MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

597

OF

LIBRARY

THE INSTITUTION

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

OF

CIVIL ENGINEERS;

WITH OTHER

SELECTED AND ABSTRACTED PAPERS.

VOL. CXXXV.

EDITED BY

J. H. T. TUDSBERY, D.Sc., M. INST. C.E., SECRETARY.

LONDON:

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1899.

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CONTENTS.

SECT. I.-MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS.

1 November, 1898.

Address of W. H. Preece, C.B., President .

8 November, 1898.

"The Extraction of Nickel from its Ores by the Mond Process." W. C.

ROBERTS-AUSTEN, C.B. (1 plate, 4 cuts).

Discussion on ditto. (1 cut).

Correspondence on ditto

15 and 22 November, 1898.

'Electrical Transmission of Power in Mining." W. B. EssoN. (1 plate,

3 cuts)

Discussion on ditto

Correspondence on ditto

Death of Sir John Fowler, Past-President

29 November and 6 December, 1898.

"The Effect of Subsidence due to Coal-Workings upon Bridges and other

SEOT. II.-OTHER SELECTED PAPERS.'

"Trial Survey for a Railway over the Outeniqua Mountains, Cape

Colony." C. E. STEWART. (5 cuts)

9

"The Erection of a Steel Viaduct upon the Highland Railway." H. T.

WHITE. (2 cuts)

"The Failure of the Embabeh Bridge, Cairo." F. E. ROBERTSON. (1 plate) 206

Appendix to ditto.

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"The Pahartali Locomotive- and Carriage-Works, Assam-Bengal Railway."

C. F. BAMFORD. (1 plate).

Appendixes to ditto

212

222

"River Regulation Works and Harbour and Canal Construction in

Germany." L. FRANZIUS and G. H. de THIERRY. (2 plates) . . 224

"The Management, Maintenance and Cost of Public County Roads in

Ireland under the Irish Grand Jury System." R. B. SANDERS

Appendixes to ditto

258

269

272

283

294

300

320

"Karachi Sewerage Works." J. STRACHAN. (1 plate)

"Stresses in Pipes bent at Right Angles caused by Heating to the Tem-

perature of Steam at various Pressures." T. DONALDSON. (6 cuts)

"Note on the Endurance of Steel Bars subjected to repetitions of Tensional

Stress." E. G. COKER. (4 cuts)

"Refuse-Furnaces." G. WATSON. (1 plate and 2 cuts).

Obituary

Sir William Anderson, 320; Frederick Ashmead, 326; William Belk,

327; Francisco Javier Cisneros, 327; Sir John Fowler, Bart., 328; Sir

Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, 337; Dr. John Hopkinson, 338; H. D.

Martin, 349; M. Paterson, 351; Robert Sinclair, 353; George E.

Waring, jun., 356; William Lawrence Williams, 358; Joseph William

Wilson, 359; William Wilson, 361; Charles Adcock, 362; James Bell,

363; John William Townsend Boys, 364; David George Davies, 364;

William James Doherty, 365; Herbert Evington, 366; Henry Masterton,

367; George Napier, 368; Thomas Cheveley Rayner, 368; Lucas

Thomasson, 369.

SECT. III. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS IN SCIENTIFIC TRANSACTIONS

Test of a Wire Rope 34 inches in Diameter. A. MARTENS

Experiments on the Emission of Air through divergent Conical Nozzles.

A. FLIEGNER

Experiments on a Flexible Joint for Riveted Framing. MESNAGER

The Use of Jointed Members in Roof-Construction. A. KIELBASINSKI

Reconstruction of the Railway Bridge over the Rhine at Düsseldorf.

PLATT.

The Kornhaus Bridge at Berne. P. SIMONS

Arch Bridge over Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

The Vierendeel Bridge. A. LAMBIN and P. CHRISTOPHE

Bridge Work on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad

Bridge Disaster at Cornwall, Ontario

Hygienic Regulations for Workers in Compressed Air. L. BRENNECKE

Moving Bodily an Iron Roof of 98-feet Span. A. DA CUNHA

Two Coal-Storage Buildings at West Superior, Wis., U.S.