muir that work in the laboratory can be fun." This trend is viewed with alarm. The suggestion is made that there are a variety of ways by which a relatively untrained person can produce useful laboratory equipment from glass. Several chapters are devoted to descriptions of types of glasses and equipment which are useful for laboratory glass working. For the American worker these chapters will serve to relate materials available in England t o those commonly available in the United States. With this information, the fact that the book is largely written from the point of view of English laboratory practice and products will not prove a serious disadvantage. A good deal of emphasis is put on the use of a. hand torch as a simplified procedure for many operations. Possibly more amateur glass workers need to explore this as an effective aid to forming seals with a minimum demand on manual dexterity. One example which the authors fail to mention is the use of B hand torch and blow tube in removing pinholes from assembled mosrstus. \ V h t mny well prow mosr vuhrahlr im mar,? wurlrrrs zln-uly 5omt.whltt 1;truilinr airh ria% working rrrhnic%uvrnrv w w r d chapters on special procedures for sealing metal to glass, sealing different kinds of glaes together, and handling large diameter tubing. A long chapter is devoted to eanstruetion of pieces of apparatus and will prove helpful not only for its directions for making pieces of useful equipment but also for suggestions on solving vsrious common kinds of problems in glass manipulation. The reviewer believes that the authors should have described the simplest form of water cooled condenser to construct, namely the "West" type, in addition t o the three types presented. The book concludes with a brief discussion of methods for manipulating fused quartz.
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A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF CHEMISTRY E.J. Crane, Director and Editor, The Chemical Abstrads Service, Austin M. Patterson, formerly Professor of Chemistry, Antioch College, Ohio, and Eleanor B. Marr, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Hunter College, New York. Second edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1957. xiv 397 pp. 1 5 X 23 cm. $8.
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THE second edition of this masterly volume which covers all the ramifications of ohemical literature and its use is essential far any serious study in a chemioal library. As the most recent publication in the field of chemical literature, the bibliographical material is the most nearly up-to-date colleotion of titles now available. Eight ohapters have been retained. They are Problems and Objectives, Books, Periodicals, Patents, Other Sources, Indexes, Libraries and Procedure in Literature Searches. The chapter on Other Sources mentions addresses, biographies, bibliographies, committee findings, lectures, motion pictures, museums, organi-
zations, personal correspondenoe, scientific meetings, theses, unpublished material and some literature from related eciences. The lists of reference books, hooks on special topics, abstract journals and general journals have been classified (with annotations for the important journals) into nearly the same groups as the sections in Chemical Abstracb. Two new chapters, Trade Literature and federal, atate and foreign government publications, hsve been added. Far all the chemical fields, the most important encyolopedias, treatises and speoial titles and their location have been included. Journals and translation services for them are given. The valuable appendixes include rs bibliography of chomical literature reference books, a comprehensive list of symbols and abbreviations used by American and foreign publications, names of important chemical library collections, names of older periodicals, scientific and technical organizations, book dealers and publishers. In the past thirty years since the first edition was published, the Special Libraries Association personnel has prepared many useful compilations for both general science and chemistry alone. The Division of Chemical Literature of the American Chemical Society is now in existence. Unusual care has been takeken by the authors t o inolude all the tools prepared by these organizations that are valuable for the scientific librarian. This broadens the scope of the suggested source material to include less familiar but nevertheless pertinent publications both old and new, reference titles not designed for chemists alone, and foreign abstracting services. The excellent ohapter on chemical indexes has been extended to teach the art of their use with illustrations of the type of assistance needed t o recognize difficulties. The recommended procedure to make a literature search for limited or extensive problems is presented in detail. This includes the types of records to employ, mechanical aids and their sdvantages, and a list of books far study of technical writing. Little that might be of a~tssistancein the examination and creation of chemical literature has heen omitted. This edition is a. worthy successor to the first. VIRGINIA BARTOW UN,venal~rOF I L L ~ N O ~ URB*N*. I L L ~ N O ~ S
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
L. Earle Arnow, Vice President and Director of Research, Sharp & Dohme Division of Merck and Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania. Revised with the assistance of Marie C.D'Andrea, Educational Director, School of Nursing, St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianapolis. Indiana. Fifth edition. The C. V. Mosby Ca.. St. Louis. 1957. 529 pp. 108 illus. 13.5 X 21.5 cm. $4.25. This edition of Dr. Amow's text book on chemistry for nurses includes an intraduction to organio and inorganic chemistry as well as physiologioal chemistry and is thus suitable for use in the training of nurses
