The Engineer 1859 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1859 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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Academy, The, 411

the Royal, 246
of Sciences, 41

Accident to the Calais Mail Packet, 227

on the Cornwall Railway, 343
Polytechnic Institution, 41, 60

Accidents in America. Railroad. 47

Railway, 70, 79, 90, 125, 171, 282, 439
Act', Railway. 441

"Adamantine Clinker," 177

Adamson's Hydraulic Lifting Jacks, 222

Admiralty Coal Reports, 227, 230

Adulteration of Food, &c, 37. 445

Aeroliths. 176

African Exploration, 263

Steam Navigation Company, 416

Agriculture, Cultivation of Land, Parker's Apparatus, 352

Eddington's Drainage Plough, 238
Ploughs and Ploughing, 206
Reaping and Mowing Machines, 408
Steam Cultivation, 380, 403
Steam Plough in America, 344
Steam Ploughing, 421
Trial of Steam Cultivators, 193

Agricultural Engines, 297

Agricultural Implements Abroad, 99

Improvement, 50, 448
Railway Traffic, 29U Society, Royal. 206. 242
Statistics, Irish, 319

Air, Organic Matter of the, 311

Alarm Signal, 116

Algerian Railways. 337

Allan's Cable, 356

Alleyne’s Beams and Girders, 298

Alloys, 67

Alloys of Aluminium and Iron, 145

Almond's Furnaces for the Combustion of Smoke, 423

Alps, Cost of a Tunnel under the, 388

Aluminium, 1'22

America, coal-fields of, 421

via Galway, 446
Interesting Intelligence from,
Railroad Accidents in, 47
Steam Communication with. 227
Steam Plough in, 344
Trade, &c., in, 275
Yachting in, 394

American Coinage, 315

Mail Service, 94, 166
Manufacturing, City, 130

American Patent Laws, 320

River Steamers, 274
River Steamers, as compared with those of the Clyde, 274
Steamships, 407
Steam Vessels, European and, 416
View of the War, 404

Anaesthesia, Fatal Cases of, 9

Annealing Pots, Miles, 169

Anvil, Wright s, 404

Arches, Elliptical Cast Iron, 183

Architecture, Ancient and Modern Naval, 396

Ariadne, the Screw Frigate, 405

Arithmetic, Deadly, 362

Arms, Brazier's Fire, 169

Armstrong, Sir W. G., 147

Gun Factory. 401
and his Workmen, Sir W. G., 164
Armstrong's Boilers, etc., 117
Gun, 24, 46, 101, 358

Army, the, 362

Austrian, 112
the British, 10
Estimates, 135
the Prussian, 10
United States, 110

Arsenal, Woolwich, 362, 436

Art Education, Progress of, 223

Art, Fashions in, 254

in France, English, T. Silvestre, 78

Art Instruction, Progress of, 301

Arts, les Artistes, et l'Industrie on Angleterre, &c. &c., les, 41

Artillery Arms, French, 357

ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS. 17:

Address, by Mr. Newton, 106
"Best mode of Producing Heavy Castings in Iron,"
by Mr. Keyte, 29S
" Concussion of Water." by Mr. John Briggs, 329
Discussion on 408
" Hydraulics," by Mr. John Briggs, 408

Association of Mechanical Draughtsmen, Formation of Rules, 375, 402
Association, the Prevention of Boiler Explosions, 7S, 150
Assurance, Railway, 153
Aston's Breech-loading Arms. 154
Astronomical, 166
Atlantic Cable, 224
Ferry. the, 456
Telegraph, 10, 24, 71, 78, 100, 118, 133, 152, 171, 193, 198, 209, 245, 261, 289, 375, 388, 403, 411, 441, 447
Telegraph, Proposed Now Route, 321
Telegraph Company, New, 427
Australia, Comet in, 43
Cotton from, 303
Explorations in, 22
Interior of, 352
Public Works in South, 293
Railways in South, 440, 449
Telegraph from Europe, via India, to, 349
Telegraph in South, 311
via Panama, 396
Australian Builder, the, 328
Gold-fields, Geology of, 345
Mails, 212, 265, 283
Railways, 70, 77
Avon, Accident to the, 112
Axle-boxes, 335
not Requiring Lubricating, 257

Bacon's Valves, Gates, and Stop-cock3, 366
Balloon, a Transatlantic, 275
Barnum's Lectures, 83
Bartholomew's Gas Meters. 168
Bastable's Apparatus for the Production of Light, 295
Bates, York, and Parkin's Pistons, 151
Baths, Griffiths', 404
Oxley's, 277
Batteries, French Floating, 130
Bayonet, the. 367
Beams and Girders, Alleyne's, 298
Bearing for Tyres, Elastic, 169
Bearings for Shafts, Proportions of, 387
Bellanger's Caoutchouc Socks or Clogs, 295
Be11's Manufacture of Iron, 10
Belshaw, the late Mr. Thomas, 22
Belting, Flat and Round. 35S Belts on Pulleys. Taylor, 117
Benevolent Institution, Railway, 79, 367
Bengal Railway, Eastern, 347
Rivers of, 325
Benson's Apparatus for Generating Steam, 240
Betons Agglomeres, on the Use of, 400
Bessemer Process. the, 447
Bessemer's Malleable Metal, 276
Manufacture of Iron and Stool, 330
Manufacture of Malleable Iron and Steel, 437
Steel, 408
Bigelow's Sewing Machines, 99
Bills, Railway, 1859, 171
Railway and Canal, 124
Blast, Regulating, 101
Regular Miller's, 366
Blinkhorn's InIffers, 116
Boat Building, 353, 371, 389, 409, 427
Boiler Association, Huddersfield Steam, 226
Explosion at Cardiff. 201
Explosion at Dundee, 275
Explosion, Huddersfield, 326, 337
Explosion at Messrs. E. Learoyd and Co.'s Mill, Report on the, 339
Explosions, 413, 447
Explosions, Association for the Prevention of, 78
Explosions, Electricity and Steam, 437
Explosions, Mr. Fairbairn on, 42
Explosions, Manchester Association for the Prevention of, 150
Explosions, J. Player, C.E., 27
Boilers. 223, 409
&c., Armstrong's, 117
Blinkhorn's, 116
Locomotive, 11
Portable, Shuttleworth's, 28
Preventing the Explosion of, Parsons', 187
&c., Price and Dawes' Steam, 84
Steam, 227, 243, 278, 369
Williams' Tubular, 134
Bolts and Rivets, Johnson's, )02
Bond and Standing's Churning Apparatus, 151
Boring Bit, Tucker's, 280
Walls, 67
Wells, Erhard's Apparatus for, 138
Botany Waterworks, Now South Wales, 383
Bousfield's Machinery for Cutting the Threads of Wood Screws, 385
Marine Engines, 150
Bovill's Manufacture of Gas and Coke, 205
Braces, Easterbrook's Ratchet, 81
Brake, Jackson's Automatic, 325
Brakes, Johnston's, 208
Railway, 57, 64, 375
Railway, R. Roberts', 26
Brass Ordnance Factory at Woolwich, 316
Bray's Traction Engine, 135
Brazier's Fire-arms, 169
Breakwater, Burn's. 168
Breakwaters, 115, 131, 147, 155
Scott's. 150
Breech-loading Arms, Aston's, 154
Brewing, 227. 263
and Distilling, Steel's, 172
Brick makers, 84
Brick making Machine, 78
Bridge. the Albert, 317
the Grand Falls, 48
for India, Iron, 280
at Kehl, near Strasbourg, Railway, 401
at Montreal. Victoria. 112, 188, 274
New Westminster, 230, 340
over the Nile, 439
Pimlico, Victoria, 423
Saltash, 156
Bridges, Railway. 389, 428
Bridging Great Rivers, 171
Brighton and South-Western Railway War, 411
Blind's Sewing Machines, 276
Bristol Channel, Trade of. 201
School of Mines, 290, 401
British Association, 352
Columbia, 8u, 102
Goods Manufactured Abroad, 339
Britt's Propelling of Steamboats, 312
Brooman's Printing Addresses upon Papers, &c., 211
Treatment of Fibrous Vegetable Substances, &c., 259
Brougham, Lord, Mechanics' Institute and, 30
Brushes, Child's Hair and Skin, 277
Buchanan's Sugar Mills, 138
Buffers, 29
Cammell's, 48
Builder, the Australian, 328
Buildings, Exit-ways of Public, 209
Burn's Breakwater, 168
Cable, Allan's, 356
the Atlantic, 63, 224, •242
the Atlantic, J. N. Hoarder, 39
New Construction of Submarine, 412
Cables, Clark, Braithwaite, and Preece's, Telegraph, 294
Do Bergue's Telegraph, 205
Reid's Method of Testing Submarine. 441
Silver's Process of Insulation for Submarine, 407
Submarine, 103
Walker's Telegraph. 222
Calais Mail Packet, Accident to, 227
Calcium (see Magnesium)
Calculation, Curious, 279, 849
Calcutta, Gas at, 401
California, Wonderful Valley in, 60
Cammell's Buffers, 48
Canada, 301
Extension of the Money Order System to, 363
Canadian Ocean Steamers, 330
Canal, the Suez, 277, 351, 439
the Nicaraguan, 135, 277
Candlesticks, Manning's, 244
Cannon, Breech-loading, Mr. Warry's, 171
Cast Iron, for the Manufacture of, 346
the French Emperor's New, 349
New Breech-loading. 41
Warry's Breech-loading, 274
Wrought Iron, 136, 152
Caoutchouc Socks or Clogs, &Hanger's, '295
Cape Colony, 168
Colony, Revenue of the, 9
Engineering Matters at the, 439
Survey of the, 112
Carbon for Dusting Moulds for Casting Metal, 376
Carpet Manufacture, 274
Carriages, Long Railway, 421
Carter v. Cockhead, Patent Infringement, 420
Carving Wood, 47
Case Hardening, 11
Case-hardening Cast Iron, 151
Casing or Jacket in Steam Engines, Steam, by Gordon M'Kay, Esq., 383
Castings in Iron, Best Mode of Producing Heavy, 248
Castors, 225, 245
Castors, Simons', 186
Castors, Simons', Claimed by Butlin, 209
Ceylon Railway, 434
Ceylon, Railway Operations in, 135
Chaff-cutting Machines, Richmond and Chandler's, 135
Chair-fastening, Railway, 297
Channel Islands Submarine Telegraph, 329
Channel Islands Telegraph, 360
Charing Cross Railway and St. Thomas's Hospital, 183
Charts from the Spanish, French, and Russian Governments, Extensive Orders for, 325
Charybdis, Launch of the, 396
Chatham Dockyard, 221
Cbatwin and Taylor's Screw Stocks, SO
Chester Agricultural Show, 11
Child's Hair and Skin Brushes, 277
Childs, H., Smoke Prevention, 11
Childs' Winnowing Machinery, 316
Chimney Caps, Henry Pratt, 6
Chimneys bo Ugly, Must our, 316
Chronometry of Life, 399
Churches, Heating of, 43
Churning Apparatus, Bond and Standing's, 151
Cigar Steamer, the, 421
Circle, Rectification of, 6, 27, 64, 82, 100, 119, 185, 225, 243, 356
City Improvements, 42
Clark, Braithwaite, and Price's Telegraph Cables, '294
Clayton and Goodfellow's Pistons for Pumps, 24
Cleveland Iron District, 94
Clinker. Adamantine, 177
Clock at Westminster Palace, 319, 328
Clocks, 97
Lighting Public, 49
Clyde, the, 133
Fire on the, 135

