Early Responses to the Periodic System

Introduction --
The early response to Mendeleev\'s Periodic System in Russia / Masanori Kaji and Nathan Brooks --
The periodic system and its influence on research and education in Germany between 1870 and 1910 / Gisela Boeck --
British reception of periodicity / Gordon Woods --
Mendeleev\'s periodic classification and law in French chemistry textbooks / Bernadette Bensaude Vincent and Antonio Garcia Belmar --
Nationalism and the process of reception and appropriation of the Periodic System in Europe and the Czech Lands / Soňa Štrbáňová --
When a daring chemistry meets a boring chemistry : the reception of Mendeleev\'s Periodic System in Sweden / Anders Lundgren --
Reception and early use of the periodic system : the case of Denmark / Helge Kragh --
Ignored, disregarded, discarded? On the introduction of the Periodic System in Norwegian periodicals and textbooks, c. 1870-1930s / Annette Lykknes --
Chemical classifications, textbooks, and the periodic system in nineteenth-century Spain / José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Rosa Muñoz-Bello --
Echoes from the reception of periodic classification in Portugal / Isabel Malaquias --
Popular science, textbooks, and scientists : the periodic law in Italy / Marco Ciardi and Marco Taddia --
Chemical classification and the response to the periodic law of elements in Japan in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Masanori Kaji.