JUNE, 1903.
Catalogue
OF
_Special Technical Works_
FOR
Manufacturers, Students, and Technical
Schools
BY EXPERT WRITERS
INDEX TO SUBJECTS.
PAGE
Agricultural Chemistry 10
Air, Industrial Use of 11
Alum and its Sulphates 9
Ammonia 9
Aniline Colours 3
Animal Fats 6
Anti-corrosive Paints 4
Architecture, Terms in 30
Architectural Pottery 16
Artificial Perfumes 7
Balsams 10
Bleaching 23
Bone Products 8
Bookbinding 31
Brick-making 15, 16
Burnishing Brass 27
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
Colliery Recovery Work 25
Colour Matching 21
Colour-mixing for Dyers 21
Colouring Pottery 15
Colour Theory 22
Combing Machines 24
Compounding Oils 6
Condensing Apparatus 26
Cosmetics 7
Cotton Dyeing 22
Cotton Spinning 24
Damask Weaving 20
Dampness in Buildings 29
Decorators' Books 28
Decorative Textiles 20
Dental Metallurgy 27
Dictionary of Paint Materials 3
Drying Oils 5
Drying with Air 11
Dyeing Marble 30
Dyeing Woollen Fabrics 22
Dyers' Materials 23
Dye-stuffs 23
Enamelling Metal 19, 20
Enamels 18
Engraving 31
Essential Oils 7
Evaporating Apparatus 26
External Plumbing 27
Fats 5, 6
Faults in Woollen Goods 21
Gas Firing 26
Glass-making Recipes 17
Glass Painting 18
Glue Making and Testing 8
Greases 5
History of Staffs Potteries 17
Hops 28
Hot-water Supply 28
India-rubber 13
Inks 3, 11
Iron-corrosion 4
Iron, Science of 26
Japanning 28
Lacquering 27
Lake Pigments 3
Lead and its Compounds 11
Leather Industry 13
Leather-working Materials 14
Lithography 31
Lubricants 5, 6
Manures 8, 10
Mineral Pigments 2
Mine Ventilation 25
Mine Haulage 25
Oil and Colour Recipes 3
Oil Boiling 4
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 20
Preserved Foods 30
Printing Inks 3
Recipes for Oilmen, etc. 3
Resins 10
Risks of Occupations 12
Rivetting China, etc. 16
Scheele's Essays 9
Sealing Waxes 11
Silk Dyeing 23
Silk Throwing 19
Smoke Prevention 25
Soaps 7
Spinning 20
Staining Marble, and Bone 30
Steam Drying 11
Sugar Refining 31
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
Water-proofing Fabrics 32
Weaving Calculations 32
Wood Waste Utilisation 29
Wood Dyeing 30
Wool Dyeing 22
Writing Inks 11
X-Ray Work 13
Yarn Testing 20
SCOTT, GREENWOOD & CO.,
19 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C.
Tel. Address: "PRINTERIES, LONDON".
Tel. No. 5403, Bank
Paints, Colours and Printing Inks.
=THE CHEMISTRY OF PIGMENTS.= By ERNEST J. PARRY, B.Sc.
(Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S., and J. H. COSTE, F.I.C., F.C.S.
Demy 8vo. Five Illustrations. 285 pp. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
=Introductory.= Light--White Light--The Spectrum--The Invisible
Spectrum--Normal Spectrum--Simple Nature of Pure Spectral Colour--The
Recomposition of White Light--Primary and Complementary Colours--
Coloured Bodies--Absorption Spectra--=The Application of Pigments.=
Uses of Pigments: Artistic, Decorative, Protective--Methods of
Application of Pigments: Pastels and Crayons, Water Colour, Tempera
Painting, Fresco, Encaustic Painting, Oil-colour Painting, Keramic Art,
Enamel, Stained and Painted Glass, Mosaic--=Inorganic Pigments.= White
Lead--Zinc White--Enamel White--Whitening--Red Lead--Litharge--
Vermilion--Royal Scarlet--The Chromium Greens--Chromates of Lead, Zinc,
Silver and Mercury--Brunswick Green--The Ochres--Indian Red--Venetian
Red--Siennas and Umbers--Light Red--Cappagh Brown--Red Oxides--Mars
Colours--Terre Verte--Prussian Brown--Cobalt Colours--Coeruleum--Smalt
--Copper Pigments--Malachite--Bremen Green--Scheele's Green--Emerald
Green--Verdigris--Brunswick Green--Non-arsenical Greens--Copper Blues
--Ultramarine--Carbon Pigments--Ivory Black--Lamp Black--Bistre--Naples
Yellow--Arsenic Sulphides: Orpiment, Realgar--Cadmium Yellow--Vandyck
Brown--=Organic Pigments.= Prussian Blue--Natural Lakes--Cochineal--
Carmine--Crimson--Lac Dye--Scarlet--Madder--Alizarin--Campeachy--
Quercitron--Rhamnus--Brazil Wood--Alkanet--Santal Wood--Archil--Coal-tar
Lakes--Red Lakes--Alizarin Compounds--Orange and Yellow Lakes--Green
and Blue Lakes--Indigo--Dragon's Blood--Gamboge--Sepia--Indian Yellow,
Puree--Bitumen, Asphaltum, Mummy--=Index.=
=THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT.= A Practical Handbook for Paint
Manufacturers, Merchants and Painters. By J. CRUICKSHANK
SMITH, B.Sc. Demy 8vo. 1901. 200 pp. Sixty Illustrations and
One Large Diagram. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Preparation of Raw Material--Storing of Raw Material--Testing and
Valuation of Raw Material--Paint Plant and Machinery--The Grinding of
White Lead--Grinding of White Zinc--Grinding of other White Pigments
--Grinding of Oxide Paints--Grinding of Staining Colours--Grinding of
Black Paints--Grinding of Chemical Colours--Yellows--Grinding of
Chemical Colours--Blues--Grinding Greens--Grinding Reds--Grinding
Lakes--Grinding Colours in Water--Grinding Colours in Turpentine--The
Uses of Paint--Testing and Matching Paints--Economic Considerations
--Index.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF MINERAL AND LAKE PIGMENTS.= Containing
Directions for the Manufacture of all Artificial, Artists
and Painters' Colours, Enamel, Soot and Metallic Pigments. A
Text-book for Manufacturers, Merchants, Artists and
Painters. By Dr. JOSEF BERSCH. Translated by A. C. WRIGHT,
M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Forty-three Illustrations. 476
pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies 13s.
