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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44090 ***

                                                            MAY, 1904.

                              Catalogue
                                  OF
                       Special Technical Works
                                 FOR
                MANUFACTURERS, STUDENTS, AND TECHNICAL
                               SCHOOLS

                          BY EXPERT WRITERS




                          INDEX TO SUBJECTS.


                                                                  PAGE
     Agricultural Chemistry,                                        10

     Air, Industrial Use of,                                        11

     Alum and its Sulphates,                                         9

     Ammonia,                                                        9

     Aniline Colours,                                                3

     Animal Fats,                                                    6

     Anti-corrosive Paints,                                          4

     Architecture, Terms in,                                        30

     Architectural Pottery,                                         16

     Artificial Perfumes,                                            7

     Balsams,                                                       10

     Bibliography,                                                  32

     Bleaching,                                                     23

     Bone Products,                                                  8

     Bookbinding,                                                   31

     Brick-making,                                              15, 16

     Burnishing Brass,                                              28

     Carpet Yarn Printing,                                          21

     Ceramic Books,                                             14, 15

     Charcoal,                                                       8

     Chemical Essays,                                                9

     Chemistry of Pottery,                                          17

     Chemistry of Dye-stuffs,                                       23

     Clay Analysis,                                                 16

     Coal-dust Firing,                                              26

     Colour Matching,                                               21

     Colliery Recovery Work,                                        25

     Colour-mixing for Dyers,                                       21

     Colour Theory,                                                 22

     Combing Machines,                                              24

     Compounding Oils,                                               6

     Condensing Apparatus,                                          26

     Cosmetics,                                                      7

     Cotton Dyeing,                                                 22

     Cotton Spinning,                                               24

     Damask Weaving,                                                20

     Dampness in Buildings,                                         30

     Decorators' Books,                                             28

     Decorative Textiles,                                           20

     Dental Metallurgy,                                             27

     Dictionary of Paint Materials,                                  3

     Drying Oils,                                                    5

     Drying with Air,                                               11

     Dyeing Marble,                                                 31

     Dyeing Woollen Fabrics,                                        22

     Dyers' Materials,                                              21

     Dye-stuffs,                                                    23

     Enamelling Metal,                                              18

     Enamels,                                                       18

     Engraving,                                                     31

     Essential Oils,                                                 7

     Evaporating Apparatus,                                         26

     External Plumbing,                                             27

     Fats,                                                        5, 6

     Faults in Woollen Goods,                                       20

     Gas Firing,                                                    26

     Glass-making Recipes,                                          17

     Glass Painting,                                                17

     Glue Making and Testing,                                        8

     Greases,                                                        5

     History of Staffs Potteries,                                   16

     Hops,                                                          28

     Hot-water Supply,                                              28

     How to make a Woollen Mill Pay,                                21

     India-rubber,                                                  13

     Inks,                                                       3, 11

     Iron-corrosion,                                                 4

     Iron, Science of,                                              26

     Japanning,                                                     28

     Lacquering,                                                    28

     Lake Pigments,                                                  3

     Lead and its Compounds,                                        11

     Leather Industry,                                              13

     Leather-working Materials,                                     14

     Lithography,                                                   31

     Lubricants,                                                  5, 6

     Manures,                                                    8, 10

     Mineral Pigments,                                               2

     Mine Ventilation,                                              25

     Mine Haulage,                                                  25

     Oil and Colour Recipes,                                         3

     Oil Boiling,                                                    4

     Oil Merchants' Manual,                                          7

     Oils,                                                           5

     Ozone, Industrial Use of,                                      12

     Paint Manufacture,                                              2

     Paint Materials,                                                3

     Paint-material Testing,                                         4

     Paper-pulp Dyeing,                                             18

     Petroleum,                                                      6

     Pigments, Chemistry of,                                         2

     Plumbers' Work,                                                27

     Porcelain Painting,                                            18

     Pottery Clays,                                                 16

     Pottery Manufacture,                                           14

     Power-loom Weaving,                                            19

     Preserved Foods,                                               30

     Printers' Ready Reckoner,                                      31

     Printing Inks,                                                  3

     Recipes for Oilmen, etc.,                                       3

     Resins,                                                        10

     Risks of Occupations,                                          12

     Rivetting China, etc.,                                         16

     Sanitary Plumbing,                                             28

     Scheele's Essays,                                               9

     Sealing Waxes,                                                 11

     Silk Dyeing,                                                   23

     Silk Throwing,                                                 19

     Smoke Prevention,                                              25

     Soaps,                                                      7, 32

     Spinning,                                                      20

     Staining Marble, and Bone,                                     31

     Steam Drying,                                                  11

     Sugar Refining,                                                32

     Steel Hardening,                                               26

     Sweetmeats,                                                    30

     Terra-cotta,                                                   16

     Testing Paint Materials,                                        4

     Testing Yarns,                                                 20

     Textile Fabrics,                                               20

     Textile Materials,                                         19, 20

     Timber,                                                        29

     Varnishes,                                                      4

     Vegetable Fats,                                                 7

     Waste Utilisation,                                             10

     Water, Industrial Use,                                         12

     Waterproofing Fabrics,                                         21

     Weaving Calculations,                                          20

     Wood Waste Utilisation,                                        29

     Wood Dyeing,                                                   31

     Wool Dyeing,                                                   22

     Writing Inks,                                                  11

     X-Ray Work,                                                    13

     Yarn Testing,                                                  20




                             PUBLISHED BY
                       SCOTT, GREENWOOD & CO.,
                    19 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C.

       Tel. Address: "PRINTERIES, LONDON". Tel. No. 5403, Bank.




                  Paints, Colours and Printing Inks.


=THE CHEMISTRY OF PIGMENTS.= By ERNEST J. PARRY, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C.,
F.C.S., and J. H. Coste, F.I.C., F.C.S. Demy 8vo. Five Illustrations.
285 pp. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Introductory.= Light--White Light--The Spectrum--The Invisible
     Spectrum--Normal Spectrum--Simple Nature of Pure Spectral
     Colour--The Recomposition of White Light--Primary and
     Complementary Colours--Coloured Bodies--Absorption
     Spectra--=The Application of Pigments.= Uses of Pigments:
     Artistic, Decorative, Protective--Methods of Application of
     Pigments: Pastels and Crayons, Water Colour, Tempera Painting,
     Fresco, Encaustic Painting, Oil-colour Painting, Keramic Art,
     Enamel, Stained and Painted Glass, Mosaic--=Inorganic
     Pigments.= White Lead--Zinc White--Enamel White--Whitening--Red
     Lead--Litharge--Vermilion--Royal Scarlet--The Chromium
     Greens--Chromates of Lead, Zinc, Silver and Mercury--Brunswick
     Green--The Ochres--Indian Red--Venetian Red--Siennas and
     Umbers--Light Red--Cappagh Brown--Red Oxides--Mars
     Colours--Terre Verte--Prussian Brown--Cobalt
     Colours--Coeruleum--Smalt--Copper Pigments--Malachite--Bremen
     Green--Scheele's Green--Emerald Green--Verdigris--Brunswick
     Green--Non-arsenical Greens--Copper Blues--Ultramarine--Carbon
     Pigments--Ivory Black--Lamp Black--Bistre--Naples
     Yellow--Arsenic Sulphides: Orpiment, Realgar--Cadmium
     Yellow--Vandyck Brown--=Organic Pigments.= Prussian
     Blue--Natural Lakes--Cochineal--Carmine--Crimson--Lac
     Dye--Scarlet--Madder--Alizarin--Campeachy--Quercitron--Rhamnus--
     Brazil Wood--Alkanet--Santal Wood--Archil--Coal-tar Lakes--Red
     Lakes--Alizarin Compounds--Orange and Yellow Lakes--Green and
     Blue Lakes--Indigo--Dragon's Blood--Gamboge--Sepia--Indian
     Yellow, Puree--Bitumen. Asphaltum, Mummy--=Index.=


=THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT.= A Practical Handbook for Paint
Manufacturers, Merchants and Painters. By J. CRUICKSHANK SMITH, B.Sc.
Demy 8vo. 1901. 200 pp. Sixty Illustrations and One Large Diagram.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Preparation of Raw Material--Storing of Raw Material--Testing
     and Valuation of Raw Material--Paint Plant and Machinery--The
     Grinding of White Lead--Grinding of White Zinc--Grinding of
     other White Pigments--Grinding of Oxide Paints--Grinding of
     Staining Colours--Grinding of Black Paints--Grinding of
     Chemical Colours--Yellows--Grinding of Chemical
     Colours--Blues--Grinding Greens--Grinding Reds--Grinding
     Lakes--Grinding Colours in Water--Grinding Colours in
     Turpentine--The Uses of Paint--Testing and Matching
     Paints--Economic Considerations--Index.


=THE MANUFACTURE OF MINERAL AND LAKE PIGMENTS.= Containing Directions
for the Manufacture of all Artificial, Artists and Painters' Colours,
Enamel, Soot and Metallic Pigments. A Text-book for Manufacturers,
Merchants, Artists and Painters. By Dr. JOSEF BERSCH. Translated by A.
C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Forty-three Illustrations. 476
pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies 13s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Introduction--Physico-chemical Behaviour of Pigments--Raw
     Materials Employed in the Manufacture of Pigments-Assistant
     Materials-Metallic Compounds-The Manufacture of Mineral
     Pigments--The Manufacture of White Lead--Enamel White--Washing
     Apparatus--Zinc White--Yellow Mineral Pigments--Chrome
     Yellow--Lead Oxide Pigments--Other Yellow
     Pigments--Mosaic Gold--Red Mineral Pigments--The Manufacture of
     Vermilion--Antimony Vermilion--Ferric Oxide Pigments--Other Red
     Mineral Pigments--Purple of Cassius--Blue Mineral
     Pigments--Ultramarine--Manufacture of Ultramarine--Blue Copper
     Pigments--Blue Cobalt Pigments--Smalts--Green Mineral
     Pigments--Emerald Green--Verdigris--Chromium Oxide--Other Green
     Chromium Pigments--Green Cobalt Pigments--Green Manganese
     Pigments--Compounded Green Pigments--Violet Mineral
     Pigments--Brown Mineral Pigments--Brown Decomposition
     Products--Black Pigments--Manufacture of Soot
     Pigments--Manufacture of Lamp Black--The Manufacture of Soot
     Black without Chambers--Indian Ink--Enamel Colours--Metallic
     Pigments--Bronze Pigments--Vegetable Bronze Pigments.

      PIGMENTS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN--Lakes--Yellow Lakes--Red
      Lakes--Manufacture of Carmine--The Colouring Matter of
      Lac--Safflower or Carthamine Red--Madder and its Colouring
      Matters--Madder Lakes--Manjit (Indian Madder)--Lichen
      Colouring Matters--Red Wood Lakes--The Colouring Matters of
      Sandal Wood and Other Dye Woods--Blue Lakes--Indigo
      Carmine--The Colouring Matter of Log Wood--Green Lakes--Brown
      Organic Pigments--Sap Colours--Water
      Colours--Crayons--Confectionery Colours--The Preparation of
      Pigments for Painting--The Examination of
      Pigments--Examination of Lakes--The Testing of Dye-Woods--The
      Design of a Colour Works--Commercial Names of
      Pigments--Appendix: Conversion of Metric to English Weights
      and Measures--Centigrade and Fahrenheit Thermometer
      Scales--Index.


=DICTIONARY OF CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PAINTS, COLOURS, VARNISHES AND ALLIED PREPARATIONS.= By GEORGE H.
HURST, F.C.S. Demy 8vo. 380 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.


=THE MANUFACTURE OF LAKE PIGMENTS FROM ARTIFICIAL COLOURS.= By FRANCIS
H. JENNISON, F.I.C., F.C.S. =Sixteen Coloured Plates, showing Specimens
of Eighty-nine Colours, specially prepared from the Recipes given in
the Book.= 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     The Groups of the Artificial Colouring Matters--The Nature and
     Manipulation of Artificial Colours--Lake-forming Bodies for
     Acid Colours--Lake-forming Bodies' Basic Colours--Lake
     Bases--The Principles of Lake Formation--Red Lakes--Orange,
     Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet and Black Lakes--The Production of
     Insoluble Azo Colours in the Form of Pigments--The General
     Properties of Lakes Produced from Artificial Colours--Washing,
     Filtering and Finishing--Matching and Testing Lake
     Pigments--Index.


=RECIPES FOR THE COLOUR, PAINT, VARNISH, OIL, SOAP AND DRYSALTERY
TRADES.= Compiled by AN ANALYTICAL CHEMIST. 350 pp. 1902. Demy 8vo.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and British Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Pigments or Colours for Paints, Lithographic and Letterpress
     Printing Inks, etc.--Mixed Paints and Preparations for
     Paint-making, Painting, Lime-washing, Paperhanging,
     etc.--Varnishes for Coach-builders, Cabinetmakers,
     Wood-workers, Metal-workers, Photographers, etc.--Soaps for
     Toilet, Cleansing, Polishing, etc.--Perfumes--Lubricating
     Greases, Oils, etc.--Cements, Pastes, Glues and Other Adhesive
     Preparations--Writing, Marking, Endorsing and Other
     Inks--Sealing-wax and Office Requisites--Preparations for the
     Laundry, Kitchen, Stable and General Household
     Uses--Disinfectant Preparations--Miscellaneous
     Preparations--Index.


=OIL COLOURS AND PRINTING INKS.= By LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Translated from
the German. 215 pp. Crown 8vo. 56 Illustrations. 1903. Price 5s.;
India and British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly
Net.

                              Contents.

     Linseed Oil--Poppy Oil--Mechanical Purification of Linseed
     Oil--Chemical Purification of Linseed Oil--Bleaching Linseed
     Oil--Oxidizing Agents for Boiling Linseed Oil--Theory of Oil
     Boiling--Manufacture of Boiled Oil--Adulterations of Boiled
     Oil--Chinese Drying Oil and Other Specialities--Pigments for
     House and Artistic Painting and Inks--Pigment for Printers'
     Black Inks--Substitutes for Lampblack--Machinery for Colour
     Grinding and Rubbing--Machines for mixing Pigments with the
     Vehicle--Paint Mills--Manufacture of House Oil Paints--Ship
     Paints--Luminous Paint--Artists' Colours--Printers'
     Inks:--VEHICLES--Printers' Inks:--PIGMENTS and
     MANUFACTURE--Index.

                  (_See also Writing Inks, p. 11._)


=SIMPLE METHODS FOR TESTING PAINTERS' MATERIALS.= By A. C. WRIGHT, M.A.
(Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Crown 8vo. 160 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; India and
British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly Net.

                              Contents.

     Necessity for Testing--Standards--Arrangement--The
     Apparatus--The Reagents--Practical Tests--Dry Colours--Stiff
     Paints--Liquid and Enamel Paints--Oil Varnishes--Spirit
     Varnishes--Driers--Putty--Linseed Oil--Turpentine--Water
     Stains--The Chemical Examination--Dry Colours and Paints--White
     Pigments and Paints--Yellow Pigments and Paints--Blue Pigments
     and Paints--Green Pigments and Paints--Red Pigments and
     Paints--Brown Pigments and Paints--Black Pigments and
     Paints--Oil Varnishes--Linseed Oil--Turpentine.


=IRON-CORROSION, ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSIVE PAINTS.= Translated
from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two Illustrations. 275 pp.
Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Iron-rust and its Formation--Protection from Rusting by
     Paint--Grounding the Iron with Linseed Oil, etc.--Testing
     Paints--Use of Tar for Painting on Iron--Anti-corrosive
     Paints--Linseed Varnish--Chinese Wood Oil--Lead Pigments--Iron
     Pigments--Artificial Iron Oxides--Carbon--Preparation of
     Anti-corrosive Paints--Results of Examination of Several
     Anti-corrosive Paints--Paints for Ship's Bottoms--Anti-fouling
     Compositions--Various Anti-corrosive and Ship's
     Paints--Official Standard Specifications for Ironwork
     Paints--Index.


