, Chemical Characteristics of iron and Aluminium.— Analysis of Varloos (Part 1)

Part IV., Chemical Characteristics of iron and Aluminium.— Analysis of Varloos Aluminous or Ferruelnous Products. — Chapter VII., Aluminium. — Analysing Aluminium Products. — Alunite Alumina — Sodium Aluminate — ^Aluminium Sulpthate. Chapter VIII., Iron. — Analytical Characteristics of Iron Salts — ^Analysis of Pyritic Lignite — Ferrous and Ferric Sulphates — Rov*' Mordant — 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. Chapters I., Introduction. — II., The Atmosphere.— III., The Soil. — IV., The Reactions occurring in Soils. — ^V., The Analysis of Soils. — VI., Manures, Natural. — VII.. Manures (con- tinued).— VIII., The Analysis of Manures.— IX., The Constituents of Plants.— X., The Plant.— XL, Crops. -XII., The Animal.— XIII., Poods and Feeding.— XIV., Milk and Milk Products.— XV., The Analysis of Milk and Milk Products. — XVI., Miscellaneous Products used in Agri- culture. — Appendix. — Index. 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 Edition. Sixty-five Illustrations. 313 pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, lis. ; Other Countries, 12s. ; strictly net. Contents. Chapters I., introductory. Oils and Fats, Fatty Oils and Fats, Hydrocarbon Oils, Uses of Oils. — II., Hydrocarbon Oils. Distillation, Simple Distillation, Destructive Distillation, Products of Distillation, Hydrocarbons, ParafBns, Olefins, Napthenes. — III., Scotch Shale 011s> 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. — IV., Petroleum. Occurrence, Geology, Origin, Composition, Extraction, Refining, Petroleum Stills, Petroleum Products, Cylinder Oils, Russian Petroleum, Deblooming Mineral Oils.— V., Vefifetable and Animal Oils. Intro- duction, 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 Ou, 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.— VI., Testins: and Adultera- tion of Oils. Specific Gravity, Alkali Tests, Sulphuric Acid Tests, Free Acids in Oils, Vis- cosity Tests. Flash and Fire Tests, Evaporation Tests, Iodine and Bromide Tests, Elaidin Test, Melting Point of Fat, Testing Machines.— VII., Lubricating Greases. Rosin Oil, Anthracene Oil, Making Greases, Testing and Analysis of Greases. — VIII., Lubrication. Friction and Lubrication, Lubricant, Lubrication of Ordinary Machinery, Spontaneous Com- bustion 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. THE UTILISATION OP WASTE PRODUCTS. A Treatise on the Rational Utilisation, Recovery and Treatment of Waste Pro- ducts of all kinds. By Dr. Thbodor 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. Introduction. — Chapters I., The Waste of Towns. — II., Ammonia and Sal-Ammoniac — Rational Processes for Obtaining these Substances bv Treating Residues and Waste. — III., Residues in the Manufacture of Aniline Dyes. — IV., Amber Waste. — V., Brewers* Waste. — VL, Blood and Slaughter-House Refuse.— VII., Manufactured Fuels.— VIII., Waste Paper and Bookbinders' Waste. — IX., Iron Slags. — X., Excrement. — XL, Colouring Matters from Waste.— XII., Dyers' Waste Waters.— XIII., Fat from Waste.— XIV., Fish Waste.— XV., Calamine Sludge.— XVI., Tannery Waste.— XVII., Gold and Silver Waste.— XVIII., India- rubber and Caoutchouc Waste. — XIX., Residues in the Manufacture of Rosin Oil. — ^XX., Wood Waste.— XXI., Horn Waste.— XXII., Infusorial Earth.— XXIII., Iridium from Goldsmith's Sweepings.— XXIV., Jute Waste.— XXV., Cork Waste.— XXVI., Leather Waste.— XXVIL, Glue Makers' Waste.— XXVI I L. Illuminating Gas from Waste and the By-Products of the Manufacture of Coal Gas. — XXIX., Meerschum. — XXX., Molasses. — XXXL, Metal Waste. — XXXIL, By-Products in the Manufacture of Mineral Waters.— XXXI 1 1., Fruit.— XXXIV. The By-Products of Paper and Paper Pulp Works.— XXXV., By-Products in the Treatment of Coal Tar Oils.- XXXVL, Fur Waste.— XXXVI L, The Waste Matter in the Manufacture of Parchment Paper.— XXXVI 1 1., Mother of Pearl Waste.— XXXIX., Petroleum Residues.— XL., Platinum Residues. — XLL, Broken Porcelain, Earthenware and Glass. — XLIL, Salt Waste.— XLIIL, Slate Waste.— XLIV., Sulphur.— XLV., Burnt Pyrites.— XLVL, Silk Waste. XLVIL, Soap Makers' Waste.— XL VI 1 1., Alkali Waste and the Recovery of Soda.— XLIX., Waste Produced in Grinding Mirrors. — L., Waste Products in the Manufacture of Starch. — LI., Stearic Acid.