INDEX. 



Abraham, H. R 

 Westmiuster, 6 

 AcADtMY OF Sciences, Paris, 348 



lioYAL, OF Arts, 27 



IJoyal, architectural draw- 

 ings at, 1G5 

 Academy of Sciences at St. Peters- 

 burgh, 351 

 Accidents on the Eastern Counties 



railway, 2'J3 

 Account of improvements on navi- 

 gation of the Clyde, by Wm. Bald, 

 ■J34 

 — — — the town and harbour of 

 Pulteney town, by James Brera- 

 ner, 20 

 Achromatic telescopes, by INIizar, 81 

 Action of silt and shini^le, 30'J 

 Acts (railway) obtained in session 



1845, 290 

 Adoption of Greenwich time through- 

 out the. kingdom, 255 

 Aerial navigation, McSweeny's essay 



on (review), 92 

 Africa, desert of, 100 

 Agricultural machine, Vibart's pa- 

 tent, 120 

 Agriculture, the products of coal gas 



applied to, 174 

 Air and steam, mechanical proper- 

 ties of, 233, 294 

 — ^ properties of, as a mechanical 



agent, 205 

 pump, or water engine, im- 

 proved, by R. Ferrier, 157 

 Aix-la-Chappele, church of Notre 



Dame, 81 

 Alabaster mines of Castellina, by W, 



Hamilton, 287 

 Alarum for fire damp, 80 

 Alecto and Rattler steam ships, 163 

 Algiers, rain in, 151 

 Alleghany river, bridge across, 195 

 Alloys of metals, Fenton's patent,37 



I'arkes's patent, 264 



Altars, history of, 88 

 Amalgamation and leasing of rail- 

 ways, 317 

 (important) of rail- 

 ways, SCO 

 Amalgamation on leasingof railways, 



364 

 Amsterdam and Rotterdam railway, 



by F. \V. Conrad, 74 

 Ancholme, works commenced at, 

 1842,350 



drainage of, by Sir John 



Renoic, 349 



draw door, for regulating 



navigation level, 350 



lock-sales at, 350 



new biidue at, 350 



history of, 349 



Ancient church, fall of, 163 

 and modern architecture. 



mprovements of Ansled's Geology, as a branch of 

 educaliou (review), 237 



Lectures on. 254 



Anti-Corn-Law bazaar, 192, 220 



Antiquarian discoveries at Lewes, 375 



Antiquities, Roman, 391 



Anii-Zoilus on the fountains in 

 TrafalgHr-square, 190 



Apollo IJelvedere, 267 



Apology, de M'interlon's, respecting 

 Sir Joshua Reynolds's Uiary, 4 



Apparatus for dressmg ores, ISrun- 

 ton's patent, 171 



Application of colour to the inlernal 

 decoration of ecclesiastical build- 

 ings, by Mr. I'atterson, 124 



Application of power on the atmos- 

 pheric and locomotive svstems, 

 340 



Arago, M. memoir addressed to, by 

 M'm. Bald, on the navigation of 

 I he Clyde, 234 



Arbroath harbour, 326 



Arch, ecclesiastical, by E. Sharpe, 

 (review), 60 



ArchiEoIogical Association, (British) 

 319 



Arches, oblique, elliptical, by Jas. 

 Morice, 277 



Archimedean (spiral) railway, Far- 

 rell's patent 



Architects, (British), Royal Insti- 

 tute OF, 27, 88, 125, 157, 193, 

 231,263,359 



Architectural drawing, handmaid to 

 the study of ecclesiology, 88 



Royal Aca- 



demy, 165, 213 



Hill, 72 



glossaries, by P. 



novelty, 140 

 - Society of Oxford, 



by M. Jules Gailhabaud (review), 



58 



fresco in East Wickham 



church, 32 



— — ^ pictures, causes of perma- 

 nence in. 39 



Anderson's patent soap, 225 



Anglo-Saxon masonry, notes on, by 

 T. G. Waller, 301 



Animal substances, petrifying of, 131 



Annular scupper-mouth for ships' I Artificial fuel, H 



works, employment 



of military engineers on, by Zo- 



phorus, 41 

 Architecture, ancient and modern, 



by M. Jules Garlhabaud (review), 



58 

 ■ of France in the reign of 



Louis XIII, 3U2 

 (diimestic) of France in 



the middle ages, 88 

 ^— — — (Gothic), English and 



foreign compared, by Sir John 



Audley, 355 



of Guernsey, 344 



history of, by T. L. Do- 



Arlificial stone, Ransome's patent, 



169 

 Artizanclub, ontbe mechanical theory 



of steam, 206 

 steam engine by, (re 



view), 60 

 Arts and manufactures of France, 



15G 



Royal Academy op, 27 



Society OP, 63, 122, 124 



Royal Scottish Society of, 19, 



86, 124, 156, 192, 231 



Arun river, drawbridge over it, 269 



Ashley cutting, on the (Jreat West- 

 ern railway, land-slip on, by J. 

