n of Government Dockyards and Public Buildings;
establishment of a standard hose coupling 21

Admitted an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers;
award of Telford Medal; endeavours to restrain the erection
of immoderate-sized warehouses 22

His opinion as to the inadequacy of London Fire Brigade;
Great Tooley Street Fire 23

Death of Mr. Braidwood 24

Public funeral 25

Public and private character 28

World-wide esteem in which he was held 30

Poem--A True Hero 32

FIRE PREVENTION, INCLUDING FIREPROOF STRUCTURES--CAUSES OF FIRES.

Inattention in the use of fires and lights 33

Advantages of a legal inquiry into the cause of Fires 37

Improper construction of buildings 37

Acts of Parliament for buildings in London 39

Results of improper construction of warehouses in Liverpool 41

Arrangements for the safety of the audience in theatres 42

Danger from furnaces and close fires 43

Danger from pipes conveying products of combustion 44

Spontaneous ignition; use of gas 45

Incendiarism; monomania 46

FIREPROOF STRUCTURES.

What is fireproof construction 47

Use of cast and wrought-iron 49

Mr. Fairbairn's experiments 50

Danger to life from use of cast-iron columns 54

Report on warehouses 55

Covering timber with iron 56

Fireproof dwelling-houses 57

Fireproof safes 58

FIRE EXTINCTION, INCLUDING FIRE BRIGADES, FIRE
ENGINES, AND WATER SUPPLY--FIRE BRIGADES.

Individual exertions for Fire Extinction 59

Fire Brigades on the Continent of Europe, in England, in America 66