A Short History of the Progress of Scientific Chemistry in Our Own Times (Classic Reprint)

It fell to my lot, in the spring of last year, to be called upon to deliver one of the courses of Lectures toW orking Men which have been given by the Professors of the Royal School of Mines and theE oyal College of Science annually for the last fiveand-thirty years. The celebration of the sixtieth year of the Queen sreign had taken place a few months previously, and it occurred to me that it would be appropriate to the occasion to attempt a survey of the progress made in the science and practice of chemistry during the preceding sixty years. The difficulty of the task lay chiefly in making such a selection from the immense range of material which at once presented itself to the mind, as to give to the audience a tolerably clear view of those discoveries which may be regarded as fundamentally important, without creating confusion by the introduction of too much detail.
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