Williams and Norgate

PEEFAOE. Being somewhat at variance with precedent, the tone and mode of treatment occasionally adopted in the fol' lowing pages will, perhaps, provoke criticism. Whether, in thus innovating upon established usage, the writer has acted judiciously or otherwise, the event must determine. lie has...

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Words are somewhat strained in their meanings by calling that a Second Edition, of which the new portion greatly exceeds the old portion in amount; as happens with this volume, and as will happen with its successor. Of the five Parts here bound together, the two...

CHAPTER I. ORGANIC MATTER. § 1. Of the four chief elements which, in various combinations, make up living bodies, three are gaseous. While carbon is known only as a solid, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen are known only in the aeriform state. Under pressures great enough to reduce them almost to...