6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Physico-chemical Behaviour of Pigments--Raw Materials
Employed in the Manufacture of Pigments--Assistant Materials--Metallic
Compounds--The Manufacture of Mineral Pigments--The Manufacture of
White Lead--Enamel White--Washing Apparatus--Zinc White--Yellow Mineral
Pigments--Chrome Yellow--Lead Oxide Pigments--Other Yellow Pigments--
Mosaic Gold--Red Mineral Pigments--The Manufacture of Vermilion--
Antimony Vermilion--Ferric Oxide Pigments--Other Red Mineral Pigments
--Purple of Cassius--Blue Mineral Pigments--Ultramarine--Manufacture
of Ultramarine--Blue Copper Pigments--Blue Cobalt Pigments--Smalts--
Green Mineral Pigments--Emerald Green--Verdigris--Chromium Oxide--Other
Green Chromium Pigments--Green Cobalt Pigments--Green Manganese
Pigments--Compounded Green Pigments--Violet Mineral Pigments--Brown
Mineral Pigments--Brown Decomposition Products--Black Pigments--
Manufacture of Soot Pigments--Manufacture of Lamp Black--The
Manufacture of Soot Black without Chambers--Indian Ink--Enamel
Colours--Metallic Pigments--Bronze Pigments--Vegetable Bronze Pigments.
PIGMENTS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN--Lakes--Yellow Lakes--Red Lakes--Manufacture
of Carmine--The Colouring Matter of Lac--Safflower or Carthamine
Red--Madder and its Colouring Matters--Madder Lakes--Manjit (Indian
Madder)--Lichen Colouring Matters--Red Wood Lakes--The Colouring
Matters of Sandal Wood and Other Dye Woods--Blue Lakes--Indigo
Carmine--The Colouring Matter of Log Wood--Green Lakes--Brown Organic
Pigments--Sap Colours--Water Colours--Crayons--Confectionery
Colours--The Preparation of Pigments for Painting--The Examination of
Pigments--Examination of Lakes--The Testing of Dye-Woods--The Design of
a Colour Works--Commercial Names of Pigments--Appendix: Conversion of
Metric to English Weights and Measures--Centigrade and Fahrenheit
Thermometer Scales--Index.
=DICTIONARY OF CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAINTS, COLOURS, VARNISHES AND ALLIED
PREPARATIONS.= By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Demy 8vo. 380 pp.
1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF LAKE PIGMENTS FROM ARTIFICIAL COLOURS.= By
FRANCIS H. JENNISON, F.I.C., F.C.S. =Sixteen Coloured Plates,
showing Specimens of Eighty-nine Colours, specially prepared
from the Recipes given in the Book.= 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
The Groups of the Artificial Colouring Matters--The Nature and
Manipulation of Artificial Colours--Lake-forming Bodies for Acid
Colours--Lake-forming Bodies' Basic Colours--Lake Bases--The Principles
of Lake Formation--Red Lakes--Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet and
Black Lakes--The Production of Insoluble Azo Colours in the Form of
Pigments--The General Properties of Lakes Produced from Artificial
Colours--Washing, Filtering and Finishing--Matching and Testing Lake
Pigments--Index.
=RECIPES FOR THE COLOUR, PAINT, VARNISH, OIL, SOAP AND
DRYSALTERY TRADES.= Compiled by AN ANALYTICAL CHEMIST. 350
pp. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and British
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Pigments or Colours for Paints, Lithographic and Letterpress Printing
Inks, etc.--Mixed Paints and Preparations for Paint-making, Painting,
Lime-washing, Paperhanging, etc.--Varnishes for Coach-builders,
Cabinetmakers, Wood-workers, Metal-workers, Photographers, etc.--Soaps
for Toilet, Cleansing, Polishing, etc.--Perfumes--Lubricating Greases,
Oils, etc.--Cements, Pastes, Glues and Other Adhesive Preparations--
Writing, Marking, Endorsing and Other Inks--Sealing-wax and Office
Requisites--Preparations for the Laundry, Kitchen, Stable and General
Household Uses--Disinfectant Preparations--Miscellaneous Preparations
--Index.
=OIL COLOURS AND PRINTING INKS.= By LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS.
Translated from the German. 215 pp. Crown 8vo. 56
Illustrations. 1903. Price 5s.; India and British Colonies,
5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly Net.
Contents.
