The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook

by H. Percy Boulnois

• Abattoirs, [328]
• Abrasion of stone, [48]
• Accidents to horses, [31]
• Accommodation in Cattle Market, [345]
• Acland, Dr., on the surveyor, [4]
• Acquisition of sewers, [252]
• Acreage of sewage farms, [265]
• Action of earth on sewage, [266]
• Additions to old buildings, [210]
• Advantage of plants for sewage, [270]
• Advantages of asphalte, [99]
• —— public abattoirs, [343]
• —— separate system, [261]
• —— steam rolling, [70]
• —— wood paving, [89]
• Alleys and courts if cleansed, [238]
• Allotting numbers, [154]
• Alteration of old building to new, [209]
• American footpath, [114]
• —— paving, [77]
• —— road rolling, [65]
• Analysis of asphalte, [97]
• Angell Lewis on the surveyor, [6]
• Angles of roads, [30]
• Annihilation of sewer gases, [277]
• Application to borrow, [376]
• Appointment of surveyor, [1], [3], [10], [18]
• Arc lights, [144]
• Area of cemeteries, [354], [363]
• —— sewers, [253], [254]
• Artificial asphalte, [117]
• —— stone pavements, [116]
• Artizans’ dwellings, [284], [291]
• Ashpits, [226]
• Asphalte, Mac Adam, [46]
• —— mastic, [107]
• —— roadways, [96]
• Asphaltic wood pavement, [82]
• Automatic flushing, [262]
• Aveling and Porter’s roller, [68]
• Awnings over paths, [184]
• Bargains. See [Contracts]
• Bars opening outwards, [178]
• Bayley’s hydrostatic van, [245]
• Best stones for pitchers, [75]
• Bitumen, [96]
• Bituminous concrete, [78]
• —— mixture, [79]
• —— roadways, [46]
• Binding for roads, [62]
• Blinds over paths, [184]
• Blood-house, [341]
• Books on drainage, [315]
• —— useful, [384]
• Borrowing, [375]
• Borders for paths, [320]
• Bottles and brickbats, [225]
• Bottoming roadways, [37]
• Breakages in pipe sewers, [258]
• Breaking stone, [48], [51]
• Breaking-up streets, [157]
• Brick footpaths, [116]
• Bridges over streets, [33]
• Broad irrigation, [265]
• Brown’s street watering, [243]
• Buildings, dangerous, [188]
• —— projections of, [176]
• —— new, [206]
• —— setting back, [175]
• Buddle hole, [128]
• Bullock lairs, [346]
• —— rollers, [60]
• Burial fees, [356]
• —— in clay, [354]
• Burners, gas, [140]
• Burning refuse, [233]
• Butchers, [329], [334]
• Byelaws for new streets, &c., [206]
• Cage for trees, [325]
• Caithness flagging, [112]
• Caldrons, [107]
• Candle power, [136]
• Canvassing, [19]
• Capacities of surveyor, [5]
• Carcel power, [136]
• Carey’s wood pavement, [83]
• Cart for scavenging, [230]
• Cast-iron name plates, [151]
• Cattle lairs, [333]
• Cattle Market, [345]
• Causes of breakages in pipes, [258]
• Cellar coverings, [180]
• —— door projecting, [176]
• —— dwellings, [295]
• Cemeteries, [350]
• Channelling, [123]
• Chapel mortuary, [369]
• Chapels in cemeteries, [351]
• Charcoal sewer ventilators, [275]
• Chemical treatment of sewage, [268]
• Chesterfield lighting, [129]
• Chicago roads, [38]
• Chimney shafts, [190]
• —— —— ventilators, [275]
• Chloride of calcium for watering, [247]
• Choice of street names, [152]
• Chokages in pipe sewers, [260]
• Cisterns, objectionable, [302]
• Clarke’s apparatus, [240]
• Clay slate, [49]
• Cleansing of streets, [234]
• —— private courts, &c., [238]
• Climate and trees, [321]
• Clinkers, [225]
• Closing polluted well, [301]
• —— slaughter-houses, [330]
• Coal plates, [182]
• Coefficients of road metal, [51]
• Collection of house refuse, [228]
• Combined system of sewerage, [261]
• Committees, [23]
• Common line of frontage, [177]
• Compensation for setting back, [175]
• Composition of sewer gas, [278]
• Compressed asphalte, [96]
• Concrete, [78]
• —— footpaths, [113]
• —— pipes, [254]
• Condemned meat, [339]
• Connection with main sewers, [305]
