, 166
Martin's Machinery for Drawing Wheat, 30
Masts and Bowsprits, Finch's, 367
Mauban's Cans for Holding Oil, 70
Maudslay's Engines for Dm ing Screws. 210
Maxwell's Taps for Drawing Liquids, 27
Mayall's, Mr., Patent, 50
May's Steam Engine Indicator, 46S
Market, Timber, 18, 39. 59. 78, 99, 119. 139, 15R, 178.199 218, 238, 259, 279, 299, 319, 338, 357, 379, 398,919, 440, 460, 480, 500, 520
McConnell's Improvements in Locomotives, 63
McConnell and Richardson's Improvements in Feeding Boilers, 410
McDowall's Improvements in Sawing or Cutting Wood. 430
McIntosh v. The Great Western Railway Company (Law Proceedings), 344
Mechanical Construction of Soils (Note Book), 293
Mechanical Education, 460
Mechanical Engineers, General Meeting of the Members of the Institute of, 369
Mechanical Science in Relation to Agriculture (Note Book), 432
Mechanism of Flying and Swimming, 174
Medical Officers of Health, Metropolitan Association of, 414
Mediterranean Telegraph, 443
Medwin and Hall, In re (Law Proceedings), 425
Meeting of Engineers at 'Manchester (Note Book), 492, 512
Meeting of the Manchester Geological Society, 468
Mental Calculation, by G. P. Bidder, 61, 81. 101, 141
Memoir of Anesthetic Action of Carbonic Oxide Gas, by M. G. Tourdes (Chemical), 274
Mercantile Munificence, 241
Mersey, The, 403
Metal, Cold Metal Floating in Molten, by Old Engine, 268 ,
Metal, Solid and Molten (Letters)By Cupola, 189
O d Crank, 349, 408
Old Engine, 169, 329
Peile, J. K.. 189.308
Metallic Boats and Army Floating Wagons, by Major Vincent Eyre, F.R.G.S. (Review), 373
Metallic Oxides, Chenot's Improvements in the Reduction of, 169
Metals and Manufactures in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Districts, &c., 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120. 140, 160, 180, 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300, 320, 340, 360, 380, 400, 420, 439, 459, 479, 499
Metals at the Port of London, Imports and Exports of, 18, 39, 59 78, 99, 119, 139. 158. 178, 199, 218, 238.259 279, 299, 319, 338, 35,4, 379, 398, 419, 440, 460, CO, 500, 520
Metals. Prices Current of, 18, 58, 78. 99, 119, 138, 158, 178, 199, 218, 238, 259, 279, 299, 319, 338, 357, 379, 398, 418, 440, 460, 480, 500, 520
Meteorology. Paper read before the Royal Inst. Great Britain, by E. Vivian, Esq., 465
Meters, Gas, by C. R. Mead, 26
Method of Tipping Trepans, &c. (Tour in the Provinces, Chap. XI ), 42. 43
Methods of Analysis Applicable to Mineralogical Reseal ches, by M. Barreawll, 474
Methylated Spirit and tome of its Preparations, by Mr. J. Macfarlane, 474
Metropolis, Improvement In the, by W. Austin, C.F., 129
Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health, 414

Metropolitan Board of Works, 23, 133, 505

Metropolitan Bridges, 170
Metropolitan Carriage Ways, by J. B. L., 249
J. Rockliffe, 262
Metropolitan Drainage, The, 5
Question, 25

Metropolitan improvement and Thames Embankment Paper read before the Society of Arts, by Mr. Francis Bennoch, 341
Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company. 334
Microscopical Examination of the Metropolitan Water
Supply, Report to the General Board of Health, by Dr. Hassell, M.D.. &c., 344
Middle Class Dwellings of London, 423
Midland Counties, Farm Labourers of the (Note Book), 312
Mineral Wealth of Victoria, 63
Mines, Explosions in (Note Book), 251
Mines, Explosions in, 169
By G. R. Booth, C.E.. 189
Samuel Bickerton, 349
Mines Inspection, Government (Note Book), 232
Miner's Lamps, Mozart's Improvements, 282
Mines, Ventilation of—
By A. ( hisholm. 209
G. R. Booth, 228
William Moore, 228
Morgan Morgan. 287
M'Intosh v. The Great Western Railway Company (Lay. Proceedings). 65
Mirage. &c., The Cause of the, by W. Steevenson, 249
Moberly's Improvements in Grinding and Poli4tking Surfaces. 303
Mode of Ascertaining the Original Gravities of Beer, &c. (Chemical), 215, 234
Mode of Working Coal, 246
Modifications of Woody Fibre, and their Application. Paper read before the Royal Inst. of Great Britain, by Rev. J. Barlow, M.A., &c., 423
Momentum, Energy and (Note Book), 408
Moncton and Clark's Machinery for Tiling Land. 310, 323
Monogenesis of Physical Forces, by Alfred Smee, F.A.S. F.C.S. &c. (Review), 252
Monster Gun. The (Parliamentary Intelligence), 502
Moon's Rotation, Letters on the—
By H. Elliott. Jun., 49
W. Steevenson, 69
Morris' Trap for Beetles, &c., 86
Morrison's Machinery for Lifting and Lowering, 387
Morton's, Mr., Lectures on Agriculture, 345
Moses v. Baylis (Law Proceedings), 344
Motherwell Iron Works, 470
Motion of the Moon (Letter), 1,37 W. Steevenson, 69
Motive Power, On Electro-Magnetism as a. Paper read before the Inst. C.E., by Mr. 364
Motive Power Engines, Duncan's. 230
Moulding Metals, Law and Inglis' Improvements in, 363
Moulds for Casting, Jobson's Machinery for Making, 86
Mowing and Reaping, M able's Machinery for, 282
Mozard's Improvements in Miners' Lamps, 282
Mr. Robert Stevenson, C.E., &c., 31
Muir and Walker's Machinery for Sizeing, &c., Yarns, 370
Museum at Kensington. The Patent (Note Book), 512
Museum and Schools, The Kensington (Note Book), 452
Museum, New Educational, 65

Metropolitan Board of Works.—

Charing Cross Foot Bridge, 133
Embankment and Improvement of the Thames, 325
Important Approaches and Now Streets in the Victoria Park Road, '225
Main Drainage Scheme, 26
Modes of Communication in the Metropolis, 65
Morewood's scheme for Draining the Metropolis, 25
New streets, The, 86
New Streets in Southwark, &c., 65, 85
Ornamental Water in the Park. 133
Park tor Bermondsey, 45
Public Competition in Designs, 65
Public Parks for the Metropolis, 65
Removal of the Middle Row, Holborn, 385
Site of Offices, 25
Street Nomenclature, 65
Street Nomenclature and Numbering of Houses, Thames Embankment, I33
Vacant Space of Land near St. Paul's, 385

