BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Number 24, 1999

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
The 1998 Dexter Award Address. "From an Instrument of War to an Instrument of the Laboratory: the Affinities Certainly do not Change" Chemists and the Development of Munitions, 1785-1885.	Seymour H. Mauskopf Duke University	1
Samuel Parsons Mulliken: Pioneer in Organic Qualitative Analysis.	David L. Adams University of Massachusetts, Amherst	16
J. A. R. Newlands' Classification of the Elements: Periodicity, but no System.	Carmen J. Giunta Le Moyne College	24
Christlieb Ehregott Gellert and his Metallurgic Chymistry.	Fathi Habashi Laval University	32
Otto Folin and Donald D. Van Slyke: Pioneers of Clinical Chemistry.	Louis Rosenfeld New York University School of Medicine	40
Francois-Pierre Ami Argand: Let There Be Light.	Martin D. Saltzman Providence College	48
The Art of Distillation and the Dawn of the Hydrocarbon Society.	Martin D. Saltzman Providence College	53
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Scientists, Chemical Equilibrium and Mass Action.	Sol W. Weller University at Buffalo	61
Dobereiner's Hydrogen Lighter.	William D. Williams Harding University	66

Book Notes.
A History of Chemistry Originally published as Histoire de la chemie, 1993. Reviewed by Richard E. Rice	Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers translated by Deborah van Dam 1996	69
The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914 Reviewed by Peter J. Ramberg	David Knight and Helge Kragh, Eds. 1998	71
The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest Reviewed by Peter J. Ramberg	Lawrence M. Principe 1998	72
Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century Reviewed by Mary F. Singleton	Marelene and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham 1998	74
Fritz Haber: Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude Reviewed by Paul R. Jones	D. Stoltzenberg 1994	77