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WE are glad that Prof. Findlay's enlightening account of the facts and ideas of chemical science of to-day has reached a public large enough to require a second edition within about a year of its original publication. The work was described in our issue of August 31, 1916, as “a distinct and valuable addition to the popular literature of science”; and the encomium then passed upon it has been fully justified. A new chapter has been added on “Fermentation and Enzyme Action,” but otherwise the volume remains unchanged. Not many works on chemistry can he followed with interest by lay readers, but this is one of the first rank, and it should long continue to perform the useful service of stimulating attention to chemical science for its own sake as well as for the value of its achievements to man.
Chemistry in the Service of Man.
By Prof. Alex Findlay. Second edition. Pp. xvi + 272. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917.) Price 6s. net.
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Chemistry in the Service of Man . Nature 99, 463 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099463b0
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