INDEX. 



Billings and Burn on (lie antiquities 

 of Scotland, 1 aronial and ecclesias- 

 tical (review), 159, 29U 

 Birkenliead and Chester extension 



railway, 95 

 Birmingliara corn exchange, new, 92 

 institution of mechani- 

 cal engineers at, 37, 190 

 Birt's repoit on atiuospheric curves, 



257 

 Blackburn's sketches, graphic and 



descriptive (review), 363 

 Blade protractor, registered by James 



Basire, 310 

 Boccius on his improved gas burner, 



193 

 Boheoiia, railways and coal mines in, 



29 

 Bohemian glass, analysis of, by Dr. 



liowncy, 6-1 

 Boldest enterprise of the age, the 



draining of the Zuyder-zee, 29 

 Books lately published (foreign), 87 

 Corrie's patent for the construction 



of piers and harbours, 247 

 Botany and steam navigation, 256 

 Boulogne and Amiens railway, 95 

 Bourne's catechism of the steam en- 

 gine, (review), 391 

 Bradford and Leeds extension rail- 

 way, 66 

 Breakwater of Cherbourgh and Ply- 

 mouth, 283 

 Breakwater in Delaware Bay, 281 

 Brees's first series of railway practice 



(review), 92 

 Brett and Little's patent electric tele- 

 graph, 294 

 Brett's paper on his electric printing 



telegraph, 193 

 Breynton's patent rotary engine, 293 

 Bricks (moulded), 92 

 Bridge (great railroad) in America, 



152 

 Bridge over the Rhine at Basle, 136 

 strain on the platform of a 

 suspension, 97 

 Bridge over the Poldervaart, by 



Manby, 125 

 Bridge (Niagara), Ware, 162 

 Bridges of the Romans, (review), 104 



(tubular), 64, 376 

 British Architects, Royal Institute of, 

 6,26,62,82, 123, 155,192,227, 

 261,367,397 

 British Association, 254, 286 



museum, I., 239; IL, 257; 

 III., 302; IV., 346; V., 383 

 Brighton and continental steam- 

 packet company, 263 

 Broad and narrow gauge, wear and 



tear on, 317 

 Brockedon on the vulcanization of 



india-rubber, 186 

 Browning's mode of measuring and 

 valuing carpenters and joiners' 

 work, 62, (review) 195 

 Brown's description of a coil electri- 

 cal machine, 26 

 Brussels, prevention of accidents on 



railways in, 199 

 Buchanan's patent improvements in 



ships and propellers, 178 

 Buckingham palace, 31, 265 

 Bucknall on locomotive slide valves, 



177 

 Buckler's history of the abbey church 



of St. Alban, (review), 364 

 Buckle's paper on the use of the fan 



blast, 190 

 Buddhish architecture. 111 

 Builders' benevolent institution, 233 

 Buildings, (fire-proof), defects in the 



principle and construction, 156 

 ^uUding act, 399 



Building operatives, short time for, 



263 



(public), inauguration of, at 



Constantinople, 162 

 Bunnett's patent water closet, 144 

 Buruettizing timber, 28 

 Bury and Ipswich railway, 95 

 Button the archaeolngist, 31 

 Byrne on logarithms, 242 



on the measurement of angles, 



313,351 

 Byrne's new theory of the earth, 99, 



131 



C. 



Caen in France, a basin in progress 



at, 87 

 Calcutta, gallery of art at, 31 

 Cambridge, chapel of Jesus college 



at, 109 

 Cameos, Gray on the manufacture 



of, 154 

 Canal, the Ganges, India, 163 



(fielder), Jackson on, 124 

 locks, wicket gate for, by 

 Lowthorp, 244 

 Candidus's Note Book, Fasciculus 

 I.XXII., 233; LXXIII., 266; 

 LXXIV., 298; LXXV., 341; 

 LXXVL, 371 

 Canina on ancient architecture (re- 

 view), 317 



of Rome, 163 

 Canning's plan for arresting the pro- 

 gress of fire in dwelling houses, 

 192 

 Canterbury cathedral, 109 

 Caoutchouc, Moulton's patent im- 

 provements in, 320 

 Cape Town gas works, 399 

 Capillary attraction, 256 

 Carlton club-house, 297 

 Carpentry in divisions 4, B, C, by P. 



Nicholson, (review), 204 

 Carpenters and joiners' work, 



Browning on measuring, &c., 62 

 Carpmael on raising and shaping 



metals. 112 

 Carriages, Rennie on, 80 



(railway), Wight's improve- 

 ments in, 153 

 Carrick's improved railway indicator 



and alarum, 61 

 Cart drag, Rutherford's improvements 



in, 153 

 Carter's lubricator for machinery, 391 

 Carvings (ardiitectural), 65 

 Casks and vessels, 183 

 Cast-iron, Kenrick's patent for glaz- 

 ing it, 27 

 Castle of Ostia, Ripingille's sketch of, 



21 

 Castle's notes on surveying and 



levelling, (review), 159 

 Catechism of the steam engine, by J. 



