Boiler tabes, Rannisler's paf. 230 

 Boilers, Davy od iucTU9tatiuu of, 291 

 Bombay cuttou and lodiao railways, Grant (rev.) 

 136 



Bourne's catechism of steam-engine (rev.) 203 



Bourns, on branch railways, 20 



Branch railways. Bourns on, 26 



Brass rudder of sleam ship Cidumbia, 108 



Breakwaters, Findlay on construction of, 143 



Brett's electric telegraph, 108 



Brewster's chromaiic stereoscope, 70 



Brick buildings of Germany, Fowler od mediseval, 



128 

 Brick-making machine, Hart's, 175 

 Bricks, hollow, 127 

 Bricks, vitrified, Elliott's pat. 231 

 Bridge at Clifton, Motley's proposed, 236 

 Bridge, Britannia tubular, 21, 42, 271, 277, 318, 



3ifi; opening; of, 141, 361 

 Bridge building in America, Roberts on, 263 

 Bridge, Joiner-street, failure of, 390, 399 

 Bridge, lift, on Brighton railway, 173 

 Bridge, oblique, Bashforth (rev.) 171 

 Bridge over the Khioeat Cologne, 318; award of 



prizes for designs, 334 

 Bridge, plate iron girder, Camden town, 361 

 Bridge, pontoon, Dublin terminus Midland Great 



Western railway, 174 

 Briilge, suspension, across the channel, 334 

 Bridge, suspension, at Kiell", 45 

 Bridge, timber, on Lynn and Kly railway, 70 

 Bridge, Westminster, new, 94 

 Bridge, wrought-iron. South Wales railway, 176 

 Bridges at Paris, security of, 367 

 Bridges, Blackfriai's and M'estminsler, Stewart 



on, 314 

 Bridges, Britannia and Conway, Buchanan 



on, 21 ; E. Clark on (rev.) 277, 326 

 Bridges, Buchanan's account of the raising the 



Britannia and Conway tubes, 21 

 Bridges, tubular iron girder, Buchanan, 21 ; 



Clark, 277,320; Dempsey (rei.) 48; Fair 



bairn, 142 ; Tate (rev.) 318 

 Bridgewater House, 177 

 Britannia tubular bridge, 21, 42,271 277,326; 



opening of, 144, 361 

 Britannia and drnway bridges, Clark (rev.) 277, 



326; Buclianan, 21 

 British architi'cis, royal institute, 23, 39, 69, 79, 



104, 123, 128, 153, 156, 159, 205, 215, 218, 



221,249, 3 12, 378 



president's conversazione, 205 

 British architects, institute of, on cements and 



stuccoes, 332 

 British association, 289, 328 

 British museum, project for enlargement, 264 ; 



iron railings for, 336 

 Britton, on lowers and spires of mediaeval period, 



159 

 Brotherhood's pat. covering for railway wagons, 



144 

 Brunei (Sir I. I\I.), memoir of, 18 

 Brunswick town hall, 281 

 Brussels academy of sciences, 207 

 Buchanan, on chimney of Edinburgh gas works, 



393 

 Buchanan, on raising the tubes of Britannia and 



Conway bridges, 21 

 Buchanan, on strength of materials, 21 

 BucliaiiKii's valve tor waterworks, 331 

 Buckle, on life and inventions of William Mur- 



dock, 386 

 Bucknall's water meter, 239 [ 



Bucid, oil value of waste gases from blast fur- 

 naces, 297 I 

 Building for the exhibition of 1851, 207, 209 271, I 



353; ronstructinn of roof. 3HS ] 



Buildings and moiiunients, Godwin (rev.) part vi. 



137 ; part vii. 233 

 Buildings, fire-proof, 26 



Burgess, on the mausoleum of Hadrian, 153 

 Burn, on practical ventilation (rev.) 203, 231 

 Burnell.oii the improvement of the Seine, 355 

 Btirnell, on the Paris gypsum, 185 

 Btirnell, on ilie public works in Algeria, 355 

 Buituu's pat. sluueware pipes, 12 



INDEX. 



