November^ 1 894. 



LIST OF 



TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS 



AND WORKS RELATING TO 



Timber Calculations, food-Working Machinery, &c., 



Published by 



WILLIAM RIDER AND SON, LIMITED, 

 14, Bartholomew Close, London, E.G. 



r;^ All Books sent Post Free at Prices named. 



RIDER'S TECHNICAL SERIES. 



No* I. 112 pp. Illustrated, price 2s. 6d. 



Modern Shafting and Gear- 



ING and the Economical Transmission of 

 Power. By M. Powis Bale, A.M.I.C.E., 

 author of A Haadbook for Steam Users/^ 



The subject dealt with in this book is a most important one for all 

 power users, there being little doubt that a large amount of power is 

 unknowingly wasted through improperly and crudely arranged methods 

 of transmission. 



No. 2. 54 Illustrations, price 2s. 6d. 



Tree Pruning; a treatise on 



Pruning Forest and Ornamental Trees. 

 Translated from the French of the Count 

 des Cars, by C. S. Sargent, Professor of 

 Arboriculture in Harvard College, U.S.A. 



Many books have, from time to time, been published dealing with the 

 Pruning of Trees, but the work by the Count des Cars, of which this is a 

 translation, is held in such high esteem by Continental Foresters that it 

 has for some years ranked as a standard work. 



No. 3. Price 3s. 6d. 



Practical Forestry • By A. 



D. Webster, Wood Manager to the Duke 

 of Bedford, on the Woburn and other 

 estates. 



A popular handbook on the rearing and growth of trees for profit or 

 ornament. 



