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TECHNOLOGY OF PETROLEUM : Oil Fields of the 

 World — ^Their History, Geography and Geology — Annual Production 

 and Development — Oil-well Drilling — Transport. By Henry Neu- 

 BERGER and Henry Noalhat. Translated from the French by J. G. 

 McIntosh. 550 pp. 153 Illustrations. 26 Plates. Super Royal 8vo. 

 Price 21s. ; India and Colonies, 22s. ; Other Countries, 23s. 6d. ; 

 strictly net. 



Contents. 



Study of the Petroliferous Strata — Petroleum — Definition — The Genesis or Origin of 

 Petroleum — The Oil Fields of Galicia, their History — Physical Geography and Geology of 

 the Galician Oil Fields — Practical Notes on Galician Land Law — Economic Hints on Working, 

 etc. — Roumania — History, Geography, Geology — Petroleum in Russia — History — Russian 

 Petroleum {continued) — Geography and Geology of the Caucasian Oil Fields — Russian Petro- 

 leum {continued) — The Secondary Oil Fields of Europe, Northern Germany, Alsace, Italy, etc. — 

 Petroleum In France — Petroleum in Asia — Transcaspian and Turkestan Territory — Turkestan 

 — Persia — British India and Burmah — British Burmah or Lower Burmah — China — Chinese 

 Thibet — Japan, Formosa and Saghalien — Petroleum in Oceania — Sumatra, Java, Borneo — 

 Isle of Timor — Philippine Isles — New Zealand — The United States of America — History — 

 Physical Geology and Geography of the United States Oil Fields— Canadian and other North 

 American Oil Fields — Economic Data of Work in North America — Petroleum m the West 

 Indies and South America — Petroleum in the French Colonies. 



Excavations — Hand Excavation or Hand Digging of Oil Wells. 



Methods of Boring*. 



Accidents — Boring Accidents — Methods of preventing them — Methods of remedying them 

 —Explosives and the use of the "Torpedo" Levigation — Storing and Transport of Petroleum 

 —General Advice — Prospecting, Management and carrying on of Petroleum Boring Operations. 



General Data— Customary FormulsE— Memento. Practical Part. General Data 

 bearing on Petroleum — Glossary of Technical Terms used in the Petroleum Industry— Copious 

 Index. 



THE PRACTICAL COMPOUNDING OF OILS, TAL- 

 LOW AND GREASE FOR LUBRICATION, ETC. 



By An Expert Oil Refiner. 100 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. ; 

 India and Colonies, 8s. ; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. ; strictly net. 

 Contents. 



Intruductory Remarks on the General ISJomenclature of Oils, Tallow and Greases 

 suitable for Lubrication — Hydrocarbon Oils — Animal and Fish Oils — Compound 

 Oils— Vegetable Oils— Lamp Oils— Engine Tallow, Solidified Oils and Petroleum 

 Jelly — Machinery Greases: Loco and Anti-friction— Clarifying and Utilisation 

 of Waste Pats, Oils, Tank Bottoms, Drainings of Barrels and Drums, Pickings 

 Up, Dregs, etc. — The Fixing and Cleaning of Oil Tanks, etc. — Appendix and 

 General Information. 



ANIMAL FATS AND OILS : Their Practical Production, 



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

 perties, Falsification and Examination. Translated from the German 

 of Louis Edgar Andes. Sixty-two Illustrations. 240 pp. Second 

 Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. ; India 

 and Colonies, lis.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net. 

 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 Remelted 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 & Mtinzberg'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. 



THE MANUFACTURE OF GREASES, BLACKINGS 

 AND LUBRICANTS. By Richard Brunner. Translated 

 from the Sixth German Edition by Chas. Salter. 10 Illustrations. 

 Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. ; India and Colonies 8s. ; Other Countries, 

 8s. fd. ; net, post free. 



