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IN this work, which was written for agricultural students, Dr. Möser has made it his aim to supplement the educational deficiencies under which his German pupils labour; and as the time which they can devote to purely chemical study is (he informs us) unduly limited, he brings into prominence in this manual only the more general and important facts, while the minor details, which are described in a smaller type, are kept somewhat in the background. The inorganic part is comprised in 183 pages, inclusive of an appendix, in which we are pleased to notice special sections devoted to the formation of saltpetre and the soil. The organic part contains 202 pages, and is consequently cut very short; but certain parts of it and its appendix are occupied very fully with physiological chemistry, and seem to have been ably executed,—perhaps more con amore than the rest of the Lehrbuch. Dr. Möser offers an apology for adopting the old notation; but we think his views on this subject are likely to alter with a new edition.
Lehrbuch der Chemie für Land und Forstwirthe.
Von S. J. Möser. Large 8vo., pp. x. and 355. (Vienna: Braumüller, 1870.)
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Lehrbuch der Chemie für Land und Forstwirthe. Nature 2, 65 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002065b0
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