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DURING the past four years, Mr. Johnson has had in everyday use in the laboratory a manuscript book of factors and tables. The work grew by constant additions, made as required; and in the end, as he explains in the preface, it became complete enough to encourage him in the belief that it might prove useful to analysts generally. Accordingly he has issued the present little volume, and no doubt he is right in thinking that the large amount of labour involved in the calculation of the many original tables here published may be found to save much of the time otherwise required by the analyst in working out the results of analysis. For the convenience of students not well acquainted with logarithms, of which he has made free use, he has given an account of them, adding examples fully worked out and chosen so as to include and explain the difficulties generally felt in connection with this subject.
The Analyst's Laboratory Companion.
By Alfred E. Johnson. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1888.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 38, 564 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038564b0
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