Excerpt from Catalogue of the Books Added to the Library in Marischal College, 1874-1896 The catalogue does not contain the titles of works of a periodical class (magazines, Reports. Transactions, Year-books, etc), which are still being added to the Library, but whose titles were entered in No. 14. A complete list of all such will be found in No. 27. In future years lists of additions to the Libraries at King's College and Marischal College will be inserted in the Uni versity Calendar and a Subject Catalogue, based upon Dewey's Decimal System, is being gradually prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.