A. Electric clock in the City, 147; railway signals, 421 304, 321; silver, of Great Britain, 1; the English, of 203, 224, 245, 304, 346, 364, 444 Elevator gun platform, 409 Embankment of tidal lands, No. 1, 63; No. 2, 81 Combustion under pressure, by Profossor Frankland, 227 Encroachment of the sea, 351 Engino at Lloyd's paper inills, 413; six-horse power Communication between England and France, 442; be. "Paragon," 501 tween drivers, guards, and passengers, 374, 463 Engineering papers, 263 Explosions, the causes of, in pouring liquid metal into water, 374 Copcrete mixer, 371 ; Tall's apparatus for building in, 49 Exports of railway iron, 264 Condensers for preparing wool, 253 Couplings for boring tools, 133 Controlling the draught of water from constant supply pipes, 208 FARADAY'S Royal Institution apparatus, 174 ing, 47 Fenby on hydraulic press valves, 48 Fire engine, new, trial of, 470; stoam, for Singapore, 13 Fireproof buildings, 454 CORRESPONDENCE:- Fletcher, James, jun., on Shaw and Justice's dead-stroko Abergele accident, J. Walker, 234 hammer, 227; L. E., report on the oconomy of fuel and Aeronautical Society's exhibition, W.Quartermain, 33 prevention of smoke, 106 Aurora borealis as a weather prognostic, D. P. Brown, Foreign exchanges and universal coinage, 82 313 Foremen Engineers, London Association of, 387 Boxer cartridge, H. W. Reveley, 294 Forge bellows, 293 Brook bracket and insulator, Mathew Gray, 313 Frankland, Professor, on combustion under prossure, 227 Cameron, A., on the present condition and future pro- Franz Joseph bridge at Prague, opening of, 3 French Atlantic cable, 144, 479 393; B. Haughton, 55 Coating pipes, a subscriber, 214 G. Comparative trials of steam fire engines at Newcastle- GARRARD'S mowing machine, 69 Engineering in Russia, J.O., 174 English and German societies of engineers, 153 Gas from bitumen, 322 ; referees and their qualifications, 223; referees and their instructions, 481; in Singapore, 347 Flying by steam power, James Parker, 354 Hastings drainage, James Rock, 134 Geological applications of photography, 202 Hydraulics, H. H., 472 German North Pole expedition, 332 Hydraulic buffers, John Hanson, 415 Girders, effects of loads on, 323, 343, 402, 463 Gladstone, M., on the aurora borealis, 226 Ignition of mines, torpedoes, &c., A. de B., 375, 393 Irish mail collision, U.J. Richardson, 231 Glass works of Venice and Murano, 132, 174 Joynson's mechanic's and student's guide in the design- Gold and silver, 407, 444 ing and construction of general machine gearing, 496 Goods engine for the Great Northern Railway, 190; Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, 496 stations, 203 Government Telegraph Bill, 43; tests for boiler platos, 121 Grain-drying apparatus, by Milburn and Co., 8 Grantham, R. B., on the broads of East Norfolk, 207 * Great Eastern," another, 452 i London labour, J.G. Winton, 355 Green's patent steam boiler, 344 Manufactory of watch glasses, H. W. Reveley, 455 Millstones, H. W. Reveley, 294 Guns, gunnery, and the gun factory, 87 Gunpowder plot, 266; preparation of, with picrate of potash, 381; white, 101 234; E. Nugent, 435 H. Rowett, 55, 73, 94, 134, 294 Paris excursion committee, J. T. Dexter, 134 HANCOCK'S screw propeller, 221 Harcourt, A. V., on the rate at which chemical actions take place, 46 Puckett on sciography, 496 Heat, 482 Heaton's direct steel process, 341 Heaton's steel-converting apparatus, 350 Horizontal Corliss engine, 410; engine, 269; non-con- densing engines, 390 Report or the American commissioner of patents, 495 Howard's galvanic battery, 389; safety boiler, 367 Safety lock sash