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THERE are several novel features about this laboratory manual. Two illustrations form the frontispiece, of which one depicts an alchemist at work, the other a research laboratory at the Mellon Institute, Pittsburg. Instructions to the student are freely illustrated, not only by line-drawings or pictures of apparatus, but also by sketches of industrial plant. The latter are most effective, helping as they do to correlate laboratory experiments with actual practice. The course of work is that adopted at the University of Pittsburg, and an essential part of the scheme consists in writing out a report on each experiment in the form of answers to questions upon perforated sheets, which can be detached when completed and handed to the demonstrator. Afterwards they can be gummed into place again, so that the student may eventually possess a well-illustrated and bound record of his work. Directions are given for the preparation and investigation of a number of fairly simple organic substances, but in the section on carbohydrates, prominence is given to the investigation of cellulose and to the preparation of viscose. Two pages are devoted to the application of dyestuffs, and a few of the more important reactions of heterocyclic compounds and of alkaloids are appended.
A Laboratory Book of Elementary Organic Chemistry.
Prof.
A.
Lowy
W. E.
Baldwin
By. Pp. ix + 182. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1926.) 15s. net.
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A Laboratory Book of Elementary Organic Chemistry . Nature 119, 777 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119777c0
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