Introdttction to the Study of Organic Chemistry. The Chemistry of Carbon and its Compounds

Abstract

To write a good introduction to any subject is sufficiently difficult, but if the subject be developing very rapidly and undergoing very marked changes, as is the case with organic chemistry, obviously the difficulty of presenting such a subject to a student in a satisfactory manner is vastly increased. Dr. Armstrong has devoted himself heart and soul to his work: the requisite knowledge he evidently possesses, and he has shown good judgment in selecting from much new matter what to bring forward and what to withhold. Neither in arrangement nor in substance has he made direct use of previous treatises on the subject; he has written his own book on organic chemistry, and it certainly will prove to be a good and useful one.

Introdttction to the Study of Organic Chemistry. The Chemistry of Carbon and its Compounds.

By Henry E. Armstrong (London: Longmans and Co., 1874.)