=THE TESTING AND VALUATION OF RAW MATERIALS USED IN PAINT AND COLOUR
MANUFACTURE.= By M. W. JONES, F.C.S. A Book for the Laboratories of
Colour Works. 88 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 5s.; India and Colonies,
5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Aluminium Compounds--China Clay--Iron Compounds--Potassium
     Compounds--Sodium Compounds--Ammonium Hydrate--Acids--Chromium
     Compounds--Tin Compounds--Copper Compounds--Lead
     Compounds--Zinc Compounds--Manganese Compounds--Arsenic
     Compounds--Antimony Compounds--Calcium Compounds--Barium
     Compounds--Cadmium Compounds--Mercury
     Compounds--Ultramarine--Cobalt and Carbon
     Compounds--Oils--Index.


=STUDENTS' MANUAL OF PAINTS, COLOURS, OILS AND VARNISHES.= By JOHN
FURNELL. Crown 8vo. 12 Illustrations. 96 pp. 1903. Price 2s. 6d.;
Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Plant--Chromes--Blues--Greens--Earth
     Colours--Blacks--Reds--Lakes--Whites--Painters'
     Oils--Turpentine--Oil Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Liquid
     Paints--Enamel Paints.




                      Varnishes and Drying Oils.


=THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL REFINING AND BOILING, AND KINDRED
INDUSTRIES.= Translated from the French of ACH. LIVACHE, Ingénieur
Civil des Mines. Greatly Extended and Adapted to English Practice,
with numerous Original Recipes by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. 27
Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 1899. Price 12s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Resins--Solvents: Natural, Artificial, Manufacture, Storage,
     Special Use--Colouring Principles, Vegetable, Coal Tar,
     Coloured Resinates, Coloured Oleates and Linoleates--Gum
     Running: Melting Pots, Mixing Pans--Spirit Varnish Manufacture:
     Cold Solution Plant, Mechanical Agitators, Storage
     Plant--Manufacture, Characteristics and Uses of the Spirit
     Varnishes--Manufacture of Varnish Stains--Manufacture of
     Lacquers--Manufacture of Spirit Enamels--Analysis of Spirit
     Varnishes--Physical and Chemical Constants of Resins--Table of
     Solubility of Resins in different Menstrua--Systematic
     qualitative Analysis of Resins, Hirschop's tables--Drying
     Oils--Oil Refining: Processes--Oil Boiling--Driers--Liquid
     Driers--Solidified Boiled Oil--Manufacture of
     Linoleum--Manufacture of India Rubber Substitutes--Printing Ink
     Manufacture--Lithographic Ink Manufacture--Manufacture of Oil
     Varnishes--Running and Special Treatment of Amber, Copal,
     Kauri, Manilla--Addition of Oil to Resin--Addition of Resin to
     Oil--Mixed Processes--Solution in Cold of previously Fused
     Resin--Dissolving Resins in Oil, etc., under
     pressure--Filtration--Clarification--Storage--Ageing--Coachmakers'
     Varnishes and Japans--Oak Varnishes--Japanners' Stoving
     Varnishes--Japanners' Gold Size--Brunswick Black--Various Oil
     Varnishes--Oil-Varnish Stains--Varnishes for "Enamels"--India
     Rubber Varnishes--Varnishes Analysis: Processes,
     Matching--Faults in Varnishes: Cause, Prevention--Experiments
     and Exercises.


=DRYING OILS, BOILED OIL AND SOLID AND LIQUID DRIERS.= By L. E. ANDÉS.
Expressly Written for this Series of Special Technical Books, and the
Publishers hold the Copyright for English and Foreign Editions.
Forty-two Illustrations. 342 pp. 1901. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Properties of the Drying Oils; Cause of the Drying Property;
     Absorption of Oxygen; Behaviour towards Metallic Oxides,
     etc.--The Properties of and Methods for obtaining the Drying
     Oils--Production of the Drying Oils by Expression and
     Extraction; Refining and Bleaching; Oil Cakes and Meal; The
     Refining and Bleaching of the Drying Oils; The Bleaching of
     Linseed Oil--The Manufacture of Boiled Oil; The Preparation of
     Drying Oils for Use in the Grinding of Paints and Artists'
     Colours and in the Manufacture of Varnishes by Heating over a
     Fire or by Steam, by the Cold Process, by the Action of Air,
     and by Means of the Electric Current; The Driers used in
     Boiling Linseed Oil; The Manufacture of Boiled Oil and the
     Apparatus therefor; Livache's Process for Preparing a Good
     Drying Oil and its Practical Application--The Preparation of
     Varnishes for Letterpress, Lithographic and Copperplate
     Printing, for Oilcloth and Waterproof Fabrics; The Manufacture
     of Thickened Linseed Oil, Burnt Oil, Stand Oil by Fire Heat,
     Superheated Steam, and by a Current of Air--Behaviour of the
     Drying Oils and Boiled Oils towards Atmospheric Influences,
     Water, Acids and Alkalies--Boiled Oil Substitutes--The
     Manufacture of Solid and Liquid Driers from Linseed Oil and
     Rosin; Linolic Acid Compounds of the Driers--The Adulteration
     and Examination of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oil.




                   Oils, Fats, Soaps and Perfumes.


=LUBRICATING OILS, FATS AND GREASES=: Their Origin, Preparation,
Properties, Uses and Analyses. A Handbook for Oil Manufacturers,
Refiners and Merchants, and the Oil and Fat Industry in General. By
GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition.
Sixty-five Illustrations. 317 pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Introductory--Hydrocarbon Oils--Scotch Shale
     Oils--Petroleum--Vegetable and Animal Oils--Testing and
     Adulteration of Oils--Lubricating
     Greases--Lubrication--Appendices--Index.


=TECHNOLOGY OF PETROLEUM=: Oil Fields of the World--Their History,
Geography and Geology--Annual Production and Development--Oil-well
Drilling--Transport. By HENRY NEUBERGER and HENRY NOALHAT. Translated
from the French by J. G. McIntosh. 550 pp. 153 Illustrations. 26
Plates. Super Royal 8vo. 1901. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.;
Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Study of the Petroliferous Strata=--Petroleum--Definition--The
     Genesis or Origin of Petroleum--The Oil Fields of Galicia,
     their History--Physical Geography and Geology of the Galician
     Oil Fields--Practical Notes on Galician Land Law--Economic
     Hints on Working, etc.--Roumania--History, Geography,
     Geology--Petroleum in Russia--History--Russian Petroleum
     (_continued_)--Geography and Geology of the Caucasian Oil
     Fields--Russian Petroleum (_continued_)--The Secondary Oil
     Fields of Europe, Northern Germany, Alsace, Italy,
     etc.--Petroleum in France--Petroleum in Asia--Transcaspian and
     Turkestan Territory--Turkestan--Persia--British India and
     Burmah--British Burmah or Lower Burmah--China--Chinese
     Thibet--Japan, Formosa and Saghalien--Petroleum in
     Oceania--Sumatra, Java, Borneo--Isle of Timor--Philippine
     Isles--New Zealand--The United States of
     America--History--Physical Geology and Geography of the United
     States Oil Fields--Canadian and other North American Oil
     Fields--Economic Data of Work in North America--Petroleum in
     the West Indies and South America--Petroleum in the French
     Colonies.

      =Excavations=--Hand Excavation or Hand Digging of Oil Wells.

      =Methods of Boring.=

      =Accidents=--Boring Accidents--Methods of preventing
      them--Methods of remedying them--Explosives and the use of the
      "Torpedo" Levigation--Storing and Transport of
      Petroleum--General Advice--Prospecting, Management and
      carrying on of Petroleum Boring Operations.

      =General Data=--=Customary Formulæ=--Memento. Practical Part.
      General Data bearing on Petroleum--Glossary of Technical Terms
      used in the Petroleum Industry--Copious Index.


=THE PRACTICAL COMPOUNDING OF OILS, TALLOW AND GREASE FOR LUBRICATION,
ETC.= By AN EXPERT OIL REFINER. 100 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Introductory Remarks= on the General Nomenclature of Oils,
     Tallow and Greases suitable for Lubrication--=Hydrocarbon
     Oils=--=Animal and Fish Oils=--=Compound Oils=--=Vegetable
     Oils=--=Lamp Oils=--=Engine Tallow, Solidified Oils and
     Petroleum Jelly=--=Machinery Greases: Loco and
     Anti-friction=--=Clarifying and Utilisation of Waste Fats,
     Oils, Tank Bottoms, Drainings of Barrels and Drums, Pickings
     Up, Dregs, etc.=--=The Fixing and Cleaning of Oil Tanks,
     etc.=--=Appendix and General Information=.


=ANIMAL FATS AND OILS=: Their Practical Production, Purification and
Uses for a great Variety of Purposes. Their Properties, Falsification
and Examination. Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS.
Sixty-two Illustrations. 240 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Introduction--Occurrence, Origin, Properties and Chemical
     Constitution of Animal Fats--Preparation of Animal Fats and
     Oils--Machinery--Tallow-melting Plant--Extraction
     Plant--Presses--Filtering Apparatus--Butter: Raw Material and
     Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Beef Lard or Remelted
     Butter, Testing--Candle-fish Oil--Mutton-Tallow--Hare
     Fat--Goose Fat--Neat's Foot Oil--Bone Fat: Bone Boiling,
     Steaming Bones, Extraction, Refining--Bone Oil--Artificial
     Butter: Oleomargarine, Margarine Manufacture in France,
     Grasso's Process, "Kaiser's Butter," Jahr & Münzberg's Method,
     Filbert's Process, Winter's Method--Human Fat--Horse Fat--Beef
     Marrow--Turtle Oil--Hog's Lard: Raw Material--Preparation,
     Properties, Adulterations, Examination--Lard Oil--Fish
     Oils--Liver Oils--Artificial Train Oil--Wool Fat: Properties,
     Purified Wool Fat--Spermaceti: Examination of Fats and Oils in
     General.


=THE OIL MERCHANTS' MANUAL AND OIL TRADE READY RECKONER.= Compiled by
FRANK F. SHERIFF. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. 214
pp. 1904.

                                                      [_In the press._

                              Contents.

     Trade Terms and Customs--Tables to Ascertain Value of Oil sold
     per cwt. or ton--Specific Gravity Tables--Percentage Tare
     Tables--Petroleum Tables--Paraffine and Benzoline
     Calculations--Customary Drafts--Tables for Calculating
     Allowance for Dirt, Water, etc.--Capacity of Circular Tanks
     Tables, etc., etc.


=VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS=: Their Practical Preparation, Purification and
Employment for Various Purposes, their Properties, Adulteration and
Examination. Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS.
Ninety-four Illustrations. 340 pp. Second Edition. 1902. Demy 8vo.
Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =General Properties=--=Estimation of the Amount of Oil in
     Seeds=--=The Preparation of Vegetable Fats and Oils=--Apparatus
     for Grinding Oil Seeds and Fruits--=Installation of Oil and Fat
     Works=--Extraction Method of Obtaining Oils and Fats--Oil
     Extraction Installations--Press Moulds--=Non-drying Vegetable
     Oils=--=Vegetable drying Oils=--=Solid Vegetable Fats=--Fruits
     Yielding Oils and Fats--Wool-softening Oils--Soluble
     Oils--Treatment of the Oil after Leaving the Press--Improved
     Methods of Refining--=Bleaching Fats and Oils=--Practical
     Experiments on the Treatment of Oils with regard to Refining
     and Bleaching--Testing Oils and Fats.


=SOAPS.= A Practical Manual of the Manufacture of Domestic, Toilet and
other Soaps. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. 390 pp. 66 Illustrations.
1898. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries,
15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Introductory--Soap-maker's Alkalies--Soap Fats and
     Oils--Perfumes--Water as a Soap Material--Soap
     Machinery--Technology of Soap-making--Glycerine in Soap
     Lyes--Laying out a Soap Factory--Soap Analysis--Appendices.=


=THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND ARTIFICIAL PERFUMES.= By ERNEST J.
PARRY, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S. 411 pp. 20 Illustrations. 1899.
Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =The General Properties of Essential Oils=--=Compounds occurring
     in Essential Oils=--=The Preparation of Essential Oils=--=The
     Analysis of Essential Oils=--=Systematic Study of the Essential
     Oils=--=Terpeneless Oils=--=The Chemistry of Artificial
     Perfumes=--=Appendix=: Table of Constants--=Index=.

                  (_For "Textile Soaps" see p. 32._)




                       Cosmetical Preparations.


=COSMETICS: MANUFACTURE, EMPLOYMENT AND TESTING OF ALL COSMETIC
MATERIALS AND COSMETIC SPECIALITIES.= Translated from the German of Dr.
THEODOR KOLLER. Crown 8vo. 262 pp. 1902. Price 5s.; India and
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s. net.

                              Contents.

     =Purposes and Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation
     of Cosmetics--Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure,
     Distillation, Maceration, Absorption or Enfleurage, and
     Extraction Methods--Chemical and Animal Products used in the
     Preparation of Cosmetics--Oils and Fats used in the Preparation
     of Cosmetics--General Cosmetic Preparations--Mouth Washes and
     Tooth Pastes--Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers and
     Depilatories--Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities--Colouring
     Cosmetic Preparations--Antiseptic Washes and Soaps--Toilet and
     Hygienic Soaps--Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion,
     Teeth, Mouth, etc.--Testing and Examining the Materials
     Employed in the Manufacture of Cosmetics--Index.=




                   Glue, Bone Products and Manures.


=GLUE AND GLUE TESTING.= By SAMUEL RIDEAL, D.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C.
Fourteen Engravings. 144 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Constitution and Properties=: Definitions and Sources, Gelatine,
     Chondrin and Allied Bodies, Physical and Chemical Properties,
     Classification, Grades and Commercial Varieties--=Raw Materials
     and Manufacture=: Glue Stock, Lining, Extraction, Washing and
     Clarifying, Filter Presses, Water Supply, Use of Alkalies,
     Action of Bacteria and of Antiseptics, Various Processes,
     Cleansing, Forming, Drying, Crushing, etc., Secondary
     Products--=Uses of Glue=: Selection and Preparation for Use,
     Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding, Printing
     Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.,
     Substitutes for other Materials, Artificial Leather and
     Caoutchouc--=Gelatine=: General Characters, Liquid Gelatine,
     Photographic Uses, Size, Tanno-, Chrome and Formo-Gelatine,
     Artificial Silk, Cements, Pneumatic Tyres, Culinary, Meat
     Extracts, Isinglass, Medicinal and other Uses,
     Bacteriology--=Glue Testing=: Review of Processes, Chemical
     Examination, Adulteration, Physical Tests, Valuation of Raw
     Materials--=Commercial Aspects=.