Coal, 295

in America, Anthracite, 110
Australian, 102
British, Exports of, 212
Burning Locomotives, 354
and Coke in Locomotive Engines, Relative Values of, 345. 365, 382
Crushing, 191
Discussion upon, 321.329
Experiments, Newcastle, '202
Exports, 1858, 110
Exports of, 370
Extracting Oil from, 146
Fields of America, 421
Fields, Forest Dean, 98
Trade, Great Northern Railway, 401
Miners' Petition, 228
Mode of Shipping, 328
for the Navy, Welsh, 101
New South Wales, 241
New Zealand, 43, 426
its Products and Uses, 167
Reports, Admiralty. 227, '230
Report of Messrs. Miller and Taplin on the Evaporative Power and Economic Value of Hartley and Welsh, 219, 237
Supply of London, 280
Welsh Steam, 138
found on the Zambesi, 166

Coals, etc., 333
Coast Defences, 58, 60
Cochrane's Fastenings of Railways, 334
Coinage. American, 315
Useful, 201
Coining, Wholesale. 119
Coins, Cracked, 234
Coke. Desulphurisation of, 12
Cold, Great, 71
Colliers, Screw, 153
Colliery Machinery, 272
Worksop, Shire Oaks, 99
Collision Experiments, 167
Columbia. British. 212
Columns, Crank Pins, Boilers, and Iron, 409
Iron, 427
Comet in Australia, 43
Commerce, French, 112
Communication between England and France, Submarine, 43
Company, African Steam Navigation, 416
Royal Mail Steam Packet. 306
Thames Graving Dock, 396
Compass Errors. Correction of, 71
Compass. Irons', 81
Julius's, 45
Compensations, Railway. 190
Concussion of Water, 329, 403
Condensers for Stew') Engines. Dredge's, 259
Conduction, Submarine, John Tatlock, 27
Consumption of Smoke, dm., 79
Contract, Indian Railway, 334
Mediterranean Mail, 416
Working Railways by, 51
Conviction or an Engine Driver, 97
Corn, Uniform Weight for the S 'le of, C4
Cornwall Railway Accident, 343
Correction of Compass 1,:rror4, 71
Correspondence in France, Railway, 151
Correspondents, Notices to.), 11, 29. 49. 67, 85, 103, 121. 139, 155, 178, 191, 209. 227, 245, 263, 281, 299, 317, 335, 353, 371, 339, 409, 427, 447
Cotton from Australia and Africa, 303
Bales, Iron Hoops around, 445
Factories in Great Britain, 456 328
Gins, Trial of, 184
in Natal. 46
Supply Association, Manchester, :353
Counters, Engine, 335
Coupling for Railway Carriages, Wrigley's, 41.2
Wrigley's Frictional. 443
Covering Iron Steamers, 383
Cowes Harbour, 383
Crank-axles, Manufacture of Locomotive, 410
Pins, Boilers, and Iron Columns, 409
Crosland's Compound Engines, 117
Crystal Palace Decorations, 120
Molecule by the Instrumentality of Light, 363, 381
Crystallography, 310
Cultivation of Land, Parker's Apparatus, 352
Cultivators, Trial of Steam, 193
Culture, Steam, 445
Cunard Steamers in Cork, the, 262
Currents, Ocean, 101
Cylinder Engines. Inside and Outside, 224
Jackets. 427
Locomotives, Outside, 243
Cylinders, Outside and Inside, 210

Damp, Prevention of. 311
Dangers of the Sea, SS Darlington Iron Company's Works, 25
Dartmouth, Waste Lauds of, 404
Davies' Planing Electrotype and Stereotype Plates, 208
Slide Valve, 169
Davit Blocks, Perley's Means for Disconnecting Boats from. 446
Deane-Harding Revolver, 366
De Bergue's Telegraph Cables, die., 2O'
Decimal System, 201
Delirium Tremens, Cure for, 115
Demidoff Family, Mineral Wealth of the, 169
Denmark, Submarine Telegraph to, 440
Derrick, the Boom, 122
Desert, How to find Water in the, 35S Dewrance's Pianoforte Frames, 352
Dickson’s Permanent Way, 44
Dicynodon, New Species of, 166
Discharge of Steam from Boilers, 427, 447
Disconnecting Boats from Davit Blocks, Perley’s, 446
Displacement, of Vessels, 263
Distilled Water, 67

Diving Apparatus, 11

Bells, 67
Bells, Charles Askew, 26
Decks, Iron, 101
Dock Accommodation, Liverpool, 116
Southampton, the Inner, 212, 378, 387
Thames Graving, J., Henry Johnson, 6
Thames Graving, 46, 136

Docks,

Falmouth, 76, 122, 416
Floating, 373
Jarrow, 173
New, 168
Northfleet, 191, 376
Tyne, South Shields, 82S Victoria, 147
Victoria (London), Entrance Locks, &e , of the, 327

Dockyard, Chatham, 221
Domes and Steam Pipes, 261
Donation, Appropriate, 98
Drainage, the Main, 10, 60, 100, 247
Metropolitan Main, 13
Outfall Southern Main, 401
Schemes. 110
of Stroud. 2'26
Draught by Steam Jot, 85
Draughtsmen, 100, 119, 136
Association of Mechanical, 375
Society of Mechanical, 226
Drawing Classes, Architects, Engineers and Machine lets', 19
and Twisting Wool, Newton's, 222
Dredge's Condensers for Steam Engines, 259
Drinking Fountains, 221
Driving Bands, Mounting in Motion, Mennon's, 262
Drummond’s Reaping and Mowing Machines, .108
Dundee, Boiler Explosion at, 275
Explosion and its Lessons. 290
Dunn and Irlam's Turn-tables, 25
Du Tremble% 's Vapour Engine, 132, 143
Dwellings, Model, 408
Dynamic Quantity and Intensity, a New Theory of, 296, 314, 331, 832, 350.371
Dynamical Problem. 389, 409, 427

Eastern Counties Railway and Rolling Stock, :iv::
Easterbrook’s Ratchet Braces, 81
Eastern, the Great, 67, 401
Eastern and her Sail", the Great, 100, 119, 136
Economising Fuel. Lees and Jaques, 154
Eddington’s Drainage Plough, 238
Education, Mining, 390
Progress of Art, 228
Egyptian Public Works, 188
Electrical Discharge, &c., 147
Electric Lamp, W. hurt. 98
Light, 446
Electricity and Boiler Explosions, 437
Gas Lighting by, 356, 369,389
Theory of, 248, 256, 231
Metro-Dynamic Induction, 368, 3S6, 406, 423, 443, 44S
Magnets, 85
Electrometer, Atmospheric, 183
Emigration, Australian, 24
Employees, 82, 119
Employers, Duties of, 45, 64, 82
Employment of the Poor, 71
Enfield Fire-arms Factory, 198, 201, 258, 204, 348, 384, 422
England and the War. 317

Engine

Bray's Traction, 135
Counters, 335
Du Trembley's Vapour, 132, 148
Mr. Fuller's, 371
Giles' Traction and Agricultural, 2.11
Rowan's Marino Boil.r,;1st The steam, 243
Three-Cylinder. 279

Engines,

Agricultural, 297
and Boilers, Humphry's Steam, 446
Crosland's Compound, 117
Dredge's Condensers for Steam, 259
Fuller's Steam, 334
Goodfellow’s Steam, 388
Inside and Outside Cylinder, 224
Manufacture of steam, 263
Marine, Bousfield's Steamers' Light-draught, 152
of the Navy, the, 300
for the Navy, Marine, 290
Newton's Air, 277
for the Now Steam Ram, 394
Portable Steam. 191
Proportions of, 191
Rotary, 49
Smith's S earn, 226
Steam Casing, or Jacket in Steam, 333
Three-cylinder, 119
Traction, 119, 281. 299, 335, 353. 356, 371

Engineering Matters at the Cape, 439
Engineering Shops. &c,, 45, 64
Telegraph, 439
Engineers in India, 133
Naval, 194
the Royal. 370
Royal Naval. 180
of the Royal Navy, 209, 246
in the Navy, 356
Equations, Algebraic Solution of. 276
the Method of Symmetric Products, and its Application to the Finite Algebraic Solution of. 275
Erhard's Apparatus for Boring Wells, 138
Erosion of the Plates of Boilers, 133
Escape Valves, Gas, 445
Estimates, Naval, 42
European and American Steam Vessels, 416
Exhibition of 1861, 33, 86
Of Inventions, 291, 310
of Patented Inventions, 153
Exit-ways of Public Buildings. 209
Exploration, Submarine, Newton's Apparatus, 367
Explosions, Boiler, 413
Manchester Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler, 309
Exports of British Coal, 212
for January, 152
for March, 308

Factory, the Armstrong Gun, 401
Reports, 135
Factories in Great Britain. Cotton, 456
Fairbairn, W., On Boiler Explosions, 42
W., F.H.B., Resistance of Tubes to Collapse 2, 23
Fall of Houses in Liverpool, 51
Falmouth Docks and Harbours, 76, 416
Fane's Treatment of Sewage, 186
Farming Progress, 156
Fashions in Art„ 254
Fastenings of Railways, Cochrane's. 334
Food water Heating Apparatus, 209
Ferry, the Atlantic, 456
Fibrous Vegetable Substance, Brooman's Treatment of, 259
File-cutting Machine, 385
Files, Preston and M'Gregor's Machinery for Cutting. 244
Fire-arm, the Deane-Harding Revolver, :;6(i
Fire-arms, 139
Factory. Enfold, 19S, 204, 253, 294, 343, 384, 422
Rifled, 297
Fire-box, Coal-burning, 45
Fireplaces, 261
Fire from Water, 40S
Fires, Thin and Thick, 60
Firing Powder by Magnetism, 262
Flax Manufactures, 358
Fleet. Steam Reserve, 10
Floating Batteries, 28
Docks, 373
Forts, Circular, 405
Flora, Rapid Passage of, 423
Food, Adulterations of, 445
Effects of, on the Reaction of Urine, 345
Foreign Jottings, 213. 46, 66, 80. 112, 120, 146, 152, 194, 306, 316, 334 365, 383, 421, 441
Notes, 22
Forges, Howe's Smiths', 331
Forts, Circular Floating, 405
Fossil Plants, 123
Remains, 61
Fossils of the Lingola-flags, 166
Foster and Smith's Machinery for Spinning and Doubling Wool, 405
Fountain in the Metropolis. First Drinking, 211)
Fountains, Drinking. 221
in Loudon, Drinking, 99
Street. 136
French Artillery Arms, 357
Gun-boats, 420
Navy, the, 405
Prize to an English Photographer, 401
Railway 1Vorks, 171, 218, 2.31
Frigate, the Mersey, 218
Fuller's Steam Engines, 334
Furnaces for the Combustion of Smoke, Almond's, 42.3
Ireland's Cupola, 223
Mandalay's, 98
for Smelting Iron, 61
Fuses. Maguet, 2u5
Future, the. 299
The, Opening Address, 1

