Joseph Black - The father of chemical education?

are employed in original researches to extend our knowledge of facts and orineioles. Secondlv. lthere are1 those whose business it . . is to collect t...
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Joseph Black-The Father of Chemical Education? A. H. Johnstone Glassow University. Scotland G I 2 800 United Kingdom

Those who devote themselves to the science of chemistry may he divided into two classes. First, [there are] those whose labours are employed in original researches to extend our knowledge of facts and . orineioles. . Secondlv. lthere are1 those whose business it is to collect the knowledre if all that has been discovered or is going iwward, todlgcst and arrange that knowledge into Ierturei, it, contrive nppmprratr illustrative experiments, and to devise suitable apparatus for the purpose of communicating a knowledge of chemistry to the rising generation, or others who may desire to obtain it. From my professional situation I consider myself. as Dr. Black has done before me, as heloneine to the second class of chemists. I consider m y vocation to 6e