=BONE PRODUCTS AND MANURES=: An Account of the most recent Improvements
in the Manufacture of Fat, Glue, Animal Charcoal, Size, Gelatine and
Manures. By THOMAS LAMBERT, Technical and Consulting Chemist.
Illustrated by Twenty-one Plans and Diagrams. 162 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Chemical Composition of Bones--Arrangement of Factory--Crushing
     of Bones--Treatment with Benzene--Benzene in Crude
     Fat--Analyses of Clarified Fats--Mechanical Cleansing of
     Bones--Animal Charcoal--Tar and Ammoniacal Liquor, Char and
     Gases, from good quality Bones--Method of Retorting the
     Bones--Analyses of Chars--"Spent" Chars--Cooling of Tar and
     Ammoniacal Vapours--Value of Nitrogen for Cyanide of
     Potash--Bone Oil--Marrow Bones--Composition of Marrow
     Fat--Premier Juice--Buttons--Properties of Glue--Glutin and
     Chondrin--Skin Glue--Liming of Skins--Washing--Boiling of
     Skins--Clarification of Glue Liquors--Acid Steeping of
     Bones--Water System of Boiling Bones--Steam Method of Treating
     Bones--Nitrogen in the Treated Bones--Glue-Boiling and
     Clarifying-House--Plan showing Arrangement of Clarifying
     Vats--Plan showing Position of Evaporators--Description of
     Evaporators--Sulphurous Acid Generator--Clarification of
     Liquors--Section of Drying-House--Specification of a
     Glue--Size--Uses and Preparation and Composition of
     Size--Concentrated Size--Properties of Gelatine--Preparation of
     Skin Gelatine--Washing--Bleaching--Boiling--Clarification--
     Evaporation--Drying--Bone Gelatine--Selecting
     Bones--Crushing--Dissolving--Bleaching--Boiling--Properties of
     Glutin and Chondrin--Testing of Glues and Gelatines--The Uses
     of Glue, Gelatine and Size in Various Trades--Soluble and
     Liquid Glues--Steam and Waterproof Glues--=Manures=--Importation
     of Food Stuffs--Soils--Germination--Plant Life--=Natural
     Manures=--Water and Nitrogen in Farmyard Manure--Full Analysis
     of Farmyard Manure--Action on Crops--Water-Closet System--
     Sewage Manure--Green Manures--=Artificial Manures=--=Mineral
     Manures=--Nitrogenous Matters--Shoddy--Hoofs and Horns--Leather
     Waste--Dried Meat--Dried
     Blood--Superphosphates--Composition--Manufacture--Section of
     Manure-Shed--First and Ground Floor Plans of
     Manure-Shed--Quality of Acid Used--Mixings--Special
     Manures--Potato Manure--Dissolved Bones--Dissolved Bone
     Compound--Enriched Peruvian Guano--Special Manure for Garden
     Stuffs, etc.--Special Manures--Analyses of Raw and Finished
     Products--Common Raw Bones--Degreased Bones--Crude Fat--Refined
     Fat--Degelatinised Bones--Animal Charcoal--Bone
     Superphosphates--Guanos--Dried Animal Products--Potash Compounds--
     Sulphate of Ammonia--Extraction in Vacuo--French and British
     Gelatines compared--Index.




        Chemicals, Waste Products and Agricultural Chemistry.


REISSUE OF =CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C. W. SCHEELE=. First Published in
English in 1786. Translated from the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm,
with Additions. 300 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies,
5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Memoir: C. W. Scheele and his work (written for this edition by
     J. G. McIntosh)--On Fluor Mineral and its Acid--On Fluor
     Mineral--Chemical Investigation of Fluor Acid, with a View to
     the Earth which it Yields, by Mr. Wiegler--Additional
     Information Concerning Fluor Minerals--On Manganese, Magnesium,
     or Magnesia Vitrariorum--On Arsenic and its Acid--Remarks upon
     Salts of Benzoin--On Silex, Clay and Alum--Analysis of the
     Calculus Vesical--Method of Preparing Mercurius Dulcis Via
     Humida--Cheaper and more Convenient Method of Preparing Pulvis
     Algarothi--Experiments upon Molybdæna--Experiments on
     Plumbago--Method of Preparing a New Green Colour--Of the
     Decomposition of Neutral Salts by Unslaked Lime and Iron--On
     the Quantity of Pure Air which is Daily Present in our
     Atmosphere--On Milk and its Acid--On the Acid of Saccharum
     Lactis--On the Constituent Parts of Lapis Ponderosus or
     Tungsten--Experiments and Observations on Ether--Index.


=THE MANUFACTURE OF ALUM AND THE SULPHATES AND OTHER SALTS OF ALUMINA
AND IRON.= Their Uses and Applications as Mordants in Dyeing and Calico
Printing, and their other Applications in the Arts, Manufactures,
Sanitary Engineering, Agriculture and Horticulture. Translated from
the French of LUCIEN GESCHWIND. 195 Illustrations. 400 pp. Royal 8vo.
1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries,
15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Theoretical Study of Aluminium, Iron, and Compounds of these
     Metals=--Aluminium and its Compounds--Iron and Iron Compounds.

      =Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphates and Sulphates of
      Iron=--Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphate and the
      Alums--Manufacture of Sulphates of Iron.

      =Uses of the Sulphates of Aluminium and Iron=--Uses of Aluminium
      Sulphate and Alums--Application to Wool and Silk--Preparing
      and using Aluminium Acetates--Employment of Aluminium Sulphate
      in Carbonising Wool--The Manufacture of Lake
      Pigments--Manufacture of Prussian Blue--Hide and Leather
      Industry--Paper Making--Hardening Plaster--Lime
      Washes--Preparation of Non-inflammable Wood,
      etc.--Purification of Waste Waters--=Uses and Applications of
      Ferrous Sulphate and Ferric Sulphates=--Dyeing--Manufacture of
      Pigments--Writing Inks--Purification of Lighting
      Gas--Agriculture--Cotton Dyeing--Disinfectant--Purifying Waste
      Liquors--Manufacture of Nordhausen Sulphuric
      Acid--Fertilising.

      =Chemical Characteristics of Iron and Aluminium=--=Analysis of
      Various Aluminous or Ferruginous
      Products=--Aluminium--=Analysing Aluminium Products=--Alunite
      Alumina--Sodium Aluminate--Aluminium
      Sulphate--Iron--Analytical Characteristics of Iron
      Salts--Analysis of Pyritic Lignite--Ferrous and Ferric
      Sulphates--Rouil Mordant--Index.


=AMMONIA AND ITS COMPOUNDS=: Their Manufacture and Uses. By CAMILLE
VINCENT, Professor at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures,
Paris. Translated from the French by M. J. SALTER. Royal 8vo. 114 pp.
1901. Thirty-two Illustrations. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s.
6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =General Considerations=: Various Sources of Ammoniacal Products;
     Human Urine as a Source of Ammonia--=Extraction of Ammoniacal
     Products from Sewage=--=Extraction of Ammonia from Gas
     Liquor=--=Manufacture of Ammoniacal Compounds from Bones,
     Nitrogenous Waste, Beetroot Wash and Peat=--=Manufacture of
     Caustic Ammonia, and Ammonium Chloride, Phosphate and
     Carbonate=--=Recovery of Ammonia from the Ammonia-Soda Mother
     Liquors=--=Index=.


=ANALYSIS OF RESINS AND BALSAMS.= Translated from the German of Dr. KARL
DIETERICH. Demy 8vo. 340 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Definition of Resins in General--Definition of Balsams, and
     especially the Gum Resins--External and Superficial
     Characteristics of Resinous Bodies--Distinction between
     Resinous Bodies and Fats and Oils--Origin, Occurrence and
     Collection of Resinous Substances--Classification--Chemical
     Constituents of Resinous Substances--Resinols--Resinot
     Annols--Behaviour of Resin Constituents towards the
     Cholesterine Reactions--Uses and Identification of
     Resins--Melting-point--Solvents--Acid Value--Saponification
     Value--Resin Value--Ester and Ether Values--Acetyl and Corbonyl
     Value--Methyl Value--Resin Acid--Systematic Résumé of the
     Performance of the Acid and Saponification Value Tests.

      =Balsams=--Introduction--Definitions--Canada Balsam--Copaiba
      Balsam--Angostura Copaiba Balsam--Babia Copaiba
      Balsam--Carthagena Copaiba Balsam--Maracaibo Copaiba
      Balsam--Maturin Copaiba Balsam--Gurjum Copaiba Balsam--Para
      Copaiba Balsam--Surinam Copaiba Balsam--West African Copaiba
      Balsam--Mecca Balsam--Peruvian Balsam--Tolu Balsam--Acaroid
      Resin--Amine--Amber--African and West Indian Kino--Bengal
      Kino--Labdanum--Mastic--Pine
      Resin--Sandarach--Scammonium--Shellac--Storax--Adulteration of
      Styrax Liquidus Crudus--Purified Storax--Styrax Crudus
      Colatus--Tacamahac--Thapsia Resin--Turpentine--Chios
      Turpentine--Strassburg Turpentine--Turpeth Turpentine. =Gum
      Resins=--Ammoniacum--Bdellium--Euphorbium--Galbanum--
      Gamboge--Lactucarium--Myrrh--Opopanax--Sagapenum--Olibanum
      or Incense--Acaroid Resin--Amber--Thapsia Resin--Index.


=MANUAL OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.= By HERBERT INGLE, F.I.C., Lecturer
on Agricultural Chemistry, the Yorkshire College; Lecturer in the
Victoria University. 388 pp. 11 Illustrations. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price
7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.

                              Contents.

     Introduction--The Atmosphere--The Soil--The Reactions occurring
     in Soils--The Analysis of Soils--Manures, Natural--Manures
     (continued)--The Analysis of Manures--The Constituents of
     Plants--The Plant--Crops--The Animal--Foods and Feeding--Milk
     and Milk Products--The Analysis of Milk and Milk
     Products--Miscellaneous Products used in
     Agriculture--Appendix--Index.


=THE UTILISATION OF WASTE PRODUCTS.= A Treatise on the Rational
Utilisation, Recovery and Treatment of Waste Products of all kinds. By
Dr. THEODOR KOLLER. Translated from the Second Revised German Edition.
Twenty-two Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 280 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     The Waste of Towns--=Ammonia and Sal-Ammoniac=--Rational
     Processes for Obtaining these Substances by Treating Residues
     and Waste--Residues in the Manufacture of Aniline Dyes--Amber
     Waste--Brewers' Waste--Blood and Slaughter-House
     Refuse--Manufactured Fuels--Waste Paper and Bookbinders'
     Waste--Iron Slags--Excrement--Colouring Matters from
     Waste--Dyers' Waste Waters--Fat from Waste--Fish
     Waste--Calamine Sludge--Tannery Waste--Gold and Silver
     Waste--India-rubber and Caoutchouc Waste--Residues in the
     Manufacture of Rosin Oil--Wood Waste--Horn Waste--Infusorial
     Earth--Iridium from Goldsmiths' Sweepings--Jute Waste--Cork
     Waste--Leather Waste--Glue Makers' Waste--Illuminating Gas from
     Waste and the By-Products of the Manufacture of Coal
     Gas--Meerchum--Molasses--Metal Waste--By-Products in the
     Manufacture of Mineral Waters--Fruit--The By-Products of Paper
     and Paper Pulp Works--By-Products in the Treatment of Coal Tar
     Oils--Fur Waste--The Waste Matter in the Manufacture of
     Parchment Paper--Mother of Pearl Waste--Petroleum
     Residues--Platinum Residues--Broken Porcelain, Earthenware and
     Glass--Salt Waste--Slate Waste--Sulphur--Burnt Pyrites--Silk
     Waste--Soap Makers' Waste--Alkali Waste and the Recovery of
     Soda--Waste Produced in Grinding Mirrors--Waste Products in the
     Manufacture of Starch--Stearic Acid--Vegetable Ivory
     Waste--Turf--Waste Waters of Cloth Factories--Wine
     Residues--Tinplate Waste--Wool Waste--Wool Sweat--The Waste
     Liquids from Sugar Works--Index.




                   Writing Inks and Sealing Waxes.


=INK MANUFACTURE:= Including Writing, Copying, Lithographic, Marking,
Stamping, and Laundry Inks. By SIGMUND LEHNER. Three Illustrations.
Crown 8vo. 162 pp. 1902. Translated from the German of the Fifth
Edition. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
net.

                              Contents.

     Varieties of Ink--Writing Inks--Raw Materials of Tannin
     Inks--The Chemical Constitution of the Tannin Inks--Recipes for
     Tannin Inks--Logwood Tannin Inks--Ferric Inks--Alizarine
     Inks--Extract Inks--Logwood Inks--Copying
     Inks--Hektographs--Hektograph Inks--Safety Inks--Ink Extracts
     and Powders--Preserving Inks--Changes in Ink and the
     Restoration of Faded Writing--Coloured Inks--Red Inks--Blue
     Inks--Violet Inks--Yellow Inks--Green Inks--Metallic
     Inks--Indian Ink--Lithographic Inks and Pencils--Ink
     Pencils--Marking Inks--Ink Specialities--Sympathetic
     Inks--Stamping Inks--Laundry or Washing Blue--Index.


=SEALING-WAXES, WAFERS AND OTHER ADHESIVES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD, OFFICE,
WORKSHOP AND FACTORY.= By H. C. STANDAGE. Crown 8vo. 96 pp. 1902. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Materials Used for Making Sealing-Waxes=--The Manufacture of
     Sealing-Waxes--Wafers--Notes on the Nature of the Materials
     Used in Making Adhesive Compounds--Cements for Use in the
     Household--Office Gums, Pastes and Mucilages--Adhesive
     Compounds for Factory and Workshop Use.




                       Lead Ores and Compounds.


=LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS.= By THOS. LAMBERT, Technical and Consulting
Chemist. Demy 8vo. 226 pp. Forty Illustrations. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; net. Plans and
Diagrams.

                              Contents.

     History--Ores of Lead--Geographical Distribution of the Lead
     Industry--Chemical and Physical Properties of Lead--Alloys of
     Lead--Compounds of Lead--Dressing of Lead Ores--Smelting of
     Lead Ores--Smelting in the Scotch or American
     Ore-hearth--Smelting in the Shaft or Blast
     Furnace--Condensation of Lead Fume--Desilverisation, or the
     Separation of Silver from Argentiferous Lead--Cupellation--The
     Manufacture of Lead Pipes and Sheets--Protoxide of
     Lead--Litharge and Massicot--Red Lead or Minium--Lead
     Poisoning--Lead Substitutes--Zinc and its Compounds--Pumice
     Stone--Drying Oils and Siccatives--Oil of Turpentine
     Resin--Classification of Mineral Pigments--Analysis of Raw and
     Finished Products--Tables--Index.


=NOTES ON LEAD ORES=: Their Distribution and Properties. By JAS. FAIRIE,
F.G.S. Crown 8vo. 1901. 64 pages. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly
net.




               Industrial Uses of Air, Steam and Water.


=DRYING BY MEANS OF AIR AND STEAM.= Explanations, Formulæ, and Tables
for Use in Practice. Translated from the German of E. HAUSBRAND. Two
folding Diagrams and Thirteen Tables. Crown 8vo. 1901. 72 pp. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     British and Metric Systems Compared--Centigrade and Fahr.
     Thermometers--Estimation of the Maximum Weight of Saturated
     Aqueous Vapour which can be contained in 1 kilo. of Air at
     Different Pressure and Temperatures--Calculation of the
     Necessary Weight and Volume of Air, and of the Least
     Expenditure of Heat, per Drying Apparatus with Heated Air, at
     the Atmospheric Pressure: _A_, With the Assumption that the Air
     is _Completely Saturated_ with Vapour both before Entry and
     after Exit from the Apparatus--_B_, When the Atmospheric Air is
     Completely Saturated _before entry_, but at its _exit_ is
     _only_ 3/4, 1/2 or 1/4 Saturated--_C_, When the Atmospheric Air
     is _not_ Saturated with Moisture before Entering the Drying
     Apparatus--Drying Apparatus, in which, in the Drying Chamber, a
     Pressure is Artificially Created, Higher or Lower than that of
     the Atmosphere--Drying by Means of Superheated Steam, without
     Air--Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air Current, Dimensions
     of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material, Losses of
     Heat--Index.

 (_See also "Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus," p. 26._)


=PURE AIR, OZONE AND WATER.= A Practical Treatise of their Utilisation
and Value in Oil, Grease, Soap, Paint, Glue and other Industries. By
W. B. COWELL. Twelve Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 85 pp. 1900. Price 5s.;
India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Atmospheric Air; Lifting of Liquids; Suction Process; Preparing
     Blown Oils; Preparing Siccative Drying Oils--Compressed Air;
     Whitewash--Liquid Air; Retrocession--Purification of Water;
     Water Hardness--Fleshings and Bones--Ozonised Air in the
     Bleaching and Deodorising of Fats, Glues, etc.; Bleaching
     Textile Fibres--Appendix: Air and Gases; Pressure of Air at
     Various Temperatures; Fuel; Table of Combustibles; Saving of
     Fuel by Heating Feed Water; Table of Solubilities of Scale
     Making Minerals; British Thermal Units Tables; Volume of the
     Flow of Steam into the Atmosphere; Temperature of Steam--Index.


