Abstract
IT is a curious and unaccountable fact that whilst for more than fifty years we have been in possession of a biography of Cavendish, whose solitary and uneventful existence was chiefly passed within the four walls of his laboratory, a whole century has elapsed without the appearance of any worthy record of Priestley's life, which was so full of human interest and dramatic incident. Following closely upon the centenary commemoration of Priestley's death, the new volume in the series of English Men of Science comes as a fitting and welcome memorial.
Joseph Priestley.
By T. E. Thorpe English Men of Science. Edited by Dr. J. Reynolds Green. Pp. viii + 228. (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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C., J. Joseph Priestley . Nature 74, 378–379 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074378a0
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