✍ Scribed by Salway, A. H.
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Pricc 21s. I. Iiis volumo is one of n scrics of clicuiico-tcchnological iuoiiograplis the priiiciplc object of wliicli, ns inclicatcd I)y Dr. AIon.cll, tlic ctlitor of t,lic scrics, is to prcscnt inforinatioii of real vnluc, cnrcf idly selcctcrl fiom scicntilic ant1 tcclinologict\l litdl'Rturc, I)y authors wlio linvc special nntl tlircct l;no~dcdge of tlie subjccts irntlcr consitlcratioii and, tlicrcfoic, nblc to discriiuinatc n,nd to reject, ~vliat. is iinprol~nblc or niislcntling.
Tlic purcly clicniical suction of tlic work, comprisiog ~l i i ~p t c r ~ on tlic composition and propertics of drying oils, and tlic clicinicnl cliangcs wliicli occur in t,lic drying of tlicsc oils is B comprcliciisirc but coiicisr itccount of tlic grent volume of literilturc tl~at Iins becn publishcd on this subject. Tlie tcc1iiiologicnl wction of tlic rolumc clcnls with the production, icfiiiing aiitl blcncliing of tlic chief drying oils, and ills0 the iuniiufncturc of linoleum, p t c l i t lcntlicr, ctc., and slioultl he pnrt.iculnrly valuiiblc to tliosc wishing to obbnin n, gcncrnl ltnowlctlgc of iiiotlcrii iiictliods in tlic drying-oil iiidustrics. 1 t is, hou.cvcr, to hc ir?grcttcd tliat, i n ninny C ~S C S \rJicro nltcriint~iw proccsscs nrc tlcscril)ctl, tiic aut.liors linve not siifliciciitly iiidicatetl tlic conditions uiitler wliich t,iirsr ~~roccssus bcconic of prnctical worlting value.
:HO\VCVCI*, this is n criticism coiniiion to iuosb works of this ltintl nut1 c1etrnct.s but little froill tlic gcncral vnluc of tlic volunic to all interested i n tdicb ohcniistry of drying oils.
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