Essays in historical chemistry

Mainly lectures and addresses which have already appeared in print but are here altered and corrected where necessary Robert Boyle -- Joseph Priestley -- Carl Wilhelm Scheele -- Henry Cavendish -- James Watt -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and La révolution chimique -- Michael Faraday -- Thomas Graham -- Friedrich Wöhler -- Jean Baptiste André Dumas -- Hermann Kopp -- Victor Meyer -- Dmitri Ivanowitsch Mendelleeff -- Stanislao Cannizzaro -- The rise and development of synthetical chemistry -- On the progress of chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland during the nineteenth century -- On the development of the chemical arts during the reign of Queen Victoria 1