fastener, J. Lloyd, 113 Hughes on photography, 84 Safety of our collieries, H. W. Reveley, 472 Hydraulic brick press, 329; buffers, 372; clock, 309;, lift, the Le Beuf, 26; press valves, by D. B. Fenby, 48 Solar heat, H. Saloway, 472 Hydrostatic sluice gate, 483 I. Town refuse, J.G. Winton, 84, 113 Tidal flushing, J. G. Winton, 13 IGNITION point of explosives, 242 Working guns, Jy Walker, 472 Improvements in brushes, 347 Inkstand, rotatory, 499 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 86, 105; Naval Crossley's self-registering electrical anemometer, 282 Architects, 201 Instruments used at the Royal Observatory at Greonwich, 323 Insulating electriz conductors, 414 Ironclad fleet, the, 27, 301: ships, the rolling of, 401 D. Ironclace under fre, 232 Irun, the manufacture of, by I. Jonos, 225; manufacture on Lake Superior, 155 Italian reilways, 4:)) Detached gravity escapements, by H. Kerr, 248 J. JACKSON'S zas furnaco, 248 Jeffrey'9-side-action breech-loader, 346 Jcinicg wires, new method, 42 Jonas, I., on the manufacture of iron, 225 Jones's patent furnace, 333 Dutch monitor, the, “De Stier," 229 Dyer, J. C., notes on the laws of physical forve, 126 K. KENDALL'S atmospheric railway brake, 290 E. Kendall, W., improved locomotive engine, 29 Kendrick's improvements in steam boilers 385 Eastbourne Gas Company, 483 L. LAMP for use under wator, 173 T. Latham's sewage distributor, 352 Screwing machine, 347 Naval, military and gunnery items, 14, 33, 55, 73, 95, 114, Siemens' furnace applied to the manufacture of cast stool, 134, 154, 175, 194, 214, 235, 255, 274, 295, 314, 334, 355, 375, 33 394, 415, 435, 455, 473, 488 Self-acting steam striker, 346 Self-lubricating steam packing, 449 Separating animal from vegetable substances, 292 O. Shaw and Justice's patent dead-stroke hammer, 227 Shipbuilding in iron and steel, 403, 423 Ships of war, uniformity of speed in, 61 Shoeburyness, recent gunnery experiments at, 2, 21 Silliman, B., on the mastodon in California, 72 and bronzing, 234 Six-ton portable steam crane, 428 Skilled labour in America, 72 OBITUARY Small-arm cartridge competition, 141 Smithfield Club Show, 479, 461 Soane river, inundation of the, 9 Social Science Association, 89, 291 Society of Engineers 22, 142, 366, 391, 465, 497 P. "Spartan," the launch of, 409 Standards commission, report of, 204 Steam flro engine for Buenos Ayres, 229: fire engines for H.M. dockyards, 107; flre enginos, competitive trial of, 267; dredging machine on the Clyde, 269; fire engine for Singapore, 13; fire engine for Mulhouse, 69; Jaunch for the Sultan of Turkey, 383; on street railways, 452; pump, " Paragon," 501 H. Dircks, 205; office, library, and museum, 21, 89 Strap or band fastener, 333 Street railways, 45t; tramways, 102; siguals, Bridge-street Westminster, 498 Suez canal, 187 tram's, 266 Syphons, sinking, in the river Seine, 222 Photography, 383, 361, 497 bricks, tiles, and retorts, 252; cylindrical metal cases, Photographic lenses, 312 TALL'S art of building in concrete, 49 Tank system of drainage at Hastings, 89 Tarr's machine for polishing shot and shell, 293 Technical education on the Continent, 382 Telegraphic banquet, the last, 67; statistics, 483 Telegraphs in India, 262, 302, 324, 382 ; in South Australia, 470 Templar's patent sash fastener, 208 Testing rolled plate iron by magnetism, 414; steam onginos, 452 Thames embankment, 90 Thirion's double-action pump, 370 milk vans, 407 Thompson's road steamer, 271 Ticket-cutting machine, 102 Forth, 347 Tin, reducing, for coating metals, 91 Torbay iron oxide paint, 267 Tooth's system of boiling sugar, 337 Tramways