INDEX. 



Branch-railway steam-carriage, Samuel's, 374 



Brande, on artiticial lislit, 05 



Brandon, on timber roofs of middle ages (rev.) 225 



Breakwater at Dover, 62, 204 



Breakwaters, flexible, and lighthouses. Smith, 380 



Brewster's (Sir D.) binocular camera, 186 



Brewster's (Sir D.) new stereoscopes, 159 



Brick and tile kilns, Ainslie, 188; Swaine'spat.,81 



Brick ceiling, St. George's liall, Liverpool, 158 



Bricks, Skertchley's pat. for moulding, 55 



Bridge at Atblone, 222 



Bridge, the oblique, Bashforth on, 147 



Bridge, Blair's iron lattice, 161 



Bridge, Britannia tubular, 218, 251, 264, 287, 305, 



346, 381 ; accident at, 287, 305 

 Bridge, Conway tubular, 63, 251, 381 

 Bridge, floating railway, 191 

 Bridge, girder, Gardner's pal., 250 

 Bridge, high-level, on the Tyne, 216 

 Bridge on the Blackwall railway, 192 

 Bridge, Pesth suspension, 64, 287 

 Bridge, proposed railway, at Cologne, 352 

 Bridge, tubular, Gainsborough, 255 

 Bridges, strength of, Buchanan on, 13, 331 ; Os- 

 borne on, 83 

 Bridges, suspension, a new principle of, Russell 



on, 380 

 Bridgewaler House, 1 

 Brindley's pat. papier mach^, 55 

 Brindley's pat. waterproof paper, 373 

 Britannia and Conway bridges, Fairbairn's his- 

 tory of (rev.) 251 

 Britannia tubular bridge, 218, 251, 264, 287, 305, 



346 ; accident at, 287, 305 

 British Architects, Royal Institute of, 9, 30, 57, 

 60, 92, 120, 158, 223, 254 ; award of prizes, 158, 

 224,255 

 British Association, mechanical section, 304 ; che- 

 mical section, 341 

 British Museum, 290 

 British Museum and iMr. Fergusson, 196 

 British Museum and National Gallery, 274 

 British Museum, Candidus on, U7, 146, 161, 258 

 Brooke, on photographic paper, 343 

 Browning's algebra of ratios (rev.) 293 

 Browning's reply to review, 331 

 Brunton's colliery ventilator, 187, 308 

 Buchanan, on Britannia and Conway bridges, 381 

 Buchanan, on strengtii of materials, 13, 381 

 Buckland's (Dr.) lecture on Artesian Wells, re- 

 marks on, 357 

 Bucklands, pat. compression of fuel, 3C8 

 Buckland, Dr., lecture on artesian wells, 379 

 Builders' benevolent institution, 224 

 Builders, Gerbier's counsel to, 153 

 Buildings and monuments, modern and mediaeval, 



(rev.^ 167 

 Buildings, cleaning of, 286 



Building materials of Paris, Burnell on, 223,238 

 Buist, on evaporation from the soil, 288 

 Bunnell's pat. walerclosels, 119 

 Burn, on American saw-gin, 122 

 Burnell, on building materials of Paris, 223, 238 



Caen Stone, qualities of, 60 



Calculating machine, Neudsladt and Barnett's 



pal., 314 

 Caleduuiau canal, 246 



Calico printing, Davison's drying apparatus, 311 

 California, iron buildings for, 319 

 Cambridge, King's College chapel, 162 

 Cambridge, restorations at, 32 

 Camden station, North-Western railway, 122 

 Camera, binocular. Sir D. Brewster's, 186 

 Canals in India, irrigation of. Smith on, 359 

 Canals of England, 214 ; Scotland, 246 

 Canals, &c. in Bog, Mullins on, 201 

 Candidus's Note-book, 2, 33, 65, 97, 145,161, 



195, 229, 258, 289, 322 

 Candidus. on the ' Seven Lamps of Architecture,' 