=THE INDUSTRIAL USES OF WATER.
COMPOSITION--EFFECTS--TROUBLES--REMEDIES--RESIDUARY
WATERS--PURIFICATION--ANALYSIS.= By H. DE LA COUX. Royal 8vo.
Translated from the French. 364 pp. 135 Illustrations. 1903. Price
10s. 6d.; Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Chemical Action of Water in Nature and in Industrial
     Use--Composition of Waters--Solubility of Certain Salts in
     Water Considered from the Industrial Point of View--Effects on
     the Boiling of Water--Effects of Water in the
     Industries--Difficulties with Water--Feed Water for
     Boilers--Water in Dyeworks, Print Works, and Bleach
     Works--Water in the Textile Industries and in
     Conditioning--Water in Soap Works--Water in Laundries and
     Wash-houses--Water in Tanning--Water in Preparing Tannin and
     Dyewood Extracts--Water in Papermaking--Water in
     Photography--Water in Sugar Refining--Water in Making Ices and
     Beverages--Water in Cider Making--Water in Brewing--Water in
     Distilling--Preliminary Treatment and Apparatus--Substances
     Used for Preliminary Chemical Purification--Commercial
     Specialities and their Employment--Precipitation of Matters in
     Suspension in Water--Apparatus for the Preliminary Chemical
     Purification of Water--Industrial Filters--Industrial
     Sterilisation of Water--Residuary Waters and their
     Purification--Soil Filtration--Purification by Chemical
     Processes--Analyses--Index.

 (_See Books on Smoke Prevention, Engineering and Metallurgy, p. 26,
                                etc._)




                         Industrial Hygiene.


=THE RISKS AND DANGERS TO HEALTH OF VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS AND THEIR
PREVENTION.= By LEONARD A. PARRY, M.D., B.S. (Lond.). 196 pp. Demy 8vo.
1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Occupations which are Accompanied by the Generation and
     Scattering of Abnormal Quantities of Dust--Trades in which
     there is Danger of Metallic Poisoning--Certain Chemical
     Trades--Some Miscellaneous Occupations--Trades in which Various
     Poisonous Vapours are Inhaled--General Hygienic
     Considerations--Index.




                               X-Rays.


=PRACTICAL X RAY WORK.= By FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C.,
Member of the Roentgen Society of London; Radiographer to St. George's
Hospital; Demonstrator of Physics and Chemistry, and Teacher of
Radiography in St. George's Hospital Medical School. Demy 8vo. Twelve
Plates from Photographs of X-Ray Work. Fifty-two Illustrations. 200
pp. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries,
12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Historical=--Work leading up to the Discovery of the X Rays--The
     Discovery--=Apparatus and its Management=--Electrical
     Terms--Sources of Electricity--Induction Coils--Electrostatic
     Machines--Tubes--Air Pumps--Tube Holders and Stereoscopic
     Apparatus--Fluorescent Screens--=Practical X-Ray
     Work=--Installations--Radioscopy--Radiography--X Rays in
     Dentistry--X Rays in Chemistry--X Rays in War--Index.

                           List of Plates.

     _Frontispiece_--Congenital Dislocation of Hip-Joint.--I.,
     Needle in Finger.--II., Needle in Foot.--III., Revolver Bullet
     in Calf and Leg.--IV., A Method of Localisation.--V., Stellate
     Fracture of Patella showing shadow of "Strapping".--VI.,
     Sarcoma.--VII., Six-weeks-old Injury to Elbow showing new
     Growth of Bone.--VIII., Old Fracture of Tibia and Fibula badly
     set.--IX., Heart Shadow.--X., Fractured Femur showing Grain of
     Splint.--XI., Barrett's Method of Localisation.




                    India-Rubber and Gutta Percha.


=INDIA-RUBBER AND GUTTA PERCHA.= Translated from the French of T.
SEELIGMANN, G. LAMY TORVILHON and H. FALCONNET by JOHN GEDDES
MCINTOSH. Royal 8vo. Eighty-six Illustrations. Three Plates. 412
pages. 1903. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =India-Rubber=--Botanical Origin--Climatology--Soil--Rational
     Culture and Acclimation of the Different Species of
     India-Rubber Plants--Methods of Obtaining the Latex--Methods of
     Preparing Raw or Crude India-Rubber--Classification of the
     Commercial Species of Raw Rubber--Physical and Chemical
     Properties of the Latex and of India-Rubber--Mechanical
     Transformation of Natural Caoutchouc into Washed or Normal
     Caoutchouc (Purification) and Normal Rubber into Masticated
     Rubber--Softening, Cutting, Washing, Drying--Preliminary
     Observations--Vulcanisation of Normal Rubber--Chemical and
     Physical Properties of Vulcanised Rubber--General
     Considerations--Hardened Rubber or Ebonite--Considerations on
     Mineralisation and other Mixtures--Coloration and
     Dyeing--Analysis of Natural or Normal Rubber and Vulcanised
     Rubber--Rubber Substitutes--Imitation Rubber.

      =Gutta Percha=--Botanical Origin--Climatology--Soil--Rational
      Culture--Methods of Collection--Classification of the
      Different Species of Commercial Gutta Percha--Physical and
      Chemical Properties--Mechanical Transformation--Methods of
      Analysing--Gutta Percha Substitutes--Index.




                           Leather Trades.


=PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LEATHER INDUSTRY.= By A. M. VILLON.
Translated by FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S.; and
Corrected by an Eminent Member of the Trade. 500 pp., royal 8vo. 1901.
123 Illustrations. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other
Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Preface--Translator's Preface--List of Illustrations.

      Part I., =Materials used in Tanning=--Skins: Skin and its
      Structure; Skins used in Tanning; Various Skins and their
      Uses--Tannin and Tanning Substances: Tannin; Barks (Oak);
      Barks other than Oak; Tanning Woods; Tannin-bearing Leaves;
      Excrescences; Tan-bearing Fruits; Tan-bearing Roots and Bulbs;
      Tanning Juices; Tanning Substances used in Various Countries;
      Tannin Extracts; Estimation of Tannin and Tannin Principles.

      Part II., =Tanning=--The Installation of a Tannery: Tan
      Furnaces; Chimneys, Boilers, etc.; Steam Engines--Grinding and
      Trituration of Tanning Substances: Cutting up Bark; Grinding
      Bark; The Grinding of Tan Woods; Powdering Fruit, Galls and
      Grains; Notes on the Grinding of Bark--Manufacture of Sole
      Leather: Soaking; Sweating and Unhairing; Plumping and
      Colouring; Handling; Tanning; Tanning Elephants' Hides;
      Drying; Striking or Pinning--Manufacture of Dressing Leather:
      Soaking; Depilation; New Processes for the Depilation of
      Skins; Tanning; Cow Hides; Horse Hides; Goat Skins;
      Manufacture of Split Hides--On Various Methods of Tanning:
      Mechanical Methods; Physical Methods; Chemical Methods;
      Tanning with Extracts--Quantity and Quality; Quantity; Net
      Cost; Quality of Leather--Various Manipulations of Tanned
      Leather; Second Tanning; Grease Stains; Bleaching Leather;
      Waterproofing Leather; Weighting Tanned Leather; Preservation
      of Leather--Tanning Various Skins.

      Part III., =Currying=--Waxed Calf: Preparation; Shaving;
      Stretching or Slicking; Oiling the Grain; Oiling the Flesh
      Side; Whitening and Graining; Waxing; Finishing; Dry
      Finishing; Finishing in Colour; Cost--White Calf: Finishing in
      White--Cow Hide for Upper Leathers: Black Cow Hide; White Cow
      Hide; Coloured Cow Hide--Smooth Cow Hide--Black
      Leather--Miscellaneous Hides: Horse; Goat; Waxed Goat Skin;
      Matt Goat Skin--Russia Leather: Russia Leather; Artificial
      Russia Leather.

      Part IV., =Enamelled, Hungary and Chamoy Leather, Morocco,
      Parchment, Furs and Artificial Leather=--Enamelled Leather:
      Varnish Manufacture; Application of the Enamel; Enamelling in
      Colour--Hungary Leather: Preliminary; Wet Work or Preparation;
      Aluming; Dressing or Loft Work; Tallowing; Hungary Leather
      from Various Hides--Tawing: Preparatory Operations; Dressing;
      Dyeing Tawed Skins; Rugs--Chamoy Leather--Morocco: Preliminary
      Operations, Morocco Tanning: Mordants used in Morocco
      Manufacture; Natural Colours used in Morocco Dyeing;
      Artificial Colours; Different Methods of Dyeing; Dyeing with
      Natural Colours; Dyeing with Aniline Colours; Dyeing with
      Metallic Salts; Leather Printing; Finishing Morocco; Shagreen;
      Bronzed Leather--Gilding and Silvering: Gilding; Silvering;
      Nickel and Cobalt--Parchment--Furs and Furriery: Preliminary
      Remarks; Indigenous Furs; Foreign Furs from Hot Countries;
      Foreign Furs from Cold Countries; Furs from Birds' Skins;
      Preparation of Furs; Dressing; Colouring; Preparation of
      Birds' Skins; Preservation of Furs--Artificial Leather:
      Leather made from Scraps; Compressed Leather; American Cloth;
      Papier Mâché; Linoleum; Artificial Leather.

      Part V., =Leather Testing and the Theory of Tanning=--Testing
      and Analysis of Leather; Physical Testing of Tanned Leather;
      Chemical Analysis--The Theory of Tanning and the other
      Operations of the Leather and Skin Industry: Theory of
      Soaking; Theory of Unhairing; Theory of Swelling; Theory of
      Handling; Theory of Tanning; Theory of the Action of Tannin on
      the Skin; Theory of Hungary Leather Making; Theory of Tawing;
      Theory of Chamoy Leather Making; Theory of Mineral Tanning.

      Part VI., =Uses of Leather=--Machine Belts: Manufacture of
      Belting; Leather Chain Belts; Various Belts, Use of
      Belts--Boot and Shoe-making: Boots and Shoes; Laces--Saddlery:
      Composition of a Saddle; Construction of a Saddle--Harness:
      The Pack Saddle; Harness--Military Equipment--Glove
      Making--Carriage Building--Mechanical Uses.

      Appendix, =The World's Commerce in Leather=--Europe; America;
      Asia; Africa; Australasia--Index.


=THE LEATHER WORKER'S MANUAL.= Being a Compendium of Practical Recipes
and Working Formulæ for Curriers, Bootmakers, Leather Dressers,
Blacking Manufacturers, Saddlers, Fancy Leather Workers. By H. C.
STANDAGE. 165 pp. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Blackings, Polishes, Glosses, Dressings, Renovators, etc., for
     Boot and Shoe Leather--Harness Blackings, Dressings, Greases,
     Compositions, Soaps, and Boot-top Powders and Liquids, etc.,
     etc.--Leather Grinders' Sundries--Currier's Seasonings,
     Blacking Compounds, Dressings, Finishes, Glosses, etc.--Dyes
     and Stains for Leather--Miscellaneous Information--Chrome
     Tannage--Index.




             Books on Pottery, Bricks, Tiles, Glass, etc.


=THE MANUAL OF PRACTICAL POTTING.= Compiled by Experts, and Edited by
CHAS. F. BINNS. Revised Third Edition and Enlarged. 200 pp. 1901.
Price 17s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 18s. 6d.; Other Countries, 20s.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Introduction.= The Rise and Progress of the Potter's
     Art--=Bodies.= China and Porcelain Bodies, Parian Bodies,
     Semi-porcelain and Vitreous Bodies, Mortar Bodies, Earthenwares
     Granite and C.C. Bodies, Miscellaneous Bodies, Sagger and
     Crucible Clays, Coloured Bodies, Jasper Bodies, Coloured Bodies
     for Mosaic Painting, Encaustic Tile Bodies, Body Stains,
     Coloured Dips--=Glazes.= China Glazes, Ironstone Glazes,
     Earthenware Glazes, Glazes without Lead, Miscellaneous Glazes,
     Coloured Glazes, Majolica Colours--=Gold and Gold Colours.= Gold,
     Purple of Cassius, Marone and Ruby, Enamel Coloured Bases,
     Enamel Colour Fluxes, Enamel Colours, Mixed Enamel Colours,
     Antique and Vellum Enamel Colours, Underglaze Colours,
     Underglaze Colour Fluxes, Mixed Underglaze Colours, Flow
     Powders, Oils and Varnishes--=Means and Methods.= Reclamation of
     Waste Gold, The Use of Cobalt, Notes on Enamel Colours, Liquid
     or Bright Gold--=Classification and Analysis.= Classification of
     Clay Ware, Lord Playfair's Analysis of Clays, The Markets of
     the World, Time and Scale of Firing, Weights of Potter's
     Material, Decorated Goods Count--Comparative Loss of Weight of
     Clays--Ground Felspar Calculations--The Conversion of Slop Body
     Recipes into Dry Weight--The Cost of Prepared Earthenware
     Clay--=Forms and Tables.= Articles of Apprenticeship,
     Manufacturer's Guide to Stocktaking, Table of Relative Values
     of Potter's Materials, Hourly Wages Table, Workman's Settling
     Table, Comparative Guide for Earthenware and China
     Manufacturers in the use of Slop Flint and Slop Stone, Foreign
     Terms applied to Earthenware and China Goods, Table for the
     Conversion of Metrical Weights and Measures on the Continent
     and South America--=Index.=


=CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY=: Being some Aspects of Technical Science as Applied
to Pottery Manufacture. Edited by CHARLES F. BINNS. 100 pp. Demy 8vo.
1897. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries,
15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Preface--The Chemistry of Pottery--Analysis and
     Synthesis--Clays and their Components--The Biscuit
     Oven--Pyrometry--Glazes and their Composition--Colours and
     Colour-making--Index.


=A TREATISE ON THE CERAMIC INDUSTRIES.= A Complete Manual for Pottery,
Tile and Brick Works. By EMILE BOURRY. Translated from the French by
WILTON P. RIX, Examiner in Pottery and Porcelain to the City and
Guilds of London Technical Institute, Pottery Instructor to the Hanley
School Board. Royal 8vo. 1901. 760 pp. 323 Illustrations. Price 21s.;
India and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Part I., =General Pottery Methods=. Definition and History.
     Definitions and Classification of Ceramic Products--Historic
     Summary of the Ceramic Art--Raw Materials of Bodies. Clays:
     Pure Clay and Natural Clays--Various Raw Materials: Analogous
     to Clay--Agglomerative and
     Agglutinative--Opening--Fusible--Refractory--Trials of Raw
     Materials--Plastic Bodies. Properties and
     Composition--Preparation of Raw Materials:
     Disaggregation--Purification--Preparation of Bodies: By Plastic
     Method--By Dry Method--By Liquid Method--Formation. Processes
     of Formation: Throwing--Expression--Moulding by Hand, on the
     Jolley, by Compression, by Slip
     Casting--Slapping--Slipping--Drying. Drying of
     Bodies--Processes of Drying: By Evaporation--By Aeration--By
     Heating--By Ventilation--By Absorption--Glazes. Composition and
     Properties--Raw Materials--Manufacture and Application--Firing.
     Properties of the Bodies and Glazes during Firing--Description
     of the Kilns--Working of the Kilns--Decoration. Colouring
     Materials--Processes of Decoration.

