Rendel, J. M., President, remarks as to treatment of rivers, 22.-Ditto as to
drainage of towns, 106.-Ditto as to choice of materials for construction of
sewers, 108.-Ditto as to general question of sanitary reform, 108.-Vote of
thanks to, 111.-Remarks as to greenheart timber and ‘Jarrah' wood, 233.—
Ditto as to preservation of timber from the worm, and experiments at South-
ampton to test the efficiency of different processes, 242.-Ditto as to construction
of fire-proof buildings, 271.-Ditto as to use of heated air as a motive power,
351.-Ditto as to improvement in the quality of iron, 381.-Ditto as to applica-
tion of vulcanized india-rubber and gutta percha to engineering purposes, 459.
-Ditto as to consumption of water at Edinburgh, 505.-Ditto as to quantity of
water obtained from well at Great Grimsby, 505.-Ditto as to desirability of
observations on the coast, 557.-Ditto as to Warren girders, 611.-Notice of
the President's conversazione, 612.

Rennie, G., remarks as to trials of Sir G. Cayley's hot-air engine, 345.-Ditto as
to the Chesil Bank, 552.

Sir J., portrait of, by J. Andrews, presented to the Institution, 111.—
Remarks as to movement of shingle, 549.-Ditto as to construction of harbours
in a travelling beach, 549.

Report, annual, 113.—Ditto read and ordered to be printed, 110,—Appendix to;
memoirs, 126.

Richardson, J., on the pneumatics of mines, 272.

Ritchie, R., remarks as to sewerage of Edinburgh, 65.

Ritterbandt, Dr., remarks as to necessity for an instrument to determine the
saltness of water, 518.-Ditto ditto for an indicator of brine saturation, out of
reach of engineer, 519.-Ditto as to application of muriate of ammonia to
prevent incrustation in marine and other boilers, 519.-Ditto as to experiments
to test value of application, at Portsmouth, by order of the Admiralty, 519.
River engineering. Vide Navigations and drainages.

Robinson, J. S., resignation of, 121.

-

Roe, G., letter from, as to substitution of brick sewer for pipe drain at Holloway, 72.
J., extract from a letter from, dated December 3, 1852, as to size of sewers
and amounts of rain-fall, 96.-Ditto from the annual report of, January 29,
1847, as to ditto ditto, 97.

Roney, C. P., notice as to the Dublin Exhibition, 243.

Rowland, Capt., remarks as to possible effect of contracting the channel of the
River Mersey through the 'pouch,' or bay of the Sloyne, 19.-Ditto as to forma-
tion of shoals in rivers, 19.-Ditto that the sinuosity of the course of the Thames
is advantageous to the navigation, 19.

Russell, J. Scott, remarks as to works for improving the harbour at Newhaven,
formed by the outfall of the River Ouse, 17.-Ditto as to treating a river by
groynes at right angles with the channel, or by training walls parallel to the
banks, 17.-Ditto that locomotives are worked more expansively than marine
engines, 425.—Ditto as to concussion of pump valves, 456.-Ditto as to india-
rubber tube, for conveying oil to a revolving crank journal, 457.

S.

Salt-water, observations on, and its application to the generation of steam, 306.—
Short history concerning salt water, 506.-Contrivances for preventing injurious
action and incrustation of salt water in marine-boilers, 507.-Ditto for deter-
mining the quantity of salt the water of the boiler contains, 509.-Maudslay and
Field's experiments to ascertain the state of the brine, 511.-Dr. Lardner's ditto,

511.-Seaward's salt guage, 512.-Method of preventing incrustation, 512.-Scott
Russell's instrument for ascertaining the density of the water in the boiler, 513.
-Analyses of sea-waters, 514.-Results arrived at by the experiments as to salt-
ness of water, and the boiling-point of solutions, &c., 516.

Sewage manure; remarks as to utilizing the sewage matter of the Metropolis,
83 et seq.

Sewell, J., on locomotive boilers and on fuels, 432.

Shingle, movement of; description of the Chesil Bank, with remarks upon its
origin, the causes which have contributed to its formation, and upon the move-
ment of shingle generally, 520.

Siemens, C. W., remarks as to Ericsson's caloric engine, 345.-Ditto as to action
of 'regenerator' in ditto, 346.-On the conversion of heat into mechanical
effect, 571.-Ditto as to the peculiar functions of the 'respirator,' or 'regene-
rator,' in Ericsson's caloric engine, 591, 598.-Ditto as to the dynamical theory
of heat, 591.

