Preservation of timber:--experiments on, 154; preservation of iron, 159.
Bridges:--designs for Marykirk, Annan, Stirling, and Hutcheson stone bridges, 160; design for high level road bridge at Newcastle, 161; bridge of built planks, 161; new form of suspension bridge, 162, 165.
Design for Carr Rock Beacon, 177; proposal to use the tide for tolling a bell or sounding a whistle, 178.
Invents the moveable jib and balance cranes, 181.
Fisheries:--notes on the Scotch, 184; origin of the Shetland herring fishery, 189; suggestion for using the sympiesometer as a storm warning, 91; experiments on air sacs of fishes, 194.
Marine survey, 196; measurement of _base line_, 196; mode of ascertaining positions of lighthouses, 196; appeal for Admiralty Survey and Sailing Directions, 199.
Contributions to _Encyclopædia Britannica_ and _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_, 203; alveus or bed of the German Ocean, 204, 205; sectio planography, 205; wasting effects of the sea on the estuaries of the Mersey and Dee, 225; discovery that the salt water flows up the beds of rivers in a stream distinct from the outflowing fresh water, 229; invents the hydrophore, 231.
Wide range of subjects on which Mr. Stevenson gave advice, 236; architectural reports, 236; extracts from early Reports, 239.
Thomas, Captain, Admiralty Survey, 140, 201.
Timber:--experiments on durability of, 155; ravages of the _Limnoria terebrans_ on, 157; charring, 158; creosoted 159.
Water:--experiments on the density of fresh and salt water at the Dee, 229; Thames, Loch Eil, etc., 235; hydrophore for obtaining specimens of, 231.
Waves, action of, in unscrewing bolts, 252.
Wolf Rock Lighthouse:--design for, 168; Journal of visit to, 168-175; tower built in 1870, 175.
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[1] Mr. Randall assumed the name of Davidson after succeeding to the estate of Muirhouse.
[2] Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Drawn up by desire of the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses, by Robert Stevenson. Edinburgh, 1824.
[4] The tender was named after the great Engineer.
[5] Spink’s boat was too large to come close to the rock.
[6] Report of the Royal Commission on Lighthouses, 1861, p. 86.