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THE first edition of this work, reviewed in NATURE in 1910 (vol. Ixxxiv, p. 170), was so rapidly exhausted that within two years of its publication a new edition was called for. In preparing this, not only has the old text been carefully revised, but upwards of 100 pages of new matter have been added; the principal sections which have been enlarged are those dealing with the manufacture of coal-tar, of dyes and colouring matters, and the alkaloids; the statistical information, which was so novel and useful a feature of the first edition, has been corrected to 1910, and where possible to 1911. Some interesting information (and criticism), for instance, is given under this heading of the recent operations of the Camera Agrumaria in Sicily in endeavouring to control prices of the raw material of the citric acid industry. There is no doubt, as proved by the rapid exhaustion of the first edition, that such a work meets a long-felt want, and we are glad to note that an English translation by Mr. T. H. Pope is shortly to be issued; a German translation is also being prepared by Prof. Siebert.
Trattato di Chimica Organica Generale e Applicata all' Industria.
By Prof. Ettore Molinari. Second edition. Pp. xxiii + 1087. (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1912.) Price 18 lire.
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D., W. Trattato di Chimica Organica Generale e Applicata all' Industria . Nature 89, 554 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089554a0
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