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THE rapid development of acoustics since the production of the thermionic valve is accompanied by so large an increase in the bulk of research papers that for some time the Acoustical Society of America has been publishing its own Journal devoted to the subject. A French journal, Revue d‘Acoustique, is now to be published bi-monthly under the direction of a committee of well-known authorities. The first number, dated March 1932, wisely opens with a vocabulary, founded on that of the Committee on Acoustical Standardisation (J. Acoustical Soc. of Am., 2, No. 3), of acoustical terms with definitions and English equivalents, and authors are asked to indicate when they use a term with a different meaning. In addition to papers, abstracts longer than those usually available in Science Abstracts and a bibliography of papers and books published since 1925 are given. This latter section is classified under physiological acoustics, acoustic measurements, propagation, sound sources, sound receivers, music, mechanical music, noise and architectural acoustics, and books and general articles. The titles are given in French, with some inconsistencies of translation. Although a journal of acoustics will naturally be used most by those interested in applied acoustics, several important general works published since 1925 might with advantage be included in the bibliography. The six books given are scarcely representative, sources in English being represented solely by the Physical Society's discussion on audition. A list of more than two hundred periodicals which are to be searched for the bibliography is given as a supplement. The address of publication is Les Presses Universitaires de France, 47 Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris 5e.
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A New Periodical on Acoustics. Nature 130, 198–199 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130198c0
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