• Construction of asphalte roads, [98]
• Contour of roadways, [43]
• Contract with Gas Company, [132]
• Contracts, [381]
• —— for scavenging, [249]
• —— surveyor must not be interested in, [3], [382]
• Conversion into new building, [210]
• Cost of asphalte, [101]
• —— chemical treatment, [264]
• —— electric light, [145]
• —— kerbing, [125]
• —— maintenance of macadamised roads, [34], [41]
• —— melting snow, [241]
• —— pipes, [254]
• —— scavenging, [248]
• —— tree planting, [326]
• —— watering, [244]
• —— wood pavement, [91]
• —— working steam rollers, [61], [63]
• Core hard, [39]
• Coroner’s court, [370]
• Cremation, [361]
• Crops for sewage farm, [265]
• Croskey’s wood pavement, [82]
• Damage to roads, [161]
• —— trees, [327]
• Dangerous buildings, [188]
• —— crossings, [33]
• Deacon on streets, [76]
• Dead-house, [367], [369]
• Declaration of public streets, [204]
• Defacing numbers or names, [149]
• Defects in dwellings, [295]
• Defective cellar covers, [181]
• —— drains, [310]
• Definition of new building, [208]
• —— sewer, [252]
• —— street, [149], [205]
• Demolition of premises, [285]
• Deposit of plans of streets, [210]
• Depth of sewers, [253]
• Diameter of drains, [315]
• Diary of water-cart, [247]
• Dimensions of lairs and pens, [347]
• Disadvantages of steam rolling, [72]
• Diseased meat, [339]
• Disinfection, [371]
• Disposal of refuse, [232]
• —— road scrapings, [237]
• —— sewage, [263]
• Distance of lamps, [135]
• —— trees, [324]
• Division of cemeteries, [355]
• —— England, [2]
• Doors opening outwards, [178]
• Down pipes, [183]
• Drainage, [303]
• —— definition of, [303]
• —— of cemeteries, [351]
• —— slaughter-house, [335]
• Drain-cleaning rods, [260]
• Drains under houses, [316]
• Draught on roads, [29]
• Dry systems, [263]
• Drying sludge, [269]
• Dust-bins, [226]
• Dusty streets, [234]
• Duties of surveyor, [5], [7], [11], [20]
• Dwellings and cemeteries, [350]
• Dynamos, [141]
• Earth as a sewage filter, [266]
• Easements, [182]
• Eaves shuting, [183]
• Effect of traffic, [27]
• Elasticity of asphalte, [104]
• Electric lighting, [129], [140]
• Enamelled name plates, [152]
• Entrance to cattle market, [346]
• Erection of hoardings or scaffolds, [187]
• Escape from fire, [218]
• Euston pavement, [77]
• Evasion of Building Acts, [209]
• Examination of surveyor, [14]
• Fees for burials, [356]
• Fences, [320]
• Filling-in over pipes, [317]
• Filters for sewage, [267]
• Filtration of sewage, [266]
• Fire protection, [218]
• Fitness of stone, [48]
• Flagging, York, [110]
• —— Caithness, [112]
• —— blue lias, [113]
• Flag poles, [177]
• Flints, [50]
• Float observations, [265]
• Flushing courts and alleys, [238]
• Footpaths, [106]
• —— and snow, [241]
• Force required on roads, [30]
• Forms of Notice. See Notice
• Foundation of macadamised roads, [39]
• French burial, [356]
• Frontage of streets, [174]
• Fryer’s destructor, [233]
• Fuel for rollers, [61]
• Furnaces as sewer ventilators, [276]
• Furniture of mortuary, [369]
• Gales and trees, [321]
• Galton on borrowing, [379]
• Garden refuse, [225]
• Gas-burners, [140]
• —— lighting, [130]
• Gates opening outwards, [178]
• Gauge of stone, [52]
• General markets, [348]
• German dead-house, [368]
• Germ theory, [271]
• Glass name tablets, [152]
• Gneiss, [49]
• Good house drainage, [315]
• Goux system, [233]
• Gradients of house-drains, [316]
• —— roads, [30]
• —— sewers, [253]
• —— for rollers, [62]
• Granite, [49]
• —— foot-pavement, [117]
• —— kerb, [124]
• Grass, [320]
• Grating for trees, [324]
• Gravel footpaths, [121]
• —— [50]
• Grave spaces, [360]
• —— yards, [350]
• Green and Son’s roller, [69]
• Grill for trees, [325]
• Gritted asphalte, [108]