Burnell, on the waterworks in the United States, 

 259 



Calculations for earthwork, Henderson, 358 

 C^aledonian canal, report of commissioners. 287 

 California, Cross on products and prospects of, 105 

 California, ruins of ancient city in, 161 

 Campbell's improvements in railway points and 



crossings, 270 

 Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific, Lloyd 



on , 1 9 

 Canal between the Seine and Rhine, 361 

 Canal, Caledonian, report of commissioners, 287 

 Canals, navigable, D Stevenson on, 165 

 Cardan's filter for sea water, 255 

 Casks, iron, Da Costa's pal., 15 

 Cast-iron, Cox on hyperbolic law of elasticity of.296 

 Cast-iron, experiments on the strength of, K. .Ste- 

 phenson, 191 

 Cast-iron hollow voussoirs to arches, 201 

 Cast-iron lighthouse tower in the Bermudas, 105 

 Casl-iroD lighthouse tower, Saugor island, India, 



309 

 Cast-iron, Wyatl's patent coating or glazing, 231 

 Cathedral of Sirasburgh, Goethe on, 315 

 Cayley's (Sir G.) hot-air engine, 105 

 Celtic antiquities, ('legg's lecture, 75 

 Cements and stuccoes, Knowles on use of exter- 

 nally, 221 ; review of, 332 

 Central America, Clegg's lecture, 74 

 ('hairs, railway, Torkington's pat , 230 

 Chalk, absorbent power and water contents of, 



Ansted, 203 

 Chalk formation, Clntterbuck on water supply 



from, 70, 104 ; Tabberner, 98 ; Prestwich, 265 ; 



Pym, 183; Homersham, 67 

 Chamliers, Adelaide, Gracechurch-street, 376 

 Cliaiubers's patent railway wheels, 200 

 Chapel and school architecture, Jobson (rev.) 350 

 Chappie viaduct, eastern counties railway, 172 

 Charcoal from peat, Vignolle's pat., 144 

 Charles II. baths, Newgate-street, 348 

 Chatmoss subsidence by drain ige, 293 

 (^hatsworth, 'Victoria regia house, 324 

 Chemical composition of rocks of coal formation, 



Taylor, 303 

 Chester, new railway station, 335 

 Chimney of Edinburgh Gasworks, Buchanan, 398 

 Chimneys, Watson on construction of, 331 

 China, Clegg's lecture on architecture of, 73 

 Chromatic stereoscope, Sir D. Brewster, 70 

 Chubb, on locks and keys, 173 

 Circle, new method of squaring, 171 

 Civil engineers' institution, 19,41.69,104,141, 



172, 203, 397 ; annual general imeting, 20 ; 



