Contributions to the history of the phosphorus-bases. Extract from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCLX, Volume 150.

London:: Taylor and Francis, 1860., 1860. 293 x 231 mm. 4to. Pages 409-533. 78 figs. Dis-bound. "A number of short communications on the phosphine derivatives were embodied in three memoirs in June 1860 (in which Hofmann first used Gerhardt's new atomic weights). . .. After describing a few arsenic compounds, Hofmann . . . thanks P. Griess for assistance." Partington, History of Chemistry, IV, p. 441. Crystallographic data is provided by Quintino Sella of Turin. "Hofmann's influence, as a teacher and experimentalist, on British and German chemistry was profound. (truncated) He was responsible for continuing the method of science teaching by laboratory instruction that had been established and popularized by Liebig at Geissen, and for transporting it to England and to Berlin. He created his own school of chemists who were interested primarily in experimental organic chemistry and the industrial application of chemistry, rather than in theoretical problems. Among his distinguished pupils and assistants were the Englishmen F. A. Abel, W. Crookes, H. McLeod, C. B. Mansfield, J. A. R. Newlands, E. C. Nicholson, and W. H. Perkins and the Germans J. P. Griess, C. A. Martius, and J. Volhard." DSB, VI, pp. 461-464. See: Farber, ed., Great chemists, pp. 625-640. (Inventory #: S4195)