INDEX. 



Review of Books— (continued) 



Ariizan Club's Sleani Engine, 

 parts 1— Vll, CO 



Bartlioliimew's Metropolitan 

 liuildings Act, 03 



Bernan's History of Warming 

 ami VeutilatinR, U2 



Billings's (ieoinetrical Tracery 

 of Brancepiilli Cliiircli, I7'J 



Bloomlii-ld's Farmer's Boy, and 

 other tales, :!7(i 



Bowman's Properties of Water, 

 in reference to Steam Boiler Ex- 

 plosions, 1S2 



Budge's I'ractical Miners'Guide, 

 Ibl 



(jiirdleslou's Letters on the lower 

 class of dwellings, 275 

 Guilliabaud's Ancient and Modern 



Architecture, 58 

 Harding on the Gauge Question, 238 

 Harris's, IMajor, project for trans- 

 porting large vessels across the 

 Isthmus of Suez, !)2 

 Hay's Nomenclature of Culours, 193 

 London I nteriors,partsI — XX X V 1 1 1 . 



12 

 Mac Sweeny's Essay on Aerial Na- 

 vigation, 1)2 

 Palej's Church Restorers, 9 



Paley's Manual of Gothic Ar- 

 chitecture, 180 



Papers of the Koyal Engineers, 

 vol. VII, CO, 93 



Peschel's Elements of Physics, 

 337* 



Quarterly Journal of the Geolo- 

 gical Society, 92 



Sliarpe's Ecclesiastical Architec- 

 ture, GO 



Tajlor's Therraonietrical Table, 

 CO 



Westminster Review, No. II. 

 vol. XL1H,240 



Wilkinson's Practical Geology 

 an<l Architecture of Ireland, 20 

 Revolving granary, M. Vallery's, 85 

 rule lor measuring sur- 

 faces, &c. Ross's patent, 161 

 Reynolds' patent locomotive car- 

 riages, 225 



Sir Joshua, extracts from 



diary, 3, 40 

 Rickman, monument to, at Birming- 

 ham, 391 

 Rise ud progress of Birkenhead, 



257 

 Ritchie's patent for obtaining copper 



ores. Ifl8 

 Ritterbandi's patent for preventing 



incrustation lu boilers, 220 

 Rivers — 



Alleghany, suspension bridge 

 across, 195 



A run, drawbridge over, 209 

 Blvtii, iniproveinenls in, 326 

 Clyde, 234 325,330 

 Dee, 327 

 Forth, 327 

 Seine, 236 

 Sciern, 335 

 Tay. 320 

 Thames, 334 

 Robinson's patent improvements in 



sugar boiling, 168 

 Roe's patent water pipes, 386 

 Roman antiquities, 391 

 Remains, 368 

 Sculpture, 267 

 Taste in sculpture, 207 

 Tunnel at Marseilles, 101 

 Rome, San Paulo at, 164 

 Ronald's patent improvements in su- 

 gar boiling, 226 

 Rooke, J no. on harbours of refuge 



and defence, 309 

 Rope traction and atmospheric rail- 

 way, Professor Barlow's experi- 

 ments, 322 

 Roscomruon steam ship, launch of, 

 391 



Rosse's, Earl of, great telescope, 139, 



202 

 Ross's patent revolving rule, 101 

 Rotary engine, Stewart's patent, 161 

 Royal Academy of Arts, 27 



Academy, architectural draw- 

 ings at, 1C5, 213 



Academy's present to Mr. 



