1840.] 



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,5. Every student, desirous of obtaining a certiticate in science applied to 

 the arts and manufactures, will be requii'ed to present to the examiners the 

 detailed description of some process of manufacturing art, accompanied by 

 the drawings necessary to the explanation of it. This exercise is to bear a 

 certiticate of approval from the lecturer on manufacturing art and niachincr)- ; 

 and the subject of it is to be appointed by him at least three months before 

 the day of examination. 



The certificate of honour will be granted only when this exercise shall have 

 been approved by the lecturer, as the exercise of a candidate for that cer- 

 tificate. 



G. Every student applying for a certificate in civil engineering, whether of 

 the first or second years, will be required to present to the examiners finished 

 drawings of the plan, elevation, and section of a macbiue, made muler the 

 eve of the teacher of drawing, and bearing his certificate of approval. 



For the certificate of the third year these drawings are to be accompanied 

 by others, showing tlie details of the machine, drav\n in isomctrieal projec- 

 tion, or in common i)ersi)ective. 



For tlie certificate of honour in the third year, each candidate will be re- 

 quired to ju'oduce, in addition to the aljove, tlie geometrical constructions of 

 at least six )n-oblems in descriptive geometry. 



1. On the intersections of surfaces. 



2. On tangent jdanes. 



3. On developable surfaces. 



4. On projections of the circles of the sphere. 



7. The diploma of associate in the department of civil engineering and 

 science applied to the arts and manufactures, will be granted to such students 

 only as shall have received the certificate of the third year. 



8. Only such students as may have received certificates of honour in the 

 third year will be admitted candidates for the diploma of associate of the 

 first class. 



9. The examination for the diploma of associate of the first class, w ill be 

 held at the Christmas which follows the examination of the thin! year. 

 Every candidate for the diploma of associate of the first class, will be required 

 to present to the examiners, in writing, on the day of examination, the origi- 

 nal project of some ]mblic work or mecbanical contrivance or process of 

 manufacturing art, accompanied by the calculations, drawings, and descrij)- 

 tions necessary to its actual execution, to bo specially approved by the lec- 

 turer on mechanical art and machinery as the exercise of a candidate for the 

 diploma of associate of the first class, and to bear his certificate to that effect. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 12.— Major Sabine, V. P., in the Chair. G. L. Roupell, M. D., was 

 elected a fellow. The following papers were read ; — 



1. " On the nerves of the Grai'id I'lerus," by R. Lee, M.D. 



2. ** Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope, la the year 1838, with 

 Bradlei/'s Zenith Sector, for the verification of tlie Amplitude of the Abbe de 

 la C'aille's Arc of the Meridian." 15y T. Maclear, Esq., communicated by 

 Sir John Barrow, Bart. 



The author gives an account of the precautions taken in putting together 

 the different parts of the zenith sector, which he received on the 9th of De- 

 cember, 1837, in erecting it in the central room of the Royal Observatory, 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, and in afterwards transferring it to the southern 

 station of La Caille, in Cape Town. He then proceeds to descril)e La Caille's 

 observatory, and the particular circumstances of its locality, with relation to 

 the object in view — namely, to determine the influence of Table Mountain 

 on the direction of the plumb line. He next relates his progress to Klyp 

 Fonteyn, where he arrived on the 28tli of March, 1838; and describes the 

 operations resorted to for erecting the sector at that place. He then enters 

 into the details of observations made at different stations, and especially with 

 comjiarative observations at the summit and foot of the mountain of Pequet 

 Berg. The instrument was, lastly, conveyed back to Cape Town, anil again 

 examined, and the observations made with it repeated. The reduction of the 

 labours occupies the remainder of the paper ; and, in conclusion, the author 

 remarks, that, although these labours have not altogether cleared up the 

 anomaly of La Caille's arc, yet they show that great credit is due to that dis- 

 tinguished astronomer, who, with imperfect means, and at the period in 

 which he lived, arrived at a result derived from sixteen stars, almost iden- 

 tical with that from 1139 observations on forty stars, made with a celebrated 

 and powerful instrument. 



Dec. 19. — Major Sabixe, V.P., in the Chair. 



Henry Dninimond, Esq., of Albany Park, Surrey, was elected a Fellow. 



A paper was read, entitled " An Account of Experiments made irith the 

 view of ascertaining the possibility of obtaining a spark before the circuit of 

 the Voltaic Battery is completed." By J. P. Gassiot, Esq. 



ROYAL INSTITUTION OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS. 



At an ordinaiy General Meeting of the memliers, held on Monday De- 

 cember ICth, 1839, George Basevi, Jun. V. P., in the Chair, numerous 

 donations were announced as having been received since the last meeting. 



Mr. Cottani delivered a discourse on the man\ifacture of bricks by ma- 

 chinery, illustrated by models, and drawings of the Marquis of Tweeddale's 

 machines for making of bricks and tiles. 



