EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



PEOFESSOE MULDEE'S work on the Chemistry of 

 Wine has been translated from the German edition. 

 Dr. Oudemans has, at the Author's request, made 

 many important corrections, of which the greater part 

 have been inserted in the text, but an unfortunate 

 delay obliges me to trouble the reader to correct some 

 errors from the Table of Errata. 



I have edited this work, because no English author 

 has hitherto applied our present chemical knowledge 

 to the study of wine, and neither at home nor abroad 

 is there any one more competent than Professor 

 Mulder to show the point we have reached, and to 

 mark out the path to be pursued for the attainment 

 of a perfect knowledge of the chemistry of wine. 



HENRY BENCE JONES. 



BROOK STREET, 



August, 1857. 



