BOOK REVIEWS The dictionary will be a much-used tool in many a laboratory or library where foreign language material needs attention.
definition is supplied, and it does not take into account possible shades of difference of meaning among the six languages. It would still be an extremely useful hook far anyone working with technical terms in translation. L. G. M.
JWLIAN F. SMITH Lenoir Rhync College Hickory, North Carolina Spectra-Structure Correlation Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics. Volume 9, Multilingual Glossary
J . Thnulis, editor-in-chief, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Hamell, England. Maomillan Co., New York, 1964. xvi 988 pp. 19.5 X 25.5 cm. $60. separately. $298 per set.
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The ninth and final volume of the "Encyclopaedia Dictionary of Physics" is a multilingual glossary, embracing words and phrases of English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese origin. Ingenious in its organization, the glossary manages to treat more than 13,000 terms in s. single, large (hut not inordinately so) volume. Eseh English term is numbered, but not defined, and the reader is referred by number to the entry in each of the other languages. Should he start with the foreign expression, he will h d the number of the appropriate English term. The great advantage of the hook is its compression. I t does, however, demand comprehension of the English term since no
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John P . Phillips, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1964. ix 172 pp. Figs. and tables. 15.5 X 23.5 em. $6.
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The presentation and correlation of a large amount of spectral data from the far ultraviolet to the far infrared regions of the electromsgnetic spectrum is indeed a formidable task. The novelty of this volume summarizing the broad, gross spectral behavior of virtually all common functional groups and its utility to the practicing chemist should be apparent to every reader. The author has attempted to ~ r e a e nat balanced survev of absomtion mn~rt,rosmmvwith a minimum of details pertinent to rather specific molecular behavior. He has seeomplished this goal in a elem, well-written, well-referenced 160 pages. To many experienced spectroscopists, the work may seem rsbbreviated in the more frequently studied regions of the spectrum, such as the ultraviolet and infrared regions. However, for the chemist seeking information con-
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South Orange, New Jersey (Continued on page A548)
