116 Chronicles of Science. [Jan., 



Exhibition printed in the French language, and it may very fairly 

 be doubted whether there exists anywhere a more useful compila- 

 tion of treatises on the present state of various branches of art and 

 industry. 



It would be impossible to do justice to M. Eugene Lacroix's 

 ' Annales et Archives de I'lndustrie ' within the space allotted for 

 the purpose ; it may therefore suffice briefly to refer to the several 

 subjects therein treated, which belong more particularly to Engi- 

 neering Science. 



A very interesting essay on the study of the influence which 

 the fine arts exercise upon the progress and development of 

 industries and manufactures should perhaps be noticed here, as it 

 unquestionably bears intimately upon the question raised at the 

 late Exhibition on the subject of technical education, having refer- 

 ence particularly to the comparative positions of different countries 

 represented there. A most important subject treated in the 

 various essays is one on IVIining and Iron Smelting, by MM. Joulie 

 and Dufrene. M. Michel Eous, Captain of Artillery, and M. 

 Schwachle have contributed a series of articles on the construction 

 of firearms' ammunition, hea^y ordnance, and other war materials, 

 which are carefully illustrated with the most important designs 

 exhibited at Paris. The articles on wood-working machinery, by 

 MM. Kaux and Nigreux, are accompanied by cuts of the most 

 modern types of machines made in England, France, America, and 

 Germany. Sugar manufacture and the difierent processes of 

 brewing and distilhng are treated by M. A. Basset and M. J. 

 Grandvoinnet. The report on locomotives by ]\I. Gaudry is 

 illustrated with a series of drawings, showing the difierent types 

 of engines exhibited, drawn all to the same scale; and a similar 

 arrangement has been made in the case of portable engines. And 

 finally we may refer to a well-compiled and carefully illustrated 

 article on Naval Architecture, by M. G. do Bertheiu. 



It is most important that foreign scientific publications should 

 be carefully studied in this country as well as those by our own 

 countrymen, and the fact that several of our continental neighboiu's 

 are running us very close in competition for engineering works 

 — albeit their best designs are but too often copies of English 

 patterns — should make our engineers all the more anxious to 

 borrow whatever of useful novelty may l)e found in their manufac- 

 tures ; and with this view we are glad to hail any addition to 

 foreign engineering science. 



A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Portland Cenient, 

 by Henry Reid, C.E.; to which is added a translation of M. A. 

 Lipowitz's work, describing a new ]\Icthod adopted in Germany of 

 Manufacturing that Cement, by W. F. Beid.* The gradual 



♦ E. & F. N. Spoil : T-niiflon. ISfiS. 