Jones, 132 



Engineers, papers on subjects 



connected with (review), 60, 03 



Exchange, New, windows of, 



1,08,241 



Interior decorations of, OS, 

 114,241 



Mint, process of coining at, by 



Professor Braude, 86, 180 



palace at Berlin, 196 



Scottish Society of Arts, 387 



Rules for determining the rates of 



buildings, 15 

 Rushton's patent improvements in 



iron, 54 

 St. Paul's cathedral, 155 



Petersburg, academy of sciences 

 at, 351 



George's channel, Bermuda, 268 



Samuda's patent atmospheric railway, 



119 

 San Panlo at Rome, 1C4 

 Scaflolding for large erections, by 



Thos. Grissfl, 104 

 Scarborough drainage, near, 351 

 Schmidt's patent improvements in 



propelling, ICO 

 School, Horbury, near Wakefield, 



307 

 Science and art, year book of facts 



in (review), 93 

 Science, necessity of metaphysics in, 



203 



progress of, in Cambridge, 199 

 Scientific societies, proceedings. See 



proceedings of 

 Scoles on monuments in the Valley 



of Jehosaphet, 27 

 Scottish Society of Arts, royal, 19, 



86,121, 156, 192,231,386,387 

 Scoli's niHchiue for sweeping chim- 

 neys, 157 

 Screw propeller. Hay's patent, 90 

 Sculpture and architecture brought 



from Xanthus, 89 



History and practice of, by 



Mr. Westmacott, 222, 207 

 Materials used in, 222 

 Style in, 207 

 Terms used in, 222 

 Sea beach, elemted, 95 

 Seaford harbour, 94 

 Secielary of Slate, letter from, 346 

 Seebohm's patent chains. 297 

 Seguier and Jobard's pueumatic rail- 

 way, 333* 

 Seine river, improvements of, by Mr. 



Bald, 236 

 Self-adjusting step ladder for wharfs, 



122 

 Severn navigation improvements, 335 

 Seward's patent machinery fur mo- 



pelling, 297 

 Sewer of King's scholars' pond, 89 

 Sewers of Westminster, &:c. 250 

 Sliarpe's ecclesiastical architecture 



(review), 60 

 Shield of Achilles, Flaiman's, 232 

 Shingle aud silt, action of, 309 

 Traps, eflicieucy of, 3u9 

 Ships, caulking of, Coote's patent, 



120 



plan of raising, by G. P. 