who may have no previous college courses in general chemistry. I t s success in this field is attested by its passage into this fifth edition. The lines of the previous edition are followed in that application of chemistry especially t o clinical medicine are emphasized for the purpose of maintaining the student interest. I t has been brought up t o date by brief discussions of many recent physiological developments of clinical interest, also tables listing subatomic particles, common organic radicals, precious stones, and clinically important constituents of human blood. I t should be examined hv snvone interested in a. text of this type. "It is well printed and illustrated and well bound. OLAF BERGEIM
U N I V E ~ ~ IoF T *ILLINOIB cx,c*oo, ILLINOIS
INTRODUCTION TO LABORATORY CHEMISTRY
L. E d e Arnow, Vice President and Director of Research, Sharp & Dohme Division of Memk and Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania. Revised with the assistance of Marie C. D'Andreo, Educational Director, School of Nursing, St. Vincent'sHospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Fifth edition. The C. V. Mosby Co., Inc., St. Louis, 1957. 116 pp. 38 illus. 13.5 X 21.5 cm. $1.50. THISlaboratory manual was written to accompany the author's book for nurses. This edition has increased space far snswering questions and a convenient spiral type binding. New are experiments on paper chromatography, biological demonstration of testosterone, and examination of number of chemicals oommonly found in hospitals. The experiments on inorganic, organic, physiologioal, and pathological chemistry are, in general, well selectod far the type of oourse for which they are sugge~ted.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
H. H a r r y Szmont, Duquesne University. Prentice-Hd, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New 803 pp. 46 figs. Jersey, 1957. xii 8 tables. $7.95.
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DR. SZMANThas contributed a r e freshingly new approach to the presentation of organic chemistry, both in organization and description. The factors which make this book different from other organic chemistry texts include: (1) an expanded introduction giving an excellent review of electronic configuration, chemi d bonding, hybridieation, and electronegativity; (2) an early presentat,ion (Chapter 2) of the concept of resonance; (3) an extensive introduction t o the principal types of organic compounds (Chapter 3); and (4) s, unique orgsniestion of the classes of organic compounds in the main body of the text. The book is divided into three parts. (Continued on page A5C6) JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
Part One contains the introduction and general theory. Part Two is devoted t o the presentation of the important families of organic compounds. The aliphatic and aromatic compounds are presented concurrently in five sections. Section A includrs the hydrocarbons and their halogen derivatives; Section B, organic campounds containing oxygen; Section C, nitrogen compounds; Section D, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, and orgsno-metallic compounds; and Section E, heterocyclic rine svstems.
I~etweenatruoture and physical propert,ics, relative strengths of covalent honds, determination of resonance energy, and medicinal compounds. The study of petroleum, earhohydrates, and proteins is inclodcd in this section. I n t,he opinion of the reviewer, Dr. Semant is the first author who has been wecessful in presenting the aliphatic and aromatic compounds eoncurrcntly. Only in the first section of Part Two, the study of the hydrocarbons, is there made a. subdivision into aliphatic, alieyclic, and aromatic compounds. All subsequent sections treat the entire class of compounds as a unit. The organisation of the discussion of oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, and metallo-organic conlpounds seems very logical, with a maximum of eontinuit" and interdependence, Electronic interpretations are stressed throughout, the text. There are numerous structural for mule^ and equations with accompanying explanations showing the mechanisms of reactions. The concept of hyperconjugation is introduced in the fourth chapter. The entire presentation is such that students should be able to derive a. maxinmm of understanding with s minimum of actual memorization, Integration of material within the book is aided by frequent references to specific pages of other sections of the book. The General References found a t the end of each chapter are well chosen from leading recent reference books. The reader is eonstsntly reminded of the importance of the fact that the "pay-off" of organic rpactions is in the laboratory. The descriptions of reactions definitely display a good balance betneen theory and iahoratory operations. References for reactions utilize "Organic Reactions" or "Organic Syntheses'' whenever possible. The author wisely chase these two sets for his primary refwenccs on the basis that every college lihrary would undoubtedly have them available. The reviewer finds only two minor objections. First, the chapter on t h e principal types of organic compounds is so concentrated that students might become confused by so much new material. Second, the chapter on the relationship between strucBm and physical properties comes late in the book. I t seem8 that many of these concepts should he mastered well in advance of this stage of study. This book is very well written. The
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explanations are clear and concise. There are far more illustrations and structural eqnations than are found in most organic e h ~ m i s t r .textbooks. ~ T h c review questions a t the end of each chapter are dcvised t o emphaaiae the major concepts covered. Thry are thought provoking, hut are not so complex as to hecome I:,horious. This ncw text will cert,ainly he a vduable addition to our chemical litorst,urr. TVdl printed, and clearly written, it will undoubtedl,~become one of the leading tpxth001~sin organic chemistry. DELT.4 WARREN GIER PARK
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THEAMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS A. H. Wilson, Cambridge University Press. London, 1957. xv 495 pp. 4 8 figs. 1 7 X 25.5 cm. $9.50.
