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THIS is an interesting booklet designed to help the young student in mastering the intricate system of classification used in the last edition of Beilstein's “Handbuch”. A very comprehensive account of this is given at the beginning of vol. 1 of the “Handbuch”; but the system is naturally so complicated and difficult to understand that properly to assimilate it requires a better knowledge of German than most young students possess. Notwithstanding the excellent compendia that exist, Beilstein is still the best and most used source of information on organic compounds, and it is essential that anyone intending to specialise in organic chemistry should be able to find his way in it easily and rapidly.
A Brief Introduction to the Use of Beilstein's Handbuch der organischen Chemie.
By Prof. Ernest Hamlin Huntress. Pp. viii + 35. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1930.) 5s. net.
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A Brief Introduction to the Use of Beilstein's Handbuch der organischen Chemie . Nature 128, 136 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128136b0
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