Nails, Whittle's Machinery for the Manufacture of, 327
Napoleon III. Ede-Glass, 16.3
Nasmyth and Brown's Apparatus for Making Tin Plates, 65
Nasmyth and Wilson's Hydraulic Pumps and Presses, 487
Natural Mineral Phosphites and their Application in the Preparation of Manure, 191
Nautical Telegraph, by Augustus Treve, 174
National Daily Bulletin of Temperature, 425
Nautilus Machine. American, 206
Nautilus. The, 468, 4.2, 483, 481
Navigation. The Practicability of, by J. A. D., 489
Neall's Union Gfis Stove, 367
Needham v. Andrews (Law Proceedings), 45
Nelson's Improvements in Finishing Yarns. 30
Nelson Column, The (Parliamentary Intelligence), 155
Nene Valley Drainage Works, 27
Neptune for the Austrian Lloyd's South Navigation Company, Launch of the, 245
New Code of Marine Signals. 283
New Countries, Railwa3s in the Colonies and, 221, 242 262
New Distress Signals, 292
New Education Bill, The (Note Book), 192
New Educational ‘luseurn, 65
New Electro-Magnetic Engine, 306
New French Locomotive, 292
New Government Dock at Cardiff, 385
New Hydraulic Machine. 466
New Kind of Diamon,i, 440
New Kind of Fuel, 290
New Kind of Manure, 470
New Kind of Type, 466
New Marseilles scheme for Making Flour, 489
New Material for Gas. 266
New Method for Detecting the Presence of Iodine, ike , in Mineral Waters, A (Chemical, 414
New Mode of obtaining Starch, by Giacomo Sileoni, 265
New Motive Power, 447
New Packet for Cork, 349
New Pianofortes, '?27
New Portable Threshing Machine, 449
New Reading Room and Libraries in the British Museum, 345
New Route fur Central American Produce, 290
New savings Banks Bill, 226
New Suspension Bridge, 407
New System of Nature Printing, by Christopher Dresser (paper read before the Society of Arts), 264
New Telegraph Wire, 445
New Territory in Australia, 202
New Thames Grieving Docks, 405
New Turkish Steam Navigation Company, 282
New Water Suopl) for Liverpool, 426
New Winter Garden at Chelsea, 362
Newly-invented Horse-Shoe, NO...)
News for Guano Importers, 446
Newton's improvements in Carding Engines, 410
Newton's Charger for Punches, 323
Newton's Machinery for Combing Fibrous Substances, 306
Newton's Machinery for Cutting Old Files, 307
Newton's Improvements in steam Engines, Newton's Machinery for Riming and Tapping Gas Fittings. 506
Nitrogen in Steel, Mr. Dinka on, 468
North of India Tram-road Company, 246
Northern Bengal Railway, 194
Notes (roil the Ea-tern Counties, 339, 360 3S0, 400, 420. 440, 459. 479, 800, 519
Re-inventing—Iron Making, 311
Rib Railways for Apiculture, 2'11
Rise ant Decline of Curable Diseases in the Metropoll Pl. 492
Ross Winans on Freight Engines, 271
Rough and Ready Contrivances, MI Rugby Sea age Manuring, 73
Schools of Art, Obstructions, 291
Schools of Art, Rucks Ahead, 232
Sewlige Question, 213
Smelters' ('ricks, 72
Steam t ulture Implements, 432
Steam Culture Prospects, 231
Steam Coltitr.., Rope Traction, 272
Steam Engines in Lancashire, 151
Steam Locomotion on Common Roads, 452
Stre't Rills, 131
Street Railways, 91
Submarine Operations, 473
Suggestions with reference to Tin and Copper, 472
Sunken Vessels, 81
Tin, 12
Town Sewage, 272, 512
Traction Engines for our Colonieg, 252
Tramways in India, 412
United States' Railway Construction, 212
Water Ganges, 171
The Wear of the System by Railway Travelling, 432
What are we to do with our Street Traffic ? 51
What is a proper Water Gauge ? 152
What shall we do with our Criminals ? 172

Oatmeal Roller, Biddell's, 23
Observations on Rock Salt, by M. Margueritte (Chemical),. 274
Obstruction, Schools of Art (Note Book), 291
Ocean, Racing %cross the (from the New York Thus), 5
Offices, Public (Note Book), 391
Oil, Elves' Machinery for Extracting, 101
Oil, Mauban's Cans for Holding, '70
Old Dreadnought, The, 269
Old Rochester Bridge, 405
Omnibus Com pan), The London General, 374
Omnibuses v. Railways, 122
On an Improved Induction Apparatus, by Emil Stohrer, I
One who has Smelt and Tasted the Blazing Hydrogen, 268
Oolites of Yorkshire. Paper read before the Royal Geological Society, by Professor Phillips, 508
Operations, Submarine (Note Book), 473
Orders from Russia, 89
Ordnance, Iron, Letter to the Times, by Long Range, 84
Ordinances of the French Government relating to Steam Engines, 93
Origin of Forces, 4 IG Origin of %% heat, 1:,0
Original Locomotive Engine, 470
Our Colonial Labour Market (Tote Book), 172
Our Convict System (Note Book), 152
Our Land Corps (Note Bonk), 133
Our Latest Annexation, 252

