Adley, C. C., remarks as to the efficiency of the telegraph in working single lines
of railway in India, 227.—Ditto as to the relative number of accidents on Indian
and English railways, 227.-Ditto as to the mechanical arrangement of the rail-
way telegraph, 227.
Albert, H.R.H., Prince Consort, notice of the decease of, 615.
Albert Harbour at Greenock.- Vide Structures in the sea.
American bridges.-Vide Bridges.
Andrew, W. P., remarks as to the length of the Scinde railway, 480.-Ditto as to
its chief object being the substitution of railway communication for creek navi-
gation, 480.-Ditto as to the proposed extension of the Scinde railway to the
Bolan Pass, and the probable advantages, 480.-Ditto as to circumstances that
enhanced the cost of the Scinde railway, 481.-Ditto as to the best material for
sleepers in India, 482.-Ditto as to the white ant not attacking wood liable to
vibration, 482.-Ditto as to the capabilities of the port of Kurrachee, 482.-Ditto
as to the position of ditto, especially as compared with that of Bombay, 483.—
Ditto as to the improvement of the harbour of Kurrachee, 484.
Appleton, E., elected associate, 540.
Baddeley, J. F. L., Major R.A., memoir of, 634.
Barlow, P., memoir of, 615.
Barlow, W. H., remarks as to the choice of material for viaducts, 56.
Bartholomew, E. G., remarks as to the inexpediency of using a train signalling
telegraph for other purposes, 218.-Ditto as to the number of pivots in Preece's
semaphore system being objectionable, 218.-Ditto as to the question of signal-
ling trains by telegraph, 219.— Ditto as to Wheatstone's magnetic signals, 220.
-Ditto as to the caution signal as generally given on railways, 220.—Ditto as to
the expediency of telegraph signals at level crossings, 220.-Ditto as to the nume-
rous railway accidents avoided by the use of the telegraph, 220.
Bassett, A., remarks as to the economy and efficiency of the drainage works at
Newport, 284.
Bateman, J. F., remarks as to the reconstruction of the Dinting and Mottram
viaducts without interruption to the traffic, 334.-Ditto as to the perennial and
flood waters of the Upper Thames, 362.-Ditto as to the quantity of water flowing
off the ground, in a given time, by the River Medlock at Manchester, 362.—
Ditto as to the quantity of flood water flowing into the Woodhead Reservoir in a
given time, 363.-Ditto as to the regulating effects of large lakes as shown in the
comparative discharge of flood water from Lochs Lubnaig, Voil, and Doine, and
Lochs Venachar and Katrine, 363.-Ditto as to the discharge of the river
Clyde at Carstairs in the winter of 1856-57, 363.—Ditto as to the discharge of
the Shannon in flood at Killaloe, and the comparatively small amount of water,
364.-Ditto as to the consolidation of concrete under water, 440.
Bazalgette, J. V. N., appointed one of the auditors of accounts, 111.
Beardmore, N., remarks as to the situation and character of the works of the Albert
Harbour, Greenock, 440, et seq.-Ditto as to mixing concrete, 441.-Ditto as to
the rise and fall of the tide at Greenock, 441.-Ditto as to the question of the
solidity of the Greenock pier, 441.-Ditto as to the deterioration of iron in sea-
water, 442.-Ditto as to the strength of a wall of Kentish rag-stone backed by
concrete, 442.-Ditto as to the advantages of using concrete in large masses, 443.
Berkley, G., remarks as to kyanized native sleepers on the Great Indian Peninsula
railway, 256.-Ditto as to the cost of earthwork and block-in-course in Western
India, 486.-Ditto as to the importance of securing means for readily shipping or
unloading goods at the termini of Indian railways, 486.-Ditto as to the liability
of creosoted timbers to split, 486.-Ditto as to the importance of sending out
agents and employés of good character to India, 487.
Bethell, J., remarks as to the similarity of Palmyra timber to creosoted wood, 62.
Beyer, C. F., remarks as to the manufacture of duplicate machinery, 612.
Bidder, G. P., Past-President, remarks as to the cost of, and materials for, viaducts,
52.-Ditto as to ironwork being used in railway bridges to keep down the level,
55.-Ditto as to the numerous causes which tend to produce oscillation in loco-
motive engines, 102.-Ditto as to the plan adopted for the passage of flood
water over the Scinde railway, 489.-Ditto as to railway sleepers for India, 489.
