Chemical Research Faculties: An International Directory, 1988 Amer.can Chemlca Society. Washington, DC. 1988. xvii 7 688 pp. 21.5 X 27.6 cm. 5159 95 (USA) $19 1.95 (Ofher countries). Designed to give the same type of information on an international scale that the ACS Directory of Graduate Research provides for United States and Canadian institutions, this new, updated, second edition of Chemical Research Faculties (CRF) contains more than an additional third of the volume of information in the first (1984) edition. I t contains data on more than 11,500 faculty members (with one or two recent representative publications) and 1922 departments in 107 countries arranged alphabetically from Argentina to Zambia. Intended to give the user sufficient information to locate a colleague, whether known to him or her or not, by chemical specialty, by academic institution, or by name, the CRFis organized by area of chemistry, by country, by institution, and by individual faculty member. Furthermore, the indexes of faculty (23 pp) and of research subjects (99 pp) should help the user to locate specific persons or to find various persons in a specific area of expertise. Criteria for inclusion were that the de~ a r t m e n toffer an advanced academic degree or degrees based on laboratory research in chemistry, chemical engineering, bio. chemistry, pharrnceutical mpdirinal chemistry, toxiciol~gy,or polymer science and that a written response ttr the ACS Commit tee on I'ublicatiuns' request for data be received. A cursory searchfor names of foreign colleagues and friends revealed a number of omissions, probably because of the failure of about 80 departments t o respond to the ACS's request. Although the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, and Poland are represented, the USSR is notable by its absence. Statistical tables provide for each institution the number of master's and doetor's degrees conferred in 1985 and 1986 along with the number of fulltime faculty, postdoctoral appointments, and students enrolled in advanced degree programs. Also included are separate sections listing foreign chemical and chemical engineering societies, with addresses, principal officers, major publications, organizational structures, and number of members. The CRF makes an ideal companion volume to the DGR and will be of great interest to the same readership, viz., persons in libraries, academic institutions, and chemically oriented businesses. George 8. Kauffman CaliforniaState University. Fresno Fresno. CA 93740
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