Five national engineering societies, the American Society of Civil Engmeers, the

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, the American

Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, have an arrangement with the
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., for the production of a series of selected books
adjudged to possess usefulness for engineers and industry.
The purposes of this arrangement are: to provide monographs of high technical
quality within the field of engineering; to rescue from obscurity important
technical
manuscripts which might not be published commercially because of too limited sale
without special mtroduction; to develop manuscripts to fill gaps in existing
literature;
to collect into one volume scattered information of especial timeliness on a given
subject.
The societies assume no responsibility for any statements made in these books.
Each book before publication has, however, been examined by one or more
representatives
of the societies competent to express an opinion on the merits of the manuscript
Ralph H. Phelps, CHAIRMAN
Engineering Societies Library
New York