BOOK REVIEWS dialysis, ultrafiltration and freeze-drying. Th? last psrt of the hook (136 pages) contains dcseriptiuns of many of t h e hnportmt prcpnrative methods used in imrnnnoch~mistry. Some of the suhsbanet-s, the preparations of which are deseribcd, arc: crystalline ovalhumin and scrum albumin, yrglohulin, t,hyroglobulin, diphtheria toxin, type-specific polysaceharide antigpns, dcstrans and lovans, poly-y-glutnmic acid iram Bacillus mbtilis, and the I h a d group snhstnnc~s. The rrxdrr will also find a drsrription of methods for t h r purification of antibodies and for the. prrpsration of nroproteins, ; ~ w t y l : ~ t t di o, d i n i ~ t ~and d otherrqiso substitutwl p r o t t k . The rwicwcr rccom~ n ~ w dDr. s ICalmt?s book as nn esecllent, rcliahlr. : I itldispcn~itl>lcfor immunochm~ir:dwork.
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Modern Physics for the Engineer. Second Series
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Thc first volume in this series appcnred 5 [Srr mrs JIIIIRSAT,,32, 052 ( I 5 1 S o w rmdrrs have thp a1,portunit? onrc again to lcarn the phynirs of todi~ywhich will herome the engineeriq of tomorrow. As wan true ~ I t h the first volume, thcrrr is much in this one of iat,t:rent to the chemist who considers himself wcll infor~ned. The nnthors presuppose a fnmilinrity wit,h phvsird principles, hut do not usc thc r l : h r n t e mathemnticsl voraholary of rhrorctieal plwiiirs roscnrch. The writing is clear hut not ovrrsimplified. The chsptcrs by Segri., "Xrw Particles and Old Principles," by .4lvnrca, "Stiltus Report on Neb,. Particlehi'' and by Mn!.er, "Norlear Shell Strnrturc" arc very much the kind of diacuasion a chcmist is looking for. Thcehsptcr by F o w k on "The Origin of Nurlcsr Spwiea.. . " is s n interesting ~ w i s i o nand rommentwy on Fowler's pu1,lishrrl work since 1957. A chnptcr rrmarkuhle for what it inrludw and hat it omits is the 22-pnge dcsrription of "Nodear Reart,ors-A Kovrl Teehnolog?." The rhnptrr on "Particle herelerstors" by Rohert R. !lrilson origi~~ally appeared in The Seienti,/ic Anacricnn. Although this rould not h a w hccn the rasp with dl the rhsptrrs of this hook, gcncrall?. sironkine thc intwdrd rcndrr is th? RRmB. S I l l d ~ n t swith (.allege W i ~ n ~ e tmrkgrounds a-ill nwrl this hook v i t h profit. Profcssnrs will he glad to have i t as n plwe to which thc i n q ~ i r i i ~atndcnt g ran turn. I
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