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DURING the last two decades chemistry has made, possibly, its greatest strides, and has unquestionably drawn to itself a greater following of students in this country than in any previous period. One result of that has been a multiplication of text-books such as perhaps no other science can show. This is only as it should be in the case of a living and progressing science like chemistry. But if one musters the style of text-book produced during this period it becomes painfully doubtful whether they as a whole have kept abreast of the mental capacity which should have been, and undoubtedly has, developed during this period.
Principles of Chemistry.
By M. M. Pattison Muir, (Cambridge University Press, 1884.)
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Principles of Chemistry . Nature 31, 502 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031502a0
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