The Journal of Science (Volume 19) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Excerpt: ... mineral localities are shown by special markings. Archaeology has also not been neglected; the sites of old Pictish towers, of castles now destroyed, the localities of battles, &c, are given. The map is pasted on stout cloth, and folds up in a cover of convenient size. It will be an excellent companion for the scientific traveller in the North of Scotland. The Manual of Colours and Dye-Wares; their Properties, Applications, Valuation, Impurities, and Sophistications. For the Use of Dyers, Printers, Drysalters, Brokers, &c Second Edition, revised and greatly enlarged. By J. W. Slater. London: Crosby Lockwood, and Co. The drugs and chemicals now employed in the tinctorial arts have become almost as numerous as those used by medical practitioners. Hence, just as the latter require special treatises on pharmacography and materia medica, so the dyer, the colourmixer, &c, need the work before us. On the appearance of the first edition, indeed, a pharmaceutical contemporary designated it as a work on "Materia tinctoria." These two words mark out very clearly the position and the scope of the present book. It is no general manual of dyeing or tissue printing. It does not give instructions for the production of this, that, or the other colour upon any given class of materials. Nor, on the other hand, does it explain the manufacture of alizarine or eosine, of red liquor or tin-crystals. It takes up in alphabetical order the several colours, mordants, and other requisites; describes their sources, properties, and uses, the appearance which they should present, the impurities--accidental or intentional--which they may contain, and the simplest means by which such imperfections may be detected. There are also instructions for ascertaining the colours with which any given sample of yarn or cloth ...