Abstract
DR. WARAN'S book deals in a clear and practical way with many things which a research student will find that he requires to know. The abilityto put together and to repair simple glass apparatus is one of the things which he should gradually acquire, and this book will be found a useful guide in this direction. It is very doubtful whether the laboratory worker will find it desirable to make his own stopcocks or Dewar vessels;the time spent on such work would usually be more profitably applied in research, but in places where apparatus is not easily obtained it may bequicker to make it. As a general rule, unless one has become very proficient in glass-working, it is usually cheaperand quicker to leave complicated things to the professional man.
Elements of Glass-blowing.
Dr.
H. P.
Waran
By. Pp. ix + 116. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1923.) 2s. 4d. net.
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Elements of Glass-blowing. Nature 112, 201 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112201c0
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