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Mr. T. Motley on a Suspension Bridge over the Avon, TivM-ton l/)7 



Mr. J. Price on an Improved Method of constructing Railways l.'iS 



Mr. Hall's Machine for raising Water by an Hydraulic Belt 158 



Mr. Samuda on Cliff's Dry Gas Meter 158 



Mr. Joseph Garnett on anew Day and Night Telegraph 159 



Mr. Hawthorn on an Improved Method of working the Valves of a Loco- 

 motive Engine 160- 



Mr. W. Fairbairn on the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of 

 Steam-Engine Boilers, and other Vessels of Wrought Iron or Copper, 



subject to Pressure 160 



Mr. J. Price on a Steam-engine Boiler 162 



Mr. S. Rowley's New Rotatory Steam-Engine 162 



Mr. W. Greener's Remarks on the Construction of Steam-Boilers 162 



Mr. Maule on a Substitute for the Forcing Pump in supplying Steam- 

 Boilers, &c 1 63 



Mr. John Scott Russell's Notices on the Resistance of Water 163 



Mr. J. T. Hawkins on Methods of Filtering Water 163 



Mr. DoBsoN on a Method of making Bricks of any required Colour 163 



Mr. Poorness on Coal-Mine Ventilation 163 



Mr. Joseph Glynn on the Water- works of Newcastle-on-Tyne 164 



STATISTICS. 



Mr. Cargill on Educational Statistics of Newcastle 165 



Mr. D. H. Wilson on the Church and Chapel-room in All Saints' Parish, 



Newcastle 166 



Mr. John Stephens's Return of Prisoners coming under the cognizance 

 of the Police in Newcastle, from the 2nd of October, 1837, to the 2nd 



of August, 1838 166 



Rev. J. M'Alister's Statistical Notices of the Asylum for the Blind lately 



established at Newcastle-upon-Tyne 167 



Mr. Hindmarsh on the State of Agriculture and the condition of the Agri- 

 cultural Labourers of the Northern Division of Northumberland.. 167 



Mr. W. H. Charlton's Statistical Report of the Parish of Bellingham in 



Northumberland 168 



Mr. P. M'DowAL on the Statistics of Ramsbottom 168 



Mr. W. L. Wharton's Statistical Tables of the Engines, Ventilation, 

 Screens, Sales, &c. ; and Pitmen ; and the Strata of Nine principal 

 Collieries in the County of Durham : the first eight being situated on the 



East or "Dip" Side of the great Durham Coal-field 169 



Rev. H. L. Jones's Series of Statistical Illustrations of the principal Uni- 

 versities of Great Britain and Ireland 170 



Mr. W. R. Rawson's Description of the " London Fire Engine Establish- 

 ment," and of the Number, Extent, and Causes of the Fires in the Me- 

 tropolis and its Vicinity, during the Five Years from 1833 to 1837 170 



Mr. Rawson's Abstract of Report of the Railway Commissioners of Ireland 171 

 Mr. W. Felkin's Abstract of Statistics respecting the Working Classes in 



Hyde, Cheshire 172 



Mr. T. Wilson's Short Account of the Darton Collieries' Club 173 



Mr. G. R. Porter's Statistical View of the recent Progress and present 

 Amount of Mining Industry in P'rance, drawn from the Official Reports 



of the" Direction Generale des Fonts et Chaussees et des Mines" 174 



Colonel Sykes on the Statistics of Vitahty in Cadiz 174 



Mr. Hare on an Outline for Subjects for Statistical Inquiries 177 



Mr. Jeffries Kingsley's Criminal Returns of the Empire 177 



