Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry

Abstract

THE appearance of the second volume of the new edition of “Watts' Dictionary” will be welcomed, not only by chemists of every persuasion, but by all who love and work at science. This volume, reaching from “Chloral” to “Indigo,” not only gives descriptions of all important chemical elements and compounds contained between these two heads, but contains short articles on matters of general chemical interest, both of theory and of practice. The editors desire to give their work a truly international character, and we find valuable contributions, not only from eminent English specialists, but from equally competent authorities in Washington, Baltimore, and Sydney; whilst the presence of articles from the pen of a lady—Miss Ida Freund, of Newnham—indicates that scientific research and exposition are no longer to be confined to the hands and heads of the so-called stronger sex.

Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry.

Revised and entirely rewritten, by M. M. Pattison Muir., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, and H. Foster Morley, Professor of Chemistry at Queen's College, London. Vol. II. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889.)