— LIL, Vegetable Ivory Waste.— LIIL, Turf.— LIV., Waste Waters of Cloth Factories.— LV., Wine Residues.— LVI., Tinplate Waste.— L VII., Wool Waste.- LVIII., Wool Sweat. — LIX., The Waste Liquids from Sugar Works. — 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. 113 pp. 1901. Thirty-two Illustrations. Price 5s. ; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d. ; Other Countries, 6s. ; strictly net. Contents. Chapters I., General Considerations: Sections 1. Various Sources of Ammoniacal Products; 2. Human Urine as a Source of Ammonia. II., Extraction of Ammoniacal Products from Sewagfe: Sections 1. Preliminary Treatment of Excreta in the Settling Tanks — The Lencauchez Process, The Bilange Process, The Kuentz Process ; 2. Treatment or the Clarified Liquors for the Manufacture of Ammonium Sulphate — ^The Piguera Process and Apparatus, Apparatus of Margueritte and Sourdeval, The Lair Apparatus, Apparatus of Sintier and Muh^, Apparatus of Bilange, The Kuentz Process, Process and Apparatus of Hennebutte and De Vaur^al; 3. Treatment of Entire Sewage — Chevalet's Apparatus, Paul Mallet's Apparatus, Lencauchez's Apparatus. III., Extraction of Ammonia from Qas Liquor: Sections 1. Clarification of Gas Liquor; 2. Manufacture of Ammonium Sulphate — ^A. Mallet's Apparatus, A. Mallet's Modified Apparatus, Paul Mallet's Apparatus, Chevalet's Apparatus, Griineberg's Apparatus ; 3. Concentration of Gas Liquor — Solvay's Apparatus, Kuentz's Apparatus, Griineberg's Apparatus. IV., Manufacture of Ammoniacal Compounds from Bones, Nitrosrenous Waiiste, Beetroot Wash and Peat: Sections 1. Ammonia from Bones; 2. Ammonia from Nitrogenous Waste Materials; 3. Ammonia from Beetroot Wash (Vinasse); 4. Ammonia from Peat — Treatment of the Ammoniacal Liquors. V., Manufacture of Caustic Ammonia, and Ammonium Chloride, Phosphate and Carbonate: Sections 1. Manufacture of Caustic Ammonia: 2. Manufacture of Ammonium Chloride — From Fermented Urine, Process of the Lesage Company, Kuentz's Process ; From Gas Liquor, English Process, Kuentz's Process; From the Dry Distillation of Animal Matter; From Ammonium Sulphate, Sublimation ; 3. Ammonium Phosphates ; 4. Carbonates of Ammonium — Sesquicarbonate from Animal Matter, English Process, Uses. VI., Recovery of Ammonia from the Ammonia- Soda Mother Liquors : Sections 1. General Considerations ; 2. Apparatus of Schloesing and Holland : 3. Apparatus of the Socidtd Anonyme de I'Est. — index. THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL RE- FINING AND BOILING, AND KINDRED INDUS- TRIES. Describing the Manufacture of Spirit Varnishes and Oil Varnishes; Raw Materials: Resins, Solvents and Colouring Principles ; Drying Oils : their Properties, Applications and Prepara- tion by both Hot and Cold Processes ; Manufacture, Employment and Testing of Dififerent Varnishes. Translated from the French of AcH. LivACHE, Ingenieur Civil des Mines. Greatly Extended and Adapted to English Practice, with numerous Original Recipes by John* Geddbs McIntosh, Lecturer on Oils, Colours and Varnishes, Regent Street Polytechnic. Twenty-seven Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 1899. Price 12s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 138. 6d. ; Other Countries, 15s. ; strictly net. Contents. I. Resins : Gum Resins, Oleo Resins and Balsams, Commercial Varieties, Source, Collec- tion, Characteristics! Chemical Properties, Physical Properties, Hardness, Adulterations Appropriate Solvents, Special Treatment, Special Use.— II. Solvents: Natural, Artificial^ Manu^cture, Storage, Special Use.— III. Colouring: Principles, (1) Vegetable, (2) Coal Tar, (3) Coloured Resinates, (4) Cok>ured Oleates and Linoleates. — Gum Running : Furnace?, Bridges, Flues, Chimney Shafts, Melting Pots, Condensers, Boiling or Mixing Pans, Copper Vessels, Iron Vessels (Cast), Iron Vessels (Wrought), Iron Vessels (Silvered), Iron Vessels (Enamelled), Steam Superheated Plant, Hot-air Plant.— Spirit Varnish Manufocture: Cold Solution Plant, Mechanical Agitators, Hot Solution Plant, Jacketted Pans, Mechanical Agitators, Clarification and Filtration, Bleaching Plant, Storage Plant.