     Cisterns--Drying--Drying by Steam--Drying by Hot Air--Drying by
     Air--Damages to Fabrics in Bleaching--Yarn
     Mildew--Fermentation--Iron Rust Spots--Spots from Contact with
     Wood--Spots incurred on the Bleaching Green--Damages arising
     from the Machines--Examples of Methods used in
     Bleaching--Linen--Cotton--The Valuation of Caustic and
     Carbonated Alkali (Soda) and General Information Regarding
     these Bodies--Object of Alkalimetry--Titration of Carbonate of
     Soda--Comparative Table of Different Degrees of Alkalimetrical
     Strength--Five Problems relative to Carbonate of Soda--Caustic
     Soda, its Properties and Uses--Mixtures of Carbonated and
     Caustic Alkali--Note on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda
     and Mixtures of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali
     (Soda)--Chlorometry--Titration--Wagner's Chlorometric
     Method--Preparation of Standard Solutions--Apparatus for
     Chlorine Valuation--Alkali in Excess in Decolourising
     Chlorides--Chlorine and Decolourising
     Chlorides--Synopsis--Chlorine--Chloride of Lime--Hypochlorite
     of Soda--Brochoki's Chlorozone--Various Decolourising
     Hypochlorites--Comparison of Chloride of Lime and Hypochlorite
     of Soda--Water--Qualities of Water--Hardness--Dervaux's
     Purifier--Testing the Purified Water--Different Plant for
     Purification--Filters--Bleaching of Yarn--Weight of Yarn--Lye
     Boiling--Chemicking--Washing--Bleaching of Cotton Yarn--The
     Installation of a Bleach Works--Water Supply--Steam
     Boilers--Steam Distribution
     Pipes--Engines--Keirs--Washing--Machines--Stocks--Wash
     Wheels--Chemicking and Souring
     Cisterns--Various--Buildings--Addenda--Energy of Decolourising
     Chlorides and Bleaching by Electricity and Ozone--Energy of
     Decolourising Chlorides--Chlorides--Production of Chlorine and
     Hypochlorites by Electrolysis--Lunge's Process for increasing
     the intensity of the Bleaching Power of Chloride of
     Lime--Trilfer's Process for Removing the Excess of Lime or Soda
     from Decolourising Chlorides--Bleaching by Ozone.




                     Cotton Spinning and Combing.


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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




                        Collieries and Mines.


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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




            Engineering, Smoke Prevention and Metallurgy.


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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




                          Dental Metallurgy.


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

                              Contents.

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




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


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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


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


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

                              Contents.

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


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


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


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


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


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

                              Contents.

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




                        Brewing and Botanical.


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

                              Contents.

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

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

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




                        Timber and Wood Waste.


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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




                      Building and Architecture.


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

                              Contents.

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


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




                        Foods and Sweetmeats.


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

                              Contents.

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




                         Dyeing Fancy Goods.


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

                              Contents.

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




                 Lithography, Printing and Engraving.


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

                              Contents.

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


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

                                                      [_In the press._

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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




                             Bookbinding.


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

                              Contents.

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




                           Sugar Refining.


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

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

                              Contents.

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




                            Bibliography.


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

                                                      [_In the press._

                              Contents.

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


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

                              Contents.

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

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

      GLYCERINE.

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

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Transcriber's Note

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

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





