22 SCIENTIFIC BOOKS PUBLISHED BT 



Barnes' Siibmarine "Warfare. 



8to. Cloth. $5.00. 



SUBMAEINE WAEFAEE, DEFENSIVE AND OPPENSIVE. 

 Comprising a full and complete History of the Invention of the 

 Torpedo, its employment in War and results of its use. Do- 

 Bcriptions of the yarious forms of Torpedoes, Submarine Batteries 

 and Torpedo Boats actually used in War. Methods of Ignition 

 by Machinery, Contact Fuzes, and Electricity, and a full accoimt 

 of experiments made to determine the Explosive Force of Ghin- 

 powder under Water. Also a discussion of the OflFensive Torpedo 

 system, its effect upon Iron-Clad Ship systems, and influence upon 

 Future Naval Wars. By Lieut.-Commander Johh S. Baenes, 

 U. S. N. With twenty lithographic plates and many ■vrood-cuts. 



" A book important to military men, and especially so to engineers and ar- 

 tillerists. It consists of an examination of the yarious offensive and defensive 

 engines that have been contrived for submarine hostilities, including' a discus- 

 sion of the torpedo system, its effects upon iron-clad ship-systems, and its 

 probable influence upon future naval wars. Plates of a valuable character 

 accompany the treatise, which affords a useful history of the momentous sub- 

 ject it discusses. A great deal of useful information is collected in its pages, 

 especially concerning the inventions of Scholl and Verdu, and of JoNEs' 

 and Hunt's batteries, as well as of other similar machines, and the use in 

 submarine operations of gun-cotton and nitro-glycerine." — N. T. Times. 



Randall's Quartz Operator's Hand- 



Book. 



12mo. Cloth. $2.00. 



QUARTZ OPEEATOE'S HAND-BOOK. By P. M. Eindau- 

 New edition, revised and enlarged. Fully illustrated. 



The object of this work has been to present a clear and comprehensive ex- 

 position of mineral veins, and the means and modes chiefly employed for the 

 mining and working of their ores — ^more especially those oonttuning gold and 

 ■ilver. 



