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THE reissue of the sixth (1931) edition of Prof. Stewart's well-known work contains a new supplement of four chapters by Dr. Graham, dealing with the bile acids and sterols (28 pp.), the cardiac aglucones (vegetable heart poisons) (7 pp.), the hormones (23 pp.), and the vitamins (19 pp.). Separate name and subject indexes are provided for the supplement. Dr. Graham has given a judiciously selective account of the important advances in these fields of work, so that in its extended form the book will continue to render valuable service to advanced students and research workers in organic chemistry and biochemistry. That progress during the past few years in the common domain of these two regions of chemical science has outstripped the most sanguine anticipations of the last decade is a reflection which must occur forcibly to readers of this supplement, with its review of so many spectacular achievements.
Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry
By Prof. Alfred W. Stewart. Vol. 2. With the addition of Part 2, by Dr. Hugh Graham Pp. xiv + 519 + 2 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 21s. net.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 138, 633 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138633c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138633c0