Necessity for Testing--Standards--Arrangement--The Apparatus--The Reagents--Practical Tests--Dry Colours--Stiff Paints--Liquid and Enamel Paints--Oil Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Driers--Putty--Linseed Oil--Turpentine--Water Stains--The Chemical Examination--Dry Colours and Paints--White Pigments and Paints--Yellow Pigments and Paints--Blue Pigments and Paints--Green Pigments and Paints--Red Pigments and Paints--Brown Pigments and Paints--Black Pigments and Paints--Oil Varnishes--Linseed Oil--Turpentine. =IRON-CORROSION, ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSIVE PAINTS.= Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two Illustrations. 275 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net. Contents. Iron-rust and its Formation--Protection from Rusting by Paint--Grounding the Iron with Linseed Oil, etc.--Testing Paints--Use of Tar for Painting on Iron--Anti-corrosive Paints--Linseed Varnish--Chinese Wood Oil--Lead Pigments--Iron Pigments--Artificial Iron Oxides--Carbon--Preparation of Anti-corrosive Paints--Results of Examination of Several Anti-corrosive Paints--Paints for Ship's Bottoms--Anti-fouling Compositions--Various Anti-corrosive and Ship's Paints--Official Standard Specifications for Ironwork Paints--Index. =THE TESTING AND VALUATION OF RAW MATERIALS USED IN PAINT AND COLOUR MANUFACTURE.= By M. W. JONES, F.C.S. A Book for the Laboratories of Colour Works. 88 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net. Contents. Aluminium Compounds--China Clay--Iron Compounds--Potassium Compounds --Sodium Compounds--Ammonium Hydrate--Acids--Chromium Compounds--Tin Compounds--Copper Compounds--Lead Compounds--Zinc Compounds--Manganese Compounds--Arsenic Compounds--Antimony Compounds--Calcium Compounds-- Barium Compounds--Cadmium Compounds--Mercury Compounds--Ultramarine-- Cobalt and Carbon Compounds--Oils--Index. =STUDENTS' MANUAL OF PAINTS, COLOURS, OILS AND VARNISHES.= By JOHN FURNELL. Crown 8vo. 10 Illustrations. [_In the press._ Contents. Plant--Chromes--Blues--Greens--Earth Colours--Blacks--Reds--Lakes--Whites--Painters' Oils--Turpentine--Oil Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Liquid Paints--Enamel Paints. Varnishes and Drying Oils. =THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL REFINING AND BOILING, AND KINDRED INDUSTRIES.= Translated from the French of ACH. LIVACHE, Ingénieur Civil des Mines. Greatly Extended and Adapted to English Practice, with numerous Original Recipes by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. 27 Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 1899. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net. Contents.