CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



Progressive Lessons in Applied Science. By EDWARD 



SANG, F.R.S.E. Crown 8vo, cloth, each Part, 3^. 



Part i. Geometry on Paper Part 2. Solidity, Weight, and Pressure Part 3. Trigono- 

 metry, Vision, and Surveying Instruments. 



A Practical Treatise on Coal Mining. By GEORGE 



G. ANDRE, F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., Member of the Society of Engineers. 

 With 82 lithographic plates. 2 vols., royal 4to, cloth, 3/. I2s. 



Sugar Growing and Refining : a Comprehensive 



Treatise on the Culture of Sugar-yielding Plants, and the Manufacture, 

 Refining, and Analysis of Cane, Beet, Maple, Milk, Palm, Sorghum, 

 and Starch Sugars, with copious statistics of their production and com- 

 merce, and a chapter on the distillation of Rum. By CHARLES G. 

 WARNFORD LOCK, F.L.S., &c., and G. W. WIGNER and R. H. HARLAND, 

 FF.C.S., FF.I.C. With 205 illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 30^. 



Spans' Information for Colonial Engineers. Edited 



by J. T. HURST. Demy 8vo, sewed. 



No. i, Ceylon. By ABRAHAM DEANE, C.E. 2s. 6d. 



CONTENTS : 



Introductory Remarks Natural Productions Architecture and Engineering Topo- 

 graphy, Trade, and Natural History Principal Stations Weights and Measures, etc., etc. 



No. 2. Southern Africa, including the Cape Colony, Natal, and the 

 Dutch Republics. By HENRY HALL, F.R.G.S., F.R.C.I. With 

 Map. 3^. 6d. 



CONTENTS : 



General Description of South Africa Physical Geography with reference to Engineering 

 Operations Notes on Labour and Material in Cape Colony Geological Notes on Rock 

 Formation in South Africa Engineering Instruments for Use in South Africa Principal 

 Public Works in Cape Colony : Railways, Mountain Roads and Passes, Harbour Works, 

 Bridges^ Gas Works, Irrigation and Water Supply, Lighthouses, Drainage and Sanitary 

 Engineering, Public Buildings, Mines Table of Woods in South Africa Animals used for 

 Draught Purposes Statistical Notes Table of Distances Rates of Carriage, etc. 



No. 3. India. By F. C.DANVERS, Assoc. Inst. C.E. With Map. 4s.6d. 

 CONTENTS : 



Physical Geography of India Building Materials Roads Railways Bridges Irriga- 

 tion River Works Harbours Lighthouse Buildings Native Labour The Principal 

 Trees of India Money Weights and Measures Glossary of Indian Terms, etc. 



A Practical Treatise on Casting and Founding, 



including descriptions of the modern machinery employed in the art. By 

 N. E. SPRETSON, Engineer. Third edition, with 82 plates drawn to 

 scale, 412 pp., demy 8vo, cloth, i8x. 



