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Inorganic quantitative analysis. By C. W. Griffin. 2nd ed. The Blakiston Co., New York, 1954. 417 pp. 16 × 23.5 cm. Price $4.75
July, 1954
SCIENTIFIC EDITION
Symposium on Protein Metabolism. Proceedings of the Nutrition Symposium held a t the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 30, 1953. Nutrition Symposium Series, No. 8. The National Vitamin Foundation, Inc., New York, 1954. 107 pp. 15.5 x 23 cm. Paper bound. Price $1.50. This small book contains a series of seven papers presented to a symposium on protein metabolism sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies and of the Department of Public Health Nutrition of the University of Toronto. The papers presented were selected t o cover topics giving a broad picture of problems in protein metabolism. The coverage of these papers can best be visualized by the following titles: “The Relation of Vitamin BS and Riboflavin to Protein Metabolism,” by J. R. Beaton; “The Interrelationship Between Vitamin BIZ,Steroids and Proteins,” by Bacon F. Chow; “Role of the Vitamins in Antibody Production,” by A. E. Axelrod and J. Pruzansky; “Effects of Growth Hormone Preparation on Protein Metabolism,” by Oliver H. Gaebler; “The Amino Acid Requirements of Man,” by Ruth M. Leverton; “Factors Influencing Amino Acid Utilization in Tissue Protein Synthesis,” by Paul R. Cannon, Laurence E. Frazier, and Randolph H. Hughes; and “Amino Acids and Protein in Therapy,” by Herbert Pollack. Principles of Biochemistry-A Biological Approach. By M. V. TRACEY.Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York, Toronto, London, 1954. 194 pp. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Price $4. This book presents a survey of biochemistry as a whole. It is divided into four parts. In Part I, consisting of four chapters, energy stores; organizational stores; and growth, differentiation, and reproduction are covered. Part I1 is devoted to specialization for size and competition, discussing specialization in relation t o environment; competition between organisms; structure; transport and coordination; and waste products. In Part 111 specialization by energy source is presented and phototrophes, chemotrophes, necrotrophes, and biotrophes are discussed. The approach throughout the book is primarily biological, but it is written sufficiently clearly so that it should be of use t o chemists with an interest in biochemistry.
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main body of the book, more than 300 pages of tabulations, may easily be used without any knowledge of Italian. It is preceded bytwo chapters which, concisely and clearly, discuss the history of the subject, definitions, theoretical considerations, techniques, the necessary apparatus, solvents, and reagents.
Inorganic Quantitative Analysis. By C. W. GRIFFIN. 2nd ed. The Blakiston Co., New York, 1954. 417 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $4.75. The first edition of this book was published in March, 1949. The second edition which was completed in January, 1954, follows, in general, the design established for the earlier edition. It is intended to present a course of study in elementary inorganic chemistry requiring one year of work. The balance between the theory and experimental work appears t o be satisfactory. The book begins with chapters on general operations and equipment; accuracy, precision, errors, and significant figures; the analytical balance and weighing; calibration of volumetric apparatus; quantitative separations; and fundamental principles of volumetric analysis. The treatment of volumetric analysis precedes the work on gravimetric separations, but the user of the book could very conveniently reverse the treatment if he so desired, Chapters on potentiometric titrations, electroanalysis, and colorimetry are also included. The value of the book as a teaching tool is enhanced by a series of questions and problems at the end of each chapter designed t o test the student’s grasp of the subject matter including the theory, the principles involved, and other applications of the procedures studied.
Melhoden der Organischen Chemie (Houben-Weyl). 4th ed. Vol. VII, Part I: Sauerstoffverbindungen 11, Part I, Aldehyde. By OTTOBAYER. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1954. xxiii 556 pp.. 18 x 26.5 cm. Price $19.50; (Subscription Price $17.55). Organic chemists will be pleased t o learn of the appearance of a third volume in the series constituting a complete revision of Houben-Weyl. As was pointed out in the description of the first volume t o be released by the publishers [THIS JOURNAL,42, 643 (1953)], the volumes constituting the new revisAnalisi Cromatografica su Carta. By GUISEPPE ion will not appear in numerical sequence. AccordSCHOEN. SocietA editoriale Farmaceutica, Milan, ingly, the first volume published constituted 1954. 352 pp. Illustrated. 17 x 24.5 cm. Volume VIII of the series and covered the third part Price L.3.000. of the oxygen-containing compounds. Following The field of chromatographic analysis has been this, Volume I1 on analytical methods was com43, 254 steadily expanding since the day when Tswett pleted and released [see THISJOURNAL, (1906) first published his work on absorption chrom- ( 19w1. It was originally planned t o include methods used atography. Paper chromatography, in particular, has assumed a continually increasing importance in in the preparation and transformation of all carbonyl medicine, biology, and chemistry. Consequently, compounds in a single volume. As the work progressed, however, the author found that the extent an up-to-date compilation of the results obtainedand this one includes 1953 references-is more than of recent advancements in preparative methods for welcome. The mode of presentstion, by way of aldehydes was so voluminous that the number of graphs and tables and with bibliographies a t the end pages assigned for Volume VII was quite insufficient of each chapter, makes it easy t o find either the to cover the field. Consequently, this volume will technique t o be applied in each case, or the results appear in two parts, of which this is the first. The text is logically divided into three main obtained by earlier investigators. Their data have parts. Part A includes seven chapters dealing with been sifted critically so as t o exclude results that were incomplete or insufficiently controlled. The the preparation of aldehydes. I n the first chapter,
