The Engineer 1900 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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A

1890, 15
Abbott, Mr. W. L., on Operating Economies in Central Electric Station Practice, 655
Aberystwith, Improvements Contemplated, (39)
Acetylene, Action of Copper on, (178)
Detonation of, Experiments to Ascerain the Velocity of, (332)
Electricity »., (512)
Enemies of, 421, 493, 553, 623, 670
Exhibition in Paris, 359
Exhibition and Congress, Budapest, 110
Gas, 23
Gas, How to Purify it and Free it ' from its Offensive Smell, (94)
Gas, Purification of, 290
Generator for Large Installations, 291
and the Home-office, 205
Lamp made by the " Velo” Company, (393)
Operative Clause in the Order of
Conned with Respect to the Use of, (361)
Restrictions representing Manufac¬ture, itc., of, (145)
Admiralty Dilemma, The, 541
Engineering, 328, 406, 454, 492, 502, (521), 675
and Inventions, The, 653 Programme, The, 309
Aerial Machine, Priz9 Offered for an Efficient, (459)
Agricultural Implements in Java, 100
Air Compressor, Electrically-driven, 676
Compressor at North Star Mine, Nevada, (332) Liquid, (209)
Mechanical Dissociation of, as Proposed by Professor R. Pictet, (618)
Resistance of, (209)

Accidents:

Auto-car Accidents in Paris and Probable Result of same, (438)
Automobile, in Pari9, (408)
Barrow Steel Works, (94)
Boiler Explosion at Deptford, Water-tube, 681
Boiler Explosion, Farnworth, 316
Bridge Collapse in Paris, 465, 571
Cage Accident at Wallsend, (433)
Cold Storage Works, Southampton, (563), 571
Caused by Lathes, (140)
Dam across the Colorado River, Destruction of, (513), (548)
Datchet, Bursting of Romney Weir, (13)
Explosion at Blackbeck Powder Works, (563)
at the Leeds Steel Works, (621,
Lyddite, Huddersfield, 595
at Tin-plate Works in Manchester, (433)
French Torpedo Boat, No. 228, (408,
Kure Arsenal, Japan, (524)
Landslip in Cornwall, (563,
Leeds Steel Company’s Works, Inquest and Verdict, (94,
Lift, (675)
Lift, Woolwich Dockyard, (486)
Mines and Quarries, United Kiogdom, Past Year, Government Returns, (65)
Mining Operations, Lives Lost in, (78,
Oakley, Sir Hy., Retirement, (671,
Railway Accidents—see Railway Railway Servants, 95
Rhonnda, Narrow Escape, (13)
Royal Yacht, Mr. Goschen’s Answer as to, 141
Sheffield Electric Tramway System, (69)
Stockton Malleable Ironworks, (629)
Subsidence at Ramsden Docks, Barrow, (563)
Tramcar Collision, Glasgow, (13)
Viaduct in Scotland, Collapse of, (459)
Water-tube Boilers, M. A. Ravier on, (389)
Alabama, Coal and Pig Iron Production in, (234)
Allen-Plant at Hull, 412
Alloys, Mr. E. Steinmann on the Thermo electric Properties of some, (618)
used in Japanese Bronzes, (389)
Almanacs and Calendars, 35,131, 187
Aluminium-covered Cables, (308)
Electrode for Arc Limps, American Patent for, (332)
Production in the United States, (119)
Progress of, 297 Solder for, (281)
Some Uses of, 556
American Armour-plate Controversy, The, 674
Coal for England, (433)
Coal Protection, 207
Commercial Enterprise in Russia, (227) j
Competition, 435, 619, 670
Iron and Steel Industries, German Expert View of, 406
Iron Trade Conditions, 258, 491
Machine Tools, 165, 166, 167, 169, 219, 220, 221, 275, 276, 277, 323, 400
Machine Tool, Monster, 481, 491, 510, 511
American v. British Workmen, 81
Water Hyacinth Killed by Chemical Spray, (281)
Workmen, 98 Workshops, 340
Ammonia Method and Analysis of Sewage, 571
Amos, Mr. E. C., Portable Pneumatic Tools, 315
Amos, Mr. E. C., On Portable Pneumatic Tools, (218)
Amur River, Dredging Operations in, (332)
Andrews, Mr. Tlios., On Wear of Rails in Tun¬nels, 417
Appointments and Resignations:
Adamson, Mr. Alexander, Resignation and Successor, (417)
Appleton, Mr. Wm., Retirement, (227)
Bell, Mr. Jas., Retirement, (94)
Boolds, Mr. J. H., Appointment, (417)
Bramwell, Sir Fred., Retirement, (645)
Chambers, Mr. T. W. H., His Appointment and Successor, (213)
Cowx, Mr. J. A., Retirement and Presentation, (51)
GreeD, Mr. Thos., Appointment, 367
Herriot, Mr. Geo., Retirement, (472)
Hope, Mr. Basil, Appointment, (408)
Kelvin, Lord, Appointment to Russian Academy of Sciences, (308)
Kintner, Prof. S. M., Appointment, (308)
Livett, Capt. H. W., Appointment, (525)
Lodge, Prof. Oliver, (671)
Lowther, Mr., (498)
Ludford, Mr., Retirement, (576)
Moore, Mr. W. H., Appointment,'(318)
Marshall, Mr. F. C., Retirement, and his Sue- Acessor, 341
Newbigging, Mr. J. G., Appointed to Man¬chester Gasworks, (39)
Patrick, Mr. Wm., Appointment, 98
Riley, Mr. Jas., Retirement, (145)
Robinson, Mr. J. G., Appointmenr, (645)
Sandeman, Mr. Edw., Appointment, (513)
Struthers, Mr. C. G., Appointment, (227)
Thearle, Mr. S. J. P., Appointment, (308)
Thomas, Mr. Oswald, Appointment, (472)
Thompson, Sir Jas., His Retirement and Suc¬cessor, 98
Upton, Mr. Douglas, R:s-'gnation and Presen¬tation, (77)
Williams-Drummond, Mr. Hugh, Appointment, (94)
Wise, Mr. W. Lloyd, Appointment, (227)
Arch, the Hingeless, 421
Arch, the Two-hinged, 165, 421
Arches with Metallic Joints, Masonry, 477
A)gentine, Consular Report on the Rosario Dis¬trict of, (459)
Armour, Nickel Steel, for German Battleships, (563)
Plate, 21, 25
in America, 318, (359)
American, 12
for the British Admiralty, 257
Controversy, American, 674
Firing Test, 124
Manufacture in Germany, 887
for Russia, 233, 423, 543
Shops, Sir Wm. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., (129)
Supply of, 358, 392 for the United States Navy, 269
Terni Hard-faced, (234)
Armoured Concrete, 822
Train, John Fowler and Co., 512, 562, 564
Arrol and Co., Limited, Sir Wm., Works of, 506, 507, 660, 561
Artesian Wells, C. Isler and Co.’s, 187
Extracting Tool, Messrs. Courtney and Birkett, 287
Artificial Lighting, 545
Ashworth, Mr. Jas., on Safety Lamp Failures and their Effects, 525
Assay Furnaces, Oil, 196
Assiout Barrage, The, 535, 539

Association, American Railway Engi¬neering:

Formation of, 444

Association, American Railway Master Mechanics’ :

Request Information on the Relative Merits of Cast Iron and Steel-tired Wheels, (540)

Association, Cleveland Ironmasters’:

Cochrane, Mr. Cecil A , Elected President, (130)
i Pease. Mr. John H., Elected Vioe-president, (130)

Association of Draughtsmen, British:

Alteration of Title, (512)

Association of Draughtsmen, British (Newcastle Branch):

Discussion on Mr. Primrose’s Paper on Five i Leading Types of Water-tube Boilers, (149)
Association of Engineers, The Leeds: I
De Laval Steam Turbine, Mr. Konrad Anders- I son, 127
Governors, Some Points in the Design cf, I Professor Goodman, 222
Association of Engineers, Manchester: J
Inaugural Address of Mr. Hy. Hodgson on j “Oar Position as Engineers,” 64
Anniversary Dinner, Forty-fonrtb, 118
Engine Economy, Dr. J. T. Nicholson, (213)
Health in the Workshop, Mr. J. D. Sutcliffe, (239)
Tool-rooms a Necessary Adjunct to Modern Engineering Works, Mr. W. Heap on, 367
Visits, Summer Months, 445, (471), (683)

Association of Foremen Engineers { and Draughtsmen, London:

Forty-seventh Anniversary Dinner, (479)
Association, Lancashire Coal Sales: I
Advance of 6s. per Ton on Last Year’s Prices on I all Steam and Forge Coal Contracts, 445 I

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:

Presidential Address of Mr. J. J. Innis, 53
Artificial Lighting, Mr. A. E. Edwards, (479) (496)
Meldrum Furnace, Mr. R. B. Hodgson, 144 j.
Hickman, Sir Alfred, at the Tenth Annual Dinner, (183)
Association, Motor Vehicle Users’

Defence:

Secretary’s and Treasurer’s Address, (138)

Association, South Wales Steel:

Advance of Wages to Iron and Steel Workers, (158)

Association of Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Glasgow:

Engineer, Functions of the, Sir Wm. Preece on, 183
Engineering Contractors, Working Methods of, Mr. Jas. Brand, 262
Ninth Annual Dinner, 280

Association, Tin-plate Employers’;

Swansea Meeting, (158), (312)

Association, Tramways and Light Railways:

Inaugural Dinner, (411)

Association, United Kingdom Railway Officers’ and Servants’:

Anniversary Festival, 343

Association, United Maohlne Workers’:

Fifty-fifth Annual Report, 575
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Mr. Arrandale on its Working, 575

Association of the United States, N.W. Electrical:

Electrical Progress in the United States, Last Year’s, Mr. EL L. Doherty, 180

Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, British:

Fifth Annual Meeting: Programme of Arrange¬ments, 605
Cardiff Meeting, Address of the President, Mr. C. H. Priestley, on Welsh Water for Wales, and Papers Read at, and Excnrsions made, (670), (671), 648, 664
Assouan Reservoir and Dam, The (Supplement, Map Wth, 1900) 480
Atmosphere, Artificial Humidity of, (3)
Australian Bridge-bui'ding, 200
Automatic Rifle, An, (227,
Aveling and Porter's Boiler, 652
Road Locomotive, 652
Avery, Limited, Messrs. W. and T., Large Weighbridges, 456, 457
Ax’es, German, 670

B

BABBITT Metal, Effect of Heat on, 235
Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, 222, 363, 530
at Massachusetts, (863)
Ball, Mr. E. B., On Refrigeration, 437
Ballistics, The Vibrations of a Rifle, 149
Barclay, Mr. Andrew, 437
Barge Owners and the London and India Docks, 180
Barrow, Growth of, owing to Extension of the Works of Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, (513,
Barrow Steel Works, Rail-cogging Mill at (361)
Barrowman, Mr. W. C., On the Training of Young Engineers, (239)
Barry, Mr. Charles, (591)
Dock, Subsidence of Lind, (145)
Year's Shipments at, (13)
Batoum, Port of, (317)
Beacon Light, Duart Point, Mull, The, 312
Bearing Springs, by Messrs. Humphrey and O'Brien, 233
Bedford Engineering Company, Locomotive Steam Crane, 74
Belfast Harbour Commissioners’ Grant of Land to Harland and Wolff, (65)
Bell, Sir I. L., On Rails in Great Britain, 417
Belleisle Experiments, 509, 520, 543, 565, 572, (591), 595, 596, 597, 617, 620, 670 Belleville Boilers—ter.
Boilers Belleville Belting Cotton, Stevenson and Brother, Limited, 445
Benjamin, Mr. C. H., On the Friction of Steam Packings, 627
Berend and Co., 0., Revolution Counter, 58
Bertrand, M. Joseph, 1,361)
Bessemer Gold Medal Awarded to M. H. de Wendel, (254)
Steel Ingots in United States, Pro¬duction of, (332)
Bethlehem Armour for Russia, 513
Beyer, Peacock, and Co. formed into a Public Limited Company, (317)
Bicycle a Carriage ? Is a, (394)
Bicycle as a Machine, Tests of Efficiency of, (173)
Biles, Professor J. IL. On Large Cargo Steamers, 377
Bilge Keels, Professor Bryan on the Action of, 397

Bills:

Baker-street and Waterloo Railway Extensions, (486)
Barry Railway Steamships, 335
Board of Trade’s First Report on the Railway, Session 1900, (408)
Brighton Corporation, (302), (308)
Burnley Electric Tramways, (163)
Damage to Crops by Sparks from Locomotives, 502
Electrical Distribution, Select Committee to Consider, (376)
Power, (332), (675)
Power Supply, (513), 538 Supply Bill for South Wales, 63
Factory and Workshops, 452
French Navy, (676)
Halifax, Extension of the Boundaries of the Borough of, (540)
Halifax Tramways, (332)
Hull Docks Improvement, 582
Irish Railway to be Considered, (186)
Knott End Railway, (94)
Lancashire Electric Power, Opposition to, (94)
London and County Council, London and Middlesex Tramways and Electric on Same, (13), 305, (335)
Hydraulic Power Company’s, Thrown out, (308)
and India Docks Joint Committee's. (180)
and North-Western Railway Com¬pany’s, for New Dock at Garston, 582
and North - Western, St. Pancras Vestry's Opposition to, Withdrawn, (563)
and South-Western Railway Com¬pany’s Omnibus, (408)
Water, 368
Lytham to Southport Tramway, 682
Manchester City Railway, (13)
Manchester Ship Canal’s, 582
Maryport Harbour, Withdrawn, (308)
Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal Transporter Bridge, (39), (332)
Metropolitan District Railway Company’s, 72 (513) v )
Morecambe Gas, (671)
Naval Appropriation, United States, 581
Omnibus Bill, The Coventry Corporation’s, (173)
Private, in Parliament, 349, 423
Proof House Act, 1868, Amendment, (406)
Provisional Orders for 1900, 423
Railway, to be Considered this Session, (408)
Railways Prevention of Accidents, 280
Scarborough Town Council’s, (47)
South-East Metropolitan Tramways, (486)
South Wales Electric Power Distribution Com¬pany’s, (205), (214)
Taff Vale Estimates, (214)
Tramways for South Lancashire. (486)
Uganda Railway, 486, (540), (671)
Vale of Rbeidol Light Railways, (671)
Workington Railways and Dock, (618), (671)
Workmen’s Compensation Act (1897), Exten¬sion Bill, 325
Birmingham Gun Trade, The, (406)
New University for, (496)
Stock Exchange List, Cycle, Tube, and Tire Companies in the, (39)
Tame and Rsa District Drainage Board, (3) 15
Birmingham Water Act, Loan for the Purposes of the. (101)
Blackmore, Capt. Edw., 266
Blackpool, Electrio Lighting, (145)
Black Smoke, Glasgow, Committee on (65)
Blast Furnace and Stoves at S9raing, 662, 672
Blaxton Gas Engine, 680
Blowing Engine Worked by Blast Furnace Gas, M. Ad. Greiner, 482
Blue-printing Room, a Large, 392
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron Trade of the North of England, Official Statistics Issued to, (130)
Board of Education, Directions as to Communica¬tions relating to Elementary Education, and Science, Art, and Techni¬cal Education, (361)
Trade, Intelligence Branch of Commer¬cial Department. (94)
Returns for April, (486)
Boer Projeotiles, Ineffectiveness of, (119)
Rifle, the, 222
Boiler», Accident to Wat9r-tube, M. A. Ravier on, (389)
Aveling and Porter’s, 652
Belleville, 488, 673
Introduction of, into our Navy a Failure, 673
and Scotch, 45, 502, 503, 504, 515
Corrosion in Water-tube Marine, 283
Explosion at Depford, Water-tube, 681
Farnworth, 316 with Forced Circulation, 259
Heating Surfacs of, Professor Dr. Frey-tag on, (513)
Inspection, 241
Government, (487), 543, 521
Ioturance, 545
Legislation, 230, 258
Marine. Mr. J. Dewrance on Corrosion of, 264
Model, Mr. J. C. Crebbin, (394)
Navy, 255, 383, 398, 415, 5C2, 503, 504, 515, 623
Oil Fuel for, (13)
at the Paris Exhibition, 633
of the Powerful, (534)
Registration and Inspection Committee, (361)
of Torpedo Boat Destroyers. 295
Water-tube, Five Leading Types of, Mr. Primrose on, (149)
of Normaud Type, making at Keyham, (145)
Btmbay, Coal Shipped from Calcutta to, (119)
Health of, (119)
Waste Water in, (119)
Borchers, Prof., On the Electric Power Utilised by Various Manufacturers, (389)
Boring and Milling Machine, Electrically-driven, 484, 491, 510, 511
Bourdon Gauges, 154, 172, 200, 235, 290, 313, 336, 412, 432, 493
Box-nailing Machine, The Ductor Machine Com¬pany’s, (104)
Boyer Air Drill on the Sunken Battleship Ap-axin, Work of the, (459)
Boynton Bullet-proof Shield, Tho, (25), 37
Bradburv’s Saw Guard. 650
Brazil, New Customs Regulations, (129)
Bradford, Refuse Destructors for, (254)
Bradford Sewage Committee, Centrifugal Appa¬ratus for Purifying Woolcombers’ Suds, (540)
Brady, Mr. John, Crank Shafts, 466
Bramwell, Sir Fred., Retirement, (645)
Brancker, Mr. John, Freedom of Liverpool Con¬ferred on, (540)
Brand, Mr. Jas., On Working Methods of Engi¬neering Contractors, 262
Breaches in Sea and River Embankments, Closing of, Mr. R. F. Grantham, 292
Bricks, Magnetic Qaalities of Building, Tested by Messrs. Gage and Lawrence, (254)

Bridges, Railway and other:

Aire, Great Northern Railway Bridges over the River, (Supplement, April 20th, 1900), 259, 260, 261, 262, 402, 403, 404
American, Vertical Lift Draw at Lockport, and New Mississippi Railway, 98
Australian, (184), 200, (212)
Bascule Drawbridges, 568, 569, 570
Boston, Rolling Bascule Draw, 568, 569 570
Builders, American, their Readiness, 401
Collapsed, Paris Exhibition, 465, 571
Construction, Emergency, 432, 458
Counterbalanced Swing, over the Chicago River, 518, 520
De-ign, Economics in Railway, J. Graham on, 83
F.oor System of Girder, C. F. Findley on, 141, 149
Frero and Colenso, 179, (201), (215)
Glasgow, 16
Great Northern Railway Bridges over the Aire (Supplement, April 20fA, 1900), 259, 260, 261, 262, 402, 403, 404
Highgate Archway or, 559
Indus River, (591)
Japanese Railway, (470)
Material, Handling, (524)
Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal, Trans¬porter, (332)
Modder River, Process of Building Temporary Railway, (13)
Moving Loads on Railway, Under, W. B. Farr, 141, 149
Paris Railway, over the Seine, 5, 14
Patent Shaft and Axletree Company's, (39), (65), 66, 71, 118, (201)
Russia, Trans-Siberian, Yenissei River, 16
SL Lawrence River, Quebec, Contraot Let for New, (486)
Scherz?r Type of Bascule Drawbridge, 568, 563, 670
Selenga River, (363)
South African Railway, (50), 179, (201), (215)
Steel Rope Suspension, Newquay, Cornwall, (645)
Structures, Comparison of Railway, Mr. E. W. Porter, 295, 395
Surrey Railway, Early, 68
Swing, over the Aire (Supplement, April 20th, 1900), 259, 260, 261, 262. 402, 403, 401
acro«8 the River Charlei, United States, Worked by Electricity, (65)
over Ship Canal at Duluth, U.SA., (173)
Swing, over the Weaver at Northwich, Mr. J. A. Saner, 104
Sydney, North Shore, (498)
Tugela (Supplement, March, 30th, 1900), (39), (65), 66. 71, 118, 235. 330, 481, 485
United States, New East River (Suspension), 16, 24
United States. Niagara River (Suspsnsion), 16
Viaduct Construction, A Peculiar, 401
Volga Railway, 437
Washington Memorial, (524)
Wear, The New, over the River, (459)
Working Swing, by Electricity, 583
Bridgewater Trust, Coal Mines Re-opened by, (145)
Brighouso, Rsfuse Destructor for, (12)
Brindley, Mr. Geo. S., Japanese Order Conferred on, 463
British c. American Workmen, 115

British Association:

President, Professor A. W. Rucker Appointed, (281)
British Capital Invested in the Argentine, (459)
Fire Prevention Committee, Partition Tests, 437
Insulated Wire Company, The, (394)
Swiss Machinery, 154
Trade and Manufacturers, 670
Browett. Brindley and Co., Limited, 290
Brown, Mr. Andrew, Presentation to, (408)
Brown’s Metallic Packine’, 291
Bruff, Peter Schuyler, (221)
Bryan, Professor, on the Action of Bilge Keels, 397
Bubonic Plague in Sydney, (496)
Building Trade, Agreement Brought about at Newport, Mon., iu the, (145)
Burgon, Mr. Fred, (265)
Burrell and Sons e. Russell and Co., 358

C

CABLE, New Underground Telegraph, (393)
Aluminium-covered, (308)
Submarine, Laying of the New, (281)
A New South African, (119)
Submarine, between Japan, the Philip¬pines, and Colombo, (308)
Caird, Mr. Robert, to be Made an LL.D., (254)
Calendar for 1900, (499)
Cambered Keel Litigation, 358
Cambered Piston-rods, 115
Campbell Gas Engine Company, Portable Oil
Engine Search-light Plant, 426, 427
Camphor Monopoly, Japanese Government., 524
Canada, Mineral Production of, (323), (389)
Canadian Steel, 91

Canals:

Bengal, Four Irrigation, (173)
Birmingham and Wolverhampton, Sudden Sub¬sidence of its Bad, (524)
Chicago Drainage, 107, 162, (548)
Elbe-Trave, (618), (540)
Manchester Ship, Half-yearly Report, (201), (209)
Morris. 248
New York and its, 176
Nicaragua, (94), (145), 542
North Sea and Baltic, Traffic in December, January, and February, (173), (254), (389)
Panama, M. Hutin the Secretary to the New Company, (254)
Russian, 6
Suez, Sir C. A. Hartley on the Engineering Works of, 280
Navigation of, (604)
Terneuzen Ship, 248
Thames and Severn, to be taken over by the Gloucester County Council, (201)
United States, Lakes to Mississippi, (548)
Canals—see also Harbours and Waterways Lift, Novel, 74
System of New York, Extension of, recom¬mended, (119)
Traffic in 1898 in the United Kingdom, Blue-book relating to, (39)
Capel, Mr. H. C., His Will, (308)
Carbide of Calcium, Safety of Storing, proved in tbe Great Fire at Ottawa, (645)
Cargo Fleet Iron Company’s Blast Furnaces, Purchase of, by Sir C. Furness, (185)
Carnegie Armour for Russia, 233
Interests, The,. 411
Plates for Russia, 423
Settlement, The, 334
Carrying Service across the Desert in China, (433)
Cartsr and Wright’s Key-Saatiog Maohine, 364
Castle Rising Water Supply, (249)
Catalogues, 34, 107, 159, 214, 241, 264, 385, 443, 472, 499, 527, 550, 677, 605, 631, 653, 670
forwarded to Consulates, Specifica¬tion of Trade Terms should accompany, (332)
Cei, Captain, Invention whereby the Spanish Mauser Rifle can be converted into a Gun, (459)
New Projeotile Invented by, (563)
Cement from Blast Furnace Slag, Methods of Making, (540)
Contraction of, M. H. le Chatelier’s Experiments, 39
Century, The New, Mr. Wm. Crow’s Chart, (34)
in Germany, (39)
Chains, Heavy Mooring, Mr. T. Sehiintheil on the Manufacture of, (187)
Chemistry in Berlin, Teaching of, 548 Record of the Past Year, 22
Chester Sewage Scheme, 682
Chicago Main Drainage Canal Opened, (65)
Tunnel for Water Sapply of, (130)
Utilisation of Water Power Generated by the Drainage Canal, (119)
Chimney Overthrown by Hydraulic Jacks, (13)
China, Gold Mining in, 406
China, Mechanical Engineers in, 699 (Nee also pp. 542, 547, 553, vol. lxxxviii)
Naval Colleges in, 600
Chinese Ministers’ Industrial Tour, (50)
Railway, Progress, 591
Chuck, Automatic Jig, 412
Civil Engineering, Record of the Past Year, 15
Clinker from Refuse Destructors, Utilisation of Screened, (94), (201)
Clock, Meteorological, Presented to Sale Park by Sir W. H. Barley, (393)
Clouds, Dynamical, 461, 698
Clyde Firms, Amalgamation of. 665
Trust and New Docks, 257, 859
Trust, New Engineers to the, (451)
Weekly Pays, (455)

Coal:

Alabama, 254, (433)
American, 9, 207
American, for England, (433)
American, for Austria, (538)
American, for Russia, (548)
Bituminous, Shipped to Italy from Phila¬delphia, (119)
British, to France, (433)
British, in Holland, (6341
from Calcutta to Bombay, Import of, (119)
The Case of (from The Statut), 573
and Coke Consumption in Spain, (389)
and Coke Output, West Pennsylvania, (308)
and Coke Tenders for the Year, The Main
Drainage Committee of the London County
Council and the, (671)
Coking, Herr Schild’s Experiments, (591)
near Dawson City, (433)
Day of Dear, 462
Famine, Continental, 335
Famine, Railways and the, (52)
Imported to Bombay from Japan and Europe, (173)
Imported Cadiz, 1899, (563)
Increased Price of, Difference made thereby to the Railway Companies, (671)
Lignitic, in the Argentine Republic, (513)
Mechanical Treatment of, and Its Influence in
the Construction of Modern Boiler-houses, Mr. H. J. Greaves, (267)
Methods of Handling, United States, (656)
Mines Re-opened by the Bridgwater Trust, (145)
Mining, British, in 1899, 537
Mining, South Russian, Mr. J. Crankshaw on, 79
Output, British, (361), (459), (563)
Scotland, (13)
Victoria, (361)
Pits, Peace at the, 69 Price of, 196
Municipalisation and, (119)
Warsaw, (591)
Production, American, 207, 254, (433) of the Urals, (201)
Progress and, 311
Rite, No Increase in the, 336
Returns, United States, Bituminous and Anthra¬cite, (563)
Seams Pierced near Penkridge, (389)
for South Africa, Government Orders, (119),
(130)
per Square Foot of Grate Surface, 200
Strike in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, (308)
Supply, Deficiency in the Russian, (389)
Trade, Britain’s Over-sea, 411
of Grimsby and the Great Central Rail¬way Company, (145)
Yorkshire, 9, (394), (508)
Transporting Plant, Lindon Electric Supply Corporation, Deptford, 635, 638
field, Assam, The Makum, (629)
Yorkshire, 45
Coaling Ships at Sea, Methods of, 75
Coke-making Plant on the Solvay System on the Scheldt, A Large, (201) ,
Coke, Use of, by Motor Car Company, (408)
Colar Goldfield, Produce of the, (433)
Cold Storage in the British Islands, (332)
Collieries, Compensation for Injuries at, (513)
Purchases, and New Ones Sunk, (214)
Colliers, Old Age Pensions for, 488
Colliery Enterprise, Lodge Holes, Wednesbury, (156)
Colliery Owners of the United Kingdom, This Year’s Increased Cost to the, of Supplying Steam, (540)
Colman, Mr. H. G., Oa the Calorifio Power of Illuminating Gas, 483
Colonial Armaments, 97
Colour Temperatures of Steel, 69
Comber, Mr. Arthur, (563)
Commercial Information Office, Paris Exhibition, (649)
Intercourse between France and Russia, Steps to Further, (618)
Matters, Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, (94)
Companies, New, Darran Collieries, Limited, 868
Hemingways, Limited, (314), (341)
Henry Pooleyand Son, Limited, and Jordan and Sons, Limited, 343
Tat Bank Foundry and Engi¬neering Company, (472)
Company, New, (241)
Compass, The Evoy, 180
Concrete, Armoured, 322
Factory Building, Cambridge, U.S.A., 405
Wharves, America, 24
Condensation of Vapour on Windows, Preventing, 210
Condensing Plant, A Central, The Klein Engi¬neering Company, (104)
Consular Service in the United States, Bill relative to, (483)