     Part II., =Special Pottery Methods=. Terra Cottas.
     Classification: Plain Ordinary, Hollow, Ornamental, Vitrified,
     and Light Bricks--Ordinary and Black Tiles--Paving
     Tiles--Pipes--Architectural Terra Cottas--Vases, Statues and
     Decorative Objects--Common Pottery--Pottery for Water and
     Filters--Tobacco Pipes--Lustre Ware--Properties and Tests for
     Terra Cottas--Fireclay Goods. Classification: Argillaceous,
     Aluminous, Carboniferous, Silicious and Basic Fireclay
     Goods--Fireclay Mortar (Pug)--Tests for Fireclay
     Goods--Faiences. Varnished Faiences--Enamelled
     Faiences--Silicious Faiences--Pipeclay Faiences--Pebble
     Work--Feldspathic Faiences--Composition, Processes of
     Manufacture and General Arrangements of Faience
     Potteries--Stoneware. Stoneware Properly So-called: Paving
     Tiles--Pipes--Sanitary Ware--Stoneware for Food Purposes and
     Chemical Productions--Architectural Stoneware--Vases, Statues
     and other Decorative Objects--Fine Stoneware--Porcelain. Hard
     Porcelain for Table Ware and Decoration, for the Fire, for
     Electrical Conduits, for Mechanical Purposes; Architectural
     Porcelain, and Dull or Biscuit Porcelain--Soft Phosphated or
     English Porcelain--Soft Vitreous Porcelain, French and New
     Sèvres--Argillaceous Soft or Seger's Porcelain--Dull Soft or
     Parian Porcelain--Dull Feldspathic Soft Porcelain--=Index=.


=ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY.= Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas,
Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaics, Faïences and
Architectural Stoneware. By LEON LEFÊVRE. With Five Plates. 950
Illustrations in the Text, and numerous estimates. 500 pp., royal 8vo.
1900. Translated from the French by K. H. Bird, M.A., and W. Moore
Binns. Price 15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 17s.
6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Part I. =Plain Undecorated Pottery.--Clays, Bricks, Tiles,
     Pipes, Chimney Flues, Terra-cotta.=

      Part II. =Made-up or Decorated Pottery.=


=THE ART OF RIVETING GLASS, CHINA AND EARTHENWARE.= By J. HOWARTH.
Second Edition. 1900. Paper Cover. Price 1s. net; by post, home or
abroad, 1s. 1d.


=HOW TO ANALYSE CLAY.= Practical Methods for Practical Men. By HOLDEN M.
ASHBY, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvey Medical College, U.S.A.
74 pp. Twenty Illus. 1901. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.


=NOTES ON POTTERY CLAYS.= Their Distribution, Properties, Uses and
Analyses of Ball Clays, China Clays and China Stone. By JAS. FAIRIE,
F.G.S. 1901. 132 pp. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net.


A Reissue of =THE HISTORY OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES; AND THE RISE
AND PROGRESS OF THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.= With
References to Genuine Specimens, and Notices of Eminent Potters. By
SIMEON SHAW. (Originally Published in 1829.) 265 pp. 1900. Demy 8vo.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Introductory Chapter= showing the position of the Pottery Trade
     at the present time (1899)--=Preliminary Remarks=--=The Potteries=,
     comprising Tunstall, Brownhills, Greenfield and New Field,
     Golden Hill, Latebrook, Green Lane, Burslem, Longport and Dale
     Hall, Hot Lane and Cobridge, Hanley and Shelton, Etruria,
     Stoke, Penkhull, Fenton, Lane Delph, Foley, Lane End--=On the
     Origin of the Art=, and its Practice among the early
     Nations--=Manufacture of Pottery=, prior to 1700--=The
     Introduction of Red Porcelain= by Messrs Elers, of Bradwell,
     1690--=Progress of the Manufacture= from 1700 to Mr. Wedgwood's
     commencement in 1760--=Introduction of Fluid Glaze=--Extension of
     the Manufacture of Cream Colour--Mr. Wedgwood's Queen's
     Ware--Jasper, and Appointment of Potter to Her Majesty--Black
     Printing--=Introduction of Porcelain=. Mr. W. Littler's
     Porcelain--Mr. Cookworthy's Discovery of Kaolin and Petuntse,
     and Patent--Sold to Mr. Champion--resold to the New Hall
     Com.--Extension of Term--=Blue Printed Pottery=. Mr. Turner, Mr
     Spode (1), Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Spode (2), Messrs. Turner, Mr.
     Wood, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Minton--Great Change in Patterns of Blue
     Printed--=Introduction of Lustre Pottery=. Improvements in
     Pottery and Porcelain subsequent to 1800.


A Reissue of =THE CHEMISTRY OF THE SEVERAL NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
HETEROGENEOUS COMPOUNDS USED IN MANUFACTURING PORCELAIN, GLASS AND
POTTERY.= By SIMEON SHAW. (Originally published in 1837.) 750 pp. 1900.
Royal 8vo. Price 14s.; India and Colonies, 15s.; Other Countries, 16s.
6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     PART I., ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS.--=Introduction=: Laboratory and
     Apparatus =Elements=--=Temperature=--=Acids and Alkalies=--=The
     Earths=--=Metals=.

      PART II., SYNTHESIS AND COMPOUNDS.--=Science of Mixing=--=Bodies=:
      Porcelain--Hard, Porcelain--Fritted Bodies, Porcelain--Raw
      Bodies, Porcelain--Soft, Fritted Bodies, Raw Bodies, Stone
      Bodies, Ironstone, Dry Bodies, Chemical Utensils, Fritted
      Jasper, Fritted Pearl, Fritted Drab, Raw Chemical Utensils,
      Raw Stone, Raw Jasper, Raw Pearl, Raw Mortar, Raw Drab, Raw
      Brown, Raw Fawn, Raw Cane, Raw Red Porous, Raw Egyptian,
      Earthenware, Queen's Ware, Cream Colour, Blue and Fancy
      Printed, Dipped and Mocha, Chalky, Rings, Stilts,
      etc.--=Glazes=: Porcelain--Hard Fritted Porcelain--Soft Fritted
      Porcelain--Soft Raw, Cream Colour Porcelain, Blue Printed
      Porcelain, Fritted Glazes, Analysis of Fritt, Analysis of
      Glaze, Coloured Glazes, Dips, Smears and Washes; =Glasses=:
      Flint Glass, Coloured Glasses, Artificial Garnet, Artificial
      Emerald, Artificial Amethyst, Artificial Sapphire, Artificial
      Opal, Plate Glass, Crown Glass, Broad Glass, Bottle Glass,
      Phosphoric Glass, British Steel Glass, Glass-Staining and
      Painting, Engraving on Glass, Dr. Faraday's
      Experiments--=Colours=: Colour Making, Fluxes or Solvents,
      Components of the Colours; =Reds, etc., from Gold=, Carmine or
      Rose Colour, Purple, Reds, etc., from Iron, Blues, Yellows,
      Greens, Blacks, White, Silver for Burnishing, Gold for
      Burnishing, Printer's Oil, Lustres.

      TABLES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.




               Glassware, Glass Staining and Painting.


=RECIPES FOR FLINT GLASS MAKING.= By a British Glass Master and Mixer.
Sixty Recipes. Being Leaves from the Mixing Book of several experts in
the Flint Glass Trade, containing up-to-date recipes and valuable
information as to Crystal, Demi-crystal and Coloured Glass in its many
varieties. It contains the recipes for cheap metal suited to pressing,
blowing, etc., as well as the most costly crystal and ruby. Crown 8vo.
1900. Price for United Kingdom, 10s. 6d.; Abroad, 15s.; United States,
$4; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Ruby--Ruby from Copper--Flint for using with the Ruby for
     Coating--A German Metal--Cornelian, or Alabaster--Sapphire
     Blue--Crysophis--Opal--Turquoise Blue--Gold Colour--Dark
     Green--Green (common)--Green for Malachite--Blue for
     Malachite--Black for Melachite--Black--Common Canary
     Batch--Canary--White Opaque Glass--Sealing-wax
     Red--Flint--Flint Glass (Crystal and Demi)--Achromatic
     Glass--Paste Glass--White Enamel--Firestone--Dead White (for
     moons)--White Agate--Canary--Canary Enamel--Index.


=A TREATISE ON THE ART OF GLASS PAINTING.= Prefaced with a Review of
Ancient Glass. By ERNEST R. SUFFLING. With One Coloured Plate and
Thirty-seven Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 140 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.

                              Contents.

     A Short History of Stained Glass--Designing Scale
     Drawings--Cartoons and the Cut Line--Various Kinds of Glass
     Cutting for Windows--The Colours and Brushes used in Glass
     Painting--Painting on Glass, Dispersed Patterns--Diapered
     Patterns--Aciding--Firing--Fret Lead Glazing--Index.


=PAINTING ON GLASS AND PORCELAIN AND ENAMEL PAINTING.= A Complete
Introduction to the Preparation of all the Colours and Fluxes used for
Painting on Porcelain, Enamel, Faïence and Stoneware, the Coloured
Pastes and Coloured Glasses, together with a Minute Description of the
Firing of Colours and Enamels. By FELIX HERMANN, Technical Chemist.
With Eighteen Illustrations. 300 pp. Translated from the German second
and enlarged Edition. 1897. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.;
Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     History of Glass Painting--The Articles to be Painted: Glass,
     Porcelain, Enamel, Stoneware, Faïence--Pigments: Metallic
     Pigments: Antimony Oxide, Naples Yellow, Barium Chromate, Lead
     Chromate, Silver Chloride, Chromic Oxide--Fluxes: Fluxes,
     Felspar, Quartz, Purifying Quartz, Sedimentation, Quenching,
     Borax, Boracic Acid, Potassium and Sodium Carbonates, Rocaille
     Flux--Preparation of the Colours for Glass Painting--The Colour
     Pastes--The Coloured Glasses--Composition of the Porcelain
     Colours--The Enamel Colours: Enamels for Artistic
     Work--Metallic Ornamentation: Porcelain Gilding, Glass
     Gilding--Firing the Colours: Remarks on Firing: Firing Colours
     on Glass, Firing Colours on Porcelain; The Muffle--Accidents
     occasionally Supervening during the Process of Firing--Remarks
     on the Different Methods of Painting on Glass, Porcelain,
     etc.--Appendix: Cleaning Old Glass Paintings.




                           Paper Staining.


=THE DYEING OF PAPER PULP.= A Practical Treatise for the use of
Papermakers, Paper-stainers, Students and others. By JULIUS ERFURT,
Manager of a Paper Mill. Translated into English and Edited with
Additions by JULIUS HÜBNER, F.C.S., Lecturer on Papermaking at the
Manchester Municipal Technical School. With Illustrations and =157
patterns of paper dyed in the pulp=. Royal 8vo., 180 pp. 1901. Price
15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly net.
Limited edition.

                              Contents.

     =Behaviour of the Paper Fibres during the Process of Dyeing,
     Theory of the Mordant=--=Colour Fixing Mediums
     (Mordants)=--=Influence of the Quality of the Water
     Used=--=Inorganic Colours=--=Organic Colours=--=Practical
     Application of the Coal Tar Colours according to their
     Properties and their Behaviour towards the Different Paper
     Fibres=--=Dyed Patterns on Various Pulp Mixtures=--=Dyeing to
     Shade=--Index.




                         Enamelling on Metal.


=ENAMELS AND ENAMELLING.= For Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold and Silver,
and Manufacturers of Objects of Art. By PAUL RANDAU. Translated from
the German. With Sixteen Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 180 pp. 1900. Price
10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly
net.

                              Contents.

     Composition and Properties of Glass--Raw Materials for the
     Manufacture of Enamels--Substances Added to Produce
     Opacity--Fluxes--Pigments--Decolorising Agents--Testing the Raw
     Materials with the Blow-pipe Flame--Subsidiary
     Materials--Preparing the Materials for Enamel Making--Mixing
     the Materials--The Preparation of Technical Enamels, The Enamel
     Mass--Appliances for Smelting the Enamel Mass--Smelting the
     Charge--Composition of Enamel Masses--Composition of Masses for
     Ground Enamels--Composition of Cover Enamels--Preparing the
     Articles for Enamelling--Applying the Enamel--Firing the Ground
     Enamel--Applying and Firing the Cover Enamel or
     Glaze--Repairing Defects in Enamelled Ware--Enamelling Articles
     of Sheet Metal--Decorating Enamelled Ware--Specialities in
     Enamelling--Dial-plate Enamelling--Enamels for Artistic
     Purposes, Recipes for Enamels of Various Colours--Index.


=THE ART OF ENAMELLING ON METAL.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Twenty-eight
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 60 pp. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.




                          Silk Manufacture.


=SILK THROWING AND WASTE SILK SPINNING.= By HOLLINS RAYNER. Demy 8vo.
170 pp. 117 Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     The Silkworm--Cocoon Reeling and Qualities of Silk--Silk
     Throwing--Silk Wastes--The Preparation of Silk Waste for
     Degumming--Silk Waste Degumming, Schapping and Discharging--The
     Opening and Dressing of Wastes--Silk Waste "Drawing" or
     "Preparing" Machinery--Long Spinning--Short Spinning--Spinning
     and Finishing Processes--Utilisation of Waste Products--Noil
     Spinning--Exhaust Noil Spinning.




                Books on Textile and Dyeing Subjects.


=THE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTILE FIBRES=: Their Origin, Structure,
Preparation, Washing, Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing and Dressing. By Dr.
GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS. Translated from the German by CHARLES SALTER.
320 pp. Forty-seven Illustrations. Royal 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s. net.

                              Contents.

     =The Textile Fibres--Washing, Bleaching, Carbonising--Mordants
     and Mordanting--Dyeing--Printing--Dressing and Finishing.=


=POWER-LOOM WEAVING AND YARN NUMBERING=, According to Various Systems,
with Conversion Tables. Translated from the German of ANTHON GRUNER.
=With Twenty-Six Diagrams in Colours.= 150 pp. 1900. Crown 8vo. Price
7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly
net.

                              Contents.

     =Power-Loom Weaving in General.= Various Systems of
     Looms--=Mounting and Starting the Power-Loom=. English
     Looms--Tappet or Treadle Looms--Dobbies--=General Remarks on
     the Numbering, Reeling and Packing of
     Yarn=--=Appendix=--=Useful Hints=. Calculating Warps--Weft
     Calculations--Calculations of Cost Price in Hanks.


=TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR CONVERSION INTO YARNS.= (The Study of
the Raw Materials and the Technology of the Spinning Process.) By
JULIUS ZIPSER. Translated from German by CHARLES SALTER. 302
Illustrations. 500 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

=PART I.--The Raw Materials Used in the Textile Industry.=

     MINERAL RAW MATERIALS. VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. ANIMAL RAW
     MATERIALS.

=PART II.--The Technology of Spinning or the Conversion of Textile Raw
Materials into Yarn.=

     SPINNING VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. Cotton Spinning--Installation
     of a Cotton Mill--Spinning Waste Cotton and Waste Cotton
     Yarns--Flax Spinning--Fine Spinning--Tow Spinning--Hemp
     Spinning--Spinning Hemp Tow String--Jute Spinning--Spinning
     Jute Line Yarn--Utilising Jute Waste.

=PART III.--Spinning Animal Raw Materials.=

     Spinning Carded Woollen Yarn--Finishing Yarn--Worsted
     Spinning--Finishing Worsted Yarn--Artificial Wool or Shoddy
     Spinning--Shoddy and Mungo Manufacture--Spinning Shoddy and
     other Wool Substitutes--Spinning Waste Silk--Chappe Silk--Fine
     Spinning--Index.


=THE TECHNICAL TESTING OF YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS.= With Reference to
Official Specifications. Translated from the German of Dr. J.
HERZFELD. Second Edition. Sixty-nine Illustrations. 200 pp. Demy 8vo.
1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Yarn Testing. Determining the Yarn Number--Testing the Length
     of Yarns--Examination of the External Appearance of
     Yarn--Determining the Twist of Yarn and Twist--Determination of
     Tensile Strength and Elasticity--Estimating the Percentage of
     Fat in Yarn--Determination of Moisture=
     (Conditioning)--=Appendix.=


=DECORATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS.= By R. T. LORD. Manufacturers and
Designers of Carpets, Damask, Dress and all Textile Fabrics. 200 pp.
1898. Demy 8vo. 132 Designs and Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics--A Few
     Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A
     Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics
     (continued)--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile
     Fabrics (continued)--Hints for Ruled-paper Draughtsmen--The
     Jacquard Machine--Brussels and Wilton Carpets--Tapestry
     Carpets--Ingrain Carpets--Axminster Carpets--Damask and
     Tapestry Fabrics--Scarf Silks and Ribbons--Silk
     Handkerchiefs--Dress Fabrics--Mantle Cloths--Figured Plush--Bed
     Quilts--Calico Printing.


=THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DAMASK WEAVING.= By H. KINZER and K. WALTER.
Royal 8vo. Eighteen Folding Plates. Six Illustrations. Translated from
the German. 110 pp. 1903. Price 8s. 6d.; Colonies, 9s.; Other
Countries, 9s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =The Various Sorts of Damask Fabrics=--Drill (Ticking,
     Hand-loom-made)--Whole Damask for Tablecloths--Damask with
     Ground- and Connecting-warp Threads--Furniture Damask--Lampas
     or Hangings--Church Damasks--=The Manufacture of Whole
     Damask=--Damask Arrangement with and without Cross-Shedding--The
     Altered Cone-arrangement--The Principle of the Corner Lifting
     Cord--The Roller Principle--The Combination of the Jacquard
     with the so-called Damask Machine--The Special Damask
     Machine--The Combination of Two Tyings.


=FAULTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN GOODS AND THEIR PREVENTION.= By
NICOLAS REISER. Translated from the Second German Edition. Crown 8vo.
Sixty-three Illustrations. 170 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Improperly Chosen Raw Material or Improper Mixtures--Wrong
     Treatment of the Material in Washing, Carbonisation, Drying,
     Dyeing and Spinning--Improper Spacing of the Goods in the
     Loom--Wrong Placing of Colours--Wrong Weight or Width of the
     Goods--Breaking of Warp and Weft Threads--Presence of Doubles,
     Singles, Thick, Loose, and too Hard Twisted Threads as well as
     Tangles, Thick Knots and the Like--Errors in
     Cross-weaving--Inequalities, i.e., Bands and Stripes--Dirty
     Borders--Defective Selvedges--Holes and Buttons--Rubbed
     Places--Creases--Spots--Loose and Bad Colours--Badly Dyed
     Selvedges--Hard Goods--Brittle Goods--Uneven Goods--Removal of
     Bands, Stripes, Creases and Spots.


=SPINNING AND WEAVING CALCULATIONS=, especially relating to Woollens.
From the German of N. REISER. Thirty-four Illustrations. Tables. Demy
8vo. 170 pp. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Calculating the Raw Material--Proportion of Different Grades of
     Wool to Furnish a Mixture at a Given Price--Quantity to Produce
     a Given Length--Yarn Calculations--Yarn Number--Working
     Calculations--Calculating the Reed Count--Cost of Weaving, etc.


=WATERPROOFING OF FABRICS.= By Dr. S. MIERZINSKI. Crown 8vo. 104 pp. 29
Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Introduction--Preliminary Treatment of the
     Fabric--Waterproofing with Acetate of Alumina--Impregnation of
     the Fabric--Drying--Waterproofing with Paraffin--Waterproofing
     with Ammonium Cuprate--Waterproofing with Metallic
     Oxides--Coloured Waterproof Fabrics--Waterproofing with
     Gelatine, Tannin, Caseinate of Lime and other
     Bodies--Manufacture of Tarpaulin--British Waterproofing
     Patents--Index.


=HOW TO MAKE A WOOLLEN MILL PAY.= By JOHN MACKIE. Crown 8vo. 76 pp.
1904. Price 3s. 6d.; Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; net.

                              Contents.

     Blends, Piles, or Mixtures of Clean Scoured Wools--Dyed Wool
     Book--The Order Book--Pattern Duplicate Books--Management and
     Oversight--Constant Inspection of Mill Departments--Importance
     of Delivering Goods to Time, Shade, Strength, etc.--Plums.

                  (_For "Textile Soaps" see p. 32._)




          Dyeing, Colour Printing, Matching and Dye-stuffs.


=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= Manual for Colour Chemists and
Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Seventeen Illustrations.
136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre--Yarn
     Scouring--Scouring Materials--Water for Scouring--Bleaching
     Carpet Yarns--Colour Making for Yarn Printing--Colour Printing
     Pastes--Colour Recipes for Yarn Printing--Science of Colour
     Mixing--Matching of Colours--"Hank" Printing--Printing Tapestry
     Carpet Yarns--Yarn Printing--Steaming Printed Yarns--Washing of
     Steamed Yarns--Aniline Colours Suitable for Yarn
     Printing--Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn
     Printing--Appendix.


=THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING.= A Manual intended for the use of Dyers,
Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S.
Forty-one Illustrations, =Five Coloured Plates, and Four Plates showing
Eleven Dyed Specimens of Fabrics=. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of
     Opaque and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour--Analysis of
     Light; Spectrum; Homogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining
     a Spectrum--Examination of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and
     Its Construction; Colourists' Use of the Spectroscope--Colour
     by Absorption; Solutions and Dyed Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured
     Fabrics in Gaslight--Colour Primaries of the Scientist versus
     the Dyer and Artist; Colour Mixing by Rotation and Lye Dyeing;
     Hue, Purity, Brightness; Tints; Shades, Scales, Tones, Sad and
     Sombre Colours--Colour Mixing; Pure and Impure Greens, Orange
     and Violets; Large Variety of Shades from few Colours;
     Consideration of the Practical Primaries: Red, Yellow and
     Blue--Secondary Colours; Nomenclature of Violet and Purple
     Group; Tints and Shades of Violet; Changes in Artificial
     Light--Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption Spectra of
     Tertiary Shades--Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens
     Illustrating Text--Index.


=DYERS' MATERIALS=: An Introduction to the Examination, Evaluation and
Application of the most important Substances used in Dyeing, Printing,
Bleaching and Finishing. By PAUL HEERMAN, Ph.D. Translated from the
German by. A. C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Twenty-four
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 150 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies,
5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.


=COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES.= A Manual intended for the use of Students
of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON,
F.C.S. Coloured Frontispiece. Twenty-nine Illustrations and =Fourteen
Specimens of Dyed Fabrics=. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye--Perception of
     Colour--Primary and Complementary Colour Sensations--Daylight
     for Colour Matching--Selection of a Good Pure Light--Diffused
     Daylight, Direct Sunlight, Blue Skylight, Variability of
     Daylight, etc., etc.--Matching of Hues--Purity and Luminosity
     of Colours--Matching Bright Hues--Aid of Tinted Films--Matching
     Difficulties Arising from Contrast--Examination of Colours by
     Reflected and Transmitted Lights--Effect of Lustre and
     Transparency of Fibres in Colour Matching--Matching of Colours
     on Velvet Pile--Optical Properties of Dye-stuffs. Dichroism.
     Fluorescence--Use of Tinted Mediums--Orange Film--Defects of
     the Eye--Yellowing of the Lens--Colour Blindness,
     etc.--Matching of Dyed Silk Trimmings and Linings and
     Bindings--Its Difficulties--Behaviour of Shades in Artificial
     Light--Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc.--Examination of
     Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights--Electric Arc,
     Magnesium and Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene,
     etc.--Testing Qualities of an Illuminant--Influence of the
     Absorption Spectrum in Changes of Hue under the Artificial
     Lights--Study of the Causes of Abnormal Modifications of Hue,
     etc.


=COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR.= By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S.
=With Ten Coloured Plates= and Seventy-two Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy
8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries,
8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Colour and Its Production--Cause of Colour in Coloured
     Bodies--Colour Phenomena and Theories--The Physiology of
     Light--Contrast--Colour in Decoration and Design--Measurement
     of Colour.=


=THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS=: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and
Student. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. 272 pp.
Forty-four Illustrations of Bleaching and Dyeing Machinery. Demy 8vo.
1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Structure and Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre--Scouring and
     Bleaching of Cotton--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing
     Manipulations--Principles and Practice of Cotton Dyeing--Direct
     Dyeing; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Metallic Salts;
     Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Developers; Direct
     Dyeing followed by Fixation with Couplers; Dyeing on Tannic
     Mordant; Dyeing on Metallic Mordant; Production of Colour
     Direct upon Cotton Fibres; Dyeing Cotton by Impregnation with
     Dye-stuff Solution--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton and Wool)
     Fabrics--Dyeing Half Silk (Cotton-Silk, Satin)
     Fabrics--Operations following Dyeing--Washing, Soaping,
     Drying--Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics--Experimental
     Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Index.

      The book contains numerous recipes for the production on
      Cotton Fabrics of all kinds of a great range of colours.


=THE DYEING OF WOOLLEN FABRICS.= By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist
and Chemist. Thirty-three Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 228 pp. 1902. Price
7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.

                              Contents.

     =The Wool Fibre--Structure, Composition and
     Properties--Processes Preparatory to Dyeing--Scouring and
     Bleaching of Wool--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing
     Manipulations--Loose Wool Dyeing, Yarn Dyeing and Piece Dyeing
     Machinery--The Principles and Practice of Wool
     Dyeing--Properties of Wool Dyeing--Methods of Wool
     Dyeing--Groups of Dyes--Dyeing with the Direct Dyes--Dyeing
     with Basic Dyes--Dyeing with Acid Dyes--Dyeing with Mordant
     Dyes--Level Dyeing--Blacks on Wool--Reds on Wool--Mordanting of
     Wool--Orange Shades on Wool--Yellow Shades on Wool--Green
     Shades on Wool--Blue Shades on Wool--Violet Shades on
     Wool--Brown Shades on Wool--Mode Colours on Wool--Dyeing Union
     (Mixed Cotton Wool) Fabrics--Dyeing of Gloria--Operations
     following Dyeing--Washing, Soaping, Drying--Experimental Dyeing
     and Comparative Dye Testing--Testing of the Colour of Dyed
     Fabrics--Index.=


Reissue of =THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK AND COTTON=. Translated from
the French of M. HELLOT, M. MACQUER and M. LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY. First
Published in English in 1789. Six Plates. Demy 8vo. 446 pp. 1901.
Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly
net.

                              Contents.

     Part I., =The Art of Dyeing Wool and Woollen Cloth, Stuffs,
     Yarn, Worsted, etc.= Part II., =The Art of Dyeing Silk=. Part
     III., =The Art of Dyeing Cotton and Linen Thread, together with
     the Method of Stamping Silks, Cottons, etc.=


=THE CHEMISTRY OF DYE-STUFFS.= By Dr. GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS. Translated
from the Second German Edition. 412 pp. Demy 8vo. 1903. Price 10s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Introduction--Coal Tar--Intermediate Products in the
     Manufacture of Dye-stuffs--The Artificial Dye-stuffs (Coal-tar
     Dyes)--Nitroso Dye-stuffs--Nitro Dye-stuffs--Azo
     Dye-stuffs--Substantive Cotton Dye-stuffs--Azoxystilbene
     Dye-stuffs--Hydrazones--Ketoneimides--Triphenylmethane
     Dye-stuffs--Rosolic Acid Dye-stuffs--Xanthene
     Dye-stuffs--Xanthone Dye-stuffs--Flavones--Oxyketone
     Dye-stuffs--Quinoline and Acridine Dye-stuffs--Quinonimide or
     Diphenylamine Dye-stuffs--The Azine Group: Eurhodines,
     Safranines and
     Indulines--Eurhodines--Safranines--Quinoxalines--Indigo--Dye-stuffs
     of Unknown Constitution--Sulphur or Sulphine
     Dye-stuffs--Development of the Artificial Dye-stuff
     Industry--The Natural Dye-stuffs--Mineral Colours--Index.




                        Bleaching and Washing.


=A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE BLEACHING OF LINEN AND COTTON YARN AND
FABRICS.= By L. TAILFER, Chemical and Mechanical Engineer. Translated
from the French by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. Demy 8vo. 303 pp. Twenty
Illusts. 1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     General Considerations on Bleaching--Steeping--Washing: Its End
     and Importance--Roller Washing Machines--Wash Wheel (Dash
     Wheel)--Stocks or Wash Mill--Squeezing--Lye Boiling--Lye
     Boiling with Milk of Lime--Lye Boiling with Soda
     Lyes--Description of Lye Boiling Keirs--Operations of Lye
     Boiling--Concentration of Lyes--Mather and Platt's
     Keir--Description of the Keir--Saturation of the
     Fabrics--Alkali used in Lye Boiling--Examples of
     Processes--Soap--Action of Soap in Bleaching--Quality and
     Quantity of Soaps to use in the Lye--Soap Lyes or Scalds--Soap
     Scouring Stocks--Bleaching on Grass or on the Bleaching Green
     or Lawn--Chemicking--Remarks on Chlorides and their
     Decolourising Action--Chemicking
     Cisterns--Chemicking--Strengths, etc.--Sours--Properties of the
     Acids--Effects Produced by Acids--Souring
     Cisterns--Drying--Drying by Steam--Drying by Hot Air--Drying by
     Air--Damages to Fabrics in Bleaching--Yarn
     Mildew--Fermentation--Iron Rust Spots--Spots from Contact with
     Wood--Spots incurred on the Bleaching Green--Damages arising
     from the Machines--Examples of Methods used in
     Bleaching--Linen--Cotton--The Valuation of Caustic and
     Carbonated Alkali (Soda) and General Information Regarding
     these Bodies--Object of Alkalimetry--Titration of Carbonate of
     Soda--Comparative Table of Different Degrees of Alkalimetrical
     Strength--Five Problems relative to Carbonate of Soda--Caustic
     Soda, its Properties and Uses--Mixtures of Carbonated and
     Caustic Alkali--Note on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda
     and Mixtures of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali
     (Soda)--Chlorometry--Titration--Wagner's Chlorometric
     Method--Preparation of Standard Solutions--Apparatus for
     Chlorine Valuation--Alkali in Excess in Decolourising
     Chlorides--Chlorine and Decolourising
     Chlorides--Synopsis--Chlorine--Chloride of Lime--Hypochlorite
     of Soda--Brochoki's Chlorozone--Various Decolourising
     Hypochlorites--Comparison of Chloride of Lime and Hypochlorite
     of Soda--Water--Qualities of Water--Hardness--Dervaux's
     Purifier--Testing the Purified Water--Different Plant for
     Purification--Filters--Bleaching of Yarn--Weight of Yarn--Lye
     Boiling--Chemicking--Washing--Bleaching of Cotton Yarn--The
     Installation of a Bleach Works--Water Supply--Steam
     Boilers--Steam Distribution
     Pipes--Engines--Keirs--Washing--Machines--Stocks--Wash
     Wheels--Chemicking and Souring
     Cisterns--Various--Buildings--Addenda--Energy of Decolourising
     Chlorides and Bleaching by Electricity and Ozone--Energy of
     Decolourising Chlorides--Chlorides--Production of Chlorine and
     Hypochlorites by Electrolysis--Lunge's Process for increasing
     the intensity of the Bleaching Power of Chloride of
     Lime--Trilfer's Process for Removing the Excess of Lime or Soda
     from Decolourising Chlorides--Bleaching by Ozone.




                     Cotton Spinning and Combing.


=COTTON SPINNING= (First Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY, Spinning Master,
Bolton Technical School. 160 pp. Eighty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo.
1901. Price 3s.; Abroad, 3s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Syllabus and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of
     London Institute--Cultivation, Classification, Ginning, Baling
     and Mixing of the Raw Cotton--Bale-Breakers, Mixing Lattices
     and Hopper Feeders--Opening and Scutching--Carding--Indexes.


=COTTON SPINNING= (Intermediate, or Second Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY.
180 pp. Seventy Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and
British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of
     London Institute--The Combing Process--The Drawing
     Frame--Bobbin and Fly Frames--Mule Spinning--Ring
     Spinning--General Indexes.


