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Report of Committee on Steamshi Propellers. 



Professor Osborne Reynolds. On the Investigation of the Steering 

 Qualitit'S of Ships. 



M. Oh. Bergeron. On the Removal of Sand-bars from Harbour - 

 mouths. 



F. J. Rowau. On Boiler Incrustation and Corrosion. 

 R. Mansel: On the Direct Motion of Steam Vessels. 



Report of Cnrnmittee on British Measures. 



A . B . P i" w n : Engine for Starting and Reversing Large Engines. 



Profesbor A. B. W. Kennedy: On Reuleaux's Treatment of 

 Mechanisms. 



Morti me r Evans: Safety-Lock for Facing-poinets. 



Captain Douglas Galton: Notes on Railways on the Three-feet 

 Gauge in the United States. 



James Steel: On the Brake Problem. 



G. F. Deacon: On the Foi^m of Blocks for Testing Cement. 



G. F. Deacon: On the Strength of Concreteas affected by dlelay be- 

 tween mixing and placing in sitìi. 



Major Beaumont, M. P. On the Removal of Sub aqueous Rocks 

 by the Diamond Rock-borer. 



R. Lavender: On a New Form of Lamp. 



James Nasmyth: On a Spherical-Pendulo us Safety-Valve. 



Mortimer Evans: Application of Spring-Fenders to Pierheads. 



A. B. Brown: Flanging Iron aud Steel Plates for Boiler Purposes. 



Sir William Thomson. On Naval Signalling. 



R. R. Harper. Improvements in Railway Appliances. 



J. W. Beynon: Hand-Machine for Shaping aud Fiaishing Metal 

 Surfaces. 



Thomas Dobson: Apparatus for Mine aud Warehouse Holsts. 



William Simons. On an Improved Steam Ferry. 



A. Crum. Ewing: On Drainage Outlets through SIob-Lands. 



St. J. V. Day: liecent Attempts at Patent Legislation. 



W. Stroudley. Communication between Passengei's and Guards in 

 Railway Trains. 



