This bookrecognition of the educational value of qualitative organic chemical analysis has widely extended with the result that methods of the type advocated for such work have received increasing attention in publications appearing in the scientific journals during this period. At the same time the normal progress of organic chemistry has disclosed a variety of new reactions and com-pounds; so that it has been considered advisable to subject the portion of the text dealing with the qualitative aspect of organic analysis to a thorough revision.The reference tables have also been almost entirely re-written in order to take advantage of the new data appearing in the recent literature and to present in fuller detail the information therein summarized.