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hy Holder (Ilford Ltd.) which are dl bet t,er from the iriteria of (a) heiog up to - date, ( 0 ) heing scientifically accurate, (c) having gorxl style, and (d) heiug of the approlxinte level for a one or two semestel. course fm fimt or second year college sludenta.

THOMAS T. HrlL S,:hool qf Pholograph,~~,

Rochester InslitztIe gf Teehnologiq I~och&w, !Ye?,, York

The Encyclopedia of Chemistry

IMitcd hy Croryr I,. Clark, editor-it,- chief, I:~civersity of Illilwis Urhann, nnd Ceasner C . Hnmleg, managing edi- tor, Iieiuhold nooks. 2nd ed. I<&- hold I'>~hli*hi~>g Corp., New Ywk, l!16G. asi + 1144 pp. Figs. I tahles. 18.5 X Xi (inm. 925.

The review of the first editiuu of this e ~ ~ c y ~ : I ~ p e d i a (.J. CHEM. EDT:C_ 35, 3i4 [l!15X]) states, " . . . x most signifirxnt c~utrihntiou t0 the literatwe. No lihlmy f~.cquel>ted l,y stt~dents shmtld deuy them the stim\htiotl of this hook." A supple- ment i t ) 195X corrected a few umissivrw i l l the rrigillal volume (J. CHEM. EDTIC. 36, A [l!lt1]). This second editiou is <:ompletrly revised and enlarged in every rPspe(.l.

To make mom frx mnvy new topip, hnl

keep the sine of the volume wit,hin reawn, the 100 biographies of chemists and d e scriptions of foundations and societies have heen eliminated. Topics that. are o i minor or borderline significance to chem- istry have also been omitted. Therefore, the original edition is by r w means otwil- lete.

Nearly 600 experts have contributed to over 800 articles in this volume. Articles from the first edition have heen updated and many recent advances in chemical technology have heell added. Emphwis is placed on cllrrent eoncept,s of chemical holding, moleri~lar orhit,ulx, amrdittnt,io~l theory, and modenl instl.r~mct>l,al atdysis, iurlltditlg M M R , resonanw, awl fl~mres- PPIIPP.

J I N E . ~ B. \-AN IIOREN Cnllcge 0.f Wo'oosler

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Pesticide Hondbook-Entomo, 1966

Edited hy Donald E. H. Freer, Pennsyl- vanin State University, ITniversity Park. lXt,h ed. College Science Pub- lishers, State College, Pennsylvanix. 11166. 311 pp. 1.5 X 23 cm. Cloth- hotlrd, $4.50; pnperhonnd, 53.

This hardhook offers a wide rnuge of weful information to any scientist who must deal with the use of chemicals in thc production of food. The lisling oi chem- icals permitted as ingredients in pest,icide formulalion and their tolerance limits the alph%het,ical list of rommel.ci;d llames

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Det~elopmenl Ccnlw M'ooster

Applications of Stofistical Mechanics

E. A . Guggenheirn, Universit,y of Read- ing, England. Oxford IJnivenity Press, New York, 1966. 211 pp. Fig.;. arid tables. 1 G X 24.5 cm. $8.80.

This book is it revised and e m a n d 4 vw-

main theme seems lo he to show, by exam- ple, how present day theory can be made lo give ertmordinatily refined intelpretntion.; of experimental data, if cleverly and cave- fully applied. The bnok opens with an ill-

tndoctory chapter whirh reviews some o i Ihe important formr~las and fives the nota- t iw. The bulk of the hook then discusses the pmperties of the condensed phases uf wgon (three chapters), sodium chloride and potasaitim chloride crystal.; (one ahap- tcr), lattice models oi nor,-electrolyte solw lions (t.wo chapters), electrolyte sohtions (I.hree chapterj), and a final chapter ou gas ndsorptiun. Only eqnilihrinm properties w e treated. The t,opics discussed are all those to which Professor Guggenheim hirn- self has made m a j o ~ ~ c a n t ~ ~ i b ~ ~ t i o n s , and the emphasis is on these eo~~tr ihnt ima. In fnrt, the hmk may he looked on as n

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