Part 1. Introduction and the Principles of Geometry. Part 2. Land
Surveying; comprising General Observations--The Chain--Offsets
Surveying by the Chain only--Surveying Hilly Ground--To Survey an
Estate or Parish by the Chain only--Surveying with the Theodolite--
Mining and Town Surveying--Railroad Surveying--Mapping--Division
and Laying out of Land--Observations on Enclosures--Plane
Trigonometry. Part 3. Levelling--Simple and Compound Levelling--
The Level Book--Parliamentary Plan and Section--Levelling with a
Theodolite--Gradients--Wooden Curves--To Lay out a Railway Curve--
Setting out Widths. Part 4. Calculating Quantities generally for
Estimates--Cuttings and Embankments--Tunnels--Brickwork--Ironwork--
Timber Measuring. Part 5. Description and Use of Instruments in
Surveying and Plotting--The Improved Dumpy Level--Troughton's
Level--The Prismatic Compass--Proportional Compass--Box Sextant--
Vernier--Pantagraph--Merrett's Improved Quadrant--Improved
Computation Scale--The Diagonal Scale--Straight Edge and Sector.
Part 6. Logarithms of Numbers--Logarithmic Sines and Co-Sines,
Tangents and Co-Tangents--Natural Sines and Co-Sines--Tables for
Earthwork, for Setting out Curves, and for various Calculations,
etc., etc., etc.
_Health and Comfort in House Building, or Ventilation with Warm Air by
Self-Acting Suction Power_, with Review of the mode of Calculating the
Draught in Hot-Air Flues, and with some actual Experiments. By J.
DRYSDALE, M.D., and J. W. HAYWARD, M.D. Second edition, with Supplement,
_with plates_, demy 8vo, cloth, 7_s._ 6_d._
_The Assayer's Manual_: an Abridged Treatise on the Docimastic
Examination of Ores and Furnace and other Artificial Products. By BRUNO
KERL. Translated by W. T. BRANNT. _With 65 illustrations_, 8vo, cloth,
12_s._ 6_d._
_Electricity_: its Theory, Sources, and Applications. By J. T. SPRAGUE,
M.S.T.E. Second edition, revised and enlarged, _with numerous
illustrations_, crown 8vo, cloth, 15_s._
_The Practice of Hand Turning in Wood, Ivory, Shell, etc._, with
Instructions for Turning such Work in Metal as may be required in the
Practice of Turning in Wood, Ivory, etc.; also an Appendix on Ornamental
Turning. (A book for beginners.) By FRANCIS CAMPIN. Third edition, _with
wood engravings_, crown 8vo, cloth, 6_s._