Principles of geometry, &c., T. Tate (rev.), 1 38 



Proceedings of scientific societies, 29 ,60, 87,123, 

 182,221, 283, 380 



Production of tlie beautiful, Purdie on, 142 



Progress of tlie railway system, W. Harding, 308 



Propellers and engines, Maudslay'spat., 305 

 ,, pumps, Humphrey's pat., 247 



Propelling blades, Stow's pat., 2SG 

 ,, by means of gas, 128 



Provision traffic on railways, 335 



Publication of architectural knowledge, society 

 for, 137 



Puis's pat. mining apparatus, 248 



Pulley, a new application of, 92 



Pumps and screw propeller."!, Humphrey's pat., 

 247 



Punching machine, .Jacquard, 88, 225 



Purdie on the fallacy of Hay's theory of symme- 

 trical beauty, 148 



Purdie, on the production of the beautiful, 148 



Quadrant, Regent's, removal of, 291 

 Quarrying machine, 160 



Railway Companies, amalgamation of, 373 

 Railway alarum, Allen's, 30 ; Baird's, 318 ; Brett 

 and Little's, 30 : Brothers's, 30 ; Button's, 30 ; 

 M'Coll's, 32; Moffat's, 32; Tattersal's, 191 

 Railways and railway legislation, Doull (rev.),72 

 Railway and steam navigation defences, 43 

 „ apparatus, Wrighton's pat., 246 

 „ average rate and mileage on, 367 

 „ bars and chairs, Shaw's pat., 169 

 „ break, Chaplin's pat., 114; Heath's, 304; 

 Hepburn's, 32 ; Laignet's triple, 192; Lister's 

 pat., 304 

 Railway bridge, iron truss. Rider's, 30 



„ broad and narrow gauge, Briant's plan 



for uniting, 30 

 „ buffers, De Bergue's pat,, 247 

 „ carriage axles, Berger's pat., 46 

 „ carriages and locomotive engines, Tay- 

 lor's pat., 23 

 „ carriage-wheels, Evans's pat., 189 

 „ Heaton's pat., 189 ; Newton's, pat., 114 

 „ chair, malleable iron, 31 

 Railways, Crane's improvements, 32 



„ Colonial, 96 

 Railway dividends, 96 



„ engines, Heaton's pat., 189 

 „ „ and breaks, Taylor's pat., 76 



„ „ and carriages, "Taylor's, 23 



Railway elevator, Fothergill's 380 

 Railway engineering, Baker's (rev.), 74 

 Railways, formulje for laying out widths of, 327 



,, to calculate area of cross-section on, 137 



Railway girders, dellectioa and strain of, 258 

 ,, guide for assistant engineers (rev.), 213 

 „ Gordon's pat. improvements, 370 

 „ government system in Ireland (rev.), 214 

 Railways, Hepburn on the prevention of accidents, 



31 

 Railway junctions, on setting out, by A. Bean- 

 land, 124 

 „ keys, Barlow's pat., 304 

 ,, machinery, Blaclcwall, 83 

 Railways, negotiation of directors of, 352 

 „ new atmospheric, 224, 284 

 „ of India (rev.), 103 

 „ opened, 223, 254, 288, 351, 352 

 „ passengers and fares, 241 

 „ practice, Brces (rev.), 57 

 ,, precautions o:i, by W. Harding, 32 

 „ progress. South- Eastern, 318 

 Railway rescue (rev.), 346 



,, sections in sidelong ground, 37, 67 

 „ signals, Baird's pat,, 318 

 „ sleepers, preservation of wood for, 224 

 „ station, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, account 

 of, 353 - 



Railways, Smith dR goveroment loan to, 127 

 Railway, South-Western, extension of, 254 



„ statistics, by H. Clarke, 241, 268, 333, 

 366 



INDEX. 



