Rennie's correspondence on Bell Rock lighthouse, 



77, 12:t, 130, 180,253 

 Rennie's pat. trapezium float wheels, 259 

 Report (2nd) on coals for the steam navy, De la 



Beche and Play fair, 269 

 Report on Dee river, Stevenson (rev.) 149 

 Report on railways' permanent way, Dockray, 193 

 Report on sewerage of Chester, Baylis, 188 

 Report on patent laws, 275 

 Report on the Fr-uch exposition of products of 



industry, \Vyatt, 353 

 Reservoirs, discbarge of water from, Bayer, 243, 



261, 291,324 

 Resistance of posts to flexure, Houpt on, 302 

 Restorations at Cambridge, 32 



Reviews of Books- 

 Aide Memoire, 227 

 Algebra of ratios. Browning, '2'J'S, 331 

 Architectural dictionary, Bernan, 148 

 Arcliitectural lending library, rules of, 275 

 Architectural publication society, 167 

 Architecture, rudimentary, Leeds, IG 

 Art, impulse to, Jopling, 332 

 Atlas, popular, Clarke, 17 

 Auckland islands, Endsrby, 318 



Bibliotheques scientiliques industrielles, Mathias, 274 

 British Bluseum and National Gallery, Fergusson, 274 

 Buildings and monuments, modern and mcdicEVal, 1*»7 

 Clapham, plan of. Bland, 12l> 

 Coal field of South Wales, Moses, 318 



Dee river, report of commissioners, 149 



Dilapidantios and nuisances. Gibbons, 221 



Elements of plane trigonometry, Hann, 318 



Engineering, Weale's quarterly papers on, 167 



Euclid's Elements, lirst three books of, Tate, 328 



Fire-proof buildings. Fox and Barratt, 318 



Form and sound, beauty of, Purdie, 318, 332 



Fortification, new system of, Fergusson, 227 



Ganges navigation, Robinson, 41>, 86 



Geology of the Lake district Rooke, 318 



Gothic ornaments, Colling, 22.> 



Gutta-percha ornaments pattern-book, 120 



Indian river navigation, Bourne, 271 



Irrigation of land in India, Smith, 3');t 



London, Wyld's map of, 318 



Maidstone, sanitary condition of, Whichcord, 72 



Marine steam engine. Main and Brown, 221 



IVIining almanack, English, 1*J7 



Ornamentation, materials for new style, Whitaker, 149 



Palace of Westminster, illustrations of, 278 



Philosophy of nature and art, Fergusson, 17, -14, 73, HO, 



Pulpits, ancient English, DoUman, 22.'> [143 



Railway companies reference-book, Glynn, 120 



Railway curves, tables for setting out, Kennedy, 318 



Railway taxation, Laing, 72 



Railways in Bombay, Chapman, 8*> 



Railways in Ireland, White, 1(J7. 



Roofs (open timber) of the middle ages, Brandon, 225 



Slaughterhouses, Grantham, 51 



Steam. vessels, companion to log-book for, Borrie, 120 



Southern whale fishery, Enderby, 318 



Surveyor's (young) preceptor. Held, 22. 



Tenant right, Shaw and Corhett, 120 



Tidal rivers improvemsnt, Stevenson, 120, 14p 



Ricardo's pat. insulating wire of telegraphs, 118 



Richardson on coal-field of South Wales (rev.) 121 



Richardson on explosion of firedamp, 121 



Richardson's pat. white- lead, 115 



Richmond vpaterworks pumping engine, 165 



Riepe, on coating iron with zinc, 255 



Rigging, india-rubber springs, Newall's pat. 352 



Ritchie, on ventilation of public buildings, 159 



Rivers, reclamation of land from, 358 



Rivers, tidal, improvement of, Stevenson, 120, 149 



Roads, railways &c. in bog, Mullins (rev.) 201 



Roads, macadamised. Smith on, 300 



Robb's air or stiuk trap for drains, 350 



Roberts, on correct sizing teeth of wheels, 304 



Roberts's eccentric metal and wire gage, 312 



Roberts's sheet metal moulding machine, 335 



Roberts's tide-winding apparatus, 313 



Rocks, chemical process for boring, 03 



Rocks, minerals, &c., decomposition of, 341 



Rogers, on decomposition of rocks, &c., 311 



Roof, iron, Liverpool railway station, 320 



Roofs, timber, Earl of Lovelace on, 222 



Roofs, timber, of middle ages, Brandou (rev.) 225 



Rolling iron bars, Clay's pat., 219 



Rolling iron bars for suspension bridges, 222 



Rooke's geology of the Lake district (rev.) 318 



Rotary engine, McGauley's, 314 



Royal Academy, architecture at, 103,209 



Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, experiments, 31, 192 



INDEX. 



