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to cancer tncldence today. Present cancer incidence ts probably much more closely related to concentrations 20-40 years ago. These will be valuable numbers for the study of the dlstributlon of environmental cancer around the turn of the Century. To their credit, the authors make no claims beyond some estimates of typical daily dose. Thus, a well-inspired study, a good idea to report it as a monograph rather than in fragments, and a final book that went to press a little too early. It will still bear careful study by those concerned with the ambient distribution of an tnterestmg list of compounds and elements. It is certainly to be hoped that an errata sheet will be put together and supplied to purchasers in the near future. JAMESP. LODGE,JR Note added in proof Thus review was transmitted in manuscript to the publisher, who has taken care of the matter of the “tables with missing data” and sent me a copy of the revised book. My appteciation of this publisher has greatly increased.
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egies, edited by Si Duk Lee, Toni Schneider, Lester D. Grant and Pietet Jan Verkak, Lewis Publishers, Inc., 121 South Main Street, P.O. Drawer 519, Chelsea, MI 48118, distributed by John Wiley Br Sons, Ltd. Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, England PO19 IUD, 1986, xxix+ 1221 pp. Price: $115.00. I may, at some time in the past, have told the story of the elderly clergyman who was nearly at the point of death. (If so, I hope it was long enough ago that at least some readers have not encountered it.) He was visited by an old member of his congregation, a rather gushy woman. Trying to put the best face on a sad matter, she exclaimed somewhat breathlessly, “Oh, Father, aren’t you happy to be going to the place. where there ate no more partings?” He broke into a big smile, and, with his last breath, replied, “And no mote meetings!” It was about the beginning of 1985 when I got a telephone call from the senior editor of the present volume. He told me of a large meeting planned for May of that year, and asked if I would be willing to serve on a summary panel at the end oft he meeting. He flattered me considerably, and eventually my ego succumbed to this treatment, and I agreed. Roughly a month passed, and it finally dawned on me that I had failed to ask an Important question. I called him. No, he replied, it would not be possible to pay my travel expenses; all the funds allocated for that purpose were already committed. Considering that the meeting was co-sponsored by the U.S. and Dutch Governments, this struck me as a bit of an insult. Nevertheless, I attended, and was glad that I had done so. The meeting was actually rather well set up, being held in the vast old resort hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia. The volume under review constitutes the Proceedings of that sizable meeting. There had been a six@ previous mating in this schedule of periodic aITairs co-sponsored by the USEPA and its Dutch counterpart, devoted to nitrogen oxides. I did not attend, but believe 1 have probably reviewed the Ptoccedings of that meeting. The present volume is far fatter. According to the Preface, there were some 300 participants (listed, somewhat misleadmgly, as a “List of Contributors” in the back of the book). There were said to be about 100 papers, and the significant but unstated number of poster presentations. So far as I can tell,
the latter ate not m the present volume, and the papers have been rearranged 10 make a coherent story, rather than appearing in chronological order of presentation--tlus In the light of the problems of concurrent sessions. Finally, each general track of the meeting had a rappotteur, and then summaries are prmted at the end of many of the sectrons. though not all. There are 15 sections, and the tnle of each sectIon acts as a runnmg head throughout that section. On a reverse of the title page of each section is a reproduction of the portIon of the table of contents applytng to that sectton. The concluding panel for the entire meeting had three or four members, but I seemed to have been the only one who submitted a manuscript. As a result, my brief contribution, for what tt is worth, appears m sohtary grandeur as an “epilogue.” In keeping with the conventions of conference proceedings, the volume opens with the speeches of the opening plenary, an introduction by Dr L. D. Grant, a general welcome by R. H. Fein, the Dutch Ambassador to the U.S.,a keynote by Lee Thomas, Administrator of EPA, and a general paper on environmental policy in The Netherlands by P. J. Verketk of the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planningand Environment of The Netherlands. At this point we come to the invited papers and the pages with Arabic numbers. The successive sectionsare an overview; aerosol characterization and distribution; sampling and analysis methodologies; atmospheric transport, transformation and deposition; stationary emissions and controls; mobile emissions and controls; respiratory deposition and clearance; toxicology; human studies; epidemiological studies effects on visibility and climate; effects on vegetation; effects on materials. risk assessment and economic impact, and policy on controls. There were attendas from eight other countries beside the two principals, none from the eastern bloc, and none from Africa or South America. Generally speaking, the papers, all invited, were authored by knowledgeable individuals or teams; in fact, with a few exceptions, the speakers’ lineup pretty well represented a “Who’s Who” of academic and government researchers in the respective areas of aerosol research. It is probably needkss to say that what appeared to be missing were those who fail to subscribe to the official dogmas, and those representing industry. Some of the latter were present, but clearly were not on the program. (Nothing in the above should be taken lo Indicate that I believe the two--industry people and agnostic-are a mutualIy exclusive pair of categories.) The mechanical production of this volume is up to the standard of this publisher. Virtually of necessity, considering the total wordage, it is printed in what appears to be about the l6-pitch type that I find a Iittle tiring to read in quantity, even with clean bifocals. The index is disappointingly shallow, apparently composed essentially of key words from subsectton headings. There is no author index, either at the level of authors of the printed papers or of bibliographic entries. The bibliographies of the individual papers ate in the order of citation. I spotted fewer than average typographical errors, but little seems to have been done to improve the English of papers presented by speakers for whom this was not the native language. Workers in all aspects of particulate pollutants will want to have access to this volume; it atfords a number of useful revjews, and a snapshot of the state of research in early 1985. As usual, many of the speakers did not present a tidy wrapup of work underway, saving that for the journals. Nevertheless, I expectto use this volume heavily in the next few years. JAMESP. LODGE,JR
Book Reviews
to cancer tncldence today. Present cancer incidence ts probably much more closely related to concentrations 20-40 years ago. These will be valuable numbers for the study of the dlstributlon of environmental cancer around the turn of the Century. To their credit, the authors make no claims beyond some estimates of typical daily dose. Thus, a well-inspired study, a good idea to report it as a monograph rather than in fragments, and a final book that went to press a little too early. It will still bear careful study by those concerned with the ambient distribution of an tnterestmg list of compounds and elements. It is certainly to be hoped that an errata sheet will be put together and supplied to purchasers in the near future. JAMESP. LODGE,JR Note added in proof Thus review was transmitted in manuscript to the publisher, who has taken care of the matter of the “tables with missing data” and sent me a copy of the revised book. My appteciation of this publisher has greatly increased.
