16 YEAR-BOOK OF FACTS. 



INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS — BEQUESTS AND PREMIUMS. 



On April 17th, the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers 

 announced to the members, that the late Mr. Joseph Miller, for 

 many years a Member of Council, had kindly bequeathed to the 

 Institution the sum of five thousand pounds, of which three thousand 

 pounds would be receivable immediately, and two thousand pounds 

 on the demise of a gentleman resident in the West Indies. The 

 funds of the Institution would thus be materially augmented, as 

 there would also be soon receivable the bequest of two thousand 

 pounds from the late Mr. Robert Stephenson. To these amounts 

 must be added the sum of nearly five thousand pounds bequeathed 

 by the first President, Mr. Telford ; of two hundred pounds pre- 

 sented by Mr. Charles Manby ; and of one thousand pounds which 

 had recently been invested out of income: total, 13,094?. 12s. 4d. 

 At a meeting of the Council of the Institution, held on the 2Srd of 

 October, the following premiums were awarded : — A Telford Medal, 

 and a Council premium of Books, to James John Berkley, for his 

 paper " On Indian Railways, with a Description of the Great In- 

 dian Peninsular Railway ;" a Telford Medal to Richard Boxall 

 Grantham, for his paper ''On Arterial Drainage and Outfalls;" a 

 Watt Medal, and the Manby Premium, in Books, to James Atkin- 

 son Longridge, for his paper " On the Construction of Artillery, and 

 other Vessels, to resist great internal Pressure;" Council Premiums 

 of Books to Edward Leader Williams, for his "Account of the 

 Works recently constructed upon the river Severn, at the Upper 

 Lode, n^ar Tewkesbury ;" to Edward Brainerd Webb, for his paper 

 "Upon the Means of Communication in the Empire of Brazil, 

 chiefly in reference to the Works of the Mangaratiba Serra Road, 

 and to those of the Mana, the first Brazilian Railway ;" to Francis 

 Croughton Stileraan, for his "Description of the Works and Mode 

 of Execution adopted in the construction and Enlargement of the 

 Lindal Tunnel, on the Eurness Railway ;" to James Ralph Walker, 

 for his " Description of the Netherton Tunnel Branch of the Bir- 

 mingham Canal ;" and to Daniel Kinnear Clark, for his paper "On 

 Coal-burning and Feed-water Heating in Locomotive Engines." 



In the President's Annual Report, December IS, the principal 

 feature was an account of the state of engineering in a few distant 

 countries, and particularly in Borne of the British Colonies. 



The new subjects fur premiums on which the Council of the Insti- 

 tution of Civil Engineers invite communications (session 1861) are the 

 following : — " On the Effect of Sluicing, in Removing ami Prevent- 

 ing Deposits, at the Entrain,', of l>, ks on the Coast and Tidal 

 Rivers;" "On the Measure of Resistance to Steam VesselB at high 

 Velocities;" "On the Form and Materials for Floating Batteries and 

 Iron-plated Ships (' fregates blindees'), and the points requiring at- 

 tention in their construction ;" " On the Initial Velocity, B 

 and Penetration of Rifled Projectiles, and the [nfluence of At- 

 tnospherio LVsistance; - ' " Description of Btreet Railways and Car- 

 . as used in tin- I'nited States of America, in Paris, and at 



Birkenhi ad, with the results." 