Linseed Oil--Poppy Oil--Mechanical Purification of Linseed Oil--
Chemical Purification of Linseed Oil--Bleaching Linseed Oil--Oxidizing
Agents for Boiling Linseed Oil--Theory of Oil Boiling--Manufacture of
Boiled Oil--Adulterations of Boiled Oil--Chinese Drying Oil and Other
Specialities--Pigments for House and Artistic Painting and Inks--
Pigment for Printers' Black Inks--Substitutes for Lampblack--Machinery
for Colour Grinding and Rubbing--Machines for mixing Pigments with the
Vehicle--Paint Mills--Manufacture of House Oil Paints--Ship Paints--
Luminous Paint--Artists' Colours--Printers' Inks:--VEHICLES--Printers'
Inks:--PIGMENTS and MANUFACTURE--Index.
(_See also Writing Inks, p. 11._)
=SIMPLE METHODS FOR TESTING PAINTERS' MATERIALS.= By A. C.
WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Crown 8vo. 160 pp.
1903. Price 5s.; India and British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly Net.
Contents.
Necessity for Testing--Standards--Arrangement--The Apparatus--The
Reagents--Practical Tests--Dry Colours--Stiff Paints--Liquid and Enamel
Paints--Oil Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Driers--Putty--Linseed
Oil--Turpentine--Water Stains--The Chemical Examination--Dry Colours
and Paints--White Pigments and Paints--Yellow Pigments and Paints--Blue
Pigments and Paints--Green Pigments and Paints--Red Pigments and
Paints--Brown Pigments and Paints--Black Pigments and Paints--Oil
Varnishes--Linseed Oil--Turpentine.
=IRON-CORROSION, ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSIVE PAINTS.=
Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two
Illustrations. 275 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Iron-rust and its Formation--Protection from Rusting by Paint--Grounding
the Iron with Linseed Oil, etc.--Testing Paints--Use of Tar for Painting
on Iron--Anti-corrosive Paints--Linseed Varnish--Chinese Wood Oil--Lead
Pigments--Iron Pigments--Artificial Iron Oxides--Carbon--Preparation of
Anti-corrosive Paints--Results of Examination of Several Anti-corrosive
Paints--Paints for Ship's Bottoms--Anti-fouling Compositions--Various
Anti-corrosive and Ship's Paints--Official Standard Specifications for
Ironwork Paints--Index.
=THE TESTING AND VALUATION OF RAW MATERIALS USED IN PAINT AND
COLOUR MANUFACTURE.= By M. W. JONES, F.C.S. A Book for the
Laboratories of Colour Works. 88 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Aluminium Compounds--China Clay--Iron Compounds--Potassium Compounds
--Sodium Compounds--Ammonium Hydrate--Acids--Chromium Compounds--Tin
Compounds--Copper Compounds--Lead Compounds--Zinc Compounds--Manganese
Compounds--Arsenic Compounds--Antimony Compounds--Calcium Compounds--
Barium Compounds--Cadmium Compounds--Mercury Compounds--Ultramarine--
Cobalt and Carbon Compounds--Oils--Index.
=STUDENTS' MANUAL OF PAINTS, COLOURS, OILS AND VARNISHES.= By
JOHN FURNELL. Crown 8vo. 10 Illustrations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Plant--Chromes--Blues--Greens--Earth
Colours--Blacks--Reds--Lakes--Whites--Painters' Oils--Turpentine--Oil
Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Liquid Paints--Enamel Paints.
Varnishes and Drying Oils.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL REFINING AND BOILING, AND
KINDRED INDUSTRIES.= Translated from the French of ACH.
LIVACHE, Ingénieur Civil des Mines. Greatly Extended and
Adapted to English Practice, with numerous Original Recipes
by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. 27 Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy 8vo.
1899. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Resins--Solvents: Natural, Artificial, Manufacture, Storage, Special
Use--Colouring: Principles, Vegetable, Coal Tar, Coloured Resinates,
Coloured Oleates and Linoleates--Gum Running: Melting Pots, Mixing
Pans--Spirit Varnish Manufacture: Cold Solution Plant, Mechanical
Agitators, Storage Plant--Manufacture, Characteristics and Uses of the
Spirit Varnishes--Manufacture of Varnish Stains--Manufacture of
Lacquers--Manufacture of Spirit Enamels--Analysis of Spirit Varnishes
--Physical and Chemical Constants of Resins--Table of Solubility of
Resins in different Menstrua--Systematic qualitative Analysis of
Resins, Hirschop's tables--Drying Oils--Oil Refining: Processes--Oil
Boiling--Driers--Liquid Driers--Solidified Boiled Oil--Manufacture of
Linoleum--Manufacture of India Rubber Substitutes--Printing Ink
Manufacture--Lithographic Ink Manufacture--Manufacture of Oil
Varnishes--Running and Special Treatment of Amber, Copal, Kauri,
Manilla--Addition of Oil to Resin--Addition of Resin to Oil--Mixed
Processes--Solution in Cold of previously Fused Resin--Dissolving
Resins in Oil, etc., under pressure--Filtration--Clarification--
Storage--Ageing--Coachmakers' Varnishes and Japans--Oak Varnishes
--Japanners' Stoving Varnishes--Japanners' Gold Size--Brunswick
Black--Various Oil Varnishes--Oil-Varnish Stains--Varnishes for
"Enamels"--India Rubber Varnishes--Varnishes Analysis: Processes,
Matching--Faults in Varnishes: Cause, Prevention--Experiments and
Exercises.
