The rahon detre of this little book is as follows :T he compiler has, during some years, been obliged, for lack of a suitable handbook, to give to his large classes inC hemistry copious explanatory notes and definitions. This practice has at length become such a serious task that, in self-defence, he has sought relief by resorting to publication. Unless a compiler be the veriest literary mechanic his work can hardly fail to bear some impress of his own distinctive method of imparting instruction, and the experience of the writer, in the past, encourages him to hope that he is contributing a not unwelcome aid to a large and increasing class of students, in the Collegiate Institutes and High Schools ofO ntario. The matter of the work has been evolved in its present form from a great number of notes collected at various times from many sources, but in every case from good authorities on the subject treated of. These notes have been so condensed and altered, for convenience sake, that they are to all intents original as to shape, but the essential matter of the authors consulted has been carefully retained. The following are the principal authorities whose works have been utilised, or collated :A nsted, Tyndall, Ganot, Gerhardt, Ure, Hoffmann, Frankland and Bloxam. E;:ecially to the personal and invaU i.
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