— Manufacture, Char- acteristics and Uses of the Spirit Varnishes yielded by: Atnber, Copal, Dammar, Shellac, Mastic, Sandarac, Rosin, Asphalt, India Rubber, Gutta Percha, CoUoidion, Celluloid, Resin- ates, Oleates — 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 Crushing Plant, Oil Extraction Plant, IncUvidual Oils, Special Treatment of Linseed Oil Poppyseed Oil, Walnut Oil, Hempseed Oil, Llamantia Oil, Japanese Wood Oil, Gurjun Balsam, Climatic Influence on Seed and Oil. — Oil Refining : Processes.— Oil Boiling: Pale Boiled Oil, Double Boiled Oil, Hartley and Blenkinsop's Process. — Driers : Manufocture, Special Individual Use of (1) Litharge, (2) Sugar of Lead,. (3) Red Lead, (4) Lead Borate, (5) Lead Linoleate, (6) Lead Resinate, (7) Black Oxide of Manganese, (8) Manganese Acetate, (9) Manganese Borate, (10) Manganese Resinate, (11) Man- ganese Linoleate, Mixed Resinates and Linoleates, Manganese and Lead, Zinc Sulphate, Terebine, Liquid Driers. — Solidified Boiled Oil. — Manufocture of Linoleum. — Manufacture of India Rubber Substitutes. — Printing Ink ManufocturcLithographic 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 Var- nishes.— Oil- Varnish Stains.— Varnishes for " Enamels ".—India Rubber Varnishes.- Varnishes. Analysis : Processes, Matching. — Faults in Varnishes : Cause, Prevention. — Experiments and Exercises. THE MANUFACTURE OF LAKE PIGMENTS FROM ARTIFICIAL COLOURS. By Francis H. Jennison^ P.I.C, P.C.S. Sixteen Coloured Platee, ehowlnfir Speolmene of Elfllity-nlne Colours, epeoially prepared from the Reolpes ffiven In the Book. 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 8s. ; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. ; strictly net. Contents. Chapters I., Introduction. — II., The Groups of the Artificial Colouring Matters. — III., The Nature and Manipulation of Artificial Colours. — IV., Lake-forminc Bodies for Acid Colours. — v.. Lake-forming Bodies* Basic Colours. — ^VI., Lake Bases. — ^VlL, The Principles of Lake Formation. — ^VIII., Red Lakes. — IX., Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet and Black Lakes. — X., The Production of Insoluble Azo Colours in the Form of Pigments. — XL, The Generah Properties of Lakes Produced from Artificial Colours. — XII., Washing, Filtering and Fin- ishing. — XIII., Matching and Testing Lake Pigments. — Index. Press Opinions. '* Evidently the result of prolonged research. A valuable consulting work." — Derby Mercury.. '* The practical portion of the volume is the one which will especially commend itself, as that is the part or the subject which most readers would buy the book for." — Chemist and Druggist. ' A very valuable treatise on the manufacture of lake pigments of the coal-tar series prin- cipally." — Chemical Trade Journal. " This is undoubtedly a book which will occupy a very high place amongst technical works, and will prove of exceptional value to all whom it immediately concerns." — Eastern Morning News. THE TESTING AND VALUATION OF RAW MATE- RIALS USED IN PAINT AND COLOUR MANU- FACTURE. 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. Alumiaium Compounds. China Clay. Iron Compounds. Potassium Compounds. Sodium Compounds. Ammonium Hydrate. Acids. Chromium Compounds. Tin Compounds. Cop- per 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. THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND ARTI- FICIAL PERFUMES. By Ernest J. Parry, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S. Illustrated with Twenty Engravings. 411 pp. 1899. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d. ; Other Countries, 15s. ; strictly net. Contents. Chapters I., The QenemI Properties of Essential Oils.— II., Compounds occurring in Essential Oils.— III., Tlie Preparation of Bssential Oils.— IV.. The Analysis of Essential Oils.— V., Systematic Study of the Essential Oils.- VI., Terpeneless Oils.— VII., The Chemistry of Artificial Perfumes.— Appendix : Table of Constants. Press Opinions. " Will take a high place in the list of scientific text-books." — London Argus, " We can heartily recommend this volume." — British and Colonial Druggist. ** Mr. Parry has done good service in carefully collecting and marshalling the results of the •numerous researches published in various parts of the world." — Pharmaceutical Journal. ** At various times monographs have been printed by individual workers, but it may safely tbe said that Mr. Parry is the first in these latter days to deal withithe subject in an adequate manner. His book is well conceived and well written. . . ."