January 6. — Thomas C'hawner, Fellow, in tlie Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected : as Fellow, James Penythorne, 

 ,-Vrchitect, of 2, Queen Square, Westminster ; as Associate, James Bell, of 

 Wandsworth. 



Mr. Donaldson read a paper on the life of Ammanate, Architect of 

 Florence. 



January 20. — Edward Blore, V. P., in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected : as Fellow, John Crake, Archi- 

 tect, of Old Quebec Street; Associate, F. Ashtun, of No. 2, Pelbain 

 Crescent. 



Several donations were announced as having been received, among which 

 was a donation of lO;., by Thomas Chawner, Esq., Fellow. 



A highly interesting |iiipcr of deep research was read by Edward I'Auson, 

 Jun., oil the Temple of Vict(u-y, Apteros, at Athens, accoiiipanied by draw- 

 ings illustrative of its state of restoration in the Spring of 1836. 



Mr. Donaldson read a iiajiiM- by llerr llallemann. Architect, from Hanover, 

 on the History of Grecian and Russian Ecclesiastical Arcbitccture, illus- 

 trated by examples, and an original design 



MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES IN FEBRUARY. 



Institution of Ci\il Engineers, 25, Great George Street, every Tuesday at 8. 

 Royal Institute of British Architects, 16, Grosvenor Street, Monday 3rd 



and l'7tli, .it 8. 



Architectural Society, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Tuesday the 25th, at 8. 

 Society of Arts, Adelphi, every Wednesday at half-past 7. 

 Roval Societv 



Society of Antiquaries 



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 s J 



Somerset House, cverv Tuesdav at 8. 



PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. 



IIOUSK Ob' COMMONS. 



.TaniKiry 17. Petilinns fvr Bills presented. — Arbroath and Forfar Rail \i ay ; 

 Sheffield .'ind Ro In'ili.iin Railway Act Amendment; Lancaster and Preston 

 Railway Act Amcnrlment; Chester anil Birkenhead Railway; Tall Vale 

 Railway ; North Union Railway. 



Jan. 20. — Ivlinburgb and (il:is;;ow Railway. 



.Tan. 21. — (Jreat Level of the Uasli Inclosure. 



Jnn. 22. Petitions n'/cm-d to thr Select Committee on Petitions for Private 

 Bills. — Arbroath and I'orfar Railway ; Slicffield and Roiberham Railway 

 Act Amendment, ri'lerred to Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; 

 Lancaster and Preston Railway Act Amendment, petition ; Chester anil 

 Birkenhead Railway; TalV Vale Railway; North Union Railway; l'".din- 

 burgb ;iiid Glasgow Railway; (ilasgow. Paisley. Kilmarnock, and Ayr 

 Railway. Railway Conimvinication. — Select Committee a[ipoin1ed. " to in- 

 quire into the state of communication by railways, anti to report tlieii ob- 

 servations thereupon to the House :" Mr. Laboiicbere, Sir Robert Peel. Lord 

 Granville Somerset, Mr. Thorneley. Lord Sandoii, Mr. Loch, Mr. Fresbfield, 

 .-ir John (iue^t, Lord Stanlev, 'Mr. (ireeiie. Sir Harry Veiney, Mr. Henry 

 Baring. Sir James (irahiim, Lord Seymour, Mr. Easlborpe. Mr. Kmer.son 

 Teiinent, and Mr. Freiicli : — Power to send for persons, papers, and rec irds 

 five to be tlie quorum. 



STEAM NAVIGATION. 



Steam Navigation. — Vi'e are much gratified to perceive the improved condi- 

 tion of seamen generally, .and to bear congratulatory accounts on all sides 

 respecting this desirable event. The infusion of young blood of the right 

 quality, in the persons of upwards of twenty-four thousand apprentices, 

 within the last five years, has h id a marked ellect upon the mass ; lor some 

 thousands of these having com|ileted their apprenticeship, are now become 

 active able seamen. The iuiuiIkt of ap|irentices reared in steam-vessels — 

 (the General Steam Navigation alone maintain upwards of fitly, principilly 

 selected from the Naval .Schoo's at Greenwich) — will become a most valuable 

 class of men ; and we have heard that the highly respectable firm of Seward 

 and Co., so celebrated for their success in the manufacture and improvement 

 of steam-engines, have Imw ujiwards of three liundred youths indentured as 

 apprentices, with the view of their becoming eng neers and assistant en- 

 gineers in steam-vessels, and lully competent to repair any casualty in the 

 engines that is practicable at sea, without the necessity for returning to port 

 or laying up the vessel. — Naval and Military Gazette. 



Improved Marine Enirines. — A fine new iron steam boat, the property o 

 Jjord F. Kgcrton. or in other words of the Bridgevvater Trust, was recently 

 launclied from the yard of Messrs. Page and Grantlnim. She was named the 

 Alice, after Loi'd F'rancis F.g, rton's eldest daughter, is about 170 tons burden, 

 old measurement, is neatly fitted up, and is a handsome lively looking boat 