Railway statistics, V,', Harding, 308 



„ switches, NicoU's, 32 



„ telegraph and alarum, Hoare's, 30 



,, time signals, 250 



,, trains, collision of, 196 



„ Gooch, on the resistance to, 155, 186,203 



„ wheels and jacks, Dunn's pat., 169 



„ wheels, Asbbury's pat., 369 

 Rain gauges, on the construction of (rev.), 177 



„ Homersham, on the fall of, 349 



,, the cause of, 191 

 Ramsay, on submergence of land in M'ales, 314 

 Randall, on salt, a poison to plants, 312 

 Ranger's lectures on civil engineering (rev.), 378 

 Rankine,on the construction of sea-walls, 123 

 Ransome, on artificial stone, 61, 90 

 Rare shot, 127 



Reaction water-wheels, Parker's, 110, 171 

 Red sandstone, new, supply of water from, 188 

 Redman, on entrances to docks, 123 

 Refinery, slag, occurrence of Vanadium in, 319 

 Refining silver and lead, Johnson's pat., 143 

 Regent's quadrant, removal of, 291 

 Register of new patents, 22, 45, 75, 111, 143,167, 



214, 246, 285, 302, 342, 368 

 Registering machine. Sharp's, 63 

 Regnault's theory of steam-engines, 236,265,338 

 Regulation of buildings in towns (rev.), 27, 55 

 Renard's pat. for colouring and preserving wood, 



143 

 Rennie, on breakwater in PIvmouth Souud (rev.), 



121 

 Reports on coals for the steam navy, 273 

 Report on supply of water to Manchester, Sec. 

 (rev.), 177 



„ steam-engine boilers, 179 



„ survey of Liverpool, 278 

 Reservoirs at Bann, Ireland, 185 

 Reservoirs, embankments for, 197 

 Resistance to bodies in fluids, 106 



„ railway trains at dilferent velocities, 

 155. 186, 203 

 Reverbratory furnaces, Chance's pat., 304 

 Reviews, 26, 55, 68, 120, 138, 173, 205, 295 



Reviews : — 



Air pump and atmospheric railway, Turnball, 2fi 



Antiquarian and genealogist's companion, Bruce, 27 



Architecture, history of, Tuthill, 377 



Art, ancient and modern, Cleghorn, 73 



Birkenhead port and docks, Webster, GS 



Breakwater in Plymouth Sound, Rennie, 121 



Buildings in towns, guide to the proper regulation of, 



Hosking, 27, 55 

 Earthwork tables. Baker, 74 ; Bashforth, 296 j Sibley and 



Rutherford, 27 

 Engineering, syllabus of lectures on. Ranger; 37B 

 Geometry, principles of, Tate, 138 

 Gregory's mathematics for practical men. Law, 209, 241) 

 Hotel de Ville, Paris, Calliat, K'J 

 Indian Railways, Old Indian Postmaster, 103 

 Irish wants and practical remedies. Brown, 214 

 Junius's letters, on authorship of, Britton, 213 

 Lecture at College of Civil Engineers, Playfair, 376 

 Lighthouse on bkerryvore rock, Stevenson, 173, 20a 

 Liverpool, sewerage of, Newland. 278 

 Mechanics, theoretical and practical, Hann, 375 

 IMlnts, observations on, Smith, 315 

 Plymouth sound, breakwater in, Rennie, 121 

 Palace of Westminster, * * * 2y5 

 Railway engineering. Baker, 7-1 

 Railway guide, assistant engineer's, 213 

 Railway practice, Brees's, b7 

 Railways and railway legislation, Doull, 72 

 Railway rescue, * * *, 3-47 



Schools and schoolhouses, designs for, Kendall, 57 

 Steam-boiler explosions, causes of, Wilder, 17S 

 Steam-engine, Alban's high-pressure, Pole, 211 

 Steam-boiler, studies of, Templetoc, 21Hi 

 Ship- building, theory and practice of. White, 120 

 Skerryvore lighthouse, account of, Stevenson, 173, 205 

 Surveying a treatise on, colonial. Whitehead, 140 

 Telegraphs, electric, 17') 



