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MINING engineers are nowadays called upon for knowledge and powers in so many directions that to anticipate moderate success and escape serious blame, they must exhibit qualities for which Gilbert and Sullivan's heavy dragoon could not hope. To be ready to act at short notice as an explorer, a geologist, a civil and mechanical engineer, a chemist, a metallurgist, a doctor, and a lawyer, a man needs some little book in his pocket which he can consult as each new problem comes into view. Such a book Mr. Danvers Power set himself to construct many, years ago, and the third edition, now issued, is not less successful than its forerunners. There is no trace of the amateur about the little volume. It is the work of a professional man who has set down the things he wanted to know himself. Like all pocket encyclopaedias, it does not contain everything that could be wished for. There might have been included something about furnaces, refractory substances, and melting points, a few tips on mine-surveying problems, a little more about the strength of materials, and perhaps some information on first aid. But although there may be a few omissions, so much is included that the book deserves a trial by every prudent miner or metallurgist.
A Pocket-Book for Miners and Metallurgists:
Comprising Rules, Formul, Tables and Notes for use in Field and Office Work. Compiled by F. D. Power. Third edition, corrected. Pp. xiv + 371. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1914.). Price 6s. net.
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A Pocket-Book for Miners and Metallurgists: . Nature 92, 684 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092684b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/092684b0