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to English Practice, with numerous Original Recipes by JOHN 

 GEDDES MC!NTOSH, Lecturer on Oils, Colours and Varnishes, Regent 

 Street Polytechnic. Twenty-seven Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 

 1899. Price 12s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 13s. 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 

 Manufacture, Storage, Special Use. III. Colouring : Principles, (1) Vegetable, (2) Coal Tar, 

 (3) Coloured Resinates, (4) Coloured Oleates and Linoleates. Gum Running: Furnaces, 

 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 Manufacture: 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 : Amber, Copal, Dammar, Shellac, 

 Mastic, Sandarac, Rosin, Asphalt, India Rubber, Gutta Percha, Collodion, 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, Individual 

 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: Manufacture, 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. 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 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, 

 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. 



Chapters I., Introduction. II., The Groups of the Artificial Colouring Matters. III., The 

 Nature and Manipulation of Artificial Colours. IV., Lake-forming Bodies for Acid Colours. 

 V., Lake-forming Bodies' Basic Colours. VI., Lake Bases. VII., 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 General 

 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 of 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. 