Contracts

Bridge over the Tugela at Colenso, Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, (39)
Electric Lighting, 566
Forthcoming Railway, 621
Glasgow Tramway, 616
Indian State Railways, 73, 4S9
Rolling Stock for Bulgarian State Railways,
Salvage Company, of Genoa, with the Balaclava Municipality, to Raise a British Warship, (408)
Steel, &3, Large, United States, (656)
Steel Sole Plates, 48
Coolgardie Water Pipe Line in Australia, 614
Copper, 311, 566
upon Acetylene, Action of, (173)
Effect of Heat on its Strength, (466)
on the Mechanical Properties of Steel,
Influence of, (389)
Ootput and Consumption in Germany, Annual Report, 368
Price of, (332)
Production in the United States, (65), (319)
Veins in Baltimore, (645)
Wire used in United States Telephone Service, (408)
Cordite in a Hurry, 335
Cordite not in a Hurry, 358
Corrosion of Marine Boilers, John Dewrance on the, 264
Corrosion of Structural Metals, Prof, A, H. Sabin on, (582)
Corrugated Iron Buildings, 492
Cotsworth, Mr. H. G., On Arc Lamp3 and Arc Lighting, 144
Cotton Belting, The Phoenix Brand, 445
Imports into this Country, Increase in, (332)
Industry in India, (361)
Industry, South Carolina, (408)
to Manchester by the Canal, Shipment of, (591)
Counter, Pocket Speed, 58
Crane and Conveyor Plant, Electric Travelling, 348, 349
Electric, at Bremerhaven, (201)
Large Floating, for Cronstadt, (361)
Locomotive Steam, 74
at Wandsworth, Old, 8
Crank Shafts, Hollow, 200
Crank Shafts, by Mr. John Brady, 466
Crankshaw, Mr. J., On Coal Mining in Russia, 79
Craven, Mr. John, 621
Crookes, Sir William, and Professor Dewar’s Report on Water Supplied to London (201), (251)
Cross, Mr. J. W., On the Development of the Modern Locomotive Engine, 362
Crystalline Structure of Metals, 605
Cubit, the most Ancient Measure, The, (389)
Cumbrae Lighthouse, 191
Cupola, Lining a New, 301
Cupola, Real Fuel Ratio in the, 659
Currie, Mr. James, (227), (235)
Cutter, Milling, 466
Cyanide Patents, MacArthur-Forrest, Validity of, (332)
Cyanide Salts, Triple, instead of Potassium Cyanide in Electro-plating, Dr. Courant's, Use of, (281)
Cyanogen Gas, Dr. T. L. Phipson's Experiments on, (563)
Cycle Artillery, 48
Cyole, Tube and Tire Companies, Profits and Losses of 100, (89)
Cycles, Price of, (94)
Cycling, Mechanics of, 280
Cyclists, Highways and, 516
Cyclops Works, Sheffield, The King of Sweden at, (491)
Cylinder, Distribution of Stress in the Walls of a Thick, 230

D

DAIMLER, Herr, (245), (308)
Dalmarnock Ironworks, The, 506, 557, 560, 561
Dam across the Colorado River Destroyed, (513)
Failure of the Austin, Texas, (513), (548)
Niagara River, 141
Daniels, Mr. T., 293
Dartmouth as a Repairing Port, 684
Davey, Mr. H., Hydraulic Power Plant for Japan, 670
Davies, Mr. Lee, (472)
Day, Mr., Oa American Corliss Engines, 532, 558
Deakin, Mr. James, (105)
Death-rate in Thirty-three Great Towns of Eng¬land and Wales, (65)
Dellwik, Mr. Carl, Oa the Manufacture of Water Gas, 501
Derby Water Supply, (591)
Devizjs, Sewage Disposal, (520)
Diokinson, Mr. Geo., (576)
Dividends and Reports, 343
Dobson, Sir Benjamin, Statue at Bolton, 201

Docks:

Barry D.-y Dock, (591)
Subsidence of Land, (145) (158)
Year’s Shipments, (13)
Belfast, New Graving Docks Projected, (66),
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Condition of the Dry, (94)
Bristol, New Scheme, (630)
Cardiff Railway Company’s, 542
Clyde Trust and New, 257, 859 Dry, Hebburn, (540)
Dnke’s, Sale of, by the Manchester Ship Canal Company, (254)
Floating Dry, Morse Company’s Yards, New York, (524)
Floating, Hamburg, The Blohm and Voss Com¬pany, (513)
Goole, Further Accommodation Needed, (227)
Grimsby, (591)
Hull and Barnslsy Companies’, North-Eastern and, Great Joint Dock Scheme, (39)
Japan, Formosa, (212)
Kupetscheski, Stone Jetties to be Constructed at, (459)
London and India Dooks Joint Committee's Bill and the Barge Owners, (180)
Mersey Dock Board, (675)
Newport News, United State’, The New Dry, (513)
Pembroke, Tenders, 72
Penarth, Subway, 601
Renfrew, 359
Reval, Dry, (173)
Sunderland. Hudson Dock North, to be En¬larged (157), (173)

Dockyard Notes:

Achilles, The, 98, 252, 301
Admiral Class, Reconstruction of the, 280, 304, 385
Admiral Duperre, Death of, 329
Admiralty Coaling Orders Placed at Cardiff,
Alexandra to be Paid off, 520
America and the “ Johnson Shell,” 536
American Naval Needs, 72
New Jersey Class, Alternative Plans for the, 491
Submarine Boat Holland, 304
Ammunition, Reduction in the Varieties of, 614
Anchors. Testing of, 280
Apraxin, The, 125, 455
Armour on the Ram, Theory as to the Effect on Ships of a Heavy Bit of, 210
Armoured Sailors, Toe Question of, 72
Asahi, The, 125, 172, 210, 231, 280, 304, 428, 455, 536, 595, 667
Balincourt, Marquis de, New Edition of his “ Flottes de Combat Etrange.-es en 1900,” 614
Bat, The Destroyer, Laid up, 231
Bslleisle, Removed from Navy List, 280
Completed for her Final Service, 520
Experiments, The, 595
Boadicea, Dismantling of, 329
Brazilian Ironclad Riachuelo, New Masts, 595
Ships Re-named, 595
24 de Maio (ex Aquidaban), 170
British Destroyers, The New, 141
and Foreign Vessels Aground, 455
Building Slip at Chatham, A New, 231
“Building Slips,” Mr. Goschen and the Elswick, 536, 567
Calliope, The, to Cease to be a Warship, 667
Camperdown, The, 252
Channel Fleet, The, 536, 567
Channel Fleet, The “Illustrated London News"
Picture of the, 399
Charlemagne, The Bow and Stern of the, 428
Clowes, Mr. Laird, as a Poet, 141
Clowes, Mr. Laird, Attacked in the ‘ Nava, and
Military Record ” for his Views on our Naval Officers, 640, 667
Coal Ordered for Abroad, The Truth as to the, 172
Coaling of the Channel Fleet, Results at the Last 520
Coaling at Soa under Weigh, M. A. Normand, 37
Cost per Ton of Battleships in I860 and 1899, 37
Cynthia, The Destroyer, 280
Destroyers Bat, Teaser, and Hunter, Disasters to, 231
Destroyers Captured at Taku, 640
Destroyer Fitted with Parson’s Turbines, which has Beaten the Viper’s Record, Purchased by the Admiralty, 536
Devonport, Amount of Work at, 254
Drake, The, 72
Dutch Cruiser, Noord Brabant, 172
Dutch Naval Programme for 1900, 71
Electra, The Destroyer, 72
Electric Pumps for the New French Cruisers, 23
Ellis and Sheen, Messrs., Their Promotion, 536
Elswick Turbine Destroyer Cobra, 595
Epiègle and Fantome, Two Sloops, to be Com¬menced, 72
E«px Cass, Three Funnels instead of Four, 595
Express and Viper, The New Destroyers, 141
Fervent, The Destroyer, 280. 304
Fighting Tops Abolished in Swedish Navy, 252
Fleets of the Powers, 23, 37
Formidable, The, 125, 210, 536
French Battleship, Gaulois, 23
Henry IV., 280
Steam Trials of the New, 125
Speed of the New, 23
built Torpedo Boats, 12, 36, 385
Cruiser, Galilds, 125
Guichen, 23, 304, 385, 428, 667
Jeanne d’Arc, 170, 385
Not to be Built, The Projected H 5, 595
Electric Pomps for the New, 23
Experiments similar to the Belleisle Trial. 595
Indomptable and Caiman, 141, 385
Naval Formation, A New, 595
Manoeuvres, The, 614
Programme, The New, 71
Rcquin and Terrib'e, 141, 385
Submarine Torpedo Boats, Goubet No. 2, 36
Torpedo Boat, Accident on Board, 359
Fuel, Mr. Strong’s Patent, 329
Garibaldi Class of Cruisers, “Le Yacht's”
Photographs of the. 567
German Battleship Kaiser Barbarcssa, The New, 491
v. English Torpedo Craft, 359
Germany Copies the Russian Mast, 491
Glory, The, 172, 210
Goschen, Mr., and Elswick, 536. 567
Guns of the Benedetto Brin, 428
Practice at South sea Castle. 428
at Southsea Castle, Mr. W. T. Stead on the Removal of the, 98
at Southsea Castle, Mounting Two Heavy, eni Dismounting of the Old, 231, 329
The 12-pounder, Capt. H. T. May's Agitition against their Positions, 23
Harbour Watch, Proposed Abolition of the, 667
Hecate, Cyclops, Gorgon, and Hydra, Best Tning to do with, 210
Herluf Trolle, Danish Ironclad, 252
Hermes, The Accident to the, 252
Hero, Grounding of, 455
The Gunnery Tender, 252, 280
Hoche, Reconstruction of the, 170
Hood, The, 252
Italian Armoured Cruisers, The New, 491
Italian Cruiser Puglia’s Mean, 491
Jane Naval War Game, Ships’ Diagrams added to, 125
Japanese Battleship Asahi, 125, 172, 210, 231, 280, 3C4
Japanese Battleship, Hats use, 210
Ousongumo, 172
Cruiser Itsukushima to be Re- boilered, 141
the Iwate, 210 Destroyer Niji, 172, 210
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Ousoquo-umo, 210
Japan’s Fleet, 567
Jena, Basin Trial of her Machinery, 385
Jonquihre, Marquis de la, his History of his Ancestor the Admiral, 614
Kaiser Karl VI. to have Three Funnels, Aus¬trian Cruiser, 252
Kent, The, 72, 170
Kestrel Destroyer, The, 359
King-Hall, Captain, His Naval War Game, 231
Laird-Clowes Controversy, The, 640, 667
Lepanto, Nickel Steel Armour Belt for the, 37
Leven, The Destroyer, 280
London, Work Proceeding on the, 536
Lyddite, Mr. Fred. Villiers on, 520
end Armour-piercing Shell for 6in. Gunsand under in place of Common Shell, 614
Shells, 12in , The “ Army and Navy E Gazette,” 614
Maxim Gun, The •015in., to be Roplaced by D the 303in., 614
Naiad, Sale of the, 428
Narcissus, The, 252
“ Naval Annual,” Another, 455
A’aval Annua/, Illustrations in the. 614
Naval College at Dartmouth, The New, 304
Engineer Officers’ Pay, 231 r
Game on Board H.M.S. Mars, 359
Captain King-Hall’s, 231
Jane’s, 125
Mrcccivres, The, 640, 667
Publications, Year’s Editions of, 428
Scare, Another, 640
Tactics, Introduction to the Study of, Translated from the French, 359
Navy Boilers, Mr. Odagiri on, 640
League's Muzzle loader Crusade, Obsolete Breech-loaders added to the, 595
Norge, Launch of the, 359
Obsolete Ships, French and German, 304
Weeding out of, 252, 2a0
Odagiri, Mr., On Navy Boilers, 640
Oil Trouble at Devonport Dockyard, The, 385
Olympia, United States Cruiser, 125
O.-de-Browne, Captain, Lecture at the Royal Institute. 359
Pandora, The, 72,125, 280
Paper Statistics give little Knowledge of Ships, 141
Patent Fael in the Channel Fleet, 614
Pelorus Type, New Cruiser of the, 72
Petrel, New Destroyer, 304, 399
Pique, The Cruiser, 72, 385
Pola Almanack, The, 399.
The Plan Draughtsman of the, 359
Poltava, The, 125, 455
Portsmouth Docks, Demolition of Old, 172
Dockyard, New Basin for Destroyers, 210
Scarcity of Men, 210
Harbour, Torpedo Attack upon, 667
Powerful, The, 304, 399, 428, 534, 536
Reserve Fleet, The Alexandra, Rodney, and Leda, at Portsmouth for their Refit, 359
Fleet, Admiral Noel’s Statement in connection with, 520
Squadron, The, 98, 231, 252
Resolution, Semaphore Mast for the, 125
Rosario, The New Sloop, 36
Royal Yacht, Accident to, 37, 125
The New, 125, 141
Russian Battleship Admiral Buotakoff, 280, 304
Rstvisan, Two Military Masts, 399
Cruiser Admiral Nakimoff Nipped in the Ice, 491
Askold and Bogatyr, 141, 399
Bayan, 667
Battleship Peresvet, a Future Type for the American Navy, 399, 491
Gunboat Giliak, 72
Mandtchur, The, 610
Ironclad Apraxin, 491 Building, 640
Sinop to be Re-boilered, 141 ;
Naval Estimates for 1900, 23
Navy, Growth of the, 304
Warships, The New, 125
Sanspareil and Trafalgar, to Portland for
their Annual Prize Firing, 329
Scbichau Boats v. Thornycroft, 359
Schwartzkopf Torpedo, The Daily Mail's Re¬port about the, 172
Seagull, The Gunboat, 231
Semaphore Masts, 125
Shikishima, Her Trial9, 71, 98, 125, 359
Shoddy Work in our Navy, 614
Spanish Cruiser Estramadura, 491
Rio de la Plate, 141
Navy, Fate of the, 595
Star, The New Destroyer, 141
Sturgeon, The Destroyer, 280
Submarine Boats, Mr. Goschen’s Statement Respecting, 491
Submerged Tube Invented by the Prince cf Siam, 455
Sultan, The, to be Commissioned for the Matieuvres, 640
Swedish Battleship Giita, Re-armament and Rig, 304, 399
Ironclad, Dristigbeten, 141
Navy to be Increased by some Pro¬tected Cruisers, 536
Tage, French Cruiser, to be Transformed, 72
Taku, Destroyers Captured at, 640
Taku Forts, The International Fleets and the, 640
Temperley Transporters on British Ships, 385
Temperley Transporter for the Jeanne d’Arc, Third-class Battleships and Armoured Cruisers Admiralty Crusaders Against, 252
Torpedo Attack upon Portsmouth Harbour, 667
Torpedo Gunboats in Commission for the Manoeuvres, 640
Trafalgar, The, 252
Transmitters on the Canopus and in the Japan¬ese Navy, 595
United States Admiralty Board Rrlinquishes the Doable-turret System for the Gune of the New Jersey Class, 399
United States Battleship Chicago, 399
Villiers, Mr. Fred., On Lyddite, £20
Viper, Funnels of the, 210
Viper, Second Trial of, 37
Volunteers in the Navy, 428
Weyl, M , Death of, 23
Yarrow Destroyer Niji, 125
Doherty. Mr. H. L, On Electrical Progress in the United States, 180
Donaldson, Mr. Wm., (520)
Double-storey Turrets, 384, 413
Dover, Municipal Profits, Expenditure and Rates, (13)
New Forts at, (671)
Dowlais Works, The New Company, (630)
Doxford, Mr. Wm., Knighted, (13)
Drafting of Technical Patent Specifications, 82
Drain Testing, 458, 493, 545
Drainage Board, Birmingham, Tame, and Rsa District, (3)
of the Metropolis, Prevention of Storm Flooding, 376
Plant, Erection of a, British Guiana, 4
Underground, 571
Dredge, Paddle-wheel Suction, Mississippi River (656)
Dredger, Hydraulic, for Calcutta, 668, 669
Miniature Sand-pump, 464
Various Types of, Cost of Dredging with, New South Wales, (184)
Dredging Requirements of the Tyne, (502), 582
Dredging of Sand Cbannels, Suction, 194
Sand from Dublin Bar, 582
Suction, 582
Dril', Radial, 33
Rock, Worked by Self-contained Oil Engine, (618)
Drilling Machine, American, 400
Pillar Radial, 624
Doctor Machine Company’s Patent Box-nailiDg Machine, (101)
Dundee Gasworks, Patent Stoking Apparatus for, (389)
Durham College of Science, Students’Volunteer Corps (201)
Dyke, Dr., (106)
Dynamical Clouds, Lo.-d Kelvin on, 461, 598
Dynamite Factory ia the Transvaal, The Notor¬ious, (159)

E

EADIE, Mr. A., Cupola Lining, 301
Earth Foundations, Mr. J. E. Pierce on, (208)
Eclipse, The Solar, Sir N. Lockyer on the, (563)
Economics in Railway Bridge Design and Manu¬facture, 83
Eddison, Mr. Robert W.,536
Education, E'ementary, (361)
Edwards, Mr. A, E., On Artificial Lighting, (179), (496), 545
Egyptian Sugar, Manufacture of, 373, 376, 458, 493

Electric:

Accumulator Traction in Chicago to be Re¬placed by Overhead Trolley System, (133)
Alternating-current Distribution. 177, 181
Arc,’ Actinic Intensity of the Three Parts of the,(332)
Apparatus for Use of E’ectric Engineer Volun¬teers going to South Africa, Allowance made by War-office, (91)
Block Instruments on the South Indian Rail¬way, Winter’s, (251)
Boats to Work on the Severn, (389)
Brakes, Tramways, and Light Railways Exhibi¬tion, 667
Bulkhead Dcors, System for Working, (13)
Car Works, Hadley, (525)
Cei ing Fans in India stopped during Storm, (540)
Central Station Practice, Operating Economies in, Mr. W. L. Abbot on, 655
Charging Stations on the New Jersey Coast, (637)
Charging Stations, Thames Valley Launch Company’s, (671) »
Copper Conductors, Losses due to Manufac¬ture in, (350)
Crane, Largest in the World, (201)
and Conveyor Plant, Travelling,
Graham, Morton, and Co., sub-con¬tractors, Jessop and Appleby Brothers, Limited, 348, 349
Currents, Action on Water Pipes of Stray, (540)
Current Generated in Canada, Niagara Falls Power Company Petition for a Tariff on, (65)
Derrick, 233
Development in the United Kingdom, 223
Discharges, Experiments bearing on the Sub¬ject of Death caused by, (389)
Distribution in Factories, 431
Driven Air Compressor, Rea veil and Co., Limited, 676
Driving of Factories from the Public Poiot of View, Mr. A. H. Gibbings on the, (389)
Machine Tools (Sunplen.ent, March 23rrZ, 1900), 304, 3u6
Machine Toils, German Experience with Regard to, (540)
Machine Tools, Professor Jackson on the Question of, (361)
Dynamometer Car, Illinois Central Railway, (201)
Edison American Three-wire Patent, Expira¬tion of, (408)
Enirgy, Stealing of, made a Criminal Offence ii Germany (299)
Engineering at the Paris Exhibition, 615
Plant, Standardisation of, Mr. R. P. Sellon. 144, 148, 175
Record of the Past Year, 18
Engineers, Local Centres for the Corps of, (563) (R.E.)
Volunteers, (196), (227)
Volunteers Corps, Volunteers for South Africa, (39)
Engines—tee Engines
Fan, Tests, The Sun Fan Company, Limited, (308)
Ferranti-Plenty Plant, 650-Kilowatt, 386, 388
Furnace to Iron Smelting in Switzerland, Wider Application of the, (459)
Generation Station, Worcester, (361)
Generator for Leeds Tramways, 70 Haulage, (658)
HauliDgGear for Mines, E. Scott and Mountain, Limited, 36
Heating Apparatus, M. Parville’s New Form tf Resistance for, (671)
Heating Plant for a Hat Manufactory in New Jersey, (201)
Hoisting Machine, Gothic Works, Norwich, 590
Kennedy, Prof., On the Cost of Applying Electric Traction to the London Tramways, (305)
Launch on the Grand Canal, Venice, (227)
Magnet in German Mine, Use of, (486)
Magnetic Transmitter and Receiver for Measur¬ing Sound Intensities, (618)
Manufacturing Company’s Works, Preston, 636, 642, 643, 646
Nickel in Electro-plating, How to obtain, (513)
Notes, American News, (392)
Open-hearth Charging Machine, The Wellman, 273, 282
Overhead Wires Act, The Strict Carrying-out of, (215)
Plant at Cambridge, New, 34
Plant, Greenock Electricity Works, (671)
Polyphase Electric Generators, (31)
Power for Cotton Mills, America, (602)
Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal Com¬pany’s Works, 671
Generated by Waterfalls, Transmis; ion to Industrial Establishments in Venetia of, (227)
Plant Developing 600,000 Horse-powe-, Canada, (645)
Plant, Hydraulic, Hartford Electric Light Company, 444
Scheme, Colne, (645)
Schemes in Spain, (510)
Station, Buxton, (563)
Stations and Distribution, America, (602)
Transmission, On Distant, by Prof. Geo. Forbes, 523
Transmission from the Shawinigan Falls, United States, Works for, (513)
Utilised in Manufacture of Calcium Car¬bide, Alkalies, Aluminium, Ac. &c., (389)
Progress in the United States, Last Year’s, 180
Riicker v. London Electric Supply Corporation, Limited, 177, 181
Safety Apparatus for Lifts, Messrs. Amend and Hollins, 316
Self-cooling Transformers, 2C9
Shepardson, Mr. G. D., Tests for Candle-power
and Wattage of Incandescent Lamps from Lamp Factories, (308)
Sun Fan Company, Limited, Tests on an Elec¬trically-driven Fan, (308)
Supply Company for South Wales, 63
Meter of the Frictionless Motor Type, Mr. S. Evershed at the Royal Society, 619
Station, Wandsworth, 224, 226, 228
Swing Bridge Worked by Electricity, (65)
Trac.ion Experiments on the Mediterranean Railway, (590)
The Johnson-Lundell System of, 399
Mr. W. A. Walton on, 312
Exhibits at the Tramways and Light Railway s Exhibition, 667
on the Metropolitan Railway, 205, 52
on Railways and Tramways, Factory at Milan for Producing Material Required for, (563)
Undertakings in Frai.ce, Total Length of, (389)
Transmit sion of Sound, How its ES.iency is Increased, (459)
Turbine-driven Generating Set, New York, (615)
Vibrations, Prof. O. Lodge on, (254)
Waves, Radiator for the Production of Short, Dr, Flemirg at the Royal Society, 619

Electric Light:

Alternating-current Distribution, 177
Arc, Actinic Intensity of the Three Parts of the, (332)
Brrmondsey, 101 Blackpool, (145)
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.’s Work’, (185)
Boston, United States (602)
Cambridge, 34 Charges, 275
Chicago, Utilsation of Water Power Generated by Drainage Canal, (119)
City of London Electric Lighting Company’s Report, 1899, (254)
City Road Electric Supply Station, 197, 198, 199 202
Corridor Trains, Great Western, (618)
Cost of, by Private Installations v. Pubric Supply Companies, 405
County of London Electric Lighting Company, 197, 198, 199, 202
Wandsworth Station, 221, 226, 228
Devonport, (281)
Dublin, 10
Dust on the Wires, Cause of the Collection of, (618)
Fire at tho Maiden-lane Station, 258
Gloucester, (570)
The Great Chimney Stack, 285
Harrogate, 252, 253, 313
Hertford Electric Light Company, Hydraulic Power Plant, 441
llcckxondwike, (513)
Hull Corporation, Electric Lighting Station, Combined Engines and Dynamo, 305, 307
Lamps, Aluminium, Electrode for Arc, (332)
Arc Lighting and Arc, Mr. II. G. Cotsworthon, 144
Deposit of Carbon on the Walls of In¬candescent, (30S)
Effect of Lightning on, 170, 381
Incandescent, in America, Tests to Show the Efficiency of, (332)
Incandescent, and the Auer Incan¬descent Gas Lamp Compared, (173)
A New Form of Arc, (591)
Tests for Candle-power and Wattage of Incandescent Lamps from Seven Fac¬tories, (308)
Lightships, Capa Hatteras, (389)
Loans, 333
London Electric Supply Corporation, Deptford, 650-Kilowatt Ferranti-Plenty Plant, 386, 388
London Electrio Sepply Corporation, Riicker v.Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, Maryle- bone Consumers Grievances against, (65)
Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, Limited, Willesden Works, 451, 452, 453
Newcastle, (361)
New York, Steel Chimney Stacks at the New Main Power Station, (119)
Photo Prints by, 363
Plant Operated by a Gas Engine, Central Sta¬tion, Chicago, Paper by J. C. Small, 623
Presce and Cardew's Report on the Cost of Lighting Railway Carriages, (65)
Railway Works, (536)
Rolling Stock, Cost of, (65)
Rotherham. (251)
St. Helena (Well’s Lights), (433)
St. James and Pall Mall Company, Board of Trade Units Generated, (145) u t. Panera?, 466 Si’.ford, (239), 671
South Wales, (63)
Spanish Towns to be Supplied with, (486)
Station, Wandsworth, 224, 226, 228 Stockport, (94)
Sydney. 24, (527)
Train Lighting Apparatus. Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway (232)
Train Lighting in West Australia, Stone’s System of, (281)
United States Government Printing Office, Washington. (618)
Warrington, (145)
Warsaw, (591)
Whitby, (254)
Willesdca Electric Supply Station, 451, 452, 453
Worcester, (361)
York Corporation Works, (227)
Electricity: v. Acetylene, (512)
to Engineering, Relations of, Sir W. H. Preeco, 443
High-tension, Mr. Stanley J. Harding on, (173)
in the Mint at Philadelphia, Use of, (332)
from Peat, Genoration of, (408)
Retail, Messrs. Bentley and Co.’s Plant for Supplying, 497
to Supersede Steam Power at Kiel Dockyard, (618)
Supply, Gloucester, (570)
in Warships, 521
Working Swing Bridges by, 583
Eleotro-plating Baths, Use of Triple Cyanide Salts in, (281)
Electrolytic Copper instead of Lake Ingots to be the Standard Quotations, New York Metal Exchange, (361)
Elswick Naval Mountings, 59, 62, 63, 64, 88, 89
Elswick Shipyard in 1899, Naval Work of the, 73
Employers’ Liability Act, A. Harris v. Great Western Railway Company, 467
Employers' Liability Act in Spain, New, (540)

Engines:

