AT the meeting of the International Chemical Congress, held in Paris in the summer of 1889, a special Section was appointed to consider the unification of chemical nomenclature, and, after ...

The Present State of Chemical Nomenclature, by Prof. A. W. Williamson, Ph.D., F.R.S.—The author stated there were perhaps few departments of science in which such definite principles had been ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Uniformity in Chemical Nomenclature ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 46 No. 16 (April 1882), p. 240 doi:10.1038 ...