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THE text of this publication consists of English translations of memoirs on the following scientific aspects, as distinct from the manufacturing technology, of rubber: botany, cultivation, preparation and collection (Zimmermaim), chemistry (Pummerer and Koch), vulcanisation (Kindscher), chemical-analytical testing methods (Kindscher), physics (Hock), physical testing (Memmler and Schob) and microscopy of technical vulcanisates (Pohle). Edited in German by Memmlcr in 1930, it has now been translated and brought more up-to-date by the members of the Research Staff of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company under tho general authorship of Dunbrook and Morris.
The Science of Rubber (” Handbuch der Kautschukwissenschaft”)
Edited by Prof. K. Memmler. Authorized English translation, edited by Dr. R. F. Dunbrook and Dr. V. N. Morris. Pp. xvi +770. (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1934.) 15 dollars.
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C., C. [Book Reviews]. Nature 136, 321 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136321a0
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