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28 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [February.
HARTFORD, FEBRUARY 15, 1901.
J. M. Aij.f.x. A.M., M.E., Editor. A. D. Risteen, Associate Editor
The Locomotive can be obtained free by calling at any of tlie company's agencies.
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Bound volumes one dollar each, i
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We have received a copy of the official Report of the fifth annual convention of
the International Association of Municipal Electricians, held at Pittsburg. Pa., in
September, 1900. It is very creditably gotten up.
Commissioner Edmund Mather has favored us with a copy of the thirteenth annual
Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Water and Lighting Department of the
city of Harrisburg, Pa., for the year 1900. The Report is attractively gotten up, and is
illustrate bv several excellent half-tone engravings.
The General Electric Company, of Schenectady. X. Y. . has
issued a neat and
attractive pamphlet entitled The Aging of Transformer Iron, which contains a series of
hi "hi v interesting papers on the magnetic properties of iron. This pamphlet will prove a
welcome addition to the library of every student of the principles of electrical
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The January issue of The Engineering Magazine, which is described as the " Works
Management Number", may be fairly said to be one of the most remarkable issues of a
technical magazine that have yet appeared. It contains something over three hund-
red pages of reading matter, and nearly as many more of classified advertisements. It
should be in the possession of everybody who is interested in the larger problems of
engineering.
We desire to acknowledge a copy of The Copper Handbook, compiled and published
by Mr. Horace J. Stevens, of Houghton, Mich. This volume gives an enormous
amount of information about copper mines and copper mining, and will be of great
value as a work of reference. The compilation of such a work represents a vast
amount of labor, and we trust that The Copper Handbook will meet with the favorable
reception to which it is abundantly entitled.
We have received a copy of the 'Transactions of the Engineering Society of Colum-
bia University, for the year 1899-1900. The present issue is fully up to the high stand-
ard of the previous one, and the papers that it contains are of much interest. Prof.
Francis B. Crocker's paper entitled "Electrical Notes on Japan" affords a good illustra-