Le Froment et sa Mouture

Abstract

AT the time of the regretted death of Prof. Girard in 1898, much valuable scientific work had been accomplished by him, and the results given to the world at large. But as must almost of necessity occur when a busy man is taken away from his labours, there also remained some tasks commenced but not completed. Among these was a projected treatise on flour milling, of which, however, Prof. Girard left but the general plan and the unfinished manuscript of three chapters. These materials were entrusted to M. Lindet, who has completed the work and supplied the book now before us. The author refers to the fact that neither himself nor Prof. Girard was a practical miller, but that the book is the production of two men of science. An examination of its pages shows it to possess those merits which might be expected from the previous training of the writers, and also, it must be added, the defects which spring from the same cause.

Le Froment et sa Mouture.

Par Girard Lindet. Pp. vii + 355. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1903.) Price 12 francs.