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IN this volume will be found a most complete and exhaustive compilation of facts and numerical tables of use to the chemist. The first edition was published in 1877 by M. Wurtz, and in subsequent editions the work has been thoroughly brought up to date. It is now published annually as a chemical year-book, the publication of each year containing a few special articles called for by the events of the past twelve months. This year the following are among the special articles contributed: “The Progress of the Industry of Colouring Matters,” “Review of the Exhibition of 1889” as regards matters of chemical interest, and “Views of the International Chemical Congress concerning Nomenclature.” The numerical data included in the book are most full, and ought to be of great service in the reduction of observations. The collection of them represents an immense arnount of labour, and the accompanying descriptions of experimental methods are very clear and concise. A most useful portion of the work is that in which all the known physical constants of the elements and numerous compounds are given. Special care appears to have been taken in collecting the published thermo-chemical data, with the result that the chapter upon this subject is one of the most valuable in the book. The tables for use in quantitative analysis, and especially those referring to commercial methods, will doubtless be fully appreciated for the saving of time and arithmetical labour which their use will effect. It is, moreover, of no mean advantage that all formulæ are given according to the ordinary nomenclature, and not according to the old notation still retained by many French chemists. The volume is small and handy in spite of its five hundred pages, and cannot fail to be of service in the laboratory.
Agenda du Chimiste.
Par MM. Salet Girard Pabst. (Paris: Hachette and Co., 1890.)
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T., A. Our Book Shelf. Nature 42, 340 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042340a0
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