Esthetic Steam, 176, 235
Air, for Boring Tool, 326, 327
American Corliss, for Electric Traction, Notes on by Charles Day, 582, 558
Balanced Oil, Messrs. White and Nunn’s Patent, 571
Blowing, A "Buckeye” Vertical Invorted, (682)
with New Corliss Gear, Sir C. Furness.
Westgartb, and Co., Limited, (185)
for the Ohio Works of tho National Steel Company, (389)
Compound Ordored at Noon, April 6th, from Scott and Hodgson, Completed and at Work 4 a. m. May 2nd, (497)
Traction, 8 Horse power, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 650
Corliss, American, Mr. C. Day’s Notes on, 532, 558
Crank Shafts of, Mr. John Brady, 466
Drop in Multiple Expansion, 96
Electric, Hall Corporation. Electric Lighting Station, 305, 307
and Alternator, H'gh-speed, Harro¬gate, 252, 253
with Dynamo Combined, 305, 307
in Prussia, (332)
Traction, 623
Truction, American Corlis), Charles Day on, 532, 558
Tramway, New York, 444
Factory, A Large, Hainsburg, U.S.A., (209)
Farcot One-cylinder, Paris Exhibition, 664
Gas-blowing, Seraing, Paris Exhibition, 662, 672
for High Furnace Gases, 12
650 Hone-power, Seraing, Belgium, 662, 663
and Oil, Blaxton Engineering Company, 680
at the Royal Agricultural Show, 651
Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium, France, and Great Britain, Statistics relative to, (540)
Indicator Cards, Central Valve, 115
Ljungstrom’s Crankless, 362, 432
Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Lubricants for Internal Combustion, 509 Marine, Corvettp "General Biquedano,” 378, 379, 380
Mileage, 412
Mill, 2000 Indicated Horse-power Compound Corliss, 35, 40
Oil, Applied to Motor Cars, Balanced, 653
in Palestine (459)
at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 651
Paris Exhibition, 565, 579, 593, 607, 662, 664, 672
Pilot, 436 Plenty, 387, 388
Prime Movers at the Paris Exhibition, 579, 607
Pumping, Triple-expansion, Leeds Waterworks, 150-153
Pumping, Worth, Mackenzie, and Co., (630)
Revolving Cylinder, 412, 432
Single-crank Compound, 47
Steam, Mr. C. T. Porter’s, (13)
Steam, in Use in Prussia for Generation of Electric Energy, (332)
Steam Engine Theory and Practice, Professor Wm. Ripper on, 422, 463
Tandem Launch, Mr. Jas. W. Boulton, 626
Tandem, SiDgle-crank, 235, 290
Theory, Practice, and the Steam, 410
Thurston, Professor, on the, at the End of the Nineteen Century, (13)
Traction, at Frere, (13)
Traction, for Siberian Mining District, (433)
Traction for South Africa, (64), 145, 215, 319, (389)
Traversing Winding, Mr. Morgan’s, (359)
Triple-expansion, 3000 Horse-power, fur the Berlin Tramways (Supplements, May 25lh and Jane M>th, 19C0), 546, 621
and Boiler Attendants in Massachusetts, Licensing of, (281)
Engine-room Artificers of the Channel Squadron in Disgrace, (227)
Engineering, Admiralty, 328, 406, 454, 492, 502, (521), 675
Civil, Record of the Past Year, 15
Congress at Glasgow, 285
Contractors, Working Methods of, Mr. James Brand on, 262
Electrical, Record of the Past Year, 18
in India, 384
Mechanical Record of the Past hear, 16
Relations of Electricity to, Sir W. II. Preece, 443
Sanitary, Record of the Past Year, 19
Works of the Suez Canal, Sir C. A. Hartley on, 280
Engineers, Birthday Honours for, 536
Charges, 492
and China, 74
Education of, 194
French Naval, 372
Functions of the, Sir W. H. Preece on, 183
Mr. Henry Hodgson on Our Position as, 64
in China, Mechanical, 599 — /ee also pages 542, 547, 553, Vol. lxxxviii.
Officer, Experiences of an, 133, 161, 189, 217
from Keyham. who have Joined the Navy, Number of, (201)
ia Ohio, Licence Law Requiring Ex¬amination and Licence of, (486,
Preliminary Education of, 231
Promising Markets for British, 205
and Spain, 479
Training of Young, Mr. W. C. Barrow- man on, (239)
English Newspaper to be Published in St. Peters¬burg to appear in Russian in London, (94)
Swiss Machinery, 154
Syndicate for Acquiring Coal from Ala¬bama, (433)
Easley Basic Steel Works, United States America, 142, 143
Equalising Levers, 313, 381
Erosion of Gun Barrels, 381
Evershed, Mr. S., Electric Supply Meter of the Frictionless Motor Type, 619
Evoy, Compass, 180
Ewing and Rosenhain, Messrs., On the Crystal¬line Structure of Metal’, 605

Exhibitions:

Acetylene, Budapest, Official Report, 110
in Paris, (419)
Agricultural Implements, to be held in Russia, and German Uneasiness respecting, (13)
Buenos Ayres, Dairy Industry, (145), (201)
Crete, International, (94f Glasgow, International, 1901, (308), (359), (512) Manchester, Motor Cars, (227)
Motor Vehicles, Agricultural Hall, Islington, (369), 411
Vienna, (339)
Paris—see Paris Exhibition
Tramways and Light Railways, (266), 667

Explosives:

Cordite and our Guns, 648
in a Hurry, 335
not in a Hurry, 358
Dynamicables, 68
High, in Shells, 21
Lyddite, Explosion of, (536)
and Shrapnel Shells, (25), 41, (77)
Marsite, The New, (201)
Modern, by Sir A. Noble, 335
Pitite and Stowmarket Gelignite added to the
Explosives Prohibited in Mines, (459)
Projsctiles, Soft-capped, United States (591)
Shell, A New, 488
Shells on Ships, Action of, 670, 674
Smoke, 226
Smokeless Powder, Japan, (524)
Explosions at Avigliana, Dynamite, (281)
Boiler, 316
Peculiar, (433)
at South Shields Gas Works, (145)
Exports from America to Russia, (227)

F

FAILURE of a Great Experiment, 673
Fan Tests, 308, 381
Farr, W. B., On Moving Leads on Railway Under Bridges, 141, 149
Fay and Scott Turret Lathe, 168, 167, 169
Ferriss Wheel for Sale, (486)
Ferrule, Thornycroft’s Expanding Condenser, 509
FessendeD, Professor R. A., and the Nernst Lamp, (227)
Field, Mr. Rogers, 362
Fifeshire Miners will not send a Labour Repre¬sentative to Parliament, (108)
File Makers in England, Swiss, (408)
Findlay, C. F., On the Floor System of Girder Bridges, 141, 149
Finish, Commercial Value of, 593
Fire at Blair and Co.’s Ecgineering Works, (254)
Boston, L. and N.W. Station Shed, (591)
Cyfarthfa Collieries, in Lamp-room, (332)
Glasgow, at Messrs. D. and W. Henderson’s Works, (618)
Hamstead Mine, (628)
Maiden-lane Electric Lighting Station, (258)
on the Narcissus, (308)
Annunciator, Automatic, 679
Arms for the City of London Imperial Volunteers, (39)
Arms, the Spanish Mauser R’fle Converted into a Gun, (459)
Boxes, Water-tube, London and South- Western Railway, 464
Prevention Committee, British, 437
Proofing Timber, Mr. Cowper-Coles od, 248
Tests by the British Fire-prevention Com¬mittee, (249), (254)
Test with an Office Safe, (254)
Fitzierald, Admiral, on the Imperial Japanese Navy, 352, 364
Flannery, Sir Fortescue, Questions respecting H.M.S. Terrible and H.M.S. Hermes, 675
Fleet-street, No. 17, and the London County Council, (332)
Fleets of the Powers, Parliamentary Paper show¬ing, 23, 37
Fleming, Dr., Radiator for the Production of Short Electric Waves (shown at the Royal Society’s Conversazione), 649
Floor System of Girder Bridges, C. F. Findlay on, 141, 149
F.uoroscope, Stereoscopic, Exhibited by Mr. J. M. Davidson, 649
Foden’s Straw Press, 652
Fog Signal Detonator E jonomiser, 140
Fog Signalling, 140
Forbes and Grover, Messrs., On Wrapping Ma¬chines, 300
Forbes, Prof. Geo., On Distant Electrical Power ( Transmission, 523
Foreign, Really English-made Articles Sold as, (618)
Forging Press for the Ordnance Factories at Woolwich, (361), (367)
Forging Presses, Two of the Largest, (308)
Fort to Command the Clyde, Government Pro¬ject, (408)
Fosdick and Holloway, Radial Drill, 33
Fox, Mr. C. B , On the Simplon Tunnel, 114 i
France and Free Ports, 436
French and British Guns and Ships, 299, 322
Naval Budget, The. 335
Naval Engineers, 372
Friction of Steam Packings, by Chas. Hy. Ben¬jamin, 627
Fuel Famine, 43
Oil, for Boilers, (13)
Oil, for Steamers, (13)
Ratio in the Cupola, Tne Real, 659
Furnace-chargiDg Machine, Wellman, 273, 282
The Meldrum. 144
Oil Assay, 196
Plant, New Blast, at Columbus, (548)
Furness, Mr. Geo., (78)

G

GALVANIC Cells, Reversibility of, (254)
Garbage Furnaces at San Francisco, (584)
Garrard, Mr. Milling Cutter, 466
Gas at Birmingham, Low Price of, (540)
Calorific Power of Illuminating, Mr. II. G. Colman, 483
Carburetted Water, 521
Carburetted Water, Question of Legislative
Regulation of its Use, (563)
Committee of the Leeds Corporation, 684
Companies and the Coal Famine, 285
Consumed, Enhanced Rate for, Question Raised Respecting, (671)
Cyanogen. (563)
Cylinder Testing, 572, 599
Distributing under Pressure, 524
Engineering, Details in, 626
Engines for Driving Grindstones Condemned, (145), (233)
Enrichment of Coal, Mr. G. Livesey on, 454,
483, (486), (509), 521 Explosion, South Shields Works, (145)
Holders for Glasgow, Two Big, (459)
H older, Telescoping a, 605
Lighting, Incandescent, in Germany, Pro¬posals to Reduce the Candle-power, (65)
Lowest Price Known Supplied by the Widnes Works, (540)
Main in Pennsylvania, A Wrought Iron, (433)
Making Purposes, Carbonisation of Cannel and Shales for, Mr. S. Glover on, 483
Naphthalene in Coal, its Detection and
Extraction, Mr. W. Irwin, 483
The New, Mr. W. H. Y. Webber, 616
Price Raised, (682)
Supply, London, (459)
Record of the Past year, 20
Penny-in-the-slot Meters, Figures Relating to, (145), (173)
Testing, London County Council’s Proposal Rejected, (486)
Tests of London, (394)
Undertakings in the United Kingdom, (227)
Water, for Loods, (145)
Gae, Water, Manufacture of, 501
and its Recent Continental Develop¬ments. Prof. V. B. Lewes, 483
Gasworks for Glasgow, New, (545)
Gasworks, Regenerative Benches in, 605
Gauges, Bourdon, 154. 172, 200, 235, 290, 313, 336, 412, 432, 493
Water, 309, 360, 381, 492
Pressure, F. H. StillmaD, 211
Gear Wheel Cast in America, A Large, (308)
Geological Field Class, The London, Saturday Afternoon Excursions, (372)
Geological Survey and Museum of Practical Geology, 577
German Axles, 670
Commercial Schools, Russian Language to be Taught in, (332)
Ex pert View of the American Iron and Steel Industries, 405
Foreign Trade to the German Colonies, Improvement in, (526)
General Import in 1899, Value of, '(145)
Imperial Post and Telegraph Office, Receipts of, (645)
Naval Budget, (94)
Pig Iron Output, (39)
Germany’s Exports to the United States, Value of, (433)
Germany, Population of, (459)
Giant Steel Trust Again, The, 310
Gilchrist, Mr. Archibald, 45
Gjers and Harrison, Messrs, Equalisation of the Varying Temperature of the Hot Blast, 501
Glasgow and the Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, (201), (285)
Health Committee, Area of Cleansing Operations, (94)
Glover, Mr. S., On the Carbonisation of Cannel and Shales lor Gas making, 483
Gold, Alloying of, (563)
Concessions in Celebes, Borneo, and Sumatra, (645)
Digger, Pneumatic Caisson, (173)
Exports from West Australia, (145)
fields in Japan, (408)
in India, (433)
Mining in Alaska, (332)
China, 406
Nugget weighing 160 oz., (39)
Output, Australian Colonies, (145), (212)
New South Wales, (389), (591)
New Zealand, (602)
Victoria, 1899, (39)
Reef Discovered in Newfoundland, (408)
Returns, United States, (563)
Goodman, Professor, On Design of Governors, 222
Güransson, Mr. G. F., (512)
Goschen, Mr., On Ordnance and Explosives, 515
Gothic Works, Norwich, 588, 589
Governors, New Measure of Good Quality in, by
Professor R. H. Smith, 529
Some Points in the Design of, 222
Graham, J., On Economies in Railway Bridge Design and Manufacture, 83
Morton and Co., Electric Travelling Crane and Conveyor Plant, 348, 349
Grain Warehouses, America, 24
Grantham, Mr. R. F., Closing of Breaches in Sea and River Embankments, 292
Graphite, Manufacture of, 23
Greaves, Mr. H. J., On the Mechanical Treat¬ment of Coal, (267)
Greenwich Temperature and Rainfall and Sun¬shine Records, Year ending April 30th, 1900, (671)
Greiner, Mr. Ad., On a Blowing Engine Worked by Blast Furnace Gas, 482
Grindley, Mr. J. H., On the Thermodynamical Properties of Superheated Steam, 291
Grindstones, Major Roe Condemns Gas Engines for Driving, (145), (233)
Grove, Sir George, 567
Guest, Mr. J. J., On the Strength of Materials, 576
Gan Barrels, Erosion of, 381
Gunnery Experiments, 437
Guns—sec Ordnance
Our, and their Uss in the War, 109, 177, 204
Trade, The Birmingham, (406)

H

HACKNEY Public Baths, (477)
Halifax, New Reservoirs at Walsbaw D.an, (281)
Hammer, Longworth Power, 218, 237
Hamstead Mine, Fire at, (628)

Harbours and Waterways:

Aberdeen, 451
Australia, 451
Bahia Blanca, Improvement of the Harbour, (389)
Bitoum, Port of, (347)
Canal Luck Gates by Sand Blast, Ceaning, 582
Locks, Pneumatic Balince, 582
Schemes, British and American, 21
Commercial Harbour, West End of the North Sea and Baltic Canal, (408)
Conneaut Harbour, Improvement of, by the Carnegie Company, (408)
Copenhagen, Port of, (263)
Cronstadt, (119)
Cuxhaven, (649)
Dnieper Estuary, Projacted Ilirbuur on Black Ssa, (332)
Dredging, Suction, 582
Dublin, 682
Duddon Estuary, The, 111
Garston Docks, 582
Grimsby, 451
Harrington Pier, Extsnsion, 142
Hartlepool. 582
lleysham Harbour, (356)
Hongkong, 559
Hull, 111, 582
Inland Waterways, 142
Ipswich, 451
Japan, Takamatsu, (212)
Leith, 582
Liverpool, 582
Llanelly, 111
Manchester Ship Canal, (488), 582
Manchester Ship Canal, Scheme for Utilising
the Water Ballast taken up the, (408)
Mersey Docks and Harbour Does, (486)
Mexico, Selina Cruz Harbour, 248
Middlesborough, 111
Moute Video, (258)
Moray Firth, 451
Morris Canal, 218
Ouse Navigation, River, 142
Portknockie, 582
Record of the Past Year's Work at Home and Abroad, 21
Ribble, The 582
South Africa, 451
Sunderland, 111, (157), (173), 582
Swansea, 111, (294)
Terneuzen Ship Canal, 248
Thames, The, 248, 451
Tyne, The, 111, 582 Wisbech, 248
Hardy, Mr. John, (486)
Harland and Wolff’s Extension Schemes (65)
Harpenden Sewage Disposal, (433)
Hartley, Sir C. A., On the Engineering Works of the Suez Canal, 280
Hartness Flat Turret Lathe, 219, 220, 221
Hathorn, Davey, and Co., Pumping Engines.
Leeds, 150, 151, 152. 153
Haulage, Economical, 47
Waste, 121,154, 172, 412, 521, 545
Hauling Gesr for Mines, Electric. 36
Haupt, Mr. Louis M., Reaction Jetties, 399
Health in the Workshop, Mr. J. D. Sutcliffe on, (239)
Heat on Babbitt Metal, Effect of, 235
Insulators, Method of Testing Comparative Efficiency of, (433)
Utilisation of Waste, 203, 312
Heating with, Exhaust Steam, 273
Hot-water, (209)
Hele-Shaw, Professor, The Pressure on an In¬clined Plane with Special Reference to Balanced Rudders, 397, 413
Professor H. S., On Road Locomo¬tion, 454, 468, 494, 495, 547, (571), 573, 601
Helps, Mr. J. W., On the Gas Industry, 454
Henderson, Mr. J. B., On the Mechanics of Cycling, 280
Henshaw, Mr. Alfred, (394)
Herriot, Mr. George (472)
Highgate Archway, The New, 559
Highways and Cyclists, 516
Hingeless Arcb, The, 421
Hirst, Mr. T., (318)
Hodbarrow Mines, Sea Wall to Protect, (281)
Hodgkin, Major Eliot, 106
Hodgson, Mr. Henry, on “ Our Position as Engineers,” 64
Hodgson, Mr. R. B., on the Meldrum Furnace, 144
Hogg, Mr. A., Road Paring Machine, 677
Holmes, Mr. Sheriton, (487, 488)
Homan, Mr. Brees vaD, on Steel Skeleton Con¬struction, 287
Hongkong, New Maritime Works at, 559
Hopetouu, Earl of, Inaugural Address at the Institution of Naval Architects, 352, 358
Hopkinson Memorial Wing of the Engineering Laboratory, Cambridge, (94)
Horses Employed by the Glasgow Health Com¬mittee, Cost of Feeding, (94)
Horse-power, Value of a, 122, 259
Horses Unattended on Public Roads, Dangers of Leaving, (65)
Hospitals for Railway Employés in Russia, (467)
Hospital Train, The Princess Christian, 48
Hot Blast, Equalisation of the Varying Tempera¬ture of the, Messrs. Gjers and Harrison, 501
Hot-water Heating, (209)
Hovgaard, Captain Wm., Strength of Elliptic Sections under Fluid Pressure, 379
Hughes, Prof. Edward, 91
Hulet Hydraulic Unloader, The, 330, 331
Hull Corporation Coal Inspector’s Returns for January, (185)
Corporation’s Water and Gas Committee, Meeting of the, 446
Street Improvements, (671)
Humidity of Atmosphere for Textile Manufac¬tures, (3)
Hunslet Engine Company, Narrow-gauge Tank Engine, 38, 44, 45
Huxbam, Mr. H., 194
Hydraulic Dredger for Calcutta, 668. 669
Machinery for Handling Ore, 330
of the Tower Bridge, Mr. H. M. Rootbam on, (413)
Power Plant for the Miike Mines, Japan, Mr. H. Davey, 613, 614
Power Plant for Japan, 670
Hydrogen Arsenite, Aeronaut Poisoned by, (459)
Solid, Prof. Dewar’s Discourse, 385

I

ICE and Cold Storage Trades Directory, (281)
Illinois Steel Company’s Mills, Men Thrown out of Work, (591)
India, Cotton Industry, (361)
Jute Industry, (361)
Rubber Substitutes, 462
Rubber from the Tree, Novel Process for the Extraction of, (540)
Rubber Industry, Sierra Leone, (281)
Indian Iron and Coal, 299
Indicator Cards, Central Valve Engine, 115
Diagram, Its Influence on the Design of Valve Gear, 55
Ripper’s Mean Pressure, 101
Influenza, High Temperature a Preservative against, (39)
Injectors, Holden and Brooke, Limited, 367
Irnis, Mr. J. J., Presidential Address, 53

Institute, City and Guilds of London:

Committee's Decision respecting Conduct of Examinations by the Science and Art De- par', meat, (301)

Institute of Engineers, Midland :

Sinking Shafts at Maypole Colliery, Abram, Mr. J as. Keeo, (227)

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

Receiver Drop in Multiple-expansion Engines, Prof. B. L. Weighton, 86

Institute of Engineers, South Wales:

Award of the Lewis Prize», (52)

Institute, Franklin:

Experiments on Effect of Heat on Strength of Copper, (466)

Institute, Incorporated Gas:

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. E. H. Stevenson, 615
Automatic Stoking and Inclined Retorts, Mr. W. R. Chester, 616
Excursion to Paris, Elections for the ensuing Year, 616
Gas, The New, Mr. W. H. Y. Webber, 616
Gas and Water Experts, Some Disputed Points among, Mr. J. Wilkinson, 616
Naphthalene from Retort to Point of Diposi¬tion, Mr. W. Young, 616
Retort-house Roofs, Mr. A. T. Walmisley, 616

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Autumn Meeting to ba Held in Paris, (654)
Bassemer Gold Medal Awarded to M. H. de
Wendel, (254)
Blowing Engine Worked by Blast Furnace Gas, M. Adolphe Greiner, 482
Fluid Metal in the Open-hearth Furnace, Use of, Mr. Jas. Riley, 482
Manganese Ores of Brazil, Mr. Herbert Kil- burn Scott, 502
Open-hearth Furnace, Continuous Working of, Mr. B. Talbot, 482
Ordnance and Explosives, Mr. Goschen on, 615
Programme of the Annual Meeting, 429
Water Gas, Manufacture and Application of, Mr. Carl Dellwik, 501
Institute of Marine Engineers Conversazione and Ball, (100)

Institute of Mining Engineers : American :

Device for Sampling Pig Iron, Mr. F. W. Shimer, 392

Institute of Patent Agents: Chartered:

Conversazione, (671)

Institute: Staffordshire Iron and Steel:

Mixing Machines for Production of Foundry Pig Iron, Mr. H. Pilkicgton on the Use of, (104)

Institution of Civil Engineers:

American Engineers, Invitation to the, 621
Bearing Sptiogs, B. Humphrey and H. E. O’Brien, 233
Corrosion of Marine Boilers, J. Dewrance, 264
Election of Members and Presentation of Awards, 414
Engineering Works of the Suez Canal, Sir C. A. Hartley, 280
Floor Systems of Girder Bridges, Mr. C. F. Findlay, 141, 149
Great Central Railway Extension, Mr. F. W. Bidder and Mr. F. D. Fox, 312
"James Forrest” Lecture, The, Sir W. H. Preece on the Relations between Electricity and Engineering, 443
Locomotive Eagine, Development of the Modern, Mr. W. J. Cross, 362
Martell, Mr. B., Elected Member, 11
Moving Loads on Railway Under-bridges, Mr. W. B. Farr, 141, 149
Newcastle Association of Students, 183, 262, 280
Programme of the Thirty second Annual Con¬vention of the American Society of Civil Eogineers, to be held in London, 621
Purification of Water after its Use in Manu¬factories, by R. A. Tatton, 74
Rails in Great Britain, Sir I. L. Bell, 417
Rails in Tunnel, Wear of Steal, Mr. Thomas Andrews, 417
Railway Construction in New South Wales, Mr. Hy. Deane, 391
Student’s Meeting, Distribution of Stress in the Walls of a Thick Cylinder, by Messrs Duncan, Wales, and Day, 280
Swing Bridges over the Weaver, Mr. J. A. Saner, 104
Twenty-fifth Annual Dinner, 458

Institution of Civil Engineers: Glasgow Association of Students of:

Engineer, Functions of the, Sir Wm. Preece on, 183
Laying down of Small Works for the Produc¬tion of Wrought Iron, Mr. A. Home Morton, 392
Locomotive Practice of Great Britain and the United States, Mr. Clarence N. Goodall on Some Points in the, 392
Struts with or without Lateral Loading, Mr. H. E. Wimperis, S91
Students’ Meetings of the Institution of Civil Eogineers

Institution of Draughtsmen, British:

(512)

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Conversazione, (671)
Distant Electric Power Transmission, Professor Geo. Forbes, 523
Meeting in Paris, (563)
Standardisation of Electrical Engineerirg Plant, Mr. Porcy Sellon, 144, 148, 175

Institution of Electrical Engineers, Glasgow:

Local Section of, Formation of a, (123)
Institution of Engineers, Chesterfield and Midland Counties:
Excuriion Meeting, April 7tb, (332)

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

Awards for Last Session, (105)
British Naval Engineer: his Present Position
and Influence on our Sea Power, Mr. D. B. Morison, 362, 391, 416, 432
Distribution of Materials in the Upper'Parts of Large Steamers, Mr. S. J. P. Thearle, 145
Engineers, Considerations affecting the Gain¬ing of Young, Mr. W. C. Barrowman, 239

Institution of Gas Engineers:

Calorific Power of Illuminating Gas, Mr. H. G. Colman, 483
Carbonisation of Cannel and Shales for Gas makirg Purposes, Mr. S. Glover, 483
Coal Gas, Enrichment of, Mr. G. Livesey, 454, 483, (486), (509)
Gasholder and other Tanks at Sheflield, Mr. Stevenson, 483
Helps, Mr. J. W., On the Scheme for Amal¬gamation with the Incorporated Gas Institute, 454
Naphthalene in Coal Gas, its Detection and Extraction, Mr. W. Irwin, 483
Water Gas and its Recent Continental Develop¬ments, Professor V, B. Lewes, 483

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Annual Dinner, 111
Arc Lamps and Arc Lighting, Mr. H. G. Cots- wortb, 144
Conversazione—Exhibits—Lecture by Hon. C. A. Parsons, 294
Motor Car Industry Past and Present, Messrs. Rush and Joy on the, 551
Visit to the Bromley Depót of the Poplar District Board of Works, 499
to Royal Min*, 111

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Annual Meeting and Report, Fifty-third General, 112
Graduates’ Meeting, Mr. T. Soböatheil on the Manufacture of Heavy Mooring Chains, 187
Visits. (83), (413)
Indicator, Ripper’s Mean Pressure, 101
Locomotive Practice in France, On Recent, by M. Eiouard Sauvsge, 678, 680
Longworth Power Hammer, Improvements iD, Mr. E. Samuelson, (Ulus.), 218, 237
Motor Vehicles, Paper by Mr. Hele-Sbaw on the 1000-mile Run, and Discussion thereon, 666
Pneumatic Tools, Portable, Mr. E. C. Amos, (218), 315, 327, 337
Reception of the American Visitors, 666
Road Locomotion, Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw, 454, 468, 494, 547, 573, 601
Sewage and Sewage Sludge in Rural Districts, On the Treatment of, Mr. H. H. Mogg, 53
St°el Skeleton Construction, Mr. Brees von HomaD, 287
Summer Meeting, 1900, Programme, 602
Water Meters of the Present Day, Mr. Wm. Schönheyder, 112, 125

Institution of Naval Architects:

Annual Report, Reading of, 352
Dates of Meetings, &c., (118), (302)
Inaugural Address of the President, the Earl of Hopetoun, 352
Bilge Keels, Action of, Prof. Bryan, 397
Cargo Steamers, Prof. J. H. Biles on Large, 377
Depth of Water on the Resistance of Ships, Influence of, Major Guiseppe Rota, 398
Eog'nes of the Corvette General Baquedano, Mr. Magnus Sandison, 378, 379, 380
Engines, Uniformity of Turning Moments of Marine, Prof. Loretz, 380
Japanese Navy, The Imperial, Admiral Fitz¬gerald on, 352, 364
Mathematical Paper, by Herr Otto Schlick, 380
Modern Shipbuilding, Mr. H. B. Wortley on the Practical Results of some Innovations in, 377
Pressure on an Inclined Plano, with Special Reference to Balanced Rudders, Prof. Hele- Shaw, 397. 413
Rolling of Ships on Waves, Capt. G. Russo on the, 353, 355, 356
Shafts, Corrosion and Failure of Propeller, Mr. A. Scott Younger, 398, 415
Shafts, Steel, Mysterious Fractures of, Signor R. Schanzer, 398, 440, 441, 442
Strength of Elliptic Sections under Fluid Pres¬sure, Capt. Wm. Hovgaard, 379
Types, Sizes, and Construction of Ships, Account of Changes Introduced into the, Mr. B. Martell, 352
Yacht Measurement, Mr. H. C. Vogt on, 379
Instrumental Music in the Church of Scotland, First Use of, (361)
Invent, How to, 594
Invisible Enemy, The, 172
Iron in Ancient Greece, 115
Chinese, a Rival in Japan to English and American, (513)
and Coal, Indian, 299
Effect of Nickel on Elastic Limit of, (173)
M. Galy-Aché on some Phenomena Presented by, (39)
in Japan, Working of, (513)
Mines in Spain, The Alquite, (317)
Mining in Oxford, (332)
Ore, Algerian, (540)
Deposits, Mr. B. H. Brough on, 154
Find at Marton, (591)
Supplies, 519
Producing Countries, Movement of Price,
Inland Consumption in the Various, (52)
Production, Pig, 110
and Realieed Price of, during the Two Months ending April 30th, 1900, 576
Iron and Steel Combine, A Giant, 310
Industries, German Expert View of the American. 405
Production in Sweden, Nice Months’ (78)
Rods in the United States, Pro¬duction of, (513)
Trade, The, 149
Combination in the, 310, 463
Conditions, American, 258, 491
Crisis in the Russian, 542
Ironfounding in America, Courses of Education in, (671)
Irrigation Works in Turkestan, 141
IrwiD, Mr. W., On Naphthalene in Coal Gas, and its Detection and Extraction, 483
Isler and Co.'s Artesian Wells, 187
Italian Trouble in New York, Th“, 443