161, 195,229,258,322 

 Caoutchouc spring for time-pieces. Smith's, 350 

 Caoutchouc springs for rigging, Newall's pat., 352 



Cape Pine lighthouse, 287 



Carriages, gun, Woollen's pat., 371 



Carrick's self-acting water-meter, 350 



Carving-machinery, Jordan's, 28 



Cast and wrought iron bridge girders, Gardner's 



pat., 250 

 Cast and wrought iron bridges, Buchanan on, 13 ; 



Osborne on, 83 

 Cast and wrought iron, soldering of, 191 

 Cast-iron, Analytical investigations of, Wrightson 



on, 342 

 Cast-iron windows, ornamental, 63 

 Cast-iron pipes, enamelled, 62 

 Cast-iron pipes, Stewart's pat., 280 

 Castings, metal. Shank's pal., 334 ; Henderson's 



pat, 335 

 Cathedral, St. Paul's, Candidus on, 33 

 Central railway station, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 97 

 Centre of gravity of locomotive-engines, 216 

 Centrifugal pump for draining, Appold's, 305 

 Centrifugal strains of railway-wheels. Cox on, 31 

 Chain-links for cables, Price's, 352 

 Chain-pipe for subaqueous telegraphs, Whi- 



shaw's, 304 

 Chalk formation, analysis of water from, 349 

 Chalk formation, water from, Buckland's lecture 



on, 379 

 Chalk formation, water from, Homersham's reply 



to Buckland, 378 

 Chalk formation, water from, 357 

 Chemical process for boring rocks, 63 

 Chapman, on railways in Bombay, and the cotton 



question (rev.) 86 

 Chester, novel suspension bridge at, 320 

 Chester, sewerage of, Baylis's report on, 188 

 Chloride of gold, preparation of, 319 

 Chloride of silver, reduction of, 225 

 Chlorure of silver, decomposition of, 383 

 Chronology and architecture of Egypt, Papworth 



on, 185 

 Church architectural publications (rev.) 225 

 Church of St. Isaac, Pelersburgh, 9 

 Church of the Holy Trinity, Cork, dry rot in, 303 

 Cistern, self-acting, Hosmer's, 312 

 Civil Engineers' Institution, 35, 60, 93, 121, 156, 



184,222,382; award of prizes, 61 

 Civil engineering and architecture, Clegg on, 337 

 Clapham, plan of, Bland's (rev.) 120 

 Clark, on isonietrical perspective, 3 

 Clay's pat. rolling of iron, 249 

 Claudet's pholographometer, 93 

 Cleaning of buildings, 286 

 Cleaning silver or brass, 191 

 Clock, electric, Blackie's, 29 

 Clegg's lecture on civil engineering and architec- 

 ture, 337 

 Cloth, paint or colours on, Pattison's pat., 180 

 Clubhouses, London, Candidus on, 289 

 Coal-field of South Wales, Moses (rev.) 318 ; 



Richardson on, 121 

 Coal-mine, salt water spring in, 357 

 Coal mines, prevention of accidents in, 94, 308 ; 



Gordon's pat., 372 

 Coals for steam navy, De laBeche and Playfair's 



second report, 269 

 Coal-tar, Smith's pat. preparation, 179 

 Cockerell, on style in architecture, 254 ; Candidus 



on, 322 

 Cocks and valves, Llewellin's pat, 336 

 Colierdam, free-action pump for, 57 

 Cofl'erdam, wroughl-iron, 62 

 Cofl'erdam at Grimsby docks, 382 

 Colliery ventilation, Brunton on, 187, 308 ; Edg- 



inglon, 180; Guruey, 127 ; Nicholson, 314 

 Celling, on Gothic ornaments (rev.) 225 

 Cologne, proposed railway bridge at, 352 

 Colon, Spanish war steamer, 100 

 Colouring glass by metallic oxides, Arnoux on, 



343; Boutemps on, 343; Faraday on, 343; 



