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The NBS Standard Reference Materials Program Report for Analytical Chemists is devoted to a detailed description of the history, organization, objectives, and plans for the Standard Reference Materials Program of the National Bureau of Standards. Analytical cheniists are, of course, generally familiar with the standard samples, both pure materials of certified quality and analytical samples of certified composition, that have been available for many years from the National Bureau of Standards. The value of an unbiased "third party" source of standard samples to arbitrate disputes between partners in commerce has long been recognized. The enlarged program is not to be regarded as a simple mushrooming of growth in a government installation. Quite the contrary, it represents the result of a critical self-examination at the Kational Bureau of Standards to determine which needs in the area of reference materials could best be met by private industry, and which would demand new efforts by government. The study demonstrated a need so urgent that criteria had to be established to set up priorities for the order in which new standard materials would be developed. These criteria, as described in the Report, are of interest to analytical chemists because they emphasize the importance of research in new methods of analysis to meet the advancing requirements of technology. The examples of top priority materials selected for development are excellent illustrations of the importance of analysis in several aspects of industry, space technology, government service, and research. The Kational Bureau of Standards and, in particular, Dr. W. Wayne Neinke, Chief of its Office of Standard Reference Naterials, are to be commended for extending and modernizing an outstanding program of service to science and technology. THIS MOKTH'S
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