_OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION._

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

2. The word Pharmacopoeia uses an oe ligature in the original.

3. Minor changes were made for the purpose of consistency in the book
list at the end, like adding period, etc.

4. The following misprints have been corrected:
"sufficiemt" corrected to "sufficient" (page 45)
Changed "--" to "-" in nitrogen-fixing (page 151)
Joined words "intel lectual" split over two lines (page 236)
Missing text "to" added after "incidental" (page 285)

5. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies
in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained.

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