4 CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



A Practical Treatise on Coal Mining. By George 



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

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



Iron Roofs : Examples of Design, Description. Ilhs- 



tratedviUh 64 Working Drawings of Executed Roofs. By Arthitr T. 

 Walmisley, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E. Imp. 4to, half-morocco, f,2 \zs. iid. 



A History of Electric Telegraphy, to the Year 1837. 



Chiefly compiled from Original Sources, and hitherto Unpublished Docu- 

 ments, by J. J. Fahie, Mem. Soc. of Tel. Engineers, and of the Inter- 

 national Society of Electricians, Paris. Crown 8vo, cloth, gj. 



Spans'' Information for Colonial Engineers. Edited 



by J. T. Hurst. Demy Svo, sewed. 



No. I, Ceylon. By Abraham Deane, C.E. is. 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, y. 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. 4^. 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 Foimding, 



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 Svo, cloth, i8j. 



Steam Heating for Buildings ; or, Hints to Steam 



Fitters, being a description of Steam Heating Apparatus for Warming 

 and Ventilating Private Houses and Large Buildings, with remarks on 

 1 Steam, Water, and Air in their relation to Heating. By W. J. Baldwin. 

 With many illustrations. Fourth edition, crown Svo, cloth, icj-. dd. 