Gaiffe. M., Magneto-Electric Apparatus, 226
Gallery, the National, 122
Galway, 120
Harbour, 229
Lille of steamers, 13S
Gas Burner, Hart's, 440
Burner, Monier's, 331
at Calcutta, 44
and Coke. Bovill's Manufacture of, 205
Company, New, 69
Escape Valves, 445
the Great Central, 116
Lighting by Electricity, 356, 369, 3S9
Manufacture of Maiam's Apparatus, 367
in the Metropolis, 24
Sale of, 238
in Spain, 276
Supply, the Metropolis, 31
Water, 340
Gasworks. 180
Gates (See Valves)
Gear, 136
Henry's Expansion, 443
variable Expansion, 3s1
" General-Admiral, Russian Frigate, 41S

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

Coal found by Dr. Livingstone on the Zambesi, by Richard Thornton, Esq., 166
Description of a new species of Ceplialaspis (C. Asterotepis), from the Old Red Sandstone in the Neighbourhood of Ludlow, by John Hurley, Esq..,
Formation of Volcanic Cones and Craters, by G. P. Scrope, Esq., M.P., 166
Fossils of the Lingula-flags, by J. W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S. 166
Fossil Plants from the Devonian Rocks of Gasp6, Canada, by Dr. J. W. Dawson, F.O.S., 123
Geological Structure of the North of Scotland and the Orkney and Shetland Islands, Part 2, by Sir R. I. Murchison, F.K.S., 21
Gold-field of Ballarat, Victoria, by II. Rosales, Esq., 123
Occurrence of Liasssic Deposits near Carlisle), by E. W. 13ilanio, Esq., F.G.S., 166
On some Points in Chomical Geology, by T. Sterry Hunt, Esq., 123
On a Now Specks of Dicynodon, by Professor Huxley, F.R.S., 166
Geologist's' Association, 66, IA Geological Survey, by Hyde Clark. D.C.L.. V.P., 105
Gilds' Traction and Agricultural Engine, 241
Gin, 011erenshaw's Cotton, 385
Parkhurst's Cotton, 442
Trial of a Now Cotton, 184
Girders (see also Beams)
Malleable Iron, 30
Glaciers, Veined Structure of, 255
Glass, Coloured. 60
Trade, Disputes in the, 52, 842
Soluble, 158
Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Committee, 23
Glycerine, 303
Supply of, 130
Godefroy’s Cleansing of Gutta-percha, 1S6
Gold Discovery, 234
Field of Ballarat, 123
Field of New South Wales, 41:,
Fields, Geology of the Australian, 345
Gold in North Wales, 297
Product, New South Wales, 77
Receipts of, 405
Goodfellow's Steam Engines, 333
Governor. Hydraulic. 207, 227
Jenson’s Marine Engine, 828
Governors for Primo Movers, Hick, Hargreaves, and Harwood's, 370
Great Eastern, the, 438
Northern Railway Coal Trade, 401
Greaves' Mode of Constructing Streets, kc.. 137
Griffiths and Admiralty Propellers, the, 392, 396
Baths, 404
Shaft. Couplings, 134
Grinding Provender, 11
Apparatus for Submerging Telegraph Cables, 298
Gyroscope, the, John Rigby, A.B., .59
Guano Island, the Now, 23
Islands, 186
Guide, Kelly's Railway, 46
Gun, Armstrong's, 24, 46, 101, 272, 338
Boats, 442
Boats, French, 420
Boats. Spanish. 316
Chinese, 133
Cotton in France. 114
Factory, the Armstrong, 401
Factory at Woolwich, 319
Gun Carriages, and Ammunition, Whitworth's, 388
Hot-81411's Wrought-iron, 240
Making in the United states. 405
the Rocket. 283
Trade, the, 349
Mr. Whitworth. 198
Gunpowder, French. 130
Manufacture, :389
Gutta-Percha, Cleansing of, Godefroy's, 186
Resembling, 98
Halifax, Sheffield and, 304
Hallowell’s Mules for Spinning, &c, Hammer, Steam, 135
Hammers. Steam, 272
Harbour, Cowes. 383
Galway. 229
Harbours of Range, 336
Hardening, Case, 11
Harrison’s Ovens, 172

Hart's, W.

Electric Lamp, 98
Gas Burner, 440
Locks, 135
Locks, Claimed by Miles, 173
Taps and Valves, 172

Harvey's Band Sawing Machine, Messrs. G. and A , 404
Hattersley's Type Composing Machine, 357
Hoarder, J. N., Atlantic (11b10, 39
Health. Houses in Relation to. 420
Heat. Developed by Water when Rapidly Agitated, Geo. Rennie, F.R.S., 43
Relative Power of Metals and Alloys to Conduct. 402,_ 419
of Steam. 263
Heating of Churches, 43
Henry's Expansion that-, 443
Hick, Hargreaves and Harwood’s Governors for Prime Movers. 370
Hill's Joints for Connecting, Pipes, 1S Machinery for Punching and Shearing Metal, 313
Omni boxes, 331
Hine's Machinery for Twisting and Doubling Silk, 262
Hislop's Grain Separator, 81 Hobbs' Lock Manufactory, 188, 203
Hodge and Spencer's Method of Regulating the Recoil of Springs, 116
Hoops Round Cotton Bales, Iron, 44.7,
Horse Power, 227
Horse-shoes, Machine-made. 124
Newton's Machinery for Forging, 280
Horsfall's Wrought Iron (ion, 240
Hospital, Now Woolwich, 277
Houndsditch Jews and their Dead, 71
Houses in Isolation to Health, 420
Howe's Smiths' Forges, 331
Huddersfield Association for Preventing Boiler Explosions. 392
Boiler Explosion, 326, :337
Steam Boiler Association, 226
Humphry's Steam Engines and Boilers, 441;
Hydraulics, 408
Discoveries in, 135
Ice-making Machines, 8:, lee, Steaming on, 194
Immigration at Now York, 71
Imponderable Matter, &c., 01
Income and Expenditure. Public, 279
Incrustations, Removing, Parsons', 313

India to Australia.

Telegraph from Europe via, 349
Engineer Establishment, Qualifications for the East, 107
Engineers in, 133
Great Southern of, 303
Iron Bridge for, 280
Quicksilver in, 40
Rails for, 115
Roads in, 2.36
rubber Coated Telegraphic Wires, 212
Roam Company, Royal Mail, West, 352
Steamers for. 171
Telegraphic Difficulties in, 265
Tramroad, North of 358
Works, Public, 240

Indian Inland Navigation, 19

Iron, East. 340
Patent Law, Now, 346
Peninsula Great, 303
Railway Contract, 834
Railway, East, 275, 303
Railways, 157, 410
River Navigation. 103, 283
Steamers, 74, 133
Telegraph. 169, 265

Indicators, Oscillation in, 170. 207
Induction, Electro-Dynamic. 368, 386, 406, 423, 443, 448
in Submarine Cables, 136
in Submarine Wires, 118
Indus Steamers, 35
Steam Flotilla. 118
Infringement, Patent, Carter v. Cockhead, 420

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :—

Axle-boxes not Requiring Lubricating, by M. Alphonse de Brussaut, 257
Breakwaters, by Mr. Scott, 115
Description of the Entrance Looks and Jetty Walls, with the Wrought Iron Gates, Caisson, &c., of the Victoria (London) Docks, by Mr. W. J. Kingsbury. Assoc. Inst. C.E.. 327
Discussion on Mr. Scott's Paper on Breakwaters, 131, 147
Double Off-sot Plotting Scale, by Mr. J. G. Austin, 219
Elliptical Cast Iron Arches, by Mr. T. F. Chappe, C.B., 183
Iron. Wrought. Elasticity and Rupture of, by R. Mallet, F.R.S., etc., IV), Is::
Manufacture of Malleable Iron and Steel, by Mr. II. Bessemer, 437
Melbourne Gravitation Waterworks, by Mr. Jack. butt, 239
Permanent Way of the Madras Railway, by Mr. Bryce McMaster, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 257, 293
Trembley’s Combined Vapour Engine, &c., by 31r. J. W. Jameson, 132, 14S
Tyne Docks at South 3hieldR, and on the Mode of Shipping Coals, by Mr. T. E. 1larrisots, 31.I.C.E., 328
Water Supply for the City of Melbourne, South Australia, by Mr. N. B. Jackson, 219

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS OF FRANCE

Betons Agglom6r6s, on the Use of, by M. F. Coignets, 400
Permanent Way, New System of, by M. Barroux, 4:33

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. IRELAND:—

Coal Experiments, Newcastle, by B4)(101113. Stoney, Esq., C.E., 202
Shoring, a New Method of. by Mr. W. Anderson, 309

INSTITUTION or ENGINEERS IN SCOTLAND :

American River Steamers as Compared with those of the Clyde, by Mr. Neilson, 274
Anniversary Dinner in Glasgow, 320
Patent Law Reform, by Mr. Hunt, 211

INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :—

Construction of Hot-blast Ovens for lion Furnaces, by Mr. H. Marten. :328
Description of the Pumping Engine at the Newcastle Waterworks, by Mr. R. Morrison, 328
Jenson’s Marine Engine Governor, by Mr. H. Maudslay, 328
A Paper on the Description of a Dry-clay Brickmaking Machine, by Mr. B. Fothergill, 78
A Paper on the Progressive Applications of Machinery to Mining Purposes, by Mr. T. J. Taylor, 78

Insulation for Submarine Cables, Messrs. Silver's Process of, 407
Invention of Steam Navigation, 176
Ipecacuanha a Cure for Delirium Tremens, 115
Ireland's Cupola Furnaces, 223
Ireland, Iron Trade in, 283
Postal Communication with, 207

Iron,

Bessemer's Malleable, 276
and Coal Trades in South Wales, 413
Columns, 427
Case-hardening Cast, 151
East Indian, 310
English and American, 88
Extraordinary Make of Pig. 277
Machinery for the Preparation of, 61
Malagasy Modes of Working, 48
Manufacture, 314
Manufacture of, Bell's, 10
Manufacture. Improvement of the, 63
for the Pacific Railway. 42
Paving, Cast, Terry's, 168
Purification of, 413
from Scoria, 3u6
Ships of War, 353
and Steel, Bessemer's Manufacture of, 330
and Steel Manufacture of Malleable, 437
System of Storing Scotch Pig, 349
Taylor's Manufacture of, 169
Trade in Ireland, 283
Trade, South Staffordshire, 163
in Victoria, 46
Working of. R. Mallet, 85
Works in the United States, 863
Wrought, Elasticity and Rupture of, 165, 183
Yorkshire, 4S

Iron, Coal, and General Trade of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, The 17, 36. 56, 74, 91, 110, 128, 145. 162, 180, 199, 216, 234, 252, 270, 288, 307, 325, 342, 360, 379, 396, 417, 435, 454
Irons' Compass. 81
Isle of Wight, 70

