mmercial products not apparently associated with glue. Exhaustive
chapters on the processes and methods of glue testing, and on its
commercial aspects, complete this useful and most carefully
prepared volume."--_Carriage Builders' Journal._

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=TECHNOLOGY OF PETROLEUM=: Oil Fields of the World--Their History,
Geography and Geology--Annual Production and Development--Oil-well
Drilling--Transport. By HENRY NEUBERGER and HENRY NOALHAT. Translated
from the French by J. G. MCINTOSH. 550 pp. 153 Illustrations. 26 Plates.
Royal 8vo. 1901. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries,
23s. 6d.; strictly net.

=Contents.=

Part I., =Study of the Petroliferous Strata=--Chapters I.,
Petroleum--Definition.--II., The Genesis or Origin of Petroleum.--III.,
The Oil Fields of Galicia, their History.--IV.. Physical Geography and
Geology of the Galician Oil Fields.--V.. Practical Notes on Galician
Land Law--Economic Hints on Working, etc.--VI., Roumania--History,
Geography, Geology. --VII., Petroleum in Russia--History.--VIII.,
Russian Petroleum (_continued_)--Geography and Geology of the Caucasian
Oil Fields.--IX.. Russian Petroleum (_continued_).--X., The Secondary
Oil Fields of Europe. Northern Germany, Alsace, Italy, etc.--XI.,
Petroleum in France.--XII., Petroleum in Asia--Transcaspian and
Turkestan Territory--Turkestan--Persia--British India and
Burmah--British Burmah or Lower Burmah--China--Chinese Thibet--Japan,
Formosa and Saghalien.--XIII., Petroleum in Oceania--Sumatra. Java,
Borneo--Isle of Timor--Philippine Isles--New Zealand.--XIV., The United
States of America--History. --XV., Physical Geology and Geography of the
United States Oil Fields.--XVI., Canadian and other North American Oil
Fields.--XVII., Economic Data of Work in North America. --XVIII.,
Petroleum in the West Indies and South America.--XIX., Petroleum in the
French Colonies.

Part II., =Excavations.=--Chapter XX., Hand Excavation or Hand Digging
of Oil Wells. Part III., =Methods of Boring.=--Chapters XXI., Methods of
Oil-well Drilling or Boring.--XXII., Boring Oil Wells with the
Rope.--XXIII., Drilling with Rigid Rods and a Free-fall--Fabian
System.--XXIV., Free-fall Drilling by Steam Power.--XXV., Oil-well
Drilling by the Canadian System.--XXVI., Drilling Oil Wells on the
Combined System.--XXVII., Comparison between the Combined Fauck System
and the Canadian.--XXVIII., The American System of