Pellatton, 157 

 Colours or paints on cloth, Pattison's pat, 180 

 Combined vapour-engine, DuTrembley's 7 

 Commission of sewers, 333 

 Companion to the log-book, Borrie's (rev.) 120 

 Comparative inequality of poor-rate, 383 



Comparative prices and wages — 1842 to 1849, 



Porter on, 345 

 Compasses and barometers, Napier's pat, 79 

 Compression of fuel, Buckwell's pat., 368 

 Condensers, Siemens's improvements, 127 

 Condensing steam-engines, Newton's pat, 369 

 Conflict, steam sloop, trial of, 384 

 Conservatories, roofs and glazing of, Cooper, 187 

 Conversazione, Mr. Field's, 185 

 Conway tubular bridge, 63, 251, 264 

 Cooper, on flint-glass for optical purposes, 122 

 Cooper, on roofs of conservatories and hothouses, 



187 

 Cooper, on staining and enamelling glass, 350 

 Cooper's glass blowing apparatus, 350 

 Cooper's glass melting furnace, 350 

 Cooper's kelp glass manufacture, 350 

 Copper, enamelled, manufacture of, at Canton, 278 

 Copper, experiments on action of sea water OD, 



Dr. Percy, 342 

 Copying electric telegraph, Bakewell's, 217, 311 

 Correct sizing of toothed- wheels, Roberts on, 304 

 Correspondence on the Bell-rock lighthouse, 77, 



123, 136, 180, 253 

 Corrosion of metals, prevention of, 95 

 Corrugated-iron beams. Porter's pat, 68, 250 

 Cost of the Victoria and Albert yacht, 383 

 Coupling-joints for pipes, Newton's pat, 118 

 Cox, notes on engineering, XII. 34 ; XIII. lOT 

 Cox, on the centrifugal strains of railway car- 

 riages, 34 

 Cox, on the vibratory strains of railway bridges, 



107 

 Crampton's pal. locomotive-engines, 157, 184 

 Crane's wax candle safety mining-lamp, 94 

 Crank, substitute for, 328 



Cryslalline polarity of bismuth, Faraday on, 30 

 Croll's pat. gas improvements, 150 

 Cross-cut sawing-machine, Douglass, 61 



D 



Danube improvements applicable to Indian 



rivers. Shepherd on, 321 

 Davison's desiccating process, 310 

 Decay of timber from dry rot, 303 

 Decomposition of chlorure of silver, 383 

 Decomposition of minerals, &c. by water, Rogers 



on, 341 

 Decorative glass, 286 



Dee, report of commissioners of river (rev.) 149 

 Dempsey, on drainage of towns and buildings 



(rev.) 318 

 Desiccating process for drying wood, Davison, 310 

 Dia-magnetism, 95 



Dictionary of architecture, Bernan (rev.) 148 

 Digest of evidence on tenant right, Shaw (rev.) 120 

 Dilapidations and nuisances, law of, D. Gibbons 



(rev.) 221 

 Discharge of water from reservoirs, Bayer on, 



243, 201, 291, 325 

 Distance of sun from Ihe earth, 51 

 Dock-entrances, Redman on, 129 

 Docks, hydraulic, Scott's, 29 

 Docks of England, history of, 284 > 



Docks, Grimsbp, cofl'erdam at, 382 

 Dockray's description of Camden station, 122 

 Dockray's report on permanent way, 193 

 Dodd's swivel bridge at Falkirk, 191 

 Dollraan's ancient pulpits of England (rev.) 225 

 Dolomite, formation of, Forchhammer on, 342 

 Donaldson, on church of St. Isaac, Pelersburgh, 9 

 Dover breakwater, 62,204 

 Double-action pump, Easlou and Amos's, 213 

 Double-trapped waterclosets, Bunnell's pat, 119 

 Douglass's cross-cut sawing-machine, 61 ; saw- 

 mill, 187 

 Drainage of (Juildford, 191 

 Drainage of Haarlem lake, 320 

 Drainage of land, Webster on, 123 ; Williams on, 



39 

 Drainage of marshes, Appold's pump, 305 

 Drainage of towns and buildings, Dempsey (rev.) 



318 

 Drayton's pat silvering of glass, 251 