Jacket's Cylinder. 427
Jacks, Adamson's Hydraulic Lifting, 222
Jackson's Automatic Brake, 325
"Jeddo." Trial of the, 262
Johnson's Bolts and Rivets, 102
Johnston's Brakes, 208
Joints for Connecting Pipes, Hill's, 1S7
of Slate Ridge Roll, Securing the, Jones' Invention, 262
.Tones. Securing the Joints of Slate Ridge Roll, 242
Jopling's Water Meter, 312
Julius's Compass, 45
Jumna, the, 40
Kensington Estate, 43
Museum, South, 198
South, Tendencies at, 192
Kinsey's Pumps, 404
Knapp's Iron Paving, General, 167
Kensington Estate. 43
Museum, South, 198
South, Tendencies at, 192
Kinsey's Pumps, 404
Knapp's Iron Paving, General, 167
Labour-saving Machinery, 121
Labourers in Foreign Countries, 319
Lamp, Electric. W. Hart, 98
Miners', 173
Submarine, 403
Lamps, Newton's, 116
Lardner, Dr., 344
Launch of the Charybdis, n9n of the Hood, 315
of the Seine, 396
of Vessels for Foreign Governments, 316
Lava. Consolidation of, tic., 399

LAW REPORTS :—

Harwood v. Great Northern Railway Company, 43
Hill. v. The London Gas-light Company, 421
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company v. The London and South-Western and Portsmouth Railway Companies, 43, 101
Miller v. The London and North-Western Railway Company, 101
Norton v. Nicholls and Others, 43
Ito Spence, 23, 46, 85
Lead Service Pipes for Water, the Use of, .110

LEADING ARTICLES :—

Academy, the Royal, 246. 411
Adulteration of Food and Medicine, S7
Agricultural Improvement, 50, 448
Albert Bridge, the. 317
Aluminium, 122
Art-education, Progress of, 228
Atlantic Telegraph. 411
Telegraph Company. New, 42
Bessemer Process, the, 447
Boom Derrick, the, 122
Breakwaters, 155
Bridges, Railway, 423
Brighton and South-Western Railway War, the, 411
Calais Mail-packet, Accident to, '227
Channel Islands Telegraph, 86
Coal-miners' Petition, 228
Coal Reports, Admiralty, 227
Coke, Desulphurisation of, 12
Commercial Prospects, 263
Conservation of Sewage, 104
Cotton Supply Association, Manchester, 353
Crank-axles, Manufacture of Locomotive, 410
Cylinders, Outside and Inside, 210
Dangers of the Sea, 88
Disputes in the Glass Trade. 52
Docks, Northfleet, 191
Electrodynamic Induction, 448
Engineers of the Royal Navy, 209, 246, 300
England and the War, 317
English and American Iron, 88
Exhibition of 1861. the, 86
Exit-ways of Public Buildings, 209
Fall of Houses in Liverpool, 5i Falmouth Docks, 122
Farming Progress, 156
Fire-arms, 139
Floating Docks, 373
Future, The. 299
Glasgow Sewage, the, 87
Great Eastern, the, 67
Harbours of Refuge, 336
Huddersfield Boiler Explosion, 337
Improvement of the Iron Manufacture, 6g
Indian Railways, 157, 410
River Navigation, 103
Inductive Retardation of Submarine Wires, 69
Iron Ships of %Var. 353
Jarrow flocks, 178
Kensington. South, Tendencies at. 102
Labour-saving Machinery, 121, 173
Locomotive Construction, 210
Improvement, 174
Locomotives, Coal-burning, 192, 3r,4
Malleable Iron G1rders, 30
Manchester Pattern Designing, 69
Manufacture of Steel, 67. 141
Mechanics' Institute and Lord Brougham, the, 30
Metropolis GU Supply, the, 31
Metropolis. Improvement of the, 13
Metropolitan Junction Railways, 29
Mine Inspection, 105
Mining Education, 390
Mortar, the Great. 141
National Gallery, the, 122
Panics In Public Buildings, 12
Patent Laws, the, 85. 139
Patents and Patent Laws. 11
Prussian Locomotives, 837
Fuddled Stool, 335
Railway Accident, 282
Bars. Manufacture of, 318
Brakes. 61
Bridges, 389
Improvement, 49, 372
Traffic, 373
Railways. Superstructure of, 140
in Turkey. 104
Rod Sea Telegraph. the, 447
Rifles, Enfield. Armstrong, Whitworth, and other, 263
River Steamers, 318
Saltash Bridge. 156
Screw Propellers. 409
Steamers, 228
Sewing Machines, 13
Societies. Friendly. 300
Steam Cultivation, 3S0
Superheating, 299
Steamboats. River, 281
Steamship Improvement, 155
Steamships, Ocean, 371
Steel. Puddled, 246
Street Railways. 264
Submarine Warfare, 30
Superheated Steam. 265, 427
Telegraphs, Submarine, 245
Telegraph, the Typo-printing, 232
Thames and the Seine. the, 409
Tolls, Great Western Railway, 217
Tunnelling Machinery. 429
Warming and Ventilating. 354
What should Mechanical Workmen be Taught, 42
Working Railways by Contract, 51
Workmen, Social Progress amongst, 191

Leaky Iron Steamships, 24
Leamington, Railway Accident at, 152, 171
Lees and Jaques' Economising Fuel, 154

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :—

Agricultural Society, Royal, by " Implement Maker," 206, 242
Allan's Cable, by A Submarine Engineer, 356
Atlantic Cable. by A Telegraph Engineer, 64, 242
Telegraph. by "H. K.," 152, 209, 447
by J. N. Hoarder, 224, 215
%V. T, Henley, 118
Henry Kilgour, 261
Henry Moore, 245
S. E. P., 100
Axle-boxes, by William Hall, 317, 353
by J. S. F., 335
Bearings for Shafts, Proportions of. A. B., Ex.. 3S7
Boat-building, by Richard Bach, 353, 371, 409
by Tyro, 389, 427
Boilers, by Richard Bach, 409
Boiler Explosions. by W. Corbett, 447
by John Player, C.E., 27
Boilers, Steam, G. A. Leonard, 409
by W. H., 224, 369
E. T. Wright, 278
Brewing, by A Constant Subscriber, 263
by C. Watkins, 227
Castors, by Robert Mallet, 225
for Furniture, by Saito, 245
Chair Fastenings, Railway, by A Platelayer. 297
Chimney Caps, by Henry Pratt, 6
Coal-burning Firebox. by James Rose, 45
Coal Minors' Petition, by " Employer," 263
Crank Pins, Boilers, and Iron Columns, by a Self-taught Mechanic, 409
Cylinder Engines, Inside or Outside, by E. L., 224
Jackets, by Charles Blyth, 427
Discharge of Steam from Boilers, by Thomas Baldwin, 447
by E. A. Leonard, 427
C. Schiele and Co, 414', 447
Displacement of Vessels, A. Alexander, 263
Diving Belle, by Charles Askew, 26
Domes and Sto4m-pipes, by E. L., 261
Draughtsmen, by Fair Play, 136
by J. C., 100
Sot Square, 119
Jos. Willcock, 119
Dynamical Problem. by E. W. B., 427
by H. O. V., 409
J. H. C., 409
J. N., 889
W. G. B., 427
Dynamic Quantity and Intensity, by G. Blair, M.A., 296, 314, 331. 851
by Condenser, 371
A Telegraph Engineer, 332
Electro-Dynamic Induction, by G. Blair. M.A., ^f S, 386, 406, 423, 443
by X. Y. Z..407, 425
Employees, by A Brother in Hand and Heart, 82
by a Pacificator. 119
Engine, Mr. Fuller's, by Geo. L. Fuller, 371
the Steam, by Henry Pratt, 243
Engines, Agricultural, by Jno. Pinchbeck, 297
Engine-counters, by D. H. K., 335
by Robert H. Skaife, 33.5
Engineering Shops, Duties of Employees, by L. W. L. J., 45
by John Player, C.E., 64
W. M. J. O., 82
Engineers in the Navy, by A Young Engineer, 356
Expansion Gear, by V. P., 136
Fairbairn on Collapse of Tubes, by "H.," 64
Food-water Heating Apparatus, by H. Childs, 209
Fireplaces, by Henry Pratt, 261
Fountains, Street, by Frederick Braithwaite, 136
Gas Escape-valves for Blast Furnaces, by " Telegraph," 445
Gas Lighting by Electricity, by William D. Hart, 369
by J. N. Hoarder, 356, 389
Glass Trade, Disputes in the, by D. Wilkinson, 8. Governor, Hydraulic, by J. C.. 207
by C. Schiele and Co., 227
Grand Falls Bridge, by S. T. Vernon Smith, .is Great Eastern and her Sails, by Thomas Morris, 10o, 130
by a Young Land Lubber, 119
Gunpowder Manufacture. by Scintilla, 389
Heat of Steam. by " inquirer," 263
Horse Power, by J. C., 227
Boilers, Steam, by G. U., 227
by Diogenes, 243
Incendiary Shells, by John Macintosh, 136, 333
inclined Planes, by "H.," 209
by J. B.. 173, 227
Old Crank, 209
V. P., 152, 191
Induction in Submarine Cables, by Latimer Clark, 136
Inductive Retardation in Submarine Wires, by G. Blair, M.A., 26, 118
by A Telegraph Engineer. 46
Indus Steam Flotilla, by J. P., 118
by T. 13. Loath. 118
Iron Columns, by Alexander Taylor. 427
Decks in Steamships, by W. Wheelwright, 101
Manufacture, by Robert Mushet, 314
Light-draught Steamers, by M. Murray Jackson, 152
Locomotive Improvement, by Crank or no Crank, 185
by Isaac Dodds, :iS7
J. N, 297
Labor Omnist Vincit, 261
T. E. Merritt, 213
Sweet Briar, 207
F. W. Turner, 356
Locomotives. Outside Cylinder, by V. P., 2.43
Machinery, Labour-saving, by George Hunter, 185
Main Drainage, by J. S. Morewood, 100
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, by Richard Roberts, 207
Manufacture of Steam Engines. by H. F.. 263
of Steel. by Robert Mushet, 118
Miners' Lamp. by George Henry Lochey, 173
Novello's Craft, by George Sinclair, 369
Oat Bruisers, Smithfield Show, by E. R. and F. Turner, 27
Ocean Currents, by T. P. Purssglove, 1n1
Oscillation in Indicators, by William Gill, R.N., 170, 207
Ordnance, by George Brunton. 119
Rifled, by An Amateur Rifleman, 212
Paddle r. Screw, by Tyro, 353
Paper, Glycerined, by James Brown, 297
from Wood, by Robert H. Collyer, M.D., 278
Patent Laws. by N. L. Bauwins, 100, 225
by F. W. Campin. 185
T. Craddock, 170
Richard Roberts, 61, 99, 136
for Making Tinned Plates from Puddled Steel, by the Mersey Steel and Iron Company, 46
Tribunals, by William Spence, 152, 207, 242. 263
Patents, by J. W., 353
by '1'., 281
Peat Fuel, by E. A. Leonard, 297
Permanent Way, by L. C. E., 152
Ploughs and Ploughing. by " W.," 206
Pumps, by Engineer, jun.. 239
Rafts in Shipwrecks, by William Hurtley, 371
Railway Brakes, by Richard Roberts, 26
by Spring Buffer, 61
Rail cutting Disc, by Rowland 11111,'281
Rectification of the Circle, by H.. 100
by impossibilis Quadratura, 3.56
Jos. Jewsbury, 225
N. S. L., 185
The Old Engine, 6. 82
W. E. Walker. 27, 64, 83, 100. 119, 137, 243
Regulating Bust, &c , by American Practice, 101
Rifle Bullet, by G. R. Lempriere and J. Norton, 83
Rifled Fire-arms, by A Rifleman, 297
Ordnance, by An Amateur Rifleman, 185
Ropemaking, Now Material for, by W. D. M., 389
Samuel's Cup trough Sleepers, by James Samuel, 333
Screw e. Paddle, by Tom Tug, 173
Propeller, Invention o(, by Lord Carlingford, 15?.
Ships' Lifts, by George Fuller, 427
by O. J. Mackelcan, 427
J. P. Romayne, 407
Signals, Reflecting, by Extructor, 3.53
Silicatisation, by Frederick Ransom°, 207
of Stone, by Lou Dalemaque, 101
Slide-valves, by Alpha, 33'
by A. B Ex., 353
Smoke Nuisance, Preventing, by C. Schiele and Co., 413
Society of Mechanical Draughtsmen, by Matthew Soul, 225
Steam, Combined, by John 'Wethered, Culture, by an 0:d Farmer, 447,
Siiiwrheatt,d, by J. C. E., 297
by Henry Childs, 447
Old Crank, 317
Parson and Pilgrim, 317
Tompins, 299
A. Vickers, 317
John Wethered, 322
Steamship Improvement, by Thomas Morris, 170
by Richard Roberts, C.E., 184
Steel, Cust and Puddled, by Robert Mushet, 206
Manufacture of, by Robert Mushet, 1St Puddlcd, by Forgoman, 245
by Robert Mushet, 260, 314.350
John Player, 296
James Spence. 313
Submarine Conduction, by John Tatlock, 27
Telegraphs, by J. Macintosh, 447
by C. W. Siemens, 263
Warfare, by J. H. Tuck. 46
Sugar Mills, by W. and A. M'Onio and Co., 279
Telegraphy, Submarine, by Armature, 322, :375
by Coil, :333
Electro, 184, 2131
H. K.. 243, 297, :356
Magnet, 224, 278, 322 O.. 296
A Telegraph Engineer, 278 299
Thames Graving Dock, by Charles Burcham, 136
by J. H. Johnson, 6
G. H. Palmer, 46
Three-Cylinder Engine, by Henry Pratt, 279
by "Sane," 119
Traction and Agriculture, Steam, by John W. Giles, 279
by J. A. Williams, 297
Engines, by Richard Bach, 317, 3.',3
E. Dutton, Z56
E. J., 299
John W. Giles, 119
T. E. Merritt, 281, 317
George Russell, 371
Tubular System, by John Donna', 207
by Frank Smith, 185
A Subscriber, 170
C. Wye Williams, 63, 82
Typo-printing Instrument, Double-Neefflo, Morse, and Co.. by H. Hyde. 315, 333, 351, 39::, 412
Needle, 376
• • • • 3433
Atlantic Cable. 376
Wildinan Whitehouse, 412
Valves and Cut-oft Throttle, by Henry Pratt, 243
Varley's Paper on Submarine Telegraphy, by B. A. Varloy,
Wholesale Coining, by Medium. 119
Windlasses, Friction, by Richard Roberts, C.E., 171
Wrought-iron Cannon, by Jones, 152
by T. G. Merritt, 136

