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(1) PROF. FOSTER'S volume was printed in an experimental form two years ago and used by nearly 1000 students before being finally revised for publication. It is a very crowded volume, but at the end of each chapter there are references to the sources of the material, which the student is recommended to read for fuller information. It is no small compliment to English authors that the books cited for this purpose are in the great majority of cases the standard works used in Great Britain. This statement applies, not only to the larger text-books, such as those of Roscoe and Schorlemmer, of Mellor and of Friend, the first of which must have provided the materials for scores of smaller works, but still more frequently to the recent single-volume text-books of Lowry and of Partington, which are repeatedly cited in this way.
(1) Introduction to General Chemistry.
By Prof. William Foster. Pp. vii + 643 + 29 plates. (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 17s. 6d. net.
(2) A Laboratory Manual in General Chemistry.
By Prof. William Foster. Pp. ix + 205. (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 10s. net.
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(1) Introduction to General Chemistry (2) A Laboratory Manual in General Chemistry. Nature 115, 187 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115187a0
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