=DRYING OILS, BOILED OIL AND SOLID AND LIQUID DRIERS.= By L.
E. ANDÉS. Expressly Written for this Series of Special
Technical Books, and the Publishers hold the Copyright for
English and Foreign Editions. Forty-two Illustrations. 342
pp. 1901. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s.
6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Properties of the Drying Oils; Cause of the Drying Property; Absorption
of Oxygen; Behaviour towards Metallic Oxides, etc.--The Properties of
and Methods for obtaining the Drying Oils--Production of the Drying
Oils by Expression and Extraction; Refining and Bleaching; Oil Cakes
and Meal; The Refining and Bleaching of the Drying Oils; The Bleaching
of Linseed Oil--The Manufacture of Boiled Oil; The Preparation of
Drying Oils for Use in the Grinding of Paints and Artists' Colours and
in the Manufacture of Varnishes by Heating over a Fire or by Steam, by
the Cold Process, by the Action of Air, and by Means of the Electric
Current; The Driers used in Boiling Linseed Oil; The Manufacture of
Boiled Oil and the Apparatus therefor; Livache's Process for Preparing
a Good Drying Oil and its Practical Application--The Preparation of
Varnishes for Letterpress, Lithographic and Copperplate Printing, for
Oilcloth and Waterproof Fabrics; The Manufacture of Thickened Linseed
Oil, Burnt Oil, Stand Oil by Fire Heat, Superheated Steam, and by a
Current of Air--Behaviour of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oils towards
Atmospheric Influences, Water, Acids and Alkalies--Boiled Oil
Substitutes--The Manufacture of Solid and Liquid Driers from Linseed
Oil and Rosin; Linolic Acid Compounds of the Driers--The Adulteration
and Examination of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oil.
Oils, Fats, Soaps and Perfumes.
=LUBRICATING OILS, FATS AND GREASES=: Their Origin,
Preparation, Properties, Uses and Analyses. A Handbook for
Oil Manufacturers, Refiners and Merchants, and the Oil and
Fat Industry in General. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Second
Revised and Enlarged Edition. Sixty-five Illustrations. 317
pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introductory.= Oils and Fats, Fatty Oils and Fats, Hydrocarbon Oils,
Uses of Oils--=Hydrocarbon Oils.= Distillation, Simple Distillation,
Destructive Distillation, Products of Distillation, Hydrocarbons,
Paraffins, Olefins, Napthenes--=Scotch Shale Oils.= Scotch Shales,
Distillation of Scotch Oils, Shale Retorts, Products of Distilling
Shales, Separating Products, Treating Crude Shale Oil, Refining Shale
Oil, Shale Oil Stills, Shale Naphtha Burning Oils, Lubricating Oils,
Wax--=Petroleum.= Occurrence, Geology, Origin, Composition, Extraction,
Refining, Petroleum Stills, Petroleum Products, Cylinder Oils, Russian
Petroleum, Deblooming Mineral Oils--=Vegetable and Animal Oils.=
Introduction, Chemical Composition of Oils and Fats, Fatty Acids,
Glycerine, Extraction of Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils, Animal
Oils, Vegetable Oils, Rendering, Pressing, Refining, Bleaching,
Tallow, Tallow Oil, Lard Oil, Neatsfoot Oil, Palm Oil, Palm Nut Oil,
Cocoanut Oil, Castor Oil, Olive Oil, Rape and Colza Oils, Arachis Oil,
Niger Seed Oil, Sperm Oils, Whale Oil, Seal Oil, Brown Oils, Lardine,
Thickened Rape Oil--=Testing and Adulteration of Oils.= Specific
Gravity, Alkali Tests, Sulphuric Acid Tests, Free Acids in Oils,
Viscosity Tests, Flash and Fire Tests, Evaporation Tests, Iodine and
Bromide Tests, Elaidin Test, Melting Point of Fat, Testing Machines--
=Lubricating Greases.= Rosin Oil, Anthracene Oil, Making Greases,
Testing and Analysis of Greases--=Lubrication.= Friction and
Lubrication, Lubricant, Lubrication of Ordinary Machinery, Spontaneous
Combustion of Oils, Stainless Oils, Lubrication of Engine Cylinders,
Cylinder Oils--=Appendices.= A. Table of Baume's Hydrometer--B. Table of
Thermometric Degrees--C. Table of Specific Gravities of Oils--=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=--Methods of Oil-well Drilling or Boring--Boring Oil
Wells with the Rope--Drilling with Rigid Rods and a Free-fall--Fabian
System--Free-fall Drilling by Steam Power--Oil-well Drilling by the
Canadian System--Drilling Oil Wells on the Combined System--Comparison
between the Combined Fauck System and the Canadian--The American System
of Drilling with the Rope--Hydraulic Boring with the Drill by Hand and
Steam Power--Rotary Drilling of Oil Wells, Bits, Steel-crowned Tools,
Diamond Tools--Hand Power and Steam Power--Hydraulic Sand-pumping--
Improvements in and different Systems of Drilling Oil Wells.
=Accidents=--Boring Accidents--Methods of preventing them--Methods of
remedying them--Explosives and the use of the "Torpedo" Levigation--
Storing and Transport of Petroleum--General Advice--Prospecting,
Management and carrying on of Petroleum Boring Operations.
=General Data=--=Customary Formulæ=--Memento. Practical Part. General Data
bearing on Petroleum--Glossary of Technical Terms used in the Petroleum
Industry--Copious Index.