Lia.s Deposits, 133
Liassic Deposits near Carlisle, 166
Liobig on Sewage, SO
Life-boats. 66, 396
Life-boat. Expenses. SS Institution, Royal National, 134, 252
Lifts. Ships', 427
Light, Dastable's Apparatus for the Production of, 2).5
without Heat. 20S Lights, Purity of, 43
Lighthouse for the 13shamrts, 135
Lighthouses. Royal Commission on, 132
Lighting Public Clocks. 49
Lightning, Freak of, 208
Lincoln, Wuniou at, 83

LITERATURE :—

Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Modern, by F. Delamotte, 283
Engineering Precedents for steam Machinery, &c., &c.. by B. F. Isherwood, Chief Engineer U. S. Navy. 35.;
Life of James Watt, with Selections from his Correspondence, by James Patrick Muirhead, M.A., 274, 391
Naval Warfare with Steve, by General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., be. ale., 302
Now Resources of Warfare, &c. be., by J. Scoffer!), 3o1
Novono-Craft, for the Accomplishing of Great Speed in Journeying Over Water. by J. Alfred Novelle. 355
Town Swamps and Social Bridges, by George Godwin, F. R. S., 338
Turners' and Fitters' Pocket Book for Calculating the Change-wheels for Screws on a Turning Lathe, and for a Wheel-cutting Machine, by I. La Nicea 283
Litheum (see Magnesium)
Litigation, Railway, S26
Liverpool Dock Accommodation, 116
Fall of Houses in, 51

LIVERPOOL LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY :—

The Past. Present, and Future of Photography, by Mr. Keith, 149

LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY :--Coal, its Products and Uses, by Mr. T. R. Arnott, 167

Photographs, Enlarged, by Mr. D. A. Woodward, 381
Rowan's Marine Boiler Engine, by Mr. Arnott, 381
Ship-lift, by Mr. George Josiah Mackclean, 381
Variable Expansion Gear, by Maxwell Scott, Esq., 77, 381
Liverpool. Return of Wrecks in 1858, 22
Shipping at, 22
Trade of, 83
Livingstone's, Dr., Expedition, 10
Lock Manufactory, Hobbs', 188, 203
Locks, Hart's, 135
Locomotive Construction, 210
Improvement, 174, 185, 207, 243, 261, 297, 356,
Locomotives, Coal-burning, 192, 354
Economical, 6
Outside-cylinder, 243
Prussian, 337
Spark-arrester for, 309
London Bridge, Pier at, 208
Steamboat Accommodation, 61
Traffic over, 375
London, Growth of, 133
Mechanics' Institute, 77
Loss of the Czar Steamer. 81
Lubricating Steam Cylinders, 121
Luis' Apparatus for Examining Machinery of Screw
Vessels, 102
Machinery, Labour-saving, 173, 185
in Russia. 446
Magnesium, Calcium, and their Congeners, 255
Magnetism, Firing Powder by, 262
Magneto-electric Apparatus, M. Gaiffe, 226
Mail Coaches, the Old, 421
Contract, Mediterranean, 416
between New York and Southampton, Weekly 421
Punctual Arrival of the Australian, 2S3
Service, American, 166
Service, Australian, 265
Steam Packet Company, Royal, 306
West Indian Steam Company, Royal, 352
Malls for Australia, dm., 153
Australian, 212
between Southampton and Now York, 283
Malagasy Modes of Working Iron, 48
Malam's Apparatus for the Manufacture of Gas, 367
Mallett, R., F.R.S., Mortars and Shells, 75, 95, 113, 131
Malta and Candia, Telegraph, 436
Manchester Association for the Prevention of Boiler Explosions, 150, 309
Cotton Supply Association, 353
Streets, dn., 80

MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY :-207

Astronomical, 166
Comparative Sociology, or the Application of the Comparative Method to the Investigation of Social Laws, by the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, M.A., 275
Effect of Food on the Reaction of Urine, by Dr. Roberts. 345
Effect of Severe Pressure upon the Properties of Gunpowder, by Mr. W. Fairbairn, F.R.S., 248
Election of Members, 106
Electrometer, Atmospheric, Professor Thompson's, 183
Erosions of the Plates of Boilers, by Mr. J. Atkinson, 183
Geology of the Australian Gold-fields, by W. S. Jevons, Esq., 345
Lias Deposits at Quarry Gill, and other places near Carlisle, by Mr. E. W. Binney, F.R.S., 133
Manuscript in the Chetham Library, Valuable, 275
Method of Symmetric Products, and its Application to the Flute Algebraic Solution of Equations, by the Rev. R. Harley, F.R.A.S., 275
On the j—nodal k—partitions of the) -gon, by the Rev. T. P. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S., 247
A Paper on " Imponderable Matter, Considered as an Element," by Mr. Dyer, 61
A Paper by Mr. Morris. "On the Practicability of Counteracting a Portion of the Resistance at the bead of a Ship, by employing a Revolving Conical Bow to work a Stern Propeller," communicated by D. Chadwick, F.S.S., A.I.C. E., 22
Pharology, Improvement in, by R. Roberts, C.E., 183
Tea from the Himalaya Mountains, Exhibited by Mr. A. Fryer, 133
Telegraph, Professor Thomson's, 275
Treatment of Cast Iron for the Manufacture of Cannon, by W. Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S., 346
Report road by Dr. Schunck, 309

Mankind, Numb. and Religion of, 309
Manning's Candlesticks, 244
Manufactures of Paris, 9
Manure, Artificial, 303
Manuscript in the Chetham Library, Valuable. 275
Markets, Metal and Timber, 20, 38, 68, 76, 94, 112, 130, 164, 182, 200, 218, 236, 251, 272, 290, 308, 326, 344, 362, 380, 398, 418, 436, 456
Masonry, Progress of, 24
Massey's Ships' Logs, 244
Matches, 277
Maudslay’s Furnaces, 98
Mauritius, Works in the, 132
Mechanics' Institute and Lord Brougham, 30
Institution, London, 308
Mechi, Mr., on Town Sewage, &c., 398
Melbourne, Government Slip at, 137
Gravitation Waterworks, 239
Water Supply for, 219
Memoranda. Notes and, 412, 421, 440
Menelaus' Machinery for Straightening Rails, 349
Mentions' Mounting Driving Bands in Motion, 262
Supports of Rails, 240
Merit, Recognition of, 134
Mersey Frigate, the, 218
Mersey Steamer, the, 298
Messageries Imperiales, 436
Metal Sails for Ships, 390
Metals and Alloys to Conduct Heat, Relative Power of, 402, 419
Metalliferous Vein, Containing Lead, in a Bed of Coal, 60
Meter, Jopling's Water, 312
Bartholomew's Gas, 163
Metropolis, Improvements of the, 13

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS :—

Metropolitan Improvements, 230
Salaries of the Officers of the Board, 43

Micro-Photography, 102
Miles' Annealing Pots, 169
Milford Haven, Route to Ireland, 283
Military Force of the German States, 116
Genius, its Due, 207
Miller's Blast Regulator, 366
Mills, Buchanan's Sugar, 138
Sugar, 279
Mine Inspection, 105
Mines, Bristol School of, 290
Furnace Ventilation of, 187
Ventilation of, 252
Miners' Petition, Coal, 263
Mineral Produce of the United Kingdom, Value of, 41
Trades of South Wales, 190
Mining Education, 390
Purposes, Progressive Application of Machinery to, 78
Mint, the Sydney, 441
Molten Metal, Washing in, 440
Money Order System in Canada, 368
Monier's Gas Burner, 331
Montreal, Victoria Bridge at, 188, 274
Mortar, the Great, 141
Mortars and Shells, by R. Mallet, F.R.S., &c., 75, 95, 113. 131
Motive Power, Shaw and Cooper's Mode of Obtaining, 405
Moulds for Casting Metal, Carbon for Dusting, 376
Mowing (see Reaping)
Mules for Spinning, dm., Cotton, Halliwell's, 28
Munitions of War, Patents for Inventions, 234
Museum, the Soane, 4'..0
South Kensington, 198, 421
Music among the Arts, Recognition of, 329
Musket, the Old Service, 331

