INDEX. 



Patents — (continued) 



ConDecting crank, Ga1loway,54 

 Construction of huildiogs, Hig- 



ginson, 2H 



Construction of harbours, Brem- 



ner, 53 



Copper ores, Rilcliie, 1G8 

 Corrugated iron roofs, Spencer, 



201 



Crown glass, Ewing, 159 

 Diirirential steam engine, 



Grieve, 170 



^)i^ti[lation of turpentine and 



tar, I' nglish, 2o4 



Door and window fastenings, 



newl.-y, 171 



Draining engine, Taylor, 30 

 Draining tiles, Denton, 89 



Sniitli & Jolly. 2C3 

 Drain pipes and tiles. Ford, 

 Dressing ores, Bruntou, 171 

 Dyeing, Wallerand, 330 

 IClectric telegraph, Heighton,55 

 KupI, Hills, 358 

 Fumitic impeUer, Gordon, 331 

 Furnace bars. Chanter, 159 

 Gas, Murdoch, 298 

 Gas retorts, Cowen, 90 

 Glass quarries, Powell, 121 

 Glass ventilation, Baillie,224 

 Gold paint, Bessemer, 55 

 Incrustation in boilers, Ritter- 



bandt, 220 



M'alteen, 172 

 India-rubber covering, Brock- 



endon, 159 



Iron, Rushtun, 54 

 Iron and steel, Low, 90 



Osborne, 331 

 Locomotive carriages, Rey- 

 nolds, 225 



JNIaterials for paving, Cassel's, 



223 



Mathematical instruments, 



Piggot, 358 



iMetals, Wall, 297 

 Mining shovels, Brunton, 159 

 Motive power, Talbot, 331 

 Naphtha, Drew, 359 

 Ovens and kilns. Heath, 172 

 Paddle-wheel fastenings, Ha- 



mond, 100 



Paper for preventing fraud, 



Varnham, 358 



Preserving substances, Silves- 



tri, 359 



Pressure and generation of 



steam, Auld, 172 



Propelling machinery, Sea- 

 ward, 297 



Propelling vessels, Spencer,297 

 Pumps, Cofl'yn, 329 

 Pump valves, Poole, 159 

 Railway chair and sleepers. 



Lacy and Buck, 206 



Railway improvements, Pros- 



ser, 171 



Railway wheels, &c.. Brown, 



264 



ScaflTolding, Winter & Lane,265 

 Screw propellers. Hays. 90 

 Slate culling machine, 160 

 Slated roofs, North. 172 

 Smoke combustion, Bedington, 



119 



Soap, Anderson, 225 



Sleam boiler, Fairbairn and 



Iletherington, 56 



Sleam coodenser,Nasmith,169 

 Steam engine, Petrie, 89 

 Sugar, Gadesden, 357 

 Robinson, 168 

 Ronald, 226 

 Window shutters and blinds, 



Quincey, 160 



Artificial fuel, Ransome, 386 

 Atmospheric railway, Prosser 



and Biet, 385 



Patents — (continued) 



Blasting rocks, Marif, Baron 

 De Liebhaber, 3S5 



Making tiles, Weller, 385 

 Washing and mangling ma- 

 chine, Wilkinson, 386 



Water pipes, Roe, 380 



Patterson on the application of colours, 

 124 



Paul's (St.), cathedral, 155 



Pan mbaii channel, improvementsof,382 



Pavilion at Buckingham Palace, 201 



Peace, W., on the variation of the 

 magnetic needle, 158 



Pendulums, materials for, 256 



Permanence in ancient pictures, 39 



Perry's patent gas or vapour engine, 

 161 



Persius, the German architect, death 

 of, 348 



Pesihel's elements of physics (re- 

 view), 337* 



Peterborough and Northampton rail- 

 way, 340 



Petrie's patent steam engine, 89 



Petrifying animal substances, 131 



Philo-Hibernicus on the architecture 

 of Ireland, 130,217 



Philosophy of engineering, 273, 336* 



of Germany, 203 



Physical observatories, 200 



Physics, Elements of, Peschel's (re- 

 view), 337* 



Picture gallery, or Pinacotheca, of 

 Munich, 333* 



Pictures (ancient), permanence in, 39 

 (Daguerreotype), mode of 

 colouring, 127 



(modern), failure of, 89 



Pier, Blackfriars, 221 



Piggott's patent mathematical instru- 

 ments. 358 



Pilbrow's patent atmospheric railway, 

 28 



Pile-driving machine, Milne's, 73 



Pinacotheca, or picture gallery at 

 Munich, 333* 



Pinkus's atmospheric railway, 205 



Pipes (iron), porosity of, 175 



Plan, studies of, 209 



Plate glass, table of prices, 232 



Plating on steel, 95 



Pneumatic railway, 333* 



Pole, on beam and direct action en- 

 gines, 101 



Pompeii, excavations at, 391 



Ponton, on variations in the thermo- 

 meter, 156 



Poole's patent broom paper, 119 



patent pump valves, 159 



Porosity of iron pipes, 175 



Portland and Weymouth harbour, 94 



Powell's patent glass quarries, 121 



Power, atmospheric, 161 



Prait's patent machinery for carving, 

 121 



Pressure and generation of steam, 

 AuM's patent, 172 



Princeton's new gun, 163 



Problems in surveying, 310, 336 



Pboceedingsof SciENTinc Societies, 

 19, 42, 80, 124, 156, 192, 227, 263, 

 332,359 



British Archoeological Associa- 

 tion, 319 



British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, 227 



Cambridge Camden Society, 88 

 Decorative Art Society, 88, 125 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 20, 

 42, 104 



Metropolitan Improvement So- 

 ciety, 89 



Oxford Architectural Society, 124 

 Royal Academy of Arts, 27 

 Royal Institute of British Archi- 

 tects, 27, 88, 125, 157, 193, 231, 

 263, 359 



Societies — (cnntinueil.) 