Paper, Bertram and MoNlven's Improvements in the Manufacture of, 603
Papier Macho Screen. 63
Parberry's Improvements in Horse Collars. 507
Pads Exhibition, The Machinery in the (Note Bock), 411
Paris, Rent Crisis in, 305
Parks as They Will Be, The, 149
Parliament. Projects for, 112
Passenger Traffic in Australia, 314
Past, Pickings from the (Note Book). 12
Patent for Coating Iron with Copper, 60
Patent Law of India. 381. 404
Patents. Report of the American Commissioner of, for 1856, by C. Mas. n. 264
Patent Museum a. Kensington (Note Book), 512
Patents, East Indian, 404
Patterns for Iron Castings. 21
Pauvert's Process for Making Steel, 429
Paving, Improved street, by W. Smith, C.E., 149
Pearce's Apparatus for Generating Steam, 14i Pembroke Yard, 5, 230
Penal Servitude. Guiana (Note Book). 452
Pendulum Cross Cutting Law, by Winsome and Sims ( rour iu the Provinces. Chap. X1 —Ipswich), 2
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 1 I
Perk the Screw Steamer, 174
Percussion Caps (Parliamentary Intelli.zenee), 155
Permanent Ways of Railways (Note Book), 211
Adam's Improvements in, 166
Alien', Z Rail. 126
Barlow's Improvements in, 267
Greave's Improvements in, 27
Ramie's Improvements in, 387
Richardson rind Bullock's Improvements in, 230
Perreaux' India Rubber Valves, 366
Pest, The stratum. 64
Photo..sogiii lithography, by F. A. Malone (Proceedings Royal Inst. Great Britain), 273
Physical Cause of Deflection of Girders on Bridges Exposed to the Transverse Strain of a Rapidly Passing Load. Paper read before tho Inst. C.E. of Ireland, by It. M allot, Esq.. 425
Physical Forces, the Monogcoesis of (Review), by Alfred Smee, F.R.S., F.C.S., &c.. 253
Physiological Relations of Speaking and Writing, 171
Pianofortes, La cahra's Improvements in, -1S7
Pianoforte, New, 227
Pianofortes. • ornom's Improvements In (Note Book), 167
Piatti's Improvements in the Production of Ice, 406
Pickers for Looms, by C C. Wiiken, 163
Pickings from the Past, 11
Pled Fabrics, Collier's Improvements in, 406
Plan for Carrying a Railway throu4h a Town in Connexion with a Line of Streets. 343
Plan Showing Proposed New Streets and Railways, and Embankment of the Thames. 312
Plantations, spinning Cotton on, 24
Platt and Whitcheart's Machinery for Making Bricks, 150
Plough v. The Spade (Note Book), 252
Ploughing, Coleman's Implements for, 6
Fowler and Worby's Improvements, 260
Plummer's Mode of Preparing Hard Grain, 350
Political Economy and Perfume, 253
Polytechnic Society, The Liverpool. 24, 375
Portus' Improvements in Carts, &c., 1k6
Post, The Inland Book, 376
Post Office Automaton, 190
Postal Communications with Ireland (Par:iamentary Intelligence), 214
Postal 1 iisisions, The, 102
Preparation and Properties of Manganese, by M. C. Brunner (Chemical).
Pouches, Newton's Charger for, 323
Power Necessary to Work Slide Valves (Letters)—
By Woodiread, A. Alexander, 109
Practice v. Theory, fry J. A . D., 449
Practical v Theoretical Investigation, by J. A. D., 403
Practice, Locomotion (Letter), hy J Kern, 8
Practice, Ride (Review), 11 Lieut .Col. Jacob, ('.B., 353
Preparation of Aluminium by Means of Cryolite, " Annalen der Chemie and Phnrmacie," 194
Preparation of Metbionic Acid, by M. Strecker (Chemical), 414
Preparing Hard Grain, &c, Plummer's Mode of, 360
Preparing, &c., Textile Material., Begg's Mode of, 343
Present Jewaae System, by Japer W. Rogers, 36$, 408
Prevent Sewage System (Note Book), 392
Preservation of Corn, 443
Press Copies from Printed Documents, 194
Pressing and Rolling Malleable Iron and Steel, Bessemer's Improvements, 70
Preux's Method of Winning Vehicles. 90
Prevefitin4 Boiler Explosions, Routledge's Improvements 503
Prevention of Casualties on Quicksands, 253
Prices Patent Candle Company v Batmen's Patent Candle Company (Law Intelligence), 151
Prices Current of Metals, 18, 58,18, 99, 119, 138, 158, 178, 199, 218, 238. 259, 279, 299, 319, 3.8, 351, 379, 398, 418, 440, 460, 4110, 600, 520
Prideaux v. Bonnet (Law Proceedings', 45
Printing in China, 221
Printing in Persia, The. 466
Printing, A New System of Nature, by Christopher Dresser (Society of Arts), 264
Prism in Qualitative Analysis, by Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S. (Chemical), 215
Production of W bite Sapphires in Limpid Isolated Crystals by the Heat of a Forge Fire in Ordinary Crucibles, On the, by NI. A Gaudin (Chemical), 474
Progress and Immediate Effects on the Population of the Railway Operations Around Bombay, 461
Progress of India (Note Book), 271
Progress of Shipbuilding in Scotland, 265
Progress in Steam Culture (Note Book), 413
Projects for Parliament (Note Rook), 112
Promotion of Elementary Art (Note Book), 332
Propeller, 1 he Carlingford Screw, by Lord Carlingford, 69
Propelling Vessels (1.etters)—
By W . V. Miller, 307
James Patterson, 328
Proposed A ration of Names of London :=treets, ::5
Proposed Honduras Inter-Oceanic Rai may, by E. G. Sqiiier, Esq. (Society of Arts), 64
Marine Propulsion, by Observer, 29
Prospects, Agricultural, 1857 (Note Book), 31
Prospects, Steam Culture (Note Boole., 231
Provisional Specifications, Look to Your, by W. Spence. C.E. (Review), 493
Public improvements in Sydney, 289
Public Offices (Note Book), 39

Parliamentary Intelligence—

Consumption of Smoke (House of Commons), 398
Decimal Coinage (House of Commons), 186
Enfield Factory (House of Commons', 358, 449
Exhibition of Plans in Westminster Hall (House of Commons), 155
General Board of Health (House of Commons), 398
Guano (House of Commons), 186
Holyhead and Kingstown (House of Lords), 133
Industrial Museum (House of Commons), 174
Lighthouse in the China Seas (House of Commons), 155
Nelson Column (House of Commons), 155
New Gosernmeat C ffices;House of Lords), 415
Percussion Caps (House of Commons), 155
Railway Accidents (House of Commons), 133, 174
Westminster Bridge and the New Government Offices (House of Commons), 133
Works in St. James' Park (House of Lords), 415

Quality and Quantity, 20
Question, The Iron, considered in connection with Therm, Practice. and Experience, by Joseph Hall (Review), 153
Question, The Sewage (Note Book), 213
by W. B. Adams, 204
Question, The Great Sewage, 5
(Letter) by A Young Soldier, 49
Question, The Metropolitan Drainage, 25
Question. The Water Gauge, 154
(Letter) by a Mining Engineer, 187
Racing Across the Ocean (from the New York Times), 5
Rail Joints (Letter), by W. B Adams. 209
Railroads, African, and Agriculture (Note Book), 473
Rails on Roads Note Book , 71
Rails, Super-Elesation of Outer (Letters)—
By J A. D.. 449
Alexis, 449
Railway Accidents, 142
Railway Accidents (Note Book;, 331

