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WE are glad at last to welcome a really scientific work on Practical Chemistry. Professor Harcourt and Mr. Madan have earned the warm thanks of all interested in the teaching of the science by the publication of their volume. Almost all former works on practical chemistry have been contented either to act the part of illustrated catalogues of chemical apparatus, or else they consist of cut and dried receipts for following out a system of qualitative analysis by reference to a complicated series of paragraphs, ingeniously arranged to bewilder the unfortunate student as much as possible, or they place in his hands tabular statements of reactions which have to be worked through almost always without rhyme or reason.
Exercises in Practical Chemistry.
By A. G. Vernon-Harcourt H. G. Madan, Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. Crown 8vo., pp. 350, 66 woodcuts; 7s. 6d. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869.)
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ROSCOE, H. Exercises in Practical Chemistry . Nature 1, 50–51 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001050a0
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