LONDON, Yanuary, 1883. 
A Catalogue of Books 
INCLUDING MANY NEW AND STANDARD WORKS IN 
ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, AGRICULTURE, 
MATHEMATICS, MECHANICS, SCIENCE, ETC. 
PUBLISHED BY 
CROSBY LOCKWOOD & Co,, 
97, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL, E.C. 
_ ENGINEERING, SURVEYING, ETC. 
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Humber’s Work on Water-Supply. 
A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE on the WATER-SUPPLY 
of CITIES and TOWNS. By Witt1am Humber, A.-M. Inst. 
C.E., and M. Inst. M.E. [Illustrated with 50 Double Plates, 
I Single Plate, Coloured Frontispiece, and upwards of 250 Wood- 
cuts, and containing 400 pages of Text. Imp. 4to, 6/. 6s. elegantly 
and subsiantially half-bound in morocco. 
List of Contents :— 
I. Historical Sketch of some of the 
means that have been adopted for the 
ee of Water to Cities and Towns.— 
ater and the Foreign Matter usually 
associated with it.—III. Rainfall and 
Evaporation.—IV. Springs and the water- 
bearing formations of various districts. — 
V. Measurement and Estimation of the 
Flow of Water.—VI, On the Selection of 
the Source of Supply.—VII. Wells.— 
VIII, Reservoirs,—IX. The Purification 
of Water.—X. Pumps.—XI. Pumping 
Machinery.— XII. Conduits.—XIII. Dis- 
tribution of Water.—XIV. Meters, Ser- 
vice Pipes, and House Fittings. —XV. The 
Law and Economy of Water Works.— 
XVI. Constant and Intermittent Supply. 
—XVII. Description of Plates.—Appen- 
dices, giving Tables of Rates of Supply, 
Velocities, &c. &c., together with Specifi- 
cations of several Works illustrated, among 
which will be found :—Aberdeen, Bideford, 
Canterbury, Dundee, Halifax, ‘Lambeth, 
Rotherham, Dublin, and others. 
“‘ The most systematic and valuable work upon water supply hitherto produced in 
English, or in any other language... . 
Mr. Humber's work is characterised almost 
throughout by an exhaustiveness much more distinctive of French and German than 
of English technical treatises.”—Lxgineer. 
Humber’s Work on Bridge Construction. 
A COMPLETE and PRACTICAL TREATISE on CAST and 
WROUGHT-IRON BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, including 
Iron Foundations. In Three Parts—Theoretical, Practical, and 
Descriptive. By WILLIAM HumBER, A.-M. Inst. C.E., and M. Inst. 
M.E. Third Edition, with 115 Double Plates, In 2 vols. imp. 4to, 
6/. 16s. 6d. half-bound in morocco, 
** A book—and particularly a large and costly treatise lixe Mr. Humber’s—which 
has reached its third edition may certainly be said to have established its own 
reputation,” —Z gineering. 
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