1 N D E X. 



Railway (rains, inertia of, 156 



trucks, Kay's patent, 181 

 Railways, amalgamation and leasing 

 of, 09 



Belgian, 17 



carriages, &c., Greenhow's 

 patent, 2S5 



French, 43 



incorporated, synopsis of, 21 

 practice of setting out, 257 

 United States, at work, 31 

 use, progress, and construc- 

 tion of liitciiie (review), 175 

 Raising the spire of a church, 41 

 Ransome's patent for coals and wood 



16 

 Rastrick's evidence on the gauge 



question, 213 

 Ralller steam ship, 19 

 Rayner's patent locomotive engine, 



152 

 Ray's patent railway trucks, 184 

 Regent's Park, Coloseum in, G 

 Register of new patents, 16, 61, 91 

 120, 152, 184, 218, 246, 283, 320, 

 355, 382 

 Removing acids from cloth, Guess's 



patent, 386 

 Renuie's, Sir J., conversazioni, 21 8 

 Researches in hydraulics, 123 

 Restoration of churches, 81, 1 13 

 Retaining walls, pressure on, 109, 



135 

 Return of duties on bricks, 160 

 Review of a reviewer, 58 

 Reviews of books — 



Arrowsmilh and Basire's 

 railway map, 176 



Arlizan Club steam engine, 

 38, 203 



Blair and Phillips, on the 

 construction of viaducts, &c., 72 

 Brandon, Messrs., on parish 

 churches, 151 



Bunsen's place of Egypt in 

 the history of the world, 174 

 Bjrne's byrnegraph, 288 

 Castle'selementarytext book 

 356 



CoUing's gothic ornaments, 

 289 



Companion to the almanac, 

 II 



Creed J 's excavation table, 

 289 



Darbyshire's ta'nle for rail- 

 way curves, 289 



Dickson's cultivation and 

 management of flax, 2S9 



Douglas, Sir H., on metro- 

 politan bridges, &c.. 286 



Drummond's first steps to 

 anatomy, 14 



Gailhabaud's ancient and 

 modern architecture, 13, 155 



Hare's illustrated almanac, 

 14 



Haskoll'sassistanlengineer's 

 railway guide, 374 



Heald's railway curves, 203 

 Hodgkinson's researches on 

 cast iron, 317 



Holtzapffel's turning and 

 manipulation, 372 



Hughes's tables for the cal- 

 culations of earthwork, 73 

 Huntington's ditto, 155 

 Kerr's Newleafe discourses 

 on architecture, 377 



Lamb's studies of ancient 

 domestic architecture, 199 

 niullins on peat bog, 357 

 Nicholson's treatise on the 

 oblique arch, 73 



Ogier's proposal for a gene- 

 ral metropolitan railway, 289 



Paley's manual of Gothic 

 architecture, 377 



Reviews — (conlimial.) 