=THE PRACTICAL COMPOUNDING OF OILS, TALLOW AND GREASE FOR
LUBRICATION, ETC.= By AN EXPERT OIL REFINER. 100 pp. 1898.
Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introductory Remarks= on the General Nomenclature of Oils, Tallow and
Greases suitable for Lubrication--=Hydrocarbon Oils=--=Animal and Fish
Oils=--=Compound Oils=--=Vegetable Oils=--=Lamp Oils=--=Engine Tallow,
Solidified Oils and Petroleum Jelly=--=Machinery Greases: Loco and
Anti-friction=--=Clarifying and Utilisation of Waste Fats, Oils, Tank
Bottoms, Drainings of Barrels and Drums, Pickings Up, Dregs, etc.=--
=The Fixing and Cleaning of Oil Tanks, etc.=--=Appendix and General
Information.=
=ANIMAL FATS AND OILS=: Their Practical Production,
Purification and Uses for a great Variety of Purposes. Their
Properties, Falsification and Examination. Translated from
the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two Illustrations.
240 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Occurrence, Origin, Properties and Chemical Constitution
of Animal Fats--Preparation of Animal Fats and Oils--Machinery--
Tallow-melting Plant--Extraction Plant--Presses--Filtering Apparatus
--Butter: Raw Material and Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Beef
Lard or Remelted Butter, Testing--Candle-fish Oil--Mutton-Tallow--Hare
Fat--Goose Fat--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 & Münzberg's Method, Filbert's Process, Winter's Method--Human
Fat--Horse Fat--Beef Marrow--Turtle Oil--Hog's Lard: Raw Material--
Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Examination--Lard Oil--Fish
Oils--Liver Oils--Artificial Train Oil--Wool Fat: Properties, Purified
Wool Fat--Spermaceti: Examination of Fats and Oils in General.
=VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS=: Their Practical Preparation,
Purification and Employment for Various Purposes, their
Properties, Adulteration and Examination. Translated from
the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Ninety-four Illustrations.
340 pp. Second Edition. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
=General Properties=--=Estimation of the Amount of Oil in Seeds=--=The
Preparation of Vegetable Fats and Oils=--Apparatus for Grinding Oil
Seeds and Fruits--=Installation of Oil and Fat Works=--Extraction
Method of Obtaining Oils and Fats--Oil Extraction Installations--Press
Moulds--=Non-drying Vegetable Oils=--=Vegetable drying Oils=--=Solid
Vegetable Fats=--Fruits Yielding Oils and Fats--Wool-softening
Oils--Soluble Oils--Treatment of the Oil after Leaving the Press--
Improved Methods of Refining--=Bleaching Fats and Oils=--Practical
Experiments on the Treatment of Oils with regard to Refining and
Bleaching--Testing Oils and Fats.
=SOAPS.= A Practical Manual of the Manufacture of Domestic,
Toilet and other Soaps. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. 390 pp.
66 Illustrations. 1898. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Introductory=--=Soap-maker's Alkalies=--=Soap Fats and Oils=--
=Perfumes=--=Water as a Soap Material=--=Soap Machinery=--
=Technology of Soap-making=--=Glycerine in Soap Lyes=--=Laying out
a Soap Factory=--=Soap Analysis=--=Appendices.=
=THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND ARTIFICIAL PERFUMES.= By
ERNEST J. PARRY, B.Sc (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S. 411 pp. 20
Illustrations. 1899. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries. 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=The General Properties of Essential Oils=--=Compounds occurring in
Essential Oils=--=The Preparation of Essential Oils=--=The Analysis of
Essential Oils=--=Systematic Study of the Essential Oils=--=Terpeneless
Oils=--=The Chemistry of Artificial Perfumes=--=Appendix=: Table of
Constants--=Index.=
Cosmetical Preparations.
=COSMETICS: MANUFACTURE, EMPLOYMENT AND TESTING OF ALL
COSMETIC MATERIALS AND COSMETIC SPECIALITIES.= Translated
from the German of Dr. THEODOR KOLLER. Crown 8vo. 262 pp.
1902. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s. net.
Contents.
Purposes and Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation of
Cosmetics--Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure, Distillation,
Maceration, Absorption or Enfleurage, and Extraction Methods--Chemical
and Animal Products used in the Preparation of Cosmetics--Oils and Fats
used in the Preparation of Cosmetics--General Cosmetic Preparations--
Mouth Washes and Tooth Pastes--Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers and
Depilatories--Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities--Colouring Cosmetic
Preparations--Antiseptic Washes and Soaps--Toilet and Hygienic
Soaps--Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion, Teeth, Mouth,
etc.--Testing and Examining the Materials Employed in the Manufacture
of Cosmetics--Index.
Glue, Bone Products and Manures.
