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OWING to the fact that systematic organic chemistry is but rarely taught in our public and secondary schools, elementary text-books on the subject are far less numerous than books on the inorganic branch. We have, it is true, a few excellent introductions to organic chemistry, but there is still room for a few more, especially if, like the present work, they are written in an agreeable style, are accurate, do not intimidate the beginner with a vast mass of unrelated facts, and, above all, show traces of original treatment.
A Text-Book of Organic Chemistry: Historical, Structural and Economic.
By Prof. John Read. (Bell's Natural Science Series.) Pp. xii + 680. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1926.) 12s. 6d. net.
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A Text-Book of Organic Chemistry: Historical, Structural and Economic . Nature 119, 79 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119079a0
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