• Ground floor, [208]
• Grouting, [79]
• Gulley gratings, [126]
• Hammer-broken stone, [52]
• Hand or hose watering, [244]
• Hard core, [39]
• Harrison’s wood pavement, [83]
• Hayward on snow, [239]
• Hayward’s pavement lights, [181]
• Heads of scavenging, [224]
• Healey’s boilers, [80]
• Health of district, [288]
• Henson’s wood pavement, [83]
• Hide store, [341]
• Highways, surveyor of, [20]
• Hoardings, [187]
• Hoisting machinery, [337]
• Horse-shoes, [27]
• House, definition of, [311]
• —— drainage, [303]
• —— refuse collection, [228]
• —— —— disposal, [232]
• —— —— destruction, [233]
• —— —— removed, [223]
• Houses unfit for habitation, [284]
• Hydrostatic van, [245]
• Illuminating power, [135]
• Imperishable stone-paving blocks, [104]
• Importation of trees, [322]
• Improper water supply, [300]
• Improved wood pavement, [81]
• Improvement of courts and alleys, [287]
• —— streets, [174]
• —— private streets, [193]
• Incandescent lamps, [144]
• Inclination of roads, [30]
• Individuals breaking-up streets, [169]
• Industrial dwellings, [290]
• Inertia of load, [32]
• Ingredients used for precipitation, [269]
• Inlets for fresh air into sewers, [273]
• Inspection of drains, [305], [314]
• —— buildings, [217], [219]
• Insufficient w.c. accommodation, [297]
• Interception or dry systems, [263]
• Intermittent filtration, [266]
• Intersection of sewers, [254]
• Iron name plates, [151]
• Irrigation, [265]
• Joints of pipe drains, [316]
• Junction of drains, [307]
• —— sewers, [254]
• Keeping sewers clean, [251]
• Kerbing and channelling, [123]
• Killing rings, [336]
• Labourers’ dwellings, [284], [291]
• Lairs for cattle, [333], [346]
• Lamp-posts, [134]
• —— —— as sewer ventilators, [274]
• Land necessary for cemetery, [354]
• Latrines, [282]
• Laying out a cemetery, [354]
• Leaky drains, [309]
• Leaves as refuse, [225]
• Letters for names, [152]
• Lias flagging, [113]
• Licence to break-up street, [172]
• Lieurner system, [262]
• Life of brooms, [235]
• —— carts, [231]
• —— paving stones, [76]
• —— wood, [88]
• Lighting of slaughter-house, [336]
• —— streets, [129]
• Ligno mineral pavement, [83]
• Limestone, [49]
• Lime-tree, [322]
• Line of frontage, [177]
• Lining of slaughter-house, [335]
• List of borrowing powers, [376]
• —— chemical processes for sewage, [268]
• —— duties of surveyor, [5], [21]
• —— persons called surveyors, [4]
• —— road metal, [49]
• —— shrubs, [320]
• —— trees, [322]
• —— useful books, [384]
• Liverpool scavenging, [235]
• Lloyd’s wood pavement, [82]
• Locomobiles, [107]
• Loose stones on road, [45]
• Macadamised roadways, [34]
• Machinery for electricity, [141]
• —— in slaughter-house, [337]
• Machines for sweeping, [234]
• —— stone-breaking, [53]
• Management of cemetery, [358]
• Manchester abattoir, [333]
• —— pavement, [78]
• Manholes for sewers, [253]
• Manufacturers’ refuse, [253]
• Markets, [344]
• Mastic asphalte, [107]
• Materials of sewage filters, [267]
• Mechanical subsidence of sewage, [267]
• Meetings of committees, [23]
• Melting snow, [240]
• Merit, test of, [14]
• Metal road, [48]
• Meters for public lamps, [133]
• Method of appointment, [18]
• Methods of disposal of sewage, [264]
• —— lighting, [131]
• —— numbering, [153]
• —— sewerage, [261]
• —— sewer ventilation, [276]
• Minton’s name plates, [151]
• Model bye-laws, [207]
• —— lodging-houses, [291]
• Metropolitan slaughter-house, [339]
• Money, receipt of, [3]
• Mortuaries, [365]
• Mount Sorrel, [75]
• Mowlem’s wood pavement, [83]
• Muddy streets, [234]
• Names of committees, [23]
• Naming and numbering streets, [149]
• Necessity for kerb, [123]
• —— slaughter-house, [328]
• Newcastle lighting, [147]
• New streets and buildings, [206]
