INDEX. 



Diamond, conversion of into coke, 



2G3 

 Dickenson's patent gas meter, 290 

 Disconnecting coupling, 190 

 Discoveries at Nimroud, by H. 



Layard, 227 

 Discovery of Termessus, 34 

 l>ocks at Soutliampton, 173 

 Donaldson's arcliilectural maxims 



and theorems (review). 201,246 

 Doppler on tlie combination of tiie 

 telescope vvitli Daguerreotype, 102 

 DongUi?, Sir H., on the long range, 



197,243 

 Douglas, Sir H.,on the construction 



of sea walls, 215, 2ol,2«l 

 Double gauge, observations on bj 



R. Stephenson (review), 289 

 Dover, landing pier at, 203 

 Drainage and sewage, 170 

 Drainage ot land, 10.5 

 Drainage of land in Dalmatia, 199 

 Drainage of the Haarlem lake, 1 

 Drainage of the Zuyder-zee, 29, 31 

 Draining, important saving in, 164 

 Draining with engine ashes, 80 

 Drawing, thermogenic. 94 

 Drayton's patent process for silver- 

 ing glass with pure silver, 192 

 Dredge's suspension bridges in In- 

 dia, 31, 263, 289 

 Dressing lace and fabrics, Keely's 



patent, 247 

 Dripp's patent water wheels, 87 

 Dry gas meters, Defries's paper on, 



193 

 Dublin, school of engineering in, 31 

 Dundalk and Eoniskillen railway, 



95 

 Dundonald's, Lord, war plan, 127 

 Durham calliedral, 164 

 Dupasquier on the water test, 163 

 Dwyer's lecture on the scenery and 



decoration of theatres, 187 

 Dwjer's lecture on high art, 396 



Earl's art of sketching from nature 



siniplitied (review), 217 

 Earlh, a new tlieory of, by Oliver 



Byrne, 99, 131 

 Earthwork, Bashforth's tables for 

 the calculation of (review), 202, 

 289 

 Earthwork, Sibley and Rutherford's 

 tables for the calculation of (re- 

 view), 246 

 Ecclesiastical and domestic archi- 

 tecture of England, by Hadfield, 

 (review), 363 

 Eclipse, the, 308 

 Economical chess-board. Dr. Eoget's 



25 



Edge's patent gas meters, 247 

 Edinburgh, demolition of Trinity 



churLh at, 31 

 Egypt, rise in the soil of, 126 

 Elastic fluid, Froude's paper on, 223 

 Electrical musical instruments, 200 

 Electric light, Wrights patent, 355 

 Electric spark, Wilson on the noise 



of, 123 

 Electric telegraph, 30 

 Electric telegraph, Brett and Little's 



patent, 294 

 Electric telegraph, Brett's paper on, 



193 

 Electric telegraph, Highton's, 400 

 Electric telegraph, induction of at- 

 mospheric clectricily on the wires 

 of, 176 222 

 Electric telegraph, Notl's patent, 56 

 Electric telegraph, the political and 



social influence of, 256 

 Electricity, light from, 399 

 Electricity, smeltii.g by, 250 



Electro-coppering, &c., Piaget and 



Du Bois's patent, 292 

 Electro magnetic coil machine, 62 

 Elements of geometry, by J. D. 