Railway Accidents (Letters)—

By Eastwood. E.. 9
Hallen and Kingston, 9
Ralton, Thomas, 109
Speed and safety, 9
(Parliamentary Intelligence), 133, 174

Railway Across the Blue Ridge. at the Rock Fish Cap, in the State of Vtreinia, by C. Elliot, C.E., 73
Brakes, by II 13 , 29
Railway and canal Coal Trades of London, 149
Railway Carriage, Wheels for, 489
Railway Crossings, Biddell's Patent (Tour in the Provinces, Chap. XII). 22
Railway Crossings, Hurry's Improved, 286
Railways in Cuba, 481
Railway, The Endless (Note Book). 232
Railways. Cylindrical Wheels on, by W. J. Rankine, 349
Railway, The Endless, 214. 512
Railway Company, Endless, 214
Railway from Lisbon to Oporto, 349
Railway Operations around Bombay, On the Progress and Immediate Effects of the Population of the, 461
Railway Signals, 375
Railway Statistics, 249
Railway Traffic, 24
Railway Travelling, The Wear of the System by (Note Book', 432
Railway Wheels, Axles, and Boxes, Adams' Improvements, 2117
Railways American (Note Book), 191,211, 401
Railways, American, by Zerah Coburn, -101
Railways. Australian, 68 •
Railways in the Colonies and New Countries. 221. 212, 262
Railways. London to Lahore; or, the Euphrates, Scinde, and Punjaub (Ri view). 413
Railways, Permanent Ways of, 211
Railways, Russian. 327, 369

Railways, Street (Note Book), 91, 113, 131 (Letters)-

Adams, W. B., 6g, f.9
Anti-Bus, 127
Austin W., 169
Byrne, S. G., 69
C2, 127
Dunn, Thomas. 109
Hillier, G. A.,68
Kean, J., 127
Locomotive, 88
McAdam, ‘V., 209
Prescott, Thomas, r8
Railton. Thomas, 127
Rockliffe, J., 308
Stranger in London, 127, 168
Symonds, Samuel, 109
W. W., .s Wincup, Thomas, 68, 109
Wright. Thomas, 67

Railways in the United State*, 173, 181
Railways, United States' Construction, 212
Raising, Lowering, &c., Heron's Machinery for, 25
Raising, Lowering, Stc., Van Hengers Improvements in, 143
Raising Sunken Vessels, 300
Raising Water, Delettrez Pere and Co.'s Apparatus for, 322
Ramie's Improvements In Permanent Ways, 387
Ransome's Process for Preserving Stone, 370
Rapidity of the Screw, 3(12
Reaction of Chloride of Zinc upon Ilippuric Acid, by M Gosemann (Chemical), 334
Reaping Machines, 310
Reaping' Machines, including Dray's, Burgess and Keys', &c., 201, to 204, and 222, 223
Recent Improvements in Iron, b7 F. A. Abe!, Esq. (paper read before the Chemical Society), 147
Recent Improvement in Permanent Ways, by Mr. O. M. Parsons (papers read before the Inst. ('.E ), 125
Reception of M. Blot, in the French Academy, 123
Reclining Chairs, Webb's Improvements in, 262
Rectification of the Circle (Letters)—
By Gibsone Burford. 247
High Wrangler, 267
Old Engine, 168, 229, 269, 368
Skwarcow, John, 188
Walker, V. E., 229, 349, 408
Red Coat School, 1(L9
Reduction of Hands at Woolwich. 126
Reformation of our " Roughs " (Note Book), 31
Regulating Air Furnaces, Fernikough and Farrow's Improvements in, 466
Regulating the Steam of Locomotives, Renault's Improvements in, 467
Re-inventing. Iron Making (Note Book), 311
Remains of Mammalia (Paper read before the Geological Society), by Dr. Falconer, 245
Remarkable circumstances tending to Diseuise the pre. Bence of Acids and Bases in Chemical Analysis (Clic mica!), 154
Remarks on the Indian Army, by Major Crawford, &c. (Review), 333
Removal of an Iron Buildirg, 270
Renault's Mode of Regulating the Steam of Locomotives. 467
Rent CHAIR in Part% 305
Re-patenting of Old Inv, ntions, 185
(I,• tter) by R. t orts. 248
J. F. Bramwell, 349
Report, Mr LonerRig. 1e, by S. Baldwin, 160, 208
Report on the Microscopical Examination 4 f the Metropolitan W at. r Supply, by Arthur H. Massall, M.D F.L S., 344
Reported Discovery of Coal in Scinie, 462
Researches upon Fluorine Action of Acids upon Glass, by M. J. Nickles (Chemical), 474
Researches on silica, by Colonel Philip Yorke, F.R.S. (Chemical), 428
Researches upon Tantalum (Cliemic:1\, 512
Researches upon Tungsten and its Compounds, by M. Riche (Chemical), 414
Results obtained at the Orphan Hospital, Paris, upon Amylene employed as an Anesthetic Agent, by NJ Giraldin, 354
Results of the Use of Clay Retorts for Gas Making, by Jabez Church (paper read before the Inst. C.E. , 214
Review of the ordinary Methods employed in Preparing some of the Elements (Chemical), 453
Rib Railways for Agriculture (Note Book), 2M Rifle Factors, 'I he Enfield (Note Book), 452
Rifle Practice, by Lieut.-f ol. Jacob, C B. (Review), 353
Rights. Patent, by J. Rockliffe, 229
Rights of Railway Tr.es eller% 40
Riming and 'lapping Gas Fittings, Newton's Machiner)
for, S06
Ripon .Mechanics' Institution, 520
Rise and Decline of Curable Diseases in the Metropoli, (Note Rook),492
Rise in the Price of Diamonds, 270
River on the Line of the Louisville and Lexington Rahway, 1 he New Bridge over the, 454
Road between Cairo and Suez, by J. Rockliffe, 3_"J Roads, Rails on (Note Book), 71
Roads, Ste im Locomotion on Common (Note Book), 452
(Letter), by A H. Paulson, 508
Rope Traction, by John i•owler, 409
Rope's End, A (Note Book), 71
Moscow's Machinery for Cutting and Rasping Dye Woods. 427
Ross Winans on Steam Engines (Note Book), 276
Rotations, On the Moon's (Letter), by H. Elliot, jun., 49
Rough and Ready Contrivances (Note Book), 511
Roughs, Reformation of our (Note Book), 31
Routledge's Patent for Preventing Boiler Explosions, 503
Royal Agricultural Association, 500
Royal Agricultural Society of England, 260
meeting in 1858, 309
Royal Mini, The, ez29
Ronal Naval School, New Cross, 324
Royal Sovereign, The, 347
Rubble Beton or Concrete, On the Employment of, in Works of Architecture and Engineering, by Mr. Rennie, &c (Inst. C E.), 385
Discussion on the above, 405
Rugby Sewage Manure (Note Book), 73
Ruins of Babel, 234
Ruins of Covent Garden Theatre, 302
Russian Agriculture, 131)
Russian Rahway', 3•a, Z69

