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Present edition of this book includes many topics not treated in the first edition. Much of the new material is aimed at arousing or increasing the student's desire to continue his studies beyond the scope of this book. In particular, chapter 20 presents a short introduction to the gamma and factorial functions, the hypergeometric and confluent hypergeometric equations, vessels equation, and the polynomials of Legrand, Hermite and Laguerre. The number of exercises has been increased to almost 1600, nearly half of which are new.

Circa 1901. this book has been written to meet the modern and practical methods of science teaching, which are now being universally recognized and adopted in schools and colleges. Formally, students were taught chemistry in the lecture room. The knowledge so gained being supplemented by a minimum amount of practical work, and that almost exclusively analytical. the tendency of the present day is to make this student, from the very beginning, an investigator, to train and develop his fact is faculties for observation, to make and find out facts and discover truths for himself, In other words, to make him think instead of merely committing to memory what others have thought.