INDEX. 



Gold paiut, Bessemei's patent, 55 



Gordoo's patent funiiBc impeller, 331 



Gothic architecture, Ent;lis,h and Fo- 

 reign, compared by Sir J. Audley, 

 353 



mouldings, manual of, by F. 



A. Paley (review), 180 



plan for preventing the ab- 

 straction of letters, 157 



Graham's (Professor), testimony on 

 CroU's method of purifying coal 

 gas, 174 



Granary, patent revolving, 85 



Grant for the Cambridge observatories, 

 expiration of, 200 



Gravesend terrace pier, 132 



Gray, Thomas, founderof the railway 

 system (neglected), 308 



Great Britain steam ship, 63, 322, 343 



Britain's screw propeller, de- 

 struction of, 364 



■ Southern and Western railway, 

 Ireland, 295 



Western railway, cuttings and 



embankments on, 46 



Greek fresco painting (modern), 307 



Green (arsenical), 163 



Greenwich time proposed to be adopt- 

 ed throughout the kingdom, 255 



Gregory on railway cuttings and em- 

 bankments, 24 



Grieve's patent differsntial steam en- 

 gine, 170 



Grissell on scaffolding for large erec- 

 tions, 104 



Guernsey, architecture of, 344 



Gwilt's glossary of architecture, Har- 

 ford on, 130 



Hague on iron ores, 152 

 Hallam, Mr. letter from, 345 

 Hallet's atmospheric railway, 148 

 Halls, collegiate and others, 309 

 Hamilton, K. on Brown's ornamental 



tiles, 81 

 " Mm. on the alabaster mines 



of C'astelliua, 287 

 Kamond's, Sir Graham Eden, patent 



paddle fastenings, 100 

 Harbours of refuge, English, 388 



abstract of report on, 284] 



report on, 93 



observations on report, by 



H. Barrett, 135 



• and defence, by 



John 

 Kooke, 309 



• tidal, report on, 325, 334 



• construction of Bremner's 



patent, 53 



Harford on Gwilt's Glossary of Ar- 

 chitecture, ISO 



Harris's, Sir William Cornwallis, pro- 

 ject for transporting vessels across 

 the Isthmus of Suez (review), 92 



Hartlepool, public works at, 86 



I interesting discovery at, 



388 



Harwich, report on harbour of refuge 

 at, 93, 326 



Hatfield's patent machine for com- 

 puting interest, &c. IGl 



Havre, fortifying of, 190 



Hawkins on marble brought from 

 Xanthus, 89, 99 



Hay, D. R. on the nomenclature of 

 colours (review), 183 



Jas. on the town lands of 



Musselburgh, 23 



Hajdon, F. S. on atmospheric trac- 

 tion, 335* 



B. U. memoranda from Sir 



Joshua Ueynolds's note-book, 3, 40 



Heath's patent for healing ovens and 

 kilns, 172 



Heighton's patent electric telegraph, 

 55 



Hemitrope, Dockin's patent, 91 



Heme steam ship, 131 

 Herschell's, Sir M'illiam, address to 



the British Assooiation, 199 

 Bigg's improved monochord, 123 

 Higginsoo and Coles's patent for the 



construction of buildings, 224 

 Hill's, Edward, patent railway axles, 



30 

 Frank, patent artificial fuel, 



358 



P. architectural glossaries, 72, 



on C61onna and Cockerill, 73 



131 

 History of altars, 88 



of Ancholme, 349 



of architecture, by Pro- 



fessor Donaldson, 57, 07 



- and practice of sculpture. 



