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TEACHERS of chemistry will be glad to welcome the third edition of Prof. Church's “Guide,”to which much new matter has been added. Being specially adapted for students of agricultural chemistry, the book is necessarily somewhat limited in its scope, but the amount of information conveyed within the small compass of 215 pages is very great, and is moreover lucid and accurate. The book is divided into three portions, the first treating of a chemical manipulation, the second of qualitative analysis, and the third of quantitative analysis. The author's preliminary remarks upon manipulation are excellent, and should be graven upon the mind of every chemical student. In the “Introduction “we are told that the student “must never forget that the experiment is the means, not the end. ⃜ Merely to make a coloured precipitate or a flash of bright flame is not the end of experimenting.”
The Laboratory Guide, a Manual of Practical Chemistry for Colleges and Schools, specially arranged for Agricultural Students.
By Arthur Herbert Church (London: Van Voorst, 1874).
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The Laboratory Guide, a Manual of Practical Chemistry for Colleges and Schools, specially arranged for Agricultural Students . Nature 9, 420 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009420a0
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