J

JAMES, Mr. David, (266)
James Forrest Lecture, The, 443
Jane, F. T., Classification of Warships, 250
Japan, Foreign Capital in, 580
New Import Duties in, (513)
Japanese Navy, The Imperial, 352, 364, 413, 432
Java, Agricultural Implements iD, 100
Jefferies, Mr. H. S., On American Workshops, 340
Jersey City Water Supply, (227)
Jessop, Mr. Wm., The First Railway Engineer (with Portrait), 58, 429
Jetties, Reaction, Mr. L. M. Haupt, 399
Jig Chuck, Automatic, 412 Johnson, Mr. Alf., (657)
Mr. John Hy.. 336 Mr. Wm., 563
Clapham, and Morris, Limited, New Works at Mostcn, (157)
-Lundell System of Electric Traction, 399
Josselyn, Mr. F , (52)
Jute Industry in India, (361)

K

“KEEL-CAMBERING” Case of Burrell and Sons, 358
Kelvin, Lord, on Dynamical Clouds, 461, 598
Key-seating Machine, Messrs. Carter and Wright, 364
Kidderminster Water Supply, 330
King’s College, Annual Dinner of Old Students, (463)
Kingston-upon-Thames Municipal Trading Act, Powers accorded to the Corporation, (645)
Klein Patent Chimney Cooler, The, (104)
Klondike Goldfields, (611)
Krupp’s Establishments, Number of Employés, (186)

L

Labour Questions,Trade Disputes and Strikes:

Aberdare Dispute, The 9 Pit, (604)
American Labour Struggle, 67
Workmen, 81, 98
Coalowners, Northumberland, Advance of Wages Granted, (119)
Coal Pits, Peace at the, 69
Colliers’ Wages in the West of Scotland, Advances, (106)
Compensation for Injaries at Collieries, (513)
Coal Strike in Austria, (94)
Disputes in March and February in 1899 and 1900, (433)
New and Old, Terminated in March, (433)
Dockers’ Strike, Bristol, (645)
Employment Returns of the Board of Trade, 205
Fuel Famine, 43 Industrial Crisis in Russia, 98
Ironworkers’ Wages Advance, Scotland, (563)
Italian Trouble in New York, The, 443
Labour, 566
Department’s Memorandum for April, (513)
Questions, Wales, (472)
Statistics, New York State, 572
Struggle, American, 67
“ Mabon’s” Attitude with regard to the M'.nars’ Federation, (158)
Miners’ Federation and C'calowners’ Conference with reference to the Wages Question, (65)
Federation, South Wales, 42, 68
Morriston and Midland Tin-plate Workers' Strike, (158)
North-East Coast Engineers' Wages and Over¬time, 675 (684)
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Decision on the Hours and Wages Dispute, (94), (105)
Railway Men in Wales, Agitation amongst, (78)
Salariesand Wages on West Australian Govern¬ment Railways, 496
Skilled Labour Market, Memorandum relating to the, (408)
Monthly Report on the, (76)
Smelters' Strike at tho West Hartlepool Steel and Ironworks, (105)
Strikes and Lock-outs of 1898, 49
Tin-plate Strike, (158), (186), 437, (684)
Trade Disputes in 1899, (65), (513), (604)
Workpeople involved in, for the Eleven Months of 1899 ended November, (13)
Protection, Scheme of Federation for, (13)
Unions, Federation of, 98
Wages, Advance in South Wales, 358
Ad vanes Asked by the National Amalgamated Society of Enginemen, Cranemen, Boilermen, &c., 446
Advance, Tyne Members of the United Kingdom Society of Amalgamated Smiths and Strikers apply for, (433)
Changes in the Rates of, in April and June, (513), (604)
Questions, Scotch Ironmasters and Furnacemen, (408)
Workmen, American, 81, 98
from Enfield Lock Leaving at Two
Days Notice for the Royal Small Arms Factory, (618)
Workmen’s Unions, Monthly Returns of the Leading, (77)
Labour-saving Apparatus for Dundee Gasworks, (389)
Ladysmith, Siege of, 439
Lambton, Capt. the Hon. H., Honour conferred on, (231)
Lancaster and Tonge, The Works of, (603)
Lathes, Accidents caused by, (140)
Duplex Column Facing, 622
Duplex Triple-geared, 323, 42S, 434, 438
Hartford, 321
Hartness Flat Turret, 219, 220, 221 Turret, 275, 276, 277
Liufenburg Fall of the Rhine, Utilisation of the, (395)

Launches and Trial Trips:

53, 267, 319, 369, 395, 441, 473, 499, 527, 551, 577, 631, 659, 685
Laurenco Marquez, The Future of, (50)
Laval Steam Turbines at the Pans Exhibition, 607, (654)
Lawes, Sir J. B., and Sir J. H. Gilbert, Percola¬tion Experiments at Rothamsted, (201)
Layfield, Mr. J. M., (318)

Leaders:

Accidents to Railway Servants, 95
Acetylene and the Home-Office; 235
Admiralty Dilemma, The. 541
Programme, The, 309
American Armour Plate Controversy, The, 674
Labour Struggle, 67
Competition, 435
Naval Programme, 42
Belleisle Experiments, 565
Lessons from the, 620
Boilers, Corrosion in Water-tube Marine, 283
Inspection, Government, 487
Legislation, Proposed, 230
Naval, 255
Cambered Keel Litigation, 358
Carnegie Settlement, The, 335
Chinese Railway Progress, 594
Colonial Armaments, 97
Commercial Value of Finish, 593
Dynamical Clouds, Lord Kelvin On, 461
Electric Lighting Loans, 333
Engineers, Preliminary Education of, 231
Engines, /Esthetic Steam, 176
Drop in Multiple-expansion, 96
Explosive Shells on Ships, Action of, 674
Failure of a Great Experiment, 673
France and Free Ports, 436
French Naval Scheme, A New, 147
Shipbuilding, 67
Frick-Carnegie Quarrel, The, 256
Goschen, Mr., On Ordnance and Explosives, 515
Giant Steel Trust Again, The, 310
Guns and Ammunition. Our New, 230
in South Africa, Field, 187
Our, 461
in the War, Our, 204
Highways and Cyclists, 516
India-rubber Substitutes, 462
Invent, How to, 594
Locomotives in Egypt, 122
Engine Boilers, 43
London Water Supply, 96
Manchester and Liverpool Electric Railway, 516, 541
Miners’ Federation at Cardiff, 42, 68
Naval Estimates, The, 229
Navy Boilers, 255, 515
New York and its Canals, 176
Nicaragua Canal, Chances of the, 542
Noise and Power, 566
Oil Fuel at Sea, 311
Old Age Pensions for Colliers, 488
Old Methods and New, 256
Paris Exhibition, 409
Pekin, Our Position at, 647
Persia, Partition of, 149
Picketing, Illegal, 257
Pilot Engines, 436
Railway Rates, 357
Servants in South Wales, 334
Struggle in Asia Minor, 284
Receiver Drop, 310
Screw Shaft, Breakage of, 383
Secondary Stresses in Trusses and Girders, 284
Sheffield and Woolwich, 383
Sbell-fire in the War, 41
Standardisation of Electrical Plant, 148, 175
Steam Engines at the Paris Exhibition, 565
Steam, Quality of, 148
Superheated Steam, 620
Thames Steambcats, 647
Theory, Practice, and the Steam Engine, 410
Tin, Position of, 410
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 542
Trade Combination Movement, The, 410
Trade Secret) (with Reference to Mr. Salamon’s Paper), 648
Trnsts and Steel Prices, 204
Turrets, Double-storey, 384
United States Competition, 619
Value of a Horse-power, 122
Ventilation, 97
Wages in South Wales, Advance of, 358
Waste Haulage. 121
Waste Heat, U tilisation of, 203
Water Gauges, 309

Sub-Leaders:

Alternating-current Distribution, 177
American Iron Trade Conditions, 258
American Workmen, 98
Armour Plates for the British Admiralty, 257
Armour Plates, Supply of, 358
Bad News but Good Trade, 123
Bslleville Boilers, 488
Boiler Legislation, 258
Bridge on the Volga, New, 437
Britain’s Over-sea Coal Trade, 411
Bullet-proof Shields, 177
Carnegie Interests, The, 411
Clyde Trust and New Docks, The, 257
Coal, Day of Dear, 462
Coal Famine, Continental, 335
Copper, 311, 566
Cordite and our Guns, 648
in a Hurry, 335 not in a Hurry, 358
Destroyer Bat, The, 231
Dock of the Cardiff Railway, The New, 542
Dynamicables, The, 68
Electric Lamps, Effects of Lightning on, £81
E'ectric Lighting Contracts, 566
E ectricity and Metropolitan Railways, 205
Engineering Congress at Glasgow, 285
Engineering in India, 384
Federation of Trade Unions, 93
Field Guns for South Africa, Long-range, 43
Foreign Trade, A Year’s Progress iD, 43
French Naval Budget, The, 335
Fuel Famine, The, 43
Gas Companies and the Coal Famine, The, 285
German Railways in China, 358
Gunnery Experiments, 437
Industrial Crisis in Russia, 98
Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 149
Iron Trade, Combination in the, 463
Iron Trade, The, 149
Kimberley’s Big Gun, 311
Labour, 205, 566
L’ghtning on Electric Lamps, Effects of, 884
London Street Traffic, 69
Lyddite Explosion at Huddersfield, 595
Machinery Castings, 285
Manufacturers’ Reticence, 437
Mines, (Eight Hours’) Bill, 257
Noble, Sir Andrew, On Modern Explosives, 335
North-East Coast Engineers’ Wages, 675
Peace at the Pits, 69
Progress and Coal, 311
Promising Markets for British Engineers, 205
Railways in Asia Minor, 335
Companies and Excursion Steamships, 335
Contracts, Forthcoming, 621
Strategical Importance of, 177
in the Ural Mining District, Projected, 123
Royal Yacht, The, 69
Russia and India, 257
Russian Iron Trade, Crisis in the, 542
Shell, a New, 488
Simplon Tunnel, Progress of the, 257
Slough Railway Accident, 674
South African Prospects, 595
Tin-plate Strike, Threitened, 437
Trade Statistics, Remarkable, 384
Vibrations of a Rifle, 149
Vickere-Maxim Quick-firing Gun, 69
War Material for the Boers, 231
Lee-Enfield Rifle instead of the Lce-Metford The, (39)
Leeds, Cost of Removing Snow from the Streets, (201)
Water Gas Supply for, under Considera¬tion, (145)
Waterworks, Pumping Engines, 150, 151, 152, 153

Legal Intelligence:

Burrell and Sons v. Russell and Co., 358
Cull and Rooke v. the Great Eastern Railway (Smoke Nuisance), 364
Eastern Telegraph Company v. the Capetown Electric Tramways Company, 395
Loss of the Mohegan—Alleged Defects in her Boilers, 123
Rucker v. the London Electric Supply Corpora¬tion, 123, 177, 181
Lehfeldt, Dr., on the Reversibility of Galvanic Cells, (254)
Leicester, Profits made by Municipal Trading, (281)
Lending Library for Engineers, 571, 599
Lending Library, A Technical, 172

Letters from our own Correspon¬dents :

Africa, South, Engineering Notes from, 50, 79, 131, 159, 187, 215, 241, 267, 343, 369, 395
America, Engineering Notes from, 24, 156, 238, 316, 444, 496, 524, 548, 602, 656, 682
America, Notes from, 26, 53, 79, 107, 158, 186, 214, 240, 294, 319, 342, 394, 419, 446, 473, 498, 527, 550, 577, 604, 631, 658, 685
Australia, Notes from, 24, 50, 184, 212, 292, 316, 496, 527, 628
England, North of. 25, 51, 77, 105, 129, 157, 185, 213, 239, 265, 293, 317, 341, 367, 393, 418, 445, 471, 525, 549, 575, 603, 629, 657, 683
Germany, 26, 52, 78, 106, 131, 159, 186, 215, 240, 266, 295, 319, 343, 368, 394, 418, 446, 472, 498, 526, 551, 577, 605, 630, 659, 685
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birming¬ham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 21, 50, 76, 104, 129, 156, 184, 212, 238, 264, 292, 316, 340, 366, 393, 417, 445, 470, 496,
524, 549, 574, 602, 628, 656, 683
Japan, 212, 366, 470, 524, 682
Lancashire, 24. 50, 76, 104, 129, 157, 181, 212,
238, 264, 292, 316, 340, 366. 393, 417, 415, 470, 496, 524, 549, 575, 602, 628, 657, 683
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade Reports, 26, 52, 78, 106, 130, 158, 181, 214 , 238, 263, 294, 318, 312 , 368. 418, 446, 472, 498, 526, 550, 576, 601, 630, 653, 681
Scotland, 26, 52, 77. 105, 130, 158, 186. 213, 239, 266, 294, 318, 342, 338, 418, 446, 471, 497, 526, 550, 576, 604, 630, 658, 684
Sheffield, 25. 51, 77, 105, 129, 157, 185, 213, 239, 265, 293, 317, 341, 367. 393. 417, 415, 471, 497, 525, 549, 575, 603, 529, 657, 683
Wales and adjoining Counties, 26. 62. 78, 106, 130, 158, 1*6, 214, 240, 266, 294, 318, 342, 368, 394, 418, 446, 472, 498, 523, 550, 576, 601, 630, 658, 684
Letters to the Editor:
Accident at Southampton, L G. Mouche), 571
Acetylene, Eiemies of, A Believer in the Gas, 670
W. Doman, 623 Lockerbie and Wilkin¬son, 623
Thorn and Hoddle Ace¬tylene Company, Limited, 493
Ga«. Purification of, A. Geo. Smith, 290
Admiralty Engineering, British Mannesmann Tube Company, Limited, 492, 521
Admiralty and Inventicns, The, Barr and Stroud, 6f3
Allen Plant at Hull, Comumption, 412
American Competition, A BritoD, 670
Ammonia Method and Analysis of Sewage, J. A. Wanklyn, 571
Armour Plate, Bourdcn Gauger, A Comic, C. H. Winfield, 493
Artificial Lighting, A. E. Edwards, 545
Asabi, The, John Brown and Co., Limited, 493
Australian Bridge-building, Jchn Plummer, 200
Barr and Stroud Transmitters, (Pro Barr and Stroud) H. D. Jackson, 432
Belleisle Experiments, X., 670, 674
Boilers with Forced Circulation, G. E., 259
Inspection, J. S. V. Bickford, 521
Insurance, H. R. de Salis, 545
Bourdon Gauges, J. S. V. Bickford, 172, 259
sou Helix, 432
Jack, 412
W. B. M., 313, 412
L. St. Lawrence, 200
P. V., 336
J. Wilkins, 154 235
Breakage of Screw Shafts, Alexander Dal¬rymple, 458
John Verity, 521
Bridge Construction, Emergency, W. H. Bidder, 432
Construction, Emergency, N. D. Y., 458
at Paris Exhibition, The Collapsed, Expanded Metal Company, Limited, 571
British American Workmen, Geo. T. Pardoe, 115
Association of Waterworks Eogineers, Percy Griffith, 670
and French Guns, Charles W. Dilke, 336
Trade and Manufacturers, Digna Sequamur, 670
Browet*. Lindley, and Co., L'mited, 1890, Addleshaw, Warburton, and Co., 290
Cumbered Piston-rod’, H. Bollinckx, 115
Hick Hargreaves, and Co.. 115 .. 115
W. Schönheyder, 115
Carburetted Water Gas, German Gas Engineer, 521
Central Valve Engine Indicator Cards, Central Valve, 115
Coal per Square Foot of Grate Surface, Russia, 200, 290
Corrugated Iron Buildings, I. M. A., 493
CrankShafts, Hollow, H. A. O. Mackenzie, 200
Double-storey Turrets, John H. Borton, 413
Drain Testing, Geo. A. Becks, 458
Francis Bothing, 493 Edmund Parnacott, 545
Drainage, Underground, A. J. Allen, 571
Dublin Tramways Cable Contract, G. II. Nisbett, 235
Electricity in Warsbips, T. C. Billetop, 521
Engine Mileage, W. M. Acworth, 115, 154, 172
F. W. Brewer, 412
N. D. Macdonald, 172, 412
W. H. Reed, 115, 172
Engines, Aesthetic Steam, Helvetia, 235
Balanced Oil, F. C. Nunn, 571
Balanced Oil, Walter Rowbetham, 653
for Electric Traction, Observer, 623
for High Furnace Gases, Large Power Gas, Bryan Donkin, 12
Revolving Cylinder, Arthur Rigg, 412
Single Crank Compound, for Simpson, Strickland, and Co., Limited, W. Cross, 47
Single Crank Compound, Vauxhall Ironworks Company, Limited, 47
Tandem Single-crank, Jas. Watt. Boulton, 235
Tandem Single Crank, Simpson, Strickland, and Co., Limited, 290
Engineers’ Charges, Square, 493
English r. Swiss Machinery, Helvetia, 154
Equalising Levers, F. W. Brewer, 381
Equalising Levers, F. J. L , 313
Erosion of Gun Barrels, R. Snowdon, 381, 432
Failure of Propeller Shafts, Andiew Mitchell, 671
Failures in Propeller Shafts, John Verity, 521
Fan Tests, Engineer, 381
Gas Cylinder Testing, Jas. B Spurge, 599
German Axles, A Manager, 670
Government Boiler Inspection, A. Frank Dabell, 543
Great Western Birkenhead Express, O. R. Walkey, 458
Gans and Ammunition, Our New, Geo. Quick, 259
Portable Heavy, A Man in the Strand, 492
Harrogate Electric Light Plant, S. . de Fer¬ranti, Limited, 313
Haulage. Economical, J. D. Twinberrow, 47
H.M.S. Viper, Pro tne Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Limited, Chas. A. Parsons, 259
Horse power of North-Eastern Locomotives, Hy. Fowler, 290
Value of a, Geo. J. Rcckwcod, 259
Invisible Eaemy, The, J., 172
Iron in Ancient Greece, For the Leeds Forge Company, Limited, 115
Japanese Imperial Navy, R. A. van Sandick, 413, 432
Kelvin, Lord, His Addressatthe Royal Institu¬tion, Arthur Rigg, 598
Lending Library for Engineers, M. Walton Brown, 599
Lending Library for Engineers, E. Hamilton Wbiteford, 571
Light for L:ghthouses, New, John R. Wigham, 653
Lighting an Ironfoundry, A. E. A. E , 413
Lippincott Planimeter, The, A. C. Lippinsott, 115
L:quid Air, Facts v. Claims for, Hudson Maxim, 313. 545
Liquid Air, Facts. Claims for, Edgar C. Thrupp, 360, 571
L:quid Fuel, J. J. Kermode, 571
Locomotives, Cost of American, Edward L. Coster, 47
Heating Surface of, G. St. M. Willoughby, 12
Life-guards, Alf. J. Allen, 12
Mileage, W. M. Acwortb, 72
at the Paris Exhibition, W. Payton, 653
Machinery for Canada, Editor, “British Colum¬bia Review,” 458
Masonry Arches, J. Gilchrist, 47
Mechanical Eagineers in China, W. Hollid a'-, 599
Mechanics, Principles of, W. J. B. D., 235
Multi-wheeled Vehicles, Alfred J. Allen, 493
Navy Boilers, E. Odagiri, 623, 673
New Zja'and for Working Eagineers, Engineer, 670
Optical Problem, J. W. B., 235
Oliver Lodge, 313, 381
Lucigen, 259 D. P., 521
Thos. Philpot, 360, 432, 493, 599
Henry M. Sayers, 458. 571
Gao. M. Seabroke, 235, 290, 313, 336
An, V., 200 An, Y., 290, 360
Patent-office Temporary Premises, M. R., 12
Patented Articles at the Paris Exhibition, E. P. Alexander and Sons, 259
Pendulums, Rotating, H. T. D., 381
Petroleum Fuel, W. F. Dixon, 200, 2S0
Piston-rods, Cambered, H. Bollinckx, 72
J., 115 -
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 115
W. Schönheyder, 115
A Curious, H. Statham, 413
Railways, Russian, A. Gortschakoff, 47
in Surrey, Early, R. B. P., 115
Surrey Iron, Arthur Kinder, 47
W. B. Paley, 72
Receiver Drop, J. E., 336
Search-light Plant at Colenso, Rinsomes, Sims,
and Jefferies, Limited, 236
Shafts, Failure of Propeller, A. Dalrymple, 438
Andrew Mitchell, 571
John Verity, 521
Ship Resistance and the Stream-line Hypothesis, Marston Niles, 544
Steam Accumulators, A. B. Brown, 670
Stream-line Hypothesis, The, Marston Niles, 46
Sugar, Manufacture of Egyptian, A. E. Jordan, 493
Sugar, Manufacture of Egyptian, D. Stewart and Co., Limited, Duncan Stewart, Director, 458
Superheater Receiver, Advantages of the, R. L9nke, £98
Technical Lending Library, A. E. Hamilton Whiteford, 172
Tinned Tail-end Shafts, W. B., 115
Torpedo Boats, French-built, Augustin Nor¬mand and Co., 12
Tranatlantic raddle-wheel Steamers, F. B. C. Bradley, 12
Trusses, Problem in, Henry Geo. Read, 493
Tugela Bridge, John Graham, 235
Ventilation, Alfred J. Allen, 154
Ventilation, J. A. McLaren, 153
War and British Trade, The, W. Bartholomew, 172
War-office, The, R, 115
Warning, A, Easterbrook, Allcard, and Co., Limited, 521
Waste Haulage, Alkyne Reynolds, 172
Clement E. St ret ton, 154
J. D. Twinberrow, 412
N. C. W., 412
C. M. Wates, 545
W. Wilson, 521
Waste Heat. Utilisation of, F. E. Rainey (see also 203), 312
Water Gauges, Aquarius, 360
G. Hesse, 360 Rich, Klinger, and Co., 381
Jas. Robinson, 492
Weapons and Warfare, A Man in the Strand, 72
Weston’s Pulley Blocks, Old Jib, 200
Weston Pulley Blocks, Efficiency of, J. D. Morgan, 154
Levers, Equalising, 313, 381
Lewes, Professor V. B., on Water Gas, 483
Lewis, Mr. E. W., (404)
Lewis, Mr. T. W., 178
Lifts, Electric Safety Apparatus for, 816
Lift for the New Royal Yacht, (308)
Lighthouse, Bass Rock (13), (559)
Cambrae, 191
Engineering. Paris Exhibition, 554
L;ght for, New, 653
Works, Special Survey in connection with New, (459)
Lighting, Artificial, 545
Artificial, Mr. A. E. Edwards on, (479), (496), 545
an Ironfoundry, 413
and its Effects on Trees, Observations by German Government. (91)
upon E'.ectrio Lamps, Effect of, 170, 384
Protection of Publio Buildings from, Mr. K. Hedges on the, (389)
Lights from Seaward, Observations on Eoglish and French, (459)
Lignite Coal Mines in North Dakota, (254)
Lincoln Water Supply, Deep Boring, (239)
Lippincott Planimeter, 115
Liquid Air, (209)
Facts j! Claims for, 360, 545, 571
in the Generation of Power, the Cost One - half that Paid for Steam Power, (486)
Fuel, 536, 571
Apparatus of s.s. Cardium, 534,590
Use of, on Trading Vessels in the East, (332)

