The History and Preservation of Chemical Instrumentation Proceedings of the ACS Divivsion of the History of Chemistry Symposium held in Chicago, Ill., September 9–10, 1985

`
...the authors stress the importance of thinking and inquiring before scrapping instruments. In keeping with the word `preservation' in the title of the book, they call for the cooperation of scientists and technologists to minimize or avoid losses of instrumental artefacts such as have occurred in the past. Replete with tables, figures, pictures and diagrams of original apparatus, and name and subject indexes, this well-balanced collection of informative, scholarly, and readable accounts should appeal to persons interested in scientific instruments and their history.
'

Journal of Chemical Education

`
The book that he [Stock] and Mary Virginia Orna have edited will be regarded as a significant, ...step toward the understanding of the role of chemical instrumentation in science. It is long overdue.
'

ISIS, 78:3 (1987)