The organic constituents of plants and vegetable substances and their chemical analysis / by G.C. Wittstein ; authorised translation from the German original, enlarged with numerous additions, by Baron Ferd. von Mueller.

  • Wittstein, Georg Christian, 1810-1887.
Date:
1878
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Credit: The organic constituents of plants and vegetable substances and their chemical analysis / by G.C. Wittstein ; authorised translation from the German original, enlarged with numerous additions, by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Celsius' and Fahrenheit's thermometers, and finally calculations of the specific gravity of alcohol, according to the degrees of its dilution. The translation is efi'ected not without a certain freedom, extended even to the etymologic construction of the chemical appellations; yet T have endeavoured to adhere to the original text, so far as the different idioms of the two languages permitted. If I have failed in fusing the translation into the best expressions and forms, then I may frankly concede, that unless under remark- able circumstances of exception we never will be able to wield fully a language, which has not been that of our youth. If, after much toil and expenditure (the print of this translation being effected at my own private expense), I could wish, to reap any reward for my aid in diffusing the knowledge of methods, adopted by a leading masterly operator in phyto-chemistry, it would be, that local observers in these southern colonies, as well as in any other countries, teeming with an almost endless number of yet novel objects for phyto-chemic inquiry for additional resources, may be armed with auxiliary means for extending not only in abstract the science of chemistry, but also the precincts of therapeutics, and the realms of technology in reference to vegetable products. Melbourne, JMay, 1878.