PhoeDicia, Clegg's lecture ou archilectiire, 33 

 Phulusrapliy on dry paper, Evrard, iSti 

 Pliotoniapliy oD gelatine, Poilevin, 2bO 

 Picture galleries, 279 



Pipes, niutioi) of water in, D'AubuissoD, 130, 162 

 Planing and grouving machine, Newtou*s pat., 



109 

 Plate-iron girder bridge, North- Western railway 



Camdcu-town, 3(51 

 Plough, steam, I'sber's pat., 329 

 Ploushiug by sleani, 130 

 Plymouth and Cottonian library, 316 

 Poetry of architecture, Edmeston, 217 

 Pontoon, monster, in the H umber, 72 

 Pontoon railway bridge, Dublin, 174 

 Poole, on developmeut of geometrical tracery, 382 

 Portsmouth, opening of new dock, 336 

 Prestwich, ou supply of spring water to London, 



•2611 

 Principles of design in architecture, Garbett (rev.) 



114 

 Printing machine of the Times, E. Cowper, 205 

 Proceedings of scientific societies, 19, (">!), 104. 123, 



12S. 141, 153,156, 159, 172, 203, 217, 239, 2S9, 



32S, 35b, 305, 397 

 Professioiialjurisdiction, 144 

 Protection of iron from oxidation. 71,232. 272 

 Prussian railways, 368 

 Public enterprise and the government, 346 

 Public sculpture, Park on, 372 

 Public works in Algeria, 355 

 Pump fur acids and liquors. D.ill's, 240 

 Pureiiase inachiuery, Miller's imjiroved, 44 



R 



Rai'way arcade, Tooley-street, 300 

 Railway across the Isthmus of Panama, 271, 333 

 Railway axles' deterioration, McConuell, 120 

 Railway, Barlow on permanent way of North- 

 western, 204 

 Railway board interference with engineers, 104 

 Railway carriage springs, Adams, 117 

 Railway chairs, Torkington's pat., 230 

 Railway economy, Larduer (rev.j 170 

 Railway over bogs, construction of, Heinans, 107 

 Railway points and crossings, Campbell, 270 

 Railway pontoon bridge, Dubliu, 174 

 Railway rope, American, 108 

 Railway station at Chester. 335 

 Railway station, iron roof, Liverpool, 105 

 Railwav structures, report on iron for, 42, 49, 84, 



11.., isi 



Railway traffic, receipts and expenditure, 71 



Railway tunnel at Sienna, 30:* 



Railway viaduct. Tafi' Vale, 106 



Kailwny wagon covering;-, 144 



Railway wheels, Chambers's |mt.. 200 



Railways, branch. Bourns on. 20 



Railways, East Indian, 72, 141 



Railways in Ireland, advances and repayments, 

 171 



Railways in Prussia, 368 



Railways opened in 1849, 70 



Rangabe on ancient Greece, 289 



Rankine, on elasticity of solids, 294 



Rankine,on elasticity of vapour of mercury, 15 



Reflecting telescope, Nasmyth, 328 



Regenerative condenser, Siemen's pat., 200 



Register of uew patents, 12, 168, 199, 230 



Registers, parochial, 208 



Report of Board of Health on water supply, 238 



Report of Hon. W. Napier to Board of Health, 

 392 



Report of Commissioners of Caledonian Canal, 287 



Report of commissioners on iron for railway struc- 

 tures. 42,49, 84, 115, 181 



Report of engineer on Surrey drainage, 282 



Report on failure of Joiner street bridge, 390 



Report of K. Stephenson on supply of water to 



Liverpool, 190,234, 257 

 Report, meteorological, quarterly, 246, 362 

 Revolving lighthouse apparatus, Swan on velocity 

 of, 298 



Rewards fur scieuiilic purposes, 208 



INDEX. 



