Now in course of publication, in small 8vo. each volume containing about 300 pages, price 3s. 6d. in cloth,

A SERIES OF

ELEMENTARY WORKS ON MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE,

FORMING A SERIES OF

TEXT-BOOKS OF SCIENCE

ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF

ARTISANS AND OF STUDENTS IN PUBLIC AND
OTHER SCHOOLS.

Edited by T. M. GOODEVE, M.A.

Lecturer on Applied Mathematics at the Royal School of Mines, and formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy in King's College, London.

THE Reports of the Public Schools Commission and of the Schools Inquiry Commission, as well as the evidence taken before several Parliamentary Committees, have shown that there is still a want of a good Series of TEXT-BOOKS in Science, thoroughly exact and complete, to serve as a basis for the sound instruction of Artisans, and at the same time sufficiently popular to suit the capacities of beginners. The foundation of the WHITWORTH SCHOLARSHIPS is in itself an evidence of the recognition of that want, and a reason for the production of a Series of Elementary Scientific Works adapted to that purpose.

Messrs. LONGMANS and Co. have accordingly made arrangements for the issue of a Series of Elementary Works in the various branches of Mechanical and Physical Science suited for general use in Schools, and for the self-instruction of Working Men. These books are intended to serve for the use of practical men, as well as for exact instruction in the subjects of which they treat; and it is hoped that, while retaining that logical clearness and simple sequence of thought which are essential to the making of a good scientific treatise, the style and subject-matter will be found to be within the comprehension of working men, and suited to their wants. The books will not be mere manuals for immediate application, nor University text-books, in which mental training is the foremost object; but are meant to be practical treatises, sound and exact in their logic, and with every theory and every process reduced to the stage of direct and useful application, and illustrated by well-selected examples from familiar processes and facts. It is hoped that the publication of these books-in addition to other useful results-will tend to the leading up of Artisans to become Candidates for the WHITWORTH SCHOLARSHIPS.

The following is a list of the books intended for early publication in the Elementary Series, to be followed by others on other branches of Science :

1. TECHNICAL ARITHMETIC AND MENSURATION.

By C. W. MERRIFIELD, F. R. S. Principal of the Royal School of Naval
Architecture, South Kensington.
[Early in 1871.

2. ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY.

By the Rev. W. N. GRIFFIN, formerly Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge; Author of a Treatise on Optics, a Treatise on Double Refraction,' and a 'Treatise on Motion of a Rigid Body,' &c. [Published.

3. PLANE AND SOLID GEOMETRY.

By the Rev. H. W. WATSON, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and late Assistant-Master of Harrow School. [In the press.

4. PRACTICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY, AND PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICAL DRAWING.

By C. W. MERRIFIELD, F.R. S. Principal of the Royal School of Naval
Architecture, South Kensington.

Text-Books of Science.

5. PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS.

By T. M. GOODEVE, M.A. Editor of the Series. 6. THE ELEMENTS OF MECHANISM,

Designed for Students of Applied Mechanics. By T. M. GOODEVE, M.A
Editor of the Series. With 257 Figures on Wood.
[Published.

7. DESCRIPTIVE MECHANISM,

Including Descriptions of the Lathes, Planing, Slotting, and Shaping Machines, and the mode of Handling Work in the Engineer's Shop and other Workshops.

By C. P. B. SHELLEY, Civil Engineer, and Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery at King's College, London.

8. THEORY OF HEAT.

By J. CLERK MAXWELL, M.A. F.R.SS. L. & E.

9. ECONOMICAL APPLICATIONS OF HEAT,

Including Combustion, Evaporation, Furnaces, Flues, and Boilers.

By C. P. B. SHELLEY, Civil Engineer, and Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery at King's College, London.

With a Chapter on the Probable Future Development of the Science of Heat, by C. WILLIAM SIEMENS, F.R.S.

10. THE STEAM ENGINE.

By T. M. GOODEVE, M.A. Editor of the Series.

11. SOUND AND LIGHT.

By G. G. STOKES, M.A. D.C.L. Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge;
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge; and
Secretary to the Royal Society.

12. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM.

By FLEEMING JENKIN, F.R.SS. L. & E. Professor of Engineering in the
University of Edinburgh.

13. STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.

By the Rev. JOHN F. TWISDEN, M. A. Professor of Mathematics in the Staff
College; Author of 'Elementary Introduction to Practical Mechanics'; and
By JOHN ANDERSON, C.E. Superintendent of Machinery at the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich.

14. INTRODUCTION

CHEMISTRY.

ΤΟ THE STUDY OF

INORGANIC

By WILLIAM ALLEN MILLER, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. late Professor of
Chemistry in King's College, London; Author of 'Elements of Chemistry,
Theoretical and Practical.' With 71 Figures on Wood. [Published.

15. METALS, THEIR PROPERTIES AND TREATMENT.
By CHARLES LOUDON BLOXAM, Professor of Practical Chemistry in
King's College, London; Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Military
Academy and in the Department of Artillery Studies, Woolwich. With
105 Figures on Wood.
[Published.

At an early period will be published

A SHORT PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION ON THE STUDY OF MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND ITS RELATION TO THE STUDY OF MATHEMATICS.

Messrs. LONGMANS and Co. having secured the co-operation of some of the most eminent Professors of, and Writers on, the various branches of Science comprised in this Series, are enabled to indulge in the confident hope of producing a Series which shall combine practical utility with sound theory.

39 PATERNOSTER Row: December 1870.

London: LONGMANS and CO. Paternoster Row.

TEXT-BOOKS OF SCIENCE

ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF

ARTISANS AND STUDENTS IN PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS.

ALGEBRA and TRIGONOMETRY.