The Experimental Study of Gases

Abstract

IN 1857, Robert Bunsen published the first edition of his classical work “Gasometrische Methoden,” and twenty years later a rewritten and enlarged edition of the same, which still ranks as a standard text-book on the subject. We think it is not too much to say that since that date no more important work has been published on the properties of gases in general than the one now before us. The progress made in our knowledge of the subject has probably been at least as rapid as in any other department of chemistry, and the discovery within the last half-dozen years of five new elementary gases, in the investigation of the properties of which Dr. Travers has taken a prominent part, would alone afford justification for this volume, did it contain nothing else of merit.

The Experimental Study of Gases.

By Morris W. Travers With preface by Prof. W. Ramsay, D.Sc., F.R.S. Pp. xii + 323. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1901.) Price 10s. net.