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THE publication of the Acta Physicochitnica UM.S.S. commenced in September 1934, and volume I containing six parts has just been completed. In Russia as in other countries, the ramifications of chemistry, especially in its mathematical and physical aspects, are growing so complex and varied that it is found desirable to have as a medium for publication, in addition to the usual journals devoted to chemistry, a special one devoted to the more advanced aspects of physical and theoretical chemistry. We have noted the recent appearance of the Journal of Chemical Physics in the United States, the remarkably effective and somewhat sudden renaissance of the Transactions of the Faraday Society in Great Britain, and now the appearance of the Acta Physicochiwica in Russia. The board of editors of the journal is certainly to be congratulated on the first six parts. It would appear that the referees appointed by the board function admirably in that country in selecting suitable—and presumably also in rejecting unsuitable—material. A number of internationally well-known names, including those particularly well known in England, Profs. Frenkel, Frumkin, Rabinovitch, Semenoff and Talmud, are to be found on the board, and there is a list of some forty permanent contributors distributed over soven cities of the U.S.S.R. Although new journals furnish problems both in budgeting and hi library accommodation, these difficulties will be overcome at least for this admirable example of a specialised scientific journal.
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Acta Physicochimica U.R.S.S.. Nature 136, 217 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136217a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136217a0