REVIEWS

Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Drain P1peq, &c &e.. 252
Adulteration Detected, &c., by Arthur Hill Hassan, M.1) , 105
The Di ci'nal System as a Whole, in its Relation to Time. Measure, Weight and Money, by Lover Statter, 172
Facts and Fallacies of the Sewerage System of London, &c, by Jasper W. Rogers, Esq., 5:c, 3:)4
George Stephenson, 1 he Lite of, 481, 1.01
JI.w to Farm Profitably, &c., by Mr. Sheriff Mechi, &c., 334
Iron Question, The, Considered in connection With Theory. Practice, and Experience, &c., by J. Hall, 153
Language of Specifications of Letters Patent for Inventions, by J. Macgregor, Esq., 153
London to Lahore; or, the Euphrates, Scinde, and Punjaub Railways, Ste., 413
Look to sour Provisional Specifications, 493
On Metallic Boats and Army Floating Wagons, by Major Vincent Eyre, F.R.G.S., Metropolitan Commoidcations and '1 hames Bridges, by Edward Hall, F.S.A., 93.1
The Jonegenesis of Physical Forces, &c., by Alfred Sou e, F.R.S., c , 153
Muir's tlachinery for the Manufacture of Rifle Sights, by Ch rles Par tirgton. jun., '.74
Remarks on the Indian Army, by Major Crawford, &c., 333
Rim aril to Workmen, 27
Rifle Practice, by Lieut.-Col. John Jacob, C.B., &c., 353
A System of Mental Arithmetic, by Thomas Tate, 273
What is to be done with uur Criminals, &c. Y by J Pearson, Esq.. 2.3
Year Book of Facts, by John Timbe, 173

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN—

Certain Peculiarities of Climate during the Permian Epoch, by Professor Ramsay, 448
General Meang of the Institution. 85
Meteorology, by Edwa. d Vivian, Esq , 465
Modifications of Woad-Fibre, and their Applications by Rev J. Barlow, M.A., &c , 422
Submarine Telegraph, by John Watkins Brett, Esq., 63
Malvern Hills, by Professor Phillips, M.A., F.1( S., 361

Salt, Mr, and the L. and N. W. Railway Company, 44
Sampson's Improvements in Finishing Fabric s, 14
Samuel Zimmerman, the Canadian Railway Contractor, 349
Sanitary Movemen , 5J3
Santander and Alan Railway, Spain, 340
saw, Ransoms and Sim's Pendulum Cross Cutting (Tour in the Provinces). 2
Sawing or Cutting Wood, McDowall's Improvements in, 430
Schiele's Expansion Gear and Oscillation Break, 287
Governor and Throstie Valve, 367
Schools of Art, See., 347
Schools of Art, Obstructions (Note Book), 291
Schools of Art, Rocks A-head (Note Book), 232
Scotch Farmers and Guano, 225
Scott's Improvements in Stereoscopes, 4(2
Screw S:eamer Pent," 174
Screw v. Paddle* 307
Sea, Lights at, 5
Seed Sower, Luce's Improved (from the Scientific American, 102
Seed and Ryder's Machinery for Slubbing and Roving Cotton, Slc , 463
Sewage to Agriculture, the Application of, by Dugald Campbell, 241, 301
Sewage Manure, Application of, by B. 0 , 129
Sewage Question (Note Book). 213
sewage Question, The, by A Young Soldier, 49
Sewage Question, The Great, 5
Sewage System, The Present (Note Book), 392
(Letters) by J., 2J Rogers, 408
Sewage System, 1 he Present, by Jasper W. Rogers, :63
Sewage, Town (Note Book), 272, 513
Sewerage of London, The, 113
Sewerage System of London, Facts and Fallacies of the by J W. Rogers, Esq. (Review ), 354
Sewage Question, by W. B. Adams, 204
Shades, B choffuer's, for Gas Lights, 446
Shakespeare's HOUSP, 2g7 1heepthanks' Gilt, The, 463
Ship Building at Chatham Dockyard, 209
ship Building In Scotland, The Progress of, 265
Ship, Lengthening an Iron, 145
Ships on Fire, 16!
Ships' Knees, Cato, Miller and Audley'3 Improvements in, 506
Short Time Movement in Rochdale, 502
Showers, April (Note Book), 313
Signal Apparatus, Fenton's Railway, 447
Signal Lanterns, Bronn's Improvements, 266
Silurian Rocks of Scandinavia and Russia, by Sir Roderick Murchison (Geological Society), 385
Simple Barometer, A, 349
Simpson's Safety Cage for Mines, 287
Simpson's Mode of Stopping Bottles, 246
Sir C. Pasley's Pontoon., 389
Size of American Lakes, 189
Skilled Workmen, by A Workman. ] g9
Skilled Workmen, W by is 'there a 1Vant of ? 129
Slide Valve Governors, by H. Booth, 1S9
Slide Valves, Power Necessary to Work (Letters)—
By Woodhead, A. Alexander, 109
Sloop Cordelia, The. 454
Slubbing Cotton, tired and Ryder's Machinery for, 463
smelters' Trick', The (Note Book), 72
Smith and Kalthoffs Improvements in Ecanomisirg Fuel, 12t
Smith and Taylor's Appnaratiis for Measuring Gas, 3R3
Smoke Act, Hakim! and the. 25
Smoke Consumer, A, 429
Smoke, Consumption of, by Carbon, 409
Soap Dish, Soul's Improved, 786
Society of Arts' Exhibition, 241
Society of Arts' Exhibition, by D. C F., 368
Society of Arts, Lord Palmerston and the, 208
Soil under Steam Culture, Aeration of the, 492
The Mechanical Construction of (Note Book), 292
Solid Molten %fetal, the Crank, Gravitation (Letters)—
By the Old Engine, 169, 329
Cupola, 1:9
J.H. Peile, 1 f 9, 303
Old Crank, 349, 408
Some Points in the Composition of Wheat Grain, &c , by J. B. Lawes, F.R S., &c., and J. H. Gilbert, D.F.C.S., 334
Somerville's Improvements in Wearing, 510
Sorting Ores, ('henot's Machinery for, 147
Soulage Collection of Italian Art, The, 143
Soul's improved Toilet Soap Di.h, 286
South Kensington Museum, 425
spade v. The Plough (Note Book), 292
Speaking and Writing, Physiological Relations between, 174
Specifications of Letters Patent for Inventions, The Language of, by J. Maccregor, Esq., Q c. (Review), 153
Specifications Relating to Drain Tiles, Embroidering, &c. (Review', 252
Speedy Communication with Australia, 303
Spencer's Locomotive Feed Pipe Coupling, 210
Sphygmoscope, Description of a New, by G. S. Alison, M.D., 21
Spinning, Hardacre's Machinery for, 163
Spinning, Leigh's Machinery for, 266
Spinning, Watson and Halle's Improvements, 3..:6
Spinning (()lion on Plantation., 24
Spinning Machinery, Lakin, Thompson and Co.'s, 123
Spinner., Interesting to, 454
Spontaneous Combustion on Shipboard, 260
St James' Park, 4L0
St James’ Theatre. 349
Staff of the Post Office, 381
Stamps, Vaughan's Improvements in Working 601
Starch, New Mote of Obtaining, by Giacomo Working, 265
Statistics of the Gold Fields of Victoria for 1856, 322
Statistics of Lond.sn, 485
Statistics of Salford Free Library, 24
Strives, Crew's Machinery fur Jointing, by G. Green, 429
Steam Battery, An American, 5
Steam Corvette " Galatra,” 190
Steam Culture, Different systems of (Note Book), 372, 393
Steam Culture implements (Note Book), 433
Steam Culture, Progress of (Note Book), 413
Steam Culture Prospects (Note Book), 231
Steam Culture. Rope raction (Note Book), 272
Steam Cushioning, by J. Robinson. 1:9
Steam Engines, Carrett's Improvements in the Manufacture of Motive Power. 30
Dumery's Improvements in, 303
Duvoir's Improvements in, 266
Hail, Wylde and Waite's Improvements in the Manufacture of,267
Lawrie's Improvements in, 10
Newton's Improvements in, 490
Steam Engines in Lancashire. 152
Steam Engines, Ordinances of the French Government relative to 95
Steam Locomotion on Common Roads (Note Book), 452
(Letters), by A. H. Pat:erson, 509
Steam Ploughing and Carting, 3.9
Steam Ship " Circassian," The, 163
steam Traction on Common Roads, 410
Steam Trade at. Liverpool, 400
Steamers for Thissla, 234
Steamer, The " Tyne " (Note Book), 332
Steamer, The "Tyne," Correspondence between (Letter)
Mr. Read and the Shareholders of the Royal Mail Steam Company, 308
Steel, l'auvert's I'rocess for Making, 429
steel Process, The Uchatitia, 214
Stephenson. The Life of (Review), 481
Stephen's Improvements in Boilers, 467
Stereo copes, Scott's Improvements in, 462
Stevens and Fitch's %I ode of Locking Jars, 50G
Stopping Bottles, Simpson's Mode of, 246
trattin., The Best, 14
Street Railways (Note Book), 91, 113, 131