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Alternating Currents, Elements of, by W. S. Franklin and R. B. Williamson, (531)
American Institute of Architects, Proceedings of the Thirty-third Annual Convention of, Held November, 1899, Pittsburgh, (675)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Re¬port of the Committee on the Revision of the Society Code of 1885 relative to a Standard Method of Conducting Steam Boiler Trials, 505
Anglo-Saxon Guide to the Paris Exhibition. 1900, with Map, Edited by B. Bernard, (610)
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Artificial Wood and Shavings in Decoration, Cbas. Godfrey Leland and Rev. F. C. Lam¬bert, (139)
Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Proceedings of the Incorporated, Vol. xxv., (464)
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Bright, Sir Charles Tilston, The Life Story of, with which is incorporated the Story cf the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India, by his brother, E. B. Bright, and his son, Charles Bright, 300
Building Construction, Practical Handbook for Student’, by L. P. Allen, (505) 675
British Locomotives : Their History, Construc¬tion, and Modern Development, by C. J. Bowen Cooke, 371
Canaux et Aqueduc3, Calcul des, par Georges Daries, 871
Carbons for Electric Lighting and other Pur¬poses, Manufacture of, by F. J. Jehl, 3
Charbon3 Britanniques et leur Epuisement, Les, par E. Loze, in two vols. (423), 609
Chemists, Chemical Manufacturers, Metallur¬gists, Dyers, &c. &o., Pocket-book for, by Thomas Bayley, (300)
Chimney Design and Theory : Book for Engi¬neers and Architects, by W. W. Christie, 3
China, Japan, Corea, Indo-Cbina, &c. &c., for 1900, Chronicle and Directory for, (45»)
City of Liverpool Waterworks, Annual Report of the Engineer, (610)
Coal and Coal Mining, Rudimentary Treatise on. by the late Sir Warington Smi'.h, revised and extended by T. F. Brown, (n9)
Contents : Subject Index to General and Periodical Literature, Sections 39-42, Com¬piled by A. Cotgreavc, (464)
“Contour” Road-book of England (West Divi¬sion, including Wale»), H. R..G. Inglis, with Map3 and Plans, (464)
Cost of Living as Modified by Sanitary Science, Ellen H. Richards. (87)
Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction, By Jas. Park, with Illustrations, (464), 610
Cyclists’ Indispensable Hand-book and Year¬book, 1900, (464)
Day, Mr. Chas., Notes on American Corliss Engines for Electric Traction, 532, 533
Draughting, Technique of Mechanical, bv C. W. Reinhardt, A Practical Guide to Neat, Correct, and Legible Drawing. (567)
Dynamos, Management of, by G. W. Lummis- Paterson, (372)
Eaux Potables et Industrielles Recherche des, par Henri Boursanlt, (464)
Electric Batteries, How to Make and Use them, Hand-book for Amatenr Electricians, Edited by Percival Marshall, (675)
Electric Currents (Polyphase) and Alternate Current Motors, by S. P. Thompson, (219)
Electric Directory, Universal, 1900, (J. A. B’riys). («7)
Electric Lighting, Elementary Principles of, by A. A. Campbell-Swinton, (610)
Electric Ship Lighting, by J. W. Urquhart, (423)
Electric Testing, Hand-book of, by H. R. Kempe, (567)
Electric Tramway Traction, by Albert D. Greatorex, (675)
Electric Wiring, by Cecil P. Poole, (372)
Electric Wiring Fittings. Switches, and Lamps, W. Perrin Maycoek, (33)
Electrician, The, Electrical Directory, and Hand-book for 1900, (219)
Electrician’s Pocket - book for 1900, The Practical, Edited by H. T. Crewe, (219)
l'E'ectricité, Lemons snr, Par Eric Gerard, 505
Electriques, Mesures : Essais de Laboratoire, par Eng. Vigneron et P. Letheule, (219) Engineer Electrical Pocket-book for 1900, The Practical, (194)
Eogineering Courses and Entrance Require¬ments for Professional Schools, Professor R. H. Tburst"n on the Organisation, 32
Engineering Works of the Kistna Delta:
Descriptive and Historical Account, Compiled by G. T. Walch, Vols. i. and ii., (69), 162
Engineer’s Year-book of Formul®, Rules, Tables, Data, &c., in Civil, Mechanical,
Electrical, Marine, and Mine Engineering, H. R. Kempe, (258)
Export Merchants Shippers’ Directory for 1900, (139)
Factory Accidents, Prevention of, with 20
Tables and 120 Illustrations, J. Calder, (33)
Feu Duties or Ground Annuals, from Is. to 20s.
per Pole, Capitalised at 20, 25, 30. and 32
Years’ Purchase, by C. Davidson, (567)
Field Testing for Gold and Silver: Practical Manual for Prospectors and Miners, by Wm. Hamilton Merritt, (300)
Filtration of Public Water Sapplies, Allen Hazen, (219)
Fire-proofing cf Steel Buildings, by J. K. Freytag, 371
Fire Tests with Doors, British Fire-prevention Committee, (423)
Fire Tests with Floors, A Floor by the “Gypsine ” Brick Company, The British Fire-prevention Committee, (326)
Fleet To-day, Our, and its Development during the Last Half-century, by Capt. S. Eardley- r Wilmot, (531)
Fluor et ses Compotés, Le, par M. H. Moissan, (£05)
Fognatura Domestics dell Ing, Attilio Cerutti, (123)
Foreign Language, How to Learn a, by Wm. Pulman, (531)
French-English Military Technical Dictionary, by Cortélis de Witt Willcox, No. XXIV.,Part II., Espace-Palan, (610)
Graphic Statics, Exercises in, with Examples of its Application to Practical Designing of Constructional Ironwork, by C. F. Charnock, 193
Guide to Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc, by Ed. Whymper, (675)
Hazeb’s Annual for 1900, Cyclopedic Record of Men and Topics of the Day, (33)
House Drainage and Sanitary Fitments, by Gerard J. G. Jensen, (300)
Hydraulic Mining (Illustrated), Part III., Capt. C. C. Longridge, (300)
Hydraulic Power Engineering, G. Croydon Marks. (258), 567
Hydraulic Rams : Their Principles and Construction, by J. Wright Clarke, (300)
Ice and Cold Storage Trades Directory and Hand-book for 1900, (258)
Indicator Diagrams, Treatise on the Use of the Indicator and its Application to the Steam Engine, W. W. F. PulleD, (69)
Industrial Associations in the United Kingdom, Directory of the, (464)
Ingenieurs Gsdenkboek von het Koninklijk r Instituut von, 1817-97, S. G.-aveuhage, 218
Ingenieurs Neerlandais, Manorial Pubbé a >. l’Occasion du Cinquentaire de l’lnstitut Royal des, Traduction Franchise du Texte, 1847-
1897, La Haye van-Langhausen, (69), 218
Institution of Civil Engineers, Excerpt Minutes 8 of, Vol. cxxxviii., Part IV., (33)
Institution of Civil Engineers, Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings, Vol. cxxxix., Part I., (531)
Institution of Civil Engineers, Vols. cxxxv., vi, vii., viii., 139
Institution of Junior E igineers, Record of Transactions, Vol. ix., Eighteenth Session,
Y (258)
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings, July, 1899, (33)
Instruments Best Suited for Engineering Field Work in Iodia and the Colonies, Notes on, by W. G. Bligh, (300)
In urance Register, Chas, and Eiwin Layton, (423)
Iron Corrosion, Anti-fouling and Anti-corrosive d Paints, by L. E. Andés, (423)
Iron, Galvanised, its Manufacture and Uses, Jas. Davies, (423)
Kelly’s Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers,
and Shippers, and Guide to the Expart and J Import, Ac., of the World, (423)
Kinematics of Machinery, Brief Treatise on Constrained Motions of Machine Elements, by John H. Barr, (69). 326
Laboratory Note-book for Chemical Students, by V. B. Lewes and J. S. S. Brame, (139)
Labour Statistics, Abstracts of, Board of Trade Labour Department, (505)
Lathes, English and American, by J. G. Horner, iS (505)
Lean’s Royal Navy List, No. 89, January, 19C0, (139)
Lean’s Royal Navy List, No. 90, (164)
Looomotives, British, Their History, Construction, and Development, C. J. Bowen Cooke, (423)
Locomotives and Trains Determined Experi¬mentally, Resistance of, by Prof. Albert
Frank, Translated by A. Bewley, 531
Logarithms, Improved Table of Five-figure, by E. Erskine Scott, (610)
Lockwood’s Builders’, Architects’, Construc¬tors’, and Engineers’ Price Book for 1900, with Supplement containing the London Building Act, (69)
Lubricating and Lubricants, by Leonard Arch¬butt and R. M. Dseley, (69)
Lyonesse: Hand-book for the Isles of Scilly, by
J. C. Tonkin and Prescott Row, with Preface by S:r W. Besant, (464)
Magnetic Induction in Iron and other Metals, by J. A. Ewing, (505)
Marine Propellers, by Sydney W. Barnaby, (300)
Mechanical and Physical Subjects, Papers on, by Osborne Reynolds, (505)
Mechanics, Principles of, Presented in a New Form by Heinrich Herz, 193
Mercantile Year-book and Directory of Ex¬porters in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Ac., 19C0, (423)
Metal Plate Work, Practical, Edited by Paul N. Hasluck, (423)
Metallurgy of Lead and Silver, Part I., Lead, by H. F. Collins, with Illustrations, 194
Metallurgy of Lead and Silver, Part II., Silver, by H. F. Collins, (464)
Mines and Minerals, The Law of, with Ap¬pendix of Mining Precedents, and a Glossary of English Mining Terms, by the late Wm. Bainbridge, (69)
Moteurs k l’Explosion, by G. Moreau, 193
Naval Annual, 1900, edited by J. Leyland, (610)
Naval Architecture, A Manual of, for Use of Officers of the Royal Navy, Ac. Ac., by Sir W. H. White, (531)
Navy for a Thousand Years, Our : A Concise Account of all the Principal Operations in which the British Navy has been engaged from the time of King Alfred to the Re¬capture of Khartoum, by Captain S. Eirdley- Wilmot, 300
Nixon, John, Pioneer of the Steam Coal Trade io South Wales, Memoir by J. E. Vincent, with Portrait, (219)
Nomographie, Traité de, par Maurice d'Ocagne, 326
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers: Catalogue of the Library to 1883. inclusive, (610)
Northern Pacific Railway Company : Rules for Railway Location and Construction, by E. H. McHenry, (69)
l’Obssrvatoire Municipal de Paris, Annuaire de, pourl’Annéi, 1900, (219)
Parabolic Curves, Tables of, for the Use of Railway Engineers and others, by Geo. T. Allen, (300)
Patents for the Year 1898, Washington, Annual Report of the Commissioner, (33)
Permanent Way Material, Piatelaying and Points and Crossings, Notes on, by W. H. Cole, (300)
Photographer's Note-book, The, Sir David Salomons, (219)
Plumber and Sanitary Houses, The, S. Stevens Hellyer, (139), 258’
Power Transmitted by Electricity and Applied by the Electric Motor, including Electric Railway Construction, by Ph. Atkinson, (464)
Principles of Mechanics presented in a New Form, Heinrich Hertz. (139)
Public Works for the Year ended Jane 30th, 1898, Report of the Department of Legisla¬tive Assembly, New South Wales, 87
Pyrography and Wood Roasting, by Thos. Bo’.as and C. G. Leyland, (69)
Railroad C instruction, Theory and Practice, Text-book for the use of Students, by W. Loring Webb, (610)
Railways of England, by W. M. Acworth, 371
Railway Rates, Standard Timber Measurer, by E. A. P. Burt, (610)
Railway Signalling, by H. Raynar Wi'son, (505), 531
Reclamation of Land from Tidal Waters, by A. Beazeley. with Illustrations, (610)
Risks and Dangers of Various Oucupationa, and their Prevention, by Lronard A. Parry, (675)
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. ix., Part V., (372), Vol. x., Part IV., No. 40, (33)
Royal United Service Institution, January, 1900, (87)
Russian Navy, its Past, Present, and Future, by FredT. Jane, (139). 219
Ryder’s Annual; The Wednesbury Red-book and Directory for 1900, (33)
Schiffbautecbnischen Gesellschaft, Jabrbuch, Erster Band, Verlag Julius Springer, (610)
Science and Art Department, 1900, Calendar, History, General Summary of Regulations of, (219)
Sewer Design, H. N. Ogden, 139 "Shipping World” Year-book, Desk Manual in
Trade, Commerco, and Navigation, Edited by E. R. Jones, (194)
Signalling across Space without Wires: Descrip¬tion of the Work of Hertz and his Successors, by Prof. O. J. Lodge, (258)
Silvertown and Neighbourhood (including East and West Ham), A Retrospect, by A. P. Crouch, (675)
Slide Rule, The, A Practical Manual, Chas. Pick worth, (46l)
Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the, Part I., Washington, (87)
Smithsonian Institution for 1899, Report of S. P. Langley, Secretary, (372)
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1173, Index to the Literature of Zircorium, by A. C. Longmuir, (87)
Society of Engineers, “Transactions” for 1899, and General Index, 1857 to 1899, (567)
South African Association of Engineers. “ Pro¬ceedings” of the, Vol. v., 1898 9, (372)
South American Railways and the Great Inter¬national Lines, Treatise on, by J. J. Castro, (258)
Stained and Leaded Glass, W. T. Whitehead, (139)
Steam Engine Indicator, by C. H. Peabody, (610)
Steam Engine Theory and Practice, Prof. Wm. Ripper, (33), 422, 463
Surrey’s Capital: Guide to Guildfo d and Dis- | trict, Mr. Morri», (505)
Technical Education R9turn, Local Authorities (England, Wales, and Ireland), Ordered by r the House of Commons to be Printed, (300)
Telegraph sans Fils, Le, André Brock, 6'J
Telephones and Microphones, How to Make and Use them, Dawbarn and Ward, Limited, (60)
Testing Materials, Hand-book of, for the Constructor, Two Vols., Part I., Vol. i., Text,
Vol. ii., Illustrations, by Prof. Martens,
Translation and Addition by G. C. Henning, (258), 609
Traction Mé.’anique et les Voitures Automobiles, par MM. Leroux et Revel, (531), 675
Trade Unions in 1893, R sport by the Chief Labour Correspondent of the Board of Trade on, (69)
Traverse Tables for Use in Mine Surveying, by Wm. Lintern, (321)
Unwin’s Chap Book, 1899-1900, (33)
Useful Arts and Handicrafts, Planned by Chas. Godfrey Leland, Vol. i., (300)
Useful Arts and Handicraft Series, Edited by , H. S. Ward, Nos. 8, 9, (69)
Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Bombay, Eleventh Annual Report, (258)
Water Supply Engineering, By A. P. Folwslli ,610
Waterworks for Small Cities and Towns, John Goodell, (33), 60
Wheel and Rail, Interaction of, and its Effect on the Motion and Resistance of Vehicles in s Trains, from the German of Bsedeoker, by A. Bowley, (69)
Who’s Who at the War? Adam and Chas. Black, (258)
Wireless Telegraphy and Hertzian Waves, S. R. Bottone, (423)
Wood Engineering and Placard Cutting, Chas. G. Leland, (33)
Lithographic Stone, Bavaria Furnishes the Chief Supply, (540)
Littlewood, Mr. W. L., (525)
Livesey, Mr. G , on the Enrichment of Coal G .s, 454, 483, (486), (509), 521
Lloyd’s Rsgister Committee for the Clyde District, 532
Loads on Railway Underbridges, Moving, 141, 149
Lock at Teddington, Proposed Additional, (201)
London County Council’s Issue of 3 per Cent. Stock, (671)
Sohool of Economics and Political Science, Lectures on Railway Questions, (52)
Street Traffic, 69
Waters, Bacteriological Examination of, (201)
Water Supply, 96, 134, (254), 285, (433), (540)
Area of the Two Pro-posed New Reservoirs, (522)
Daily Average, (308)
Royal Commission’s Report, 134
April, Sir W. Crookes’ and Professor Dewar’s Report on the, (254), (433), (540)
Longridge, Captain C. C., Wheel and Pack Transport for Mines, 247
Longridge, Captain C. C., on Z'nc Deposits, 317
Longworth Power Hammer, Mr. E. Samuelson on the, 218, 237
Loudun Brothers, Shaping Machine, 70
Lewry, Lieut. R. S., on Coaling Ships in Squadrmon the Open Sea, 75
Lubricants for Internal Combustion Engines, 509
Lubricating Oils, “ Oiliness ” of, 633
Lyddite, Mr. F. Villiers on, 523
Lyddite and Shrapnel Shells, (25), 41

M

MABON’S'’ Attitude with regard to the Miners’ Federation, (158)
McCormick, Mr. Leander J., (227)
Machine Tools, American. 165, 166, 167,169, 219, 220, 221, 275, 276, 277, 323,
400, 484, 491, 510, 511
Electric Driving for (Sipplcmcnl March 23rd, 1900), 304, 306
Milling Cutter, 466
Monster American, 484, 491, 510, 8 511
in Sfa:n, Manufacture of, (671)
n Machinery and Bailding Material to be Shipp’d ,i to Alexandria for Cotton Mills,
(227)
for Canada. 458
Castings, 285
English v. Swiss, 154
it McIntyre, Mr. John, (239)
Mackay, Mr. James, Table showing Results of Tests made with Radiators using Hot Water and Steam respectively, (254)
Macnab, Mr. R. A., (265)
Madagascar, Construction of Railways, Roads, Telegraph Lines, Ac., (173)
Madagascar, Mineral Resources of, (19G)
Magnetic Clutch, Mr. Bion J. Arnold’s, (145)
Magnetio Qualities of Building Bricks Tested, 3, (254)
Magnetism, Prof. Hughes on the Theory of, (168)
Maidstone Water Service Mains, Disinfectiou <4,
Messrs. Woodhead and Ware, 359
Main Drainage Committee of the London County Council and the Price of Coal and Coke, (671)
Main Drainage System of London, Prevtntion ox Storm Flooding, 376
Manchester City Corporation, Snowfall and Cost of Clearing. (227)
Corporation, Gas Committee of. L'an for Construction of Sulphate Manufacturing Plant, (145)
Sewage Question, The, (645)
Scheme, 99
Treatment, (563)
Ship Canal, Steamers Berthed in the, (108)
Manchester Water Supply, Second Pipe from Tbirlmere, (254)
Tenders Invited for the Laying of a Second Pipe from Thirlmere, (671)
Manganese Ores of Brazil, Mr. II. K. Scott on the, 502
from Darkveti, of Interest to the Buyers of, (645)
Trade of the Caucasus, (645)
Mansel, Robt. On the Mechanical Theory of
Steamship Propulsion, 243
Manufacturers' Reticence, 437
Map of the British Isles, Philip's Handy, 261
France, Designed in Precious Stones, (408)
“India and Adjacent Countries,” Com¬pilation of a New, (281)
New York, Showing Transit Facilities, 128
for Railway Stations, New Kind of, (433)
Marconi, Sig., On Wireless Telegraphy, 140
System on Channel Steamers, (39)
The, in South Africa, (39)
Marindin, Col. Sir Francis A., 437, (618)
Markets for British Engineers, Promising, 205
Marriott, Mr. N., On the Rainfall in the East and West of England, 685
Marsite, The New Explosive, (201)
Martell, Mr. B., Changes in Types, Sizes, and Construction of Ships, 352
Martell, Mr. B., Presentation to 208
Martin, Mr. James, 181
Masonry Arches, 47
Masonry Arches with Metallic Joints, 477
Match Factory in China, British, (618)
Materials, Strength of Ductile, Mr. J. J. Guest, 576
Maudslay, Sons, and Field’s Eogine Works at Lambeth, Close of, (308)
Mauser Bullet, Wounds made by the, Sir W. McCormac on, (65)
Mechanical Engineering, Record of the Past Year, 16
Stoker Tests, 101, 103
Mechanics, Applied, International Congress on, 455
of Cycling, Mr. J. B. Henderson on the, 280
Principles of, 235
Megaphone and Siren Whistle, Falkner's Island, (65)
Meldrum Furnace, Mr. R. B. Hodgson on the, 144
Mersey Dock Board, The, (675)
and Irwell, Pollution of, by Manchester Sewage, (645)
Metallic Packing, Brown’s, 291
Metalliferous Deposits, Mr. B. H. Brongh on, 154
Metallurgical Industry in Switzerland, The, (459)
Metals, Crystalline Structure of, 605
Microscopic Study of, 231
Meteorite, Lieutenant Peary’s Great, (408)
Meteorological Council, The British, Ships Furn¬ished with Outfits of Instru¬ments by, (145)
Institute, The Prussian, Systematic Examination of the Atmo¬sphere at High Altitudes, (145)
Meter System for Jersey City, A Universal, (227)
Metric System of Measures in Russia, (39)
Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, Failure of Supply, and the Board of Trade, (39)
Microscopic Study of Metals, 231
Middlesbrough Smoke-prevention Question, (591)
Mile as a Measure of Distance, Origin of the, (389)
Miller, Mr. Spencer, Methods of Coaling Ships at Sea, 75
Milling Cutter, A New, 466
Machine, Amerban, 400, 401
Mineral, The New, Discovered in Michigan, (408)
Ores in the Islands of Greets, (513)
Output, New South Wales, 628
Production of Canada, (323), (389)
Resources of Madagascar, (190)
Miners’ Federation at Cardiff, 42, 68
Safety Lamp, Patterson’s Patent, (77)
Federation, South Wales, Annual Con¬ference, (130)
Mines (E:ght Hours) Bill, 257
Wheel and Pack Transport for,- 247
Mining Annals of Wales in 1899, 38
Industries of Germany and France, A
Russian Director to Visit, 433
and Metal Industries, Prussian, 372
Mississippi, Improvements at the Mouth of the, 362

Motor Vehicles:

Accidents in Paris with, (108)
Acetylene Gas for Working, (39)
Alpine Highways (Omnibuses), (513)
America, Elsctric Cabs, (419)
Automobile Communication in Spain, (486)
Club, 1000 Miles Trial of, (227), (254), 428, 455, 508
Bolléa Carriage, Trip to Klondyke, (281)
Club, New French, (618)
Daimler, ordered by Prince of Wales, (227)
Drivers of, in Paris, Outcry against, 65, (48ö)
Electric, Facilities for Re-charging, (671)
Electrically Propelled, Road Race with, in America, (486)
Exhibition, Agncultural Hall, (389)
Manchester, (227)
Paris, 537
Vienna, (389)
Friction of the Gearing iD, and Power Absorbed thereby, (201)
Furious Driving, 65, (486), (563), (591)
Germany, Service at Riegelsberg, (618)
Tests made with, (615)
He'e-Shaw. Prof. H. S., on, 454
Industry, Past and Present, Messrs. Rush and Joy, 551
Ireland, Tourist Development Syndicate, (173)
Italian Government Purchases Steam, (389)
Japan, a Fine Country for, (201)
Light, 625
for Traction on Land and Sea, Colonel Renard’s, (433)
Lombard-Gferin, (308) J."1M Lucas’s, 211
Jlail Delivery aqd Collection.by, (l3)

Manufacture of, 196
Military, 48
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Bad Roads Interfere with Working of, (145)
Oil Engines Applied to, Mr. A. G. New on, 1, 29
Paris, Cabs, Battery Difficulty and Accidents with, (173), (408)
Furious Driving of, to be Stopped, (65), (186)
Performance on a Musical Stage, (308)
Poland, No Opening for, (591)
Record of Pa9t Year’s Work in, 17
Reversing Gear Ordered in France for, (281)
Russian War Department (Wagons), (513)
Singapore (Wagons), (361)
Spain, (486)
Speed Records, Race from Nice to Marseilles, (361)
Run of 100 Miles, America, (361)
Swansea (Omnibus Company), (173)
Sweden, Demand for, (119)
Switzerland, RogulatioDS Respecting, (591)
Taxation of, Antwerp, (254)
Ohio, (227)
Toll for, on Trent Bridge, (408)
Tractors for Ordnance, French War Depart¬ment, (267)
Tria’s, 1000 Miles, (227), (254), 428, 455, 508
Trials of, Proposed oy the Liverpool Association, 622
Users’ Defence Association, (138)
Variable Speed Gear for, 211
War Carriage, Prize Offered by the German Emperor for the Best, (281)
Model-making Works of Kelso and Co., Ship Models for the Paris Exhibition, 464
Mogg, Mr. H. H., On Treatment of Sewage and Sewage Sludge in Rural Districts, 53
Mohawkite, The New Mineral, (408)
Moonless Month, A, (119)
Moons, Months with Two New, (119)
Morgans, Mr. Wm., Winding Machinery, Dolcoath Mine, 288
Morison, Mr. D. B., The British Naval Engineer: his Present Position and Influence on our Sea Power, 362, 365, 391, 416
Morrison, Mr. MartiD, (157)
Motherwell, Industries of, (551)
Multi-wheeled Vehicles, 492
Municipal Trading in Leicester, Profitable, (281)

N

NAIHATI Mills, 2000 I.H.P. Compound Corliss Engines, 35, 40
Nanking Naval College, The, 600
Naphtha Pipe Line from Michailovo to Bannoi, 433
Naphthalene from Retort to Point of Deposition, Mr. W. Young, 616
Nationalisation of Railways, Japan, 266
Naval Appropriation Bill Passed by the United States Senate, (584)
Budget, The French, 335
Colleges in China, 600

Naval Engineer Appointments:

48, 59, 107, 115, 187, 235, 267, 318, 342, 362, 395, 423, 465, 419, 550, 559, 604, 623, 644, 670
Naval Engineer, The British, his Present Position and Influence on our Sea Power, Mr. D. B. Morison, 362, 365, 391, 416
Engineers, French, 372
Estimates, 229
Navigation Congress, 210
Navy Boilers, 502, 503, 504, 515, 623
Neild, Mr. H. W„ Water Steriliser, 363
Nernst Lamp, Profetsor R. A. Fessenden and the, (227)
New, Mr. A. G., on Oil Engines and Motor Cars, 1, 29
Newcastle Sewage Disposal, 566
Newcastle Water Supply, (591)
New York and its Canals, 176
Paved Street Mileage, (408)
Population of, (658)
Proposed Transit Facilities for, 128
New Zealand for Working Engineers, 670
Niagara Falls Power Company’s Petition for a Tariff on Current Generated in Canada, (63)
Niagara River Dam, 141
Nickel on Elastic Limit of Steel, Effect of, (173)
obtainable in Electro-plating, Mr. C. F. Burgess on the, (513)
Steel Alloy, M. Guillaume's, 201
Recalescent Point of, (201)
Nile, Irrigation Works on the (Supplement, May lltA, 1900), (281), 480. 535, 539
Nile, Water of the Upper, Deleterious Effect of the Cutting of the Sudd on the, (645)
Noble, Sir Andrew, on Modern Explosives, 335
Noise and Power, 566
Norddeutscber Lloyd, Dividend for the Past Year, (389)
Norwegian Storthing, Credit adopted for Ord¬nance and Fortifications, (563)
Nut and Bolt Company, Net Profits of the Patent, (104)

O

Obituary

Adams, Co’. J. W., (13)
Barclay, Mr. Andrew, 437
Barclay, Mr. Arthur, (541)
Barry, Mr. Chas., (591)
Beardmore, Sophia, (16)
Bertrand. M. Joseph, (361)
Betbge, Mr., (108)
Blackmore, Capt. Edw., 2fi6
Browne, Mr. Andrew, (356)
Broff, Mr. Peter Schuyler, 224
Brunton, Mr. Geo., (357)
Burgon Mr. Fred., (265)
Capel, Mr. H. C., (15)
Craven, Mr. John, 621
Crawshay, Mr. E , (604)
Currie, Mr. Jas., (227 ) 235
Daimler, Herr, (245), (308)
Daniels, Mr. T., 293
Danks, Mr. T. A.,(541)
Davies, Mr. Lee, (472)
Deakin, Mr. Jas., (105)
Dens, Mr. James (with Portrait), 10, (15)
Dickinson, Mr. Geo., (576)
Dickson, Mr. Geo. Workman, (673)
Donaldson, Mr. Wm., (520)
Dyke, Dr.. (106)
Eddison, Mr. R. W.. 536, (541)
Field, Mr. Rogers, (357), 362
Furness, Mr. Geo., (78)
Gilchrist, Mr. Archibald, 44
Goranson, Mr. G. F., (512)
Grove, Sir George, 567
Hardy, Mr. John, (486)
Henshaw, Mr. Alf., (394)
Hirst, Mr. T., (318)
Hodgkin, Major Eliot, 106
Holmes, Mr. Sheriton, (487). (488
Hughes, Prof. Edw., 91
Hughes-Hallett, Mr. Chas. Fred., (673)
Huxham, Mr. H., 191
James, Mr. David, (266)
Johnson, Mr. Alf., (657)
Mr. John Hy.,336
Mr. Wm., (563)
Josselyn, Mr. F., (52)
Layfield, Mr. J. M., (318)
Lewis, Mr. E. W., (404)
Mr. T. W., 178
Lindley, Mr. Wm., (541)
Little, Mr. T. D., (541)
Littlewood, Mr. W. L , (525)
McCormick, Mr. L. J., (227)
McIntyre, Mr. John, (239)
Macnab, Mr. R. A., (265)
Marindin, Sir Francis, 437
Martin, Mr. James, 181
Matthewman, Mr. J. W., (94)
Morrison, Mr. Martin, (157)
Newton, Mr. A. V., (647)
Nuttall, Mr. Thos., (487), (497)
Osborne, Mr. Richard Boyse, 34
Pakenham, Lieut. J.,(65)
Perry, Mr. F. C., (264)
Pritchard, Mr. E.,(540)
Price, Mr. John, (498)
Raven, Mr. Percy Earle, (618)
Redhead, Mr. S., (186)
Selby, Col. II. 0., 34
Shanly, Mr. Walter, (39)
Short, Mr. J. Y., (130)
Sims, Mr. (498)
Stent, Mr. W. K., (487)
Stevens, Mr. Fred. Wm., 336
Symons, Mr. G. J., 273
Trayne, Mr. Valentine, 368
Twelvetrees, Mr. R. H., (119)
Warner, Mr. Wm., (361), 367
Watson, Sir W. Renny, 385
Weyl, Mons., 23
Williams, Dr. Edw. H., (65)
Wingate, Mr. Rob., (647)
Wyles, Mr. Fred., (628)

O’Brien, Mr. W., Balanced Piston Valves for Marine Engines, 258
Ocean Steam Navigation, Notable Incidents in, 270
Ocean Temperatures, Deepest, (281)
O'Gorman, Mr. Mervyn, On Ventilation of Large Buildings, 470
Oil Assay Furnaces, 196
Burner, Sinclair's, 651
Engines and Motor Cars, Mr. A. G. New on, 1, 29
Fuel for Boilers in Sheffield, (13)
at Sea, 311
Use of, by the San Diego Electric Rail¬way Company, (645)
Manufacture in Buenos Ayres, (408)
The “Oiliness” of Lubricating, 633
Pipe Lioe from Baku to Batoum, (645)
Rise in the Price of Crude, (671)
Old Methods and New, 256
Ontario Government, Conditions of Future Con¬cessions of Copper or Nickel Land, (94)
Open-hearth Furnace, Continuous Working of, Mr. B. Talbot, 482
Open-hearth Furnace, Use of Fluid Metal in the, Mr. J. Riley, 482
Optical Problem, An, 235, 259, 290, 313,336, 360, 381, 458. 493, 521, 570, 599
Orde’8 Liquid Fuel Burner, 534, 590
Ore and Iron Industries, Statistics with Reference to, (77)
Osborne, Mr. Richard Boyse, 34
Ostend, Water Supplied to Ships at, to be Boiled, (540)

Ordnance:

Gunnery Experiments, 437
Guns and Ammunition, Our, 230, 259
Barrels, Erosion of, 381, 432
Boers’, (50), (79)
of Calibre, Machine. 475 Cordite and Our. (648)
EUwick Naval Mountings, 59, 62, 63, 61,
88, 89, 93, 112,113, 116, 137,138, 191, 192, 225, 234, 245, 390
Field, for South Africa, 43, 487
First 27 c.m., made in Japan, High-angle, in the Field, 323
Howitzers, Field, 323
for Japan, 47-Ton, E'swick, (497)
Kimberley’s Big, 227, 311
“ Long Cecil,” Constructed at Kimberley, 227, 311
“ Long Tom,” Creusot, (281)
Machine, of Calibre, 475
for the Reserve Forces, (308)
Naval 4 7in., can be Drawn by 18 Men, (79)
for tbe Admiralty, Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, 25
at Ladysmith, 21
Our New, (254)
Our, and their Use in the War, 1C9. 177, 178, 204
Portable Heavy, 492
of Position, for the War, 6, J, 72
Guns, Quick-firing, Breech-loading on the Island of Grain. (591)
on the Dejtroyer Daring, (591)
for Dover Forts, (30S), (671)
Field, for Norway, (563)
Vickers-Maxim, (39), 69, (119)
which can be used as Field
Gans, Lieutenant Ander¬son’s Improvement, (39)
and Ships, British and French, 299,322,331
Siege, for the War, 6, 7, 72
Sixteen, in Watervliet Arsenal, (186)
Smokeless Powder, (39), 183
United S'ate8 Navy, 183
for South Africa, 43, 177, 487
303 Maxim for the Navy in place of the 45, (618)
Trade, Birmingham, Activity in the, (39)
The 12-pounder, their Unsatisfactory Positions in our New Ships, 23
in the Shikishims, 23
Ordnance and Explosives, Mr. Goschen on, 515
Machinery, Inspectorship, Candi¬dates for, (201)

P

PACKING, Floating Metallic, 291
Pakeman, Lieut. John, (65)
Palestine, Artificial Light and Fuel in, (45P)
Palestine, Trade of, (459)
Para, Development of Industries at, (201)
Paris Academy of Sciences, Prizes to be Offered by, (38)

Paris Exhibition:

117, 120, 161, 171, 259, 278, 302, 303, 346, 359, 361, 397, 407, 408, 409, 465, 483, 486, 489, 517, 571, (645), 653 (Supplement, April 6M, 1900)
Acetylene Exhibition, 359
Boiler-house, Foreign Section (Illustrated), 278
Boilers at., 633
British Section (Illustrated), 302, 303
Civil Engineering, Palace of (Illustrated), 161, 171
Bridge Collapse, 465, 571 Colonial Engineering at, 637
Commercial Information Office, (649)
Congresses at, (361), 362
Dome of the Palais des Beaux Arts, 397, 407
Education, Palace of (Illustrated), 164
Electrical Engineering at the. 615
Electrical Palace, Chateau d’Eiu (Illustrated), 278
Eogines at, 278, 565, 663, 664, 672
Footbridge opposite Marine Palace (Supplement, April 6th, 1900)
Foreign Industries Palace (Illustrated), 302, 303
French Industries Palace (Illustrated), 302, 203
French Postage Stamp to Commemorate the, (227)
Iena Bridge, Widening the (Illustrated) (Sup¬plement, April 6zA, 1900), 120
Indian Palace (Illustrated), 397, 407
Italian Pavilion and Invalides Footbridge (Illustrated), 302, 303
Locomotives at, 504, 585, (653), 664
Luminous Palace (Supplement, April 6th, 1900) Machinery Gallery (Illustrated), 164, 171
Mining and Metallurgy Sections (Illustrated), 117, 120
Motor Cars at Vincennes Annexe, 537
Naval and Military Exhibits, Palace of, 346
Navigation Building (Supplement, April 6th, 1900)
Patented Articles at. (259)
Prime Movers at, 579, 607, 664
Principal Entrance (Illustrated), 397, 407
Progress of the, 595
Pumping Station (Supplement, April 6th, 190f) Schneider and Co.’s Building (Supplement, April 6th, 19C0)
Telescope, The Great, 489
Textile Section (Illustrated). 117, 120
Worthington Pumps (Supplement, April 6th, 1900)
Parsons, Hon. C. A., on Steam Turbines, 121
Passenger Traffic from and to British Ports, 1819, (645)
Patents Acts in Japsn, (540)
Applied for in Germany, (459)
Law in 1899, 89
Laws, Spanish, (671)
Office Rugulations, New, 586
Office Temporary Premises, 12

Patents, Selected American:

Armature Disc for Dynamo Eleotris Machines,
S. Bergmann, 132
Axle, C. Mercader, 396
Baling Press, W. E. Anderzon, 632
Belt Pulleys, R. Chillingworth. 270
Bevel Gearing, W. C. Smith, 132
Bicycle, O. H. Gentry, 188
Boilers, Safety Plug for, C. E. Rhoades, 1S8
Steam, SI. Rinkel, 160
Tube Cleaner, W. Guethler, 160
Water-tube, G. Diirr, 632
P. J. Keene, 216
Bolt-th reading Machine, H. P. Eilere, 242
Brake Bar, H. R. Whomes, 578
Cane Miller, G. W. Fisher. 296
Car Roof, E. C. EwiDg, 160
Transnm, J. Hickey, 268
Casting Chilled Rolls, E. E Kaye, 80
Centrifugal Apparatus for Casting, F. G. Stridsberg, 686
Machine, M. Güttner, 660
Coke-oven Pusher, Wellman and Seaver, 578
Commutator for Electric Motors, S. Evershed 420
Compression Pump for Refrigerating Appa¬ratus, G. B. Hiett, 370
Condenser Tubes, Fastening of, J. E. Thoruycroft, 396
Cross-rolling Piercing Machine, E. E. Quimby,
Crucible Furnace, R. Baumann, 5C0
Cutter, Rotary, G. D. Gillette, 28
for Wood-planing Machines, G. John- ' son, 396
Dredges, Cutter Head for, A. W. Robinson, 268
Dredging Machinery, L W. Bates, 80
Drill Apparatus, Multiple, for Cylindrical Boiler, or other Shells, J. Y. Foster, 686
Drilling Machine, Vertical, T. C. Beeley, 268
Driving Dynamos from Car Axles, Means for, J, L. Graveling, 242
Dynamo, Electric Machine, H. Greisenhiiner, 420
W. G. C. Hoff¬mann, 396
W. B Sayers, 268
Electric Cloth Cutter, F. Gardner, 370
Furnace, M. Ruthenburg, 606
Lamps, W. J. Phelps, 108
Lighting for Rolling Stock, W. F. Richards, 80
Sparking Plug for Explosive Engines, R. Simms, 396
Engine, Atmospheric Steam, F, M. Leavitt, 344
Direct - acting Air Compreesing, P. Brotherhood, 54
Gas, G. S. Strong, 216
A. Whitcomb, 80
Gasoline, Mixing Davies for, J. W. Lambert, 28
Rotary, L. H. Allen, 370 Steam, J. H. Street, 188
Explosion Motor, E. Fessard, 320
Feeding Device for Pulverisers, W. M. Wheildon, 80
F.nishing Tool for Faoing Piston Rings, Pearce and Jackson, 396
Hanging Metal Roofing Sheets, F. E. Sagen- dorph, 448
Force Can, E. E. Ertsman, 500
Forced Draught System for Steam Generators, W. D. Hoxie, 296
Gas Check for Projectiles, Dawson, Buckham, and Silverman, 660
Gas Retorts, Weigher and Charger for, J. A. Drake, 474
Gearing, F. O. Bullis, 370 C. H. Foster, 500
Grinding and Polishing Wheel and Mounting, J. H. Adamson, 606
Guns, Apparatus for Adjusting Elevation of, J. Krone, 344
Running-out Spring for, Daw3on and Buckham, 370
on Shipyard, Apparatus for Steadying, B. Tower, 344
Hydraulic Ram, J. C. Geliy, 370
Impact Wheel or Turbine, F. C. Davidson, 396
Inductor Alternator, S. H. Short, 606
Ingot Mould, J. K. Griffith, 528
Lathe Bed and Apron, W. Lodge, 420
Locomotive, D. Joy, 474
Locomotive Buffer Beam, J. F. Dunn, 603
Moulding Machine, Centrifugal, J. Graner, 132
Ordnance, Breech Mechanism for Gun, A. G. Had field, 28
Mounting for Machine Guns, G. T. Buckham and C. A. Lawson, 54
Swivel Pivot and Bearing for Gun Mounts 28
Photography, Three-Lens System, C. P. Goetz and E. von Hoegh, 108
Pipe-welding, C. Tuer, 132
Piston-rod and Crosshead Connection, E. J. Muller, 578
Pump, F. El wards, 108
Centrifugal Vacuum, B. Thoens, 396
Oil, C. F. W. Manzsl, 108
Refrigerating and Liquefying Air, E. C. Thrupp, 420
R ssts for Engine Lathes, Compound, E. Earle, 242
Road-breaking Machine, H. Morrison, 296
Rolling Mil’, Seamless Tube, Hampton and Keates, 160
Sawing Machine, J. Gillies, 268
Screw Conveyor, Sectional, A. C. Elmer, 500
Screw Propeller Shafts, Cover or Liner for, J. Lyall, 320
Sewage, Treating, F. J. Commin and A. J. Martin, 54
Shafts, Connecting, F. E. Hawkswortb, 396
Shearing Metal, M. Rothe, 420
Ship’s Rudder, T. V. Trew, 370
Slide Valves, Laying-out Device for, Ellis and Whitelaw, 448
Sliding Toggle, M. A. Replogle, 296
Smokeless Furnace, E. Gessncr, 578
Starting Gas Engines, J. W. Raymond. 160
Steam Generators, J. E. Thornycroft, 314
Steering and Warping Gear, R. Richardson, 314
Superheater, F. Dürr, 314
Swaging Screw-threads, S. Frank, 296
Threshing, Cylinder for, A. Ferri, 396
Torpedo Shell for High Explosives, L. Gathmann, 320
Transformer, E. Arnold, 528
Transmission of Electric Energy, F. Tesla, 528
Tube Plates, Connecting Tubes to, O. M. Row, 474
Tubes. Steel or other Metal, T. B. Sharp and F. Billing, 344
Turbine, Sream, J. H. K. McCallum, 268
Water Wheel, J. T. Fanning, 396
Valve, Annular Slide, Sellers and Lewis, 216
Gear for Engines, A. Wetzel, 632
Lifting, R. H. Mantel, 500
Wheel Tire, MtKinnan and Pringle, 50
Patent Specifications, Drafting of Technical, 82
Patented Articles at the Paris Exhibition. 259
Patterson's Patent Miners’ Safety Lamp, (77)
Pavements, Wear-resisting Powers of Wood and Asphalt, (186)
Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company s Colliery at Coppull, (471)
Peat Bads of North Germany, Generation of Electricity from the, (108)
Pekin, The City of, 644
Our Position at, 647
I'eUptgD, On the French Navy Bill, (675)
Penarth Dock, Subway, 504
Pendulums, Rotating, 381
Pensions for Colliers, Old Age, 483
Pepper, Professor, (332)
Percolation, Experiments at Rothamsted, (201)
Perry, Mr. F. C., (264)
Persia, Partition of, 149
Persian Gulf, Trade of the Ports of, (408)
Petroleum from Borneo to Sydney in Bulk, (628)
the East Indies, Importation to Tientsin of Dutch, (119)
Fuel, 290
Industry in Japan, (212)
and Olive Wood for Light and Fuel in Palestine, (459)
at Oran in Algeria, (459)
Rsgulations relating to the Keeping, Use, &c., of, (591)
Spirit for Motor Carriages, Ideal Specific Gravity of, (173)
Photography at a Distance, New System of, (201)
Photo Prints by Electric Light, 363
Physical Experiments affected by Electric Tram¬ways, 145
Picketing, Illegal, 257
Picric Acid, Mr. Powell Williams, relative to the Manufacture of, (361)
Pier at Great Yarmouth, New, (332)
Pierce, Mr. J. E., On Earth Foundation’, (208)
Pig Iron, Alabama Output, (254)
Gorman Output, (39)
Production, 110 Sampling Device, 392
Pile Driver, Novel Use for, (540)
Pilkington, Mr. H., On the Use of Mixing Machines in Production of Foundry Iron, (104)
Piston Rods, Cambered, 72, 115
Piston-rod, A Curious, 413
Piston Valves for Marine Engines, Balanced, Mr. W. O’Brien, 258
Pit Props, Safety, 34
Pittsburgh, Large Pie Iron Production, and no Cement Plant, (618)
Planimeter, Lippincott, 115
Plumbago and Mica in Burma, (254)
Pneumatic Caisson Gold Digger, A, (173)
Pyrometer and Autographic Record¬ing Gauge, Mr. E Uehling on, 103
Tools, 595
Tools, Portable, Mr. E. C. Amos on, 315, 327, 337
Pollution of West Riding Waters by Wool- combers’ Suds, (540)
Polonium, The New Substance called, 23
Population of Germany, (459)
Population, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, 496
Porter, Mr. Eustace W., Comparison of Railway Bridge Structures of Moderate Dimensions, 295
Portland Com oat: The Michele Test for 1900, (52)
Portland Cement Works, New, American, 392

Portraits:

Deas, Mr. James, 10
Jessop, Wm., 58
Ports, Fran?e and Free, 436
Postal Service for Express Fees Reduced, (671)
Postal Telegraph Factory, Mount Pleasant, E.C., (200)
Postage Stamp, New French, (227)
Postage Stamp, New Halfpenny. (399)
Preece, Sir W. H., On the Functions of the, Engineer. 183
Preece, Sir W. H., On the Relations of Electricity to Engineering. 443
Pressure Gauge. New Form of, 211
Pressure on an Iaclined Plane with Special
Reference to Balanced Rudders, Professor Hele-Shaw, 397, 413
Priestley, Mr., On Welsh Water for Wales, 648
Princess Christian Hospital Train, 48
Principles of Mechanics, 235
Printing Machine, Multi-colour, 534
Pritchard, Mr. E., (540)
Prizes to be Offered by the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1900, (38)
Profit Sharing, Introduction of a System of, by the Electricity Committee of the Halifax Town Council, (145)
Progress and Coal, 311
Projectiles at Mafeking, Ineffectiveness of Boer, (119)
A New American, (671)
Suft-capped, United States, (591). (671)
Propeller Shafting, Failure in, 383, 398, 415, 521, 571
Props, Safety Pit, 34
Provisional Orders for 1SC0, 423
Prossian Mining and Metal Industries, 372
Pulley Blocks. Efficiency of Weston, 151, 2C0
Pump, Centrifugal, Sulzer Bros., (563)
“ Strawsonic,” 650
Purification of Water, by R. A. Tatton, 74
Pyrometer, Pneumatic, 103

R

RADIAL Drilling Machine, 33
Radiators Using Hot Water and Steam respectively, Table showing Results of Tests made with, 254
Radiography, Three-phase, M. De'.éz’nier’s System of, (433)
Radium, The New Substance Called, 23

Railway Accidents:

Board of Trade’s Returns for 1899, (563)
Summary during the Nine
Months ending September 30tb, 1899, 49, (50)
British Lines in South Africa, (50)
Brussels Express to Calais, (563)
New Express from St. Petersburg to B Osteud, (65)
Caucasus, Collision, (361)
Caused in Coupling and Uncoupling Railway Vehicles last Year, (563)
Cheshire Lines, A Train Jumps the Points, 433
Collision of the Petersburg Train on a Canal Bridge with a Goods Train, (563)
Collisions, tic.. Reported by British Companies Last Year, (563)
Commission, The, (119)
Derailed Locomotive, A, 207 Dublin, (201)
Fire at Hillgate Wharf, Gateshead, North-Eastern Railway Company, (94)
Glasgow and Helensburgh. (332)
Great Northern, Capley Hill, Leeds, (201)
Great Western, near Saltford, (227)
Great Western, at Slough, Lieut.-Col. H. A. Yorke’s Report on, (279)
Greenock-Glasgow Line, Cartsburn Junction, (513)
Hampton Court, (645)
Indian Railways, Total Number od, in Six Months, (486)
Japanese Railways, (254)
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Spring Vale, (119)
London and North-Western, Miles Platting, (281)
London and North-Western, Crewe Station, (513)
Manchester, Victoria Station, 411
Merthyr Vale, 342
Midland, near Holbeek Station, (361)
Midland and South-Western Junction, Collision on,(459)
North-Eastern, Gateshead, (227)
Oldham, (39)
Prevention of, (78)
Prevention of, Bill, 280
Queenstown, Great Southern and Western Station, Collision due to Failure of Brakes,
(486)
Railway Servants, 95
Scarborough and Whitby, Landslip, (227)
Scotch Express, Fire on the, (308)
Slough, Collision at, 641, (645), 674
South-Eastern, Derailment Averted on the, 486
United Kingdom, during Nine Months ending September 30tb, 1899, 49, (50)
United States Big Four” Bridge over the Wabash River, (281) in 1899 and 1898, (281)
New Jersey Central, Ashley Yard, (173)
in November, December, Janu¬ary, February, March, (65), (227), (308), (408). (645)
Topeka Round House, Boiler Explosion, (254)
Wortley Junction, (145)

Railways, British, Colonial, and Indian:

Australian, (292), (316), 496, (527) (628)
Baker-street and Waterloo Extension, N. and S., (486)
Bosslane and Fishguard, (201)
British America, (79)
Caledonian, New Saloon Carriages, (254)
Record of the Past Year, 17 Traffic on, (361)
Canadian, (13), (79), (540)
Pacific, Fast Summer Service, (618)
Steel Rails Laid, (308)
Cardiff, Issue of Additional Shares, (540)
New Dock of, 542 Central London, Progress of, (39)
City and South London, Extensions, (119)
Coomassie, Extension of the Tarquan R ill way to, (486)
Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford, Mr. A. G. Reid appointed General Manager, (145)
Early Models of Locomotives and, 207
English and American, 243, 298, 321
Glasgow and South-Western, 17, (65), 252
Great Central, (13), (39), (119), (145), 301, 312, (433), (618)
Statistics of, (119), (145)
Great-Eastern, Cyclist Touring Tickets, (254)
Record of the Past Year, 17
Promise to Men Gone to the War, (119)
Restaurant Cars on the Morning Express from the Hook, 671
Great Northern, Automatic Couplers on the, (433), (431), 523
Bridges over the River Aire, 259—262
Suburban Works, 138
Train Mileage of, (201)
Gr.at Western, Birkenhead Express, 458
Charge for Siding Rent, (540)
Cockett Tunnel Works, (540)
Corridor Trains Electncaliy-lighted, (618)
Dividend, (173) .
Extension along North Coast of Cornwall, (618)
German Emperor’s Compliment to, (91)
Intention to Raise the Steamer Ibex,(173)
Passenger Station at Blaengarw, (433)
PeDzance Seeks Increased Fa¬cilities for Passenger Traffic, (201)
Record of the Past Year, 17
Highland, Cyclists’ Fares on, (389)
Indian, 16, (156), (563), 608
Bengal-Nagpur, Fares Raised, 591
Burma, (389)
Desirability of Separating Accounts of, from the General Finances of India, (281)
Eist Bengal, Interlocking Signalling System, (119)
East Coast, to be Split up into Two 6 Sections. (563)
East, Traffic Returns of, (119)
Extensions Stopped by the Famine, (91)
Great Indian Peninsular, Government Régime, (173)
Heavy Traffic this Year, (254)
Hyderabad-Godavery alley Extension, (540)
Kalka to Simla, (540)
Khushalgarh-Kohat Line, (433)
Mileage Open for Traffic on March 31st, (563)
Indian, [Nilgiri, Extension, 591
and Russian Systems, Lord G, Hamil¬ton on the Connection of the, (227)
State, Contract Open, 73
State, Openings for Young R. E. Officers to, (563)
Rajputana, Narrow Gauge Lines, 591
Simla-Kalka, The Gauge Question (227)
State, Winter’s Electric B.ock Instru¬ments on,(254)
Tapti Valley, (254), (408)
He of Wight, Extension to Ventnor, 591
Kettle and Prosser’s, 9
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Agreement with South Yorkshire Coalowners and Dilference to the Company of the Increased Price, (671)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Arbitration Case between Lord Wilton and the, (119)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Half-yearly Report, (178)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Proposed New Works, Engineer’s Estimate, (227)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Record of the Past Year and Policy of Reducing Second-class Fares, 17, 145
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Gross Revenue and Increase of Train Mileage, (119)
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Terminus, Victoria, (65)
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Record of the Past Year, 17
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Stoat's Nest to Earlswood, 368
London and North-Western, Bridge to be Built over the Road at Atherstone, (201)
London and North-Western, Charge for Siding Rent, (540)
London and North-Western, Chester and Holy- head Section, New Station, 591
London and North-Western, Improvements at Batloy, (308)
London and North-Western, Improvements at Rhyl, (39)
London and North - Western, New Goods Station at Sheffield, (227)
London and North - Western, New Screw Steamers for Service to Dublin and Widening of Lines, (173)
London and North-Western, New Sidings and Shunting Lines (173)
London and North-Western, Record of the Past Year, 17
London and North-Western, Signalling on the, (486)
London and North-Western, Widening of Lines out of Crewe to N., (65)
London and South-Western, Extensions Bill, (408)
London and South-Western, Record of the Past Year, 17
London and South-Western, Water-tube Fire¬boxes, Mr. D. Drummond, 464
Manchester City, (13), (201)
Mersey, Electric in Place of Steam Power, (281)
Metropolitan District, Traffic in the Last Halt-year, (201)
Electric Traction on, 205, 522
District, Half-yearly Meeting, (201)
Midland, Charge for Siding Rent, (540)
Extension Schemes, (65)
Half-yearly Report, (201)
Improved Services, (437)
Promise to Men Volunteering for the War, (13)
Train Mileage of, (408)
Mineral, Automatic Couplings on, 537
North British, Locomotives and Rolling Stock, (254)
North-Eastern, Accelerated Service, Leeds to Scarborough, 591
Agreement with South York¬shire Coalowners, and Differ¬ence to the Company of the Increased Price, (671)
Estimate of the Cost of Pro¬posed New Works, (281), (293)
Extension of their Locomotive Shops, (157)
New Signalling Apparatus in Passenger Coaches, (157)
Portrait of Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart., in the Company’s Board-room, (194)
Run on the. by Chas. Rous- Marten, 190
Sunderland and Seaham Har¬bour, (361), (367). (525)
Train Mileage Worked on the. Daring Past Half-year, (145)
Trial with a New Signalling Apparatus, (173)
f North-Western, Half-yearly Report, (201)
New South Wales, Commissioners’ Report, 591
New South Wales, Mr. H. Dean on, 391
New Zealand, Changes in the Working of, 591
New Zealand, Revenue for the Year, (628)
Rhondda and Swansea Bay, Revenue and Divi¬dend, (201)
Rhymney, Estimates, (173)
Scotland, Monnd and Dornoch Line, (39)
Sheffield District, (437), 543, 563
Sierra Leone, (65)
South African, 50
South-Eastern and Chatham Express Services to Paris, (69), (604)
Eastern and Chatham, Improvements at Ludgate-hill, (254)
Eastern and Chatham’s Steamer?, Marconi System on, (39)
Eastern, Half-yearly Report, Result of
Amalgamation with the London, Chatham, and Dover, (119)
Eastern, Passenger Revenue within Twenty Years, (119)
Surrey, Early, 7, 47. 57, 72. 115
Iren, 7, 47,67, 72,116
Swansea and Mumbles, Dividend, (201)
Taff Vale. (186), (368). 504, (563)
Uganda, (389), (459) 454, (486), (540) (671)
Yale of Glamorgan, Improved Train Service on, (389)
Wales, St. David’», (39)
Welsh, Dispute, (119)
West Australian, 50
Windsor to Ascot, Failure to Raise the Capital for, and Decision of the Great Western to Act, (173)
Wooden, 9
Workmen’s Trains in London, £01

Railways, Electric:

Adriatic, Locco to Cbiavenna and Sondrio, (591)
Berlin Elevated, 311 Budapest, (618)
Central Lindon, (227), (591). (618), 667
City and South London, from Stockwell to Clapham. (399), (563)
Detroit to Port Huron, 444
German Society of Mechanical Engineers Offer a Premium for the Best System, (671)
Germany, Barmen and Elberfeld, (145)
Gothenburg, (618)
Hull, Spring Bank Section Opened, (591)
Hull, Tenders for Cars and Equipments, (227)
Laxey, Isle of Man, Hydraulic Plant for Work¬ing, (65)
Madras, (227)
Manchester and Liverpool, (119), (513), 516, 541
Manchester and Liverpool, Parliamentary Esti¬mates for, (119)
Manchester and Liverpool, Practicable and Safe Speed Attained in any Electric System, (513)
Metropolitan, 205, 522
Metropolitan in Paris, (119)
Mexico, (145)
New York, Underground, 421, 425
Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension, Mr. Scotter’s Scheme, (591)
Tokyo, (119), (682)
Trieste, Funicular, (540)
Waterloo and City, Traffic on, (119)

Railways, Foreign :

African, South, (222)
African, West, 238, (361)
American, (53)
American, English and, 243, 298, 321
Asia Minor, (332) 333
Asia Minor, Northern, Negotiations with Russia, (227), (389)
Australia, Western, (212), (281)
Belgian, American Locomotives for, (227)
Borneo, (145)
Brazil, S. Paulo and Rio Grande, Traffic Opened, 142
Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso Transandine, (13)
Buenos Ayres, Western Extension, (433)
Bulgaria, 16
Bulgarian State, Contract open for Rolling Stock, 314
Coina, Eastern, 289
Tbe German Sbantnng, 301
E.. Nikolsk and Manchurian Frontier, (94)
Cninese, 15, (94) (146), 594 Cuba, (486)
Egyptian, Progre's of, (433)
Finland, (361)
French, Appointment of Committee on Work¬ing of, (591)
Better Communication wanted between Havre and the Interior, (308)
Dieppe and Paris, Accelerated Speed on,(308)
Local Lines, Annual Returns. (281)
Mileage and Receipts of the Past Year, (145) (540)
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, Receip’sand Expenses, (591)
Paris, Lyons, nod MeaiterraneaD, OrdersGondolaCarsfrom Pittsburgh, (39)
Paris-Orleans, (540), 581
Railway Commission, Investigation,
Matters under, (173), (869)
Soudan, (818)
Western of France, Doubling of Line between Caen and Cherbourg, (308)
and their Work, Le Chemin de Fer do Nord, by Ctai. Rous-Marten, 478
German, Berlin Metropolitan, 252
East Africa, BudgotCommittee of tbc Reichstag Re'uses to Vote the Sum Required, (308)
Greece. Loan Granted for Riilway Extension to the Frontier, (159)
German Bagdad, 49Ó
May Roceipts, 1900, (371)
Shantung, The, 301
Greece, Mileage, (371)
Pixaius to Domerli. ( 53 2)
Frontier Line. (i£6, to Thessaly, (254)
Italy, Civita Veootia to Oote, (201)
Japan, 15
Corea, (234)
Formosa, 682
Nationalisation of, 366
under the Shimono«eki S.raits, 626, 682
Kwansei Line, (212)
Traffic on, (251)
Java, East and West United, (281)
Mediterranean, Electric Traction Experiments, 590
Mexican, Safety Appliances Ordered on, (133)
Mexico, (79)
Natherlands South African, F. von Straaten on the Working of, (222)
New South Wales, Cobar to Wilcannia, (212)
New York and Ottawa, (433,
Nicaraguan, (433)
Northern of France, by Chas. Rous-Marten, 478
Norwegian, Gellivara Line, (433)
Norwegian Sta'e. Tenders Invited for Perma¬nent Way, (308)
Paris Metropolitan, 84, 85, 66, 92, 119
Persia, 16, 168, (181)
Portuguese, Bsira, (504), (513)
Portuguese, Lorenz o Marques, (361)
Prussian State, American Locomotives on, (534)
Pruseian State, New Rolling Stock, (281)
Russian, Allowed to Import Coal Free of Daty, (281)
Armenia and Anatolia, (254). (389)
Astrakhan, 9
Cheliabinsk to Tsarilzin, (332)
Extensions and Traffic on, 1899, (308)
A. Gortschakoff, 47
Kars-Erzsroum, (254)
Mileage in January, 1900, (433)
Tbe Nicolas, (39), 621
Mr. Pavlokski Appointed Manager of Siberian Railways, (281)
in Persia, 16, 168, (18l)
Projected Line to Connect European
Russia with Russian Central Asia, and its Cost, (65), (308)
State Ownership of, (308)
Tashkend-Oronburg, (227), 254, (308)
Trans-Siberian, (13), 16, (39), (408)
Ural Mining District, 123
Russo-Chinese Eastern, Progress of the L’ne, (141), (173)
Salvador, (645)
Siam, 16 Soudan, 16, (39)
South Pacific, Underground Tanks for Fuel O.l, (13)
Swedish Mileage, and British Work on, (433)
Swiss, Jungfrau, Section Rs-opened for Traffic, (591)
Transvaal, 50
Turkey, Asia Minor, (254), (332), 335, (361), (389), 490
Bagdad, (173), (459), 490
Damascus to Hamma Extension, (513)
Damascus to Mecca, (433)
European and Asiatic, Total Mileage, (145)
French Capitalists Try to Obtain Con¬cessions for Constructing New Lines in, (201)
Haifa-Damascus, (618)
Union Pacific, Capacity of its Pressed Steel Coal Cars Increased, (513)
United States, (79)
Baltimore and Ohio Line, Ex¬periments with a High-speed Train, 649
Baltimore and Ohio, Working Statistics of the, (209)
Chicago City, (186)
Chicago and North-Western,
Engines for Fast Passenger Service (671)
Chicago, and North-Western, Signalling System on, (671)
Erie, Changes in the Locomo¬tives on,(513)
Fast Trains in tne, (526)
Freight Traffic of the Years 1899,(540)
Great Northern, Profit Sharing with the Employer, (65)
Mileage Built Last Year and Average Mileage for Four Years, (39)
New Yors, Underground, 24, (145), (332)
N jrthern Pacific, Sale of Land by, (540)
Northern Pacific, Traffic Statis¬tics, (2091
Riilway Construction during and Future, (209) (214)
San Francisco and San Joaquio Valley Line, (513)
Underground Rapid Transit on Manhattan Islanf, (227)
Viotoriao, A Quarter’s Working, (184)

