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The Council would therefore emphatically repeat, that the Institution must not, as a body, be considered responsible for the facts and opinions advanced in the Papers or in the consequent Discussions; and. it must be understood, that such Papers may have Medals and Premiums awarded to them, on account of the Science, Talent, or Industry displayed in the consideration of the subject, and for the good which may be expected to result from the discussion and the inquiry; but that such notice, or award, must not be considered as any expression of opinion, on the part of the Institution, of the correctness of any of the views entertained by the Authors of the Papers. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BETWEEN DECEMBER 1ST, 1876, AND NOVEMBER 30TH, 1877. AUTHORS. Armstrong, Sir W. G. No. 1,524.-The History of the Modern Development of Water Pressure Machinery. With a series of Diagrams. (Minutes of Proceedings, vol. 1., p. 64.) Avern, F. M. No. 1,528.—Account of the Construction of the Railway Bridge over the River Jhelum. With 11 Drawings and 6 Photographs. Aydon, H. No. 1,514.-Liquid Fuel. With a series of Drawings. Barron, F. C. No. 1,512.-Description of the Works constructed by the Bilbao Iron Ore Company in Spain. With 8 Drawings (post, p. 237). Bazalgette, C. Norman. No. 1,506.—The Sewage Question (xlviii. 105). Carson, W. No. 1,533.-Egremont Ferry Landing. With 2 Drawings. Craig, W. Y. No. 1,541.-Fires in Coal Mines. Davey, H. No. 1,551.-Direct-Acting, or Non-Rotative, Pumping Engines and Pumps. With 11 Drawings. Doherty, W. J. No. 1,523.-Description of Cofferdams used at Dublin, Birkenhead, and Hull. With 5 Drawings (ante). Haycraft, G. No. 1,519.-On an Economical Method of Manufacturing Charcoal for Gunpowder. With 1 Drawing (1. 105). Head, J. No. 1,504.-On the Combustion of Refuse Vegetable Matter, such as Straw, Reeds, Cotton Stalks, Brushwood, &c., under Steam Boilers. With 10 Drawings (xlviii. 75). Herschel, C. No. 1,535.-On the Erosive and Abrading Power of Water on the sides and bottoms of Rivers and Canals. Higgs, R. W. H. P., and Brittle, J. R. No. 1,545.-Some recent Improvements in Dynamo-Electric Apparatus. Holt, A. No. 1,511.-Review of the Progress of Steam Shipping during the last Quarter of a Century (ante). Hull, E. No. 1,505.-On a Deep Boring for Coal at Scarle, Lincolnshire; and its bearing on the question of the Easterly Limit of the Yorkshire Coal Measures beneath the newer Formations. With 1 Drawing (xlix. 160). AUTHORS. Jenkinson, C. H. G. No. 1,548.-The Denver and Rio Grande Railway, and the Railways of the Rocky Mountains. With 3 Drawings. Knowles, Sir F. C., Bart. No. 1,542.-Notes upon the Law of Resistance to surfaces of Bodies moving in incompressible Fluids. Leslie, B. No. 1,544.-The Hooghly Bridge. With 5 Drawings. Longridge, J. A. No. 1,534.-On the Evaporative Power of Locomotive Boilers. Mackenzie, J. B. No. 1,547.-Avonmouth Dock. McAlpine, W. J. No. 1,540.-The Foundations of the New Capitol Perram, G. J. No. 1529.-On the Tank Restorations and Repairs being carried out by the Public Works Department in the Tank District of the Cauvery Division. With a series of Diagrams. Pickwell, R. No. 1,515.-The Encroachments of the Sea from Spurn Point to Flamborough Head; and the Works executed to prevent the Loss of Land. With 7 Drawings (post, p. 191). Price, J. No. 1,537.-Movable Bridges. Shakespear, Lieut.-Col. J. D. No. 1,521.—The Shakespear Lamp. Souttar, R. No. 1,518.-Street Tramways. With 6 Drawings (1. 1). Stooke, T. S. No. 1,516.-The Whiston Pumping Station, St. Helen's, Lancashire. With 3 Drawings (xlix. 221). Weedon, J. F. No. 1,543.-The Queensland Railways; with some Remarks upon their future Development. With 9 Drawings. Whitley, H. M. No. 1,538.-Results of the Working of a Steam Excavator on the Castle Eden and Stockton Railway. Wilson, G. No. 1,551.—Irrigation in the South of France; Department of the Bouches-du-Rhône. With 3 Drawings (post, p. 213). Wragge, E. No. 1,508.-Canadian Narrow-Gauge Railways (xlviii. 252). |