4 JANUARY 1919, Page 17

Modern Chentistry and Chemical Industry of Starch and Cellu- lose.

By T. O. Chaudhuri. (Calcutta: Butterworth. 3 rupees 12 annas.)--This little treatise by the Professor of Chemistry at Berhampore deserves attention, not merely as a sign of the interest taken by educated Indians in chemistry, but also for the author's references to the unlimited possibilities of chemical industry in India. State encouragement, he thinks, is needed, but it is even more essential, he adds, that chemical experts should be closely associated with the direction of the new industries. That is true for Great Britain as well as for India.