order to avoid a n y future recurrence. The executive committee i s especially anxious to find out answers t o the fol lowing questions: 1. W h y were the ballots sent out so early? This w a s done even before the Oct. 26 issue of C&E News con taining statements and pictures of some of the candidates w a s received b y the councilors. According to t h e B y Laws, they did not have to be sent out until Dec. 1. 2. W h y were statements and bi ographical data not enclosed with the ballots? This w a s not only an estab lished procedure i n t h e past, b u t i t should have been mandatory i n view of t h e fact that the picture of one of the petition candidates and the state ment of the other w a s not available a t the time t h e October issue of C&E News went to press. 3. W e are informed that the chair man of the Committee on Nominations and Elections requested that the state ments be included with t h e ballots. W h y were h i s requests not followed? In the opinion of t h e executive com mittee, the procedures followed place the impartiality of the election in seri ous doubt. Therefore, t h e executive committee requests that this election be invalidated and new, unmistakably different ballots be sent out to the coun cilors, together with t h e statements and biographical data of all candi dates, a s w a s customary i n the past.
Charter flights announced The following 1971 j e t charter flights to England a r e available to ACS members (must be members at least s i x months prior to flight date) and their immediate depen dent families. Prices quoted are per person, round trip.
Books Drug scene "Drug Abuse: Data and Debate" i s the title of a sourcebook edited by Paul H. Blachly and published by Charles C Thomas, 301-327 E a s t Lawrence Ave., Springfield, 111. 62703. The 22 contributing authors are well known i n their fields. Data a r e dis tinctly separated from the debate that revolves around such controversial is sues a s legalization of marijuana. Among topics covered a r e statewide narcotics treatment program in Illi nois, the English drug problem, legal and governmental roles i n drug abuse, prophylaxis of drug abuse, and instru mental and classical conditioning fac tors. Published 1970; 340 pages, 15 il lustrations, 16 tables; $12.50.
Specialty chemicals The Proceedings of t h e Symposium on Specialty Chemicals held in Chi cago, Sept. 14r-18, 1970, during the 160th ACS National Meeting have been published i n a 183-page book. P a pers were presented on four major topics: economics of specialty chem icals, fire retardants, polymers i n w a ter management, and concepts of de veloping and marketing n e w commer cial polymers. The proceedings also include the general papers presented. Cost is $9.50 per copy, payable to Division of Chemical Marketing and Economics and sent to Robert A . F o x , P.O. B o x 607, N e w York, N . Y . 10017.
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BUCHI. vii -f- 448 pages. Gordon & Breach, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011. 1970. $14.50. Based on lectures in dynamic behaviors of thermal-fluid control systems at Uni versity of Michigan for engineering stu dents at senior and graduate level. An Introductory Course in Practical Or ganic Chemistry. F. D . GUNSTONE, D. M. SMITH, J. T. SHARP,
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Materials Science and Engineering in the United States. RUSTUM ROY, editor, xiv -f 177 pages. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa. 16802. 1970. $9.50. Gives assessment and evaluation of the development of materials research and materials science and engineering over the past 10 years as a major unit on the sci entific scene. The Mechanism of Action of Dehydro genases. FRED D .
GEORGE W. SCHWERT, A L WINER, editors, xi + 256
pages. The University Press of Ken tucky, Lexington, Ky. 40506. 1970. $8.50. Papers from a symposium in honor of Hugo Theorell, Lexington, Ky., March 1965. Molecular Mechanisms in Memory and Learning.
GEORGES
UNGAR,
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xiv + 296 pages. Plenum Publishing Corp., 114 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011. 1970. $15. Book is said to provide the first multidisciplinary forum and consequent definition of the new science of molecular neuro biology. Reports successful experiments from many different laboratories. Molecular Quantum Mechanics: An In troduction to Quantum Chemistry. P. W. ATKINS, xviii + 482 pages. Ox ford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. 1970. $17.75. Nitrenes.
WALTER LWOWSKI, editor,
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+ 457 pages. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. 1970. $23.50. Represents a forum where resources at disposal of experts in the field could be brought together to acquaint reader with reactive intermediates in organic chemis try and their importance. Nonlinear Stochastic Control Systems. A. T. FULLER, editor. 456 pages. Barnes & Noble, Inc., 105 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003. 1970. $22.50. Papers selected from International Journal of Control and its predecessor, Journal of Electronics and Control, originally pub lished from 1960 on. Numerical Algorithms:
Origins and Ap
plications. BRUCE W. ARDEN, K E N NETH N. ASTDLL. xi -f 308 pages. Ad
dison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., Reading, Mass. 01867. 1970. $11.95. Introduction to problem solution with nu merical methods.
pages. Barnes & Noble, Inc., 105 Fifth Vol. 1. DANIEL Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003. 1970. Organic Peroxides. SWERN, editor, ix + 654 pages. John $5.50. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., Based on courses in practical organic New York, N.Y. 10016. 1970. $31.50. chemistry given at University of St. An drews to first- and second-year classes. Peptides: Chemistry and Biochemistry. BORIS WEINSTEIN, editor, xv + 538 Ion-Molecule Reactions. E. W. M o pages. Marcel Dekker, Inc., 95 Madi DANIEL, et al. xiii + 374 pages. John son Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. 1970. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., $19.50. New York, N.Y. 10016. 1970. $19.95. One of Wiley-Interscience Series in Proceedings of the 1st American Peptide Atomic and Molecular Collisional Proc Symposium, Yale University, August 1968. esses. Physical Properties of Plant and Animal Materials, Vol. 1: Structure, Physical Laboratory Experiments in Organic Characteristics and Mechanical Proper Chemistry. 6th ed. ROGER ADAMS, JOHN R. JOHNSON, CHARLES F. WILCOX,
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JR. xvi + 528 pages. Macmillan Co., 866 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. 1970. $8.95.
pages. Gordon & Breach, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011. 1970. $24.50.
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