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IN spite of the fact that during the last decade there has been an enormous increase in chemical literature, Prof. M. G. Mellon has been able to retain substantially in its original form the classification evolved in the first edition of this work. As the author's desire is to provide a text-book for an undergraduate course in chemical literature, this classification is based rather on the nature of the publication in which the information appears than on the nature of the subject-matter. Thus, in the first place, he divides the literature into publications containing new material or new presentations and discussions of known material, designating these 'Original Sources (Unorganised Information)''; publications containing information compiled from an original source arranged according to some definite plan, which he designates "Secondary Sources (Organised Information)".
Chemical Productions
Their Nature and Use. By Prof. M. G. Mellon. (International Chemical Series.) Second edition. Pp. xii + 284. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 18s.
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01 March 1941
The title of the book by Prof. M. G. Mellon reviewed in NATURE of March 15, p. 310, was incorrectly printed as “Chemical Productions”; the book, which is published by the McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., is entitled “Chemical Publications”.
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Chemical Productions. Nature 147, 310 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147310a0
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