INDEX. 



Braganza steam ship, tubular bailers 

 of, 1G2 



Braidwood, Jas., oa the application 

 of manual power to fire engines, 178 

 - on the supply of 



water f'>r fires, 176 



Brake, the, or Small Downs harbour, 

 94 



Brancepatb church, geometric tracery 

 of, by Billings (review), 179 



Brande, Professor, on the business 

 of the Mint, 80, 186 



Bray, W. Brayley, on the Ouse 

 bridge, 280 



Breakwaters, report on the construc- 

 tion of, 95 



Bremner's report on the town and 

 harbour of Pulteney Town, 20 



— — — account of casks for float- 

 ing large stones, 21 



patent for constructing har- 

 bours, 53 



Brick and tile machine, Worby's pa- 

 tent, 127 



Brickwork, asphalted, 250 



expansion of, 207 



■ notes on, with examples of 



tall chimneys, 110 



Bridge across the Alleghany river, 

 195 



■ the Ouse, on the Hull 



and Selby railway, 2&0 



building, expeditious, on 



Dredge's principle, 95 



suspension, Dredge's, 221, 



2-19,271, 313, 338,356 



Huogerford, 165 



— ^^^— ^— ^— fall of, at Yar- 

 mouth, 194 



new, at Ancholme, 350 



Bridge on Carrow railway, 383 



Brighton and Chichester railway, 

 drawbridge on, 209 



British Archaeological Associa- 

 tion, 319 



Bp.itish Architects, Royal Insti- 

 TCTE of, 27, 88, 125, 157, 193, 231, 

 263, 359 



Association, meeting held 



at Cambridge, 227 



Sir William 



Herschell's inaugural address, 199 



enterprise, 32 



——^— AND Foreign Institute, 



Bunnett and Corpe v. Smith, law- 

 case, 201 

 Business of the Royal Mint, 86, 180 

 Byrne, Professor, on trigonometrical 

 surveying, 310 



letter to T. Ber- 



303 



■ steam vessels, 



table of, 352 



India, introduction of rail- 

 ways to, 181,221 



Broad and narrow gauge commission, 

 376 



Brockendon, on the errors arising 

 from variations in the length of 

 penduluiis, 250 



patent India-rubber 



covering, 159 



Bronze castings, 04 



Broom paper, Poole's patent, 119 



Brown's ornamental tiling, 81 



patent railway wheels and 



carriage springs, 264 



Brunton's patent apparatus for dress- 

 ing ores, 171 



patent mining shovels, 159 



Buckingham palace, pavilion at, 261 



Budge's Practical Miners' Guide (re- 

 view), 184 



Buffing apparatus, Rayner's patent, 

 330 



Bufl'on, town of Montband, and his 

 statue, 359 



Building act, new, by a suirerer,12,80 



— arts in Manchester, 129 



Higginson and Coles's pa- 

 tent iniprovemeuts in, 224 



■ in Edinburgh, 293 



file proof, 1 12 



new, Liuculu's-iun-fields, 



294, 329 



mingham, 02 

 Bystander, on competition, 79 



Calcutta, fall of a suspension bridge 

 near to, 304 



Caledonian canal, works on, 258 



Cambridge Camden Society, 8, 9, 

 71,88, 190 



magnetic and meteoro- 

 logical observations, 199 



mathematical journal, 



199 



observatories, expiration 



of grant fur, 200 



• observatory, 199 



progress of science, in 



199 



Camden Society of Cambridge, 8, 9, 

 71,88, 196 



Caiiidenists, the, and the church, 80 



Canada and the United States, coal 

 fields of, 300 



Canal, the Caledonian, works on, 

 258 



of Exeter, memoir of, 320 



Candidus's Note Book. Fasciculus 

 I-XI— LXVI, 2, 65, 97, 134, 197 

 334»— LXVII, 362 



Canova, Flaxman and Thorwaldsen, 

 374 



Carlton club-house, designs for en- 

 larging, 279 



Carriages, locomotive, Reynold's pa- 

 tent, 225 



Carrow railway bridge, 383 



Cart, improved, by E. Levack, 156 



Carter's patent slate cutting machine, 

 100 



Carving, Pratt's patent machinery 

 for, 121 



Casks used for floating large stones, 

 by Jas. Bremner, 21 



Ca-jsel's patent materials for paving, 

 223 



Cast iron bars, table of the strength 

 of, 154 



Mr. Fairbairn's observa- 

 tions on, 80 



Casiellina, alabaster mines of, 287 



Casting, bronze, 64 



Cast iron girders, experiments on the 

 strength of, 381 



Casts, museum of, by C. H. Wilson, 

 138, 157 



Catch-water drains, invention of, 349 



Cathedral of Cologne, 64 



of the Oriental Church, 188 



ofStrasburg, 95 



Causes of permanence in ancien 

 pictures, 39 



Chahet's patent composition for 

 moulding, 160 



Chains, improvements in, Seebohm's 

 p..tent, 297 



Changes in electric conductor wires, 

 103 



Channel, the Paumban, improve- 

 ments of, 382 



Chanter's movable fire-bars, 122, 159 



Cliarlottenburg, mausoleum of, Gj 



Chemical lamp furnace, 157 



Chicliester and Brighton railway 

 drawbridge on, 269 



Child's patent improvements in horse 

 power, 100 



Chimnev, 125 feet high, repairing 

 of, 108 



tubes, Gen. Geo. Wilson's 



patent, 120 



Scott's machine for sweep. 



ing, 157 



China, coal fields in, by R, C. Tay- 

 lor, 333 



China coal gas lighting in, 334 



mode of coal mining in, 334 



Chlorine, improved manufacture of, 

 Oxland's patent, 357 



Christian iconography, by Prof. Do- 

 naldson, 215, 247 



Church, an ancient, fall of, 103 



at Novogiorgieosk, 301 



of Notre Dame, at Aix-la- 



Chapelle, 81 



the, and the Camdenists, 80 



Restorers, a tale, by F. A. 