Reviews of Books — 



Arcliiteclure, dictionary of terms of, Wea'e, IT 

 Arcliitecture, principles of design in. Garliett, 114 

 Arctiitecturai publication society, 13", 233 

 Architectural sketches, Tinlikr, 136 

 Banqueting house, Whitehall, elevation and details of, 



Hansard, -t.S 

 Bridges, oblique, Bashforth, 171 



Bridges, tubular, Britannia and Conway, E Clark. 277 

 Bridges, tubular, strength of materials, Tale 31H 

 Bridges, tubular iron girder, Dempsey, 48 

 Buildings and monuments, (Godwin, -IS, 137, 233 

 Chapel and school architecture, Jobson, 3.30 

 Copyrigpt in desiiln. Turner. 137 

 Cottages, model, Goddard, 322 

 Divellings of the poor, Scrope, 13ti 

 Ecclesiastical property, valuation of, 137 

 Geography of Great Britain, Lang and Porter, and H. 



Clarke, 136 

 Geology, mineralogy, and physical geography, Austed, 202 

 InHJau railways. Giant, 1311 

 Inventors in useful arts, counsel to. Turner. 137 

 Iron, report on for railway structures 84, 115, 181 

 London strata, sections of, ftlylne, 233 

 Railway economy, Lardner. 170 

 Ripon, pictorial guide to, Walbran, 48 

 Sepilchri Riponensii, Bruce, 48 

 Steam-engine catechism, Bourne, 203 

 Street and sewer, new, Beardmnre, 322 

 Tombs, modern, Hakewill, 47 

 Ventilation, practical. Burn. 203. 231 

 Ventilation, lints on, Walker, 320 

 United service institution, visit to, bhaw, 18 



Rhine and Seine, proposed canal, 361 



Khine, ait ou the, 367 



Rhine, bridge at Cologne, 318; award of prizes 



for, 334 

 Kipon, Walbran's pictorial guide (rev.) 48 

 Ritchie, on ventilation of coal mines, 239 

 Rivers aud cauals, steam haulage on, 208 

 Road statistics of Paris and Loudon, 367 

 Robe (Col.), memoir of, 20 

 Roberts, on bridge-building in America. 203 

 Roberts. on dwellings of the labouring classes, 123 

 Roman antiquities, Falkener, 09 

 Roman provincial arcliitcctural remains, Bell, 378 

 Romanesque arcliitecture, Edineslou, 312 

 Rome, Clegg's lecture on architecture, 145, 305, 



337, 360 

 Roof of great exhibition building, 387 

 Roof ofWestmiusier-hall, Morris, 249; Davis, 251 

 Rooms, cooling of, 299, 322 

 Rope, for American railroad, 108 

 Royal gold medal, presentation to Mr. Barry, 208 

 Royal Insliiute of British Architects, 23, 39. 69, 



79, 104, 123, 128, 153, 159, 205, 215, 218, 221, 



249,332, 378 

 Royal lusiilute of British Architects ou cements 



and stuccoes, 332 

 Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 21, 70, 106, 165, 



174,239, 398 

 Rudimentary treatises — dictionary of architecture 



and engineering, Weale (rev.) 17; history and 



construction of lighthouses, A. Stevenson (rev.) 



