460 INDEX. 



Page. 

 Arcliitecti;re, Lectures on, &c. — 



Lodging houses for the poor 146 



Physical condition of men in Europe 160 



The heating, cooling, moistening, and drying of air 164 



The exclusion of vitiated air _ 161 



Individual rooms and habitations, the sick chamber 162 



Public buildings 165 



Plenum, vacuum and mixed 166 



Ascending and descending 167 



Old and new houses of Parliament, &c 168 



House of Commons 170 



Examples of Dr. Eeid's plans 171 



St. George's Hall, Liverpool 172 



Churches, courts, schools, hospitals, prisons, &c 173 



Chemical lecture rooms 174 



Lighting public buildings 175 



Physical effect of light on the constitution 176 



Electric and lime light 176 



Lighting hills at Edinburg 176 



Fire-proofing _ 177 



Mines. _ 178 



Ships , 179 



Experiments on the Benbow 180 



Experiments on the Minden _ ? - 181 



Quarantine _ 181 



General condition of the sailor 182 



Experiments on acoustics 183 



Lecture room of the Smithsonian 184 



Progress of architecture 184 



Course of study for students of architecture 185 



Astronomical Tables, by J. D. Runkle 27 



Babbage, Charles, on the Constants of Nature and Art 33, 289 



Baird, Prof. S. F., Directions for preserving specimens 235 



Eeport on the Museum, &c, for 1856 47 



Barnard, Henry, Eeport on Education 33 



Behring' s Straits Expedition 53 



Berlandier Meteorological Eegisters 35 



Boundary Surveys, List of all those made by the United States 61 



Bradford, L. H. , Improvements in Engraving by _ 31 



Brewer, Dr. T. M., Memoir on Oology, by 31 



Bryan, Lieut. F. T., Wagon-road Expedition 50 



Building Committee, Eeport of. 84 



Building Materials, mode of testing. 303 



California Collections in Natural History 51 



Capitol Extension, Experiments on building materials for 303 



Charts and Maps of America, Lecture on a Collection of, by J. G. Kohl 93 



Historians of geography 96 



Valuable publications- 97 



Historical societies 98 



