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Humbers New Work on Water-Supply. 



A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE on the WATER-SUPPLY 

 of CITIES and TOWNS. By William Humber, Assoc. Inst. 

 C.E., and M. Inst. M.E. Author of *'Cast and Wrought Iron 

 Bridge Construction," &c. &c. Imp. 4to. Illustrated with 50 

 Double Plates, 2 Single Plates, Coloured Frontispiece, and upwards 

 of 250 Woodcuts, and containing 400 pages of Text, elegantly and 

 substantially half-bound in morocco. 6/. 6s, 



List of Contents : — 



I. Historical Sketch of some of the means that have been adopted for the Supply 

 of Water to Cities and Towns. — II. Water and the Foreign Matter usually asso- 

 ciated 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. Tne Purification of Water. — X. Pumps. — XI. Pumping 

 Machinery.— XII. Conduits.— XIII. Distribution 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 

 Specifications of several Works illustrated, among which will be found : — Aberdeen, 

 Bideford, Canterbury, Dundee, Halifax, Lambeth, Rotherham, Dublin, and others. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



** The most systematic and valuable work upon water supply hitherto produced in 

 English, or in any other language." — Engineer (first notice)- 



" Mr. Humber's work is characterised almost throughout by an exhaustive ness 

 much more distinctive of French and German than of English technical treatises." — 

 Engineer (third notice). 



*' We can congratulate Mr. Humber on having been able to give so large an 

 amount of information on a subject so important as the water supply of cities and 

 towns. The plates, fifty in number, are mostly drawings of executed works, and 

 alone would have commanded the attention of every engineer whose practice may lie 

 in this branch of the profession." — Builder. 



