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THE scope of this important new aid to using chemical literature has already been explained in Nature (April 21, p. 467). Dr. Faraday and his publishers are to be congratulated on the fulfilment of their promise to keep it up to date by producing the first instalment of supplementary pages. This is no mean achievement in relation to the well-known difficulties of the moment with which printers and publishers are faced. The single sheets of the first replacement addition issue (C1—C5) cover the year 1944 and bring the book up to January 1, 1945 (Chemindex, Ltd., Manchester 2. Pp. 64. 15s.). We know of no other book of reference in science which is in this happy position. On trial, it was found that the necessary work of changing the sheets and adding new ones took less than half an hour; the instructions given are so precise that any intelligent person can follow them. The new matter fits easily into the system and only three correction sheets were required, which is a testimony to the care taken in the original preparation. A leaflet enclosed with the sheets promises a second volume dealing with C6 and C7 shortly, while others are ready for the printer: we believe the practising organic chemist will be eager for these. It is of interest to note the degree to which the various abstract journals cover the published literature. A spot test of a random sample has shown that British Chemical Abstracts covered 27 per cent, American Chemical Abstracts 57 per cent and Chemisches Zentralblatt 70 per cent. On the basis of these figures, there seems room for improvement in Great Britain.
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"Faraday's Encyclopedia of Hydrogen Compounds". Nature 156, 744 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156744b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156744b0