The Railway Magazine, and Annals of Science

THE

RAILWAY MAGAZINE,

AND

Annals of Science :

CONTAINING

COPIOUS ACCOUNTS OF ALL RAILWAYS

AT HOME AND ABROAD;

NOTICES OF INVENTIONS, AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES.

BY JOHN HERAPATH, ESQ.

VOL. III. NEW SERIES.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY WYLD AND SON, CHARING-CROSS EAST;
AND SOLD BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

CONTENTS TO VOL. III. NEW SERIES.

No. XVII.

Extensive Tables for Calculating Heights with the Barometer, by the Editor

Mr. Stephenson's Estimate of Road Bridges on his Brighton line

Mr. Brunel's Railway Gage, by A Friend to Railways

Mathematico-Mechanical Problem, by "F. C."

Parliamentary Committees, and Inquisitions on Railway Bills, by the Editor

Exponential Theorem, similar to Bernouilli's, by the Editor

Great Western Railway

On Railways as Investments, by "R. R.”

Statistical Facts, Illustrating the State of the National Wealth, collected from

"Maculloch's Statistics of the British Empire," and other authentic

sources

Royal Society and Mr. Herapath. The Private Correspondence, which ter-

minated in the exit, expulsion, or forced retirement, of Sir Humphry Davy

from the Presidency of the Royal Society

Railway Reports:-Lancaster and Preston

London and Greenwich

Warburton's on the Deptford and Dover Subscription List

Scientific and Miscellaneous Intelligence

Review of Books

Railway Notices .

Parliamentary Intelligence.

Share List

No. XVIII.

On the Principles and Practice of Levelling with the Spirit Level, Descrip-
tion and Rectification of the Level-Sphericity of the Earth-Terrestrial
Refraction-Practice of Levelling-Chaining-Passing Woods, Rivers,
and other Objects-Use of the Compass, by the Editor.

Memoir on the Theory of the Steam-Engine, and Calculation of High-Pressure

Engines, as expounded in a preceding Memoir, by the Chevalier M. de

Pambour

Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway

Eastern Counties Railway-An Address to the Shareholders, by "A Suffer-

ing Shareholder'

Answer to the Mathematical Problem in No. 17, with another, by Mr. Wm.

Stuart

Royal Society and Mr. Herapath. The Private Correspondence which termi-
nated in the exit, expulsion, or forced retirement, of Sir Humphry Davy
from the Presidency of the Royal Society

Railway Reports:Military Engineer on the Brighton Railways