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IN its report for 1936, the Food Investigation Board stated that a committee had been appointed to review both the scope and the form of its publication, “The Index to the Literature of Food Investigation”. The first number of this journal appeared in 1929 and at present it covers about a hundred scientific and technical periodicals, each number containing upwards of 2,000 references, in the form of elaborated titles that indicate the scope of the papers indexed, but omit all experimental data. The original intention was that the “Index” should deal solely with the transport and storage of foodstuffs ; it now tends to cover, however, the wider diverse field that lies between agriculture, or production, and nutrition, or the use of food for the maintenance of health. The first number of volume 7, which covers the literature published in 1934, has been issued (“Index to the Literature of Food Investigation”: 7, No. 1, March 1935. Compiled by Agnes Elisabeth Glennis, assisted by Gwen Davies. Pp. 371+xiii. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1937.) 5s. net) ; but it is hoped during the next twelve months to bring the “Index” up to date and to complete abstracts of the literature published in 1935 and 1936, which will form No. 2 of vol. 7, and vol. 8. Meanwhile the first number of vol. 9, containing abstracts of papers published during 1937, is in preparation. The papers noted in the present number are arranged in fifteen sections, and there is an author index extending to twenty pages. The compiler gives a brief review of developments during 1933–34, selecting the following subjects: gas-storage of meat and fruit, storage of rice, eggs, anti-oxidants for fats and oils, and engineering. Attention is directed to the fact that 1934 was the centenary of the invention of the earliest continuous refrigerating machine, by Jacob Perkin, which used ether as refrigerant, and was the first real landmark in the history of modern refrigeration, so far as technique is concerned.
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Literature of Food Investigation. Nature 141, 20 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141020c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141020c0