Street Railways (Letter)—

By Adams, W. Bridges, 68, 89
Anti 'Bus, 127
Austin, , 16)
Byrne, L. J., 69
Cr., 127 •
Dunn. Thomas, 109
Hillier, G. A., 68
Kean, J., 127
Locomotive, ER McAdams, W. 209
Prescott, Montag, 68
Railton, Thomas, 127
Rockliffe, L, :08
Stranger in London, 127, 167
Symonds, Samuel, 109
W. W., Wincup, Thomas. Cs, 109
Wright, T 67

Strength, Animal (Note Book), 192
Strike at the Birkenhead Docks, 10, 18G
Strike of Omnibus Servants, 389
Structure of Wheels, Cannon, &c., Abstract of a Paper read before the Society of Arts, by W. B. Adams, 94
Struther's Machinery for Transmitting Power, 450
Submarine Engineering, by Major H B. Sears (Abstract of a Paper read before the Society of Arts), S03
Submarine Operations (Note Book), 473
Submarine Telegraphs, by a Non Electrician, :OS Submarine Telegraph, I he, 63
(Letter) by W. Reid, 269
Submarine Telegraphs. Paper read before the Inst. C.E., by John Watkins Brett, Esq , M.R.I., 321
Submarine Telegraphs. Paper read before the Inst. C.E., by Mr. Window, 104
Submarine Telegraph, The Atlantic, 469
Substitute for Silk Worms, 263
Suez Canal, 245
Sumner's rower Looms for Wearing, 403
Sunken ships at Sebab. opol, 194
Sunken Vessel- (Note Book). 32
Super Elevation of Outer Rails (Letters)—
By J. A. D , 449
Alexis, 449
Superheating Steam, 363
Supply of tivano, 63
Supply of Guano (Parliamentary Intelligence), 214
Suspension of Messrs. Swayne and Co., 1is6
Suggestions with reference to Tin, &c. (Note Book), 472
Suspension, &c., Bridge at Harper's Ferry, Description of a New, 1“
Swansea Harbour Improvements, 403
Sweeping Roads, Ferrier's Machinery for, €6
Sweet Soren, by M. Stier (Chemic41). 215
Swimming Apparatus, Danduran's, 268
Sydney, Public linpro‘ementa in, :589
System of Mc ntal Arithmetic, A New, by Thomas Tate, F. B.S., &c. (Review), 273
Society of Arts—
Application of Machinery in the War Department, by J. Anderson, Esq , 93
Application of Rails for Horse Transit in London, &c , by W 13. Adams, Esq , 124
Combinations and Phenomena that occur among the Element, engaged in the Manufacture of Iron, and in the Conver.iim into Steel, by C. Binks, 42
Conversazione, 31;5
Conversazione of the Society, 161
Disinfectants, On, by R. Angus Frnith, 324
Economy of Food, by Doctor Letheby, 214
Exhibition of the Society, 241
Factory system of Education, &c., by Alex. Redgrave, 164
Hons.@ as They Were, Are, and Ought to Be, by Mr. John Papworth, F.R.T.B.A., r.04
How can Increased Supplies of Cotton be Obtained ?
by J. B. Smith. M.P., 384
Manufacture of Iron and Steel, by Christopher Binks. Discwaion. 421, 441, 442
Metropolitan Improvements and Thames Embankment, by Mr. Francis Bennoch, 341
New Induction Coil, by J. N. Hoarder, Plymouth, 144, Discussion on, 161
New System of Nature Printing., by Christopher Dresser.: 61
Proposed Honduras Inter-Cceanic Railway, by E. G. Squiers, Esq., 61
•Submarine Engineermo. 205

