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Excerpt from Chemistry in Space
The almost universal adoption of the hypothesis of the tetrahedral carbon atom renders it unnecessary to put forward any excuse for offering Professor Van 't Hofi's work to English students of Chemistry. But a word or two is perhaps necessary to assist them in reading it. In the first place, from the numerous references to eriginal papers it Will be obvious that a vast amount of literature has been condensed into a very small space. Thus it happens that many com pounds of importance are merely mentioned Without any adequate description of them as to their relation ships, properties and transformations. The student should therefore consult frequently a good work of reference or, better still, if possible, the original memoirs.
It Will also be of advantage, for those to Whom the subject is new, to leave the first chapter till the end. The first chapter contains a translation of the earliest memoirs on the subject, and the ideas are incompletely developed, obscure, and sometimes erroneous.
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