Paley, (review) 9 



Churches new, 390 



restoration of, 390 



metropolitan, 127 



transitional, 137 



Cills for drainage, by F. Bashforth, 

 277 



Civil Engineers, college of, at Put- 

 ney, 143, 259 



Civil Engineers, Institution of, 

 20, 42, 03 



Clamp fur joiners, improved, 122 



Classification of observatories, neces- 

 sity of, 201 



Clay's report on iron ores, 158 



Clerkpnwell.St. John's gate, 109 



Clocks, electric, 131 



for railway stations, by B. L. 



Vulliamy, 255 



Club, Carlton, designs for enlarging, 

 279 



Clyde river, navigation improve- 

 ments, by Wm. Bald, 234, 325, 

 336 



Coal, evaporative power of different 

 kinds, 242 



fields of Canada and the United 



States, 300 



in China, by R. C. Taylor, 



333 



formation of Nova Scotia, by 



Jno. Dawson, 299 



gas, application of its products 



to agriculture, 174 



on the preparation of, 173 



lighting by, in China, 334 



Mr. IMuir's remarks, 175 



on the purification of, by 



A. A. Croll, 173 



on the purification of, by 



Mr. Lowe, 174 



mining in China, mode of, 334 



Coating iron with tin, ^:c. More- 

 wood's patent, 31 



Cockerill and Culonna, by Common 



Sense, 73, 131 

 Code of instructions for surveyors, 



383 

 Cofl'yn's patent pumps, 329 

 Coining at the Royal Mint, by Prof. 



Brande, 186 

 College of Civil Engineers at Put- 

 ney, 143, 259 

 Collegiate and other halls, 309 

 Collingwood monument at Newcastle, 



259 

 Cologne cathedral, 04 

 Colonies, gas works in, 340* 

 Colouring Daguerreotype pictures, 



mode of, 127 

 Colourless ink, 103 

 Colours, Hay on the nomenclature of, 



(review), 189 

 Colthurst on repairing a chimney, 120 



feet high, 108 

 Columns, stone, on the strength of, 



by Eaton Hodgkinson, 259 

 Commission of the gauges, 370 

 Common Seu-se's letters on Cockerell 



and Colonna, 70, 131 

 Comparison of English, French and 



Belgian railwajs, 245 

 Compass, Dent's patent, 91 

 Compensation pendulums, rendered 



free from hygrometric influence, 80 

 Competition ol designs, 321 

 by A Bystander, 9, 79, 136 



Competition fraudulent, remedy for, 

 135 



in oil painting, 340 



of the Oxford choristers' 



school, by James, 7 



Composition for mouldings, Chabet's 

 patent, 160 



Conclusion of the report on harbours 

 95 



Conference, magnetic, 200 



Connecting crank, Galloway's pa- 

 tent, 54 



Conrad's Amsterdam and Rotterdam 

 railway, 74 



Construction of buildings, Higginson 

 and Coles's patent, 224 



of gas metres, by A. A. 



Croll, 340 



■ of harbours, Bremner's pa- 

 tent, 53 



and proportion of boilers, 



by A. Murray, 217 



and regulation of railway 



station clocks, by B. L. Vulliamy, 

 255 



of a mile of railway, 



average items in, 380 



Consumption of iron in France, 391 



Continental and scientific meeting, 72 



Conversazione, Sir John Reuuie's 

 first, 194 



Cooper's remarks on endosmose and 

 exosmose, 175 



Coote's patent for caulking ships, 120 



Copper ores, Ritchie's patent for, 168 



Cornish engines, 85 



Correspondents, notices to, 132, 196, 

 286, 300, 332, 300, 392 



Corrugated iron roofs, Spencer's pa- 

 tent, 264 



Courts of law, new, 361 



Cowen's patent gas retorts 90 



Cowie on friction in the beam and 

 direct acting engines, 190 



on atmospheric railways, 365 



on the strength of wood and 



cast iron, 245 



Cramp for joiners, improved, 122 



Croll, Angus Alexander, on the con- 

 struction of gas metres, 346 



Cross, form of, during the middle 

 ages, 216,247 



Crossings, level, on atmospheric rail- 

 ways, 314 



Crown glass, Ewing's patent improve- 

 inenls in, 159 



Crojdun railway, slips on, 42 



Currents, sub-manue, 61 



Curtis's objections lo keeping the 

 same time at dilferent places, 256 



Cutlery, 103 



Cuttings in clays, by Prof. Hosking, 

 209 



Cuttings and embankmenis, slips in, 

 24,42 



and embankments, on the 



Great Western railway, 46 



railway, drainage of, by Thos. 



Hughes, 280 

 Cyclopedia, penny, supplement to, 



363 



Daguerreotype oictures, mode of co- 

 louring, 127 



Daniell, Prof, death of 201 



Davison on the materials for pendu- 

 lums, 256 



Dawson on the coal formation of 

 Nova Scotia, 299 



Decadence of classical architecture, 

 300 



Decision on the gauges, the coming, 

 386 



Decorations of the Royal Exchange, 

 by Mr. Dwyer, 112 



Decorative Art Society, 88, 126 



Dee river, navigation of, 327 



Defence and refuge, harbours of, by 

 Mr. Rooke, 309 