award of prizes, 20 ; president's conversazione, 



205 

 Civil engineers of Ireland, 20, 106 

 Clark (Edwin) on Britannia and Conway bridges, 



(rev.) 277, 326 

 Claudet, on diamond for cutting glass, 2il6 

 Clay, London, basement bed of, 108 

 Clegg's lectures on architecture, 1, 33, 73, 109, 



145, 177, 209, 212, 305, 337, 369 

 Clifton, Motley's proposed bridge at, 236 

 Clutlerbuck, on water supply from chalk lonna- 



tion, 70, 104 

 Clyde navigation, interruption to, 3()0 

 Coal-mines' ventilation, siiedden, 23; Ritchie, 230 

 Coal mines. West on explosions, 397 

 Coal formation, Taylor on chemical composition of 



rocks of, 303 

 Coating ships' bottoms. Yule and Chanter's pat., 



123 

 Cotferdam at Cirimsby docks, 9 

 Collieries, Struve on ventilation, 397 

 Cologne bridge, 318 ; award of prizes for designs, 



334 

 Column, ,)opling on describing the entasis of, 161 

 Commission of sewers, remarks on proposed plan 



of Surrey drainage, 100 

 Coraiuission of sewers, report of engineer, 282 

 Commissioners' report on the application of iron to 



railway structures, 49,84, 115, 181 



Comparative analysis of well wafers, Brande, 103 

 Condenser, Siemen's regenerative, 200 

 Condensing steam-engines. Smith on, 273 

 Conduit pipes, D'Aubuissun on motion of water 



in, 130, 162, 374 

 Contagion, Dr. Wilson on disinfectants, 106 

 Conway tubular bridge. Tale (rev.) 318 

 Cooling rooms in tropical climates, Smyth's appa- 

 ratus, 299, 322 

 Coon's stone-drilling machine, 72 

 Copyright in design. Turner (rev.) 137 

 Corn magazine, Novogeorgicvsk, 241 

 Costa (Da) patent iron casks and vessels, 15 

 Cottonian and Plymouth library, 316 

 Covering for railway wagons, Brotherhood'e pat., 



144 

 Cowper, on printing machines, 205 

 Cox, on hyperbolic law of elasticity of cast-iron, 



296 ; on impact of elastic beams, 152 

 Crane, Fairbairn's tubular, 332 

 Cranes, hydraulic, Armstrong on, 204 

 Croton aqueduct, New York, 259 

 Cubitt (William) inaugural address, 41 ; conver- 

 sazione, 205 

 Cultivation and manufacture of sugar, Leoo, 25 



D 



Dall's acid and liquor pump, 240 



Darlington national provincial bank, 380 



Dashwood, on elliptical wheels, 172 



Davies, on roof of Westminster-hall, 251 



Davison, on elliptical wheels, 132 



Davy (Dr.) on incrustation in steam-boilers, 291 



Decorated window tracery, Sharpe (rev.) 46 



Decorative design in furniture, 137 



Defries' gas bath, 336 



Design, copyright in, Turner (rev.) 137 



Devonport mechanics' instimie, 340 



Devonport, steam-docks at Keyham, 207, 400 



Diamond, Claudet, on properties of fur cutting 



glass, 206 

 Dictionary of architecture and engineering, Weale 



(rev.) 17 

 Discharge of water through pipes, Hale's expe- 

 riments, 16; D'Aubuissoo, 130, 162, 374 

 Disinfectants, Dr. Wilson on, 106 

 Dock, opening of a new, at Portsmouth, 336 

 Docks at Birkenhead, progress of, 172 

 Docks, Grimsby, cofferdam at, 9 

 Docks, dry. United States, 207 

 Docks, Hartlepool, 336 

 Docks, Victoria, Woolwich, 366 

 Dockray (Mr.) testimonial to 72 

 Dodgson, on overshot water-wheels, 253 

 Dodgson, on wave principle in shipbuilding, 302 

 Domestic architecture of the Romans, Clegg's 



lecture, 309 

 Donaldson, on glass manufacture for architectural 



purposes, 24 

 Door, air spring-hinge, Beattie's pat., 175, 295 

 Douglas's machine for mortising and boring tim- 

 ber, 22 

 Dover harbour, 20, 27, 360 

 Dover market and museum, 257 

 Drainage and subsidence of Chatmoss, 293 

 Drainage of the metropolis, 138, 176, 193 

 Drainage of the Surrey side of the metropolii, 



100, 282 

 Draining and watering of land. Smith of Dean- 



ston on, 07 

 Drain pipes. Hale on discharge of water through 



16 

 Drew,ou deductions from meteorological observa- 

 tions, 309,345 

 Drew, on instruments employed in meteorological 



observations, 226 

 Drilling machine. Coon's, 72 

 Druidical anliiinities, Clegg's lectures, 75 

 Dublin railway pontoon bridge, 174 

 Dwellings of the labouring classes, Roberts on, 

 123; G. P. Scrope on (rev.) 136; P. Wilson on, 

 175 



