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THE publication of this annual volume of reports is an event which few chemists allow to pass unnoticed. Indeed, it marks an annual opportunity, particularly valuable to those whose duties prevent frequent contact with colleagues working in other spheres and whose close perusal of current literature is necessarily confined to their own vocational interests, to bring up to date their general knowledge of progress in the principal branches of chemical industry. The twenty-six chapters comprising the reports for 1934 have been entrusted to authors whose competence to assess relative values and to make informed comment is unquestioned, and the abundance of references to original sources of information gives the book the status of a permanent work of reference. It is not easy to select any part as meriting exceptionally honourable mention; nevertheless, Dr. E. Stedman should be congratulated on hi“detailed discussion of the chemistry of the hormones and vitamins, whilst the chapter on intermediates and colouring matters, contributed by Dr. E. H. Rodd and Dr. S. Coffey, is a masterpiece of thoroughness and compression. The first report, entitled “General, Plant, and Machinery”, is attractively written; the section on explosives covers the period 1933-34.
Reports of the Progress of Applied Chemistry.
Issued by the Society of Chemical Industry. Vol. 19, 1934. Pp. 840. (London: Society of Chemical Industry, 1935.) 12s. 6d.; to Members, 7s. 6d.
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E., A. [Short Notices]. Nature 135, 776 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135776b0
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