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GIFT OF MICHAEL REESE
CHEMISTRY OF THE
ORGANIC DYESTUFFS. BY
B,
NIETZKI,
PH.D.,
PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BASLE.
TRANSLATED, WITH ADDITIONS, A.
COLLIN,
PH.D., AND
BY
W. RICHARDSON.
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AUTHOE'S PREFACE.
ABOUT '
three
I
ago
years
wrote
an
for
article
Ladenburg's
Handworterbuch der Chemie/ containing in a concise form an
exhaustive account of the history of the Organic Dyestuffs.
was also published separately, and
article
induced
me
to produce the present work,
far as possible
The
upon the
its
This
good reception
which I have based
as
earlier one.
article in question
was not complete in
itself,
and in the
present instance certain sections which came under other headings in the
'
Handworterbuch
also been supplied
'
have been added.
New
material has
through the advances made in the coal-tar
colour industry and in our scientific knowledge of the constitution of dyestuffs during the last three years.
Again, some subjects
have been dealt with at a greater length than was permitted by the
somewhat limited space of the
'
Handworterbuch/
Conse-
quently, the subject-matter of the earlier work has been submitted to a thorough revision, and the systematic classification o