ON THE TURBINE OP FRANCE AND GERMANY. 14^ 
From Profe^r Balfour:— 
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No, vegetated. 
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Name and Date. 
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I Abont 1807- 
49. Trichosanthea palmata 
1 50, Brvoaia. m . 
1817. 
51. Asp.ofFem .. 
I . 1834. 
53. Ailantna eicelsa . 
1 53. Pterospermnm suberi- 
Mmn .. . 
1 1837. 
1 54. Kyctauthes Arbor-tris- 
1 til... 
5j. Pteroitrlis Wiphtu ... 
1838. 
j 6. Alsophila proeera 
^7. Capping borrida . 
Muraltia acutifolia . 
1830. 
Briedelia, ip . 
"0- GuiziuDg tomentoaa .. 
61- ^ttaruobtusifolia... 
Gouaiiia macrocarpa ... 
W- Tropbis amfrn. . 
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100 
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22 
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100 
112 
80 
50 
150 
45 
8 
1843. 
64. Xanthoxylon fraxineum 
1S44. 
65. Carex viilpina. 
06. Dracocephalum denti- 
culatuiu .. 
07. Cyperus, sp. .. 
1845. 
68. Asclepias pbytolaccoi- 
des ... 
60. Asclepias vcrticUlata ... 
70. Cornus sericea . 
71. Cuphea viscoaUshua ... 
72. Laurtu Saaaafraa ...... 
73. Liliuru canadense . 
1846. 
74. Arabia petnea.. 
75. Caiina indiea. 
76. Iris ffxtidii&iina . 
77. Oxytropis catnpestris... 
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^the Turbine or Horizontal Heater-Wheel of France and Germany. 
By Joseph Glynn, F.R.S.^ M. Inst. C.E. S^c. 
Gn of the Britislj Association in Glasgow, in 1840, Professor 
heh subject of the Turbine before the Mechanical Section; 
and V j Continonf, and the account ho gave of its utility 
'ndiiced the Section to recommend the appointment of a com- 
FairhV Professor Gordon, .^fr. Smith of Deanston, and Mr. 
and d •'^®')<^hester, to inquire and report to the Association the merits 
fir»K this machine, and the difference between the power and effect 
water-fall applied to it. 
for, and no report has been made. Indeed, 
to Pr» the requisite facts and materials for such a report, a journey 
aiachin”^^ 30U Germany would have been necessary, as there have been no 
jjjv ^ttid yet erected in England; nor was there until recently 
seveM? K language treating upon them, although there were 
L fit *” German. 
trial Hubert Kane, whose excellent book on the indus- 
of Ireland isrso well known, lias translated from the German 
whi-sl*' . a work on horizontal water-wheels, turbines, or whirl- 
noiM ^ T 1 rendered valuable to practical men by Professor Kane s 
I observations. 
subject of this paper may be better elucidated and 
toy wh- elements, it may be proper to notice the philoaophmal 
/ nich figures in many works on hydrostatics and hydraulics as Dr. 
