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LECTUKE NOTES FOE CHEMICAL STUDENTS. 



(Second Edition.) Vol. I.— INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. 



By DR. ERANKLAND, E.R.S., 



Professor of Chemistry in the Royal School of Mines, and Examiner in Che- 

 mistry to the Department of Science and Art. 



Opinions of the Press on the First Edition. 



Quarterly Journal of Science. — " A very successful attempt at a complete and 

 consistent system of nomenclature and notation, and for that reason alone every 

 chemist will wish for the book a wide circulation. Not a little interest is given 

 to the book by the introduction of graphic formulae in illustration of the atomic 

 constitution of bodies." 



The Chemical News. — "We welcome the appearance of this most interesting 

 book with real pleasure. Dr. Frankland has demonstrated in the opening chap- 

 ters of this volume that he can write with equal success for the young student and 

 for the advanced chemist. The lingering fondness of the old school for the half 

 truths and downright errors of most of our text-books must give way before the 

 clearness, the accuracy, and we will say also the simplicity, of the views unfolded 

 in the pages now under review." 



Silliman's American Journal. — Dr. Frankland has been remarkably successful 

 in developing these views, and in applying them alike to mineral and organic che- 

 mistry. The volume deserves careful study. All the more important elements 

 and compounds, with their modes of preparation, the reaction in each case, and 

 their modes of decomposition, are most clearly described. And thus the object 

 of the work — to furnish names, formulae, and reactions, and so to save the student 

 the time spent in copying these in the lecture-room — is most successfully accom- 

 plished. The representation, in a formula, of the mode in which the atoms are 

 held together (and not, of course, their relative position in space), so necessary to 

 explain cases of isomerism, and which cannot be given by ordinary typical formulae, 

 is well obtained by those of Dr. Frankland." 



The Medical Press and Circular. — " It is an outline of the science drawn on the 

 broadest plan, but with the most careful regard to definitions — it is, in fact, a book 

 of reaction formulae illustrating the principles of the science. The book is written 

 in a masterly style, yet in terse and even elegant language." 



The Pharmaceutical Journal. — "To the student of modern chemistry this work 

 will prove of great value. If he be old in chemical knowledge, he will here find 

 levelled heaps of anomalies over which he may formerly have stumbled ; if com- 

 mencing study, the book will enable him to journey easier, more rapidly, further, 

 and enjoy a wider view than those who travelled before him. The elder student 

 will best appreciate the volume ; to the younger it will be of most value." 



The Reader. — " The utmost efforts of chemists nowadays are directed to the 

 elucidation of the nature and changes of molecules ; and although it is to be feared 

 that the current hypotheses upon this subject are allowed to stray too far, yet it is 

 wonderful to observe what order and harmony they bring into the tangled mazes of 

 mineral and organic chemistry. The book before us exhibits this with remarkable 

 force. It is the skeleton-outline of a wide course of study in pure chemistry, and 

 as such will be of but little use to the mere seeker for facts. But, as a system of 

 classification, it is the most perfect which has yet appeared; and the very want 

 of detail, which renders it useless as a work of reference, contributes to its appli- 

 cability for its proposed object. It is a masterpiece of clear and accurate arrange- 

 ment." 



JOHN VAN VOORST, 1 PATERNOSTER ROW. 



