CHEMICAL MANIPULATION: BEING INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS IN CHEMISTRY, ON THE METHODS OF PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS OF DEMONSTRATION OR OF RESEARCH, WITH ACCURACY AND SUCCESS [Illustrated Edition]

CHEMICAL MANIPULATION: BEING INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS IN CHEMISTRY, ON THE METHODS OF PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS OF DEMONSTRATION OR OF RESEARCH, WITH ACCURACY AND SUCCESS SECOND EDITION.

MY reason for venturing to add a new work on Chemistry to the many excellent productions which previously existed, was because there seemed to be a deficiency in the particular kind of instruction which it was my intention to convey. In the execution of my task I endeavored to make every other point subordinate to the one of embodying a mass of useful information on the practice of Experimental Chemistry. Being intended especially as a book of instruction, no attempts were made to render it pleasing, otherwise than by rendering it effectual ; for I concluded that, if the work taught clearly what it was intended to inculcate, the high interest always belonging to a well made or successful experiment would be abundantly sufficient to give it all the requisite charms, and more than enough to make it valuable in the
eyes of those for whom it was designed.

It may well be supposed that the confirmation of my opinion by the necessity of a second Edition of the work affords me no slight pleasure, and I feel, even more than I did at first, the propriety of the view which I had taken of the character of the instruction required.