-Ditto as to the necessity of perfecting the ports of India, 489.-Ditto as to the
mode in which Indian railways ought, in future, to be carried out and worked,
and as to the present railway system of India, 489, et seq.
Birch, J. B., memoir of, 640.
Blount, J., elected member, 540.
Bolckow, H. W. F., elected associate, 451.
Bolden, H., elected associate, 451.
Bolton, Captain F. J., elected associate, 540.
Bouch, T., remarks as to the considerations which governed the choice of mate-
rials for the Hownes Gill, Deepdale, and Beelah viaducts, 52.-Ditto as to the
lateral spread of the piers in the Hownes Gill viaduct, to secure a greater area
for the foundations, 56.
Bowen, O., elected associate, 451.
Braithwaite, F., remarks as to the large quantity of water abstracted from the
Thames above Teddington Lock, 364.-Ditto as to spontaneous evaporation, 364.
-Ditto as to Dickinson's rain gauge, 365.
Bramwell, F. J., remarks as to the oscillatory movements of locomotive engines not
being caused by the pressure of steam in the cylinder, and but to a small
extent by the momentum of certain parts, 85.-Ditto as to the inexpediency of
single-cylinder locomotive engines, 92.-Vote of thanks to, 111.-Appointed one
of the auditors of accounts, 111.-Remarks as to the resemblance between Clark's
and Spagnoletti's system of railway telegraphs, 229.-Ditto as to the effect of
sea-water on cast iron, 440.-Ditto as to the advantage of drilling instead of
punching rivet holes, 530.-Ditto as to the strength of cast-iron, and as to the
result of experiments to ascertain the same, 558.-Ditto as to the toughness of
iron being increased by melting, 560.-Ditto as to the principles involved in the
construction of the trusses of American iron bridges, 560.-Ditto as to the Fink
truss, 561, et seq.-Ditto as to the compression bar of the Fink truss compared
with that of an ordinary diagonal truss, 563.-Ditto as to the Bollman truss,
567.-Ditto as to the cause of the waste of metal in the Fink and Bollman
trusses, 567.-Ditto as to the Murphy-Whipple truss, 567.-Ditto as to the
defects of the above trusses, 567.-Ditto as to a plan for insuring the accurate
boring of tires, 612.
Brassington, J. W., elected associate, 167.
Break, railway, notice of a, 240.
Brereton, R. P., remarks as to the abandonment of the superheating apparatus in
the Kingstown and Holyhead steam-packets, 597.
Bridge, the Charing Cross, 512.-General description, 512.- Cylinders for the
openings 154 feet span, 513.-Sinking the cylinders, 514.-Filling the cylinders
and weighting, 515.-Each pair of cylinders connected together transversely by
a wrought-iron box girder, 516.—Superstructure of the openings 154 feet span,
516.-Main girders spanning the 154 feet openings, 516.-Rivet holes drilled,
517.-Results of testing a girder, 519.-Question as to the propriety of continuity
of girders, 520.-Cross-girders for the openings 154 feet span, 521.-Method of
suspension, 521.-Fan end, 522.-Roadway and footpath platforms, 524.-Causes
that retarded the completion of the bridge, 524.-Cost, 525.-Table of results
of experiments on plate-iron, of the kind used in the construction of the Charing
Cross bridge, 527.
Bridges, American iron, 540.-Advantages of iron over timber bridges, 540.—
Earliest iron bridges erected in that country, 540.-Major Delafield's arched
bridges, 540.-Captain Meigs' aqueduct bridge at Washington, 540.-Iron
arched bridge over the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, 541.-Plate girder
bridge over the Carroll's Run stream, on the Baltimore and Susquehanna rail-
road, 542.-Strength of American cast iron, 543.-Ditto of American wrought
iron, 544.-Extent of working strains allowed, 545.-Peculiarities of the iron-
trussed bridges as distinguished from trussed bridges in England, 546.-Rider's
trellis bridge, 547.-The Whipple bridge as improved by J. W. Murphy, 547.-
The tension rods, 549.-Cost of American bridges, 549.-The Pennysylvania
Central Railroad bridge across the Schuykill at Philadelphia, 549.-Cost of
ditto, 550.-Wrought-iron rolled beams employed for the top and bottom chords
of the pivot span of ditto, 550.-Pivot upon which the turning span of the
bridge is made to revolve, 551.-Bollman's truss bridge, 552.-Bridge at
Harper's Ferry, 552.-Bridge designed by A. Fink, 553.-Bridge on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad over the Monongahela river, 554.-The Barren River
and Erie River bridges, 555.-Cost per lineal foot of the Bollman and Fink
trusses for a single line, 555.-Great range of temperature in America unfavour-
able to the use of cast iron for railway bridges, 555.-Cost of wrought-iron plate
girders in Canada, 555.