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SCIENTIFIC EDITION
Symposium on Protein Metabolism. Proceedings of the Nutrition Symposium held a t the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 30, 1953. Nutrition Symposium Series, No. 8. The National Vitamin Foundation, Inc., New York, 1954. 107 pp. 15.5 x 23 cm. Paper bound. Price $1.50. This small book contains a series of seven papers presented to a symposium on protein metabolism sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies and of the Department of Public Health Nutrition of the University of Toronto. The papers presented were selected t o cover topics giving a broad picture of problems in protein metabolism. The coverage of these papers can best be visualized by the following titles: “The Relation of Vitamin BS and Riboflavin to Protein Metabolism,” by J. R. Beaton; “The Interrelationship Between Vitamin BIZ,Steroids and Proteins,” by Bacon F. Chow; “Role of the Vitamins in Antibody Production,” by A. E. Axelrod and J. Pruzansky; “Effects of Growth Hormone Preparation on Protein Metabolism,” by Oliver H. Gaebler; “The Amino Acid Requirements of Man,” by Ruth M. Leverton; “Factors Influencing Amino Acid Utilization in Tissue Protein Synthesis,” by Paul R. Cannon, Laurence E. Frazier, and Randolph H. Hughes; and “Amino Acids and Protein in Therapy,” by Herbert Pollack. Principles of Biochemistry-A Biological Approach. By M. V. TRACEY.Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York, Toronto, London, 1954. 194 pp. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Price $4. This book presents a survey of biochemistry as a whole. It is divided into four parts. In Part I, consisting of four chapters, energy stores; organizational stores; and growth, differentiation, and reproduction are covered. Part I1 is devoted to specialization for size and competition, discussing specialization in relation t o environment; competition between organisms; structure; transport and coordination; and waste products. In Part 111 specialization by energy source is presented and phototrophes, chemotrophes, necrotrophes, and biotrophes are discussed. The approach throughout the book is primarily biological, but it is written sufficiently clearly so that it should be of use t o chemists with an interest in biochemistry.
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main body of the book, more than 300 pages of tabulations, may easily be used without any knowledge of Italian. It is preceded bytwo chapters which, concisely and clearly, discuss the history of the subject, definitions, theoretical considerations, techniques, the necessary apparatus, solvents, and reagents.
Inorganic Quantitative Analysis. By C. W. GRIFFIN. 2nd ed. The Blakiston Co., New York, 1954. 417 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $4.75. The first edition of this book was published in March, 1949. The second edition which was completed in January, 1954, follows, in general, the design established for the earlier edition. It is intended to present a course of study in elementary inorganic chemistry requiring one year of work. The balance between the theory and experimental work appears t o be satisfactory. The book begins with chapters on general operations and equipment; accuracy, precision, errors, and significant figures; the analytical balance and weighing; calibration of volumetric apparatus; quantitative separations; and fundamental principles of volumetric analysis. The treatment of volumetric analysis precedes the work on gravimetric separations, but the user of the book could very conveniently reverse the treatment if he so desired, Chapters on potentiometric titrations, electroanalysis, and colorimetry are also included. The value of the book as a teaching tool is enhanced by a series of questions and problems at the end of each chapter designed t o test the student’s grasp of the subject matter including the theory, the principles involved, and other applications of the procedures studied.
Melhoden der Organischen Chemie (Houben-Weyl). 4th ed. Vol. VII, Part I: Sauerstoffverbindungen 11, Part I, Aldehyde. By OTTOBAYER. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1954. xxiii 556 pp.. 18 x 26.5 cm. Price $19.50; (Subscription Price $17.55). Organic chemists will be pleased t o learn of the appearance of a third volume in the series constituting a complete revision of Houben-Weyl. As was pointed out in the description of the first volume t o be released by the publishers [THIS JOURNAL,42, 643 (1953)], the volumes constituting the new revisAnalisi Cromatografica su Carta. By GUISEPPE ion will not appear in numerical sequence. AccordSCHOEN. SocietA editoriale Farmaceutica, Milan, ingly, the first volume published constituted 1954. 352 pp. Illustrated. 17 x 24.5 cm. Volume VIII of the series and covered the third part Price L.3.000. of the oxygen-containing compounds. Following The field of chromatographic analysis has been this, Volume I1 on analytical methods was com43, 254 steadily expanding since the day when Tswett pleted and released [see THISJOURNAL, (1906) first published his work on absorption chrom- ( 19w1. It was originally planned t o include methods used atography. Paper chromatography, in particular, has assumed a continually increasing importance in in the preparation and transformation of all carbonyl medicine, biology, and chemistry. Consequently, compounds in a single volume. As the work progressed, however, the author found that the extent an up-to-date compilation of the results obtainedand this one includes 1953 references-is more than of recent advancements in preparative methods for welcome. The mode of presentstion, by way of aldehydes was so voluminous that the number of graphs and tables and with bibliographies a t the end pages assigned for Volume VII was quite insufficient of each chapter, makes it easy t o find either the to cover the field. Consequently, this volume will technique t o be applied in each case, or the results appear in two parts, of which this is the first. The text is logically divided into three main obtained by earlier investigators. Their data have parts. Part A includes seven chapters dealing with been sifted critically so as t o exclude results that were incomplete or insufficiently controlled. The the preparation of aldehydes. I n the first chapter,
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