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THE work now before us represents the course of practical chemistry carried out by students entering the Owens College Laboratory. It commences with the preparation of the ordinary gases, which are, if anything, too shortly described; and then proceeds to the subject of blowpipe analysis and the preliminary examination of simple substances, and afterwards to the reactions of metals, &c., and qualitative analysis itself. The book does not deal in any way with theoretical chemistry, but the student is referred to Prof. Roscoe's “Lessons in Elementary Chemistry” for any explanation of this kind. This, of course, necessitates a considerable amount of extra reading, more particularly in the earlier portions of the book. The course of qualitative analysis, and so forth, through which the student has to pass, seems to be very similar to that which is now in use in most of our laboratories.
Junior Course of Practical Chemistry.
By H. E. Roscoe Francis Jones. (London: Macmillan and Co.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 8, 242 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008242a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008242a0