by Mr. Wesimacott, 222, 207 

 Hodgkinson on the strength of stone 



columns, 259 

 Hope's architecture and architectural 



description, by Lector, 136, 221 

 Horbury school, 307 

 Horn on the origin and progress of 



the railway system, I 

 Home on the fixing and oiling of 



clocks, 255 



on error arising Irom vari 



ations in the length of pendulums, 

 236 



Horse power. Child's patent improve- 

 ments in, 160 



Hosking, Prof, on deep cuttings in 

 clays, 209 



Hourly variations of the thermometer, 

 by Mungo Ponton, 156 



House of Lords, report on the selec- 

 tion of effigies for, 345 



Houses in New Coventry-street, 233 



Hughes, Thos. on the drainage of 

 railway cuttings, 280 



Hull and Selby railway, Ouse bridge 

 on, by W. B. Bray, 280 



Hungerford suspension bridge, 165 



Hydraulic traversing machine, ac- 

 count of, by A. J. Dodson, 23 



Iconography (Christian), by Profes- 

 sor Donaldson, 215, 247 



Incrustation of boilers, prevention of, 

 Ritlerbandt's patent, 226 



Watteeu's patent, 172 



India, railways in, 328 



ludia-rubber covering, Brockendon's 

 patent, 139 



Indicator for railways, 64 



Ink (colourless), 163 



Institute, British and Foreign, 303 



Institute, (Royal), of British Archi- 

 tects, 27, 88, 125, 137, 193,231, 

 203, 359 



Institution of Civil Engineers, 20, 42, 

 63 



(Royal) 86 



Instruments (mathematical), Piggott's 

 patent, 358 



Instructions for surveyors, code of, 

 383 



Insulated buildings, rules for deter- 

 mining the rate of, 15 



Introduction of railways to British 

 India, 184 



Ireland, architecture in, by Philo- 

 Hibernicus, 130,217 



Great fiuuthern and Western 



railway, 293 



marbles of, by Mr. Wilkin- 

 son, 83 



practical geology and archi- 

 tecture of, by Mr. Wilkiuson, 92, 

 144 



Iron and wood steamers, 370 



consumption of, in France, 391 



bars, cast, table of the strength 



of, 154 



Iron lock gates at Montrose, by J., 

 Leslie, 150 



and steel. Low's patent improve- 

 ments in, 90 



Osborne's patent improve- 

 ments in, 331 



Rushton's patent improvements 



in, 54 



ores, W. N. Clay's report on, 



152 



ores, W. Fairbairn's report on, 



151 



ores, Mr. Hague's experiments 



on, 132 



ores, reduction of, 153 



pipes, Mr. Farey's remarks on 



the permeability of, 175 



pipes, Mr. Simpson's remarks 



on the permeability of, 175 



(railwaj), duration of, 374 



railways when first used, 380 



steam Roscommon, launch of, 391 



tubing, by Mr. Ledru, 61 



Italian travels of Goethe, by J. 

 Lhotsky, 308 



James on the Oxford choristers' 

 school competition, 7 



Jobard and Seguier's pneumatic rail- 

 way, 333 



John's (St.) gate, Clerkenwell, 109 



Johnston's plan of forming a fixed 

 breakwater, 123 



Joiners, improved clamp for, 122 



Jones, Mr., present to, from the Royal 

 Academy, 132 



Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific 

 Oceans, 191 



Kaunstadt in Wirtemburg, 95 

 King's scholars pond sewer, 99 

 Kollmann's railway improvements, 

 by Observer, 72 



Lacy's patent railway chair and 



sleeper, 200 

 Landslip in Ashley cutting, on the 



Great Western railway, by J. G. 



Thomson, 23 

 Launch of two new steam ships at 



Liverpool, 195 



of the Terrible steam ship, 



131 



Law Courts (new), evidence on, 338* 



361 



Law of tides, on the, by G. B. Airy, 

 89 



Lead of the slide, 273 



Leasing and amalgamation of rail- 

 ways, 317 



Lector on Hope's architecture and 

 architectural descriptions, 136 



Lecture on geology as a branch of 

 education, by Professor Ansted,254 



Lectures on the history and practice 

 of sculpture, by Mr. Wesimacott, 

 222, 267 



Ledru on iron tubing, 61 



Leeds, St. Saviour's church at, 370 



Legendre's oscillating steam engine, 

 57 



Lenses, improvement of, 203 



Leslie on Ihe iron lock gates at Mon- 

 trose, 130 



Levack's description of an improved 

 cart, 156 



Lei el crossings on atmospheric rail- 

 ways, 314 



improved, by T. Stevenson, 



52 



Lewes, antiquarian discoveries at, 

 375 



Lhotsky's Goethe's Italian travels, 

 308 



Liglit and electricity, connection of, 

 374 



Lighthouse on the Godwin, 267 

 at Sunderland, removal of, by 



J. Murray, 49 

 Lime, on the preparation of, by W 



M. Dinsdule, 250, 311 

 Lincoln's inn, new buildings in, 294 



329 o . , 



Lines of rails on atmospheric rail- 

 ways, 314 



, short ones, convenient on the 



atmospheric system, 341 



Lisbon, new theatre at, 384 



List of new districts and surveyors 

 under the metropolitan buildine 

 act, 13 



of railways classified according 



to their gauges, 247 



of English patents, 32, 64, 96, 



132, 164, 196, 232, 208, 300, 332, 

 300 



of new patents, 392 



Litharge and oxygen, 2T2 



Liverpool, assize courts at, 376 



launch of two steam ships at, 



195 



Lock-gates at Ancholme, 250 



iron, at Montrose, by James 



Leslie, 150 



Locomotive carriages, Reynolds's pa- 

 tent, 225 



and atmospheric railways, by 



a working mechanic, 338 



engines, cost of, 315 



on the motion of, 293, 329, 



336 



Locomotives, gigantic, 64 



Logic and philosophy, increased at- 

 tention to, 203 



Loudon and Birmingham railway, 

 slips on, 42 



interiors, a grand national ex- 

 hibition, 12 



and local time shown on the 



same clock, 233 



and Paris, fountains of, 133 



Loss of power on atmospheric rail- 

 ways by preliminary exhaustion, by 

 F. S. Haydon, 333* 



of power on atmospheric rail- 

 ways, by H. C. 336 



Lough's statue of the Queen, 164 



Louis XIII, architecture of France 

 during his reign, 302 



Lowe's remarks on the purification 

 of coal gas, 174 



reply to Mr. Simpson's re- 

 marks on the porosity of iron pipes 

 175 



Low's patent improvements in the 

 uiauufactuie of iron and steel, 90 



Lysides, the Athenian, returned from 

 Thrace, 133 



Maberley's patent railway break, 298 



Machine for computing interest, &c. 

 Hatfield's patent, 161 



for cutting slate. Carter's 



patent, 100 

 for planting seeds, New- 

 ton's patent, 101 



for sweeping chimneys, by 



A. Scott, 157 



Machinery for carving, Pratt's pa- 

 tent, 121 



Mac Sweeny's essay on aerial navi- 

 gation (review), 92 



Magnetic conference, 200 

 and meteorological observa- 

 tories of Cambridge, 199 



• needle, on the variation of, 



by W. Peace, 138 



Magneto-Electric machine. Professor 

 Page's, 300 



Maintenance of road, on the locomo- 

 tive and atmospheric systems, 310 



Makiug tiles, Weller's patent, 383 



Manchester and neighbourhood >build- 

 iugartsin, 129, 158, 292 



