PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 47

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

"Chemical Notes and Tables" is the title of a comprehensive work on qualitative analysis by the Rev. J. Milne Curran, lecturer in nhemistry and geology at the Technical School, Sydney, issued by the Department of Public Instruction of New South Wales. The author in a preface explains that the work is hardly more than a compilation. " There is," he says, " very little in its pages that may not be found elsewhere if the student has only time enough to look it up. But that," he continues, "is just what my students cannot afford, 'time being a primary consideration with them." The work is divided into three part 1 ?, each part being subdivided into a miinber of chapters, and the whole forms a complete series of instructions for students going through a School of Mines. Not only, however, should it be invaluable to the student, but any miner of an inquiring turn of mind would find in it information which could not fail to be both useful and interesting to him. Indeed we have on more than one occasion been asked to publish a series of articles covering part of the ground traversed by the author in this work. Messrs Angus and Robertson, G'astlereagh street, Sydney, arc the publishers, and to them we are indebted for a copy of the work under notice.