Pe^clicrs elements of phys- 

 ics, Part II., 358 



Railway almanac, 14 

 Reply to ul)!>ervations on the 

 report of the gauge commissiua- 

 ers, IS 



Reply to observations on me- 

 tropolitau bridges, 358 



Ititcliie's railways, 175 

 Kiililman on horizontal water 

 wheels, 202 



Varley's, Sirs., engineei-'s 

 manual, 376 



AVeale's quarterly papers, 

 39, 203 



M illis's. Prof., architectural 

 history of Canterbury cathedral, 

 287 



Wilme's hand-book of map- 

 ping, 204 

 Rivers — 



Alleghany, suspension aque- 

 duct over, 47 



Cljde, trustees' report on the 

 weir question, 84 



Rhine, auriferous sand of, 159 

 Severn improvements, 80 

 Robinson's patent current water- 

 wheel, 00 

 E(il)ii)son's patent for opening and 



closing water gates, 91 

 Rods, lightning. 21 

 Roe's patent machine for folding 



sheet metal, 386 

 Rolling iron bars, Howard's patent, 



184 

 Eollinfon's patent steam engine 384 

 Roman remains at Colchester, l'J9 

 Rome, the Basilica at, 259 

 Ross's patent fide mills, GO 

 Rouen and Havie Railway, fall of 



a viaduct on, 54 

 Roval Academy, exhibitions at, 169 



i<J5 

 Royal commissioners' report on the 



gauges, 74 

 Royal Exchange, 28 

 Royal Institute of British Archi- 

 tects, 27, 68, 84, 123, 158, 188, 

 217,387 

 Koyal naval steam yard, Plymouth, 



317 

 Royal Observatory of Paris, 96 

 Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 29, 



55, 89, H3, 156,256 

 Eiihlmanon horizontal water-wheels 



(review), 200 

 Runcorn suspension bridge, 7 

 Rush's patent safety valves, 184 

 Russell's, J., pafput glass tiles, 247 

 H., railway suspension 

 bridge, 10 

 Rustic iSIasonry, 234, 330 

 Rustication, Candidus on, 269 



S 



Sacristies, 46 



Sacrow near Potsdam, church at, 



161 

 Safety valves. Rush's patent, 184 

 Saint Botolph's, church, Boston, 



Lincolnsiiire, restoration of, 235 

 St. Cbapelle, stained glass windows 

 in, 131 



Denis, cathedral of, 9 

 Edmunds-Bury gate tower, 238 

 James's, 264 

 Michael Heavitree, 319 

 Blichael's, Pimlico, 67 

 Saviour's, York, restoration of, 

 209 

 Sanderson's patent for combining 



steel and iron, 186 

 Sandjs's dissertation on Prof. M'il- 

 lis's history of Canterbury cathe- 

 dral (review), 287 



Saxfon's patent printing pre.'S, 184 

 Scientific societies, proceedings of, 



27, 55, 84, 123, 156. 11^8,256 

 Screw propeller (patent law case), 



Woodcraft t' Smith, 117 

 Screw propellers and paddlewheels, 



comparison of, 349 

 Scripture's patent carriage wheels, 



245 

 Searle's patent stove, 120 

 Seaward's patent steam engines and 



propellers, 284 

 Self-registering instrument, 841 

 Semper, architect of Dresden Gal- 

 lery, 188 

 Setting out cuttings and embank- 

 ments, 136 

 Setting out railway curves, 300 

 Sewage manure, collection of, 82, 



352 

 Sewer at Ixelles, explosion in. Ill 

 Sharp on the restoration of St Sa- 

 viour's chuitli, York, 2(i9 

 Sheerness, guu:, for the old lortifica- 



tions at, 80 

 Sheet metal, machine for folding. 



Roe's patent, 3S6 

 Ship building, Boydell's patent im- 

 provements in, 185 

 Ship propellers, Parloui's patent, 



221 

 Siemen's patent governor. 247 

 Skfw arch an old invention, 118 

 Skew arch, Nicholson's treatise on 



(review), 73 

 Slide valves, Longridge's patent, 152 

 Sluice cocks, M aller's patent, 219 

 Smelting with anthracite coal, 216 

 Smith on the blast furnace, 144 

 Smith's patent water wheels, 90 

 Smoke, suppression of, 196 



value of, 148 

 Society of Arts, Loudon, 28, 57, 89, 

 124, 157, ISa 



Royal Scottish, 29, 

 65,89, 123, 156,256 

 Society, Chemical, 189 



of Decorative Art, 56, 159 

 of Vine Arts, 42 

 , Philosophical, of Newcas- 

 tle, 31 

 Stability and strength of Hungerford 



bridge, 363 

 Stained glass windows, in Sainte 

 Chapelle, Paris, 131 



St. James's, 264 

 at Woolwich, 264 

 Staining and etching glass, Bedford's 



patent 384 

 Staking out railway curves, Heald on, 



(review), 203 

 Standing Orders of the House of 



Commons, 93, 94, 352 

 Starr's patent matrices for casting 



printer's types, 386 

 Steering apparatus, Clark and Pirnie's 



patent, 185 

 Steam, experiments on, 9 



engine, Artizan Club (review), 

 38, 203 



Hawoith's patent, 62 

 Isoard and Merciet's 

 patent, 58 



Pomero) 's patent, 246 

 M'Naught's patent im- 

 provements, 246 



condensers, Howard's 

 patent, 383 



KoUinson's patent, 384 

 Steam engines and propellers, Peua 

 and Co.'s patent, 217 



Seaward's 

 patent, 284 



factory in .America, 208 

 navigation, 1150, 207 

 vessels, British and American, 

 2G3 



Steam vessels — 



Blasco Garry, 192 

 Dauntless, S6 

 Gladiator, 193 

 Great Britain, 9 

 Janus, 51 

 Kattler, 19 

 Terrible, 127 

 Steam expansion, Hazard's paper on, 

 381 



navigation, 379, 391 

 Steam-yard at Plymouth, 317 

 Stephenson's, Robert, report on the 

 accident on the Norfolk railway, 53 

 evidence on the gauge 

 question, 179 



tubular bridge, FaiF- 

 bairn's report on, 145 



Hodgkin- 

 son's report on, 146 

 Stephenson, George, and Howe's 



patent locomotive engine, 285 

 Stoves, Searle's patent, 120 

 Strength and form of the Menai 



tubular bridge, 100, 172 



Strength of materials, theory of, 204 



Strength and stress of materials, new 



theory of, by Oliver Byrne, 163, 



231,257 



Struve's patent for ventilating mines, 



321 

 Studies of ancient domestic archi- 

 tecture (review), 199 

 Sturgeon's magnetic experiments, 206 

 Styles and methods of painting, 112 

 Subsidence of the Preston viaduct, 



135 

 Substitute for railway sleepers, 215 

 Surveying, trigonometrical, pro- 

 blems in, 272 

 Suspension aqueduct over the Alleg- 

 heny, 4 7 

 Suspension bridge across the Aust 

 p.'issage, Fulljames's remarks on, 

 190 



at the Aust passage, 

 Giles on, 122 



at the falls of Nia- 

 gara, 73 



at Runcorn, 7 

 Russell's patent, 10 

 Synopsis of buildings in Edinburgh, 8 



Table of British and American steam 



vessels, 268 

 Table of the railways at work in the 



United States, 31 

 Table showing the contents of exca. 

 vations, derived from Mr. Bidder's 

 formula, by Creedy (review), 2!-'9 

 Tables for setting out curves on rail- 

 ways, by Darbyshire (review), 269 

 Tables to facilitate the calculations 

 of earthwork, by J. Hughes (re- 

 view), 73 

 Tables and rules for facilitating the 

 calculations of earthwork, &c., by 

 Huntington (review), 155 

 Tait on railway curves, 361 

 Tait's instrument for tracing railway 



curves, 332 

 Tanned canvas, Millett's communica- 

 tions on, 340 

 Tanning, Warrington's patent for, 



285 

 Taylor and Conder's patent for pro- 

 pelling, 251 

 Taylor's patent fire alaurm, 120 

 Taylor on the temperature of the 



earth and sea, 110 

 Telegraphic communication between 



France and England, 160 

 Temperature of the earth and sea, 

 110 