Simpson, J., V.P., remarks as to objections to small sewers, with sharp gradients,
&c., when made of earthenware pipes, or of thin hollow bricks, 92.-Ditto as to
selection of the outfall of the London sewers, 93.-Ditto as to proposals for
pumping up the sewage of the metropolis, 93.-Ditto as to successful use of
iron pipe for a sewer, 94.-Ditto as to the covering of reservoirs for water-
works, 269.-Ditto as to floors on Barrett's system, especially at the New Hotel,
at Carlisle, 270.-Ditto as to necessity for a system of national scientific mining
education, 311.-Ditto as to Northern Institute of Mining Engineers, 311.
Sinclair, A., elected associate, 206.

Sluice valve, Jennings', notice as to, 272.

Smith, Toulmin, remarks as to proceedings of the General Board of Health, 69, 74.
-Ditto as to separation of surface-water from house-drainage, 70.-Ditto as to
relative merits of brick-sewers and pipe-drains, 71.-Ditto as to materials for
construction of sewers, 73.-Ditto as to practical objections to system of pipe-
drainage, 73. — Ditto as to pipe-drainage at Tottenham, 75.— Ditto as to
principles of town-drainage, 75.

Spiller, J., remarks as to power of the engines of the caloric shipEricsson,'
347.-Ditto, as to the regenerator' in ditto, 348.

Statement of the transfers, elections, deceases, and resignations of members of all
classes, during the years 1850-51 and 1851-52, 120.-Summary of the annual
increase of members and associates during the past six years, 121.

Steam, application of salt-water to the generation of, 506. Vide also Salt-water.
Steam-engine indicator, Hulford's, notice of, 431.

Stephenson, G. R., elected member, 601.

Stephenson, H. P., elected associate, 520.

Stephenson, R., M.P., V.P., remarks as to the treatment of rivers, 12.-Ditto as
to Norfolk Estuary, 13. - Ditto as to drainage of towns, especially of the
metropolis, 84.-Ditto as to use of small pipe-drains and their supposed ad-
vantages, 86.-Bust of, by E. H. Baily, R.A., presented to the Institution, 111.
-Remarks as to Government inspection of mines, 306.-Ditto as to quantity
of air necessary for a mine, 307.-Ditto as to term "natural ventilation," 308.-
Ditto that system of exhausting was preferable to that of forcing in air, 308.--
Ditto as to simple combustion, 415.-Ditto as to slow and quick combustion,
415.-Ditto as to practical identity of fire-box and tube surface for evaporat-
ing action, 416.-Ditto as to comparison of long with short boiler experiments

416.-Ditto as to functions of Institution of Civil Engineers, 430.-Ditto as to
water-supply to Liverpool, 504.- Ditto as to the Warren girders, used in the
Newark Dyke Bridge, of the Great Northern Railway, 610.

Stirling, J., remarks as to the caloric, or heated air engine, 599.

Stothert,, extracts from his account of some experiments on his system of
deodorizing sewage-water, 90.

Strength of cast-iron, on the increased, produced by the use of improved coke,

352.

Subscriptions, amount of arrears of, for 1852, 120.

Swann, W., vote of thanks to, 111.

Sylvester, J., memoir of, 165.

T.

Telford medals and premiums, and Council premiums awarded, 110, 115, 169.—
Subjects for 1852-53, 170.

Thomson, D., remarks as to vulcanized India-rubber valves, 456.
Timber, on the nature and properties of, with descriptive particulars of several
methods, now in use, for its preservation from decay, 206.-On dry rot, 209.—
English oak, 209.-Elm, 210.-Beech, 211.-English or Scotch fir and larch,
211.-Parliamentary returns of the imports of foreign timber, 212.-Foreign
timber, Memel, 212.-Yellow pine, 213.-Timber of tropical climates, 213.—
Teak, 214.-American oak and rock elm, 214.-Means devised and adopted
for preservation of timber from decay, 215.-Kyan's solution of corrosive subli-
mate, 216.-Margary's solution of acetate, or sulphate, of copper, 216.-Bur-
nett's patent for impregnating wood with chloride of zinc, 217.-Payne's process,
by using two solutions which decompose each other, 217.—Bethell's patent for
creosoting, 218.-Works at Heybridge for creosoting sleepers for the Eastern
Counties railway, 218.-Creosote used either under pressure or in open tanks,
219.-Description of works at Rotherhithe for creosoting timber, 220.—Methods
for ascertaining the efficiency of the process, 221.-Appendix: patents for pre-
serving animal and vegetable substances, including timber, 222.-Ditto, experi-
ments in creosoting timber, 222.

