Chemistry for Organised Schools of Science

Abstract

THE course of experimental work described in this volume is designed for students in Schools of Science of the Department of Science and Art during their first two years of study. It is the outcome of experience, and represents the work which pupils from thirteen to fifteen years of age can do and understand. Following the reformed plan of teaching chemistry, the course begins with simple chemical manipulations, weighing, solutions, distillation, the preparation of common gases, composition of water and air, formation of salts, carbon and its oxides and a few organic compounds. In the second year's course easy quantitative experiments are given, and attention is paid to the laws of chemical combination, symbols, formulæ, &c. The halogens, sulphur and its compounds, the estimation of volume, are among other subjects dealt with. The test-tubing exercises, which once formed the chief part of the work of the student of elementary chemistry, are omitted altogether; and in their place we have a rationally constructed course of work, in which the intimate relation between chemistry and physics is brought out. The pupil who is fortunate enough to receive instruction on these lines will be placed in the receptive intellectual attitude which should be the aim of all scientific education.

Chemistry for Organised Schools of Science.

By S. Parrish With Introduction by Dr. D. Forsyth. Pp. xiv + 262. (London: Macmillan and Co.,. Ltd., 1899.)