ANIMAL FATS AND OILS: Their Practical Production, 

 Purification and Uses for a great Variety of Purposes. Their Pro- 

 perties, Falsification and Examination. A Handbook for Manufacturers 

 of Oil and Fat Products, Soap and Candle Makers, Agriculturists, 

 Tanners, Margarine Manufacturers, etc., etc. By Louis EDGAR ANDES. 

 With Sixty-two Illustrations. 240pp. 1898. Price 10s. 6d. ; India 

 and Colonies, 11s. ; Other Countries, I2s. ; strictly net, post free. 



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, Adul- 

 terations, Beef Lard or Remehed 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 & Miinzberg'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. 



Press Opinions. 



"The descriptions of technical processes are clear, and the book is well illustrated and 

 should prove useful." Manchester Guardian. 



" It is a valuable work, not only for the student, but also for the practical manufacturer of 

 oil and fat products." Journal of the A incncun Chemical Societv. 



"The work is very fully illustrated, and the style throughout is in strong contrast to that 

 employed in many such treatises, being simple and clear." Shoe and Leather Record. 



" An important handbook for the ' fat industry,' now a large one. The explanation of the 

 most scientific processes of production lose nothing of their clearness in the translation." 

 Newcastle Chronicle. 



"The latest and most improved forms of machinery are in all cases indicated, and the many 

 advances which have been made during the past years in the methods of producing the more 

 common animal fats lard, tallow and butter receive due attention." Glasgow Herald. 



VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS : Their Practical Prepara- 



tion, Purification and Employment for Various Purposes, their Proper- 

 ties, Adulteration and Examination. A Handbook for Oil Manufacturers 

 and Refiners, Candle, Soap and Lubricating Oil Makers, and the Oil 

 and Fat Industry in General. Translated from the German of Louis 

 EDGAR ANDES. With Ninety-four Illustrations. 320pp. 1897. Price 

 10s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, lls. ; Other Countries, 12s. ; strictly net, 

 ppst free. 



Contents. 



Statistical Data. General Properties of the Vegetable Fats and Oils. Estimation of the 

 Amount of Oil in Seeds. Table of Vegetable Fats and Oils, with French and German 

 Nomenclature, Source and Origin and Percentage of Fat in the Plants from which they are 

 Derived. The Preparation of Vegetable Fats and Oils : Storing Oil Seeds ; Cleaning the Seed. 

 Apparatus for Grinding Oil Seeds and Fruits. Installation of Oil and Fat Works. Ex- 

 traction 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 with Sulphuric Acid and Zinc Oxide or Lead Oxide. 

 Refining with Caustic Alkalies, Ammonia, Carbonates of the Alkalies, Lime. Bleaching Fats 

 and Oils. Practical Experiments on the Treatment of Oils with regard to Refining and 

 Bleaching. Testing Oils and Fats. 



Press Opinions. 



"Concerning that and all else within the wide and comprehensive connection involved, 

 this book must be invaluable to every one directly or indirectly interested in the matters it 

 treats of." Commerce. 



"The proprietors of the Oil and Coloiiruian's Journal have not only placed a valuable and 

 highly interesting book of reference in the hands of the fats and oils industry in general, but 

 have rendered no slight service to experimental and manufacturing chemists." Mar ufacturing 

 Chemist. 