Royal Institute of British Architects, 9, 30 57, 



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



158 224 255 379 

 Royal' Scottish Society of Arts, 13, 29, 61, 94, 



122, 153, 186, 349, 380 ; opening address, 380 ; 



award of prizes, 29 

 Royal Society, 30 



Rudimentary treatises, Weale (rev.) 16, 318 

 Ruskin's'Seven Lamps of Architecture,'Candidus 



on, 101 , 195, 229, 258, 289, 392 

 Russell, on wave principle of steam-vessels, 344 

 Russell, on suspension bridges and piers, 38 



Safety mining-lamp. Crane's, 94 

 Safety-valve, Gregory, 5 

 Sale of Great Britain steamer, 127 

 Salt water spring in a coal mine, 357 

 Samuel's steam carriage for branch traflic, 374 

 Sands, Goodwin, beacon on, 256 

 Sanitary condition of Maidstone (rev.) 72 

 Sash, window, Dean's, 94 

 Saw filing and setting machine, 127 

 Saw gin, American, Burn on, 122 

 Saw mill, Douglass's, 187 

 Sawing and cutting wood, Francis's pat., 299 

 Sawing machine. Barber's pat., 24 ; Douglass's 

 cross-cut, 01 ; for standing timber, Howell, 187 

 Schiele's friction curve improvements, 168 

 Schools, pauper industrial, 347 

 Scientific societies, proceedingso f, 28, 60, 92, 120, 



150, ISO, 222^ 254, 379 

 Scoles, on antiquities of Jerusalem, 92 

 Scott's hydraulic dock, 29 



Scottish Society of Arts, 13,29, 01, 94, 122, 158 

 180, 349 ; opening address, 380 ; award of 

 prizes, 29 

 Screw cramps, Stevenson on, 01 

 Screw-drivers, force of, 02 

 Screw frigate Termagant, trial of 384 

 Screw-pile and moorings, Mitchell on, 35 

 Screw propeller, Pim's pat., 300 

 Screw propeller planing machine, 384 

 „ „ for the Vulcan, 384 



Screw propeller, proportions of, 320 

 Screw steamer, Bosphorus,288; Propontis, 384 

 Seasoning wood, Davison's process, 310 

 Seawalls, Rankine on, 265, 319 

 Sea water, action of on copper, Percy on, 342 

 Seaward, on high-pressure steam, 222 

 Self-acting water meter, Carrick's 350 

 Self-heating shot, 288 

 Self-ligjjting gas-burner, Strode's, 191 

 'Seven lamps of architecture', Caudidus on, 101, 



195, 229, 258, 289, 322 

 Sewerage of Chester, 188 

 Sewers Commission, 333 



Sewers or drains, air or stink trap for, Robb's, 350 

 Sewers' ventilation, Gurney's steam-jet, 351 

 Seyssel asphalte, experiments on, 352 

 Shanks' pat. for casting iron cylinders, 334 

 Shaw, on tenant right (rev.) 120 

 Shaw's patent iron bars, 114 

 Sheet metal moulding machiue, Roberts's, 305 

 Shepherd, on river Danube improvements, 321 

 .Ship-building, government, 85 

 Ships and paddlewheels, Taylor's pat., 81 

 Shot, Smith's pat., 319; self-heating, 288 

 Siemen's steam condenser, 127 

 Sienna, pulpit at, 05 

 Silver and brass, cleaning of, 191 

 Silver, reduction of chloride of, 255 

 Silvering glass by guu-coltun, 191 

 Silvering glass, Drayton's pat., 251 

 Simpson's pumping engine, 165 

 Skertchley's pat. for moulding bricks, &c., 55 

 Skew bridge, Bashforlh ou, 147 

 Slaughterhouses of Paris, Grantham on, 93; 



