INDEX. 



Coke oven, Church's patent, 284 

 Coking artificial fuel, M'arlich's pa- 

 tent, :iw 

 Colchester, Roman remains at, 199 



Collection of sewage manure, 82, 3i2 



College for Civil Engineers, 2.")G 



Collieries, gases and explosions in, 

 report on, 241 



Ceiling's goihic ornaments (review), 

 28Q 



Cologne catliedral, 48, 290 



Coloseum, Uegent's-park, 6 



Coloured dci orations, 20 



Columns and pediments employed for 

 wmdow mouldings, 162 



Combining sieel and iron, Sander- 

 son's patent, 180 



Companion to the Almanac (review), 

 17 



Comparison of screw propellers and 

 paddle-wheels, 349 



Competition, architectural, Viator on, 

 151 



designs, letter on, l>y 

 Vindcx, 290 



public, reports of, 42 



Complete treatise on llie ol)liqiie 

 arcli, by P. Nicholson (review), 73 



Coinpnund motion, new law nf, 1J6 



Connecting boilers, Gart'orlh's patent, 

 2Jl 



rods for cranks, Hinckley's 

 patent, 246 



Conversazione, Sir John Rennie's, 

 218 



C'o|iper ores, Bankart's patent for re- 

 fining, 120 



extracted from its ores by 

 electricitv, 208 



Correspondence, 32, 04, 96, 128, 192, 

 224, 200, 292, 324, 392 



Corrosion of metals, Adie's paper on, 

 371 



Coupling and stuffing-box for shafts, 

 Loper's patent, 90 



Cranipton's patent engine, 220 



Cranes, moveable jib, 367 



Crawford's patent for stopping rail- 

 way carriages, 186 



Critical dissertation on Prof. Willis's 

 architectural history of Canterbury 

 cathedral (review), 287 



Cubitt's, U., evidence ou the gauge 

 question, 254 



W., ditto, 239, 255 



Cupola, improved, for melting iron, 

 121 



Current water-wheel, Robinson's pa- 

 tent, 90 



Curves, railway, 368 



Cuttings aiid embankments, setting 

 out of, by Hawkins. 136 



Dampness in buildings, 187,216 

 Darljysliire's tables for setting out 



rai'U'ay curvis (review), 289 

 DauntlfbS frigati', 90 

 Decepti'jus, architectural, 2, 06 

 Decision of the Board' of Trade on 



the gauge question, 210 

 Decorations, coloured, 20 



of the Opera House, 99 

 01 houses, Bex's patent, 



252 



of the Town Hall, Liver- 

 pool, 245 



Decorative Art Society, 56, 159 



Demolition of Westminster Bridge, 

 387 



Denis, St., cathedral of, 9 



Dennet's patent horizontal windmills. 



Description of the Byrnegraph, by 0. 

 Byrne (review), 288 



Desiderata for the study of media;val 



architecture, by Nonnullus, 309 

 Dibbling apparatus, Fuller's patent, 



355 

 Dickson, on the cultivation and ma- 

 nagement of flax (review), 289 

 DitTerential hydraulic press, 319 

 Douglas, Sir Howard, on metropoli- 

 tan bridges, &c. (review), 280 



reply to observa- 

 tions on the metropolitan bridges, 

 &c., 358 

 Downhill tunnels, grand blast at, 253 

 Dredging machinery for Egypt, 108 

 Drumniond's first steps to anatomy 



(review), 14 

 Dublin, port of, improvements, 353 



Earl's goniometricon, 309 



Earth and sea, temperature of, by 

 Taylor, 110 



Earthwork, Hughes's tables for cal- 

 culating (review), 73 



on sidelong grounds, by J. 

