Wöhler Friedrich. Handbook of Inorganic Analysis

London: Walton and Maberly, 1854. — 260 p.The Editor of the English Translation fully concurs with the views which have led the Author to the publication of this volume. General statements, general instructions, will always remain more or less unintelligible to the student, as long as he fails to have a sufficient number of facts at his disposal, by means of which he is enabled to test, in special cases, the correctness of the general rule. The safest plan of construction in Natural Science, will always be found in following the mode in which the truths of Nature have been elaborated, i.e., in proceeding from the study of individual phenomena to the recognition of the law. The Editor, for many years engaged in laboratory teaching, has often felt the want of a collection of examples similar to that of Professor Wohler, a translation of which he now offers to the English student. He may state that the English version is nothing more than a faithful representation of the German work, with the exception that the hydrogen scale of equivalents has been substituted for the oxygen scale adopted in the German Edition, and that the formulae have been written in the symbols generally used in England.