Chimie végétale et agricole

Abstract

THE ancient Château de Meudon, Seine-et-Oise, which was left in ruins at the end of the war of 1870, was thirteen years later converted into an agricultural experiment station by the French Government, and permanently attached to the Professorship of Organic Chemistry in the Collège de France. In the four bulky volumes now before us, the professor, M. Berthelot, has brought together an account of the various investigations carried out at the station between 1883 and 1899, under his direction, with the assistance in many cases of M. G. André. Besides these reports, the volumes contain an account of several earlier investigations by M. Berthelot. We have in fact brought before us the whole of his investigations on plants, soils and various cognate matters, carried out during the last forty years.

Chimie végétale et agricole.

Par M. Berthelot. Four volumes. Pp. xvi + 511, vi + 441, vi + 517, vi + 528. (Paris: Masson, 1899.)