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BOTH these text-books have this in common, that they have entered into a second edition and that deservedly, for they are extremely useful works which, although primarily meant for university students, are profitable to chemists who have proceeded beyond this stage. There, however, the resemblance ends for, apart from the fact that one deals with quantitative inorganic and the other with qualitative organic analysis, they differ markedly in the manner of treatment of their respective subjects. The former is a comprehensive text-book dealing very thoroughly with the theory and quite adequately with the practice of inorganic analysis, while the latter is severely practical and is meant almost entirely for laboratory use. Perhaps both books could gain something one from the other; the American work would benefit if a few more practical examples were included, particularly in electro-analysis, in amperometric titrations and in nephelo-metry; Mr. Middleton's book would undoubtedly gain if, here and there, some theory were introduced.
Textbook of Quantitative Inorganic Analysis
By Prof. I. M. Kolthoff Prof. E. B. Sandell. Revised edition. Pp. xvii + 794. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943.) 21s. net.
Systematic Qualitative Organic Analysis
By H. Middleton. Second edition. Pp. viii + 280. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1943.) 8s. 6d. net.
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D., G. Textbook of Quantitative Inorganic Analysis Systematic Qualitative Organic Analysis. Nature 153, 730 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153730b0
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