VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE. 



201 



in the British Isles, 272 ; "Wicliwood 

 Forest ami the disatforestniont act, 

 ib. ; survey, 273 ; public roads, ib. ; 

 award and crown allotment, ib. ; licrds 

 of deer, 274 ; clearance of brushwood 

 and timber, ih. ; timber and tree throw- 

 intj-maehine, 275 ; receipts from timber 

 felled, ib. ; f^rubbing and fencing, 27*j ; 

 creation of farms, 277 ; tenders and 

 tenants, ib. ; map of crown estate, 278 ; 

 names and extent of farms, 279 ; ex- 

 penditure in improvements, ?7>. ; present 

 and former income from the forest, ib. ; 

 effects of the disaftbrestnient, 280 ; 

 visit and report b)^ the I^and Sur- 

 veyors' Club, 281 ; tenants' work, //). ; 

 description of Potter's-liill farm, ib. ; 

 tenns of agreement, 282 ; management, 

 ib. ; tables of owners and tenant's 

 ■work, 283 ; proposed course of crop- 

 ping, ib. ; general remarks, 284 ; duty 

 of reclamation, 285. 



Water, the amoimt of, in food (L. Play- 

 fair), iv. 229. 



, the way in wliicli it enters a land- 

 drain (E. Beart), iv. 413 : holding clay 

 in suspension will choke the most 

 porous mediimis, iv. 425. 



, on its influence on the temperature 



of soils, on the quantity of rain-water, 

 and its discharge by drains, by J, 

 Parkes, v. 119. See "Drainage." 



, regarded by the early philosophers 



as the sole food of plants, i. 148. 



■ , river-water, analysis of, i. 152 ; of 



the Nene (Clarke), xv. 67. 



evaporated from tlie leaves of a 



polyanthus (Phillips), vii. 306. 



, sewage, analysis of, xiii. 506. 



, river, analysis of, xiii. 506. 



, spring, analysis of, xiii. 506. 



, land-drain, analysis of, xiii. 506. 



• , SEA, analysis of (Schweitzer), xvii. 



440. 



, amount of, evaporated from a dry 



chalk soil and from a saturated soil 

 (J. A. Clarke), xv. 41. 



, grasses (B^ickman), xv. 465. 



, a solvent, xvii. 440. 



, from rain and drains, its composi- 

 tion (J. T. Way), xvii. 123 ; difficulty 

 of analysing explained, 130. 



from Farnham, selected by IMr. 



Paine, its analysis (J. T. Way), xvii. 

 131-3 ; small amount of potash and 

 phosphoric acid present, 134 ; table of 

 organic consituents, ib. ; largo amount 

 of nitric acid, 136 ; this an exceptional 

 case, ib. 



from Devonshire, selected by Mr. Ac- 

 land, its analysis (J. T. Way;, xvii. 137. 



watp:k-meadows. 



Watkr selected by Mr. W. Hoskyns, its 

 analysis (J. T. Way), xvii. 137. 



, a lecture on its chemical qualities 



(Dr. Voelcker), xxv. 562 ; defective 

 supply in small towns, and pernicious- 

 elf ects of iminire water, 563 ; water for 

 drinking purposes, determination of it'* 

 good and bad qualities, 564 ; carbonate 

 of lime a principal constituent of hard 

 water, ib. ; value of deep wells, 566 r 

 water for cooking and washing, ib. ; 

 means of rendering water soft, ib. ; 

 Clarke's purifying process, ib. ; the 

 Woolwich boiler-cleaning process, 567 ; 

 action of water on leaden pipes, ib. ; 

 jiroper mode of laying water-supply 

 pipes, 568. Disrussimi — -Mr. Frere on 

 the supply of good water for the use of 

 farm-labourers, 569. 



in the head in sheep (F. Dun), xvi. 



in the horse (F. Dun), xiv. 126. 



■ economy of France, the, in its rela- 

 tion to agriculture (F. K. de la Tre- 

 honnais), xxii. 421. 



Watercourses, rivers and otlier, on the 

 improvement of, by W. B. Wood, xiii. 

 367. See " Rivers." 



, the weeds of (Buckman), xvi. 380. - 



AVatercresses, growth of, in Bucking- 

 hamshire (Read), xvi. 291 ; in Hert- 

 fordshire, xxv. 312. 



Water-meadows of West Somerset de- 

 scribed (P. Pusey), iv. 312. 



, the economical formation, at Bi- 

 cester, described by AV. Paxton, i. 

 346. 



, quality of the hay produced from 



(AV. Paxton), i. 347. 



-, the Clipstone, at Mansfield, de- 

 scribed by J. E. Denison, i. 359 ; extent, 

 when formed, ;7>. ; soil, 360 ; the best 

 inclination for the meads, 361 ; on flat 

 land, the seeds sown,ib. ; when watered, 

 ib. ; time of keeping on the water, 362 ; 

 best quality of water, soft water, that 

 from bogs, ib. ; sewer and street water, 

 ib. ; a reservoir formed to equalise the 

 supply, 363 ; effects of laml-draining 

 in causing the land to sink, ib. ; effects 

 of a neglect of Ijottom-drainage, 364 ; 

 a weed apt to form in the pipes, ib. ; 

 the stoppage of drains by roots, 365 ; 

 the produce of, at Clipstone, ib. ; value 

 of the capital expended in tiieir forma- 

 tion, 367 ; the liability of sheep fed on 

 these meadows at certain seasons to 

 take the rot, lb. 



of Nottinghamshire (Corringham), 



vi. 39. 



, on the conversion of a moory hill- 



