Commercial Organic Analysis

Abstract

THIS work has been so much enlarged and so thoroughly revised that it has become almost a new book, and certainly its value has been greatly enhanced to all analysts and others interested in the special points discussed. These copious additions have rendered it necessary to divide the present edition into three volumes, the first of which appeared some little while ago, whilst the third (on Aromatic Acids, Tannins, Colouring Matters, Cyanogen Compounds, Organic Bases, Albumenoids, &c.), is now in course of preparation, and is promised shortly. Of the sections treated in the present volume it may be said generally that the author has collected together and systematically digested almost all the available information extant scattered about in text-books and numerous papers read before scientific Societies, and that he has largely contributed personally to the mass of information by means of experimental and observational work carried out in his own laboratory at the cost of much time and labour. Moreover, he has sought and obtained the aid of several well-known chemists possessing special knowledge and skill in certain kinds of work, by whose assistance many of the more important articles have acquired an almost exhaustive character. As a result, the treatise has become a most valuable hand-book and book of reference with respect to the class of matter coming within its scope; and it may now be fairly said to be an essential item in the list of works requisite in the library of an analytical chemist.

Commercial Organic Analysis.

By Alfred H. Allen. F.I.C., F.C.S., &c. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Vol. II. Fixed Oils and Fats, Hydrocarbons, Phenols, &c. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1886.)