Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 26

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Vols. 39-204 (1874/75-1916/17) have a section 3 containing "Abstracts of papers in foreign transactions and periodicals" (title varies); issued separately, 1919-37, as the institution's Engineering abstracts from the current periodical literature of engineering and applied science, published outside the United Kingdom.
 

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Page 151 - Woodcuts. 3 vols. crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. each. The Application of Cast and Wrought Iron to Building Purposes.
Page 154 - The Philosophy of Arithmetic ; exhibiting a progressive view of the theory and practice of calculation, with tables for the multiplication of numbers as far as one thousand.
Page 210 - I made signal to withdraw from action, intending to resume the attack the next morning. During the evening the commanding officers of the ironclads came on board the flagship, and, to my regret, I soon became convinced of the utter impracticability of taking the city of Charleston by the force under my command. No ship had been exposed to the severest fire of the enemy over forty minutes, and yet in that brief period, as the Department will perceive by the detailed reports of the commanding officers...
Page 159 - Results of Meteorological Observations made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a Report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the 36th Congress.
Page 153 - Leslie (J.), An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat.
Page 147 - Humbly submitted to the candid examiner into the principles of a bill intended to be offered to Parliament, for the preservation of the Great Level of the Fens, and the navigation through the same, by a tax on the lands, and a toll on the navigation.
Page 392 - Paper extended over portions of two evenings, but an abstract of the whole is given consecutively.
Page 571 - He was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1883, and was President of the Society of Engineers in 1881.
Page 160 - A Descriptive Treatise on Mathematical Drawing Instruments: their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon Drawing and Colouring.
Page 145 - Tables of Curves. TABLES OF TANGENTIAL ANGLES and MULTIPLES for setting out Curves from 5 to 200 Radius. By ALEXANDER BEAZELEY, M. Inst. CE Second Edition.

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