OF Companies under Stone & Webster Management NOVEMBER 30, 1917 The Securities Department executes orders on commission for those wishing to purchase or sell. Requests for information in regard to the companies will be answered promptly. Quotations are approximate. All stocks $100 par value unless otherwise specified. *Cumulative. †Ex-Dividend. A. Listed on London Stock Exchange. B. Listed on Boston Stock Exchange. L. Listed on Louisville, Ky., Stock Exchange. N. Common shares have no par value. X. Ex-right 66 'Boston's Special Libraries" by R. L. Power, Librarian, College of Business Administration, Boston University. This interesting compilation describes in 138 pages sixty-six special libraries of Greater Boston. It treats "only of business and of the more unusual types of specialized collections . . . No attempt has been made to include institutional, public or private libraries of general nature." Most of the articles appeared in various publications, principally the Boston University News. They are based on personal visits, mostly by Mr. Power himself and, therefore, the information is well up to date. The arrangement is alphabetical and there is an index referring to the libraries and to various of their subjects. The biography of six pages at the end is decidedly worth while. As a whole, the undertaking is something that should be perpetuated with yearly revision. Suppose, for instance, you want to know where to look in the vicinity of Boston for publications on acoustics; you would find that library No. 48, the New England Conservatory of Music, has works on "musical history, harmony, acoustics, general literature and special literature on the piano, organ and vocal music." A few statements like this of greater or less extent on the sixty-six different libraries makes it an exceedingly useful reference book of "where to look" in this vicinity. From a Stone & Webster standpoint, we note the following in the index, cement, chemical engineering, corporation law, gasoline engineering, lumbering, mathematics, patents, physics, statistics, textiles, and of course many titles that are more strictly under the caption of "engineering." It is a little misleading, where the bare index entry entitled "Arizona" leads us to library No. 45, to find that it has to do only with the cotton fields of Arizona and not with general statistics; but we must not take a microscope to find fault with a publication that is a pioneer of its kind and has a large field of usefulness just as it is. Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., N. Y. "The Wooden Shipbuilding Industry" makes practically a monograph about a hundred pages long of the Canada Lumberman and Wood-Worker for November. It is the librarian's delight thus to have a technical journal give its entire issue to a single subject. We are filing this as a book and in all probability it will be appreciated for reference. LIBRARY OF STONE & WEBSTER 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 Recent Accessions (10) Civil Engineering Reinforced concrete wall footings and column footings... Bulletin Power estimates from stream flow and rainfall data. D. M. Wood. Looking squarely at the water power problem. H. J. Pierce. Seattle, nd. vp, 6x9. *0732. P611 Financial safety in water power development including a description Engineering of power plants. R. H. Fernald and G. A. Orrok. (20) Electrical Engineering The J. E. Aldred lectures on engineering practice, 1916-17. Baltimore. 254p, 6x9, illus. *07.Al24 Central station voltages, Oct. 1, 1916... General Electric Co. 146p, 4x7. *093.G286 Proceedings of the National Electric Light Association, 40th convention, May 9-10, 1917. 5 vols. vp, 6x94, illus. *6921.1917. vols. 1-5 Report of Proceedings of 14th convention of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers... 9/17-29, 1917. 436p, 6x9. *6989. 1917 Municipal electric lighting plants in cities over 30,000 population: (30) Mechanical, (40) Mining Engineering Handbook for heating and ventilating engineers . . . J. D. Hoffman. Mineral resources of the United States, 1915. Part 1: Metals. (48) Gas Engineering ... Condensed report "recovery of toluol from gas works" American Gas chemists handbook. Compiled by Technical Committee 1916. American Gas Institute. New York. 354p, 6x9, illus. *6960.074 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 (50) Railways Street railway employment in the United States. Bulletin... U. S. (74) Financial Charts combining earnings, capitalizations and quotations on Materials of corporation finance. C. W. Gerstenberg. 2d ed. New Cost accounting, theory and practice. J. L. Nicholson. New York, (76) Legal War tax: a complete analysis... Compiled . . . E. D. Moore. San War revenue bill, enacted 10/3/17 ... U. S. Congress. . . 46p, 6x9. Trading with the Enemy Act: with report on the Act submitted to Public utilities reports annotated . . . 1917E. Rochester, c1917. Justice through simplified legal procedure. September issue of Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science devoted to the subject. *03. Am35 (80) Statistics Financial statistics of states, 1916. Bureau of Census. Wash., 1917. Annual review of foreign commerce of the United States, 1913. Census of manufactures, 1914: Ala., Del., Tex., Wis. United States The world's food supply. November, 1917, issue of The Annals of Quest of the long staple cotton. W. I. Bullard. 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