Water, supply of to Manchester, &c., Homersham, 177 

 Young surveyor's preceptor, Reid, 122 



Rhine and Jloselle, engineering of, 155 

 Richards's letter on Cowper's inverted arch 



bridge, 8 

 Richmond's engine counter, 61 

 Rider's iron truss railway bridge, 30 

 Rifle-barrel, Lancaster's pat., 192 

 Ritchie's pat. locomotive engines, 306 

 Rival palaces, by Candid us, 36 



Rivers and harbours, on shoals at the enti'socei 



of, 186 

 Roberts's new element of mechanism, 315 



„ Jacquard perforating machine, 225 

 Robertson on Blackwall railway machinery, 83 

 Robb's malleable iron railway chair, 31 



„ stop-cook for corrosive fluids 

 Rochaz's pat. for obtaining oxide of zinc, 307,343 

 Rocks, blasting of, 288 

 Rocke's pat. for casting wrought iron, 216 

 Rolling iron, machine for, 191 

 Rome, ancient theatres and porticoes of, 233 

 Roof of the D iblin terminus, fall of, 63 

 Rope,compara ive strength of wire and hemp, 352 

 Rotary engine^, expansive, Wilson's pat., 285 

 „ Davies's pat., 370 



„ fallacy of, 284 



„ Kinsman's pat., 216 



Rotary heels, 192 

 Royal Academy exhibition, 163, 195, 218,228, 



326 

 Royal institute of British architects, 29, 60, 89, 

 124, 150, 186,221,380 

 „ Institution of engineers at the Hague, 127 

 „ Polytechnic institution, 96, 159 

 „ Scottish society of arts, 31, 62, 91, 125, 

 148,153,184 

 Russell's pat. bar iron, 286 



„ on improvements in steam navigation, 311 

 Rutherford and Sibley's earthwork tables (rev.), 27 



Sack-holder, Gilbert's pat.. Ill 

 Sadler's pat. balance bridge, 75 

 Safety lamp, history of, 329 

 „ valves, Wilson's, 285 

 ,, wheel ring-revolver, 63 

 Salta poison to plants, 312 

 Saltash bridge for the Cornwall railway, 96 

 Salt spring atDroitwich, 319 

 Salzede's pat. for bronzing metals, 169 

 Samuel's light engines and trains, 223 

 Sandstone, new red, supply of n ater from, 188,381 

 Sand traffic on railways, 333 

 Sanitary commissioners, Cresy's evidence before, 

 59,81.115, 17 

 „ improvements in the sewage, 252 

 ,, laws, at home and abroad, 252 

 Sash-line, Newall's pat., 156 

 Saws, circular, 318 



Schools and schoolhouses, designs for (rev.), 57 

 Schiele's pat. condenser, 114 

 Scottish society of arts, 31, 62, 91, 125, 148, 153, 



184 

 Screw cutting machine, 295 



„ pile and moorings, Mitchell's, 122 

 „ propellers and pumps, Humphrey's pat.,247 

 Sea-walls, Rankine on the construction of, 123 

 Self-acting gas apparatus, Watson's pat., 342 

 Separating iron from ore. Wall's pat., 144 

 Setting out railway junctions, Beauland on, 124 

 Sewage and drainage of Bristol, 93 



„ Liverpool, 278 



„ pipes, 96 



„ sanitary improvements in, 76 

 Sewers, commission of, 32 



„ diaphragm double, Moffatt's pat., 372 

 „ (metropolitan) act, 287 

 „ On the principles and practice of building, 

 by E. I'Anson, 29 

 Sewer trap, Bunnell's pat., 25 

 Sharp's letter on Buckingham palace, 7 



„ registering machine, 03 , 

 Shaw's pat. railway bars and chairs, 170 

 Sheathing for ships, 256 



Ship-building, theory and practice of (rev.), 120 

 Ships, Kenwood's pat. for steering, 47 

 Ships without keels, Zerman's, 375 

 Shrewsbury and Chester railway, opening of, SSI 



engine, 382 

 Sibley and Rutherford's earthwork tables (rev.), 27 

 Sidelong ground, a theorem to calculate the area 

 of a cross section, 67, 137 

 „ Cox's tables for calculating of 



earthworks io, 199 



