Excerpt from First Outlines of a Dictionary of Solubilities of Chemical Substances Many practical men will be inclined to object to the manner in which all the state ments found relating to any subject have been copied, without special indication that any attempt has been made to single out the more trustworthy among them. To this objection I reply by denying that the compiler has, as a general rule, any right to pass judgment upon experimental results with which he has no special familiarity. The cor rection of errors of experiment, excepting occasional instances of palpable inaccuracy, should be left to subsequent experimenters, i. E. To persons practically conversant with the subject; and the criticisms of such have been given already in most of the instances in which they have fallen under my notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.