 G. Thomson, 23 



Asphalted brickwork, 356 



Assize Courts at Liverpool, 370 



Aston viaduct, fall of, 296 



Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, junc- 

 tion of, by Wra. Virkers, 191 



Atmosphere of Barbadoes, trade 

 winds in the, 86 



Atmospheric engine, Parsey's patent, 

 298 



railway, abstract of evi- 

 dence, 314, 339 



description of, 



86 



description of 



valve, 86 



Hallette's, 148 



and locomotive railway, 



by a working mechanic, 338 

 railways, loss of power 



on, 336* 



power, 161 



railway, obstructions on, 



■ passingof trains 

 Pilbrow's pa- 



Pinkus's 



Bald's numoir on the navigation of 

 the Clyde and Seine, 234, 230 



Baillie's patent glass ventilation, 224 



Bailee Khal suspension bridge, fall 

 of, 304 



Banks of earth, resistance required 

 to sustain them, 359, 242 



Barbadoi-8, trade winds in atmos- 

 phere of, 86 



Bardwell, on the improvements of 

 Mestminster, 111 



Barker's mill, experiments on,by Jas. 

 Whitelaw, 150 



Barlow's, Professor, experiments on 

 rope traction and atmospiieric rail- 

 ways, 322 



Barret, on the hai hours of refuge, 

 135 



Bars of cast-iron, strength of, 154 



Bartholomew's metropolitan building 

 act (review), 93 



Basevi, George, death of, 348 



Bashforth, on drainage cills, 277 



remarks on Dredge's sus- 



tent, 28 



pa- 

 tent, 205 



.atmospheric railway, Prosser's pa- 

 tent, 226 



Samuda 



tent, 119 



pa- 



naldson, 57, 67 

 in Ireland, by Philo- 



Hibernicus, 130, 217 

 — and geology in Ireland, 



by G. Wilkinson, 92, 144 

 in Manchester, 129, 158, 



292 



a new order of, by H. 



Wilson, 08 



and architectural de- 

 scription, Hope's, by Lector, 136, 

 221 



Architecture (classical), decadence 

 of, 306 



.\rsenical green. 163 



Art, (Decorative), Society of, 88, 



and rope traction railways, 



P. Barlow's experiments on, 322 

 traction, paper on, by F. J. 



decks, 122 



ill's patent, 358 



Haydon, 335 



railways, report on, 280 



314 



Atmospheric railways, by M. Cowie, 

 365 



railway, Prosser and Bret's 



patent, 3S5 



railways, report, 371 



traction, note on, 390 



Attached buildings, rules for assign- 

 ing ilie rate of, 15 



AuiJIey, Sir John, on the comparison 

 of English and Gothic architec- 

 ture, 355 



Auld's patent for regulating the pres- 

 sure and generation of steam, 172 



Average items in the construction of 

 a mile of railway, 380 



Axletices, Milichap's patent, 264 



Azimuth and steering compass. 

 Dent's patent, 9 



I Back light in portable diorama, me- 

 thod of adniittiu) 



pension bridge, 249, 313 

 Battersea, new park at, 391 

 Bazaar, the anli-corn-law, 192,220 

 Beam and direct action engines, com- 

 parative loss of, by Mr. Pole, 101 

 and direct action engines, fric- 

 tion in, by M, Cowie, 190 

 IJeart's patent boring apparatus, 50 

 Bediugtou's patent for smoke com- 

 bustion, 119 

 Bell, a monster, 131 

 Berlin, royal palace at, 196 



■ frescoes at, 96 



Bernan's history of warming and ven- 

 tilating, 92 

 Bessemer's patent gold paint, 55 

 Hevvlej's patent door and window 



fastenings, 171 

 Bidder's objections to keeping the 



same time at dill'erent places, 250 

 Billings, on the geometric tracery of 



Brancepath church (review), 179 

 Birkenhead, rise and progress of,257 

 Birmingham, monument to Mr. Rick- 



nian at, 391 

 Blackfriars' pier, 221 

 Blast engine, immense, 161 

 Blasting rocks, Manf's patent, 385 

 Bloonifield's Fanner's Boy, &c. (re- 



Aiew), 270 

 Blowing up of a shoal in the Thames, 



208 

 Blytlie's river navigation, 326 

 Boilers, preveuiion of incrustation 

 in, Malteen's patent, 172 



proportions of, by A. Mur- 



ray, 217 



Ritterbaniit's patent, for 



preventing incrusiation, 220 



tubular, causes of explo- 



sion, 112 



• of the Tagus and 



Braganza steam ships, 102 



superiority of, 268 



Bombay, railway to the (iliauls. 127 

 Booksellers' provident retreat, 333 

 Boracic acid works, Mouti-Cerboli, 



299 

 Boring apparatus. Bean's patent, 50 

 Bourdon's expansive gearing, 57 

 Bowman, on the properties of water 



and other fluids (review), 182 



' Ransome's patent, 380 | Bailey's compensation pendulum, 86! Bojer's steam valve, 162 