—Chemist and Druggist. OOSMETICS: THE MANUFACTURE, EMPLOY- MENT, 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. Preface. — Chapters I., Purposes and Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation of Cos- metics. — II., Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure, Distillation, Maceration, Absorption or En- fleurage, and Extracition Methods — III., Chemical end Animal Products used in the Preparation •of Cosmetics. — IV., Oils and Fats used in the Preparation of Cosmetics. — V., General Cosmetic Preparations. — VI., Mouth Washes and Tooth Pastes. — VII., Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers and Depilatories. — VIII., Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities — Colouring Cosmetic Preparations. — IX., Antiseptic Washes and Soaps— Toilet and Hygienic Soaps.— -X., Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion, Teeth, Mouth, etc. — XL, Testing and Examining the Materials Employed in ^he Manufacture of Cosmetics. — Index. INK MANUFACTURE : Including Writing, Copying, Litho- graphic, Marking, Stamping, and Laundry Inks. BvSigmund Lbhner. 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. Chapters I., Introduction. — II., Varieties of Ink. — III., Writing Inks. — IV., Raw Materials of Tannin Inks. — V., The Chemical Constitution of the Tannin Inks. — VI., Recipes for Tannin Inks. — VII., Logwood Tannin Inks. — VIII., Ferric Inks. — IX., Alizarine Inks. — X., Extract Inks. — XI., Logwood Inks. — XII., Copying Inks. — XIII., Hektographs. — XIV., Hektograph Inks. — XV., Safety Inks. — XVI., Ink Extracts and Powders. — XVII., Preserving Inks. — XVIII., Changes in Ink and the Restoration of Faded Writing.— XIX., Coloured Inks. — XX., Red Inks.— XXI., Blue Inks.— XXII., Violet Inks.— XXIII., Yellow Inks.— XXIV., Green Inks.— XXV., Metallic Inks.— XXVI., Indian Ink.— XXVII., Lithographic Inks and Pencils.— XXVIII., Ink Pencils.— XXIX., Marking Inks.— XXX., Ink SpeciaFities.— XXXI., Sympathetic Inks. — XXXII., Stamping Inks. — XXXIII., Laundry or Washing Blue. — Index. DRYING OILS, BOILED OIL AND SOLID AND LIQUID DRIERS. By L. E. Andes. A Practical Work for Manufacturers of Oils, Varnishes, Printing Inks, Oilcloth and Lino- leum, Oilcakes, Paints, etc. 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, Ids. 6d. ; Other Countries, 15s. ; strictly net. 8 Contents. Chaptera I., Oeneral Chemical and Physical Properties of the Diying Oils ; Cause of the Drying Property ; Absorption of Oxygen ; Behaviour towards Metallic Oxides, etc. — II., The Properties of and Methods for obtaining the Drying Oils. — III., Production of the Drying Oils by Expression and Extraction; Refining and Bleaching; Oil Cakes and Meal; The Refining and Bieachi|^ of the Drying Oils ; The Bleaching of Linseed Oil. — IV.. The Manufacture or Boiled Oil ; 'the Preparation of Drying Oils for Use in the Grinding of Paints and Artists Colours and in the Manufacture of Varnishes by Heatinfl over a Fire or by Steam, by the Cold Process, by the Action of Air, and by Means of the filectric 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. — ^V., The Preparation of Varnishes for Letterpress, Lithographic and Copperplate Printing, for Oilcloth and Water- Sroof Fabrics ; The Manufacture of Thickened Linseed Oil, Burnt OiT, Stand Oil by Fire Heat, luperheated Steam, and by a Current of Air. — VI., Behaviour of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oin towards Atmospheric Influences, Water, Acids and Alkalies. — VII., Boiled Oil Substitutes.. — ^VIII., I'he Manufacture of Solid and Liquid Driers from Linseed Oil and Rosin; Linolic Add Compounds of the Driers. — IX., The Adulteration and Examination of the Drying Oil» and Boiled Oil. REISSUE OP CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C. W. SCHEELE. First Published in English in 1786. Trans- lated from the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, with Additions. 300 pp. Demy Svo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d. ; Other Countries, 6s. ; strictly net. Contents. Memoir : C. W. Scheele and his work (written for this