-, American timber, 305.-The only works available in new and poor
countries where timber is abundant and cheap, 305.-The lattice bridge not
suitable for heavy traffic, 305.-The Howe bridge, 306.-Description of an
ordinary Howe bridge over the James River at Richmond, 307.-Weight of
bridge per lineal foot and calculation of strains assuming a load of 3,000 lbs. per
lineal foot uniformly distributed, 307.—Ordinary dimensions for a span of 150
feet, without arches, on the Portland railway, 308.-Strains, assuming a weight
of 3,000 lbs. per lineal foot, 308.-The Improved Howe truss as constructed on
the Philadelphia and Reading railway, 308.-Reference to its supporting loaded
coal wagons after several of the main trusses had been broken, 309.– Subject to
very heavy loads, 309.-Limit of safe compression on timber framing, 310.—
Approximate quantities of materials in this bridge, 310.-Deflection at first small,
but rapidly increasing with the decay of the bridge, which soon occurs through
the use of unseasoned timber, 310. - Disadvantages from the combination
of the arch and truss, 311.-Piers generally built of granite masonry, some-
times of brickwork, 311.-Great height of the piers of a truss bridge built over
the Genesee River, 312.-McCallum's inflexible arched truss, 312.-Dimensions
for a 200 feet span railway bridge for a single line, 312.-Distribution of strains,
313.-Deflection when loaded, 313.-Effect of the arch and arch braces in sus-
taining a train on the occasion of an accident or injury to a bridge, 314.—
Results of testing a bridge over the Susquehanna river, showing a very small
deflection, 314.—Durability and economy of the bridge referred to by Mr. Post,
314.-Aggregate length of bridges on different railways, 314.-Design for a
railway swing bridge over the Mississippi river at Clinton, Ohio, 315.-Cal-
culations in reference to the tension on the available sectional area of the
bottom chord, 315.-Mr. McCallum's experience of the deflection of railway
timber bridges after several years' use, 316.-Dimensions of a McCallum com-
mon road bridge of 150 feet span, 316.-Adaptation of the Howe truss to roofs
of considerable span as carried out at the Dunkirk station of the New York and
Erie railway, 316.-Accuracy of the designs in proportion to the strains coming
on the timbers, 317.
Brooks, W. A., remarks as to the oscillatory motion of waves in deep seas, 443.—
Ditto as to errors in the construction of recent harbour-works and breakwaters,
444.-Ditto as to the depth of water over the bar at Kurrachee, 487.-Ditto as
to the contraction of the tidal flow caused by works in progress at Kurrachee
harbour, tending greatly to injure the harbour, 487, 489.-Ditto as to Lieut.
Taylor's plan for the improvement of the mouth of Kurrachee harbour, 488.
Brown, J., elected associate, 65.
Browning, T. G., elected associate, 65.
Bruce, G. B., remarks as to the high cost of labour on the Scinde railway, 484.—
Ditto as to the question of dispensing with contractors in India, 485.-Ditto as
to training young people in India to different trades, 485.-Ditto as to the expe-
diency of using iron instead of wooden sleepers in India, 485.-Ditto as to the
question of allowing flood-water to run under or over the Scinde railway, 485.—
Ditto as to the necessity of sending mechanics of good character to foreign
countries, 486.
Brunlees, J., remarks as to a design for a breakwater and pier at Point de Galle,
446.
Brunton, G., elected member, 65.
J., description of the line and works of the Scinde railway, 451.-
Remarks as to prices paid for labour on the Scinde railway, 494.-Ditto as to
the cost per mile of the Scinde railway not being excessive, 495.-Ditto as to
the Burnettising process of saturating sleepers with chloride of zinc, 495.-
Ditto as to the preservative effect, against white ants, of the immersion of timber
in chloride of zinc, 496.- Ditto as to the waterway on the Scinde railway,
496.
Bryce, A., elected member, 336.-Remarks as to the supply and cost of railway
sleepers in the Madras Presidency, 258.
Budd, G. O., elected associate, 336.
Burges, A., presentation of books to the Institution by, 2, 124.
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