Railways, Light

Aberdare, (65)
Ashton to Hyde, and Hyde to Denton, (671)
Brighton, (308)
Cheltenham to the Cotswold Hills, (65)
Exhibition, Agricultural Hall, Islington, 667
Forfarshire, Carmyllie, and Arbroath, (145)
France, 345, 476
Gloucester, (173)
Highland, Mound to Dirnoch, (510)
India, Stlem to Atur, (624)
Kent, Rimegate and Margate, (234)
Kingston-on-Thames, (308)
Light Railway Commissioners Refuse the Lendo County Council’s Applications to Construct Four L:nes of Tramways for Electric Traction, 459
Orders Confirmed by the Board of Trade, ('.41), (186)
Potteries, Tbe, (108)
Rhondda. (65)
Rhyl to Preuatyn, (39)
Scotland, Elvanfoot to Wanlockhead, (’61)
Vale of Rheidol, (671 Worces’er, (361)
Yorkshire, Simington to Rosedale, (408)

Railway:

Locomotives

American, Baldwin, 332
for Atlantic City Flyers, 622
Works, Number Built, (119), 408, 459
for Egypt, (486) Ten-wheeled, for Pennsyl¬vania, (173)
Works, VauclaiD Com¬pound, (618)
Twin, 572
for Belgian Railways, (227)
Compound, up to date, (459)
Construction, (156)
Cost of, 47
at Crewe, Mr. F. W. Wtbb’s Stand against, (615)
in Egypt, Captain Johns tune on, 428
for Europe, (682) for Export, (238)
Express, 177
for French Railways, (94) ( 201)
for Heavy Service, 559
Notes on, (316)
Oil Fuel for, (13)
American, Output, (6), (156)
for Prussian State Railways, (534)
Schenectady Works, for Freight Service, (94)
for South Africa, 249
Tandem Compound, (156)
Ten-wheel Two-cylinder Compound, for Freight Service, American, (94)
Ten-wheeled, Baldwin Works, for Pennsylvania Lines, West of Pitts¬burgh, (173)
Weights of, (65)
Bavarian State Railway, Administration's Letter to Maifei and Krauss on the American Loco¬motives as Compared with German, 459
Birthplace of the, (339)
Boilers for, 43
British, on Swedish Railways, (433)
Brooks Works, Weight of, (65)
Building in this Country, Increased Number of Men Employed, (13)
Building in France, Decline of, (13)
Buried at Bloemfontein, with Piston-rods Re¬moved, (389)
Burning Soft Coal, Production of Smoke by, American Investigation, (94)
" Bury,” at South Kensington, 49
Canadian Pacific Railway, Long Train Hauled by, (486)
Chicago and North-Western, for Fast Passenger Service, 671
Compound Express, Mr. B. Malcolm, Belfast and Northern Counties of Ireland Railway (Supplement, January Sth, 1900), 8, 11
Compound Road, f r the War-office, 99
Consolidation, Austrian State Railways, Paris Exhibition, 514, 520
Consolidation, for the New York, Ontario, and Western Railway, (389)
Crewe Works, The 4000th, for tbe Paris Exhi¬bition, (201), (645)
Damage to Crops by Sparks frem, 502
Development of the Modern, Mr. J. W. Cross on, 362
Drummond’s No. 720,
A Noteworthy Perform¬ance, 121
Drummond’s No. 719,
Recent Performance of, Illustrates Value of Fire-box Surface, (65)
Early Models of. 207
Egypt, Mr. F. H. Trevithick’s Report, 122
Eight-wheel Passenger, for the New York, Ontario, and Western Railway, 459
English r. American, 530
Erie Railway, Changes in the, (513)
Exported from this Country Last Year, and Value of, 65
Express, American, 177
Great Northern, Mr. H. A. Ivatt, by Cbas. Rous-Marten, 286
Paris-Orleans Railway, 581
Passenger, North-Eastern Railway, Mr. W. Worsdell (Supplement, Febiuary’lnd, March 9th, 1900) 114, 252
Passenger for the Paris Exhibition, Mr. S. W. Johnson’s, (94)
Four-coupled Bogie, Neilson, Reid, and Co., Paris Exhibition, 533
French, M. Eiouard Sauvage on, 673, 680
Friction Tests of the Slide Valve of a, 574
Glasgow, for South Africa, (254)
Goods, Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway, 392
Midland and South-Western, Messrs. Peacock and Co., Limited, 195
Heating Surface of, 12
Horse-power of North-Eastern, 290
Life-guards for, 12
Practice in France, M. Ed. Sauvage on Recent, 678
in Great Britain and the United States, Mr. C. N. Gcodall on, 392
Midland Railway's, 408
Mileage, 72, 115, 154, 172
Narrow-gauge Tank, Hanslet Company, 38, 44, 45
Neilson, Reid, and Co. Book Important Con¬tracts for, (459)
Netherlands Railway, Four-coup'ed Bogie, Neilson, Reid, and Co., Paris Exhibition, 538
Nickel Steel Forgirgs for Axles of, (169)
North British Riilway, 254
North-Eastern Equalising Levers, 313
Express Passenger, Mr. Worsdell (Supplement, Match 9th, 19C0), 252
Extension of Shops, (157)
Oil Burning, 17
Paris Exhibition, 504, 514, 520, 538, 585
Passenger, Great Western Railway, Mr. W. Dean, 567
Russian State Railways’, 408
St. Petersburg and Warsaw Line, Continual Breakdowns of, (254)
Saxony State, Cons.dsrable Purchase of, for the, (618)
Sheds, North-Eastern Railway, (625)
Shops, New, United States, 602
Siege Train, Kerr, Stuart, and Co , 61
S'x-wheeled Coupled for Paris Exhibition, Mr. Worsdell, (157)
Slide Valve, Friction Tests of a, 574
Spanish, (94)
Sparks from, Damage to Crops by. 502
Standard Goods, Great Eastern, 207
Stay Bolts of Boilers of, Affected by Bad Water, (254)
and Tender, Detailed Weights of, 135, 207
Union Pacific’s, 408
Weights of a, Mr. J. Holden’s Tabular State¬ment, 135
Work on British Railways, A Year's Review, 17
Works in America, Reconstruction of the Rich¬mond, (645)

Railway News, Various

Accidents Commission, The Railway Servants and the Recommendations of, (119)
Accounts of Twelve Leading Railway Com¬panies for the Second Half of 1899, (227)
Allsopp, Mr. Percy, Election of, (119)
Automatic Couplers, Great Northern Railway, 523
Automatic Couplers in United States, Percen¬tage of, (201)
Great Northern Railway 523
in the United States, Regulations Respecting, (645,
Couplings, Sir J. F. FlaDnerj’s Question Relative to Certain, 308
of tbe Janney Type, Great Northern Train with Experimental, 443. 444
on Mineral Railways, 537
Flow of Sand to the Rails in an Emergency Application of Air Brake, (201)
Baldwin, Mr., Comes to Europe to Study Tunnel Construction, (486)
Barmen-Elberfeld Overhead, (408)
Banares Station to be Lighted by Acetylene Gas, 563
Brake Valve, Combination of Additional Air Port with, to Ensure Flow of Sand to tbe Rails, (201)
Bridges, Railway—see Bridges
Caledonian Railway, Traffic through Carlisle, (361)
Carriage of Coke and Coal, Charges Raised on British Railways, (591), (604,
Cheap Trains for Workmen. (119)
Cleaning Bridges by Sand Blast, (39)
Coal Bill of the Caledonian Railway, Rise of, (332)
and Coke Bill, The North-Eastern Rail¬way’s, (39)
Consumption at the Power Station of tbe Third Avenue Railway, New York, (389)
Contracts, Lancashire and Yorkshire Company and the North-Eastern and Increased Cost to the Companies, (671), (684)
Famine, The, (52)
and Gas Contracts. The London and North-Western’s, (549)
Companies and Excursion Steamship’, 335
Couplers, Modified Janney, 523
Crewe Railway Engineers’ Reservists, Extended Leave,(227)
Cycles, Van for Carriage of, London and North- Western Railway Company, (459)
Cyclists’ Grievances against Railway Com¬panies, Mr. C. T. Ritchie and, (433), (513)
TouriDg Tickets on the Great Eastern, (254)
Special Train for, (486)
Train, Special, London, Brighton, and South Coast, (403)
Draw-bar Tests on South London Electric Railway, Results of, (332)
Dost-layiDg with O.l on American Railways, (563)
Electric Lighting of Great Western Corridir Traios, (618)
Electro-Pneumatic Automatic Block Signalling on the West Jersey and Seashore, United States, (94)
Excursion Fares for Ensuing SeasoD, Projected Rise in, (332)
Fares for Cyclists on the Highland, (389)
on the East Bengal Railway to be Eiised, (389)
Fast Run from Los Angeles to Chicago, (1C8)
Union Pacific Railway, (563)
First Railway Engineer, Tbe, 429
Floor System of Girder Bridges, C. F. Findlay on, 141
Flower Gardens along the Houston and Texas Central Line, (251)
Fog Signalling, The American Automatic Me¬chanical Djtonatcr Recommended, (15!), (548)
Fog Signal Detonator Economiser, 140
Forthcomirg C intracts, 621
France, Train Service between St. Nazaire and Paris, Improved, (433)
French Legal Definition of what a Railway and what a Tramway is, (281)
General Railway Workers' Union, Meeting if the Executive Committee, (22')
German Emperor Compliments the Great Western System, (94)
Grand Trunk of Canada Traffic, (£61)
Great Eastern, Half-pay allowed tj Militiamen of the Staff of, (39)
Great Western, Bukenbead Express, 458
High-speed Train, Baltimore and Ohio Rail¬way Company’s Experiments with, 619
Hope, Mr. Basil, His Apprintment, (4C8)
Hospitals for Railway Employ éj in Russia, (467)
Hours of Railway Servants, 301, 334
International Sleeping Car Company, A Restaurant Car lcr the Calais 1.15 p m. Train, (119)
Jc&sop, Mr. William, The First Railway Engineer, 429
Khartoum, First Through Train ta, January lOtb,(39)
Lamps, Portable, on Russian Railways, (173)
Lectures on Railway Subjects at the London School of Economics and Political Scietc (52)
London and North-Western Employees, Holiday to Commemorate the 4000th Locomotive at Crewe, (615)
Lubricants, Subject of Efficient, North-Western of India, (591)
Map for Railway Stations, New Kind of, (131)
Metropolitan Railway, Appointment of Mr. H. B. Palmer, (433)
Mexican Lines Safety Appliances Ordered by Government on, (433)
Midland, Mr. H. Fowler appointed Chief Gas Engineer, (591)
Railway Company, Deep-water Harbour at lleysham, (332)
Moving Loads cn Railway Undurbtidges, W. B. Farr on, 141
National Association for the Extension of Workmen’s Trains, (119)
New York, Grand Central Station, Improve¬ment of, (486)
Norwegian State, invite Tenders for Axles, Ac. Ac., (618)
Nottingham, The New Station, (563), (615)
Overhead Railway between Barmen and Yohwinkel, (108)
Passengers' Luggage Charges on English Rail¬ways, Important Decision as to, (281)
Penge Riad Bridge and Ereotion of a Station, Resolutions urging Improvement of, (281)
Prussia, Increase in the Number of Drawing ¬room Cars and First-class Passengers in, (615)
Quarrel between the North-Eastern Railway Company and the Harris Deep-water Wharf Company, 342
Railway Rates for Carriage of Manufactured Iron Articles, the Question Argued,
(39)
Struggle in Asia Minor, 284
Rates, 357, (367)
Raised and then Reduced from Schia- tari to Scharopan, (645), (671)
Receding Profits of Home Railways, No In¬crease in the Coal Rate, 336
Russia, Additional Mileage of Railways needed for, (332)
Cheap Fares on the Trans-Siberian Railway, (332)
Russian Railways, Hospitals for Employés and Portable Lamps for Travellers, (467), (473)
Scottish Railway Revenues, Measures for Im¬provement of, (408)
Shanly, Mr. Walter, (39)
Siberian Forests, Government Measures to Arrest Destruction of, (39)
Railway, Monument to Alexander III. to Commemorate, (408)
Railway, Technical Schools along the, :
433
Siding Rant Charge on the Great Western, London and North-Western, and Midland, (540)
Signalling Apparatus on the North-Eastern, Trial of New, (173)
Signalling, Fog, 140
American System, (459), (548)
on the London and North-Western, (486)
in Passenger Trains. N orth-Eastern, New Apparatus, (157)
South Africa, Title, “Free State Railways” superseded by the Title “ Imperial State Railways," (361)
Span Wires, Precautions in Pulling np, (281)
Spiral Car Springs, Use for Old, (645)
Station Lit by Acetylene Gas, Benares, (563)
Great Central and Great Northern, Nottingham, (563), (645)
Steel T.es on the Mexican Southern Railway, (191)
Stone’s System of Electric Train L'ghting in Western Australia, (281)
Strategical Importance of Railways, General- Major von Wendricb on the, 177
Train Resistance Dae to Rail Sanding, 103
Train Running from Seville to Cordova, Remarkable Incident, (94)
Trans-Siberian, Another Train de Luxe for, (39)
Trans-Siberian Company and Steamship and
Trading Company of Western Siberia, Convevanci of Through Freights by Omskand Ob, (39)
Twelvetrees, Mr. R. H , (119)
United States, Richmond Locomotive Works, Reconstruction of, (645)
Wages Advance, Demand to be Made for, by the North-Eastern Workmen, (345)
Wages and Salaries Return, on West Australian Government Railways, 496
Waterof Bad Qaa'ityused in Locomotive Boilers, Deleterious Effect of, (254)
Water-tube Fire-boxes, Mr. D. Drummond’s, 461
Workmen’s Trains in London, 304
Yellow Signal Lights to Indicate “Caution" on American Railways, (39)

Railways, Permanent Way:

Carnegie Steel, for tbe British North Borneo Railway Company, (145)
Flow of Sand to, American Patent to Ensure a, 1 (201)
Great Britain’s, Sir [. L. Bell on, 417
Heavy, on American Railways, (563)
India, Increase in Section and Length of, (173)
Material for the North-Western Railway of India, (439)
Nickel Steel Liid on Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway (Analysis of the Steel), (618)
Nickel Steel, Pennsylvania Railway, Experi¬ments with, (389), (459)
Norwegian State Railways, Tenders Invited for, (308)
Record Prcdaction of Steel, Reported from America, (408)
Siege Train for the War, Kerr, Staart, and Co., 61
Sleepers, Production of, a Permanent Industry in Japan, (212)
Sleepers, Stone Block, at Wandsworth, 8
Steel, Canadian Pacific Railway Laid with, (308)
and Iron, Scarcity in New South Wales, (94)
Sole Plates, Contract Open, 48
Tics cn ths Mexican Southern, (191), (459)
Train Resistance Due to Sanding the, 103
United States, Peculiar Condition of the Rail Market, (94)
Wear of, in Tunnels, Mr. Thos. Andrews on, 417

Railway Rolling Stock :

Ambulance Train for the War-office. (361)
American Steel Cars for the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Company, (39)
Ammunition and Store Wagons tor South Africa, (13)
Armoured Train for South Africa, 512, 562, 564
Ceylon Government Railways. (618)
Coaches for the Egyptian Railway Administra¬tion, 612
and Wagons, Bulgarian State Railways, 314
Coal Wagon, 20-Tod, Great Western, 73
Construction, U.S.A., (156)
Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway, New Train for, (332)
Egyptian Railway Saloon3, Brown, Marshalls, and Co., 665
Electric Lighting of, The Co.t, (65)
Hospital Train, Princess Christian, 48
Midland Railway’s, (408)
New, on the Northern of France, First and : Second-class Saloons, (94)
North-Eastern, for Paris Exhibition, 157) :
Osaka and Tokyo Works, for the Building of, (513)
Passenger Carriage Bogie, East Bengal Rail¬way, 180, 182
Care for the Saxony State Railways, (618)
Scarcity of Care in United States, (26)
South Africa, 50
Trains de Luxe for the Trans-Siberian, (39)
Van for the Carriage of Cycles, London and North-Western, (459)
West Australian Railways, Large Orders for, (212)
Works in Birmingham, Activity at the, (50)
Rainfall during Last Year, in London Neighbour¬hood, (13)
Mean Temperature and Sunshine Statis¬tics, British Islands, (13)
Record, Greenwich, Year ending April 30th, 1900, (671)
n the West and East of England in Relation to Altitude above Sea Level, Mr. N. Marriott, 685
Ramapo Water Organisation, A Gigantic Swindle, 442
Reavell and Co., Limited, Electrically-driven Air Compressor, 676
Receiver Drop, 336
Receiver Drop in Multiple-expansion Engines, Professor R. L. Weighton, 310
Redhead, Mr. S., (186)
Refrigerating Machinery for Ships' State Rooms, (173)
Machinery in South Africa, Pro¬spective Demand for, 343
Machines and Installations, Record of the Past Year, 18
Refrigeration and the Mechanical Production of Cold, Mr. E. B. Ball on, 437
Registration of Trade Marks in Denmark, Desirable, (671)
Renard, Colonel, Light Traction Motor, (433)
Reservoirs, Covered, (209)
Reservoirs, East London Water Company’s, Two New, (522)
Resistance of Air, (209)
Retort House, Roofs, Mr. A. T. Walmisley, 616
Revolution, Counter, 58
Rifle, Automatic, Picked up at Magersfontein, (227)
The Boer, 222
Defective Sighting of Government, (119)
General Deloye’s, (227)
Riley, Mr. J., Use of Fluid Metal in the Open- hearth Furnace, 482
Ripper’s Mean-pressure Indicator, 101
Roads, Improvement of our, Mr. A. Moresby White on, (513)
to Ispahan from Shuster, British Firm Constructs, (408)
Locomotion, Professor H. S Hele-Shaw, 454, 468, 494, 495, 547, (571), 573, 601
Paring Machine, 677 Romney, New Weir at, (209)
Röntgen Rays, Instruction in Use of, in the Royal Naval Hospital, (65)
Roskruge, Engineer, F, I., Appointment given to, (281)

Royal Agricultural Society:

Permanent Site for the Show, Question of a, (173), 258
Prize Sheet, and Prizes offered for Horse-power Cultivators, (178). (567)
Show at York, (563), 650
Royal Commission’s Report on London Water | Supply, 134

Royal Institution:

Annual Meeting, Report and Election of Officers, 455
Crystalline Structure of Metals, Professor Ewing and Mr. RosenbaiD, 605
Dynamical Clouds, Lord Kelvin on, 461, (598)
Explosives, Some Modern, Sir Andrew Noble od, 335
General Monthly Meeting, (168)
HydrogeD, Solid, Professor Dewar, 385
Lectures to be given, (408)
Magnetism, Theory of, Professor Hughes, (168)
Members, Election of, 362
Motive Power High-speed Navigation, Steam Turbines, Hon. C. A. Parsons, 124
Polarised Light, Lord Rayleigh’s Lectures Post¬poned, (259)
Wireless Telegraphy, Signor Marconi, 140

Royal Meteorological Society:

Headings of the Papers Read at the Monthly Meeting, March 21st, (342)
Percolation Experiments at Rothamsted, Dr. R. H. Soott on the, (201)
Royal School of Mines, The, (69), (114)

Royal Society :

Converse zione, Lantern Demonstrations and Exhibits, 491, 619
Thermodynamical Properties of Superheated Steam. Mr. J. H. Grindley, 291
Watts, Mr. Philip, Elected Fellow, 555
Rudders, Pressure on an Inclined Plane, with Special Reference to Balanced, 397, 413
Russia and India, 257
Industrial Crisis in, 98
Question of Direct Communication be¬
tween Siberia and the Baltic Sea, (433)
Russian Industries, Development of. 136
Iron Trade, Crisis in tbe, 542
Russo, C'jpt., On the Rolling of Ships on Waves, 353
SAFETY Lamp Failures and their Effects, Mr. Jas. Ashworth, 525
Salamon, Mr., On the Manufacture of Caramel, 648
Salvage Plant for the Dover Harbour Board, (389)
Sampling Pig Iron, Device for, 392
Samuelson, Mr. E., On the Longworth Power Hammer, 218, 237
Sandison, Mr. Magnus, On the Eogines of the Corvette Baquedano, 378, 379, 380
Saner, Mr. J. A., On Swing Bridges over the Weaver, 104
Sanitary Engineering, Record of the Past Year, 19
in South Africa, 233
Saw Guard, Adjustable, M. Glover and Co., 12
Bradbury’s, 650
Schanzer, Signor R., On Mysterious Fractures of Steel Shafts, 398, 440, 441, 442
Scherzer Type of Bascule Drawbridge, 568, 569, 570
Sohönheyder, Mr. W., On Water Meters of the Present Day, 112, 125
Schöntheil, Mr. T., On Heavy Mooring Chains, (187)
“Science Abstracts,” A New Monthly Periodical, (173L
Scotia Engine Works, Reported to have been Acquired by Sir C. Furness, (618), (630)
Scott, Gapt. P. M., Honour Conferred on, (281)
Mr. H. K., On the Manganese Ores of Brazil, 502
Scott-Moncrieff System of Sewage Disposal, 90, 91
Screw Shafts, Breakage of, 383, 458
Scrubbing Machine for Floors, (618)
Search-light Plant at Colenso, 235
Portable Oil Engine, 426, 427
in Sydney Harbour, Testing of, (94)
Sea Wall, Hodbarrow Mines, (281)
Selby, Col. H. D„ 34
Sellers and Co., Wm., Boring and Milling Ma¬chine, 481, 491
Sellers and Co., Wm., Electrically-driven Boring and Milling Machine, 481, 491, 510, 511
Sellon, Mr. Percy, Standardisation of Electrical Engineering Plant, 144,148,175
Septic Tank System, Medal Awarded by the Sanitary Institute, (39)
Seton-Karr, Mr., Collection of Stone Implements from the Nile Valley, (433)
Sewage, Ammonia Method and Analysis of, 571
Apparatus for Harpenden, (433)
Bacterial Treatment of, (201), 222, (285), 530
Bacterial Treatment of, Mr. Wm. Shanks on, (201), (285)
Disposal, Scott-Moncrieff System of, 90, 91
in Massachusetts, Bacterial Treatment of, 363
Scheme for Manchester, Delay in Carry¬ing out, (486)
and Sewage Sludge in Rural Districts, Treatment of, Mr. H. H. Mogg on, 53
Treatment, Biological Process of, at , Leeds, 385
Works, Wolverhampton, (119)
Shafting, Failure in Propeller, 521, 571
Flexible, New Use for, (145)
Shafts, Breakage of Screw Shafts, 458
Corrosion and Failure of Propeller, Mr. A. Scott Younger, 383, 398, 415
Crank, 200, 466
On Mysterious Fractures of Steel, Signor R. Schanzer, 398, 440, 441, 412
Tinned Tail End, 115
Shaping Machine, Loudon Brothers, 70
Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Duplex Triple-geared Lathe, 426, 434
Sharp Substance not Road Material Thrown or Left on Public Roads, Bye-law Respecting, (H9)
Sheffield, Coal, Steel, and Iron Exchange for, (227)
and Woolwich, 383
Shells, Smoke, 226
Shepardson, Mr. Geo. D , Tests for Candle-power and Wattage of Incandescent Electric Lamps
from Seven Lamp Factories, (308)
Shields, Bullet-proof, 177
Shield Protection for Troops in the Field, 245
Shinier. Mr. F. W., Device for Sampling Pig Iron, 392
Shimonoseki, Bridging the Straits of, 366
Straits, Particulars respecting Bakan and M«ji on, (470)

Ships:

British Battleships:

Albemarle, Initial Keel-plate Laid, (45)
Belleisle Experiments, The, 509, 520,
643, 565, 572, (591), 595, 596, 697, 617, 620, 615, (670)
British Warship Lost during the Siege of Sevastopol to be Raised by the Salvage Company of Genoa, 408
Built and Building, 23, 37, (201), 433
Bulwark (at Devonport), (201)
Camperdown, 252
Classification and Rating of Warships, F. T. Jane, 250, 251
Formidable, 125, 210, (361), 390, 536
Glory, (25), 172, 209, 210, 289
Hood, 829
Implaoable (at Devonport), (201)
Kent, 170
London, 125, 210, 533
Montague (at Devonport), (201)
Ocean, (201), 249
Powerful, 304, 399, 428, (531), (538)
Projected, (563)
Battleships, Foreign:
Brazilian 24 de Maio, 170
Classification and Rating of, F. T. Jane, 250, 251
Danish, Herluf Trolle, 252
Dutch, Köoingin Regentes, 140, 146
France, Built and Building, 23, 37

Ships:

French, Caiman, 141
Charlemagne, 125, 428
Henry IV., 280
Hoche, 170
Requin, 141
Gaulois, 23, 125
Indomptable, 141
Terrible, 141
German, Built and Building, 23, 37
Fiirst Bismark, 491
Kaiser Barbarossa, 491
Wilhelm II., 491
Nickel Steel Armour Plate for the New, (563)
Dalian, Built and Building, 23, 37, (389)
Japanese, Asahi, 125, 172, 210, 280, 304, 329, 382, 390. 428, 432, 455. 459, 493, 517, 536, 595, 667
Built and Building, 23, 37, 210
Hatsuse, 210
Navy, Admiral Fitzgerald on tbe, 364
Sbikishima, 71, 98, (119), 125
Norwegian, Eidsvold, 616
Norway, Norge, 359, (361)
Russian, Admiral Buotakoff, 280. 304
Apraxin Aground, 455, 491
Bui.t and Building, 23, 37, 125
Peresvet, 399, 491
Pottava Aground, 455
Retvisan, 399
The Rotislav, 329
Swedish, Dristigheten, 141
Güta, 304, 399
United States, Built and Building, 23, 37
Chicago, 399
Kearsage and Kentucky
(Supplement, January 2&th, 1900). (65), 10Ó, (361). 384, 399
Pennsylvania and Class, 587, 592
Projected, (361)
Cruisers, British:
Aboukir, 519
Achilles, The Old, 98, 252, 304
Built and Building, 23, 37, (65)
Essex, The, (18)
Gladiator Docked, (645)
Hermes, Accident to the, 252
Highflyer, 503, (513), (645)
Minerva, Machinery of British First-class, 328, 503
Narcissus, Fire on ths, (308)
Pactolns, 503
Pearl Class, 603
Pegasns, 503
Pelorus Type, New Cruiser of the, 72, 503
Perseus. 503
Pique, 72
Pomone, 503
Powerful, Return to Portsmouth, (281), 399
Promotheus, 503
Proserpine, 503
Psyche, 603
Pyramus, £03
Seagull, 503
Sharpshooter, 503
Sheldrake, 503
Spartiate, The, 329, 385
Tenders to be Invited for, (563)
Warrior and Boadicea to be Struck cff
the List of Effective Ships, (254)