=COTTON SPINNING= (Honours, or Third Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY. 216 pp.
Seventy-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and
British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of
     London Institute--Cotton--The Practical Manipulation of Cotton
     Spinning Machinery--Doubling and
     Winding--Reeling--Warping--Production and Costs--Main
     Driving--Arrangement of Machinery and Mill Planning--Waste and
     Waste Spinning--Indexes.


=COTTON COMBING MACHINES.= By THOS. THORNLEY, Spinning Master, Technical
School, Bolton. Demy 8vo. 117 Illustrations. 300 pp. 1902. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.

                              Contents.

     The Sliver Lap Machine and the Ribbon Cap Machine--General
     Description of the Heilmann Comber--The Cam Shaft--On the
     Detaching and Attaching Mechanism of the Comber--Resetting of
     Combers--The Erection of a Heilmann Comber--Stop Motions:
     Various Calculations--Various Notes and Discussions--Cotton
     Combing Machines of Continental Make--Index.




                        Collieries and Mines.


=RECOVERY WORK AFTER PIT FIRES.= A Description of the Principal Methods
Pursued, especially in Fiery Mines, and of the Various Appliances
Employed, such as Respiratory and Rescue Apparatus, Dams, etc. By
ROBERT LAMPRECHT, Mining Engineer and Manager. Translated from the
German. Illustrated by Six large Plates, containing Seventy-six
Illustrations. 175 pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Causes of Pit Fires--Preventive Regulations=: (1) The Outbreak
     and Rapid Extension of a Shaft Fire can be most reliably
     prevented by Employing little or no Combustible Material in the
     Construction of the Shaft; (2) Precautions for Rapidly
     Localising an Outbreak of Fire in the Shaft; (3) Precautions to
     be Adopted in case those under 1 and 2 Fail or Prove
     Inefficient. Precautions against Spontaneous Ignition of Coal.
     Precautions for Preventing Explosions of Fire-damp and Coal
     Dust. Employment of Electricity in Mining, particularly in
     Fiery Pits. Experiments on the Ignition of Fire-damp Mixtures
     and Clouds of Coal Dust by Electricity--=Indications of an
     Existing or Incipient Fire--Appliances for Working in
     Irrespirable Gases=: Respiratory Apparatus; Apparatus with Air
     Supply Pipes; Reservoir Apparatus; Oxygen
     Apparatus--=Extinguishing Pit Fires=: (_a_) Chemical Means; (_b_)
     Extinction with Water. Dragging down the Burning Masses and
     Packing with Clay; (_c_) Insulating the Seat of the Fire by
     Dams. Dam Building. Analyses of Fire Gases. Isolating the Seat
     of a Fire with Dams: Working in Irrespirable Gases
     ("Gas-diving"): Air-Lock Work. Complete Isolation of the Pit.
     Flooding a Burning Section isolated by means of Dams. Wooden
     Dams: Masonry Dams. Examples of Cylindrical and Dome-shaped
     Dams. Dam Doors: Flooding the Whole Pit--=Rescue Stations=: (_a_)
     Stations above Ground; (_b_) Underground Rescue
     Stations--=Spontaneous Ignition of Coal in Bulk=--Index.


=VENTILATION IN MINES.= By ROBERT WABNER, Mining Engineer. Translated
from the German. Royal 8vo. Thirty Plates and Twenty-two
Illustrations. 240 pp. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.;
Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =The Causes of the Contamination of Pit Air--The Means of
     Preventing the Dangers resulting from the Contamination of Pit
     Air--Calculating the Volume of Ventilating Current necessary to
     free Pit Air from Contamination--Determination of the
     Resistance Opposed to the Passage of Air through the Pit--Laws
     of Resistance and Formulæ therefor--Fluctuations in the
     Temperament or Specific Resistance of a Pit--Means for
     Providing a Ventilating Current in the Pit--Mechanical
     Ventilation--Ventilators and Fans--Determining the Theoretical,
     Initial, and True (Effective) Depression of the Centrifugal
     Fan--New Types of Centrifugal Fan of Small Diameter and High
     Working Speed--Utilising the Ventilating Current to the utmost
     Advantage and distributing the same through the
     Workings--Artificially retarding the Ventilating
     Current--Ventilating Preliminary Workings--Blind
     Headings--Separate Ventilation--Supervision of
     Ventilation--=INDEX.


=HAULAGE AND WINDING APPLIANCES USED IN MINES.= By CARL VOLK. Translated
from the German. Royal 8vo. With Six Plates and 148 Illustrations. 150
pp. 1903. Price 8s. 6d.; Colonies, 9s.; Other Countries, 9s. 6d.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Haulage Appliances--Ropes--Haulage Tubs and Tracks--Cages and
     Winding Appliances--Winding Engines for Vertical
     Shafts--Winding without Ropes--Haulage in Levels and
     Inclines--The Working of Underground Engines--Machinery for
     Downhill Haulage.




            Engineering, Smoke Prevention and Metallurgy.


=THE PREVENTION OF SMOKE.= Combined with the Economical Combustion of
Fuel. By W. C. POPPLEWELL, M.Sc., A.M. Inst., C.E., Consulting
Engineer. Forty-six Illustrations. 190 pp. 1901. Demy 8vo. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Fuel and Combustion--Hand Firing in Boiler Furnaces--Stoking by
     Mechanical Means--Powdered Fuel--Gaseous Fuel--Efficiency and
     Smoke Tests of Boilers--Some Standard Smoke Trials--The Legal
     Aspect of the Smoke Question--The Best Means to be adopted for
     the Prevention of Smoke--Index.


=GAS AND COAL DUST FIRING.= A Critical Review of the Various Appliances
Patented in Germany for this purpose since 1885. By ALBERT PÜTSCH. 130
pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Translated from the German. With 103
Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Generators--Generators Employing Steam--Stirring and Feed
     Regulating Appliances--Direct Generators--Burners--Regenerators
     and Recuperators--Glass Smelting Furnaces--Metallurgical
     Furnaces--Pottery Furnace--Coal Dust Firing--Index.


=THE HARDENING AND TEMPERING OF STEEL IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.= By
FRIDOLIN REISER. Translated from the German of the Third Edition.
Crown 8vo. 120 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; India and British Colonies, 5s.
6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     =Steel--Chemical and Physical Properties of Steel, and their
     Casual Connection--Classification of Steel according to
     Use--Testing the Quality of
     Steel--Steel-Hardening--Investigation of the Causes of Failure
     in Hardening--Regeneration of Steel Spoilt in the
     Furnace--Welding Steel--Index.=


=SIDEROLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF IRON= (The Constitution of Iron Alloys and
Slags). Translated from German of HANNS FREIHERR V. JÜPTNER. 350 pp.
Demy 8vo. Eleven Plates and Ten Illustrations. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; net.

                              Contents.

     =The Theory of Solution.=--Solutions--Molten Alloys--Varieties of
     Solutions--Osmotic Pressure--Relation between Osmotic Pressure
     and other Properties of Solutions--Osmotic Pressure and
     Molecular Weight of the Dissolved Substance--Solutions of
     Gases--Solid Solutions--Solubility--Diffusion--Electrical
     Conductivity--Constitution of Electrolytes and Metals--Thermal
     Expansion. =Micrography.=--Microstructure--The Micrographic
     Constituents of Iron--Relation between Micrographical
     Composition, Carbon-Content, and Thermal Treatment of Iron
     Alloys--The Microstructure of Slags. =Chemical Composition of
     the Alloys of Iron.=--Constituents of Iron
     Alloys--Carbon--Constituents of the Iron Alloys,
     Carbon--Opinions and Researches on Combined Carbon--Opinions
     and Researches on Combined Carbon--Applying the Curves of
     Solution deduced from the Curves of Recalescence to the
     Determination of the Chemical Composition of the Carbon present
     in Iron Alloys--The Constituents of Iron--Iron--The
     Constituents of Iron Alloys--Manganese--Remaining Constituents
     of Iron Alloys--A Silicon--Gases. =The Chemical Composition of
     Slag.=--Silicate Slags--Calculating the Composition of Silicate
     Slags--Phosphate Slags--Oxide Slags--Appendix--Index.


=EVAPORATING, CONDENSING AND COOLING APPARATUS.= Explanations, Formulæ
and Tables for Use in Practice. By E. HAUSBRAND, Engineer. Translated
by A. C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). With Twenty-one
Illustrations and Seventy-six Tables. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 1903. Price
10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; net.

                              Contents.

     The Coefficient of Transmission of Heat, _k_, and the Mean
     Temperature Difference [theta]_{m}--Parallel and Opposite
     Currents--Apparatus for Heating with Direct Fire--The Injection
     of Saturated Steam--Superheated Steam--Evaporation by Means of
     Hot Liquids--The Transference of Heat in General, and
     Transference by means of Saturated Steam in Particular--The
     Transference of Heat from Saturated Steam in Pipes (Coils) and
     Double Bottoms--Evaporation in a Vacuum--The Multiple-effect
     Evaporator--Multiple-effect Evaporators from which Extra Steam
     is Taken--The Weight of Water which must be Evaporated from 100
     Kilos. of Liquor in order its Original Percentage of Dry
     Materials from 1-25 per cent. up to 20-70 per cent.--The
     Relative Proportion of the Heating Surfaces in the Elements of
     the Multiple Evaporator and their Actual Dimensions--The
     Pressure Exerted by Currents of Steam and Gas upon Floating
     Drops of Water--The Motion of Floating Drops of Water upon
     which Press Currents of Steam--The Splashing of Evaporating
     Liquids--The Diameter of Pipes for Steam, Alcohol, Vapour and
     Air--The Diameter of Water Pipes--The Loss of Heat from
     Apparatus and Pipes to the Surrounding Air, and Means for
     Preventing the Loss--Condensers--Heating Liquids by Means of
     Steam--The Cooling of Liquids--The Volumes to be Exhausted from
     Condensers by the Air-pumps--A Few Remarks on Air-pumps and the
     Vacua they Produce--The Volumetric Efficiency of Air-pumps--The
     Volumes of Air which must be Exhausted from a Vessel in order
     to Reduce its Original Pressure to a Certain Lower
     Pressure--Index.




                          Dental Metallurgy.


=DENTAL METALLURGY: MANUAL FOR STUDENTS AND DENTISTS.= By A. B.
GRIFFITHS, Ph.D. Demy 8vo. Thirty-six Illustrations. 1903. 200 pp.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Introduction--Physical Properties of the Metals--Action of
     Certain Agents on Metals--Alloys--Action of Oral Bacteria on
     Alloys--Theory and Varieties of Blowpipes--Fluxes--Furnaces and
     Appliances--Heat and Temperature--Gold--Mercury--Silver--Iron--
     Copper--Zinc--Magnesium--Cadmium--Tin--Lead--Aluminium--
     Antimony--Bismuth--Palladium--Platinum--Iridium--Nickel--Practical
     Work--Weights and Measures.




             Plumbing, Decorating, Metal Work, etc., etc.


=EXTERNAL PLUMBING WORK.= A Treatise on Lead Work for Roofs. By JOHN W.
HART, R.P.C. 180 Illustrations. 272 pp. Demy 8vo. Second Edition
Revised. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Cast Sheet Lead--Milled Sheet Lead--Roof Cesspools--Socket
     Pipes--Drips--Gutters--Gutters (continued)--Breaks--Circular
     Breaks--Flats--Flats (continued)--Rolls on Flats--Roll
     Ends--Roll Intersections--Seam Rolls--Seam Rolls
     (continued)--Tack Fixings--Step Flashings--Step Flashings
     (continued)--Secret Gutters--Soakers--Hip and Valley
     Soakers--Dormer Windows--Dormer Windows (continued)--Dormer
     Tops--Internal Dormers--Skylights--Hips and Ridging--Hips and
     Ridging (continued)--Fixings for Hips and Ridging--Ornamental
     Ridging--Ornamental Curb Rolls--Curb Rolls--Cornices--Towers
     and Finials--Towers and Finials (continued)--Towers and Finials
     (continued)--Domes--Domes (continued)--Ornamental Lead
     Work--Rain Water Heads--Rain Water Heads (continued)--Rain
     Water Heads (continued).


=HINTS TO PLUMBERS ON JOINT WIPING, PIPE BENDING AND LEAD BURNING.=
Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C. 184
Illustrations. 313 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Pipe Bending--Pipe Bending (continued)--Pipe Bending
     (continued)--Square Pipe Bendings--Half-circular Elbows--Curved
     Bends on Square Pipe--Bossed Bends--Curved Plinth
     Bends--Rain-water Shoes on Square Pipe--Curved and Angle
     Bends--Square Pipe Fixings--Joint-wiping--Substitutes for Wiped
     Joints--Preparing Wiped Joints--Joint Fixings--Plumbing
     Irons--Joint Fixings--Use of "Touch" in Soldering--Underhand
     Joints--Blown and Copper Bit Joints--Branch Joints--Branch
     Joints (continued)--Block Joints--Block Joints
     (continued)--Block Fixings--Astragal Joints--Pipe
     Fixings--Large Branch Joints--Large Underhand
     Joints--Solders--Autogenous Soldering or Lead Burning--Index.


=WORKSHOP WRINKLES= for Decorators, Painters, Paper-hangers and Others.
By W. N. BROWN. Crown 8vo. 128 pp. 1901. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.


=SANITARY PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE.= By JOHN W. HART. Demy 8vo. With 208
Illustrations. 250 pp. 1904. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Sanitary Surveys--Drain Testing--Drain Testing with
     Smoke--Testing Drains with Water--Drain Plugs for
     Testing--Sanitary Defects--Closets--Baths and Lavatories--House
     Drains--Manholes--Iron Soil Pipes--Lead Soil Pipes--Ventilating
     Pipes--Water-closets--Flushing Cisterns--Baths--Bath
     Fittings--Lavatories--Lavatory Fittings--Sinks--Waste
     Pipes--Water Supply--Ball Valves--Town House Sanitary
     Arrangements--Drainage--Jointing Pipes--Accessible Drains--Iron
     Drains--Iron Junctions--Index.


=THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF DIPPING, BURNISHING, LACQUERING AND
BRONZING BRASS WARE.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. 35 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price
2s.; Abroad, 2s. 6d.; strictly net.


=HOUSE DECORATING AND PAINTING.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Eighty-eight
Illustrations. 150 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 3s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net.


=A HISTORY OF DECORATIVE ART.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Thirty-nine
Illustrations. 96 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.


=A HANDBOOK ON JAPANNING AND ENAMELLING FOR CYCLES, BEDSTEADS, TINWARE,
ETC.= By WILLIAM NORMAN BROWN. 52 pp. and Illustrations. Crown 8vo.
1901. Price 2s.; Abroad, 2s. 6d.; net.


=THE PRINCIPLES OF HOT WATER SUPPLY.= By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C. With 129
Illustrations. 1900. 177 pp., demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Water Circulation--The Tank System--Pipes and Joints--The
     Cylinder System--Boilers for the Cylinder System--The Cylinder
     System--The Combined Tank and Cylinder System--Combined
     Independent and Kitchen Boiler--Combined Cylinder and Tank
     System with Duplicate Boilers--Indirect Heating and Boiler
     Explosions--Pipe Boilers--Safety Valves--Safety Valves--The
     American System--Heating Water by Steam--Steam Kettles and
     Jets--Heating Power of Steam--Covering for Hot Water
     Pipes--Index.




                        Brewing and Botanical.


