Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Profession of Chemistry
Hen a boy turns a room - probably his bed room - into a laboratory and starts making experiments the results of which are commonly oh noxious to the other members of his home, and when the household is startled by explosions and the smell of sulphuretted hydrogen penetrates to his father's study, the family becomes alternately alarmed and annoyed but the head of the house is set wondering whether the new enthusiasm is only a phase through which so many boys pass, or Whether he has discovered an indication of the. Boy's choice of a calling. The question imme diately occurs to the parent, How can the boy become an analytical chemist Afterwards, he learns that the adjective analytical is too restrictive but we will deal with that later.
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