Natural and Synthetic High Polymers

Abstract

SOME twelve years have elapsed since the appearance of Mark and Meyer's book on “Der Aufbau der hochpolymeren organischen Naturstoffe”. The subject has since expanded to a very large extent, and the present volume in this series of monographs claims to survey “the entire field of natural and synthetic, inorganic and organic high polymers”. In point of fact this is, of course, strictly the object of the whole series of volumes on high polymers, of which this is the fourth volume. The survey must, therefore, be severely restricted in many directions, but none the less, like all the books in the series, it is complete in itself. In a way this attempt at giving a complete treatment tends to some considerable repetition from volume to volume, thus using up valuable space which might otherwise be occupied.

Natural and Synthetic High Polymers

A Text-book and Reference Book for Chemists and Biologists. By Prof. Kurt H. Meyer. Translated by Dr. L. E. R. Picken. (High Polymers, Vol. 4.) Pp. xviii + 690. (New York : Interscience Publishers, Inc. ; London : Imperia Book Co., Ltd., 1942.) 11 dollars.