. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1842.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 373 the works of tlie ancients and moderns was extensive, and he was so feelingly alive to pro|iortion of parts and the effects of light and shade, and of contrast and barmony in colour, that he was continually studying the difterent parts of his buildings up to the moment of their completion, not being satisfied until he had tried every modification which could tend to improve them. Mr. Goldicutt published some ^^ews in Rome,
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1842.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 373 the works of tlie ancients and moderns was extensive, and he was so feelingly alive to pro|iortion of parts and the effects of light and shade, and of contrast and barmony in colour, that he was continually studying the difterent parts of his buildings up to the moment of their completion, not being satisfied until he had tried every modification which could tend to improve them. Mr. Goldicutt published some ^^ews in Rome, and a series of etchings of views in Italy and Sicily. He was the author of an elegant work on the paintings in the Pompeian buildings, and of ^n interesting small volume in illustration of Ileriot's Hospital at Edinburgh, the plates of which he etched bimself. He has left a widow and 5 sons to lament his irreparable loss, and lies buried in the New Cemetery at Kensal Green. The death of such an artist is a loss to bis family, to his friends, and the public. Mr. Goldicutt was Surveyor for the District of St. Clement's Danes, and St. Mary le Strand, and one of the Justices and Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster and Mid- dlesex. PATENT GUIDE SCREW STOCK, Manufactured by Joseph Whitworth & Co. of Uonchesler. A. the top plate, fastened Ly screws, a, a, n. B, a stationary die. C, C. moving dies. D, a sliding piece with inclined sides for moving the dies. E, a nut for drawing up the piece D. The guide stock is entirely new in principle, and will cut a screw scarcely inferior to that obtained in a slide lathe from a true guide. The name,has been chosen from this circumstance, as expressing the peculiar feature^of the invention. The thread produced is not only true and of the exact pitch required, but perfectly formed throughout, being cut clean without distortion of the metal. Iq all these respects the advantage of the guide over the common stock is remarkable. The latter, i
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