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SECTIONS. INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



♦Eyton (Mr.) on a vertical steam-engine, 



1846, 113. 

 ErroN (T. C.) on the arrangement of birds, 



1858, 122. 

 on the oyster, 1858, 123. 



Fairbairn (H.) on the changes in the cU- 

 mate of England, 1842, 26. 



Fairbairn (W.) on the application of ma- 

 chinery to the manufacture of steam- 

 engine boilers, and other vessels subject 

 to pressure, 1838, 160. 



on the effects of weights acting for an in- 

 definite time upon bars of iron, 1839, 126. 



on the fan-blast as applied to furnaces, 



1840, 199. 



on the strength of iron, and its ap- 

 plication as a substitute for wood in ship- 

 building, 1840, 201. 



on raising water from low lands, 1840, 



210. 



* , notice of Hall's hydraulic belt for 



raising water, 1840, 213. 



on the combustion of c al, with a view 



to obtaining the greatest effect, and pre- 

 venting the generation of smoke, 1842, 

 107. 



* on the economy of the expansive 



action of steam in steam-engines, 1844, 98. 



on railway gradients, 1845, 93. 



, operiments on the tubular bridge pro- 

 posed by Mr. Stephenson for crossing the 

 Menai Straits, 1846, J07. 



on a wrought-ir.,n tubular crane, 1850, 



^77- . ^ . 



on the construction of iron vessels 



exposed to severe strain, 1851, 113. 



on the mechanical properties of meta"'8, 



as derived from repeated meltings, 1852, 



125. 

 on the tensile strength of un wrought 



iron plates at various temperatures, 1852, 



125. 



on a new tubular boiler, 1852, 125. 



on the minie rifle, 1852, 125. 



on the progress of mechanical science, 



1853, 116. 



on the density of various bodies when 



subjected to enormous compressing forces, 



1854, 56. 



on the consumption of fuel and the 



prevention of smoke, 1854, 149. 



on the solidification of bodies under 



great pressure, 1854, 149. 



* on the machinery of the Universal 



Exhibition of Paris, 1855, 206. 



, address as President of the Mechanical 



Section, on the progress of mechanical 

 science, 1858, 201. 



, experimental researches to determine 



the density of steam at various tempera- 

 tures, 1859, 233. 



• on the density of saturated steam, and 



on the law of expansion of superheated 

 steam, 1860, 210. 



*Falconer (Dr.H.) on some new additions 



among the mammalia to the fossil fauna 

 of India, from Perim Island, in the Gulf 

 of Cambay, 1846, 52. 



Falconer (Dr. H.) on the fossil elephantine 

 animals of India, 1845, 62. 



on the crania of two species of croco- 

 dile from Sierra Leone, 1846, 79. 



Faraday (Prof. M.) on electro-chemical de- 

 composition, 1833, 393, 



on the magnetic condition of matter, 



1847, 20. 



on three specimens of diamond which 



had beensubjected to intense heat, 1847, 50. 



on lightning conductors, 1854, 158. 



, notice of a specimen of dark glass, 



employed to darken the image of the sun, 

 found to be melted after being placed 

 outside the eyepiece of a telescope, 1851, 

 22. 



Farquiiarson (Dr.) on the strongest form 

 of sea-borne vessels, 1840, 191. 



Farr's (Mr.) law of recovery and mortality 

 in cholera. Dr. R. D. Thomson on, 1838, 

 126. 



Farrar (Rev. A. S.) on the late eruption of 

 Vesuvius, 1855, 55. 



Fal'velle (M.), Rev. Dr. Buckland on the 

 applicability of his mode of bjring arte- 

 sian wel s to the well at Southampton, 

 and to other wells, and to sinkings for 

 coal, &c., 1846, 56. 



on a new method of boring for arte- 

 sian springs, 1846, 105. 



Favre (Prof. A.) on circular chains in the 

 Savoy Alps, 1860, 78. 



Fawcett (H.) on the social and economical 

 influence of the new gold, 1859, 205. 



* on the method of political economy 



by Dr. Whewell, 1850, 191. 



* on cooperative societies, their social 



and political aspect, 1860, 191. 



*Faye (Dr.) on the action of some animal 

 poisons, 1857, no. 



^Featuerstoniiaugh (G-. H.) on the geo- 

 graphy of New Brunswick, 1840, 121. 



Featherstonhaugh (Gr. W.) on the excava- 

 tion of the rocky channels of rivers by the 

 recession of their cataracts, 1844, 45. 



Felkin (W.) on the bobbin-net and hosiery 

 trade, 1836, 148. 



on the importance of an inquiry into 



the amount and appropriation of wages 

 by the working classes, 1837, 148. 



, statistics of the working classes in 



Hyde, Cheshire, 1838, 172. 



, notice of an experiment on the growth 



of silk at Nottingham, 1839, 87. 



on the growth of cotton, 1840, 146. 



on the statistics of the machine -wrought 



hosiery trade, 1844, 91. 



Fergusson (J.) on the site of the Holy Se- 

 pulchre at Jerusalem, 1854, 117. 



*Ferri]|;re (M.) on photographs upon al- 

 bumen, 1854, 67. 



Fielding (G. H.) on a new membrane in 

 the eye, 1831-32, 602, 