Tallow, Ste.. Bleaching and Deodorising, 226
Tail's Improvements in Blind Rollers, 47
Taps, Cadet's Improvements in, .P 6
Taps for Drawing off Liquids, Martineau and Smith's, 166
Taps for Drawing off Maxwell's, 27
Taps or Valves, Brown's Improvements in, 362
Teaching Drawing, Improvements in (Note Book), 5:, 92
Tehuantepec Route, The, &c., 1
Telegraph Across the Hudson, 450
Telegraph, The Atlantic, 82, 83
Telegraphs in Australia, 263
Telegraph Cable, The Atlantic, by J. Piercy, 328
Telegraph Cable, The Great Atlantic, by NV. Reid, 508
Communications with India, 30
Inland and Submarine, 293
Telegraph, Nautical, by A ()rictus Trevl, 174
Telegraph, The Submarine, 63
(Letters), by W. Reid, 269
Non Electrician, 308
Telegraph, The Submarine (paper read before the Inst. C.E.. by John Watkins Brett, Esq., 51.1t I.), 321
Temple Foun, ain, The, 214
Territory, The Hudson's Bay, A British Pacific Railway, 44
Testimonial, The Manby, Inst. , 461
Tetley v. Easton (Law Proceeditm• ) 325
Thames Embankment, Metropolitan Improvements, &c. Paper read before the Society of Arts, by Mr. Francis Bennoch, 241
Thames Graving Docks, The New, 4's3
Thames Marshes, Drainage of the, 32
Thames Steam Tug Company. 280
Thames Tunnel, The, lite.. 240
Theoretical v Practical Investigation, by J. A. D 408

Theory of the Crank (Lettere)—

By tiooce Quill, 29, 69, 87, 129, 163
J. M. D., 69
Knight, R. V. J., 29. 6q, 109, 229
Old Crank, 89, 129, 16, Old Engine, 49, 89, 109, 129, 148,229
Salle, 148
T. O. E.. 8
Turner, H., 69

Theory v Practice, by J. A. D., 449
Thompson's Plan of Lighting Railway Carriages with Gas, m
Thousandth Locomotive, 246
Threatened Comet, The, 1136
Threshing Machines. •170
Tidal Phenomena in the English and Irish Channel, 490
Tidmarsh's Apparatus for Lubricating, 210
Tilling Land. Howard and Baker's Machinery for. 65
Moncton and Clark's Machinery for, 310, 323
Timber Markets, 18, 39, 59, 78, 99, 119, 139, 158, 178, 199, 21P, 23'1, 759, 279, 299, 319, 338, 357, 379, 398, 419, 440, 40 -, 480, 500, 51:0
Tin, 12
Tin and Copper, A Suggestion with reference to (Note Book), 472
Tin Plates, Nasmyth and Brown's Apparatus for Making G6
Tobacco, 334
Todd's Power Looms, 447
Tongueing and Grooving Machinery, 190
Tour in the Provinces, 22, 42, 43
Town Sewage (Note Book), 272, 513
Town Sewage, Land the best Deodoriser of, 51
Traction Engine, Boydell's, 442
Traction Engines for our Colonies (Note Book), 252
Fraction Rope, by John Fowler, 409
Trades and Professions in Paris, 453
Trades of Wolverhampton, Birmingham and other Towns, 19. 39.59, 79, 99, 119, 139, 1:9 119, 199, 219, 239, 260, 279, 299. 319, 338, 358, 379, 399, 419, 438, 458,478, 499, 518
Training Institutions, by J. Radcliffe, 449
Traffic Railway, 24
Traffic ? What are we to do With our Street (Note Book), 51
Tramways in India (Note Book), 412
Transatlantic 'reamers, 4. 6
Transatlantic Telegraph, The• 269
Transhipment of the Monster Breech-Loading Gun, 507
Transmitting Coals to Marine Furnaces, by F. H. W., 409, 429
Transmitting Hydrostatic Pressure, Webster's Instrument, for, 490
Transmitting Power, Struther's Machinery for, 450
Trap fur Beetles, &c., Morris' Improved, 16
Treat to Workpeople. 130
Trenails at the Orwell Works, Method of Tipping (Tour in the Provinces. Chap. XI.), 42. 43
Trial Works at Paris for the Application of Town Manures, 504
Tricks, The Smelters' (Note Book), 72
Trotman v. Kingley (Law Proceedings), 383
Tricks of Smelters, 246
Tugs on the St. Lawrence, 45
Tunnel through Mount Cenis, 389
Turnout of Colliers, 125
Furrier's Cru•bit.g Mill, 222
Two Millions of Tons of Slyer, 427
Tyne Steamer, The (Note Book), 332
Tyne Steamer. The, Correspondence between Mr. Reed and the Shareholders of the Royal Mail Steam Company, 308

Uchatius' Steel Process, 214
Undeveloped Resources of Estates, 143
Unemployed, The, 150
United States, Railways in the, 173, 18l to 183,184
United States Railways-Construction, 212
Unlocking a Davy Lamp, 502
Utilisation, Metropolitan Sewage (Note Book), 31

Valve, Baker's Safety, 270
Valves for Governing Steam Engines, Hindle's, 382
Valves, Wilson's Improvements in, 326
Van Hengel's Apparatus for Raising and Lowering Bodies, 143
Varieties of Permanent Way. &c., by Mr. W. B. Adams. (Paper read before the Inst. C.F.), 125, 145
Vaughan's Straps for Worklrg Stamps, 507
Velocity of Ships' Currents, An Instrument for Measuring the, 362
Ventilating Mines, CoitIson's Apparatus kr, 326

Ventilation of Mines (Letters)—

By A. Chisholm. 209
Morgan Morgan, 297
G. R. Booth, 228
W. Moore, 228
R. Davison, 219

Ventilating Mines, Heppell's Improvements, Wadswortli'A Mode, 269

Ventilating Coal Mines (Letters)—

By Ignivomus, 268
J. Wadsworth, 32R Vessels, Buchanan's Improvements in Propelling, :27

Vessels of the General Screw Company, 53

Vessels. Propelling (Letters)—

By W. V. Miller, R.N., 397
James Patterson, 324

Vessels, Sunken (Note Book), 31
Victoria. Mineral Wealth of, 63
Vine Disease, On the (Chemical) 375
Vinification, New Process of, 10

