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dehydrogenated structures, their omission is regrettable. As for spectroscopic data, visually o b served maxima are often determined in Europe by aid of copper-ammonium filters and d o not coincide with photoelectrically determined maxima. Absorption coeffi cients, p p . 349—61, should b e compared with available U. S. data before receiving unqualified acceptance. T h e legend for Figure 31 is jumbled. The translation is good w i t h f e w errors o f significance, though astacene for tetraketo compound is deplorable. T h e book will long remain a standard for the known chemical structures of carotenoids.
conducted to determine the retentions, distributions, and rates of elimination of three alpha particle-emitting elements— Po, Ra, and Pu—following various routes by ROBERT W A R N E R , N e w York Uni of administration to laboratory animals. versity College of Medicine. Also included arc r e s u l t of parallel e x T H E essential facts bearing o n the "pro periments done to deter, nine the early tein problem," or the structure of proteins toxicities of these three elements i n rats. in the most general sense, are drawn from Results and observations are recorded in a variety of fields of investigation. As a detail as well as descriptions of techniques result most books on proteins have been and analytical procedures. The back collaborative efforts or have covered only ground literature is summarized. a portion of the field. Dr. Haurowitz has Consolidation and summarization of data An Outline of Scientific Criminology. NIGEL M O R L A X D . 2 6 7 pages. 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While ex of methodology and technique, as a back tification b y scientific methods this book perimental detail has been given adequate ground for the general subject of radio ranks among t h e very best if not t h e best. attention, t h e author has not shrunk from active toxicities and hazards, as -well as As a textbook for the training of experts speculative argument. He has produced the symptoms which are found in this it would b e quite inadequate. It is a book a well written and highly readable book. type of radiation damage, it is also useful, about crime detection rather than of crime The introduction and use of the word detection, though in many places it a t but in a somewhat more limited fashion. "constellation" to describe the specific tempts t o be t h e latter. T h e author, o b configuration of the peptide chains in a viously not trained in scientific methods, C a r o t e n o i d s . P. KARRER A N D E. 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Our of proteins and their combination with serum m a y b e considered perfect w h e n knowledge of carotenoid chemistry is other substances, the author turns to their the unusual reactions of an unknown X firmly based on massive contributions biological properties. This material on the quality i n certain classes of human beings from three men. I n spite of their prerole of proteins as enzymes, hormones, have b e e n overcome. Sixty per cent o f eminent work, the field remains o p e n to toxins, a n d immunologically active com those under t h e stimulant ( s i c ) will react anyone with simple equipment a n d taking pounds is selected and organized, in so correctly, but t h e other 407c possess s o m e proper precautions. Carotenoids are exfar as possible, to yield information on chemical antidote that has y e t to b e ana tremely labile. Percentage composition, proteins rather than on these biological lyzed a n d conquered b y t h e refinements m.p., spectroscopic constants, and chromasystems a s such. Finally, an interesting in the truth serum." Fortunately this tographic purity all are modified by the speculative picture is assembled of the sample is not typical of t h e w h o l e book. least carelessness in handling. T h e authors mechanism of the biosynthesis of proteins. The 1 2 plates seem to h a v e been thrown are therefore fully entitled to adhere to In spite of the inclusion of some 1500 in for good measure, as there is n o refer rigorous standards and to view the least references, the book is not merely a survey ence to them i n the text. deviation with distrust. of the literature. Each chapter develops a Karrer is by common consent ranked self-contained argument, so that the book German-English Technical a n d Engineer among the great European organic chemwill fulfill its intended function as a text ing Dictionary. L o i n s D E VRIES. xiv -$ists. T h e traditional standards c a n rarely for graduate students. This combination 928 pages. McGraw-Hill Book Co., 3 3 0 have been upheld more brilliantly, but of a highly readable text and a thorough West 42nd St., N e w York, Ν . Υ. 1 9 5 0 . though excellent they can stifle at times. introduction to the literature should also $20. Reviewed by T . E . R. SINGER, This book will b e a standard text (not make t h e book valuable to workers in Consultant, N e w York, Ν . Υ. the standard as others claim) for many related fields of biology and chemistry. years t o come. 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