Air and rain : the beginnings of a chemical climatology / by Robert Angus Smith.

  • Smith, Robert Angus, 1817-1884.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Air and rain : the beginnings of a chemical climatology / by Robert Angus Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seemed to be unnecessary, especially since my work had been scarcely published, the Government blue books being little read, A small portion on water only was printed in 1865, afterwards more fully in 1868 ; the chief peculiarity of which was the subdivision of organic matter. I recog¬ nised seven different conditions, so to speak, including the nitrous and nitric acids as evidence or measures of old organic matter. The method has been largely used, especially in India, but more exact modes of obtaining the results have since been introduced by others, and for a time I have kept entirely to the study of air. Some people will look for ozone in this volume, but nothing appears regarding it; I have not been able to make the projected trials ; and this work does not at¬ tempt to be historic. Many other things are left out in this beginning. Believing that most of our sanitary questions will ulti¬ mately be settled by means more or less resembling those treated of here, and knowing how much there is to do, I feel it important that sanitary legislation should not ven¬ ture too minutely into details until such enquiries have been made more numerous, relieving the subject from the narrowness of merely individual opinion.