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Roberts-Austen: a Record of his Work

1914; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 93; Issue: 2335 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/093555a0

1476-4687

T. K. ROSE,

Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

IT is pleasant to see that one of Roberts-Austen's former assistants has been willing to devote himself to the preparation of this record of the work of the most distinguished metallurgical chemist of his day. It is pleasant, too, to find that the handsome volume which is the result of Mr. Smith's labour of love is a memorial in every way worthy of his old professor's fame. In well-chosen, felicitous language, Mr. Smith traces Sir William's career from his student days at the Royal School of Mines to his death at the age of fifty-nine, when he was still actively engaged in many directions. For the most part, however, the biographer leaves him to speak for himself. Roberts-Austen: a Record of his Work. Being a Selection of the Addresses and Metallurgical Papers, together with an Account of the Researches of Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen. Compiled and edited by S. W. Smith. Pp. xii + 382. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 21s. net.