in Holland, 252; metropolitan, 470 Trial of a steam pinnace, 245 Trinidad petroleum, 261 Tuyere, improved, for blast furnaces, 31 Q U. UNITED States assay omice in New York, 52 Uniformity of speed in ships of war, 61 R. Utilization of storm waters in France, 162 RAILWAY disasters from petroleum, 286 Rails, double and single, 362 V. 54; eignals, 81 VARLEY'S patent boiler feeder, 359 Valve, a new, 88 Venetian glass, 94 Ventilation of large balls, 92 Ventilating millstones, 192 Ventilator, Archiniedian screw, the, 499 Rigg, A., on the screw propeller, 288 Road locomotives, 221 W. Rolling stock, No. I., 261; No. II., 281 WALKER-MONEY breech-loading rife, 31 Astronomical Society, 426; Botanic Society, 153, {49; Warehouse door in Cannon-street, 368 Cornwall Polytechnic Institution, 286; Horticultural Water ballast roller, 483 Waterproof paper or glazed fabrics, 127 Russian timber bureau, 425; timber constructions, 405 Weights and measures for India, 71 White gunpowder, 101 Whitworth gun, 421, 441 Wilder's magnetic telegraph, 329 Wilson's patent locomotive cotton press for India, 805 Wimbledon, 1868, 62 Wreck register and chart for 1867, 306 Wrought-iron cranes, 23 a, 499 ... ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. XX. Abbey Mills pumping station, 130, 131, 149, 150, 151, 170, Girdors, effects of loads on, 323, 343 Nowark breech-loading rino, 183 Goods engine for the Great Northern Railway Company, 190, 191 Grain-drying apparatus, by Mossrs. Milburn and Co., 8 Oscillating paddle engines of the “ Borbico," 311 Panteles umbrella, 482 Hancock's screw propeller, 221 "Paragon" steam pump, 500 Parr and Strong's building tubes, 286 Patent friction clutch, 411 230, 231; Corliss engine, 410; engine, 268; non-con- Pickering's pulley block, 353 densing engines, 390 Ploughing and traction engine, 430 Projectile anchor and rove rope, 128 the Le Bouf, 26; press valves, by J. B. Fenby, 48 Hydrostatic sluice gato, 488 Retorts, settings of, 365 Reveley's 10-inch gan, 163 Richards' throttle valve, 353 Road steamer, Thompson's, 271 Rotatory inkstand, 499 Instruments used at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Rossetter's improvements in looms, 501 323 Russian timber constructions, 405 Safety lock sash fastener, 113 Screwing machine, 348 Shaw and Justice's dead-stroke hammer, 198 Siemens' furnace, 53 Six-ton portable steam crane, 428, 433 Six-horse power “ Paragon " engine, 500 Steam dredging machine on the Clyde, 270, 271 ; hoisting apparatus, by A. Jackson, 248 Street signals, 498 Locomotive cotton press for India, 305; engine, improved, by W. Kendall, 29 Targets, experimental at Shoeburynoss, 10, 11 Taylor's, S. I., arrangement for lubricating spindles, 318 Templar's patent sash fastener, 113 Machine for making cylindrical metal casos, 213; for Temple steamboat pier and landing stage, Thamos Em- polishing shot and shell, 293; for preparing slivers for bankment, 90, 91 spinning, 128; for unweaving silk and other rags, 209 Ticket-cutting machine, by M. Locoq, 102 Machinery for making shot and shell, 273; for manufac- Travelling steam hoist, Kittoe and Brotherhood, 265 turing nails and spikes, 453; for turning chilled rolls, Tubulous boiler, Green and Son, 345 250 Man engine, Devon Great Consols Mine, 211 Valve, & new, 88 Varley's patent boiler foeder, 388 Ventilating millstones, by M. Cabanos, 193 Myers's patent water meter, 433 Walker-Money breech-loading rifle, 81 Water ballast road roller, 484; supply controlling appe. together, 122; Metropolitan Meat Market, 448, 471, 450, Wilder's magnetic telegraph, 898 451, 466, 485 Wind engine, sell-regulating, 65 |