Liebig Justus. Handbook of Organic Analysis, Containing a Detailed Account of the Various Methods used in Determining the Elementary Composition of Organic Substances

Edited by A.W. Hofmann. — London: Walton and Maberly, 1853. — 160 p.The Editor of the English translation has but little to add to the prefatory remarks of Baron Liebig. Entrusted with the supervision of the German Edition, and thus compelled to institute a close comparison of the present methods of analysis with those in use at the time the first edition was published, he was struck with the great progress in this department of chemical analysis—a progress apt to be overlooked, consisting as it does of the gradual addition of many little improvements. Impressed moreover, with the want of such a hand-book by the laboratory-student who wishes to engage in organic investigations, he was led to undertake the publication of the English edition. He may state that the English work is a faithful representation of the German, with the exception of the last chapter, which contains a description by the Editor of an arrangement for using coal-gas as fuel, in the combustion of organic bodies, instead of charcoal or spirits of wine, hitherto exclusively employed.