(review), 393 

 Elevations and earthquakes. Hop- 

 kin's report on, 257 

 Elliott on the sea defences of Rom- 



ney marsh, 26 1, 

 Elmes's, J,, history of architecture 

 in Great Britain, 160, 209, 234, 

 268, 300, 337, 378 

 Encyclopaedia of civil engineering, 



Cresy's, (review), 102, 156 

 Engine ashes, draining wilh, 86 

 Engine, the stationary system, 115 

 Engineer and contractor's pocket- 

 book, Weale's, (review), 50, 290 

 Engineering and railway members 



of parliament, 307 

 Engineering, civil, encyclopaedia of, 



I'resy's (review), 102, 156 

 Engineering evidence, Stephenson's, 



317 

 Engineering field notes, by Castles, 



(review), 159 

 Engineering, history of, by Sir John 



Rennie, 50,75, 113, 146 

 Engineering literature, 28 

 Engineering, military and naval, 161 

 Engineering society. King's college, 



95 

 Engineers, civil, institution of. 62, 



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

 Engineers, continental, 151 

 Enniskillen and Dundalk railway, 



95 

 Enniskillen and Londonderry rail- 

 way, 95 

 Erratum, 232 

 Erskine's method of overcoming an 



incline of 1 foot in 12, 192 

 Ether, apparatus for inhaling it, 82 

 Ether, vapour of sulphuric, safety 



of from explosion, 123 

 Etherization, 225 

 Evaporation, &c., cause of, 258 

 Evaporation of water, 135 

 Excavations, recent, at Pompeii, 367 

 Exhibition at the Royal Academy, 



174 

 Expansive action of steam, paper on 



by J. M. Heppel, 227 

 Expansive action of steam, paper on 



by Tate, 228 

 Expansively, working steam. 370 

 Expeniliture of railways, 182 

 Experiments on models, 352, 398 

 Experiments, photogenic, 369 

 Explosion of a locomotive engine in 



the United Slates, 245 

 " Express" steam vessel, the, 263 

 Extension of railways for speedy 

 travelling, 385 



Figured surfaces, Millward's patent, 



225 

 Finlay's chandelier suspenders, 58 

 First series of railway practice, by 



Brees (review), 92 

 Flax, adulieration of, 164 

 Fluids, on the motion of, 97 

 Forct*, on the niea-ures of, and the 



laws of motion, 129 

 Foreign books lately published, list 



of, 87 

 Foreign works, notes on, 29, 62, 93, 



120, 162 

 Forge portable. Queen's patent, 87 

 Form and equilibrium of arches, 66 

 Fortifications at Sheerness, 30, 336 

 Fortifications of the southern coast, 



367 

 Fossick's patent looomotive engine, 



319 

 Fossil sea-serpent, 199 

 Foulis's ink for the blind, 61 

 Four rail system, economy of, 317 

 France,costof constructing railways 



in, 95 

 France, great scientific prizes in, 63 

 Free trade, 336 

 French Instiiulion of civil engineers, 



126 

 French Northern line, fall of build- 

 ings on, 30 

 French proof engravings, 335 

 French railways, state and prospect 



of, 140 

 French vessels, sheathing for, 335 

 Fresco painting, 200 

 Frodsham cm the laws of isochron- 



ism of the balance-spring, 18S 

 Frost, phenomena of, at Koine, 63 

 Froude's paper on the law which 

 governs the discbarge of elastic 

 fluids, 228 

 Fulgurites and fulminary tubes, 304 

 Fuller's India rubber buflters for rail- 

 way carriages 154 

 Furnaces, Grundy's patent, 319 

 Fusion of mercury, 336 



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Faber's patent for Indicating the 



height of water in steam boilers, 



87 

 Facade of the new building of the 



Institution of civil engineers, 7;i 

 Failure of the Dee bridge, 204 

 Fairbairn on the defects of fire-proof 



buildings, 150 

 Fairbairn on atmospheric railway 



valves, 152 

 Fairbairn's patent tubular bridges, 



143 

 Fairbairn, tribute to, from Sultan 



Mahmoud, 400 

 Fall of a building on the French 



Northern line, 30 

 Fan-blast, Buckle on the use of, 190 

 Fan-blast, Jones on the use ot, 191 

 Fano, the gate of Augustus at, 102 

 Fecundation, 256 



Gages, decimal, 16, 39 

 Gailhabaud's ancient and mo en 



architecture, (review), 49 

 Gallery of art at Calcutta, 31 



of the Louvre, and French 

 works in general, state of, 93 

 Gallowav's patent locomotive engines, 



120 

 Ganrton the architect, life of, by 



Mulvany, (review), 48 

 Ganges, steamers for, 30 

 Garofola, great picture of, at Rome, 



29 

 Gardens, royal botanic, 163 



at Kew, 1G3 

 Gardner's introduction to railway 



mensuration, (review), 393 

 Gas burners, Boccius on, 193 

 Gas, Rennie on, 79 



the manufacture of, Hillary's 

 patent, 83 



manufacture of, Lowe's patent, 

 224 



lighting at Nuremberg, 93 

 meters, Croll'^ patent, 91 



Dickinson's patent, 290 

 Eilge's patent, 247 

 Gas retorts, Walker's patent, 290 

 Gas works at Cape Town, 399 

 Gate of Augustus at Fano, (review), 



102 

 General table for facilitating the cal- 

 culation of earthwork, by F. Basli- 

 fortli, (review), 202, 289 

 Geological lectures, Prof. Ansted's, 

 393 



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Geological maps, Salter's system of 

 colouring, 287 



science, the saccessive 

 phases of, 112 

 Geometric system of the medieval 



architects, by F. Lush, 1G5, 238 

 Geometry, elements of, liy J. D. (re- 

 view), 393 

 German architectural works, 211 



overland routes to India, 

 197 



railways, 96 

 Germany machine manufactories, 96 

 Giles, George, and the senate of Ham- 

 burgh, 9-1 

 Girder bridges, iron for, 263 

 Glance at some of the attributes of 

 architecture, by F. Lush, 165, 238 

 Glass, Chance and Badger's patent 

 improvements in, 27 

 malleable, 263 

 ornamental, 84 

 painting, the art of, 91 

 silvering of with pure silver, 

 Drayton's paper on, 192 

 stained, 86 

 Glazing cast-iron, Kenrick's patent, 



27 

 Glynn's plan for connecting the At- 

 lantic and Pacific oceans, 228 

 Goddard's improved anemometer, 60 

 Gold mines on the coast of Guinea, 



63 

 Goodman's paper on the potassium 



battery, 287 

 Gorgon steam ship, the narrative of 



her recovery, (review), 18 

 Government and the railways, 319 



school of design, 13, 399 

 Grace's renaissance decorations, 220 

 Gradual elevation of the land at Ply- 

 mouth, 94 

 Grafton's patent improvements in 



railway wheels and breaks, 248 

 Grand Duchy of Baden, meeting of 



the archaeologists, 126 

 Grantham's account of the Sarah 



Sands steam vessel, 189 

 Grass rope, China, 400 

 Grayou the improved Kinnaird grate, 



123 

 Gray on the manufacture of shell 



cameos, 154 

 Great Britain steam ship, 31 

 Great Britain, historv of architecture 

 in, by James Elmes, 166, 209, 23 4 

 268, 300, 337, 378 

 Great continental railway lines, 199 

 Great Nassau tunnel, 349 



news hall at Berlin, 29 

 picture of Garofolo at Rome, 

 29 

 Great scientific prizes in France, G3 

 water-works at Hamburgh, in- 

 terruption of, 63 

 Grindstones, 263 

 Grundy's patent furnaces, 319 

 Guildhall of Louvain, 29 

 Guinea, gold mines on the coast of, 



63 

 Gun cotton, improvements in, 296 

 Gunpowder, 84 



Gustafsson's hydraulic log, 375 

 Gustafsson's practical observations on 

 the present state of the steam en- 

 gine, (review), 193 

 Gutta percha safety fiizs, Smith's 

 patent, 179 



H 



Haarlem lake, drainage of, 1 

 ■Hadfiehl's architecture of England, 



(review), 363 

 Hale's patent sewer valves, 181 