232; principles of design iu arcliitecture, 



Garbett (rev.) 114; tubular iron girder bridge, 



Dempsey (rev.) 48 

 Ruins of ancient city in California, 160 

 Ryde's surveyor's assistant in setting out slopes 



(rev.) 233 



S 



Salinometer, How's pat., 168 



Sallandrouze's French exposition in London, 10 



Sanitary measures .''or drainage of metropolis, 138, 

 281 



Sanitary reform, ventilation as a branch of. Wal- 

 ker, 335 



Sans Souci, verandah at, 384 



Saturation, chemical, of growing timber, Gyde, 

 200 



Saugor Island, cast-iron lighthouse, 309 



Scientific purposes, rewards for, 208 



Scienlific societies, proceedings of, 19, 69, 104, 

 123, 141, 185, :i03, 215, 254, 273, 289, 3^8, 358 

 397 



Scoresby, on velocity of Atlaotic waves, 3»0 



Scotland, ancient architecture of, Billings, 23 



Scotland, ordnance survey, 347 



Scottish Society of Arts, 21, 70, 106, 174,239,398 



Screw propeller, extension of pat., 108 

 Scrope, on dwellings of the poor (rev.) 136 

 Sculpture and architecture of Assyria, S. Smirke, 



156 

 Sculpture, Park on application of high art to, 372 

 Seaford, great explosion at, 333 

 Sea water, mineral veins in, 72 

 Sebastopol, great naval basin, 207 

 Sections of the London strata, Myloe (rev.) 233 

 Security of bridges in Paris, 367 

 Seine and Rhine, proposed canal, 301 

 Seme, Burnell on improvements of, 355 

 Sewers, IMetropolilan Commission receipt and 



expenditure, 176 

 Sewers of Paris, 367 

 Sewers of Surrey side of metropolis, remarks on 



prop<ised, ItlO ; report of engineer. 282 

 SewefS, Prince Albert's plan of purifying, 193 

 Shannon iron bridge, gigantic pile-driving, 392 

 Shaw's visit to the United Service Institution 



(rev.) 18 

 Shedden, on ventilation of coal mines, 23 

 Shipbuilding on the wave principle, Dodgson, 302 

 Shipbuilding trade of Liverpool, 347 

 Ships' bottoms. Yule and Chanter's composition 



for coating, 123 

 Shot, Smith's pat. manufacture, 14 

 Siemen's pal. regenerative condenser, 200 

 Sieuna, railway tunnel at, 368 

 Skerki channel, Gordon on lighthouse, 252 

 Slate, Stewart on strength of, 269 

 Smith (Dr.) on air and water in towns. 295 

 Smith, on condensing steam-engines, 273 

 Smith, ou land drainage and watering, 07 

 Smith's improvements in wire fences, 175 

 Smith's patent shot, 14 



Smoky chimueys, Watson on prevention of, 334 

 Smyrna steam Hour-mills, 95, 133 

 Smyth, on cooling rooms iu tropical climates, 299 

 Society of Arts, Loudon, 25, 105, 206 

 Society of Arts, Scottish, 21, 70, 100, 165 

 Soldering, galvauic, Eisner, 334 

 Solids, elasticity of, Rankine, 294 

 Southampton, artesian well at, 67 

 South eastern railway arcade Tooley-street, 36S 

 South eastern railway bridge, Joiner-street, fail- 

 ure of, 390 

 Southend pier, Paton on ravages of teredo navalis. 



19 

 Southern India, Fergusson on architecture of, 39 

 .Spanish steamboat building, 399 

 Speculum of large telescopes, Lassell on, 331 

 Spires aud towers of the media:val period, Brit- 

 ton, 159 

 Spirit level adjustments, Pemberton. 327 

 Spring hinge, Btattie's pat., 175, 295 

 Springs, railway carriage, Adams, 117 

 Spring water, Prestwich on geological conditions 



of supply, 205 

 Squaring a circle, Huntington's new method, 171 

 Stanion Cliurch, Northamptonshire, 225 

 Steam boiler explosions, 150 

 Sleam boiler incrustation, Davy, 291 

 Steam-boiler, Newlou's pat., 199 

 Sleam-boiler salinometer, How's pat., 168 

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

 Steam-engines, condensing. Smith ou, 273 

 Steaui-fleel, 72 



Steain-hauUge on rivers and canals, 208 

 Steam-plough, Usher's pat., 329 

 Steam ploughing, 130 

 Steel manufacture. Heath's pat., 230 

 Steering wheel, Fayrer and Robinson's pat , 206 

 Stereoscope, chromatic, Sir D. Brewster, 70 

 Stephenson (R.) on strength of cast-iron, 194 

 Stephenson (R.) and Swiss railways, 344 

 Stephenson (R.) on supply of water to Liverpool. 



190, 234, 257 

 Steveusuu (A.) on history, construction, and illu- 

 mination ol lighthouses, 232 

 Stevenson (D.) ou navigable canals, 165 

 Stevenson (R.) death of, 271 

 Stevenson (!".) on the force of waves, 294 

 Stewart, on failure of Westminster and Black- 

 friars bridges, 314 

 Stewart, on strength of stone and lateral slate, 2C9 



