TORBERN BERGMAN: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WORKS
Biqitta Most&, Almqvist & WikseU, Stockholm. 120 pp. 1 2 X 18.5 cm. 24 Swedish crowns.
THIS carefully compiled bibliography forms part of a series of Hergmsn poblietltions sponsored by the Swedish Nstional Association of Soft Drinks M:~nufaeturers. I t is conveniently arranged in ahronological order and is well indexed both sceording to subjeot,~:natural history, physirs and meteorology, chemintry and mineralogy, history of chemistry and mctcoldom, commemoration speeches, autobiography, reviews, and t,ranslations, and a h under the lsnguage headings. American historians of chemistry will he plcasod to know that x surprisingly largc number of Bcrgman's works are available in Engliah translation. The author's introduction, the postscript by Bertel Linder, and the subject headings of the index are all in English. The follou~ingsubjects taken from the section on chemistry and mineralogy may give some idea of Bergmm's versatility: acid of air, acid of sugar; preparation of alum; the art of assaying in tho wet way; elective attractions; the blowpipe; brick burning; urinary calculi; fulminating celx of gold; the u~efulnessof chemistry; arsenic, cobalt, nickel, platinum, msnganese, tungsten; the Corm ofe~~ystals; ashrs-
tine earth, t,he earth of gems, dieeous eart,h; a natural 8ystem of fossils (minerals); spring water, sea, water, wst,er analysis; hasalts; zinc ores; history of chemistry during the middle ages, and the origin of chemistry. Ono of the items listed is a letter from Joseph Priestley, dated Octoher 21, 1772, an excerpt of which Bergman translstcd from Latin and published in a, Swedish journal. I n this l~tteP r ~ k s t l c ygave a t Bergmsn's request a brief acrount of Rome of his most important observations. The fronbispiecp of the hibliopaphy is an excellent reproduction of a Wedgnood portrait medallion of Bergrnsn. The entire volume is a worthy trihute to the memory of this great Swedish sricntist who played such s large part in the- eighteenth-century historv of chemistry in genrral and in particular in the history of several rhemical elements, such as cobalt, nickel, manganese, molybdenum, and tungsten, that were discovered during his lifet,ime. M A R Y ELVIRA W E E K S D~rno7.r.M m r i o ~ x
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING REPORTS Kenneth A. Kobe, Professor of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Fourth edition. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York and London, 1957. viii 175 pp. 22 X 28.5 om. $3.
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