BOOK REVIEWS phthalocyanine literature the quotations correspond to extensive patent reading. A few typographical errors were noted, hut these were not serious enough to cause difficulty.
HENRYJ. &HE B. F . Goodrich Research Cater Brecksville, Ohio
Farben in Kultur und Leben
Hans Kramer and Otto Matschoss. Emst Battenbere Verlae. Stutteart. 1963. 276 pp. gigures. -25 X 3Ccm: 138 DM ($33.50). I n August, 1863, Friedrich Bayer began the manufacture of aniline a t Barmh. This modest undertaking has now grown into the colossus known as Farbenfabrikeu Bayer AG, which in 1962 offered 8.500 items of which 3500 were dyes and related products. The centenary of this corporation will he appropriately celebrated and the volume under review here was issued in honor of this occasion. I t fittingly b a s the title "Colors in Culture and Li," and presents an encyclopedic treatment of this vast subject. The level of the discussions is nontechnical but adult; the aim has been to entertain and inform the educated general public. The text has been divided into four main topics, each with competent authors. The first three divisions are entitled: Nature and Color; The Magic of Color; M m and Color, which in turn are divided into sections each with a. separate heading. In this way practically the entire field has been covered in various degrees of extension and depth.. Typical topics are: the physios of color, the perception of color, the colors used at various periods of human history, the cwe psjntings, color in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, the psychologicel aspects of color, the theory of colors and their comhination, mosaics, cermies, glasses, tapestries, the history of painting, the symbolism of color, etc. In short, there are few facets of the subject that h w e not been at least mentioned. Chemists will be particularly interested in the fourth main division: Coloring Matters Through the Centuries. The author is Rudolf Ssehtleben. formerly curator of the chemical section of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and an experienced essayist in the field of the history of materia-Is. He here has given an expert account of colors since the glacial periods, stressing the mineral, animal and vegetable materials used by artists and dyers through these many centuries. There are no equatione or structural formulas but the essential information is nevertheless all there. This portion of the book in itself will commend the volume to teachers and students. The excellence of the text is fully matched by the beauty and appropriateness of the 99 illustrations. They are all in (Continued on page A980)
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BOOK REVIEWS full color, mast of them page-size, and are beautiful examples of modern capabilities. They were printed separately and inrerted by band. Carefully selected, they illustrate the points hrought out in the disrussions and hence they range over a tremendous area. This handsome volume is one to look a t with pleasure, to read with profit, and to cherish as s thing of beauty and a joy forever. The hook is not over-priced. RALPHE. OESPER Univemity of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
Some Cormochemical Problemr: Notes on the Thirty-Seventh Annual Priestley Lectures
Harold C. Urey, University of California, San Diego. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1963. x 181 pp. Figs. and tables. 21.5 X 27.5 em. Paperbound. 8 . 2 5 .
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This paperbound book consists of notes prepared from tape recordings and slides used by Professor Ureyin the presentation of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Priestley Lecture Series a t Pennsylvania State University. The notes, as compiled by an editorial committee, were submitted to Professor Urey for his comments and corrections. The volume consists of notes from five
lectures entitled: Chapter I, The Moon; Chapter 11, The Abundance of the Elements; Chapter 111, The Origin of the Solar System-I; Chapter IV, The Origin of the Solar System-11; and Chapter Y, The Origin of the Elements. Questions from the audience and Dr. Urey's answers are included. As stated by Dr. Urey, most of the material covered in the lectures has been published in review art i c l e ~he has written in "Space Science," John Wiley and Sons, 1963 and "The Moon," Academic Press, 1962. The principle merit of this volume of lecture notes is that i t is addressed to nan-specialists in cosmochemistry. Dr. Urey takes care to trace the historical evolution of the ideas and theories he discusses. This unfolding process leads to to far greater apmeciation bv the reader of the aerious pn l h m i n this field, twin ii only rurrenr I Iw erirs wrre J ~ P C I I S ~ C ~ . .\e iuiglat be expritra in a b d Jrrived from transcriptions of lecture notes, there are some weaknesses. Proofreading of the manuscript was poorly done and typographiral errors are common. Spelling of names in the references was quite variable with, for example, Suess and Seuss being used about equally. The material is not as well orgmieed as it would be in a manuscript speciillly written for publication. Far example, terms such as "chondrites" are used in the text many pages before they are finally defined. I n several cases extensive tables of data. are presented, whereas the text will only briefly touch on their significance. References to original sources of the data presented are quite deficient. In summary, the editorial committee has succeeded in capturing the inimitable style of Dr. Urey speaking about a field to which he has made significant contributions and in which be is vitally interested. The book can be read by the non-specialist profitably and with enjoyment. While certainly not a text or a source book far the specialist, the book could be used effectively by college teachers and advanced students in chemistry, and other physical sciences for supplemental reading in a new and fascinating field of chemistry. Its modest cost should allow its inclusion into even the smallest libraries. WILLIAMD. EHMANK University of Kentucky Lezingla
Modern Chemical Engineering. Volume 1, Physical Operations
Edited by Andreas Aeriuos, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 1963. ix 604 pp. Figs. and tables. 16 X 23.5 em. $19.50.
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