J. vikin1 Summit, N e w Jersey
Chemical lnformati~nCenters of Latin America
Interest in the scientific activities of our colleagues south of the border has been increasing steadily; this interest has been spearheaded by the "Handbook of Latin American S t u d i e ~ , "published ~ yearly since 1936, the source of some information of scientific importance; several review articles have appeared, describing the scientific education in Latin A m e r i ~ a ~ also, . ~ ; Stevenss has given a brief survey of the chemical and related literature of Latin America.= This paper, which supplements the information compiled by Stevens in 1957, will be mainly concerned with the centers of chemical and scientific information listed in Table 1. Of these centers, the S.I.D.Q. (Service of Chemical Documentation and Information) is the only one concerned wkh chemical documentation exclusively; the others are concerned with all the sciences, except for the I.C.A.I.T.I. (Central AmerFor reprints: 52 Franklin Place, Summit, N. J. HANKE, LEWIS,ET A,,., editors, "Handbook of Latin American Studies," Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., Vols. 1-22 (l936-lCJ6O). PAUL,J. I