• Nicholson’s wood pavement, [84]
• Norwich wood pavement, [84]
• Notices to repair private streets, [198]
• —— of assessment of cost of ditto, [201]
• —— of defective drainage, [313]
• —— for breaking-up streets, [158]
• —— cellar coverings, [181]
• —— for dangerous building, [190]
• —— defective shuting, [183]
• —— doors and gates opening outwards, [179]
• —— insufficient w.c. accommodation, [298]
• —— numbering, [155]
• —— overhanging trees, [185]
• —— permission to break-up streets, [172]
• —— to construct sewers on private lands, [256]
• —— to erect buildings, [214]
• —— to open slaughter-house, [321]
• —— signature of, [313]
• Number of graves in cemetery, [354]
• Objections to asphalte, [100]
• —— macadamised roadways, [44]
• —— steam rolling, [72]
• —— York flagging, [110]
• Observations of tides, [265]
• Obstruction in streets, [174]
• Obstructive buildings, [286]
• Old tins, [225]
• Opening graves, [356], [361]
• Open space at back of buildings, [218]
• —— ventilating shafts, [272]
• Ornamental shrubs, [320]
• Outfalls of sewers, [265]
• Overhanging trees, [185]
• Paget on steam rolling, [71]
• Pail system, [234]
• Pails, [263]
• Painted names, [151]
• Painting urinals, [282]
• Pamphlet on steam rolling, [65]
• Papers, examination, [16]
• Paris lighting, [135]
• —— roadways, cost of, [41]
• —— tree planting, [326]
• Parks, [318]
• Parry on contracts, [383]
• —— watering, [244]
• Party walls through roofs, [218]
• Paths in cemeteries, [355]
• Partially separate system, [262]
• Paving of Cattle Market, [346]
• —— lairs, [333], [346]
• Pebbles, [50]
• Pedestrian traffic, [33]
• Pens for sheep, [333], [346]
• Permission to break-up streets, [172]
• —— construct cellar, [182]
• Persons called surveyor, [4]
• Pig killing, [340]
• Pinned roadways, [36], [39]
• Pipe drains, [315]
• —— sewers, thickness, &c., [258]
• —— —— diagrams, [259]
• Pitch boilers, [80]
• Pitched pavements, [73]
• Plan for breaking-up streets, [160]
• Plans of new streets or buildings, [210]
• —— of house drains, [317]
• —— for borrowing, [377]
• —— slaughter-house, [338]
• Plane tree, [322]
• Plants for sewage, [270]
• Plaster not house refuse, [225]
• Plates, name, [151]
• Playgrounds, [318]
• Pleasure grounds, [318], [350]
• Paving of slaughter-house, [334]
• Pole-axe, [336]
• Polluted water supply, [291]
• Porch, [176]
• Portable dust-bins, [227]
• Position of sewer, [254]
• Post-mortem room, [370]
• Powers to close slaughter-houses, [330]
• Power to borrow, [375]
• —— make contracts, [381]
• Precipitation of sewage, [268]
• Preservation of wood, [86]
• Private lands and sewer, [255]
• —— roads improvements, [204]
• —— slaughter-houses, [329]
• —— street improvements, [193]
• Privies, [263]
• Processes of chemical treatment, [268]
• Projections, [176]
• Proportions for asphalte, [109]
• Prosser’s wood pavement, [85]
• Protection of surveyor, [6], [8]
• Pruning trees, [321]
• Public abattoirs, [328]
• —— conveniences, [280]
• —— dust-bins, [228]
• —— lighting, [131]
• —— mortuaries, [365]
• —— works, [376]
• Punctuality, [24]
• Qualities of road metal, [49], [51]
• Quantity of land for sewage farm, [265]
• Rain-water pipes as ventilators, [274]
• —— —— shutes, [183]
• Rate collecting by surveyor, [3]
• Rawlinson on borrowing, [377]
• Receipt of money, [3]
• Refuse, disposal of, [232]
• —— from manufactories, [253]
• —— receptacles, [229]
• —— trade and garden, [225]
• Register of drains, [317]
• —— graves, [360]
• Regulation of traffic, [33]
• Regulations of cemeteries, [358], [360]
• —— connections with sewers, [305]
• Regulations for breaking-up streets, [171]
• Reinstating trenches, [162]
• Removal of snow, [239]
• —— house refuse, [223]
