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AFTER a few preliminary matters, including some good rules for students in the laboratory, each two pages of this book has in large type consecutive directions for performing an experiment or exercise. The rest of the two pages is left blank for written notes. One hundred exercises are given, and they are of a quite elementary character. It is a pity that contractions are so frequently used, especially when there is a large amount of vacant space and.so small an amount of matter. “Ap.: p.t, 4 rec., t.t., d.t., r.s.” indicates to the student the apparatus he needs for the purpose of preparing hydrogen. It would have been better to adopt a recognized system of shorthand throughout, for that would have rendered the book more useful to some and quite useless to others, instead of troublesome to all.
Laboratory Manual of General Chemistry.
By R. P. Williams (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1888.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 39, 126 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039126c0
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