Napoleon a Spiritualist, 365
Natal, Cotton in, 46
Naval Architecture, Ancient and Modern, 206
Naval Engineers, 194
Engineers, Royal, 180
Estimates, 42
Navies of England and France, 1166
Navigation, Indian River, 103, 283
Invention of Steam, 176
on the Red River, Steam, 247

Navy, the. 152, 244, 257, 380

British, American View of, 83
Engineers in the, 356
Engineers of the Royal, 209, 246
Estimates, 124
French, 83, 405
her Majesty's, 193
Increase in, 157
a Rotten Vessel in the, 413
Royal Steam, 142

Needles, Walker's, 150
Nepaul, Trial Trip of, 102
Newgate-street, Widening of, 71

New South Wales,

Gold-fields of, 445
South Wales, Railway Extension in, 436
South Wales, Trades, Arc., of, Si York Mail Steamers, 428
York and Southampton Weekly Mails, 421
York, Steam Communication between Southampton and, 366
Zealand, 31
Zealand, Coal in, 43.426
Zealand. Trade of, 81
Newton's Air Engine, 277
Apparatus for Submarine Explorations, 367
Drawing and Twisting Wool, 222
Lamps, 116
Machinery for Forging Horse shoes, 280
Pumps, 443
Spring-hanging for Railway Carriages, 4.12
Nicholls and Walker's Spring Hook Catch or Fastening, 334
Nile, Bridge over the, 439
Noah's Ark. Discovery of, 208
Noel's Reading Stand, 150
Northfleet Docks, 376
Norton's, Captain, Projectiles. •241
New Projectiles, Captain, 153
Rifle Bullets, 112
Notes from the Northern and Eastern Counties, 18, 37, 57, 75, 93, 111, 129, 146, 164, 181, 199, 217, 235, 254, 271, 289, 307, 326, 343, 361, 379, 397, 417, 435, 455
Notes and Memoranda, 412, 421, 440
Nouveau's Stoppering Bottles, 349
Novello's Craft, 369
Nuggett, the Welcome, 442
Numbers and Religion of Mankind, 309
Nuts and Screw-bolts, Security of, 60

Oat Bruisers, Smithfield Show, E. R. and F. Turner's, 27
Obelisk at Rome, Value of a Bit of Knowledge, 288
Ocean Telegraphs, 439
Officials, Railway. 153
Off-set Plotting Scale, Double, 219
Oil from Coal, Extracting, 146,
Mineral, 97
Ollerenshaw's Cotton Gin, 385
Omnibuses, Hill's, 331

Ordnance, 119

Conveyance of Heavy, 23
Improved, 208
Rifled, 185, 242
Survey. 236
Survey, Progress of, 218

Oregon, Woollen factory in, 339
Organic Matter of the Air, 311
Origin of the Electric Telegraph, 347
Originator of the Atlantic Telegraph, 169
Orinoco, the, 408
Oscillation in Indicators, 170
in Steam Indicators, 207
Ovens, Harrison's, 172
Ovens for Iron Furnaces, Hot-blast, 328
Owen's Wheel Tyres, 81
Oxley's Baths, 277
Ozone, 266
Ozone and Antozone, 165

Packet. Accident to the Calais Mail, 227
Paddle v. Screw, 353
Panics in Public Buildings, 12
Panmure, the Lord, 418
Paper Duty. Repeal of, 40
Glycerine& 297
from Wood. 272, 278
Paramatta, the [loyal Mail Steamer, 408
Trial of the, 369
Paris, Enlargement of, 171
Rebuilding of, 288
Subterranean Waters beneath, 446
Parker's Apparatus for the Cultivation of Land, 352
Parkhurst's Cotton Gins, 442

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE :—

Atlantic Telegraph, 101
Communication between Holyhead and Dublin, 124
Drainage, Metropolitan Main, 194
Galway Steam-packet Company, 212
Harbours of Refuge, 101
Highways in England, 101
Marine Engines, 101
Mersey Docks and Harbour Bill, 124
Munitions of War, Patents, 212
National Gallery, 101
Ordnance, Iron, 175
Piers and Harbours, 124
Highways and Roads, 124
Public Works (India), 101
St. James's Park, 175
Telegraphs, Submarine, 175
Tenders for Marine Engines, 175
Tramways, Irish, 101
Turnpike Tolls and Bridges. 124
Parson's Apparatus for Removing Incrustations, 313
Preventing the Explosion of Boilers, 187
Safety Valves, 330
Partridge's Superheating Apparatus, 24
Patent Law, New Indian, 346
Law Reform, 83, 211
Laws, 64, 85, 130, 139, 170, 185, 225
Laws, American, 3'20
Office, New Buildings for the, 135
Tribunals, 152, 207, 242, 26::
Patents, 281, 353
Company for, 243
Cost of Taking Out, 49
Drawing of, 67
for Inventions (Munitions of War), 2:14
and Patent Laws, 11
Pattern Designing, Manchester, 69
Paving, Improvements in Street, 182
iron, General Knapp's, 167
Peat Fuel, 283. 297
Moss, 183
Penalties upon Railway Servants for Drunkenness on Duty, 47
Peninsular and Oriental Company's Fleet, 438
Penrice's Tunnelling Machinery, 426
Perley's Means for Disconnecting Boats from Davit Blocks. 446
Permanent Way, 152, 183
Way, Dickson's. 44
Way, of the Madras Railway, 257, 293
Way, New System of, 438
Pharology. 183
Philosophical Society of Glasgow, River Steamers for Passenger Traffic, by Mr. John Downie, 221
Photographer, French Prize to au English, 4u1
Photographs, Enlarged, 381
Photography, Applied to Engraving on Wood, 23
Applied to Musketry, 446
Past, Present, Future of, 149
Pianoforte Frames, Dewrance’s, 352
Pier at London Bridge, New, 208
Pilbeam's Bradawl Screw, 186
Pile-driving Machine, Toshach's, 276
Pipes for Water, Ike Use of Lead Service, 440
Piston Rings, 49
Rings, Joseph Barraclough and Son, •29
Pistons, Bates, York, Parkin's, 151
for Pumps, Clayton and Goodfellow's, 24
Planes, Inclined. 152, 173, 191. 209, 227
Planing Electrotype, &o., Plates, 203
Plough in America, Steam, :344
Eddington’s Drainage, 238
Steam. 133
Ploughs and Ploughing, 206
Ploughing, Steam, 421
Plymouth Institution, a New Form of Telegraph Cable intended to Reduce, the Effects of Inductive Action, by J. N. Hoarder, :;64
Polytechnic Institution, Accident at the, 41, 60
Portraits, Golden. Si Portsmouth Traffic, the, 456
Portugal, New Steamers to. 193
Postage (Liverpool and Canada), 313
Postal Communication with Ireland, 207
System of the United States, 9
Post-office, the, 290
Expedition, 112
Office (Packet Service), 123
Power of Pinching Presses, 67
Premiums, Subjects for, Society of Arts, +t Preston and M'Gregor's Machinery for Cutting Files, 244
Price and Dawe's Steam Boilers,..
“ Prince Albert," Return of the. 265
Printing Addresses upon Papers, etc., Broomall's, 211
by Water-power. 290
Prize Fights and Railways, 303
Projectile, New, 117
Projectiles, Captain Norton's, 241
Explosive, 239
New, Captain J. Norton's, 153
Propeller, Manner of Working a Stern. 22
Propellers, the Griffiths and Admiralty, 392, 896
Screw, 409
Propelling Steamboats, Britt's, 312
Prospects, Commercial, 263
Prussian Locomotives, 337
Public Works, Egypt, 188
Puddled Steel, 245, 246, 260, 293, 313, 335, 350
Pumps. 299
Kinsey's, 404
Newton's, 443
Redpath's Ships, 295
Ships', 252
Pumping Engine, Newcastle Waterworks, 32s
Punching Iron Plates, s5
Presses, S5
and Shearing Metal, Hill's Machinery for, 313
Purification of Iron by Hydrogen, 413
Pyrometer, Registering, 392

Qualifications for the East India Engineer Establishment, 167
Quicksilver in India, 40

Rafts in Shipwrecks. 371
Rail-cutting Disc, 281
Rails for India, 115
- Iron and Steel, 244
- for Russia, 153
- Straightening, Menelaus', 349
- Supports of, Mennon’s, 240
Railway Accident at Leamington. 152, 171
- Accidents, 70, 79, 96, 125, 171, 282, 439
- Acts, 441
- Assurance, 153
- Bars, Manufacture of, 318
- Benevolent Institution, 79, 867
- Bills, 1859, 171
- and Canal Bills, 124
- Compensations, 190
- Coniston, 171
- Correspondence in Franco, 151
- Equipment of a Canadian, 19
- Extension in New South Wales, 436
- Improvement, 49, 372
- Iron for the Pacific, 42
- Litigation. 826
- Matters, 47, 69, 78, 96, 124, 137, 153, 171, 193, 239, 265, 275, 303, 358, 441.
- Officials, 153
- Pacific, 80
- Receipts, 166, 416
- Speed, 293
- Statistics, 439
- Tolls, Great Western, 227
- Traffic, 373
- Works, French, 171, 218
- Works, New French, 70
- Works, Spain, 120
- Aidin, Smyrna, '218, 229
- Antwerp and Rotterdam, 303
- Belfast Junction, 137
- Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds, 137
- Bristol and Exeter. 125
- Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction, 79
- Caledonian, 193
- Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 239
- Cambridge, Polton, and Bedford, 171
- Cape Town, 24
- Ceylon, 434
- Cockermouth and Workington, 77
- Copiapo Extension, 239
- Cornwall, 303
- Crieff Junction, 275
- Danube and Black Sea, 358
- between Dover and Calais, 24
- Dublin and Wicklow, 137
- Dunblane, Donne, and Callander, 239
- East Indian, 275, 803
- East Lancashire 97
- East Suffolk, 153, 303, 358
- Eastern Bengal, 137, 347
- Eastern Counties. 137, 392
- Eastern Union, 858
- Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 171
- Forth and Clyde Junction, 229
- in France, New, 24
- Furness, 171
- Glasgow and South-Western, 171
- Glastonbury to Wells, 47
- Gloucester and Dean Forest, 97
- Grand Trunk of Canada, 79, 97, 171
- Great Indian Peninsula, 803
- Great Northern, 125, 211
- Great Northern and Western (Ireland), 47
- Great Southern of India, 303
- Great Western, 77, 97
- Great Western of Canada, 229
- Hereford and Brecon, 47
- Illinois Central, 153, 229
- Kendal and Windermere, 171
- Kinross-shire, 229
- Knighton, 239
- Lancashire and Yorkshire. 96
- Lancaster and Carlisle, 1453
- Limerick and Ennis, 47
- London and Blackwall. 125
- London, Brighton, and South Coast, 70
- London and North-Western, 125, 275
- London and South-Western, 97
- Londonderry and Enniskillen, 193
- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 70, 193, 265, 380
- Maryport and Carlisle, 137
- Marseilles and Toulon, 403
- Midland, 117
- Midland Great Western of Ireland, 193
- Monmouthshire, 358
- Norfolk, 137
- North Devon, 137
- North Eastern. 125
- North of Indian Tramroad, 368
- North London, 125
- Northern of Franco, 275
- Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 171
- Panama, 244
- Peebles, 275
- Pernambuco, 265
- Portsmouth, 275
- Punjab, 22
- Sambre and Meuse, 275
- between Sardinia and Lombardy, 2
- St. Andrew's, 275
- Mt. Helen's, 70
- Scinde, 229
- Scottish North-Eastern, 193
- Smyrna and Aidin, 110
- South Devon, 153
- South Eastern, 137, 265
- South Wales, 125, 229
- Spanish, 212
- Stockton and Darlington, 96
- Taff Vale, 137
- Ulverstone and Lancaster, 153
- Vale of Neath, 125
- Waterford and Kilkenny, 239
- Waterford and Limerick. 137
- West-end of London and Crystal Palace, 137
- West Flanders, 275
- West Somerset, 283
- Woolwich Arsenal, 192
- Worcester and Hereford. 153
- Yorkshire, South. 137

