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Part 3 1s a single chapter devoted to the resolutton of ohgonucleotides and transfer RNAs. This is a large and expensive book, but it contains a vast’ amount of authoritative information, clearly presented and illustrated, in an area of great importance and rapid development. Alan Townshend
M. Pazzagli, E. Cadenas, L.J. Kricka, A. Roda and P.E. Stanley, Journal of Blolummescence and Chemrlummescence, Vol. 4. Studies and Applrcatlons m Biology and Medicme - Proceedmgs of the Vth International Symposmm on Blolummescence and Chemdummescence, Florence/ Bologna, Italy, September 25-29, 1988, Wiley, Chichester, 1989 (ISSN 0884-3996). vi + 646 pp. Price & 92.00. Chermluminescence (CL) is a phenomenon that intrigues scientists, and which is fmdmg increasing application in a wide variety of scientific endeavours, not the least of winch is analytical chemistry. This breadth of interest is clearly demonstrated in this volume, which contains 79 papers, arranged m sections devoted to immunoassays, low level CL, phagocytosts, genetic engineering and nucleic acid hybridization, applications of CL and biolummescence (BL) in microbiology, ATP and NADH detection, liquid chromatographtc detection, instrumentation, biosensors and clinical
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applicattons. There is also a dedication to the late Marlene DeLuca, the Marlene DeLuca Memorial Lecture (by J.W. Hastings) and a section in honour of W.D. McElroy (Prof. DeLuca’s husband) on aspects of BL. The volume is hard-bound, and has a SubJect index. Overall this is a very impressive collection of papers, at the frontiers of a very rapidly growing area of science.
D. Schultze (Ed.), Journal of Thermal Analysts. Proceedings of the Fourth European Symposium on Thermal Analysts and Calonmetry, 1987, Wiley, Chichester and Akadenuai Kiado, Budapest, 1988 (ISBN 55360 I-II). 1297 pp. Price US $ 60.00.
This is a collection of the plenary and award lectures and the numerous other papers presented at the above symposium held at Jena, August 23-28, 1988. It is produced as two hard-bound volumes, with a photograph of each plenartst and award winner delivering a lecture! The papers are grouped under theory, Instrumentation, earth sciences and raw materials, solid-state reactions (Vol. l), inorgamcs, glass and ceramics, medical and biological studies, organics and polymers, and some concluding lectures. There are author and SubJect indexes, but readers may initially be confused m that the contents list is at the end of each volume!