ABSTRACT
Whatever may be the result of author's plan to render the work somewhat like complete, by the addition of another volume, he feel great present satisfaction in having been enabled thus far to develope that theory of chemical synthesis, which, the longer he contemplate, the more he convinced of its truth. Enough is already done to enable any one to form a judgment of it. The facts and observations yet in reserve, are only of the same kind as those already advanced; if the latter are not sufficient to convince, the addition of the former will be but of little avail. In the mean time, those who, with him, adopt the system, will, he have no doubt, find it a very useful guide in the prosecution of all chemical investigations.
