The principles of qualitative analysis from the standpoint of the theory of electrolytic dissociation and the law of mass action. Translated with the author's sanction and revised with his co-operation by William Gabb Smeaton.

Philadelphia:: P. Blakiston's Son, 1906., 1906. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 242 x 165 mm. 8vo. xvi, 300 pp. Folding color frontis. plate of spectra, 10 figs., 3 tables, index. Original blind- and gilt-stamped green cloth. Fine. Carl Wilhelm Bottger completed practical training as a pharmacist in Chemnitz, Berlin and Switzerland and then studied pharmacy from 1893 and chemistry from 1895 in Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1897. He then worked as an assistant to Otto Wallach in Gottingen and then until 1937 as an assistant and later head of department at the Physical and Chemical Institute under Wilhelm Ostwald and Max Le Blanc in Leipzig. In 1903 (truncated) he qualified as a professor in analytical and physical chemistry and then went to Boston to the Institute of Technology in 1904/05 as a research associate. In 1910 he became an extraordinary professor in Leipzig and in 1922 a full professor of analytical chemistry. In 1938 he became emeritus. In 1932 Bottger was elected a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Learned People. / William Gabb Smeaton (1874–1959), the translator, American chemist and professor at the University of Michigan. "William Gabb Smeaton (Toronto '98) was called from the Physical-Chemical Institute at Leipzig in 1902 to develop a lecture course for engineering students [at the University of Michigan]. This separate division of general chemistry was merged with the regular department in 1905. Smeaton had charge of the course until 1919, when he took over the teaching duties of William Jay Hale (Miami '97, Ph.D. Harvard '02), Associate Professor of General Chemistry." University of Michigan, Chemistry, 'Early Years. Development and Growth of the Chemical Laboratory'. (Inventory #: S0884)