Trickett, J., elected associate, 272.

Tyler, Lieut. H. W., R.E., elected associate, 520.

V.

Valve, sluice, Jennings', notice as to, 272.

Valves, pump, on the concussion of, 450.-Valve made of annular form, to allow
the water to escape on all sides, 450.-Spiral spring applied to press upon each
valve, 450.-Annular opening extended, to diminish the bearing surfaces, 453.
-Annular valve abandoned in favour of the single-beat valve, 453.

Vignoles, C., remarks as to durability of dry yellow pine, and as to process of
creosoting timber, 234.-Ditto as to the principles of the Warren girder, 509.
Vint, H., memoir of, 167.

W.

Walker, J., remarks as to the preservation of timber, 232.

Warner, J., elected associate, 109.

Warren girders adopted in Newark Dyke Bridge, on the Great Northern railway,

601.

Water-works, Liverpool Corporation, description of the, 460.-General description

of the site of the town of Liverpool, 461.-Brief history of the various Com-
panies for supplying water to Liverpool, 462.-Works of the Bootle Company,
463.-Wells formed by the late Companies, amount of supply derived from
them, dimensions of the engines, and details of the pumps-at the Bootle station,
465.-Ditto ditto at the Devonshire-place station, 465.-Ditto ditto at the Cop-
peras-hill station, 466.-Ditto ditto at the Bevington Bush station, 467.-Ditto
ditto at the Soho-street station, 467.-Ditto ditto at the Water-street station,
468.-Ditto ditto at the Windsor station, 469.-Reservoirs formed by the Bootle
Company, 470.-Conflagrations in Liverpool about the year 1840, 470.-Details
of the Greenlane works commenced in 1844, 471.-Ditto of the engine, boilers,
stand-pipe, and pumps of ditto, 472.-Cooling ponds for economizing water,
475.-Reservoir at Kensington, 476.-Construction of the embankments and
slopes, 476.-Fire arrangements, 477.-Water used for watering the streets, 478.
-Table of the number of fires and amount of property destroyed, &c., from 1840
to 1852, 479.-Plan adopted for the suppression of fires, 480.-Bill obtained by
Corporation, in 1847, for the purchase of the works of the Water Companies,
481.-Mains of the former Companies, 482.-Mains laid for the Greenlane
works, 484.—Lead supply pipes from the services, 484.-Meters for regulating
supply to manufactories, 485.-Supply to ships, 486.-Hose for the dock service,
487.-Particulars of additional engine at Greenlane, 488.-Observations on
pump valves, 491.-Cost of pumping at the different stations of the Liverpool
Water-works, 493.-Results of trials of coal and slack tested at Greenlane
works, 494.-Additional bore-hole at Greenlane and gradual increase in
quantity of water yielded, 495.—Formation of the strata, 496.—Quantity of
rainfall in Liverpool in 1850, -1, and -2, 497.— Districts kept under constan
service, and amount of supply by intermittent and constant systems, 497.-
Observations on the flow of water through the main leading from Greenlane to
Kensington, 499.-Appendix, experiments on the flow of water through lead
pipes, 501.-Ditto, analyses of waters at Bootle, Windsor, and Greenlane sta-
tions, 502.

Watson, W., elected associate, 109.

Wellington, the Duke of, memoir of, 126.

White, G. F., appointed one of the auditors of accounts, 111.

Wicksteed, T., extract from reports of, as to mode of dealing with the sewag
matter of the metropolis, 89.-Remarks on ditto ditto, 89.
Wightman, A., elected associate, 352.

Wild, C. H, principle of Warren girder, as developed by, adopted in the construc-
tion of the Newark Dyke Bridge, on the Great Northern railway, 601.

Wilkie, G., elected associate, 352.

Willet, J., elected member, 109.

Woods, E., remarks as to mechanical equivalent of heat in foot-pounds, 597.
Wright, T., elected associate, 432.

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