Railways.
- Algerian, 337
- in South Australia, 440, 449
- and Canals, Spanish, 10
- by Contract, Working, 51
- Superstructure of, 140
- Australian, 70, 77
- Austrian, 47
- Egyptian, 404
- French, 22, 98, 239, 303, 334
- Indian, 157, 834, 410
- Metropolitan, 29, 78, 181
- Portuguese, 262
- and Prize Fights, 303
- Russian, 103
- Street, 264
- Swedish, 403
- Turkey, 104
- United States, 112
- Victoria, 110, 137

Ram, Engines for the New Steam, 391
Reading-stand, Noel's, 150
"Ready Reckoner," the Cental, 41
Reaping Machine, 74
Reaping and Mowing Machines. Drummond's, 408
Rebuilding of Paris, 288
Receipts, Enormous Railway, 416
- French Railway, 25
- at Glasgow, Customs', 434
- Railway, 166
Rectification of the Circle, 6, 27, 64, 82, 100, 119, 185, 225. 243, 356
Red Lead upon Iron, Destructive Effect of, 293
Redpath's Ship's Pumps, 298
Red River, Steam Navigation on the, 247
Red Sea, 165, 295
- Telegraph, 259, 352, 388, 407, 447
Reform, Patent Law, 83, 99
Reid's Method of Testing Submarine Cables, 441
Rennie, George, F.R.S., Quantity of Heat Developed by Water when Rapidly Agitated, by, 43
- Resistances of Screw Propellers, by, 44
Report on the Huddersfield Boiler Explosion, 339
"Repulse," The, 420
Reservoir or Fountain Pen, Ridsdale's. 370
Retardation in Submarine Wires, Inductive, by Geo. Blair, M.A., 26, 46, 68
Revolver, the Deane-Harding, 866
- Improved, 362
Richmond and Chandler's Chaff-cutting Machine, 135
Ridsdale's Reservoir, or Fountain Pen, 370
Rifle Bullet, 83
- Bullets, Norton's, 112
- the Lancaster the Enfield, 233
- New, 42
- ma, 16
Rifles, Enfield, Armstrong and Whitworth. 26::
Rifled Fire-arms, 297
Rigby, John, A. B., the Gyroscope, by, 59
Rigg’s Tipping, &c., Apparatus, 4
River Beds, Strange, 325
Rivers of Bengal, 325
Roads in India, 236
Rocket Gun, 283
Rolling Stock (Eastern Counties), 392
- Stock for India, 133
Roman Wall, the Great, 80
Ropemaking, New Material for, 389
Rowan's Marino Boiler Engine, 331
Rowland, John, Tubular System, by, 103
Royal Engineers, the, 437

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY —

Dispatch from Captain H. Strachey. Medallist, R.G.S., Respecting the Measures taken by the India' Government to Ascertain the Fate of Mr. Adolphe Schlagintwoir, 143
Journey in Mexico, by Mr. Charles Sevin. F. R.G.S. Reports from Captains Burton and Spoke, of the East African Expedition, 78
Journey through the Highest Panes in the Mountains of Chinese Tartary, by T. W. Atkinson, Esq., F.R.U.S., 153
Notes on the Lower Danube, by Major Stokes, R. E., 329
Notes of a Voyage up the Yang-tse-Keang, from Wosunq to Han-kow, by Laurence Oliphant, Esq F.R.G.S., with a Chart of the River, by Captain Sherard Osborn. F R.G.S., 230
Notes on the Zambesi Expedition. from the Journal of Mr. Thomas Barnes, F. R.G.S., communicated by Dr. Livingstone, F.11.0.S.. 22
Observations on the Geography of Central Africa, by James Macqueen. Esq.. F.11.0.5. 329
On a Now Projection of the Sphere, by Sir J. F. W. Herschel. 265
View of the Great Valley of the Yang-tse-Keang. before and alter its Occupation by tin, Rebels, by Sir J. F. Davis, Bart, F.R.O.S., 230

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN :—

Chronometry of Life, by James Paget, Esq., F.R.S., 399
Consolidation of Lava on Steep Slopes. and Origin of the Conical Form of Volcanoes, by Sir Charles Lyell, M.A., &c., 899
Crystal Molecule by the Instrumentality of Light, Insight hitherto Obtained into the Nature of the, by Nevil Storey Maskelyne. Esq., M.A., 363, 381
Electrical Discharge, &c., by W. R. Grove, Esq., Q.C., F.R.S., &c., 147
Estimation of the Organic Matter of the Air. by Robert Angus Smith, Req., Ph.D., F.R.S., 311 Houses in Relation to Health, by Robert Druitt, Esq., 420
Magnesium, Calcium, Lithium, and their Congeners, by William Odling, M.D., 255
Now Method of Rendering Visible Abstruse Problems of Crystallography, hitherto considered only as Mathematical Abstractions, by Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A.. 310
Ozone and Antozone, by Professor Faraday. F.R.S., 165
Veined Structure of Glaciers, by John Tyndall, Esq., F.R.S., 255

Russia, Machinery in, 446

Progress of. 83, 363
Rails for, 153
Trade of, 24

Russian Despatch Vessels, 423

Frigate, General-Admiral, 418

" Sabbath Stone" of the Northumberland Coal Pits, 290

Sailing, Rapid, 132

Sails for Ships Metal, 390

St. George's Hall, Liverpool, Cost of, 316;

St. Paul's, Space by, 102

St. Paul's, Whispering in, 132

Salaries of the Officers of the Metropolitan Board of Works. 43

Saltash, the Albert Viaduct at, 344

Samson, an American, 437

Samuel's Cup Trough Sleepers. 333

Samuelson's Wheels of Carts, 330

Sanitary Question, 102

Sawing Machine., Harvey's Band, 404

Scarborough, Improvement Commission, 116

School of Mines, Bristol, 401

Scottish Matters, 212, 221, 247, 266, 283, 293, 339, 357, 375, 392, 412, 421, 441

Scott's Breakwaters, 150

Machinery for Cleaning and Dressing Seeds, 223

Scoria, Iron from, 306

Screw Bolts, Security of Nuts, &c., 60

Colliers, 153
Frigate Ariadne, 405
Frigate Mersey, 74
v. Paddle, 139, 173
Pilbeam's Bradawl, 186
Propellers, 409
Propeller, Invention of, 152
Propellers, Resistances of, George Bennie, F.R.S., 44
Steamers, Large, 228
Steamer Mauritius, 48
Steamers, Price of, 24
Stocks, Chatwin and Taylor's, 80
Vessels, Examining Machinery of, Luis', 102

Screws, Bousfield’s Machinery for Cutting the Threads of Wood, 385

Sebastopol, Sunken Ships at, 208, 380

Seeds, Scott's Machinery for Dressing, Cleaning, and Separating, 223

Seine, Launch of the, 396

the Thames and the, 409

Sellers' Machinery for Turning Shafting, 120

Separator, Hislop's Grain, 80

Servants, Penalties for Drunkenness upon Railways, 47

Sewage. Conservation of, 104

Fane's Treatment of, 186
of Glasgow, 87
Liebig on, 80
Rate 55
applied by Steam-power, Mr. Mechi on Town, 398

Sewing Machines. 13

Machines. Bigelow's, 99
Machines, Brind's, 276

Shaft-couplings, Griffith’s, 134

Shafts, Proportions of Bearings for, 387

Shaw and Cooper's Mode of Obtaining Motive-power, 405

Shearing, (see also Punching)

Sheffield and Halifax. 303

Shells, Incendiary, 136

for Warfare, Incendiary, 333

Ship building, Timber for, 357

Shipping. 171

Company, European and American Steam, 226
Steam, 101, 337

Ships' Lifts, 3s1, 407. 427

Logs, Massey's, 244
Pumps. 252
at Sebastopol, Sunken, 208, 380
of War, Building. 74
of War, Iron. 353

Shoring, a New Method of, 309
Shuttleworth's Portable Boilers, 28
Signal Alarm, 116
Signals, Reflecting, 353
Silicatisation, 207
of Sooty, 101
Silver in Bohemia, 97
Silver's Process of Insulation for Submarine Cables, 407
Silvestre, T., English Art in France, 78
Simons' Castors, 186
Skipper, a Ready, 184
Slate-ridge Roll, Securing the Joints of, Jones' Invention, 262
Slave Inventor, 48
Bleeders, Samuel's Cup Trough, 333
Slip at Melbourne Government, 137
Smoke, Almond's Furnaces for the Combustion of, 428
Consumption of, 79
Nuisance, Preventing. 413
Prevention, H. Child's, 11
Smith's Steam Engines, 226
Soane Museum. the, 420

SOCIETY OF ARTS:—

Electricity, Theory of, by S. Alfred Varlet, Associate Institution Civil Engineers, 248, 256, 281
Exhibition of Inventions, 291, 319
"Les Arts, lee Artistes. et l’Industrie en Angleterre Depuis la Derniere Moitie du Dix littitime Siècle Jusqu'a co Jour," by M. Theophile Silvestre, 41
On the Cape Colony, by Mr. William Hawes, 168
Professor Hughes' System of Type-printing Telegraphs. and Methods of Insulation, &c., by Mr. IL Hyde. 273
Recognition of Music att0Dif the Arts, by Henry F. Chorley, 329
Relative Values of Coal and Coke in Locomotive Engines, by Benjamin Fothergill, 345, 365, 382
Subjects for Premiums, 4
Timber for Shipbuilding, by Mr. Leonard Wray, 816
Utilisation of Waste Substances, by Mr. P. L. Simmonds, 106

SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS:—

" Permanent Way," by Mr. C. J. Light, 183
Society of Mechanical Draughtsmen, 225
Societies, Friendly, 300
Sociology, dm., 275
dm., Comparative, 075
Soda Silicate, 158
Southampton, another Large Steamer for, 356
Matters, 252
and New York, Steam Communication between, 366
the Inner Dock, 212, 378, 3S7
Waterworks, 293
South Kensington Museum, 421

SOUTH WALES INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS :—

Discussion upon Coal, &c., by Mr. Cox, 321, 829
Rare Occurrence of a Metalliferous Vein (containing Lead). in a Bed of Coal, by E. Rogers. Esq., 60
Security of Nuts or Screw Bolts, by Mr. Murphy, 60
" Thin and Thick Fires." a Paper on, by Mr. Cox, 60
South Wales, Iron and Coal Trades in, 413
Spain, Gas in, 276
Spanish Government, Steamers for the, 370
Mail Steamers. 383
Spark Arresters for Locomotives, 309
Specie to the East. Shipment of, 407
Spence's Steel, 312
Spinning and Doubling Wool, Foster and Smith's Machinery, 405
Spontaneous Combustion, 25, 120
Spring-hanging for Railway Carriages, 442
Hook Catch, or Fastening, Nicholl's and Walker's, 334
Springs, Recoil of. Hodge and Spencer, 116
Stafford's Steam Carriage, Lord, 167, 388
Statistics, Irish Agricultural, 319
Mint, 84
Railway, 439
Statistical Return, Curious, 46