Cruisers, Foreign:

Austrian, Kaiser Karl VI., 262
Dutch, Noord Brabant, 172
French, Built, Building, and not to be Built, 23, 37, 595
Galilee, 125
of the Gloire Type, to be Fitted with Electric Pumps, 23
Guichen, 304, 385, 428, 611, 667
Jeanne d’Arc, 170 The Tage, 72
Garman, Built and Building, 23, 37
Prinz Heinrich, 336
Italian, Armoured, 491
Built and Building, 23. 37
Puglia’s Speed Trial, 491
Japanese, Asama, 465
Built and Building, 23, 37
Itsnkusbima, 141 Iwate, 210, 329
Yakumo, 460, 465
Russian,Askold, 141, 399
Bayan, 667 Bogatyr, 899
Built and Building, 23, 87
Nakimoff Nipped in the Ice, 491
Peresvet (Cruiser - Battleship), 399
Sinop, 141
Variag, Speed Trial, 671
Spanish, Eatramadura, 491
Protective, of 2000 Tons Dis¬placement, (540)
Rio de la Plate, 141
Sweden, New Protected, 536
United States, Bnilt, Building, and Pro¬jected, 23, 37. (361)
Names of the Three New, 369
Olympia, 125

Torpedo Boats, Catchers, Destroyers, Gunboats, British:

Destroyer, Admiralty Purchases a New, fitted with Parson’s Tur¬bines, (536)
Built and Building, 23, 37
Boilers of, 295
Bat, 231
Cynthia, 280
Express, 141
Fairy, 141
Fervent, 280, 304
Gipsy, Re-tubing, 295
Destroyer Hunter, 231
Kestrel, 359
lieven, 280
Osprey, 329, (618)
Petrel. 304. (361), 399
Stag, Speed Trial, (671)
Star, 141
Stnrgeon, 280
Teaser, 231
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Viper, 37, 141, 170,174. 210, 259
Gunboat Confiance and Torpedo Boat No. 85, Damage done to the Latter, (513)
Gunboat Seagull, 231, 439
Sloop, Single-screw Wood–sheathed Steel, (568)
Submarine Boats, Admiralty and, (389)
Vernon Torpedo School at Portsmouth, 70
Torpedo Boats, Catchers, Destroyers, Gunboats, Foreign:
Dutch, Hydra, Torpedo Boat, (563)
Dutch, Scylla, Torpedo Boat, (645)
French, Pique and Fanconneau, 385
River, 196
Torpedo Boats, Built and Build¬ing, 12. 23, 36, 37
Torpedo Boat, Accident on, 359, 361
Torpedo Boat, No. 229, 385
Submarine Boats, Morse and Narval, (201), (308), (318)
German, Built and Building, 23, 37
German Torpedo Boats on the Rhine, (459)
Italian, Built and Building, 23, 37
Japanese, Bnilt and Building. 23, 37, 210
Niji, Destroyer, 172, 210
Ousogoumo, 210
Russian Black Sea Fleet, Four Torpedo Boat Destroyers, (645)
Built and Building, 23, 87, (361)
The Giliak, 72
Som, Destroyer, 274
United States, Built and Building, 23, 37
United States, Holland, Submarine Tor¬pedo Boat, (145), (173), 304, 513
Mercantile, Passenger, and other British:
Allan Liner Tunisian, The, 350
Anchor Liner Furnessia, Overhauling of, (459)
Barges for Transport Service Abroad, T. Davies, Limited, (317)
Belle Fleet, The Southwold Belle. 667
Cable-repairing Steamship, John Pender, 319
Campania’s Record Mail, Tbe, (13)
Cardium, Steamship, Liquid Fuel Appa¬ratus of, Sir W. O. Armstrong, Whit¬worth, and Co., 534, 590
Cargo Steamers, Prof. J. H. Biles on Large, 377
C jlumba, Re-boilering the Clyde Steamer, (640)
Croesus, Damage to and Repair of the Mail Steamship, 449
Cucard Steamer, Ivernia, 350, 351, 404, (549)
Record Mails, (13)
Steam Steering Gear
Installations of the New, (549)
Dredger, Hydraulic, Sir W. G. Arm¬strong, Whitworth, and Co., 668, 669
Dunvegau Castle Sails for South Africa with Guns, (459)
Electric Boats for the Severn, 389
Fazilka, The, Transport Vessel, How her Shaft was Repaired, 681
Great Britain, Stranding and Floating of the, 270, 271
Ibox, s.s., Great Western Railway Com¬pany intend to Raise the, (173)
Ivernia, Cunard Steamer, 350, 351, 404, (549)
Kirribilli, The, for tho Sydney Ferries Company, Limited, (316)
Launch, Experimental, Mr. Jas. Watt Boulton, 626
Lucania’s Record Mail, The, (13)
Margarita, Steam Yacht, Scott and Co., 479
Mexico and a British Port, Direct Ser¬vice Needed between, (13)
Montrose, Repairing the Damage done to the Transport, (308)
Number of, Fitted with Outfits of In¬struments by the Meteorological Council, (145)
Paddle-wheel Steamers, Early, 12
Roller Boat Building in Canada, (13)
Royal Yacht, The, 10, 37, 69, 98, 125, 141, (281), (308). 329, 361
Salvage Craft for Dover Harbour Board, (389)
3axonia, Cunard Steamer, (519)
Southwold Belle, The, Denny and Bros., 667
Steam Yacht Margarita, The, 479
Zrida, The, 611
Thames Steamship Service, 644, 617
Training Ship Baquedano, Engines of the, 3/8, 879, 380
Transatlantic Paddle-wheel Steamers, 12
Steamers' Record Mails, (13)
Tunisian, Allan Liner, 350
Yacht Measurement, Mr. H. C. Vogt of, 379
Zrida, The Steam Yacht, 641
Mercantile, Passenger, and other, Foreign:
American, Lakes Fleet, (615)
Liner New York, Accident to,(563)
Margarita. Mr. A. J. Drexel's Steam Yacht, 479
The s.s. Pennsylvania, Her Mechanical Stokers, 100
American Steamers, New, (548)
Transatlantic Paddle-wheel Steamers, 12
Brazil,-Para to New York, Steam Service, (591)
Cargo Steamers, Distribution of Materials in the Upper Parts of Large, Mr. S. J. P. Thearle, 155
Caspian Sea, Shipping Development on, (281)
Chicago to Liverpool, via the Welland Canal, Direct Service of Steamers from, 540)
German, Hamburg American Liner Deutschland, 100, (645)
Hamburg - American Line, New Boat for, (39)
Hamburg - American Line, New Services, (13)
Hamburg - American Line, Semi-fluid Petroleum Fuel, (13)
Mercantile Marine, Progress of the, 475
Norddeutscher Lloyd Im¬perial Mail Steamer Irene Launched, 671
NorddoutschorLloyd S tea me r, New, (389)
GreatBritain,s.s., Repair of the Damaged Propeller of the, 555
Holland’s Mercantile Marine, (3871
Japanese Mercantile Marine Statistics, (513)
L’ghtship off Cape Hatteras, (389), (618)
Paddle-wheel Steamers, Early. 12
Russian Ice-breaker Odessa, The New, (13), (201)
Ice-breaker Yermak, Projected Alterations, (332)
Merchant Shipping Returns, (281)
Spain, New York, Spain, and Italy, Steam Service, (591)
Speed of Transports, 100
Transatlantic Steamers Running at a Loss, (119)
Turkish Mercantile Marine, (281), (389)
Turkey, Steamer Traffic on the Dead Sea, (201)

Shipbuilding, British and Colonial, Naval and Mercantile:

Alberta, Channel Steamer, 395
Arundel, Channel Steamer, 395
Cambered Keel Litigation, 358
Colonial Armaments, 97
Dandee Shipbuilders’ Company, Wooden Vessel for Antarctic Exploration, (173)
Elswick Shipyard in 1899, Naval Work of tbe, 73
English Shipbuilding, January, February, March, April, May, 1900, (173), (254), (386), (486), (591)
Freeboard Scale, The New, Devised by Mr. Gordon, (254)
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Ships nnder Con¬struction in the United Kingdom, (433)
Manchester Ship Cana), Establishing of a Yard on,(119)
North of Eogland, 341
Portsmouth, Work at, for the Naval Man¬oeuvres, (645)
Rigging of Sailing Vessels, Strength of Spars and, 2, 30, 56
Royal Yacht, The, 10, 69, 361, (486)
Scotland, Clyde, 306
Bnilt Channel Steamers, New, 395
Firms, Amalgamation of, 665
Firms, New, 264, 306
in January, February, May, (119), (227). (240), 625
One Quarter's, 369
Shipyards, Wages Payment in, 491
Steamer Colnmba, Re-boilering the, 640
Trust, New Engineers to the, 451
Weekly Pays, 455
Shipbuilding in March, April, May, G73), (369), (455), (486), (591)
Shipbuilding. Innovations in Modern, and Practical Results of, Mr. H. B. Wortley on 877
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering during 1899, 62, 163, 205
Steam Tonnage added to Lloyd’s Register, (308)
Spars and Rigging of Sailing Vessels, Strength of, 2, 30, 56
Steamer Bigger than the Oceanic to be Launched this Year, (618)
Steamer Bailt in Omdurman, The First, 412
Steel for, (65)
Tonnage Passed through the North Sea and Baltic Canal in February and April, (389), (591)
United Kingdom at the Close of Quarter-ending March 31st, 1869, 1900, (433)
Last Year, Largest Steamers Launched, (05)
Last Year, Total Output, (65)
Warships and Machinery Building in England, Progress of, 661
Yacht Measurement, Mr. H. C. Vogt on, 379

Shipbuilding', Foreign, Naval, and Mercantile:

American Electric System for Working Bulk¬head Doors, (13)
Four-screw Ferry Boat, (496)
Marine Notes, (238), (49Ö)
Naval Programme, 42
Tow-boat, Joseph Williams on the Ohio, (496)
America, United States, (65), (227), (238)
America, United States, New York, A New
Company in Process of Formation, (274)
Chilian Navy, Mr. O. G. Struthers appointed Naval Constructor to the, (227)
French, 67
French Naval Scheme, Now, 147. (675)
German, for Foreign Powers, (65), (106)
Navy, Cost of Projected Increase, (94)
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Large Steamer to be Built by the Stettin Vulcan Company for, (389)
Stettin, Increasing Activity, (459)
Greece, Pir.-cus, (466)
Howaldt’s Yard, Ship under Construction for the Antarctic Expedition, (13)
Italian, (227), (254), (433)
Japanese Navy, The Imperial, 413, 432
Russian Ice-breaker Baikal, The, (94), (408)
Russian, Newski Establishment, St. Petersburg, The Year’s Deficit, (513)
Works on the Island of Saint Helena, Erection of, (389)

Shipping Accidents:

Asahi, Grounding of the, 455, (459), 493
Collision on the Thames between a Japanese and a Norwegian Ship, (39)
Fire on the Narcissus, (308)
Grounding of a Steamer, leaving Penarth Dock, 342
Mexican, Loss of the, Inquiry into, (459)
MoDtrose, Transport, (308)
Rob Roy, Breakdown due to Broken Tail Shaft, (496)
Stranding and Floating of the Great Britain, 270
Torpedo Boat No. 85
Damaged whilst Engaged in Practice with the Confiance, (513)
Tarkish Torpedo Baat Scham, Sinking of the, (433)
Shipping News, Various Belleville Boilers and High-pressure Steam into our Navy, Introduction of, a Failure, 673
Bristol Docks, 1899, Tonnage of Vessels using the, (38)
British Corporation for the Survey and Regis¬tration of, (231)
Shipping which Entered the P.'rseoe, 1899, (486)
Coaling Ships at Sea, Methods of, 75
Dunvegan Castle Sails for South Africa with Guns and Ammunition, (459)
Engine-room Artificers of the Channel Squad¬ron in Disgrace, (227)
Export Trade from Russia, viA Libau to Fin¬land, (332)
Fast Passenger Service between New York and Paris, Project for, (513)
Fleets of the World, 23, 37
Freeboard Scale, The New, devised by Mr. A. M. Gordon, (254)
German Eist African Line, Extended Service and Capital Raised, (671)
Mercantile Marine, Progress of the, 475
Navy, Strength of, this Year, (39)
Steam Navigation Company, Hansa, Past Year’s Results, (332)
Holland-American Line, Results of Past Year’s Working, (332)
Ibex, Raising the Steamer, (173)
Italian Government, Six Armoured Vessels to be Commenced, (389)
Khaki, s.s., Purchased by the Admiralty to be used as a Collier, (433)
Milford, Steam Reserve Centre at, Contem¬plated by the Admiralty, (618)
Ocean Liners for the Havre-New York Line, Two New, (433)
Ocean Steam Navigation, Notable Iacidents in Early, 270, 449, 555
Propeller of the Great Britain s.s., Repair of the Damaged, 555
Rolling of Ships on Waves, Captain Russo on, 353
Rossija Steam Navigation Company and the Liban-Romny Railway Company, Contract between, (332)
Salvage Awards, by the Admiralty Court, (618)
Shafts, Salvage, of Steamers with Broken, Admiralty Awards, (618)
Ship-repairing Trade, A Record Performance, (308)
Ship Resistance and tho Stream Line Hypo¬thesis. 544
Shipyard and Arsenal of the Compagnie Géné¬rale Transat,antique St. Nazaire, Company to Take Over, (332)
Steamboat Service, Thames, 644
Steam Service on the North Sea, German Capitalists’ Undertaking to Run, (332)
S.S. Services between Hamburg and other Ports, (618)
Steamers for tho Dead Sea, (201), (459)
Steam Tonnage Added to Lloyd's Register. 1899, (308)
Stockholm, Ships that Entered that Port during 1899, (433)
Submarine Boats, Mr. Goschen’s Statement respecting, (486), 491
Thames Steamboat Servies, 644, 647
Short, Mr. J. Y., (130)
Signalling, Fog, in America, (548)
Simplon Tunnel, Construction of the, Mr. C. B. Fox on the, 114
Progress of, 257
Simpson, Mr. J. B., Statistics of the Price of Coal, (540)
Sinclair’s Oil Burner, 651
Sinking Plant, Mechanical, Mr. R. Sutcliffe’s, 625
Slate Pencils, Improved, (671)
Slater, H. C , On Regenerative Benches in Gasworks, 605
Sliding Scale Committee, The Audit, (130)
Small Arms, Government Demand for, (145)
Smelting Silver-lead Ores, Fall in the Cost of, (540)
Smith and Co., Messrs. John, Facing Lathe, 622
G. F., Pillar Radial Drilling Machine, 624
Prof. R. H , New Measure of Good Quality in Governors, 529
Mr. Sebastian, Safety Pit Props, 34
Smithfield Clnb Incorporated, (94)
Smoke Nuisance, 364
Ordinance in Denver, Colorado, The, (645)
Smoke Prevention Committee, Glasgow, Black, (65)
Shells, 226
Snow-fall and Cost of Clearing in Manchester, (227)

Society of Amalgamated Smltha and Strikers, United Kingdom:

Tyne Members Apply to the Shipbuilders’ Association for an Advance of Wages, (433)

Society of Arts:

Albert Medal Award, (645)
Arrangements for Meetings during May, 432
Metalliferous Deposits, Mr. B. H. Brough, 154
Papers Postponed, 426
Roads, Mr. A. M. White on the Improvement of Our, (513)
Silver Medal Awards, (640)

Society, Bath and West and Southern Counties:

Show to be Held, May 30th to June 4th, 540

Society of Chemical Industry:

Fireproofing Timber, Mr. Cowper-Coles on, 248
Society of Civil Engineers, American:
Total Membership, (173)

Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers:

Ventilation of Large Buildings, Mr. Mervyn O’Gorman, 470

Society of Electrical Engineers, Northern:

Electrical Driving of Factories from the Public Point of View, Mr. A. H. Gibbings on, (389)

Society of Engineers:

Breaches in Sea and River Embankments, Closing of, Mr. J. H. Grindley, 292
Disinfection of the Maidstone Water Service Mains, Dr. G. S. Woodhead and Mr. W. J. Mare, 359

Society of Engineers, The Amalga¬mated :

Decrease in Membership, (540)
Monthly Reports and Forty-ninth Annual
Meeting, (213), (540), 557
North-East Coast Engineers Wages, 433, (446), (471), (497), 675
Rose Mr. F. H., Reported Resignation of, 445

Society of Engineers, American;

Reaction Jetties, Mr. L. M. Haupt, 399

Society, Glasgow Technical College Scientific:

Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, Mr. Wm. Shanks, (201), (285)
Mechanics of Cycling, Mr. J. B. Henderson, 280
Society, Gloucester Engineering:
Electric Traction, Mr. W. A. Walton on the Progress of, 312

Society of Heating and Ventilating

Engineers, American:
Mackay, Mr. Jas., Table showing Comparative Results of Tests made with Radiators usiDg Hot Water and Steam respectively, (254)

Society, Ipswich Engineering:

American Workshops, Mr. H. S. Jefferies, 340
Refrigeration and the Mechanical Production of Cold, Mr. E. Bruce Ball, 437

Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen:

Trade Protection, Federation Scheme for, (13)

Society, Manchester Geological:

Acetylene Lamp made by the “Velo ” Com¬pany, 393
Chat Moss, Seams of Coal under, Mr. G. Peace’s Reference to, (185)
Coal Mining in South Russia, Mr. J. Crankshaw, 79
Makum Coalfield, Assam, Mr. G. E. Harris cn, (629)
Mechanical Sinking Plant, Described by Mr. R. Sutcliffe, (525)
Safety Lamp Failures and their Effects, Mr. Jas. Ashworth, (525)

Society of Mechanical Engineers, American:

Electric Driving of Machine Tools, Prof. Jack- son on, (361)
Pressure Gauge, A New Form of, F. H. Stillman, 211
Steam Engine at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Prof. R. H. Thurston on the, (13)
Steel, Colour cf Heated, Corresponding io Different Degrees of Temperature, by M. White and F. W. Taylor, 69

Society, Meteorological:

Rainfall in the East and West of England in Relation to Altitude above the Sea Leve’, Mr. N. Marriott, 685
Wiltshire Whirlwind of October, 1899, Mr. G. J. Symons, 530

Society of Model Engineers:

Electricity, High Tension, Mr. Stanley J. Harding, 173
Inauguration of the Sooiety's Model Railway Track, 103
Model Boilers, Mr. J. C. Crebbin, 894
Model-making Competition, (238), 273
Tools and Tool Makicg, Mr. W. H. Deardan, (479)
Visit to the Swindon Railway Woiks, (670)

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers: American :

Coaling Ships at Sea, Methods of, Mr. Spencer Miller, 75

Society, Physical:

Measuring Standard Resistances, Mr. Glaze- brook’s Notes on, 571
Reversibility of Galvanic Cells, Dr. Lehfeldt cn, 254
Surface Tension, Effects of, Shown by Mr. C. E. S. Phillips. (308)
Society of Railway Servants, Amal¬gamated:
Trade Protection, Scheme of Federation for, (13)
Society, Steam Engine Makers’:
Seventy-fifth Annual Report, 285
Society, Yorkshire College Engineer¬ing:
Mechanical Treatment of Coal and its Influence on the Construction of Modern Boiler-houses, Mr. H. J. Greaves, 267
Wrapping Machines, Messrs. Andrew Forbes £ and Frederick Grover, (300)
Solder for Aluminium, 281
Sound Intensities, Measuring, (618)
South African Prospects, 595
South Durham Steel and Iron Company, Converted into a Limited Liability Company,
Sparks from Locomotives, Damage to Crops from, 502
Special Matters of Interest and | Events or Information not Belong¬ing to the Ordinary Weekly Routine will be Found in the General Index.
Speed of Transports, The, ICO
Spelter Company, The Midland, (184)
Springs, Bearing, 233
Scaines Reservoirs, (677)
Standardisation of Electrical Engineering Plant, Mr. R. P. Sellon, 144, 148, 175
Stark, Kerr, J, On the Deposit of Carbon on the Inner Walls of Incandescent-Electric Lamps, (308)
Steam Accumulators, 670
On the Advantages of Superheated, (308)
Quality of, 148
Sappers in South Africa, Work of, (591)
Thermal Properties of Superheated, 29
Steel, Canadian, 91
Chimney Stacks 98ft. High, (119)
Colour of Heated, Corresponding to Different Degrees of Temperature, by M. White and F. W. Taylor, 69
Effect of Nickel on Elastic Limit of, (173)
Foundry near Osaka, 524
Frame Grand Stand, American, (238)
Influence of Copper on the Mechanical Properties of, (389)
Ingots in France, Production of, (332)
Large Contracts for, United States, (656)
Making in the Southern States of North America, 142, 143
Manufacture, 1899, (361)
Open-hearth, American Production of, (459)
Prices, Trusts and, 204 Precess, The Talbot, 392
as a Shipbuilding Material, (65)
Skeleton Construction, Mr. Brees van Homan on, 287
in the United States, Overproduction, (486)
Wire Cables, Tests of, (119)
Works at Cadiz, Good Opening for, (513), (540)
Works, Ontario, 405
Stevens, Mr. Fred. Wm., 336
Stevenson and Brother, Limited, Improved Cotton Belting, 445
Stevenson, Mr. E. H., Inaugural Address at the Gas Institute, 615
Slewart, Mr. Andrew, to be made an LL.D., (254)
Stillman, F. H., New Form of Pressure Gauge, 211
Stokers, Mechanical, s.s. Pennsylvania, 101,102
Stokes, Mr., H.M. Inspector of Mines’ Report, (602)
Stoking Apparatus, Patent, Sir Wm. Arrol and Co., Limited, Ordered for Dundee Gas¬works, (389)
and Inclined Retorts, Automatic, Mr. W. R. Chester, 616
Machinery for the South Metropolitan Gas Company, (157)
Stone, Artificial, (94)
Implements from the Nile Valley, (433)
Storm Flooding, Prevention of, 376
Strand Improvement, The, 294
Strategical Importance of Railways, 177
Straw Press, Foden’s, 652
Stream-line Hypothesis, Ship Resistance and the, 46, 544
Motion, 649
Strength of Spars and Rigging of Sailing Vessels, 2, 30, 56
Stress in the Walls of a Thick Cylinder, Distri¬bution of, Messrs. Duncan, Wales, and Day, 230
Stresses in Trusses and Girders, Secondary, 284
Strikes and Lock-outs of 1898, 49
—see Labour Disputes, Questions, &c.
Struts with and without Lateral Loading, Mr. H. E. Wimperis on, 391
Suotion Dredging of Sand Channels, 194
Subway, Penarth Dock, 504
Suez Canal Company’s Regulations, Electric Light Required by the, (563)
Sagar Manufacture, Egyptian, 373, 376, 458, 493
Sammerson and Sons, Thomas, their Business Converted into a Public Joint Stock Concern, (519)
Sun Fan Company’s Tests, 308, 381
Sunderland, Tonnage Cleared from, (173)
Sunshine Records, Greenwich, Year ending April 30th, 1900, (671)
Superheated Steam, 598, 620, 621
Superheater in Connection with a Steam Power Plant, Saving Effected by the Use of, (459)
Superheater Receiver, Advantages of the, 598, 620, 621

Supplements:

Ammeter Records of Power Absorbed by Heavy Machine Tools, March 23rd, 1900
Colonso Bridge over tbe Tagela River, The, March 30tb, 1900
Engines, 3000 I.H.P. Triple-expansion, for the Berlin Tramways, May 25tb, 1900, June 15th, 1900, 546, 621
Great Northern Railway, Swing Bridge over , the Aire, April 20th, 1900
Irrigation Works on tbe Nile, Assouan Dam, May lltb, 1900
Locomotive, Compound Express, Belfast and Northern Counties of Ireland, Mr. B. Mal¬colm, January 5th, 1900
Locomotive, Express Passenger, North-Eastern Railway, Mr. Wilson Worsdell, February 2nd, 1900
Paris International Exhibition, April 6th, 1900 United States Battleships, Nos. 5 and 6, Kearsarge and Kentucky, January 28th, 1900
Surface Tension, Effects of, Mr. C. E. S. Philips shows, (308)
Sutcliffe, Mr. J. D., On Health in the Workshop, (239)
Swindle, A Gigantic, 442
Swinton, Mr. A. A. Campbell, On Steam Turbines, (227)
Swiss Machinery, English v., 154
Sydney Harbour, Efficiency of the Search-lights of the Forts Tested, (94)
Sydney Metropolitan Water Board, Cost of Pumping at the Pumpiog Stations of, (212)
Symons, Mr. G. J., 273, (590)
Syphon and Flushing Tank, The Walter Patent, 287

T

TALBOT, Mr. B , Continuous Working of an Open-hearth Furnace, 482
Talbot, Steel Process, Tbe, 392
Tangye, Sir Richard, Hospitality Offered to South African Convalescents, (39)
Tank Syphon, Walker Automatic Flushing, 287
Technical Education in Germany, (520)
Education, Government Returns, Show¬ing Total Expended on, (281)
Lending Library, 172
Telegraph Line between Madras and Calcutta, New, (64)
Telegraph Signalling, Automatic, between Bom¬bay and Madras, (621)
Telegraphy in Japan, (618)
Wireless, 140, (645)
between Borkum and the Borkum Reef Lightship, (540)
Experiments from Balloon, (145), (618)
between Porz'o and the Massena, (540)
on French Ships, (618) Interception of Messages Prevented, (645)
Sig. Marconi on. 140 South Africa, (39)
South-Eastern and Chatham Company’s Boats, (39)
Telephone Company, Returns of the National, (645)
in New South Wales, Extension of, (308)
Service, Manhattan, Novel Feature of the System, (94)
Telescope at the Paris Exhibition, The Great, 489
Telescoping a Gasholder, 695
Temperature, Mean, for 1899, at Greenwich (13)
Melbourne, Highest, (281)
Ocean, The Deepest, (281)
Recorded at Greenwich, Lowest, in the Year Ending April 30th last, (671)
Temperley Transporter, London Electric Supply Corporation, 635, 638

Tenders Invited:

Admira'ty’s Intentions to Invite. (563)
Axles with Wheels and Tires, Norwegian State
Railways Administration Invite, (618)
Engine Coal for Norwegian Main Railways, (13)
Fletton Drainage, 550
Hydraulic Machinery for Dundee Gasworks, (119)
Loughborough Corporation Water, 259
Metal Wharf at Seville, Material to Complete the, (408)
Outfall Sewers from Plaistow to Barking, (119)
Pembroke Dock, 72
Permanent Way for Norwegian State Railways, (308)
Peruvian Government for Railway Reconstruc¬tion, (108)
Railway in tbe Azores, (91)
Road and Railway Bridge Across Sydney Har¬bour, Government of New South Wales Invite, (227)
Waterworks at Madeira, (281)
Term Hard-faced Armour, (234)
Thames Conservancy, Proposed Additional Lock at Teddiogton, (201)
Ccnservation of the, 556 Conservators’ Report, (408)
Sum Paid by Water Com¬panies to, (408)
Ironworks, King of Sweden at the, (550)
and Lea, Water Delivered from the,
during February, (133)
Puri6oation of the, (399)
Steamboat Service, The, (563), 644
Tbearle, Mr. S. J. P., Distribution of Materials in the Upper Works of Large Steamers, 156
Theory, Practice, and the Steam Engine, 410
Thermal Properties of Superheated Steam, Mr. J. H. Grindley on, 291
Thermometer for High Temperatures, A Mercury, (513)
Thirlmere, A Second Pipe from, (254)
Thornycroft's Expanding Condenser Ferrule, 509

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