=HOPS IN THEIR BOTANICAL, AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL ASPECT, AND AS AN
ARTICLE OF COMMERCE.= By EMMANUEL GROSS, Professor at the Higher
Agricultural College, Tetschen-Liebwerd. Translated from the German.
Seventy-eight Illustrations. 1900. 340 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     HISTORY OF THE HOP--THE HOP PLANT--Introductory--The Roots--The
     Stem--and Leaves--Inflorescence and Flower: Inflorescence and
     Flower of the Male Hop; Inflorescence and Flower of the Female
     Hop--The Fruit and its Glandular Structure: The Fruit and
     Seed--Propagation and Selection of the Hop--Varieties of the
     Hop: (_a_) Red Hops; (_b_) Green Hops; (_c_) Pale Green
     Hops--Classification according to the Period of Ripening: Early
     August Hops; Medium Early Hops; Late Hops--Injuries to
     Growth--Leaves Turning Yellow, Summer or Sunbrand, Cones
     Dropping Off, Honey Dew, Damage from Wind, Hail and Rain;
     Vegetable Enemies of the Hop: Animal Enemies of the
     Hop--Beneficial Insects on Hops--CULTIVATION--The Requirements
     of the Hop in Respect of Climate, Soil and Situation: Climate;
     Soil; Situation--Selection of Variety and Cuttings--Planting a
     Hop Garden: Drainage; Preparing the Ground; Marking-out for
     Planting; Planting; Cultivation and Cropping of the Hop Garden
     in the First Year--Work to be Performed Annually in the Hop
     Garden: Working the Ground; Cutting; The Non-cutting System;
     The Proper Performance of the Operation of Cutting; Method of
     Cutting; Close Cutting, Ordinary Cutting, The Long Cut, The
     Topping Cut; Proper Season for Cutting: Autumn Cutting, Spring
     Cutting; Manuring; Training the Hop Plant: Poled Gardens, Frame
     Training; Principal Types of Frames; Pruning, Cropping,
     Topping, and Leaf Stripping the Hop Plant; Picking, Drying and
     Bagging--Principal and Subsidiary Utilisation of Hops and Hop
     Gardens--Life of a Hop Garden; Subsequent Cropping--Cost of
     Production, Yield and Selling Prices.

      =Preservation and Storage=--Physical and Chemical Structure of
      the Hop Cone--Judging the Value of Hops.

      =Statistics of Production--The Hop Trade=--Index.




                        Timber and Wood Waste.


=TIMBER:= A Comprehensive Study of Wood in all its Aspects (Commercial
and Botanical), showing the Different Applications and Uses of Timber
in Various Trades, etc. Translated from the French of PAUL
CHARPENTIER. Royal 8vo. 437 pp. 178 Illustrations. 1902. Price 12s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; net.

                              Contents.

     =Physical and Chemical Properties of Timber=--Composition of the
     Vegetable Bodies--Chief Elements--M. Fremy's
     Researches--Elementary Organs of Plants and especially of
     Forests--Different Parts of Wood Anatomically and Chemically
     Considered--General Properties of Wood--=Description of the
     Different Kinds of Wood=--Principal Essences with Caducous
     Leaves--Coniferous Resinous Trees--=Division of the Useful
     Varieties of Timber in the Different Countries of the
     Globe=--European Timber--African Timber--Asiatic
     Timber--American Timber--Timber of Oceania--=Forests=--General
     Notes as to Forests; their Influence--Opinions as to
     Sylviculture--Improvement of Forests--Unwooding and
     Rewooding--Preservation of Forests--Exploitation of
     Forests--Damage caused to Forests--Different Alterations--=The
     Preservation of Timber=--Generalities--Causes and Progress of
     Deterioration--History of Different Proposed
     Processes--Dessication--Superficial Carbonisation of
     Timber--Processes by Immersion--Generalities as to Antiseptics
     Employed--Injection Processes in Closed Vessels--The Boucherie
     System, Based upon the Displacement of the Sap--Processes for
     Making Timber Uninflammable--=Applications of
     Timber=--Generalities--Working Timber--Paving--Timber for
     Mines--Railway Traverses--Accessory Products--Gums--Works of M.
     Fremy--Resins--Barks--Tan--Application of Cork--The Application
     of Wood to Art and Dyeing--Different Applications of Wood--Hard
     Wood--Distillation of Wood--Pyroligneous Acid--Oil of
     Wood--Distillation of Resins--Index.


=THE UTILISATION OF WOOD WASTE.= Translated from the German of ERNST
HUBBARD. Crown 8vo. 192 pp. 1902. Fifty Illustrations. Price 5s.;
India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.

                              Contents.

     General Remarks on the Utilisation of Sawdust--Employment of
     Sawdust as Fuel, with and without Simultaneous Recovery of
     Charcoal and the Products of Distillation--Manufacture of
     Oxalic Acid from Sawdust--Process with Soda Lye; Thorn's
     Process; Bohlig's Process--Manufacture of Spirit (Ethyl
     Alcohol) from Wood Waste--Patent Dyes (Organic Sulphides,
     Sulphur Dyes, or Mercapto Dyes)--Artificial Wood and Plastic
     Compositions from Sawdust--Production of Artificial Wood
     Compositions for Moulded Decorations--Employment of Sawdust for
     Blasting Powders and Gunpowders--Employment of Sawdust for
     Briquettes--Employment of Sawdust in the Ceramic Industry and
     as an Addition to Mortar--Manufacture of Paper Pulp from
     Wood--Casks--Various Applications of Sawdust and Wood
     Refuse--Calcium Carbide--Manure--Wood Mosaic Plaques--Bottle
     Stoppers--Parquetry--Fire-lighters--Carborundum--The Production
     of Wood Wool--Bark--Index.




                      Building and Architecture.


=THE PREVENTION OF DAMPNESS IN BUILDINGS=; with Remarks on the Causes,
Nature and Effects of Saline, Efflorescences and Dry-rot, for
Architects, Builders, Overseers, Plasterers, Painters and House
Owners. By ADOLF WILHELM KEIM. Translated from the German of the
second revised Edition by M. J. SALTER, F.I.C., F.C.S. Eight Coloured
Plates and Thirteen Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 115 pp. 1902. Price 5s.;
India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.

                              Contents.

     The Various Causes of Dampness and Decay of the Masonry of
     Buildings, and the Structural and Hygienic Evils of the
     Same--Precautionary Measures during Building against Dampness
     and Efflorescence--Methods of Remedying Dampness and
     Efflorescences in the Walls of Old Buildings--The Artificial
     Drying of New Houses, as well as Old Damp Dwellings, and the
     Theory of the Hardening of Mortar--New, Certain and Permanently
     Efficient Methods for Drying Old Damp Walls and Dwellings--The
     Cause and Origin of Dry-rot: its Injurious Effect on Health,
     its Destructive Action on Buildings, and its Successful
     Repression--Methods of Preventing Dry-rot to be Adopted During
     Construction--Old Methods of Preventing Dry-rot--Recent and
     More Efficient Remedies for Dry-rot--Index.


=HANDBOOK OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING, AND
THEIR ALLIED TRADES AND SUBJECTS.= By AUGUSTINE C. PASSMORE. Demy 8vo.
380 pp. 1904. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries,
8s. 6d.; strictly net, post free.




                        Foods and Sweetmeats.


=THE MANUFACTURE OF PRESERVED FOODS AND SWEETMEATS.= By A. HAUSNER. With
Twenty-eight Illustrations. Translated from the German of the third
enlarged Edition. Crown 8vo. 225 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; net.

                              Contents.

     =The Manufacture of Conserves=--Introduction--The Causes of the
     Putrefaction of Food--The Chemical Composition of Foods--The
     Products of Decomposition--The Causes of Fermentation and
     Putrefaction--Preservative Bodies--The Various Methods of
     Preserving Food--The Preservation of Animal Food--Preserving
     Meat by Means of Ice--The Preservation of Meat by
     Charcoal--Preservation of Meat by Drying--The Preservation of
     Meat by the Exclusion of Air--The Appert Method--Preserving
     Flesh by Smoking--Quick Smoking--Preserving Meat with
     Salt--Quick Salting by Air Pressure--Quick Salting by Liquid
     Pressure--Gamgee's Method of Preserving Meat--The Preservation
     of Eggs--Preservation of White and Yolk of Egg--Milk
     Preservation--Condensed Milk--The Preservation of
     Fat--Manufacture of Soup Tablets--Meat Biscuits--Extract of
     Beef--The Preservation of Vegetable Foods in
     General--Compressing Vegetables--Preservation of Vegetables by
     Appert's Method--The Preservation of Fruit--Preservation of
     Fruit by Storage--The Preservation of Fruit by Drying--Drying
     Fruit by Artificial Heat--Roasting Fruit--The Preservation of
     Fruit with Sugar--Boiled Preserved Fruit--The Preservation of
     Fruit in Spirit, Acetic Acid or Glycerine--Preservation of
     Fruit without Boiling--Jam Manufacture--The Manufacture of
     Fruit Jellies--The Making of Gelatine Jellies--The Manufacture
     of "Sulzen"--The Preservation of Fermented Beverages--=The
     Manufacture of Candies=--Introduction--The Manufacture of
     Candied Fruit--The Manufacture of Boiled Sugar and Caramel--The
     Candying of Fruit--Caramelised Fruit--The Manufacture of Sugar
     Sticks, or Barley Sugar--Bonbon Making--Fruit Drops--The
     Manufacture of Dragées--The Machinery and Appliances used in
     Candy Manufacture--Dyeing Candies and Bonbons--Essential Oils
     used in Candy Making--Fruit Essences--The Manufacture of Filled
     Bonbons, Liqueur Bonbons and Stamped Lozenges--Recipes for Jams
     and Jellies--Recipes for Bonbon
     Making--Dragées--Appendix--Index.




                         Dyeing Fancy Goods.


=THE ART OF DYEING AND STAINING MARBLE, ARTIFICIAL STONE, BONE, HORN,
IVORY AND WOOD, AND OF IMITATING ALL SORTS OF WOOD.= A Practical
Handbook for the Use of Joiners, Turners, Manufacturers of Fancy
Goods, Stick and Umbrella Makers, Comb Makers, etc. Translated from
the German of D. H. SOXHLET, Technical Chemist. Crown 8vo. 168 pp.
1902. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
net.

                              Contents.

     Mordants and Stains--Natural Dyes--Artificial Pigments--Coal
     Tar Dyes---Staining Marble and Artificial Stone--Dyeing,
     Bleaching and Imitation of Bone, Horn and Ivory--Imitation of
     Tortoiseshell for Combs: Yellows, Dyeing Nuts--Ivory--Wood
     Dyeing--Imitation of Mahogany: Dark Walnut, Oak, Birch-Bark,
     Elder-Marquetry, Walnut, Walnut-Marquetry, Mahogany, Spanish
     Mahogany, Palisander and Rose Wood, Tortoiseshell, Oak, Ebony,
     Pear Tree--Black Dyeing Processes with Penetrating
     Colours--Varnishes and Polishes: English Furniture Polish,
     Vienna Furniture Polish, Amber Varnish, Copal Varnish,
     Composition for Preserving Furniture--Index.




                 Lithography, Printing and Engraving.


=PRACTICAL LITHOGRAPHY.= By ALFRED SEYMOUR. Demy 8vo. With Frontispiece
and 33 Illus. 120 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; net.

                              Contents.

     Stones--Transfer Inks--Transfer Papers--Transfer
     Printing--Litho Press--Press Work--Machine Printing--Colour
     Printing--Substitutes for Lithographic Stones--Tin Plate
     Printing and Decoration--Photo-Lithography.


=PRINTERS' AND STATIONERS' READY RECKONER AND COMPENDIUM.= Compiled by
VICTOR GRAHAM. Crown 8vo. 1904.

                                                      [_In the press._

                              Contents.

     Price of Paper per Sheet, Quire, Ream and Lb.--Cost of 100 to
     1000 Sheets at various Sizes and Prices per Ream--Cost of
     Cards--Quantity Table--Sizes and Weights of Paper, Cards,
     etc.--Notes on Account Books--Discount Tables--Sizes of
     spaces--Leads to a lb.--Dictionary--Measure for
     Bookwork--Correcting Proofs, etc.


=ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION. HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL NOTES.= By J.
KIRKBRIDE. 72 pp. Two Plates and 6 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1903.
Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.

                              Contents.

     Its Inception--Wood Engraving--Metal Engraving--Engraving in
     England--Etching--Mezzotint--Photo-Process Engraving--The
     Engraver's Task--Appreciative Criticism--Index.




                             Bookbinding.


=PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING.= By PAUL ADAM. Translated from the German. Crown
8vo. 180 pp. 127 Illustrations. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s.; net.

                              Contents.

     Materials for Sewing and Pasting--Materials for Covering the
     Book--Materials for Decorating and Finishing--Tools--General
     Preparatory Work--Sewing--Forwarding, Cutting, Rounding and
     Backing--Forwarding, Decoration of Edges and
     Headbanding--Boarding--Preparing the Cover--Work with the
     Blocking Press--Treatment of Sewn Books, Fastening in Covers,
     and Finishing Off--Hand-tooling and Other Decoration--Account
     Books--School Books, Mounting Maps, Drawings, etc.--Index.




                           Sugar Refining.


=THE TECHNOLOGY OF SUGAR=: Practical Treatise on the Modern Methods of
Manufacture of Sugar from the Sugar Cane and Sugar Beet. By JOHN
GEDDES MCINTOSH. Demy 8vo. 83 Illustrations. 420 pp. Seventy-six
Tables. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.; Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.;
net.

(_See "Evaporating, Condensing, etc., Apparatus," p. 26._)

                              Contents.

     Chemistry of Sucrose, Lactose, Maltose, Glucose, Invert Sugar,
     etc.--Purchase and Analysis of Beets--Treatment of
     Beets--Diffusion--Filtration--Concentration--Evaporation--=Sugar
     Cane:= Cultivation--Milling--Diffusion--Sugar Refining--Analysis
     of Raw Sugars--Chemistry of Molasses, etc.




                            Bibliography.


=CLASSIFIED GUIDE TO TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL BOOKS.= Compiled by EDGAR
GREENWOOD. Demy 8vo. 1904. Being a Subject-list of the Principal
British and American Books in print; giving Title, Author, Size, Date,
Publisher and Price.

                                                      [_In the press._

                              Contents.

     Agriculture--Architecture--Art--Book Production--Building--
     Chemicals--Commercial--Electricity--Engineering--Farming--
     Gardening--Glass--Hygiene--Legal (not pure Law)--Metallurgy--
     Mining--Military--Music--Naval--Oils--Paints--Photography--Physical
     Training--Plumbing--Pottery--Printing--Public Health--Railways--
     Roads--Soaps--Surveying--Teaching--Textile--Veterinary--Water--
     Index, etc., etc.


=TEXTILE SOAPS AND OILS.= Handbook on the Preparation, Properties and
Analysis of the Soaps and Oils used in Textile Manufacturing, Dyeing
and Printing. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Crown 8vo. 200 pp. Nine
Illustrations. 1904. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; net.

                              Contents.

     =Methods of Making Soaps=--Hard Soap--Soft Soap. =Special Textile
     Soaps=--Wool Soaps--Calico Printers' Soaps--Dyers' Soaps.
     =Relation of Soap to Water for Industrial Purposes=--Treating
     Waste Soap Liquors--Boiled Off Liquor--Calico Printers and
     Dyers' Soap Liquors--=Soap Analysis=--=Fat in Soap=.

      ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS--Tallow--Lard--Bone
      Grease--Tallow Oil. =Vegetable Soap, Oils and Fats=--Palm
      Oil--Coco-nut Oil--Olive Oil--Cottonseed Oil--Linseed
      Oil--Castor Oil--Corn Oil--Whale Oil or Train Oil--Repe Oil.

      GLYCERINE.

      TEXTILE OILS--Oleic Acid--Blended Wool Oils--Oils for Cotton
      Dyeing, Printing and Finishing--Turkey Red Oil--Alizarine
      Oil--Oleine--Oxy Turkey Red Oils--Soluble Oil--Analysis of
      Turkey Red Oil--Finisher's Soluble Oil--Finisher's Soap
      Softening--Testing and Adulteration of Oils--Index.

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Transcriber's Note

This catalogue was originally bound in with Practical Bookbinding by
Paul Adam, which is available from Project Gutenberg at
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39318

On p.26, the title of the first chapter of Evaporating, Condensing and
Cooling Apparatus has been corrected by reference to the original book.





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