• Removing projections, [176]
• Requirements of artizans’ dwellings, [291]
• —— drains, [317]
• —— roadways, [25]
• Remuneration of surveyor, [7]
• Reports, [24]
• —— on duties of surveyor, [10]
• Resistance of wheels, [31]
• Roads, private, improvement of, [204]
• —— in cemeteries, [355]
• Roadway, specifications of, [35], [36]
• Road metal, [48]
• —— —— list of, [49]
• —— —— specification of, [57]
• —— —— weight of, [56]
• —— repairs, [66]
• —— rolling, [60]
• —— Roman, [73]
• Ruts in roads, [45]
• Safety in traffic, [31]
• Sale rooms, [341]
• Sanctuaries, [33]
• Sandstone, [50]
• Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, [14]
• Scaffolds, [187]
• Scavenging, [221]
• —— cart, [230]
• Sea-water for watering, [247]
• Section of roadway, [43]
• —— footpaths, [121]
• Sections of cemetery, [356]
• Security to be entered into, [3]
• Selection of trees, [321], [322]
• Separate system, [260], [262]
• Setting back buildings, [175]
• —— kerb, [124]
• Sewerage, [251]
• Sewerage, system of, [253]
• Sewer through private lands, [255]
• Sewered, [195]
• Sewage and plants, [270]
• —— crops for, [265]
• —— disposal, [263]
• —— filtration, [266], [267]
• —— irrigation, [265]
• —— mechanical subsidence, [267]
• —— precipitation, [268]
• —— screening, [267]
• —— value of, [265]
• Sewer gas, [277]
• —— ventilation, [271]
• Shafts for ventilation, [273]
• Shed, [176]
• Sheep pens, [333], [346]
• Shiel’s composite pavement, [85]
• Shone’s system, [262]
• Shop blinds, [184]
• Shrubs projecting, [176]
• —— [320]
• —— in cemeteries, [360]
• Shutes, [183]
• Shutter projecting, [176]
• Sight rails, [257]
• Sign projecting, [176]
• Site for abattoir, [332]
• —— of Cattle Market, [345]
• —— for cemetery, [351]
• Size of cellar covers, [181]
• —— drains, [316]
• —— graves, [356]
• —— pitchers, [74]
• —— rooms, [294]
• —— trees, [323]
• Slaughter-houses, [328], [334]
• Slaughtering, [342]
• Slippery roads, [32]
• Sludge, treatment of, [269]
• Snow, removal of, [239], [241]
• —— on footpaths, [241]
• Soil for cemetery, [352]
• Soot on trees, [321]
• Specific gravity of road metal, [49]
• Specifications of roadway, [35], [36]
• Specification for asphalte, [103]
• —— flagging, [110]
• —— for breaking-up streets, [161]
• —— of wood pavement, [94]
• —— road metal, [57]
• —— scavenging, [249]
• —— tar pavement, [118]
• Stalls in markets, [349]
• Stanford’s joint, [257]
• Step projecting, [176]
• Stone breaking, [48]
• Store for hides, [341]
• Stowe’s wood pavement, [84]
• Street, breaking-up, [155]
• —— cleansing, [234]
• —— definition of, [149], [205]
• —— lighting, [129]
• —— lines, [174]
• —— private, improvements, [193]
• —— trees, [318]
• —— watering, [242]
• Streets, new, [206]
• Stringent bye-laws, [219]
• Subjects requiring attention, [21]
• Subways, [168]
• Sugg’s regulator, [133]
• Supervision of new buildings, [217]
• Surface water over paths, [186]
• Subsoil water, [261]
• Surveyor, office first legalised, [1]
• —— appointment of, [1], [3], [10], [18]
• —— and private streets, [194]
• —— as rate collector, [3]
• —— duties of, [5], [7], [11], [20]
• —— examination of, [14]
• —— entry of, to see if new building, [209]
• —— may be also inspector of nuisances, [3]
• —— must not be interested in contracts, [3]
• —— of highways, [20]
• —— protection of, [6], [8]
• Sweeping machines, [234]
• Syenite, [49], [75]
• Tables of cost of roadways, [41]
• Table of scavenging, [236]
• —— watering, [246]
• Tallow market, [341]
• Tar paving, [118]
• Telegraphs under or across roads, [164]
• Telford, Thomas, [35]
• Tell-tale on water-cart, [247]
• Temporary obstructions, [192]
• Testimonials, [18]
• Test for asphalte, [97]
• —— brooms, [235]
• —— of good drains, [316]
