VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE. 



Dkainage, p. Puscy on, xl. 401. 



, under certain conditions of soil and 



climate, by Lord Wliarnclifle, xii. 41. 



of Hetliel Wood farm, by H. Fulton, 



xii. 149. 



• of the county of Lincoln in general 



(Clarke), xii. 289. 



, a report, by P. Pusey, on the diain- 



ing-ploughs shown at the Great Exhi- 

 bition (in 1851), xii. 639. 



in Nortliamptoushire, by W. Beam, 



xiii. 92 ; of the Nene Valley, 109. 



■ in Cumberland (Dickmson), xiii. 



284. 



■ , the tools for, sliown at the Lewes 



meetmg (1852), xiii. 327. 



' , the water of, analysis of, xiii. 506. 



■ of the Keythorpe estate, xiv. 96. 



■ , report upon tlie Eye and Derwent 



drainage in Yorkshire, by J. Hender- 

 son, xiv. 129 ; the natural drains of a 

 district, 130 ; rivers much impeded by 

 mills, 130, 131, 133-137; the vale of 

 Pickering, 133; composed of the Kim- 

 meridge clay, ib. ; expenses of steam- 

 engine, 138 ; beneficial results in the 

 removal of the mill-dams and the flood 

 waters, 140 ; sanitary effects, 142. 



, a detailed report of the dr-ainage of 



a portion of Martin Mere in Lancashire, 

 by Henry White, xiv. 156 ; catchwater 

 drains, 160 ; embankments, 161 ; the 

 engine, 162 ; sectionof the scoop-wheel, 

 163 ; rainfaU of the chstrict, 166 ; 

 weight of water lifted, ib. ; day and 

 hours in which the engine worked, ib. ; 

 annual expenditm-e for engine and 

 ■works, 169. 



■ , experiment on drainage at different 



depths (R. ]\Iilward), xiv. 210. 



in East Lothian (Stevenson), xiv. 



294. 



• , tools for, exhibited at Gloucester 



meeting, xiv. 346. 



in Surrey (Evershed), xiv. 417. 



• in Herefordslm-e (Rowlandson), xiv. 



453. 



, on trunk drainage, a prize essay, by 



J. A. Clarke, xv. 1 ; rivers, streams, 

 nature's sewers, ib. ; the great easterly 

 ■watershed of England, 2 ; the westerly, 

 ib. ; how nature's provision of drains 

 injured, 3 ; by reservoirs, canals, mills, 

 ib. ; instances of great floods, 4 ; efiect 

 of rivers and brooks in benefiting grass- 

 land by occasional winter flooding, and 

 injuring it by too long a flood, 9 ; injury 

 from summer flooding, 1 1 ; injury by 

 flooding to arable land, 13 ; injury by 

 stoppage or prevention of under-di'aiu- 

 age, ib. ; increase of laud drainage en- 



larges the bulk of the trunk drainage 

 waters, 17 ; the ordinary difiiculties 

 of improving trunk di-ainage, and the 

 remedies, 18 ; history of the public 

 efforts to improve — the fens, 19 ; 

 Erith and Plumstead marshes, 21 ; the 

 Bedford Level, 25 ; windmill pumps 

 first erected, 27 ; the General Drainage 

 Act (10 and 11 Vict. c. 38), state of 

 some rivers, 36 ; the remedy applied to 

 others, ib. ; drainage of the Test and 

 Anton Valleys, 40 ; the amoimt of water 

 per acre evaporated from a saturated 

 soil and a dry chalk soil, 41 ; the Nene 

 Valley drainage, 42; floodings highly 

 injmious to the pubUc health, 51 ; 

 beneficial sanitary resiflts from good 

 drainage, 52 ; varying levels of the tide 

 in the Nene, 53, 55 ; shortsightedness 

 of the Wisbcach corporation, 58 ; the 

 upper valley of the Nene, 60 ; obstruc- 

 tive mills of, 61 ; encroachments of the 

 millers, 62 ; analysis of the Nene river 

 water, 67. 



Drainage in Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 266. 



, Fowler's draining-plough at the 



Lincoln meeting, xv. 367. 



in Dorsetshire (Ruegg), xv. 425. 



operations, extent of, between 1852-4 



(DenisonJ, xvii. 59; aided by the public 

 loan, ib. ; extent in acres, ib. 



, in Durham (Dr. Bell), xvii. 94, 



101 ; of the " watershaken-strata," 114 ; 

 usual depth, 30 in., 18 ft. apart, and 

 36 in. deep, for main drains, 114 ; 

 cost of draining, 117. 



water, its comi^osition (J. T. Way), 



xvii. 123. 



, the benefits of, partly physical, 



partly chemical (J. T. Way), xvh. 123 ; 

 see " Chemical advantages of " ; only 

 rarely coloured by manure, 133; table 

 of mineral contents of Faruham drainage 

 water, 133; samples supplied by Mr. 

 Acland, 137 ; chtto by Mr. C. Wren Hos- 

 kyns, ib. ; mineral matters in drainage 

 water, whence derived, 141 ; drainage 

 water from rich land useful for irriga- 

 tion, 151. 



of Bedfordshire, xviii. 4 ; the Duke 



of Bedford's arrangements with his 

 tenantry, ib. ; should draining follow 

 the direction of the furrow, 50. 



(Hinx worth) ; record of discharge, 



rainfall, warmth in soil, &c., by J. B. 

 Denton, xx. 273 ; Mr. Clutterbuck's 

 estate described, on lower chalk, green- 

 sand, and gault, ib. ; analyses of soils, 

 much lime in the gault from infiltra- 

 tion, 274 ; cost of shallow drains, 275 ; 

 drains in porous soil as few as possible, 



