CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



Quantity Surveying. By J. LEANING. With 42 illus- 

 trations. Second edition, revised, crown 8vo, cloth, gs. 

 CONTENTS : 



A complete Explanation of the London I Schedule of Prices. 



Practice. Form of Schedule of Prices. 



General Instructions. 

 Order of Taking Off. 



Analysis of Schedule of Prices. 

 Adjustment of Accounts. 



Modes of Measurement of the various Trades, j Form of a Bill of Variations. 

 Use and Waste. Remarks on Specifications. 



Ventilation and Warming. 



Credits, with various Examples of Treatment. 



Abbreviations. 



Squaring the Dimensions. 



Abstracting, with Examples in illustration of 



each Trade. 

 Billing. 



Examples of Preambles to each Trade. 

 Form for a Bill of Quantities. 



Do. Bill of Credits. 



Do. Bill for Alternative Estimate. 

 Restorations and Repairs, and Form of Bill. 



Prices and Valuation of Work, with 

 Examples and Remarks upon each Trade. 



The Law as it affects Quantity Surveyors, 

 with Law Reports. 



Taking Off after the Old Method. 



Northern Practice. 



The General Statement of the Methods 

 recommended by the Manchester Society 

 of Architects for taking Quantities. 



Examples of Collections. 



Examples of " Taking Off" in each Trade. 



Remarks on the Past and Present Methods 



Variations before Acceptance of Tender. of Estimating. 



Errors in a Builder's Estimate. 



Spans Architects and Builders Price Book, with 



useful Memoranda. Edited by W. YOUNG, Architect. Crown 8vo, cloth, 

 red edges, 3-r. 6d. Published annually. Sixteenth edition. Now ready. 



Long-Span Railway Bridges, comprising Investiga- 

 tions of the Comparative Theoretical and Practical Advantages of the 

 various adopted or proposed Type Systems of Construction, with numerous 

 Formulae and Tables giving the weight of Iron or Steel required in 

 Bridges from 300 feet to the limiting Spans ; to which are added similar 

 Investigations and Tables relating to Short-span Railway Bridges. Second 

 and revised edition. By B. BAKER, Assoc. Inst. C.E. Plates, crown 8vo, 

 cloth, 5-r. 



Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges 



and Roofs. By AUGUST RITTER, Ph.D., Professor at the Polytechnic 

 School at Aix-la-Chapelle. Translated from the third German edition, 

 by H. R. SANKEY, Capt. R.E. With 500 illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 15^. 



The Elementary Principles of Carpentry. By 



THOMAS TREDGOLD. Revised from the original edition, and partly 

 re-written, by JOHN THOMAS HURST. Contained in 517 pages of letter- 

 press, and illustrated with 48 plates and 150 wood engravings. Sixth 

 edition, reprinted from the .third, crown 8vo, cloth, I2s. 6d. 



Section I. On the Equality and Distribution of Forces Section II. Resistance of 

 Timber Section III. Construction of Floors Section IV. Construction of Roofs Sec- 

 tion V. Construction of Domes and Cupolas Section VI. Construction of Partition? 

 Section VII. Scaffolds, Staging, and Gantries Section VIII. Construction of Centres for 

 Bridges Section IX. Coffer-dams, Shoring, and Strutting Section X. Wooden Bridges 

 and Viaducts Section XI. Joints, Straps, and other Fastenings Section XII. Timber. 