 Hughes, 3;!3 



East India Company's navy, 19 



Eastlake, on styles and methods of 

 painting, 112 



Eccentrics, remarks on, Ickworth, 60 



Edinburgh, synopsis of buildings in, 8 



Education, professional, of the en- 

 gineer, architect, builder, and ma- 

 chinist, 283 



Egypt, dredging machinery for, 108 

 place of, in the bi>tory of the 

 wnrhl, Bunsen (review), 174 



Electric coniiuctors. Young's patent, 

 247 



lamp. Greener's patent, 285 

 light. King's patent, 220 

 telegraph, Heighton's pa- 

 tent, 321 



Elements of physics, by C. F. Peschel 

 (review), 358 



Elementary text book for surveyors 

 and levellers, by Castle (review), 

 356 



Embankments, Bateman's letter on, 

 224 



Employment of columns and pedi- 

 ments as window mouldings, 162 



Encaustic painting, 337 



Encouragement of Arts, Society for, 

 28, 89, 124, 157, 189 



Engineer, architect, builder and ma- 

 chinist, on the education of, 283 



Engineering, Weale's Quarterly Pa- 

 pers on, 39 



notes on, Nos. 4, 5, & 6 

 on the strength and form 

 of the Meuai tubular bridge, 

 100,172, 298 



Engineering, amateur, 365 



Engineer's illustrated almanac. Hare's 

 (review), 14 



Engineer's manual of mineralogy and 

 geology, Mrs. Varley (review), 367 



Engines of the steam frigate Gladia- 

 tor, 193 



England and France, telegraphic 

 communication between, 160 



England and Wales, railway map of, 

 Arrowsnivth and Uasire's (review), 

 170 



Entasis and other curved lines of the 

 Parthenon, bv F. Penrose, 97 



Erratta, 04, 128,102, 260, 324 



Erric sson's patent propeller, 386 



Essay on an improved method of 

 constructing viaducts, bridges, 

 tunnels, a:c. (review), 72 



Evaporative power of turf, 20 



Ewart's patent chimney pots, 185 



Excavating machine, Poole's patent, 

 219 



Exchange, Royal, paper on theoriginal 

 foundation of, by W. Tite, 28 



Exhibition at the Roval Academv, 

 169 



Existing railwavs, working stock of, 

 245 



Expansion of steam, Hazard's paper 

 on, 381 



Experimental researches on the 

 strength of cast-iron, by E. Hodg- 

 kinson (review), 317 



Experiments on the broad and nar- 

 row gauge, 49 



on steam, 9 



Explosion in a sewer at Ixelles, 1 1 1 



Exposition of manufactures and in- 

 dustrial art, 30 



Extraction of copper from its ores by 

 electiicitv, 208 



Fafade of the British Museum, 65, 

 123 



Fairbairn's report of the Menai tubu- 

 lar bridge, 145 



Fall of railway bridges, 3i>3 



Falls of Niagara, suspension bridge 

 at, 73 



Faraday, Prof., on lime preserved 

 for fresco painting, 117 



Fenestration and windows, 270, 293, 

 329 



Fibrous materials, preparing of, New- 

 ton's patent, 3S-> 



Fictile manufactures, pottery and 

 porcelain, 178 



Filterer, Wilkinson's patent, 222 



Fine Arts, Institute of, reports, 42 



Fine Alt architeeture, Kerr's Xew- 

 leafe discourses on (review), 377 



Fire alarum, Taylor's patent, 120 



Fire-engines, White's patent, 221 



Fitzwilliatn nuiseuni, Cambridge, 31, 

 103,129. 107, 301 



Fitznilliam museum, interior of, 361 



Floors, ornamental, 216 



Foreign public A'oiks, 190 



notes, 223, 3.-3, 359, 390 



Fortifications, old, Sheerness, guns 

 for, 80 



France and England, telegraphic 

 communication between, lljO 



Francis's, Henry, patent g,is appara- 

 tus, 185 



Joseph, patent iron boats, 

 184 



French archa:ological congress, 218 

 railways, 43 



Fresco painting, on the lime pre- 

 served for, by Prof. Faraday, 117 



Frigates, Dauntless and .\rrogant, 90 



Fuller's patent dibbling apparatus, 

 355 



Fulljames's lelter on the Aust sus- 

 pension bridge, 190 



Fulton on the modification and 

 adaptation of the Greek onleis, 137 



Fuluie development of niediaivol ar- 

 chitecture, 225 



Gas apparatus, Francis's patent, ISS 

 burners, Leslie's patent, 221 

 manufacture of, Murdoch's pa- 

 tent, 02 



purifying of, Phillip's patent, 01 

 Gailbabaud ou ancient and modern 



architecture (review), 13, 155 

 Galloway's patent for propelling car- 

 riages, 01 

 Garforth's patent for connecting 



boilers, 251 

 Gate tower, .St. Edmund's Bury, 238 

 Gauges, decision of the Board of 

 Trade on, 210 



Gauges, broad and narrow, experi- 

 ments on, 4!) 



junction of, 187 

 S.T.'s letter on, 130 



Gauge commissioners, report of, 74 

 commission, analysis of evi- 

 dence, I7i», i!ll, 254,309 



Geology, railway, 218 



Giles's, F., projiosal for a suspension 

 bridge at the Aust passage, 122 



Gillard's patent for the production of 

 heat, 320 



Gladiator steam frigate, engines of, 

 193 



Glass, Mr. Pellatt on the manufac- 

 ture of, 124 



painting on, 149 



tiles, Kussell's patent, 247 



windows, stained, 254 



Glass staining and etching, Bed- 

 ford's patent, 384 



Goethe's house, 295 



Goniometer and crystallonome, paper 

 on, by Dr. Leeson (review), 153 



Goniometricon, Earl's, 369 



Gothic architecture, manual of, Paley 

 (review), 377 



Gothic ornaments, by Colling (re- 

 view), 289 



Governors of steam engines, Sie men's 

 patent, 247 



Grand blast at the Downhill tunnels, 

 253 



Gravel, white, 153 



Great Britain steam ship, 9 



Great Western, new locomotive en- 

 gine, 198 



Greener's patent electric lamp, 285 



Greenbow's patent railways and car- 

 riages, 285 



Gregg's patent hydrostatic power 

 machine, 24fl 



Guess's patent for removing acids 

 from clotii, 386 



Gun cotton, 386 



Gunpowder, report of experiments 

 on, at Washington, 119 



Guns for old fortifications at Sheer- 

 ness, 80 



Gun steamers, 379 



H 



Hall's patent brick and tile machine, 

 3.i5 



Hand-book of mapping, &e. Wilrae 

 (review), 204 



Hare's illustrated almanac (review), 

 14 



HaskoU's assistant engineer's rail- 

 way guide (review), 374 



Hawkins on setting out cuttings and 

 embankments, ISO 



Hawortli's patent steam engine, 02 



Hazard's paper on the expansion of 

 steam, 381 



Heald on stakingout railway curves 

 (review), 203 



Heath's putent hydraulic gale, 91 



Heating by hydrogen, Gillard's pa- 

 tent, 320 



Height of Vesuvius, 111 



Heighton's patent electric telegraph 

 321 



Henry's, Professor, observations on 

 capillarity, 170 



Hightou's patent railway chairs, 92 



Hili aud Dixon's patent for lubri- 

 cating nMchiner>, 91 



Hill's, Joseph, paleut wire gauze 

 for blinds, 16 



John l{., patent for atmos- 

 pheric propulsion, 218 



pateut printiitg 



press, 219 



Hinckley's connecdng rods, 216 



Hind ou the vibration of trains in 

 tunnels, 207 



