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THERE are two ways in which an author may arrange the subject matter of a book such as that under notice—biological and chemical. Mr. Finnemore adopts the former method and is thereby committed to a plan which precludes any general discussion of the constitution, reactions, and relationships of the commoner constituents of essential oils, but permits of some account being given of the chemistry of the rarer substances such as diosphenol and ascaridole, each found in only one kind of essential oil. This is not a serious disadvantage, since every chemist probably has on his bookshelves, in these days, at least one textbook giving a good account of terpene chemistry.
The Essential Oils.
By Horace Finnemore. Pp. xv + 880 + 11 plates. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1926.) 70s. net.
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H., T. The Essential Oils . Nature 119, 920 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119920a0
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