From the comments of the Max Gergel one. I think my reading list just got longer: ... equally worth a read. This habit of publishing personal memoirs has a lo

From the comments of the Max Gergel one. I think my reading list just got longer: ... equally worth a read. This habit of publishing personal memoirs has a long and honorable history in chemistry. One need only consider E. Emmett Reid (My First Hundred Years in Chemistry) or Louis Fieser (The Scientific Method). Fieser's book was removed (and presumably destroyed) by most libraries in the late sixties because of its comprehensive description of the construction of some very loud devices. And of course, the grand effort that started it all, the Berichte der Durstigen Chemischen Gesellschaft, a special edition of Berichte published when August Kekule himself was Vorsitzer. I could locate only two existing copies, about 50 years ago. ...