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T H Efirst four chapters of this book present in a mathematical fashion the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics. The principles of quantum statistics are presented in Chapter five. This is not an elementary text and assumes that the reader has a good understanding of advanced exleulus, classical and quantum mechanics, thermodynamios, and statistical mechanics. The last nine chapters deal with tho practical application of thermodynamics and statistics1 mechanics to
Rome problems of chemistry and physics. Some oi the topics disrussed are: the specific heat of gases, third law of thermodynamics, equations of state far gases, vapor pressures, the properties of liquid helium, paramagnetism, order-disorder problems, chemiesl equilibrium, and so on. The book is well written. Although it is written from the point of view of a physicist, it can be highly recommended to n set.ious student of physical rhemist~.y. .JOHN H. L4CHER r ~ ~ v r n a or i r C~ o ~ o n * o o B o a m r ~ Co'onlno .
FUNDAMENTALS OF CHROMATOGRAPHY H o r a l d Gomes Cossidy, Associate Professor in Chemistry, Yale University. Volume X of "Techniques of Organic Chemistry" edited by Arnold Weissberger. Interscience Publishers, Inc.. New York, 1957. xvii 447 pp. 8 5 figs. 6 1 tables. 1 6 X 24 cm. $9.57.
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THOSE familiar with the "Weissberger series" will recall that Dr. Cassidy is the author of Volume V on Adsorption and Chromatography. The editor states that "the publishers are keeping the original Vohlme V avsilable for readers interested in the topics of Chapters I to V (Definitions, Molecular Aspect8 of Adsorption; Measurement of Adsorption, Treatment of Data; Relations between Relative Adsorhabi1it.y and Properties of Phases; Relat,ions between Relative Extent of Adsorption and Properties of Adsorptive; and Graded Eluents and Adsorbents), while
chromatography is discussed from new points of view in the present volume. . . ." The author has approached "chrom&ography st the level of principle," and did "not attempt to write a detailed review or compendium of methods." There are "so many particular problems that they cannot be packed into the confines of a. single volume." He has tried to "present the reader with a. homogeneous treatment of the entire field of chromatography." He has done an excellent job of reaching that goal. One finds a thorough roverigefrom molecular interactions on which ehromatagrnphic separations rent, to foam and emulsion fractionation; from gas-liquid chromatography, to electron-exohange polymers. Ion exchange is not treated exhaustively, but only to the extent that it relates closely to chromntography (33 pages). Theoretical conaiderations are givon 170th qualitatively and qnantitatively. T h ~ yare not just incidental, but are prefiented carefollv. and then used reoentedlv in the discussi; of such matters as fact& that ~ R e r R t vshles, or factors that affect definition of aones. Chapter X I I I , on the Relation of R or Rr to Molecular Structure, includes aleh approaches as those of LeRosen, of Martin and of Pierot,ti and ra-workers. While the tablos and text give much information, the user will not find readymade answers to his problems, hut he will find a guide which will help him approach his work with confidence, understanding, and a meamre of facility. Far example, t,here is little detail of what solvents have bem used for particular separations.
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