White, 48 



Propelled by the screw, 208 

 Short lines convenient on atmospheric 



railways, 341 

 Show romiis, at Messrs. Williams 



and SoHcrbj's, Oxford-street, 97, 



12H 

 Sidings on atmospheric railways, 341 

 Silt aud shingle, action of, 309 I 



Silvestre's patent for preserving sub- 

 stances, 3.'>9 

 Simpson's remarks on irou pipes, 175 

 Singular discovery, 32 

 Sittings of the gauge commission re- 

 sumed, 391 

 Slate cutting machine, Carter's pa- 

 tent, ICO 



ridges and hips, Williams's pa- 

 tent, 15 

 Slated roofs. North's patent, 172 

 Slide, on the lead of, 273 

 Slips iu cuttings and embankments, 

 42 



Less likely to occur on atmos- 

 pheric railways, 341 

 Smith's iiatcnt d'laining tiles, 263 

 Smoke, comhusliou of, Bedington's 



patent, 119 

 Soap, Anderson's patent improve- 

 ments in, 225 

 Societies, scientific. See proceed- 

 ings of 

 Society, architectural, of Oxford, 12 

 Of Arts, C3, 122, 124 



Scottish, 19, 86, 124, 150, 

 192,231, 387 



Camden, of Cambridge, 71, 88 

 Of Decorative Art, 88, 125 

 Geological, quarterly journal 

 of (review), 92 



Of metropolitan improvements, 

 89 

 Solar or true time, 2.56 

 South Devon railway, 63, 301 

 Southwold harbour, 326 

 Speed attainable on the atmospheric 

 system, 311 



facility of attaining a higher 



rate of, 342 



Relative, of the two systems, 

 341 

 Spencer's patent corrugated iron 

 roofs, 264 



Patent improvements ia pro- 

 pelling, 297 

 Stationary engines on atmospheric 



railways, 342 

 Statistics of trade on the line of rail- 

 way from Calcutta to iVIirzapore, 

 185 

 Statue of the Queen by Lough, 164 

 Statues iu the palace of Westminster, 



345 

 Steam, Wild's patent for regulating, 

 172 



Electricity of, 163 

 Mechanical theory of, by the 

 Artizan Club, 200 



Mechanical properties of, 294, 

 333 



Ship Roscommon, launch of, 

 391 



Boilers, construction of, by 

 And. Murray, 217 



Fairbairn and Hethering- 

 ton's patent, 56 



Ritlerhandt's patent, for pre- 

 venting incrustation iu, 226 



Watteen's patent, for pre- 

 venting incrustation in, 172 



Condenser, Nasmith's patent, 

 168 * 



Engine, by the Artizan Club, 

 parts 1— VII (review), CO 

 Farcot's, 37 



Legeudre's oscillating, 57 

 Petrie's patent, 89 

 Stewart's pateut, rotary, ICl 

 Holtz's, 57 

 Navigation, 131, 195 

 Valve, Buyer's 102 , 

 Steam vessels — 



Alecto, 103 



Braganza, boilers of, 102 



Fairy, 103 



Faugh-a ballagh, 103 



Great Biitain, 03, 322, 343 



Heme, 131 



Ondine, 131 



Princeton, 103 



Ste.ini vessels — (continued) 

 Rattler, 1G3 

 Reiribiitioii, 15 

 Samson, 131 

 Tagiis, builirs of, 102 

 Terrible, 131,263 

 Two vessels launched at Li- 

 verpool, 195 



Vanguard, wreck of, 121 

 Steamers, iron and wood, 370 

 Stt-el, plating on, 95 

 Stephenson's, R. M. report on a rail- 

 way from Calcutta to Mirzaoore. 

 181 

 Stevenson's experiments on the force 

 of waves, 324 



Improved level, 52 

 Stewart's patent rotary engine, 101 

 Stone columns, strength of, bj E. 



Hodgkinson, 259 

 Strength of cast iron bars, table of, 

 151 



of cast iron and wood, by M. 

 Cowie, 215 



of stone columns, by E. Hodg- 

 kinson, 259 

 Studies of plan, 269 

 Style in sculpture, 2C7 

 Submarine currents. 04 

 Sugar boiling, Gadesden's patent, 

 357 



Robinson's patent, 168 

 Ronald's patent, 226 

 Suggestions for forming a museum of 



casts, 138 

 Sunderland lighthouse, removal of, 



49 

 Supplement to the Penny Cyclope- 

 dia, 363 

 Surveying, problems on, 310, 350 

 Surveyors, code of instructions for, 

 383 



List of, 13 

 Suspension bridges— 

 Alleghany, 195 

 Bailee Khali, fall of, 301 

 Dredge's, 221, 249, 271, 333, 

 356, 377 



Hungerford. 165 

 Varm..uih, fall of, 194 



Table of collegiate and other halls, 3u3 



of the prices of plate glass, 2:i2 



of steaiu vessels, British and 



Foreign, 352 



of the strength of cast iron bars, 



154 

 Tagus steam ship, boilers of, 162 

 Talbot's patent improvements ia mo- 

 tive power, 331 

 Tay, navigation of, 326 

 Taylor on the coal fields of China, 333 

 Taylor's patent machinei v for draining, 



30 

 ' Thermomelrical tables (re- 

 view), eo 

 Telescope (great). Earl of Koise's, 139, 



202 

 Telescopes, achromatic, by Mizar, 81 

 Terms used in sinlplure, 222 

 Terrace pier at Ciravesend, 132 

 " Terrible," war steamer, 131, 2CS 

 Tetley's plan of economising fuel, 123 

 Thames, blowing up of a shoal in, 208 

 navigation, iniprovcnient of ,.'{34 

 tunnel surpassed, 131 

 Theatre, new, at Lisbon, .'JH t 

 Thcrmonietri, hourly variations of, by 



M. Ponton, 156 

 Theriijometrical tables, by A. J. Taylor 



(review), GO 

 Thomson's account of the landslip in 



Ashley cutting, 23 

 Thorp's letter respecting the Cambridge 



Camden Society, 8 

 Thorwaldsen,Canova,and Flaxninn,3r4 

 Tidal harbours, report ou, 325, 331 

 Tides, on the law of, 89 

 I'ile making, Weller's patent, 585 

 Tiling, ornamental, Brown's, 81 

 Timber, preservation of, 02 



