Abstract
ALTHOUGH published in 1890, it is right to say that this compilation only brings our knowledge down to the beginning of the year 1885. It is intended to have a supplement ready soon, and to bring the work up to date.In the meantime we can speak highly of the evident care and labour bestowed on this volume by the compiler. The arrangement is based on that of Mr. Daydon Jackson's “Vegetable Technology.” There is a catalogue of authors, a list of anonymous publications, a list of periodicals, a list of Parliamentary publications, and a chronological table. The first part of the latter is taken from Dr. Falconer's “Sketch of Sugar in Early Times” (1796).The comprehensive subject-index forms a very valuable part of the work. It is arranged in sections as follows:— Bibliography and History, Statistics and General Economy,Illustrations, Geographical Distribution, Chemistry, Origin of Vegetable Sugars (the various plants yielding sugars), Beet Sugar, Cane Sugar, Parasites, and Distillation. It will be easily seen that this guide to the literature of sugar covers practically the whole field in regard to vegetable sugars. It is a work that will prove of much interest to numerous readers having to do with the cultivation and manufacture of sugar, whether derived from the sugar-cane, beet, sorghum, palm, maple, or maize. We only hope the compiler will be encouraged to bring out the promised supplement. During the last five years considerable activity has been displayed in the United States in regard to the production of sugar from sorghum; and there is, besides, the very important fact that the sugar-cane has recently been shown to produce mature seed, and possibly capable of improvement by seminal selection. The literature in regard to this point alone is well worthy of being carefully traced.
A Guide to the Literature of Sugar: a Book of Reference for Chemists, Botanists, Librarians, Manufacturers, and Planters, with a Comprehensive Subject-Index.
By H. Ling Roth. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., Limited, 1890.)
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M., D. Our Book Shelf. Nature 42, 636 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042636a0
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