Dictionary of chemistry : containing the principles and modern theories of the science, with its application to the arts, manufactures, and medicine : for the use of seminaries of learning and private students / translated from Le dictionnaire de chimie, approuvé par Vauquelin, including the most recent discoveries and doctrines of the science ; with additions and notes by Almira H. Lincoln.

Louis Nicolas Vauquelin

Date:: 1830

Credit: Dictionary of chemistry : containing the principles and modern theories of the science, with its application to the arts, manufactures, and medicine : for the use of seminaries of learning and private students / translated from Le dictionnaire de chimie, approuvé par Vauquelin, including the most recent discoveries and doctrines of the science ; with additions and notes by Almira H. Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In this institution, according to the excellent method introduced by Professor Eaton into the Rensselaer School, each pupil in Chemistry, is required to prepare a lecture with suitable experiments for public examina tion ; in addition to this exercise the History of Che kmistry, and Sketch of Elementary Chemistry of thb volume will furnish proper subjects for a general exami nation of the class. To some of the teachers and pu pils of the Seminary the translator would offer her thanks for their kind assistance in transcribing the fol lowing pages for the press. The publishers and translator consider themselves a^ fortunate in having secured for the work while in press, the care of Dr. Sidney Doane, of New York, a gradu ate of Harvard University, who having recently passed two years in Europe, and attended the chemical lec- tures of the savans of Paris, was highly qualified for the trust. While the translator would do justice to Dr. Doane's faithfulness and ability, she would not be under stood as laying upon him any responsibility for the cor- rectness of the work, either with respect to facts or style. She would again request indulgence for any occasional errors, and remind the public that these pages have been written amidst the interruptions and duties incident to her connection with this institution. To use the words of an elegant scholar and distinguished chemist, life is fast flying away, while in the hope of discharging more perfectly our obligations to our fellow-men, we wait in vain for continued seasons of leisure and repose, in which we may refresh and brighten our faculties, and perfect our knowledge. After we are once engaged in the full career of duty, such seasons never come ;

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