Domestic cyclopaedia of practical information

Principally written or revised by the following authorities: George E. Waring, jr. consulting sanitary engineer: drainage, the garden, the dairy. Calvert Vax, architect of the Central Park, and Thomas Wisedell, architect: Locating, building , and repairing. Lewis Leeds, sanitary engineer: warming and ventilation. George Fletcher Barb, architect : decoration as applied to walls, floors, and furniture. Elwyn Waller, Ph.D., Superintendent of laboratory in the Columbia College School of Mines, chemist to the New York Board of Health: domestic chemistry-disinfecting, cleaning, dyeing, etc. S. G. Perry, D.D.S.: The teeth. Austin Flint, jr., M.D., Professor in Bellevue Medical College: dietetics and alcoholic beverages. Abraham Jacobi, M.D., Professor in the College of physicians and surgeons: diseases and hygiene of children. William T. Lusk, M.D, Professor in Bellevue Medical College, late editor of the New York Medical Journal: general medicine. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Miller, author of “In the kitchen,” and Guiseppe Rudmani, late cook in the cooking school, St. Mark’s Place, New York, and chef de cuisine, Newport: cooking and domestic management. Leslie Pell-Clark, veterinary surgeon of Ogden Farm: the horse. Johnson T. Platt, Professor in the Yale Law School: business forms and legal rules. Edited by Todd S. Goodholme