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THE authors of this little book were associated with a co-operative laboratory established during the War by a number of Birmingham brass firms, and their conclusions are mainly based on experience gained in that laboratory. They give many useful notes on the equipment and arrangement of works and control laboratories, on the preparation of samples, and on the methods of recording the source of the sample and the results of its examination, whether analytical, mechanical, or physical. Their treatment of the subject of laboratory books and the entering of results is very thorough, and they go so far as to describe a system of costing in units by means of which a monetary value may be attached to each operation. While the scale of the work is too small for it to serve as a manual of laboratory equipment, it will be found particularly useful by those who have to instal a small laboratory in a works, especially in one of the metallurgical industries. The question of the relations between the superintendent and his staff is also dealt with, but the closing chapters, under such headings as “The Mentality of the Scientist,” seem rather out of place in an essentially practical note-book.
A Tested Method of Laboratory Organisation.
S.
Pile
R. G.
Johnston
By. Pp. xx + 98. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
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A Tested Method of Laboratory Organisation. Nature 112, 469 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112469b0
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