The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives

Physical description; xi, 381 pp., 23cm. Notes; Mainly lectures and addresses which have already appeared in print but are here altered and corrected where necessary. Contents; Robert Boyle. -- Joseph Priestly. -- Carl Wilhelm Scheele. -- Henry Cavendish. -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. -- Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and La révolution chimique. -- Michael Faraday. -- Thomas Graham. -- Friedrich Wöhler. -- Jean Baptiste André Dumas. -- Hermann Kopp. -- Dmitri Ivanowitsh Mendeleeff. -- The rise and development of synthetical chemistry. Subjects; Chemists - Biography. Chemistry - History. THORPE, Thomas Edward - History.