with pertinence to security and cost problems encountered in such arrange ments. The impact of automation in analyti cal chemistry is forcefully driven home in every one of the papers of this mono graph, and it would be unfair to cite any to the exclusion of the rest. Indus trial analysts will be inspired by the accomplishments here reported, es pecially by those working in the medi cal sciences.
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