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Excerpt from Determination of Radicles in Carbon Compounds The success of the German edition of Dr. Meyer's book was only one of the reasons that led to the prep aration of this translation. The quantitative side of organic chemistry, apart from elementary analysis, is almost always neglected in the ordinary courses of in struction, and when the need for it arises, in the pros ecution of research work for instance, it is difficult to obtain a comprehensive view of the methods which are available without undue expenditure of time. This little work supplies, for the first time, a systematic treatment of these methods which, it is hoped, may help to remove this drawback and may also encour age the introduction oi some quantitative work into the college courses of organic preparations, since such a departure could scarcely fail to be beneficial in various ways to the student. From the translator's experience with the German edition he believes that the present one will be serviceable to instructors and senior students of organic chemistry. Considerable care has been bestowed on the proof-sheets, and it is hoped that the errors which may have escaped notice are not too glaring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.