Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry

Abstract

THE third volume of Thorpe's “Dictionary” opens with a short sermon by Dr. Johnson intended especially for adverse critics. To one who has not, perhaps, been too complimentary in the past, it is indeed gratifying to find that a few chance words have deserved so much attention, for the reviewer of an encyclopædic work such as the present, not being omniscient and having no collaborators, must needs confine himself to general aspects, although, on occasion, he may be permitted to indicate an error. He can but put forward what he believes to be the views of a section of readers and make suggestions which he considers will improve the later volumes.

Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry

Vol. 3. Chemical Calculations—Diffusion. By Prof. J. F. Thorpe and Dr. M. A. Whiteley. Fourth edition. Pp. xxiv + 608. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.) 63s. net.