An Introduction to Scientific Chemistry; designed for the use of schools, and Candidates for University Matriculation Examinations

Abstract

THE rapid progress of experimental discovery is in itself an obstacle to the elementary teaching of any scientific subject. Nowhere has the truth of this observation been more frequently attested than in chemistry, a science which, during the present century, has had a more brilliant, or at least a more active, career than any of its old companions. We cannot, therefore, be surprised that the superior attractions of research have so far had a depreciating influence on the dogmatic department of this study, that many chemical manuals are meagre, partial, or unsystematic. It is true that a large number of such books has appeared during the last few years, under the powerful stimulus of an increasing demand for chemical education; but their general character is such as we have assigned, and the composition of a treatise for the use of school-boys seems to have been in many cases shelved, as either too humble or too great a task for an author.

An Introduction to Scientific Chemistry; designed for the use of schools, and Candidates for University Matriculation Examinations.

By F. S. Barff. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. pp. xv. and 315, with woodcuts, price 4s. (London: Groombridge.)