Bourne, (review), 391 

 Cathedral (Canterbury), 105 

 (Cologne), 33, 126 

 (Durham), 164 

 of bpeyer, restoration of, 

 93 

 Cement intonaco, Marshall's, 153 

 Central sun, 86 

 Centre punch, 263 



Cerography, Dr. Morse's system of,64 

 Chairs and fastenings for railways, 



May's, 390 

 Chambers on ancient sea margins, 



260 

 Chambers's (Robt.), select writings, 



(review), 92 

 Chamonix, the valley of, 162 

 Chance and Badger's patent for the 

 manufacture of glass, 27 



Chandelier suspenders, Finlay's pa- 

 tent, 58 

 Changes in the position of the transit 



instrument, 286 

 Chantrell on the geometric system of 



mediajvai architects, 123, 227 

 Chemical society, 156 

 Cherbourg harbour, 281 



and Plymouth breakwaters, 

 283 

 Chess-board (economical), Dr. Roget's 



25 

 Chesshire's apparatus for railway car- 

 riages, 190 

 Chester and Birkenhead extension 



railway, 95 

 Chimney cans, improved, Stewart, 



1.13 

 China grass rope, 400 

 Chinese wall, 203 

 Chromatype, Hunt's, 202 

 C'hurch of Adel, York, Chantrell on 



ancient roof of, 123 

 Church of the holy sepulchre at Je- 

 rusalem, 192 

 Churches, new metropolitan, 40 

 City embellishmenis in Austria, 29 

 City of London Union workhouse 



competition, 398 

 City of Mexico, 2G4 

 Civil Engineers, institution of, 62, 



72, 83, 124, 155, 188, 227, 261 

 Clarke and Varley's pneumatic pile 



driver, 91 

 Clau.ssen's patent propellers, 88 

 Cleopatra's needle, 30 

 Clilf. Shakspeare's, 126 

 Clocks, Rennie on, 148 

 Clubhouse, army and navy, 163, 173 



231 

 Coaches, steam, 115 

 Cochran's sawing machine, 200 

 Cock burn, captain, on anemometers 



and revolving scales, 2S0 

 Cohesion of liquids, influence of 



heat on, 8 

 Coil electrical machine, 26 

 Coke ovens, cooling, Ransome's pa- 

 tent, 320 

 Coke, conversion of diamonds into, 



203 

 College of surgeons, 400 

 Collins, William, death of, 95 

 Cologne cathedral, 33, 126 

 Colonial railway progress, 312 

 Coloured glass in the new palm- 

 house, Kew, 286 

 Communication between Trieste and 



the Rhine, 95 

 Comparative strength of various 



kinds of wood, 185 

 Competition, City of London Union 



workhouse, 398 

 Competition of railway companies, 



317 

 Compress for undue bleeding, 153 

 Condie's patent steam hammer, 224 

 Connell, Prof., on the precipitate in 



water, 258 

 Constantinople, inauguration of a 



public building at, 162 

 Construction of arches, Barlow's 



paper on, 211 

 Construction of penitentiaries, 334 

 Construction of sea walls, 2 1 5, 251, 



281 

 Continental and Brighton steam 



packet company, 263 

 Continental railways impracticable 



in winter, 03 

 Continental railway lines, great, 199 

 Conversion of diamouds into coke, 



263 

 Cooling coke oven, Ransome's pa- 

 tent, 320 

 Copper, revulsion in the manufac- 

 ture and trade of, 110 



Copper mines in Arabia, 112 

 Copper ore, Bell's patent lor smelt- 

 ing, 88 

 Copper ore, 103 



Copying presses, Kenipton's, 390 

 Copyrif;hlof designs, by W. Spence 



(review), 196 

 Cordea and Locke's rotary engine, 



38,61 

 Cornelius and Humboldt, 'Ji 

 Correspondence, 32, 6 4 

 Cost of roustructing railways in 



France, 93 

 Cost of various railways pre\ious to 



1841, 183 

 Cottiugham, the architect, death of, 



368 

 Coupling, disconnecting, 190 

 Covent garden theatre, 64, 139,230 

 Cowper's railway suspension bridge, 



369 

 Crease's patent improvements in 



house painting, 8b 

 Cresy on civjl engineering (review), 



102, 156 

 Criniple viaduct, the, 23 

 Croll's patent gas meter, 91 

 Cromptons's large wheel narrow 



gauge engines, 153 

 Curr's railway locomotion and steam 



navigation, 362 



D 



Dalmatia. drainage of land in, 199 



Damp walls, 290 



Daguerreotype combined with the 

 telescope, 102 



Deacon's patent flattening glass 

 kilns, 143 



Death of Mr. Collins, 95 



Death of Mr. Cotlingham, 368 



Death of Mr. Papworth, .i'i2 



Death of oenor Vasques, 3lj8 



De Boureuille on the safety of rail- 

 ways, 41 



Dee Bridge, failure of, 204 



Dee Bridge girders, 310 



Decimal gages, 16, 39 



Decimal weights, measures, and 

 money, 196 



Decomposition of water, 263 



Decoration of Covent garden thea- 

 tre. Laugher's paper on, 230 



Decoration of the palace of West- 

 minster, 201, 233, 284 



Decoration of theatres, Dwyer's 

 paper on, 23, 187 



Decoration of the meeting room in 

 the commercial bank of Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 152 



Decorative an, ancient. Turner's 

 paper on, 22 



Decorative Art Society, 390 



Defence of the country, W eale's pa- 

 per on (review), 312 



Defries on his pateut dry gas meter, 

 193 



Delaware bay, breakwater in, 281 



Delfosse's patent for preventing the 

 incrustation of boilers, 140 



Demolition of Trinity church, Edin- 

 burgh, 31 



Depressions in the land, recent, 200 



Description and draw mg of a &iuice, 



by J. Macdonald, 81 

 Description of lour portable appa- 

 ratus lor inhaling ether, 82 

 Description of the Leeghwater en- 

 gines, 2 

 Description of pottery made by the 



Ojibbeway Indians, 8i 

 Design, the government school of, 13 



390 

 Destruction of a high road by an 



earthquake, 63 

 Destruction of mountainous forests, 

 71 