=GLUE AND GLUE TESTING.= By SAMUEL RIDEAL, D.Sc. (Lond.),
F.I.C. Fourteen Engravings. 144 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price
10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
=Constitution and Properties=: Definitions and Sources, Gelatine,
Chondrin and Allied Bodies, Physical and Chemical Properties,
Classification, Grades and Commercial Varieties--=Raw Materials and
Manufacture=: Glue Stock, Lining, Extraction, Washing and Clarifying,
Filter Presses, Water Supply, Use of Alkalies, Action of Bacteria and
of Antiseptics, Various Processes, Cleansing, Forming, Drying,
Crushing, etc., Secondary Products--=Uses of Glue=: Selection and
Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding,
Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.,
Substitutes for other Materials, Artificial Leather and Caoutchouc--
=Gelatine=: General Characters, Liquid Gelatine, Photographic
Uses, Size, Tanno-, Chrome and Formo-Gelatine, Artificial Silk,
Cements, Pneumatic Tyres, Culinary, Meat Extracts, Isinglass, Medicinal
and other Uses, Bacteriology--=Glue Testing=: Review of Processes,
Chemical Examination, Adulteration, Physical Tests, Valuation of Raw
Materials--=Commercial Aspects.=
=BONE PRODUCTS AND MANURES=: An Account of the most recent
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fat, Glue, Animal
Charcoal, Size, Gelatine and Manures. By THOMAS LAMBERT,
Technical and Consulting Chemist. Illustrated by Twenty-one
Plans and Diagrams. 162 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly
net.
Contents.
Chemical Composition of Bones--Arrangement of Factory--Crushing of
Bones--Treatment with Benzene--Benzene in Crude Fat--Analyses of
Clarified Fats--Mechanical Cleansing of Bones--Animal Charcoal--Tar and
Ammoniacal Liquor, Char and Gases, from good quality Bones--Method of
Retorting the Bones--Analyses of Chars--"Spent" Chars--Cooling of Tar
and Ammoniacal Vapours--Value of Nitrogen for Cyanide of Potash--Bone
Oil--Marrow Bones--Composition of Marrow Fat--Premier Juice--Buttons--
Properties of Glue--Glutin and Chondrin--Skin Glue--Liming of Skins--
Washing--Boiling of Skins--Clarification of Glue Liquors--Acid Steeping
of Bones--Water System of Boiling Bones--Steam Method of Treating
Bones--Nitrogen in the Treated Bones--Glue-Boiling and Clarifying-House
--Plan showing Arrangement of Clarifying Vats--Plan showing Position of
Evaporators--Description of Evaporators--Sulphurous Acid Generator--
Clarification of Liquors--Section of Drying-House--Specification of a
Glue--Size--Uses and Preparation and Composition of Size--Concentrated
Size--Properties of Gelatine--Preparation of Skin Gelatine--Washing--
Bleaching--Boiling--Clarification--Evaporation--Drying--Bone Gelatine
--Selecting Bones--Crushing--Dissolving--Bleaching--Boiling--Properties
of Glutin and Chondrin--Testing of Glues and Gelatines--The Uses of
Glue, Gelatine and Size in Various Trades--Soluble and Liquid
Glues--Steam and Waterproof Glues--=Manures=--Importation of Food
Stuffs--Soils--Germination--Plant Life--=Natural Manures=--Water and
Nitrogen in Farmyard Manure--Full Analysis of Farmyard Manure--Action
on Crops--Water-Closet System--Sewage Manure--Green Manures--=Artificial
Manures=--=Mineral Manures=--Nitrogenous Matters--Shoddy--Hoofs and
Horns--Leather Waste--Dried Meat--Dried Blood--Superphosphates--
Composition--Manufacture--Section of Manure-Shed--First and Ground
Floor Plans of Manure-Shed--Quality of Acid Used--Mixings--Special
Manures--Potato Manure--Dissolved Bones--Dissolved Bone Compound--
Enriched Peruvian Guano--Special Manure for Garden Stuffs, etc.--
Special Manures--Analyses of Raw and Finished Products--Common Raw
Bones--Degreased Bones--Crude Fat--Refined Fat--Degelatinised Bones
--Animal Charcoal--Bone Superphosphates--Guanos--Dried Animal Products
--Potash Compounds--Sulphate of Ammonia--Extraction in Vacuo--French
and British Gelatines compared--Index.
Chemicals, Waste Products and Agricultural Chemistry.
REISSUE OF =CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C. W. SCHEELE=. First Published
in English in 1786. Translated from the Academy of Sciences
at Stockholm, with Additions. 300 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Memoir: C. W. Scheele and his work (written for this edition by J. G.
McIntosh)--On Fluor Mineral and its Acid--On Fluor Mineral--Chemical
Investigation of Fluor Acid, with a View to the Earth which it Yields,
by Mr. Wiegler--Additional Information Concerning Fluor Minerals--On
Manganese, Magnesium, or Magnesia Vitrariorum--On Arsenic and its
Acid--Remarks upon Salts of Benzoin--On Silex, Clay and Alum--Analysis
of the Calculus Vesical--Method of Preparing Mercurius Dulcis Via
Humida--Cheaper and more Convenient Method of Preparing Pulvis
Algarothi--Experiments upon Molybdæna--Experiments on Plumbago--Method
of Preparing a New Green Colour--Of the Decomposition of Neutral Salts
by Unslaked Lime and Iron--On the Quantity of Pure Air which is Daily
Present in our Atmosphere--On Milk and its Acid--On the Acid of
Saccharum Lactis--On the Constituent Parts of Lapis Ponderosus or
Tungsten--Experiments and Observations on Ether--Index.
=THE MANUFACTURE OF ALUM AND THE SULPHATES AND OTHER SALTS OF
ALUMINA AND IRON.= Their Uses and Applications as Mordants in
Dyeing and Calico Printing, and their other Applications in
the Arts, Manufactures, Sanitary Engineering, Agriculture
and Horticulture. Translated from the French of LUCIEN
GESCHWIND. 195 Illustrations. 400 pp. Royal 8vo. 1901. Price
12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries,
15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Theoretical Study of Aluminium, Iron, and Compounds of these
Metals=--Aluminium and its Compounds--Iron and Iron Compounds.
=Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphates and Sulphates of Iron=--Manufacture
of Aluminium Sulphate and the Alums--Manufacture of Sulphates of Iron.
=Uses of the Sulphates of Aluminium and Iron=--Uses of Aluminium Sulphate
and Alums--Application to Wool and Silk--Preparing and using Aluminium
Acetates--Employment of Aluminium Sulphate in Carbonising Wool--The
Manufacture of Lake Pigments--Manufacture of Prussian Blue--Hide and
Leather Industry--Paper Making--Hardening Plaster--Lime Washes--
Preparation of Non-inflammable Wood, etc.--Purification of Waste
Waters--=Uses and Applications of Ferrous Sulphate and Ferric
Sulphates=--Dyeing--Manufacture of Pigments--Writing Inks--Purification
of Lighting Gas--Agriculture--Cotton Dyeing--Disinfectant--Purifying
Waste Liquors--Manufacture of Nordhausen Sulphuric Acid--Fertilising.
=Chemical Characteristics of Iron and Aluminium=--=Analysis of Various
Aluminous or Ferruginous Products=--Aluminium--=Analysing Aluminium
Products=--Alunite Alumina--Sodium Aluminate--Aluminium Sulphate--
=Iron=--Analytical Characteristics of Iron Salts--Analysis of
Pyritic Lignite--Ferrous and Ferric Sulphates--Rouil Mordant--Index.
=AMMONIA AND ITS COMPOUNDS=: Their Manufacture and Uses. By
CAMILLE VINCENT, Professor at the Central School of Arts and
Manufactures, Paris. Translated from the French by M. J.
SALTER. Royal 8vo. 114 pp. 1901. Thirty-two Illustrations.
Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries,
6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=General Considerations=: Various Sources of Ammoniacal Products; Human
Urine as a Source of Ammonia--=Extraction of Ammoniacal Products from
Sewage=--=Extraction of Ammonia from Gas Liquor=--=Manufacture of
Ammoniacal Compounds from Bones, Nitrogenous Waste, Beetroot Wash and
Peat=--=Manufacture of Caustic Ammonia, and Ammonium Chloride, Phosphate
and Carbonate=--=Recovery of Ammonia from the Ammonia-Soda Mother
Liquors=--=Index.=
=ANALYSIS OF RESINS AND BALSAMS.= Translated from the German
of Dr. KARL DIETERICH. Demy 8vo. 340 pp. 1901. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Definition of Resins in General--Definition of Balsams, and especially
the Gum Resins--External and Superficial Characteristics of Resinous
Bodies--Distinction between Resinous Bodies and Fats and Oils--Origin,
Occurrence and Collection of Resinous Substances--Classification--
Chemical Constituents of Resinous Substances--Resinols--Resinot
Annols--Behaviour of Resin Constituents towards the Cholesterine
Reactions--Uses and Identification of Resins--Melting-point--Solvents
--Acid Value--Saponification Value--Resin Value--Ester and Ether
Values--Acetyl and Corbonyl Value--Methyl Value--Resin Acid--Systematic
Résumé of the Performance of the Acid and Saponification Value Tests.
=Balsams=--Introduction--Definitions--Canada Balsam--Copaiba Balsam--
Angostura Copaiba Balsam--Babia Copaiba Balsam--Carthagena Copaiba
Balsam--Maracaibo Copaiba Balsam--Maturin Copaiba Balsam--Gurjum
Copaiba Balsam--Para Copaiba Balsam--Surinam Copaiba Balsam--West
African Copaiba Balsam--Mecca Balsam--Peruvian Balsam--Tolu Balsam--
Acaroid Resin--Amine--Amber--African and West Indian Kino--Bengal
Kino--Labdanum--Mastic--Pine Resin--Sandarach--Scammonium--Shellac--
Storax--Adulteration of Styrax Liquidus Crudus--Purified Storax--Styrax Crudus Colatus--Tacamahac--Thapsia
Resin--Turpentine--Chios Turpentine--Strassburg Turpentine--Turpeth
Turpentine. =Gum Resins=--Ammoniacum--Bdellium--Euphorbium--Galbanum
--Gamboge--Lactucarium--Myrrh--Opopanax--Sagapenum--Olibanum or
Incense--Acaroid Resin--Amber--Thapsia Resin--Index.
=MANUAL OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.= By HERBERT INGLE, F.I.C.,
Lecturer on Agricultural Chemistry, the Yorkshire College;
Lecturer in the Victoria University. 388 pp. 11 Illustrations.
1902. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
Introduction--The Atmosphere--The Soil--The Reactions occurring in
Soils--The Analysis of Soils--Manures, Natural--Manures (continued)
--The Analysis of Manures--The Constituents of Plants--The Plant--
Crops--The Animal--Foods and Feeding--Milk and Milk Products--The
Analysis of Milk and Milk Products--Miscellaneous Products used in
Agriculture--Appendix--Index.
