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THE article of greatest scientific interest in this volume is, of course, that on Chemistry. We can conceive of few literary tasks more trying to a duly qualified and conscientious writer than to attempt to give a comprehensive and well-balanced account of the rise, progress, and present position of a science like chemistry within an encyclopaedia article of such compass as even the most compliant of editors would tolerate. And we must confess at the outset that it was with some feeling of sympathy for its authors, engendered by this reflection, that we commenced the examination of their essay—a feeling, however, which quickly altered its complexion as the consciousness grew upon us that in everything which is essential it may fairly compare with any one of its predecessors. And than this, no higher praise, we think, is possible.
Encyclopædia Britannica.
Ninth Edition. Vol. V.(Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1876.)
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T., T. Encyclopædia Britannica . Nature 15, 269–271 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015269a0
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