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Unfortunately, Harvard University and the University of Illinois did not collaborate, a f a c t which leaves the d a t a for their regions incomplete and slightly inaccurate. The tables give a most interesting insight into the origin, distribution, and occupation of Ph.D.’s over the most active period of graduate work i n this country. The final chapter, giving its title to the book, offers many sound principles for the improvement of the organization and functions of graduate schools. The suggestions are aimed t o help the weaker and less centrally administered graduate schools and have a strong slant in the direction of the social sciences and education. The concluding admonition t h a t “doctoral programs must be adjusted t o the uses t o which recipients can put the degree i n the scheme of American life today” would perhaps be agreed t o by all if each institution or department is left free t o interpret what is most useful. The prediction that “After w a r shortages in doctoral personnel are made up, i t is likely t h a t for the next score of years society will demand a relatively small number of soundly educated and functionally trained doctors of philosophy” would seem t o have little probability of application t o the field of chemistry, where the supply of doctorates has never fully met the demand. S. C. LIND. Frontiers in Chemistry. Vol. 5. Advances an Nuclear Chemistry and Theoretical Organic Chemistry. Edited by R . E . BURKAND OLIVERGRUMMITT.New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1945. Price: $3.50. Collaborators who contributed t o this series of lectures under the auspices of Western Reserve University are : Albert S. Keston on “Isotopes and their Applications i n Biochemistry”; Hugh S. Taylor on “Applications of Isotopes in Catalytic Reactions at Surfaces”; H . R . Crane on“Techniques in Kuclear Physics”; Leslie G. S. Brooker on “Resonance and Organic Chemistry”; and W. H . Rodebush, “The Hydrogen Bond and its Significance t o Chemistry .” Under the title “Advances in Nuclear Chemistry” the reader may be surprised or disappointed t o find no reference to atomic power. This was no doubt due t o military censorship, but Dr. Crane’s cha,Jter furnishes a splendid theoretical and historical introdiiction and bacliground for t h a t now much publicized subjcct. S. C . LIND. Frontiers in Chemistry. Vol. 4. Major Instruments of Science and their Applications to Chemistry. Edited by R . E . BURKA N D OLIVERGRUMMITT.151 pp. New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1945. Price: $3.50. This, the fourth i n the series of volumes sponsored by Western Reserve University, i s one of outstanding importance and timeliness. The five well-known contributors cover a field of greatest interest i n modern experimental chemistry: Dr. L . H . Germer on “Electron Diffraction and the Examination of Surfaces”; Dr. L. Marton on “The Electron Microscope and its Applications”; D r . Maurice L . Huggins on “X-ray Diffraction and i t s Applications”; Dr. Wallace R. Brode on “Chemical Spectroscopy” and “Application of Absorption Spectra t o Chemical Problems”; and Dr. R . Bowling Barnes on “The Infrared Spectrometer and its Application.” The volume is replete with excellent figures and photographic illustrations. A subject index adds greatly to the usefulness of the volume. S. C. LIND. Abridged ScientifLc Publications f r o m the Kodak Research Laboratories. Vol. XXVI. Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. A compendium of forty-five scientific papers originally published i n full in seventeen American and English scientific journals, including subject and author indexes.
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