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Book reviews
Chromatographic Reviews. Progress in Chromatography, Electrophoresis and Related Methods. Volume 2. Edited by M. LEDERER. Elsevier Publishing Company, 1960. pp. viii +195. 46s.
JUST as volume 1 of this compilation contained review articles which were published in the Journal of Chromatography during 1958, the present volume contains reviews which appeared in the Journal during 1959. The six reviews reprinted are: Review of Gas-Liyuid
Chromatography
(43 pp. 619 references)
by C. J. Hardy and F. H. Pollard
(Bristol), Starch Electrophoresis:
I. Starch Block Electrophoresis
(15 pp. 62 references) by H. Bloemendal
(Amsterdam), Paper
Chromatography
of Dinitrophenylamino
Acids (45 pp. 100 references)
by G. Biserte et al.
(Lille), The Chromatography ofthe FlavanoidPigments (24 pp. 91 references) by J. B. Harborne (Hertford), The Separation of Different Types of Human Haemoglobin (42 pp. 84 references) by H. K. Prins
(Amsterdam),
and
Inorganic and Precipitation
Chromatography
(20 pp. 211 references)
by E. Hayek (Innsbruck).
The paper by Biserte et al., originally printed in French, has been translated into English, as has Hayek’s review, which first appeared in German. A critical discussion of six reviews on such widely differing aspects of chromatography is clearly beyond the scope of a single reviewer. Commenting in general terms only, the articles are comprehensive within the limitations of their size and they are sufficiently well referenced to be of value to all workers interested in the topics discussed. The literature coverage is commendably up-to-date, bearing in mind the initial date of publication; but inevitably in a subject of such rapid growth the reviews have become outdated in certain aspects during the year pending unrevised re-issue. For example, in gas-liquid chromatography, the now established use of capillary or open tubular columns and ionisation detectors gains only cursory mention in Hardy and Pollard’s paper. The volume is well produced and is adequately indexed. The text is relatively free from errors as is to be expected for a second printing, but a few mistakes remain, e.
Optische Daten zur Bestimmung
anorganischer
Substanzen
mit dem Polarisations-Mikroskop.
KORDES. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1960. Pp. xi + 192, with 8 separate Tables.
ERNST
DM 43.-.
THIS work will undoubtedly prove a valuable reference book for the practising chemical microscopist. It presents, systematically arranged, the optical properties of more than 1200 isotropic, uniaxial and biaxial inorganic materials, together with other properties (crystal form and habit, colour, melting point, hardness, solubility, density) that are of value in the identification of microscopic samples. Literature references are included for each substance. In addition, the optical properties are arranged in condensed tabular form, and are also presented graphically as a series of separate folded diagrams contained in a pocket in the back cover. The value of the book is enhanced by the provision of two admirable colour plates, showing the various types of interference figures, and by a really excellent summary, some twenty pages long, of the methods for determining optical properties using the polarising microscope. This last, although
Book reviews
Chromatographic Reviews. Progress in Chromatography, Electrophoresis and Related Methods. Volume 2. Edited by M. LEDERER. Elsevier Publishing Company, 1960. pp. viii +195. 46s.
JUST as volume 1 of this compilation contained review articles which were published in the Journal of Chromatography during 1958, the present volume contains reviews which appeared in the Journal during 1959. The six reviews reprinted are: Review of Gas-Liyuid
Chromatography
(43 pp. 619 references)
by C. J. Hardy and F. H. Pollard
(Bristol), Starch Electrophoresis:
I. Starch Block Electrophoresis
(15 pp. 62 references) by H. Bloemendal
(Amsterdam), Paper
Chromatography
of Dinitrophenylamino
Acids (45 pp. 100 references)
by G. Biserte et al.
(Lille), The Chromatography ofthe FlavanoidPigments (24 pp. 91 references) by J. B. Harborne (Hertford), The Separation of Different Types of Human Haemoglobin (42 pp. 84 references) by H. K. Prins
(Amsterdam),
and
Inorganic and Precipitation
Chromatography
(20 pp. 211 references)
by E. Hayek (Innsbruck).
The paper by Biserte et al., originally printed in French, has been translated into English, as has Hayek’s review, which first appeared in German. A critical discussion of six reviews on such widely differing aspects of chromatography is clearly beyond the scope of a single reviewer. Commenting in general terms only, the articles are comprehensive within the limitations of their size and they are sufficiently well referenced to be of value to all workers interested in the topics discussed. The literature coverage is commendably up-to-date, bearing in mind the initial date of publication; but inevitably in a subject of such rapid growth the reviews have become outdated in certain aspects during the year pending unrevised re-issue. For example, in gas-liquid chromatography, the now established use of capillary or open tubular columns and ionisation detectors gains only cursory mention in Hardy and Pollard’s paper. The volume is well produced and is adequately indexed. The text is relatively free from errors as is to be expected for a second printing, but a few mistakes remain, e.
Optische Daten zur Bestimmung
anorganischer
Substanzen
mit dem Polarisations-Mikroskop.
KORDES. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1960. Pp. xi + 192, with 8 separate Tables.
ERNST
DM 43.-.
THIS work will undoubtedly prove a valuable reference book for the practising chemical microscopist. It presents, systematically arranged, the optical properties of more than 1200 isotropic, uniaxial and biaxial inorganic materials, together with other properties (crystal form and habit, colour, melting point, hardness, solubility, density) that are of value in the identification of microscopic samples. Literature references are included for each substance. In addition, the optical properties are arranged in condensed tabular form, and are also presented graphically as a series of separate folded diagrams contained in a pocket in the back cover. The value of the book is enhanced by the provision of two admirable colour plates, showing the various types of interference figures, and by a really excellent summary, some twenty pages long, of the methods for determining optical properties using the polarising microscope. This last, although