Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds

Abstract

THIS is another elementary science manual “written specially to meet the requirements of the elementary stage of science subjects as laid down in the syllabus of the Directory of the Science and Art Department.” It is hardly a book that we could recommend to followers of departmental organic chemistry, and certainly not one to be adopted by other students of the science. It is most unequal in structure, and very deficient in parts: Chapter iv., on percentage composition and empirical formulæ, consists of less than one and a half pages. As well-known standard works have been “freely employed” in the preparation of the volume, it is difficult to recognise the sections for which the author is responsible and therefore undesirable to impeach the accuracy of some of the information.

Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds.

By R. Lloyd Whiteley Pp. 291. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895).