public, Grantham (rev.) 51 

 Sloping banks, Neville on resistance and sustain- 

 ing of, 304 

 Smelting and refining lead ores, Young's pat., 119 

 Smith, on irrigation of land in the Pnnjaub, 359 



Smith, on flexible breakwaters and lighthouses, 380 

 Smith, on macadamised roads, 306 

 Smith's pat. preparation of coal tar, 179 

 Smith's pat. shot, 319 



Smith's pat. solid iron railway wheels, 199 

 Smoky chimneys, Hart's pat. for preventing, 23 

 Society of Arts, London, 28, 60, 92, 1 57, 1 86, 380 

 Society of Arts, Scottish, 13, 29, 61 , 94, 122, 158, 

 180,349,380; opening address, 380; Award 

 of prizes, 29 

 Society of Painters in Water Colours, 106; ditto, 



new, 166 

 Soldering cast with wrought iron, 191 

 Solid iron railway wheels, Smith's pat., 199 

 Southampton, artesian well at, 287 

 South Devon railway, 127 



South Wales coal-field, Richardson on, 121 ; Mo- 

 ses on (rev.) 318 

 South Wales, explosion in Eaglebush colliery, 121 

 Southend pier, Paton on, 382 

 Southern whale fishery, Enderby on (rev.) 318 

 Spanish war steamer. Colon, 160 

 Splitting paper, mode of, 93, 96 

 Staining oak colour, method of, 62 

 Staite's pat. galvanic batteries, &c., 53 

 Stationary v. locomotive engine power, 352 

 Statue of Duke of Wellington, Tower, 31 

 Steam and other vapours, Rankine on tempera- 

 ture and elasticity, 306 

 Steam and vacuum gauge, Stillman's, 169 

 Steamboats (French) on the Rhine, 384 

 Steamboat and railway time signals, Torrop, 159 

 Steamboat, ' Emmet,' 96 

 Steam boilers, Sealon's pat., 23 

 Steam-carriage for branch tiafiic, 374 

 Steam-engine, Newton's pat. expansive, 369 

 Steam engines and hydraulic machines, M'ood- 



cock's pat., 178 

 S^pam engines and railway carriages, Thornton 



and McConnell's pat., 176 

 Steam engines, expansive, Pearce's, 350 

 Steam engines, marine, Main & Brown (rev.) 221 

 Steam engines, oscillating. Want & Veriium, 24 

 Steam, expansive action of, Fairbairn on, 315 

 Steam-engines, Pearce's expansive, 383 

 Steam factory in Sweden, 320 

 Steam frigate, Megaera, 192 ; Vulcan, 90 ; Vale- 

 rius, 384 

 Steam, high-pressure, Seaward on, 222 

 Steam jet for ventilating sewers, Gurney's, 351 

 Steam navigation and railways in India, 86 

 Steam navigation of India, Shepherd on, 321 

 Steam navigation of the Ganges, Robinson 49, SO, 

 Steam navigation, At'oodcroft on, 00 

 Steam navy, coals for, De la Beche and Playfair's 



second report, 209 

 Steam ship, Bombay, 95 ; Mega5ra, 192; Vulcan, 



90; Colon, 100 

 Steam sloop Conflict, trial of, 384 

 Steam valves, Evans, 52; Fairbairn, 315; Gre- 

 gory, 5 

 Steam vessels, log-book for, Borrie (rev.) 120 

 Steam vessels, wave principle for, Russell on, 344 

 Steel and iron manufacture, Greener on, 300 

 Steel manufacture, Newton's pat., 179 

 Stephenson (Geo.), life of, C, OS, 103, 170, 205 

 Stephenson (R.M.) on East Indian railways, 80 

 Stephenson's (Robert) express engine, 184 

 Stereoscopes, Sir D. Brewster ou, 159, 180 

 Stevenson (Alan), correspondence on Bell Rock 



lighthouse, 77, 123, 136, 180, 253 

 Stevenson (David), on tidal rivers (rev.) 120, 149 

 Stevenson (Thomas) on fixed and revolving lights, 



349 ; on harbour screw-cramps, 01 

 Stewart's pat. iron pipe casting, 280 

 Stillman's vacuum and steam gauge, 169 

 Stirling's pat. iron and luelallic compounds, 151 

 .Stirling's rapid water filter, 159 

 Stones, Buchanan's experiments on strength of, 



381 

 Stoves and furnaces, Newton's pat. 56 

 Stoves, pyro-pueumatic, Pierce's, 95 

 Strawberry-hill villa, Caudidus on, 33 

 Straw bonnets, machine for dressing, 94 