• —— merit, [14]
• Thames Embankment, lighting, [147]
• Tides and outfalls, [265]
• Tins as refuse, [225]
• Title of surveyor, [4]
• Town surveyor. See Surveyor
• Traction on roads, [28]
• Trade refuse, [225]
• Traffic, [25]
• Tram track, [80]
• Trap for drain, [317]
• Trappean rock, [49]
• Treatment of sludge, [269]
• —— wood, [86]
• Trees, [318]
• —— in cemeteries, [360]
• —— overhanging, [185]
• Trenches cut in roads, [161]
• Toughness of stone, [48]
• Tripery, [341]
• Troughs for pig-dressing, [340]
• Unhealthy areas, [288]
• Urinals, [280]
• Useful books, [384]
• Use of steam rollers, [61]
• Vacancy in office of surveyor, [10]
• Value of sewage, [265]
• Vans for watering, [245]
• Vault or cellar coverings, [180]
• —— —— under-path, [182]
• Velocity in sewers, [254]
• Ventilation of house drain, [317]
• —— mortuaries, [369]
• —— sewers, [271]
• Vigilance of drain inspection, [309]
• Visit of scavengers, [230]
• Walls of cemeteries, [351]
• —— mortuaries, [369]
• Wall projecting, [176]
• —— slaughter-house, [335]
• Water and asphalte, [105]
• —— companies and streets, [157]
• —— for slaughter-house, [337]
• —— over footpaths, [186]
• —— supply to dwellings, [300]
• W.C. accommodation, [280], [297]
• —— in factories, [299]
• Watering streets, [242]
• Wear of paving stones, [76]
• Wearing effect of traffic, [27]
• Weather on stone, [48]
• Wheels, resistance of, [31]
• Weighing machines, [348]
• Weight of asphalte, [96]
• —— road metal, [56]
• —— rollers, [67]
• —— snow, [239]
• Widening streets, [174]
• Width of roadways, [32]
• Window projecting, [176]
• Wires for electricity, [141]
• Wooden name plates, [152]
• Wood paving, [81]
• —— treatment, [86]
• —— wear of, [88]
• Yards behind buildings, [218]
• York flagging, [110]

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

---

BOOKS RELATING
TO
APPLIED SCIENCE
PUBLISHED BY
E. & F. N. SPON,
LONDON: 16, CHARING CROSS.
NEW YORK: 44, MURRAY STREET.

A Pocket-Book for Chemists, Chemical Manufacturers, Metallurgists, Dyers, Distillers, Brewers, Sugar Refiners, Photographers, Students, etc., etc. By Thomas Bayley, Assoc. R.C. Sc. Ireland, Analytical and Consulting Chemist and Assayer. Second edition, with additions, 437 pp., royal 32mo, roan, gilt edges, 5s.

Synopsis of Contents:

Atomic Weights and Factors — Useful Data — Chemical Calculations — Rules for Indirect Analysis — Weights and Measures — Thermometers and Barometers — Chemical Physics — Boiling Points, etc. — Solubility of Substances — Methods of Obtaining Specific Gravity — Conversion of Hydrometers — Strength of Solutions by Specific Gravity — Analysis — Gas Analysis — Water Analysis — Qualitative Analysis and Reactions — Volumetric Analysis — Manipulation — Mineralogy — Assaying — Alcohol — Beer — Sugar — Miscellaneous Technological matter relating to Potash, Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Chlorine, Tar Products, Petroleum, Milk, Tallow, Photography, Prices, Wages, Appendix, etc., etc.

The Mechanician: A Treatise on the Construction and Manipulation of Tools, for the use and instruction of Young Engineers and Scientific Amateurs, comprising the Arts of Blacksmithing and Forging; the Construction and Manufacture of Hand Tools, and the various Methods of Using and Grinding them; the Construction of Machine Tools, and how to work them; Machine Fitting and Erection; description of Hand and Machine Processes; Turning and Screw Cutting; principles of Constructing and details of Making and Erecting Steam Engines, and the various details of setting out work, etc., etc. By Cameron Knight, Engineer. Containing 1147 illustrations, and 397 pages of letter-press. Third edition, 4to, cloth, 18s.