Abstract
THIS little book is issued by the Clarendon Press as a companion volume to Maskelyne's “Morphology of Crystals,” which was recently reviewed in these columns. It is far from being a mere translation of Fock's “Einlei-tung in die chemische Krystallographie,” which was published in 1888. That book contained a useful summary of the leading facts known about the origin and growth of crystals, and the general relations between their chemical composition and other properties, especially as regards isomorphism and the properties of mixed crystals. All this is contained in the present volume, which is, moreover, less sketchy than the earlier book, and the somewhat numerous inaccuracies which disfigured the German edition have been corrected. But it is in the additional matter that the chief alteration is to be found. About fifty pages have been introduced, containing a survey of those important contributions to our knowledge of crystals which have recently been made from the side of physical chemistry; the remarkable theoretical researches of Van t'Hoff and Willard Gibbs, and the quite recent experimental investigations of Bakhuis Roozeboom, to which they gave rise, are here very happily summarised and brought within the reach of the English elementary student.
An Introduction to Chemical Crystallography.
Andreas Fock, translated and edited by William J. Pope, with a preface by N. Story-Maskelyne, M.A., F.R.S. Pp. 189 and xvi. 8vo. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895.)
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An Introduction to Chemical Crystallography. Nature 52, 315 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052315a0
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