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JANUARY, 1905.


Catalogue of

_Special Technical Works_

FOR MANUFACTURERS, STUDENTS, AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

BY EXPERT WRITERS


INDEX TO SUBJECTS.

  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

  Cosmetic, 8

  Cotton Dyeing, 23

  Cotton Spinning, 24


  Damask Weaving, 20

  Dampness in Buildings, 30

  Decorators' Books, 28

  Decorative Textiles, 20

  Dental Metallurgy, 25

  Dictionary of Paint Materials, 2

  Drying Oils, 5

  Drying with Air, 12

  Dyeing Marble, 31

  Dyeing Woollen Fabrics, 23

  Dyers' Materials, 21

  Dye-stuffs, 22


  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, 2

  Lead and its Compounds, 11

  Leather Industry, 13

  Leather-working Materials, 14

  Lithography, 31

  Lubricants, 5, 6


  Manures, 8, 10

  Mineral Pigments, 3

  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, 11

  Rivetting China, etc., 16


  Sanitary Plumbing, 28

  Scheele's Essays, 9

  Sealing Waxes, 11

  Silk Dyeing, 22

  Silk Throwing, 19

  Smoke Prevention, 26

  Soaps, 7

  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, 23

  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.

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.

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.

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 ANDES. 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 ANDES. 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, Ingenieur 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. ANDES.
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 Formulae--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 ANDES. 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--Neatsfoot 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 & Muenzberg'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. SHERRIFF. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. 214 pp. 1904.
With Two Sheets of Tables. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

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.

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.

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 ANDES. 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.




Textile Soaps.


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. 195 pp. 1904. Price 5s.;
India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly 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.




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--Properties of
    Glue--Glutin and Chondrin--Skin Glue--Liming of Skins--Washing--
    Boiling of Skins--Clarification of Glue Liquors--Glue-Boiling and
    Clarifying-House--Specification of a Glue--Size--Uses and Preparation
    and Composition of Size--Concentrated Size--Properties of Gelatine--
    Preparation of Skin Gelatine--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--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 Molybdaena--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 Resume 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--Meerschum--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 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.




Industrial Uses of Air, Steam and Water.


DRYING BY MEANS OF AIR AND STEAM. Explanations, Formulae, 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. 27._)

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 and Revised by Arthur Morris. 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 Washhouses--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._)




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., Barrell'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 Mache; 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 Formulae 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 Sevres--
    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, Faiences and
Architectural Stoneware. By LEON LEFEVRE. 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 ofT HE 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 Malachite--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, Faience 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, Faience--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,
Paperstainers, Students and others. By JULIUS ERFURT, Manager of a Paper
Mill. Translated into English and Edited with Additions by JULIUS HUeBNER,
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, Handloom-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. 170 pp. Demy
8vo. 1904. 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. 7._)




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.

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.

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.




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. 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 Formulae 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.




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.




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 PUeTSCH. 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. JUePTNER. 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, Formulae 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.

    _Re_Coefficient of Transmission of Heat, k/, and the Mean Temperature
    Difference, [Greek: th]/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.




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.




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
    Dragees--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--Dragees--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. 112 pp. 1904. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net, post free.

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--Handtooling 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. 27._)

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. 224 pp. 1904. Being a Subject-list of the Principal
British and American Books in print; giving Title, Author, Size, Date,
Publisher and Price. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net, post free.

Contents.

    1. Agriculture and Farming--Agricultural Chemistry--Bee-keeping--
    Cattle, Pigs, Sheep--Dairy and Dairy Work--Feeding Animals--Forestry--
    Fruit Growing--Irrigation--Manures--Poultry Farming. 2. Air, Aerial
    Navigation. 3. Architecture and Building. 4. Art--Lettering--
    Modelling--Ornament--Painting--Perspective. 5. Arts and Crafts,
    Amateur Work. 6. Auction Sales. 7. Banking. 8. Book and Newspaper
    Production, Papermaking, Printing--Bookbinding--Bookselling--
    Copyright--Journalism--Lithography--Papermaking--Printing,
    Typography--Process Work--Stationery. 9. Brewing and Distilling. 10.
    Cabinet-making. 11. Calculators, Ready Reckoners, Discount Tables. 12.
    Carpentry and Joinery. 13. Chemicals, Chemistry. 14. Coachbuilding.
    15. Commerce, Business. 16. Dams, Docks, Harbours. 17. Dogs. 18.
    Domestic Economy--Cookery--Dressmaking--Laundry--Millinery. 19.
    Electricity--Alternating Currents--Dynamos--Electric Heating--Electric
    Lighting--Electric Traction--Telegraphy--Telephones--Wireless
    Telegraphy. 20. Elocution, Voice Production. 21. Engineering and Metal
    Work--Architectural Engineering--Blacksmithing--Boilers--Bridges--
    Civil Engineering--Fuel, Smoke--Galvanising, Tinning--Gas, Oil and Air
    Engines--Hardware--Hydraulic Engineering--Indicators--Injectors--Iron
    and Steel--Ironfounding--Lathes, Tools--Locomotives--Machine
    Construction and Design--Marine Engineering--Mechanical Engineering--
    Metal Work--Pattern Making--Pipes--Power Transmission--Pumps--
    Refrigeration--Saw Filing--Screw Cutting--Steam Engine--Strains and
    Stresses--Turbines. 22. Factories and Workshops. 23. Financial--
    Investments--Stockbroking. 24. Foods and Beverages--Adulteration and
    Analysis--Bread--Cakes--Fish--Flour, Grain--Food and Drug Acts--Tea.
    25. Foreign Exchange Tables, Metric System. 26. Foreign Languages. 27.
    Gardening, Flowers. 28. Gas--Acetylene--Gas Fitting--Gas Lighting and
    Supply. 29. Glass. 30. Glues, Inks, Pastes. 31. Horses. 32. Hospitals,
    Nursing. 33. House Decoration. 34. Hygiene, Public Health--
    Bacteriology--Hygiene--Public Health--Sanitary Inspection--Sewage and
    Sewerage. 35. India-Rubber. 36. Insurance. 37. Jewellery, Silver and
    Goldsmith's Work. 38. Land, Property. 39. Leather Trades. 40. Legal--
    Arbitration--Bankruptcy Law--Commercial Law--Contract Law--
    Solicitors--Stamp Duties--Trustee Law--Wills. 41. Metallurgy. 42.
    Military. 43. Mining, Quarrying. 44. Motor Cars and Cycles. 45. Music.
    46. Nautical, Navigation. 46a. Navy. 47. Oils, Fats. 48. Optical,
    Microscopy, Instruments. 49. Paints, Colours, Varnishes. 50. Patents,
    Trade Marks. 51. Photography. 52. Physics. 53. Physical Training. 54.
    Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation. 55. Pottery, China, Bricks. 56. Public
    Meetings, Elections, Taxes. 57. Railways and Tramways--Construction of
    Railways--Carriage and Wagon Building--Law of Railways--Light
    Railways--Management. 58. Rivers, Canals. 59. Roads, Highways. 60.
    Shopkeeping, Ticket Writing. 61. Shorthand, Typewriting. 62. Soaps,
    Candles. 63. Building, Co-operative and Friendly Societies. 64.
    Surveying. 65. Teaching, Education. 66. Telegraph Codes. 67. Textile
    Trades. 68. Timber. 69. Veterinary. 70. Watches, Clocks. 71. Water.
    Subject Index.


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