Wadsworth's Mode of Ventilating Mines, 270
Want of Skilled Workmen, 90
Warming Vehicles, Preux's Method of, 90
Warp Machinery, Dunnicliffe an 1 Dexter's, •14
Washing Fabrics, Burton's Machinery for, 3s6
Washing Rats, Holdin's )1achinery for, 146
Watch Protector, 421
Water Companies, Bottle Reservoir (Letter', AquaIan 267
Water Gauge? What is a Proper, 152
Water Gauge Question, The, 153
Water Gauge Question, by Mining Engineer, 187
Water Ganges (Note Book), 171
Water Gauges, Patent Laws, by M. Morgan, 219
Water, Heating, by W. A. Rastrick, 187
Watering Grass Lands, Hydraulic Engineering (Note Book), 413
Watson and Halle's Improvements in Spinning, 323
Wear of the System by Railway Travelling (Note Book). 432
Waiving, Berresford and Wilkinson's Looms for, 53
Holt and Bertley's Improvements in, 436
Sommerville's Improvements in, 510
Whittaker and Walibrook's Improvements In, 113
Whytlaw and Thomas' Improvements in, 96
Webb's Improvements in Reclining Chairs, 282
Webster's Improvements in Transmitting Hydrostatic Pressure, 490
Weems' and McCrindell's Improvements in the Workings of bletals, 50
Well-Boring, by P. w. W., 129
Wells, Governors or Regulators of, 150
Westminster Belle, i 42
Westminster, Big Ben of, 224
Westminster Bridge and New Government Offices (Parlimmentary Intelligence), 133
Westwood's Railway, &c., Lamps. 163
What are we to do with our Street Traffic ? (Note Book), 51
What the Government Offices should be, 46
What is a Proper Water Gauge? (Note Book), 152
What shall we do with our Criminals ? (Note Book), 172
(Review), 233
Wheat, Martin's Mode of Draining, &c., 30
Wheels, Cannon, iStc. An Abstract of a Paper road before the Society of Arts, by W. fi Adams, 21
Wheels, Railway Carriage, acc., 4s9
Whitehead's Apparatus for producing Devices on Wood, Leather, &c , 426
White's Apparatus for Distilling Oils, &c. from Petroleum, 329

Whitgreave's Locomotive (Letters)__

By J. Whitgreave, 8, 28
J. Jewsbury, 8, 48
H. Elliot, 28
J. A.. 28
A Graduate, 29
J. Kean, 2s, 48
One who hopes to become an Engineer, 48

Whittaker and Wallwork's improvements in Weaving, 431
Whittle's Machinery for the Manufacture of Nails, 32,
Why should Cream be Scarce and Butter Dear ? 37.
Why is there a Want of Skill in Workmen ? (Letter), by An Employer, 129
Whytlaw and Mitchell's Improvements in Weaving, 190
Windlasses, Hardy's Improvements In, 423
Willett's Improvements in the Manufacture of Gunpowder, 87
Wilson's Improvements In Valves, 326
Wilson's Improvements in Power Looms, 427
Winding Apparatus for Mines, Knowle's, 423
Woolwich Artisans, 507
Wrecks in 1856, 206
Wrecks and Casualties at Sea (Parliamentary Intelligence), 214
Wright's Improvements in Boilers, 46
Yarns, Ermen's Machinery for Finishing. 417
Muir and Walker's Machinery for Sizeing, &c., 370
Neilson's Machinery for Finishing', 30

Year Book of Fact, by John Timbs, (Review), 173
Year, the Commercial, 4
Yearly Food for One Man, 186
Yorkshire and Lancashire Districts, Metals and Manufactures in the, 20, 90, 60, SO, 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200, ?20, 240, 260, 2"0, 300, 320, 340, 360, 380, 400, 420, 439, 459, 479, 499

NOTE BOOK

A Rope's End, 72
Abridgment and Sub-division of Labour in Agriculture, 332
Aeration of the Soil under Steam Culture, 492
African Railroads and Agriculture, 473
Agricultural Education, 373
Agricultural Engineering, 12
Agricultural Female Labourers, 193
Agricultural lab iur, 213
Agricultural Labourers, 052
Agricultural Prospects, 31, 185
American Railways, 191
Amrrlyan Railway., Management of, 211
Animal Strength, 192
April Showers, 313
Artificial Manures, 72
Boiler Explosions, III, 131
Boiler Incrustations, 151
Clay Land Farming, 493
Colliery Explosion., 312
Culonisatie.n, 333
Colonisation (Canadas), 51
Convict Labour Act, 112
Convicts and Colonisaticn, 132
Cotton Supplies, Colonial, 393
Cotton Supplies, India, 352
The Dearth of skilled Workmen, 112
Designs for Government Offices, 372
Different syatems of Stea a Culture, 372, 393
Dip and the Davy, The, 451
Disinfection. 331
Disposal of our Convicts, 432
Drainage of the Thames Marshes, 31
The Duties and Capabilities of Elementary Schools, 132
Education of the Working Classes, 472
Endless Rail w”, 232. 512
Energy and Force, Mr. Faraday's Lecture, 291
Enfield Rifle I. actor`, 452
Exhibition of Inventtims, 251
Explosions In Mines, 251
Factory System of Education, 171
Farm Labourers of the Midland Counties, The, 312
Government Mine Inspection, 232
Great Bee Hive, 351
Growth of Cotton in India, 313
Hay Harvest, 473
Hydraulic Engineering—Watering Grass Lands, 413
Improvements in Teaching Drawing, 51, 92
Influence o; Improved Implements on Agriculture, 352
Institution of Engineers, 371
Jonathan and John, 92
Kensington Museum, The, and Schools, 951
Lard the best Deodoriser of Town Sewage, 51
Land Drainage Fallacie s, 92.111
Late Colliery Explosions, 192
Liquid Manuring, 12
Liquified Farm-Yard Manure, 93
Machine and Hand Labour, 231
Machinery at the Paris Exhibition, 371, 411
The Manby Fund, 51
Matichearer Art Treasures Exhibition, 351, 392, 431, 971, 491
Mechanical Construction of Soils, 292
Mechanical Science in Relation to Agriculture, 432
Meeting of Engineers in Manchester, 992, 511
Metropolitan Sewage Utilisation, 31
The New Education Bill, 192
Our Colonial Labour Market, 172
Our Convict System, 152
Our Land Corps, 132
Patent Museum at Kensington, 511
Penal Servitude, Guiana, 452
Permanent Wa% om Railways, 211
Pickings from the Pao, 11
Plough v. The Spade, 292
Present Sewage System, The, 302
Progress in India, 271
Progress in Strom Culture, 413
Projects for Parliament, 112
Promotion of Elementary Art, 331
Public Offici a. 391
Rills on Roads, 71
Railway Accidents, 331
Reformation of our •IRougbe," 31

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