=THE UTILISATION OF WASTE PRODUCTS.= A Treatise on the
Rational Utilisation, Recovery and Treatment of Waste
Products of all kinds. By Dr. THEODOR KOLLER. Translated
from the Second Revised German Edition. Twenty-two
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 280 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
The Waste of Towns--=Ammonia and Sal-Ammoniac=--Rational Processes for
Obtaining these Substances by Treating Residues and Waste--Residues in
the Manufacture of Aniline Dyes--Amber Waste--Brewers' Waste--Blood
and Slaughter-House Refuse--Manufactured Fuels--Waste Paper and
Bookbinders' Waste--Iron Slags--Excrement--Colouring Matters from
Waste--Dyers' Waste Waters--Fat from Waste--Fish Waste--Calamine
Sludge--Tannery Waste--Gold and Silver Waste--India-rubber and
Caoutchouc Waste--Residues in the Manufacture of Rosin Oil--Wood
Waste--Horn Waste--Infusorial Earth--Iridium from Goldsmiths'
Sweepings--Jute Waste--Cork Waste--Leather Waste--Glue Makers'
Waste--Illuminating Gas from Waste and the By-Products of the
Manufacture of Coal Gas--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 Uses of Air, Steam and Water.
=DRYING BY MEANS OF AIR AND STEAM.= Explanations, Formulæ, and
Tables for Use in Practice. Translated from the German of E.
HAUSBRAND. Two folding Diagrams and Thirteen Tables. Crown
8vo. 1901. 72 pp. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
British and Metric Systems Compared--Centigrade and Fahr. Thermometers
--Estimation of the Maximum Weight of Saturated Aqueous Vapour which
can be contained in 1 kilo. of Air at Different Pressure and
Temperatures--Calculation of the Necessary Weight and Volume of
Air, and of the Least Expenditure of Heat, per Drying Apparatus with
Heated Air, at the Atmospheric Pressure: _A_, With the Assumption that
the Air is _Completely Saturated_ with Vapour both before Entry and
after Exit from the Apparatus--_B_, When the Atmospheric Air is
Completely Saturated _before entry_, but at its _exit_ is _only_ 3/4,
1/2 or 1/4 Saturated--_C_, When the Atmospheric Air is _not_ Saturated
with Moisture before Entering the Drying Apparatus--Drying Apparatus,
in which, in the Drying Chamber, a Pressure is Artificially Created,
Higher or Lower than that of the Atmosphere--Drying by Means of
Superheated Steam, without Air--Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air
Current, Dimensions of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material,
Losses of Heat--Index.
(_See also "Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus," p. 26._)
=PURE AIR, OZONE AND WATER.= A Practical Treatise of their
Utilisation and Value in Oil, Grease, Soap, Paint, Glue and
other Industries. By W. B. COWELL. Twelve Illustrations.
Crown 8vo. 85 pp. 1900. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s.
6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Atmospheric Air; Lifting of Liquids; Suction Process; Preparing
Blown Oils; Preparing Siccative Drying Oils--Compressed Air;
Whitewash--Liquid Air; Retrocession--Purification of Water; Water
Hardness--Fleshings and Bones--Ozonised Air in the Bleaching and
Deodorising of Fats, Glues, etc.; Bleaching Textile Fibres--Appendix:
Air and Gases; Pressure of Air at Various Temperatures; Fuel; Table of
Combustibles; Saving of Fuel by Heating Feed Water; Table of
Solubilities of Scale Making Minerals; British Thermal Units Tables;
Volume of the Flow of Steam into the Atmosphere; Temperature of
Steam--Index.
=THE INDUSTRIAL USES OF WATER.
COMPOSITION--EFFECTS--TROUBLES--REMEDIES--RESIDUARY
WATERS--PURIFICATION-ANALYSIS.= By H. DE LA COUX. Royal 8vo.
400 pp. 135 Illustrations. Translated from the French.
[_In the press._
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._)
Industrial Hygiene.
=THE RISKS AND DANGERS TO HEALTH OF VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS AND
THEIR PREVENTION.= By LEONARD A. PARRY, M.D., B.S. (Lond.).
196 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Occupations which are Accompanied by the Generation and Scattering of
Abnormal Quantities of Dust--Trades in which there is Danger of
Metallic Poisoning--Certain Chemical Trades--Some Miscellaneous
Occupations--Trades in which Various Poisonous Vapours are Inhaled--
General Hygienic Considerations--Index.
X Rays.
=PRACTICAL X RAY WORK.= By FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.),
F.I.C., Member of the Roentgen Society of London;
Radiographer to St. George's Hospital; Demonstrator of
Physics and Chemistry, and Teacher of Radiography in St.
George's Hospital Medical School. Demy 8vo. Twelve Plates
from Photographs of X Ray Work. Fifty-two Illustrations. 200
pp. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
=Historical=--Work leading up to the Discovery of the X Rays--The
Discovery--=Apparatus and its Management=--Electrical Terms--Sources
of Electricity--Induction Coils--Electrostatic Machines--Tubes--Air
Pumps--Tube Holders and Stereoscopic Apparatus--Fluorescent Screens--
=Practical X Ray Work=--Installations--Radioscopy--Radiography--X Rays
in Dentistry--X Rays in Chemistry--X Rays in War--Index.
List of Plates.
_Frontispiece_--Congenital Dislocation of Hip-Joint.--I., Needle in
Finger.--II., Needle in Foot.--III., Revolver Bullet in Calf and
Leg.--IV., A Method of Localisation.--V., Stellate Fracture of Patella
showing shadow of "Strapping".--VI., Sarcoma.--VII., Six-weeks-old
Injury to Elbow showing new Growth of Bone.--VIII., Old Fracture of
Tibia and Fibula badly set.--IX., Heart Shadow.--X., Fractured Femur
showing Grain of Splint.--XI., 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.