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IT is clear from this book that chemistry has played a great part in the development of Canada. Indeed, according to Lash Miller, the first colonist of New France was a chemist, Louis Hobert ; upon lands given by his descendants in the city of Quebec stands Laval University at the present day. Moreover, it was in the Seminaire de Quebec, in 1720, that the first public instruction in chemistry in this part of North America was begun. There is much picturesque historical detail of this kind, new to the European reader, in the authoritative work under notice ; but the book is equally valuable for the picture it gives of the economic and industrial development of Canada, viewed against a chemical background. Almost every important field of applied chemistry has been treated in this triple aspect, with the help of numerous specialists working under the auspices of the Chemical Institute of Canada.
A History of Chemistry in Canada
Compiled by C. I. S. Warrington and R. V. V. Nicholls. Pp. x + 502 + 13 plates. (Toronto: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons (Canada), Ltd., 1949.) 4.50 dollars.
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READ, J. Chemistry in Canada. Nature 164, 724 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164724a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164724a0