THE BOY'S PLAYBOOK OF SCIENCE:

INCLUDING THE

Various Manipulations and Arrangements

OF

CHEMICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS REQUIRED FOR THE SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS.

IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE ELEMENTARY BRANCHES OF CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

BY

JOHN HENRY PEPPER,

F.C.S., A. INST. C.E.; LATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AT THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC, ETC. ETC. AUTHOR OF "THE PLAYBOOK OF METALS."

NEW EDITION.

Illustrated with 470 Engravings,
CHIEFLY EXECUTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S SKETCHES, BY H. G. HINE.

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.


NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET.

1869.

LONDON.

SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET.
COVENT GARDEN.

TO

PROFESSOR LYON PLAYFAIR, C.B., F.R.S.

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

Dear Sir,

I Dedicate these pages to your Children, whom I often had the pleasure of seeing at the Polytechnic during my direction of that Institution. I do so as a mark of respect and appreciation of your talent and zeal, and of your public-spirited advocacy of the Claims of Science in this great and commercial country.

Without making you responsible in any way for the shortcomings of this humble work on Elementary Science, allow me to subscribe myself,

Dear Sir,

Yours most respectfully,

JOHN HENRY PEPPER.

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