SCIENCE. 



The Elements of Inorganic Chemistry : 



Descriptive and Qualitative. A Text-Book for Beginners, based on Experi- 

 mental and Inductive Methods. ByJ. H. SHEPARD, Professor of Chemistry, 

 South Dakota Agricultural College, and Chemist to the U. S. Experimental Sta- 

 tion, S.D. 397 pages. Cloth. Price by mail, $1.25. Introduction price, $1.12. 



IT is a practical embodiment of the modern spirit of investi- 

 gation. It places the student in the position of an investigator, 

 and calls into play mental faculties that are too often wholly neg- 

 lected. It leads him to experiment, to observe, to think, to originate. 

 Coming as it does from the working laboratory of a practical in- 

 structor, who has had the constant advice of fellow-teachers in all 

 parts of the country, this text may be fairly taken as an exponent of 

 the latest methods of teaching chemistry. 



Its distinctive features are : experimental and inductive methods ; 

 the union of descriptive and qualitative chemistry, thus allowing 

 these kindred branches to supplement and illustrate each other; a 

 practical course of laboratory work illustrating the general principles 

 and their application ; a fair presentation of chemical theories, and a 

 conciseness which confines the work to the required limits. 



The work closes with full and explicit directions for successfully 

 and economically equipping the laboratory, and preparing the needed 

 re-agents and solutions. 



Our special circular on this book contains a list of over three hun- 

 dred and fifty Colleges and Schools into which it has made its way by 

 merit alone, in a little more than a year's time, and also gives a large 

 number of letters from teachers of the subject showing with what ease, 

 profit, and satisfaction it is used in the class-room. 



C. A. Scheeffer, Prof, of Chemistry, 

 Cornell Univ. : It is excellent. The plan 

 is well conceived, and embodies the method 

 by all means the best. 



C. F. Chandler, Prof, of Chemistry, 

 Columbia Coll.: An excellent book. A 

 great degree of accuracy characterizes the 

 ntire work. 



Otis C. Johnson, Prof, of Applied 

 Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan : 1 like 

 it so well 1 have nothing to criticise. 



Ira Remsen, Prof, of Chemistry, 

 Johns Hopkins Univ. : The book teaches 

 that chemistry can only be learned in the 

 laboratory, and that the book is only a 

 guide to experimental work, a lesson 

 which certainly needs to be taught above 

 all othe/s in chemistry. 



Herbert E. Smith, Prof, of Chem- 

 istry, Yale Coll.: A class working 

 through it would gain an unusually good 

 knowledge of the subject. 



