SEW BOOKS =~LEXASDER F I S D L A ~ 2nd . edition. 318 pp. Se\v l-orli: The .\lacmillan Company, 1948. Price: $4.50. That a second edition of this interesting and readable book has been called for is a r i d aome sign t h a t , in spite of the tremendous developments in many branches of chemistry in w e n t years, our chemists are not going to neglect the study of the history of chemistry luring the nineteenth century. The author does indeed discuss some of the more recent tchievenients, but his chief contributions have to do with the scientific progress of earlier .ears. Many readers v d l welcome the appendix in TThich the author gives, in twent!. pages, iiographical information about the most important chemists referred to in the main t e s t . F. H . M.ICDOL-CILL.
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