ADVERTISEMENTS. Surveyors' Institution Examinations. COMPLETE COURSES OF PREPARATION FOR THESE EXAMINATIONS ARE GIVEN BY MR. RICHARD PARRY, F.S.I., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E. (Lecturer on Surveying at the Reading College, &c.). The following particulars show the years in which FIRST PLACE has been assigned to Candidates prepared by Mr. RICHARD PARRY at the six professional examinations that were held immediately preceding the publication of this book :— Professional Associateship Examination (for Students) Professional Associateship Examination (for Non-Students) Fellowship Examination (Div. IV.) 1899 and 1900. Direct Fellowship Examination (Div. V.) 1896 and 1900. Special Sanitary Science Examination 1900. Mr. PARRY'S Courses of Preparation were commenced in the year 1890, and the number of successful Candidates prepared by him has increased to such an extent that at each of the three latter Examinations named above, considerably more than half of the total number of successful Candidates were his pupils. Of the thirty-seven prizes awarded in the various divisions of the Professional Examinations during the above-named six years twenty-one were obtained by Mr. PARRY'S pupils. Mr. PARRY also prepares Candidates for the examinations held by the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers. Any possible advice with respect to the Examinations or further information as to the Courses of Preparation will be given on application to RICHARD PARRY, 82, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. Telephone No. 680 Westminster, ADVERTISEMENTS. Books sent from the Office, POST FREE, on receipt of remittance. LAND SURVEYING AND LEVELLING. By ARTHUR T. WALMISLEY, M.I.C.E., F.S.I., F.K.C.Lond., Hon. Assoc. R. I.B.A. With 140 Illustrations. 7/6 A useful book for a student, containing not only the usual instruction given in a Text-book on this subject, but valuable additions from the author's own experience, and an exhaustive chapter upon Parliamentary surveying. FIELD WORK AND INSTRUMENTS. By ARTHUR T. WALMISLEY, M.I.C.E., F.S.I., F.K.C. Lond., Hon.Assoc. R.I.B.A. With 224 Illustrations. 6/ In this treatise the author has endeavoured to give the Student a practical knowledge of the construction and handling of surveying instruments, and to deal with their application in the field for setting out work. The various diagrams which illustrate the subject are made as self-explanatory as possible. 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PHILLIPS FLETCHER, A.R.I.B.A., A.M.I.C.E. A reliable Handbook for the Student pure and simple, its scope being limited to the method of procedure in the production of a good Bill of Quantities, leaving out those questions of law and other matters that do not come within the province of those for whom the work is designed. The examples given, whilst intentionally simple, to avoid confusing the Student by a mass of detail, will be found to cover almost every phase of the subject. CARPENTRY AND JOINERY; A Text-book for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors, and Craftsmen. 5/ With 424 Illustrations. A concise and complete Text-book, treating the subject of Sanitary Science in all its branches (so far as it affects Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Medical Officers of Health, Sanitary Inspectors, Plumbers, and Students generally), from the foundation of a building to its finishing and furnishing, and the application of modern methods of ventilation, lighting, and heating. It is intended to be of use to those entering for any examination in Sanitary Science. 2nd EDITION. by the Authors. 5/ The authors have endeavoured to meet the requirements of the craftsman, and at the same time to produce a work that will be useful to the Professional man in the designing of the various structures. They have also endeavoured to consider the desires of those who are likely to become candidates for the examination of the City and Guilds' Institute, the Carpenters' Company, and the Institute of Certified Carpenters, &c. Also for the examination in these subjects by the R.I.B.A. and the Surveyors' Institution, &c. LONDON : DOUGLAS FOURDRINIER, "BUILDER" Office, Catherine Street, W.C. ADVERTISEMENTS. Manufacturers of BLINDS for FIRE PROTECTION. Vide British Fire Protection Committee's Report of Test, May 23, 1900. G. A. WILLIAMS & SON, 21, QUEEN'S ROAD, BAYSWATER, LONDON, W. SURVEYING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS. By G. A. T. MIDDLETON, A.R.I.B.A., M.S.A. 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