Aerosols, Resurcb, Risk Assasmea t rd
co8tro1 stmt-
egies, edited by Si Duk Lee, Toni Schneider, Lester D. Grant and Pietet Jan Verkak, Lewis Publishers, Inc., 121 South Main Street, P.O. Drawer 519, Chelsea, MI 48118, distributed by John Wiley Br Sons, Ltd. Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, England PO19 IUD, 1986, xxix+ 1221 pp. Price: $115.00. I may, at some time in the past, have told the story of the elderly clergyman who was nearly at the point of death. (If so, I hope it was long enough ago that at least some readers have not encountered it.) He was visited by an old member of his congregation, a rather gushy woman. Trying to put the best face on a sad matter, she exclaimed somewhat breathlessly, “Oh, Father, aren’t you happy to be going to the place. where there ate no more partings?” He broke into a big smile, and, with his last breath, replied, “And no mote meetings!” It was about the beginning of 1985 when I got a telephone call from the senior editor of the present volume. He told me of a large meeting planned for May of that year, and asked if I would be willing to serve on a summary panel at the end oft he meeting. He flattered me considerably, and eventually my ego succumbed to this treatment, and I agreed. Roughly a month passed, and it finally dawned on me that I had failed to ask an Important question. I called him. No, he replied, it would not be possible to pay my travel expenses; all the funds allocated for that purpose were already committed. Considering that the meeting was co-sponsored by the U.S. and Dutch Governments, this struck me as a bit of an insult. Nevertheless, I attended, and was glad that I had done so. The meeting was actually rather well set up, being held in the vast old resort hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia. The volume under review constitutes the Proceedings of that sizable meeting. There had been a six@ previous mating in this schedule of periodic aITairs co-sponsored by the USEPA and its Dutch counterpart, devoted to nitrogen oxides. I did not attend, but believe 1 have probably reviewed the Ptoccedings of that meeting. The present volume is far fatter. According to the Preface, there were some 300 participants (listed, somewhat misleadmgly, as a “List of Contributors” in the back of the book). There were said to be about 100 papers, and the significant but unstated number of poster presentations. So far as I can tell,
the latter ate not m the present volume, and the papers have been rearranged 10 make a coherent story, rather than appearing in chronological order of presentation--tlus In the light of the problems of concurrent sessions. Finally, each general track of the meeting had a rappotteur, and then summaries are prmted at the end of many of the sectrons. though not all. There are 15 sections, and the tnle of each sectIon acts as a runnmg head throughout that section. On a reverse of the title page of each section is a reproduction of the portIon of the table of contents applytng to that sectton. The concluding panel for the entire meeting had three or four members, but I seemed to have been the only one who submitted a manuscript. As a result, my brief contribution, for what tt is worth, appears m sohtary grandeur as an “epilogue.” In keeping with the conventions of conference proceedings, the volume opens with the speeches of the opening plenary, an introduction by Dr L. D. Grant, a general welcome by R. H. Fein, the Dutch Ambassador to the U.S.,a keynote by Lee Thomas, Administrator of EPA, and a general paper on environmental policy in The Netherlands by P. J. Verketk of the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planningand Environment of The Netherlands. At this point we come to the invited papers and the pages with Arabic numbers. The successive sectionsare an overview; aerosol characterization and distribution; sampling and analysis methodologies; atmospheric transport, transformation and deposition; stationary emissions and controls; mobile emissions and controls; respiratory deposition and clearance; toxicology; human studies; epidemiological studies effects on visibility and climate; effects on vegetation; effects on materials. risk assessment and economic impact, and policy on controls. There were attendas from eight other countries beside the two principals, none from the eastern bloc, and none from Africa or South America. Generally speaking, the papers, all invited, were authored by knowledgeable individuals or teams; in fact, with a few exceptions, the speakers’ lineup pretty well represented a “Who’s Who” of academic and government researchers in the respective areas of aerosol research. It is probably needkss to say that what appeared to be missing were those who fail to subscribe to the official dogmas, and those representing industry. Some of the latter were present, but clearly were not on the program. (Nothing in the above should be taken lo Indicate that I believe the two--industry people and agnostic-are a mutualIy exclusive pair of categories.) The mechanical production of this volume is up to the standard of this publisher. Virtually of necessity, considering the total wordage, it is printed in what appears to be about the l6-pitch type that I find a Iittle tiring to read in quantity, even with clean bifocals. The index is disappointingly shallow, apparently composed essentially of key words from subsectton headings. There is no author index, either at the level of authors of the printed papers or of bibliographic entries. The bibliographies of the individual papers ate in the order of citation. I spotted fewer than average typographical errors, but little seems to have been done to improve the English of papers presented by speakers for whom this was not the native language. Workers in all aspects of particulate pollutants will want to have access to this volume; it atfords a number of useful revjews, and a snapshot of the state of research in early 1985. As usual, many of the speakers did not present a tidy wrapup of work underway, saving that for the journals. Nevertheless, I expectto use this volume heavily in the next few years. JAMESP. LODGE,JR