Letters Breaking a Great Deal of Ice Sir: You have done a service to a new methodology and its related technolo gy by the presentation of the flow in jection analysis (FIA) R E P O R T by
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C. Ranger, Anal. Chem., 53, 20 A (1981). We are a new company in the in strumentation field, specializing in utilizing the FIA technology to its maximum in the patented valving sys tem of our microprocessor-controlled SHS-200 Solution Handling System. Naturally, my first comment re garding the article is, in a measure, self- (corporate) serving. However, when you not only introduce a new technology, but are enlightening the U.S. market to the basis of FIA meth odology as well, you are breaking a great deal of ice. The difference is "awareness," and thus interest by visi tors to our booth at the recent Pitts burgh Conference certainly is evidence of the considerably broader and deep er awareness among persons in ad vanced technologies, principally through articles such as yours plus our promotional efforts along with rather limited publicity by others in the field. With that as a background, I am re spectfully suggesting that the interests of your readers (and buyer prospects) would be substantially influenced by a publication like yours recognizing that the FIA methodology and its technol ogy have come of age. Carl W. Moebius Fiatron Systems, Inc. P.O. Box 17927 Milwaukee, Wis. 53217
Compilation of Protein-Related Data Sir: I was delighted to see in the EDI TORS' COLUMN in the January 1981
issue of ANALYTICAL
CHEMISTRY
the
two-column story "Compilation of Electrochemical Data." I too compile data, have a grant from the National Library of Medicine to support my work, and have pub lished two books and some 30 compi lations of protein-related data. An ad ditional book is at the publisher being readied for publication, and a fourth book is in preparation. I was an invited speaker at the ACS National Meeting—Division of Chem ical Information (September 1979, Washington, D.C.) at the symposium on "Technique and Problems in Re
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trieval of Numerical Data." The title of my talk was "More Questions from a Data Compiler," and it was pub lished in the Journal of Chemical In formation and Computer Science, 20, 152-53 (1980). I work alone and do not have any post-doctoral assistants. I scan some 30 journals each month, page by page, for my data. I use a method of data compilation which has been described in J. Chemical Info. Comp. Sci., 20, 152-53 (1980). The books published, in print, and in preparation are: Donald M. Kirschenbaum, Ed., "Atlas of Protein Spectra in the Ul traviolet and Visible Regions," Vol. 1, IFI/Plenum, New York, 1972 Vol. 2, IFI/Plenum, New York, 1974 Vol. 3, IFI/Plenum, New York, in press. "Bibliographic Atlas of Optical Ro tatory Spectra and Circular Dichroism Spectra," Vol. 1, IFI/Ple num, in preparation. Readers interested in further details are encouraged to contact the under signed. Donald M. K i r s c h e n b a u m Department of Biochemistry College of Medicine Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11203
Laboratory Safety Sir: I expect, even hope, that someone has earlier complained to you about the Thermolyne hot plate advertise ment facing page 1364 A in the No vember 1980 issue of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
There is a man in his laboratory— lab coat undone (why bother to put it on if you are going to leave it like that?), smoking a pipe, and cooking coffee. There is no safety net or screen for his reaction flask, and the state of the woodwork and the hot plate does suggest that the materials he handles are far from innocuous. A correspon dent to one of our British journals suggested that someone should check advertisements for elementary safety, but perhaps you have no Health and Safety at Work regulations. Michael P a t e r s o n Wyeth Laboratories Huntercombe Lane S Taplow, Maidenhead Berks SL6 0ΡΗ, UK
