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CATALOGUE OF NEW WORKS 



VII. ARCHITECTURE, ANTIQUITIES, PRACTICAL 

 MECHANICS, AND CIVIL ENGINEERING. 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIYIL 



Engineers, 4to. 



Vol. II. with Twenty-three finely engraved Plates, 28s. cloth. 

 List of Subjects. 



Account of the Bridge over the Severn, near 

 the Town Tewkesbury, in the County of 

 Gloucester, designed by Thomas Telford, and 

 erected under his Superintendence. By Mr. 

 W. Mackenzie, M. Inst. C. E. 



A Series of Experiments on different kinds of 

 American Timber. By W. Dennison, Esq. 

 Lieut. Royal Engineers. F.R.S. A. Inst. C. E. 



On the Application of Steam as a Moving 

 Power, considered especially with reference 

 to the economy of Atmospheric and High 

 Pressure Steam. By George Holworthy 

 Palmer, Esq., M. Inst. C. E. 



Description of Mr. Henry Guy's Method of 

 giving a true Spherical Figure to Balls of 

 Metals, Glass, Agate, or Hard Substances. 

 Comnmnicated by Bryan Donkin, Esq., V. P. 

 Inst. C. E. 



On the Expansive Action of Steam in some of 

 the Pumping Engines at the Cornish Mines. 

 By William Jory Henwood, Esq., F.G.S., 

 Secretary of the Royal Geological Society of 

 Cornwall, H. M. Assaye-Master of Tin in the 

 Duchy of Cornwall. 



On the Effective Power of the High Pressure 

 Expansive Condensing Engines in Use at some 

 of the Cornish Mines. By Thomas Wicksteed, 

 Esq., M. Inst. C. E. A Letter to the President. 



Description of the Drops used by the Stanhope 

 and Tyne Railroad Company, for the Ship- 

 ment of Coals at South Shields. By Thomas 

 E. Harrison, Esq., M. Inst. C. E. 



On the Principle and Construction of Railways 

 of Continuous Bearings. By John Reynolds, 

 Esq., A. Inst. C. E. 



Wooden Bridge over the River Calder, at Mir- 



by 



field, Yorkshire, designed and erected 



William Bull, Esq., A. Inst. C. E. 

 A Series of Experiments on the Strength of Cast 



Iron. By the late Francis Bramah, Esq., 



M. Inst. C. E. 

 On certain Forms of Locomotive Engines. By 



Edward Woods, Esq. 

 Account and Description of Youghal Bridge, 



designed by Alexander Nimmo. By John 



E. Jones, Esq., A. Inst. C. E. 

 On the Evaporation of Water from Steam 



Boilers. By Josiah Parkes, Esq., M. Inst. C. E. 

 Account of a Machine for Cleaning and 



Deepening small Rivers, in use on the Little 



Stour River, Kent. By Mr. W. B. Hays, 



Grad. Inst. C. E. 

 Description of the Perpendicular Lifts for 



passing Boats from one Level of Canal to 



another, as erected on the Grand Western 



Canal. By James Green, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 

 On the Methods of Illuminating Lighthouses, 



with a Description of a Reciprocating Light. 



ByJ.T. Smith, Esq., Captain Madras Engi- 

 neers, F.R.S. A. Inst. C. E. 

 Experiments on the Flow of Water through 



Small Pipes. By W. A. Provis, Esq. M. Inst. 



C. E. 



Experiments on the Power of Men. By Joshua 

 Field, Esq., V. P. Inst. C. E. F.R.G.S. 



Particulars of the Construction of the Floating 

 Bridge lately established across the Hamoaze, 

 between Torpoint in the County of Cornwall, 

 and Devonport in Devonshire. By James M. 

 Rendell, Esq., M. Inst. C. E., &c. &c. 



Appendix— Officers, Members, &c. 



Vol. III. with Nineteen finely engraved Plates, £2. 12s. 6d. cloth. 

 List of Subjects. 



On Steam Boilers and Steam Engines. By 



Josiah Parkes. 

 On the Preparation, Properties, and Uses of Turf, 



and Turf Coke. By C. Wye Williams. 

 An Investigation into the Power of Locomotive 



Engines, and the Effects produced by that 



Power at different Velocities. By P. Barlow, 



F.R.S. 



Description of a Sawing Machine for Cutting 

 Railway Bars. By J. Glynn, F.R.S. 



On the Expansion of Arches. By G. Rennie, 

 F.R.S. 



Description of the State of the Suspension 

 Bridge at Montrose, after it had been ren- 

 dered impassable by the hurricane of the 

 11th Oct. 1838; with Remarks on the Con- 

 struction of that and other Suspension 

 Bridges, in reference to the Action of Violent 

 Gales of Wind. By Colonel Pasley. 



On the Supply of Water from Wells in the 

 London Basin : with an Account of the 

 Sinking of the Well at the Reservoir of the 

 New River Company in the Hampstead 

 Road. By R. W. Bylne. 



Account of Gravesend Pier. By W. T. Clark, 

 F.R.S. 



On the Action of Steam in Cornish Single 

 Pumping Engines. By J. Parkes. 



On Setting-out Railway Curves. By C. Bourne. 



On the Locomotive Engines of the London 

 and Birmingham Railway. By E. Bury. 



Account of the Alterations made in the Struc- 

 ture of the Menai Bridge, during the Repairs, 

 in consequence of the Damage it received 

 from the Gale of January 7, 1839. By Thomas 

 James Maude, Grad.Inst.C.E. 



An Account of the Mode of Construction 

 adopted in Building a New Stone Bridge over 

 the River Lea, at Stratford-le-Bow. By John 

 Baldry Redman, Grad.Inst.C.E. 



Observations on the Effect produced by Wind 

 on the Suspension Bridge over the" Menai 

 Strait, more especially as relates to the In- 

 juries sustained by the Roadways during the 

 Storm of January 7, 1839, together with brief 

 Notices of various Suggestions for Repairing 

 the Structure. By W. A. Provis, M.Inst.C.E. 



Description of a Cofferdam adapted to a Hard 

 Bottom, used in Excavating Rock from the 

 Navigable Channel of the River Ribble ; de- 

 signed for the Ribble Navigation. By David 

 Stevenson, C.E., Edinburgh. 



Memoir on the Practicability of Shortening the 

 Duration of Voyages by the adaption of 

 Auxiliary Steam Power to Sailing Vessels. 

 By Samuel Seaward, F R.S., M.Inst.C.E. 



On the Percussive or Instantaneous Action of 

 Steam and other Aeriform Fluids. By Josiah 

 Parkes, M.Inst.C.E. 



On the Circumstances under which Explosions 

 frequently occur in Steam Boilers, and the 

 Causes to which such Explosions may be 

 assigned. By Charles Schaffhaeutl, M.D., 

 Assoc.Inst.C.E. 



Remarks on the Duty of the Steam Engines em- 

 ployed in the Mines of Cornwall at different 

 periods. By John S. Enys, Assoc. Inst. 

 C.E. 



Index to Volumes 1, 2, and 3. 

 List of the Council and of the Members. 

 General Titles.— Contents and Introduction to 

 Volume 3. 



