CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



Tables of the Principal Speeds occurring in Mechanical 



Engineerings expressed in metres in a second. By P. Keerayeff, Chief - 

 MecKanic of tlie Obouchoff Steel Works, St Petersburg ; translated by 

 Sergius Kern, M.E, Fcap. 8vo, sewed, 6^. 



A Treatise on the Origin, Progress^ Prevention^ and 



C-ure of Dry Rot in Tifuber; witli Remarks on the Means of Preserving 

 Wood from Destruction by Sea- Worms, Beetles, Ants, etc. By Thomas 

 Allen Britton, late Surveyor to the Metropolitan Board of Works, 

 etc., etc. With lo plates, crown 8vo, cloth, 7j. 6d. 



Metrical Tables. By G. L, Molesworth, M.LC.E. 



32m.o, cloth, u, 6d, 



Contents. 



General— Linear Measures — Square Measures — Cubic Measures — ^Measures of Capacity — 

 Weights— Combinations— Thermometers. 



Elements of Construction for Electro-Magnets, By 



Count Th. Du Moncel, Mem. de I'lnstitut de France. Translated from 

 the French by C. J. Wharton, Crown 8vo, cloth, 4^. 6d, 



Electro -Telegraphy, By Frederick S. Beechey, 



Telegraph Engineer. A Book for Beginners. Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo, 

 sewed, 6d, 



H andr ailing : by the Square Cut, By John Jones, 



Staircase Builder. Part Second, with eight ;plates^ 8vo, cloth, 3^. ^d. 



Practical Electrical Units Popularly Explained, with 



numerous illustrations and Remarks. By James Swinburne, late of 

 J. W. Swan and Co., Paris, late of Brush-Swan Electric Light Company, 

 U.S.A. iSrao, cloth, IJ-. 6^. 



Philipp Reis, Inventor of the Telephone : A Biographical 



Sketch. With Documentary Testimony, Translations of the Original 

 Papers of the Inventor, &c. By Silvan us P. Thompson, B.A., Br, Sc, 

 Professor of Experimental Physics in University College, Bristol. Wit^ 

 illustratwns, 8vo, cloth, */s, 6d 



A Treatise on the Use of Belting for the Transmis- 

 sion of Power, By J. H. CooPER. Second edition, illustrated, 8vo, 

 cloth, 15^*. 



Hints on Architecttiral Draughtsmanship, By G* W* 



Tuxford Halxatt. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, is, 6d, 