 Royal institution, SO 

 Roval Scottish Society of Arts, 

 19, 86, 124. 156, 192,231 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, 332 

 Society of Arts, 124 

 Process uf coining at the Royal Mint 

 Professorship of P^ngineering, 03 

 Progress of the new houses of parlia- 

 ment, 120, 200 



of science in Cambridge, 199 



Project for transporting vessels across 

 the Isthmus of Suez, by Sir W. C. 

 Harris (review), 92 

 Propelling, Schmidt's patent, 101 



— Seward's patent, 2tl7 



Spencer's patent, 297 



Properties of air as a mechanical 

 agent, 205 



mechanical, of air and 



steam, 294 

 Prosser's patent atmospheric railway, 

 220 



patent improvements in rail- 

 ways, 171 

 Public works at Hartlepool, 86 

 Pulteney, town and harbour, by J. 



Breraner, 20 

 Pump valves, Poole's patent, 159 

 Pumps, improvements in, Cotfyn's 



patent, 329 

 Purification of coal gas, by A. A. 

 Croll, 173 



by Mr. Lowe, 174 

 Putney, College for Civil Engineers 



at, 143, 259 

 Pyramids, the, eclipsed, 195 



Quarries (glass), Powell's patent, 121 

 Quincey's patent window shutters and 

 blinds, 160 



Railway, accidents on the eastern 

 counties, 293 



Acts obtained in 1845,290 

 Amalgamation, important, 300 



and leasing of. 317 

 Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 74 

 Atmospheric, abstract of evi- 

 dence on, 280, 314, 339 

 Cowie on, 365 

 Hallette's system, 148 

 Maintenance of road on, 310 

 Pilbrow's patent, 28 

 Pinkus's patent, 205 

 Prosser's patent, 226 

 Prosser and Brett's patent, 

 385 



Report on, 371 

 Samuda's patent, 119 

 Stationary engines on, 342 

 Axles, Glynn on the causes of 

 fracture, 109 



Hills's patent, 30 

 Bombay, from the Ghauts, 127 

 Break, Maberley's patent, 298 

 Buffing apparatus, 330 

 Calcutta, from, to Mirzapore, 

 184,221 



Carriage springs, Brown's pa- 

 tent, 264 



Chairs and sleepers, Lacy's 

 patent, 260 



Classified according to gauges, 

 247 



Clocks, construction and regu- 

 lation of, 255 



Cuttings, drainage of, by Thos. 

 Hughes, 286 



and embankments, by. C. 

 H. Gregory, 24 



Dublin, from, to the port of 

 Galway, by O. Byrne, 02 



Great southern aud western, 

 Ireland, 295 

 Gauge, 246 



Hull and Selby, bridge on, 

 286 



Railways— (cotif ;««(>(/) 



India, in, 186, 328 

 Indicator, 64 



Introduction of, to British In- 

 dia, 184,221 



Iron, duration of, 374 

 KoUman's improvements, 72 

 Locomotive and atmospheric, 

 by a working mechanic, 338 

 Masonry, 93 



New projected, 61, 90, 132, 

 163 



Origin and progress of, by Jno. 

 Von Horn, 189 



Peterborough and Northamp- 

 ton, 340 



Pneumatic, Jobard and Se- 

 guier's, 333* 



Prosser's patent improve- 

 ments, 171 



retaining walls, 379 

 Round Paris, 357 

 South Devon, C3 

 Speculation, 206 

 Switch, Fareham's patent, 22 

 System, the founder of, neg- 

 lected, 308 



Tolls, 288 



M'hilehaven and Furness junc- 

 tion, 336 

 Railways, amalgamation and leasing 



of, 364 

 Rain in Algiers, 151 

 Ramsgate harbour, 94 

 Ransome's patent artiiicial stone, 169 



patent arlificial fuel, 386 

 Rate of buildings, rules for deter- 

 mining, 15 

 Rattler aud Alecto steam ships, 163 

 Rayner's patent buffing apparatus, 



330 

 Refuge, harbours of, English, 388 



and defence, harbours of, by 

 Jno. Rooke, 303 



Harbours of, report on, 93, 

 135,284 

 Register of new patents, 385 

 Reid's patent oil boxes, 161 

 Relative speed on the atmospheric 



and locomotive systems, 341 

 Remedy for fraudulent competitions, 



135 

 Renaissance of France, 157 

 Rennie's, Sir Johu, first conversa- 

 zione, 194 



report and ohservaiions on 

 the drainage of Ancholnie, 349 

 Repairs of slalionary engines, cost of, 

 342 



Reports — 



Academy of sciences, on M. 

 Hallette's atmospheric railway,14!) 

 Atmospheric railways, 280, 

 314,339, 371 



Drainage of Ancholme, .'549 

 Harbours of refuge, 93, 135, 

 284 



Railway from Calcutta to Mir- 

 zapore, 184, 221 



Selection of effigies for the 

 Hou-e of Lords, 345 



State of large towns, second 

 report, 251 



Tidal harbours, 325,334 

 Requisites for determining ihe rate 



ol buildings, 15 

 Resistance required to sustain banks 



of earth, 242, 359 

 Restoraiiou of churches, 390 



of Dymchurch, Kent, 296 

 Retaining walls of railways, 379 

 Retribution steam ship, 15 

 Retrospect of the British Associa- 

 tion, 204 

 Reviews of Books — 



Ansled's Geologist's Text Cook, 

 237 



