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THE handsome volume before us is the largest general text-book of metallography that has yet appeared in English, and the preface states that the authors have in preparation a still larger treatise, which is evidently intended to deal with the subject very fully. Their presentation is essentially French, and is worthy of the school founded by Osmond and Le Chatelier. In any historical account of the origins of metallography the name of Sorby is necessarily mentioned, but neither the authors nor Prof. Carpenter, who writes an introduction, quite do justice to his remarkable work. Sorby not only devised the method of o preparing and examining micro-sections of metals, but he also described correctly and identified the principal constituents of several varieties of iron and steel, and recorded their structures in photographs which leave NO. 2782, VOL. Ill]
An Introduction to the Study of Metallography and Macrography.
By Dr. L. Guillet A. Portevin. Translated by L. Taverner. With an Introduction by Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter. Pp. xvi + 289 + Plates cxvii. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1922.) 30s. net.
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D., C. An Introduction to the Study of Metallography and Macrography . Nature 111, 249 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111249a0
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