WALTER SPIERS, PRINTER, GREAT PRESCOT STREET.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOR 1862.
Dangers in the Southern Approaches to the Minch, West Coast of
Scotland, 110
Dangers on the West Coast of Sumatra, 109
Daring Deeds in Saving Life at Sea and their Reward, 146
Deep Water Entrance of Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand, Middle
West Channel, 614
Destruction of Sooloo Pirates by Rajah Brooke, off Borneo, 418
Electric Telegraph between Europe and America by Behring Strait,
131
Evenings at Home at the Nautical Club, 33, 88, 152, 208, 262, 326,
376, 433, 481, 555, 602, 677
Floating Cylinders for Laying Electric Submarine Cables. Proposed
by Captain J. H. Selwyn, R.N., 688
Habits and Customs of the Hawaiians, 465
Honorary Rewards, 554
How to Handle Lunars. By Captain H. Toynbee, F.R.A.S., 225
In-Shore Currents of the Bay of Bengal. Remarks by Lieutenant
J. A. Heathcote, R.N., 65
Longitude of Damascus by Electrie Telegraph, 610
Lunars and Chronometers, and the System of Examination for Certi-
ficates, 370
Marriot Rock, in Entrance of Beitkul Cove, Malabar Coast, 387
Medical Science in St. Domingo, 30
Micronesia, of the Pacific Ocean, 169, 237, 298, 358, 408 |
Nautical Description of Port Augusta, South Australia, 591
Nautical Description of the Grenadines, West Indies, 585
Nautical Notices, 107, 218, 279, 384, 446, 498, 558, 609, 687
New Books:
Foretelling Weather: Description of a Newly Discovered Lunar
Weather System. By S. M. Saxby, R.N., 224
Manual of Tides and Tidal Currents. By the Rev. J. A. Gal-
braith, M.A., and the Rev. S. Haughton, M.A., F.R.S., 223
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian
Frigate "Novara," Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Go-
vernment in the Years 1857-59. By Dr. Karl Scherzer. Vol.
I., 335
Popular and Mathematical Astronomy, with the Principal Formulæ
of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. By W. T. Read, 336
The Annual Retrospect of Engineering and Architecture; a Record
of Progress in the Science of Civil, Military, and Naval Con-
struction. Edited by G. R. Burnell, C.E., F.G.S., and F.S.A.,
Observations on the Proposed Telegraph Communication between
Ireland and Newfoundland. By Professor King, 650
On Sumner's Method. By James Gordon, M.A., 182, 294
On the Defective Explanations as Given in the "Nautical Almanac"
for 1864. By James Gordon, M.A., 56
On the Proper Depths for Electric Cables as at Present Constructed.
By Captain T. Spratt, R.N., C.B., H.M.S. "Medina," 1
Pacific Railway and the Claims of St. John, New Brunswick, to be
the Atlantic Terminus. Proposed by T. T. Vernon Smith, C.E.,
133, 201, 245
Particulars of Lights Recently Established, 218, 384, 446, 498, 558,
609, 687
Peters Rock, Coast of Mexico, 386, 448
Philippines Íslands: Manila to Iloilo, Panay, 219
Port Dennison, Queensland. Directions for the Southern Passage,
502
Preliminary Notice of the Organic and Inorganic Objects Obtained
from the Soundings of H.M.S. "Porcupine" off the West Coast
of Ireland. By Professor William King, Queen's College, Galway,
and Queen's University in Ireland, 600, 655
Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea,-from the New Mer-
chant Shipping Act, 531
Reported Dangers on the North Coast of Anglesea, 385
Report on Lord Howe Group, South Pacific. By Thomas Johnson,
Master of the Ship "Beemah," 560
Report on the Deep Sea Soundings to the Westward of Ireland,
Made in H.M.S. "Porcupine," in June, July, and August, 1862,
Sailing Directions between Singapore Straits and Cape St. James
during the N.E. Monsoon. By A. J. Loftus, Master Ship " Ken-
sington," 635
Ships' Equipments, Fishing Vessels, and Life Boats,-Jury Report.
International Exhibition, 1862, 469, 577
Signal Stations in the Hooghly, 615
Singapore to Melbourne: Extracts from a Journal of H.M.S. "Niger"
while on the Australian Station, under the Command of Captain
P. Cracroft, R.N., C.B., 57-Melbourne to Sydney, Norfolk Island,
and Auckland, 122-New Zealand, Auckland, Nelson, 400-New
Zealand, 455, 511, 569, 625
The Kok Shoal, Coast of Cochin China, Vessel Lost, 386
The Late High Balloon Ascent at Wolverhampton. By James Glai-
sher, Esq., of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 546
The Liverpool Mercantile Marine Service Association, 671
The Loss of the Barque "Norma," 111
The Medina Bank, S.E. of Malta. By Captain Spratt, R.N., C.B.,
H.M.S. "Medina," 464
Lieutenant J. C. Brito de Capello, of the Portuguese Royal Navy,
The Slave Trade Treaty, 321
The Wreck of the British Barque "Valleyfield," on the Reef off
Green Point, Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 449
The Wolf Rock Lighthouse, 260
Torres Strait Passage, Entering by Raine Island, 499
Voyage of H.M.S. "Cyclops," from England to the Cape,-Captain
W. J. S. Pullen, R.N., 19, 79, 140, 196, 254, 308, 427, 476, 534,
658
Winds and Currents of the Gulf of Guinea, 186
Zanzibar,-the Queen of Eastern Africa, 281
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