Steam from Boilers,

Discharge of, 427, 447
Carriage, Lord Stafford's, 167, 388
Combined, 29, 278
Communication with America, 229
Communication between Southampton and New York, 366
Cultivation, 389, 403
Culture, 445
Culture at Woolston, 288
Generating. Benson's, 240
Hammers, 272
Heat of, 263
High Pressure. 191
Navigation Company. General,137
Pipes, Domes. &c., 261
Ploughing, 421
Power, C. Schiele and Co., 29
Press, the First Breath of the. 25
Shipping, 387
Superheated, 265, 297, 299, 322,413, 427, 447
Superheating, 299

Steamboat Accommodation at London Bridge, 61
Novel, 181
Steamboats, Propelling of, Britt's, 312
River, 281

Steamer, the Cigar, 102, 157, 421

Czar, Loss of the, 81
Loss of an Iron, General Williams, 288
the Mersey, 293
Nepaul, 75
Paramatta, the Royal Mail, 408
Sale of the Tasmanian, 401
Saved by Water-tight Compartments, 449
for Southampton, Large, 356
Swedish-built, 55

Steamers,

American River, 274
Atlantic. 19
Canadian Ocean, 330
in Cork, the Cunard, 262
Covering Iron, 383
English and Foreign Transatlantic, 857
French, 19
Idle, 182
for India, 133, 171
Indian. 74
the Indus. 35
Intercolonial Mail, 13.;
from Ireland, 272
New, 58, 133
New York Mail, 423
for Passenger Traffic, River, 221
to Portugal, New, 193
River, 318
between Southampton and New York, 153
for the Spanish Government, 370
Spanish Mail, 883

Steaming on Ice, 194
Rapid, 222
Steamships, 201
American, 407
Steamship Callao, 112
Improvement, 155, 170, 184
Line, New, 60
Ocean, 371
Steel, Bessemer's, 408
Cast and Puddled, 206
the Largest Piece of, 24
Manufacture of, 67, 118, 141, 184
Puddled, 245, 246, 260, 296, 313, 335
Puddled and other, 350
Spence's, 312
Tin Plates, Robert Mushet, 85
Steel's, Brewing and Distilling, 172
Stephenson and his Workmen, the late George, 32t;
Stereoscope, Novel Application of the, 367
Stockholm, Waterworks at, 316
Stone, Preservation of, 188
Preserving of, 11
Silicatisation of, 101
Stop-cocks (see Valves)
Stoppering Bottles, Nouveau's, 349
Streets. Decline of Gentility in, 84
&c., Greave's Mode of Constructing, 187
of Manchester, &c., 80
Street Paving, Improvements in, 182
Railways, 264
Tablets, New, 198
Stroud, Drainage of, 226
Submarine Communication between England and France, 43
Explorations, Newton's Apparatus, 367
Warfare, 30, 46, 49, 120
Submerging Telegraph Cables, Grylls's Apparatus for, 298
Subterranean Waters beneath Paris, 446
Subways, Omnibus, 69
Suez Canal, the, 22, 27, 277, 351, 407, 439
Sugar Mills, 279
Sunken Vessels, Raising, 439
Superheated Steam, 265, 297, 299, 322, 418, 427, 447
Superheating Apparatus, 124
Apparatus Partridge's, 24
Survey Ordnance, 236
Sydney Mint. the, 441

Tablets, New Street, 198
Taps and Valves, Hart's, 172
Tasmanian Steamer, Sale of the, 401
Tax, an Unjust, 101
Taylor, Belts on Pulleys. 117
Taylor's Manufacture of Iron, 169
Tea from the Himalaya Mountains, 133

Telegraph

to Alexandria, 134
Atlantic. 10, 24, 71, 78, 100. 118, 133, 152, 171, 193. 198, 209, 245, 26], 289, 375, 388, 401, 441, 447
Austrian, 120
Cable, to Reduce the Effects of Inductive Action, 364
the Channel Islands Submarine, 86, 329, 360
Ceylon, 102
Company, Now Atlantic, 427
Company. Electric and International, 106
Electric, United States, 22
Engineering, 439
from Europe via India to Australia, 349
to Denmark, Submarine, 440
between France and Algeria, 117
Indian, 169, 265
London District. 20
the Magnetic, 47
between Malta and Cagliari, Submarine, 7g the Malta and Candia, 436
Mediterranean, 10, 110. 180
Originator of the Atlantic, 169
Origin of the Electric, 347
Over-house, 180
the Printing, 9
Professor Thomson's, 275
Proposed New Route for the Atlantic, 321
Red Sea, 110, 259, 352, 388, 447
South Atlantic.134
in South Australia, Electric, 311
Turkish, 98

Telegraphic

Difficulties in India, 265
Lines between France and England, 78
Wires, India-rubber Coated, 212

Telegraphs,

Australian, 24
Electric, Thomson's, 7
and Methods of Insulation, &c., Prof. Hughes'
System of Type-printing, 273
Ocean, 439
Submarine, 245, 263, 447
the Type-printing, 282
Wheatstone's Electro-magnetic, 65

Telegraphy, Submarine, 184, 190, 224, 243, 260, 278 296, 299, 322, 333, 356, 375, 376

Tempering Steel Tools, 404
Terry's Quit Iron Paving, 168
Testimonial to Mr. T. E. Harrison, C.E., 135
Testing Submarine Cables, Reid's Method of, 441
Thames Graving Dock Company, 396
and the Seine, the, 409
Thomson's Electric Telegraphs, Working and Testing of, 7
Threshing Machines, Steam, 46
Throttle Valves, 49
Timber for Shipbuilding, 816, 357
Tinned Plates from Puddled Steel, 46
Tipping, dze.'Apparatus, Riggs', 84
Tod, David, Esq., of Ayton, Death of, 71
Tells, Great Western Railway, 227
on Steam Carriages, 446
Tonnage of the United States, 60
Tools, Tempering Steel, 41i4
Toshach's Pile-driving Machines, 276
Traction and Agriculture, Steam, 279, 297
Engines 119, 281, 299, 335. 353, 856, 871

Trade

of the Bristol Channel, 201
and Business Prospects in America, 275
Circulars, Annual, 20
Gun, 349
of Liverpool, 83
etc., of New South Wales, 81
Our Future, 77
of Tasmania and New Zealand, 81
of Victoria, 81

Trades in South Wales, Iron and Coal, 413

Traffic,

Agricultural Railway, 29u
over London Bridge, 375
the Portsmouth, 456
Railway, 373
Returns, 79, 97, 125, 137, 153. 171, 193. 212, 229, 239, 421, 441

Train on Fire, 279
Tramways in Ireland, 102
Treaty, Russian, 102
Trees in the Metropolis, 303
Truss Rode, 139
Tubes, Collapse of, 64
to Collapse, Resistance of, W. Fairbairn, Esq., F. It S., 2
Tubular System. 63, 82. 103, 170. 185, 207
Tucker's Variable Boring Bit, 280
Tungsten, 420
Tunnel under the Alps, Cost of, 388
Tunnelling, 29
Tunnelling Machinery, 429
Machinery, Penrice's, 426
Tunnels, Roman Railway, 117
Turning Shafting, Sellers', 120
Turning. dm., Wilson's Machinery for, 154
Turntables, Dunn and Mara's, 25
Twisting and Doubling Silk, Hines' Machinery for, 262
Type-composing Machine, Hattersley's, 357
Type-printing Instrument, 273, 315, 333, 361, 376, 393, 412
Tyres, Elastic Beating for, 169
Owen's Wheel, 81

United States, Gun-making in the, 405
Iron Works, 363
Mails, between Southampton and New York, 283
Postal System, 9
Tonnage of. 60
Utilisation of Waste Substances, 106

Value of a Bit of Knowledge, 288
Valve, Davies' Slide, 169
Valves, and Cut-offs, Throttle. 243
Gates and Stop-cocks, Bacon's, 366
Parsons' Safety, 330
Slide, 335, 353
Vanderbilt, Rapid Passage of the, 420
Ventilating and Warming, 354
Ventilation of Mines, 252
of Mines, Furnace, 187
versus Draughts, 40
and Warming of Dwellings, 234
in Wheeled Vehicles, 41
Vessel in the Navy, a Rotten, 413
Vessels, Displacement of, 263
European and American Steam, 416
Fast, 357
Large and Small, 20
Raising Sunken, 439
Russian Despatch, 423
of War, Iron-cased, 151
Viaduct at Saltash, the Albert, 344
in Victoria, Large Railway, 429
Victoria Bridge, Pimlico, 423
Large Railway Viaduct in, 429
Trade of, 81
Volcanic Eruption, Great, 349
Cones and Craters, Formation of. 166
Volcanoes, Origin of the Conical Form of, 399
Volutes, Drawing, 85

Wales, Gold in North, 297
Mineral Trades of South, 190
Walker's Needles, 150
Telegraph Cables, 222
War, an American View of the, 404
the Brighton and South-western Railway, 411
Warming by Steam, 103
and Ventilating, 354
and Ventilation of Dwellings, 234
Warry's Breech-loading Cannon, 171, 274
Waste Lands of Dartmoor, 4114
Washing in Molten Metal, 440
Water on Board Passenger-ships, Fresh, 863
Concussion of, 329, 408
in the Desert, How to Find, 358
Fire from, 408
Gas, 340
Supply for Melbourne, 219
tight Compartments, 71, 449
Waterworks, Botany, New South Wales, 383
Melbourne Gravitation, 239
Southampton, 293
at Stockholm, 316
Weekly Mail between Now York and Southampton, 421
Wellington College, 66
West of England Railway Matters, 2 29
Westminster Bridge, New, 230, 840
Wheatstone's Electro-Magnetic Telegraphs, 65
Wheels of Carts, Samuelson's, 330
Wheel-tracks, Granite, 112
Whitworth's Gun, 198
Guns, Gun-carriages, and Ammunition, 388
Williams' Tubular Boilers, 134
Wilson's Machinery for Turning, dm., 154
Windlasses, Friction, 171
Winnowing Machinery, Childs', 316
Wood-carving, 47
Woollen Factory in Oregon, 339
Woolston, Steam Culture at. 288
Woolwich Arsenal, 172, 262, 362, 436
Arsenal, Railway to, 192
Brass Ordnance Factory at, $6
Gun Factory at, 319
Hospital, New, 277
Works in India, Public, 240
in South Australia, Public, 293
Workmen, Social Progress amongst, 191
be Taught, What should Mechanical, 428
Wreck of a French Brig, 166
Wrecks in 1858, 167
Number of, 27
Report of, 272
Wright's Anvils, 404
Wrigley's Frictional Coupling, 443
Self-acting Coupling for Railway Carriages, 442

Yachting in America, 894

Zinc, Consumption of, 130

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