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Progress in biochemistry
BOOK
159
REVIEWS
named lactogen on p. 507. It would be easier a uniform terminology in future volumes.
for the general CHOH
Ha0
reader
if the editor
LI, Berkeley,
Progress in Biochemistry. By FELIX HAUROWITZ, Professor University, S. Karger, Basel, and Interscience Publishers, xii and 405 pp. Price $7.50.
adopted
California
of Chemistry, Indiana Inc., New York, 1950.
The original German edition of this excellent volume published in 1948 under the title Fortschritte der Biochemie: 1938-1947 was reviewed in Archives of Biochemistry 21, 462 (1949). According to the author, about one-fifth of the original text has been rewritten at the cost of eliminating a report on most of the work published before 1939. The quality of the American edition is the equal of its original. The translation may, however, unfortunately, contribute to increase the inertia of graduate students in using the German language, still indispensable in the sciences. F. F. NORD, Metabolism and Function. A Collection of Papers Dedicated the Occassion of his 65th Birthday. Edited by D. NACHMANSOFIN. Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1950. 348 pp.
New
York,
N. Y.
to Ott,o Meyerhof on Elsevier Publishing
This volume is a bound collection of reprints of papers, the original edition of which appeared as an issue of Biochimica et Biophysicu Acta, Vol. 4 (1950). It contains seven research papers on Muscle, six research papers on Nerve, three research papers on Drug Action, and twenty-two research papers on Intermediate Metabolism. F. F. NORD, New York, N. Y. Hormone Assay. Edited by C. W. EMMENS, Department of Veterinary Physiology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Academic Press Inc., New York, N. Y., Coincident with rapid progress in recent years in 1950. xii + 556 pp. Price $10.00. the purification of hormonal substances and their identification in body fluids, there has existed necessarily a constant demand for quantitative assay procedures. For the most part, assay methods of adequate precision and specificity have been developed. Ordinarily the literature on bioassay and chemical methods for hormones are widely scattered and it is most appropriate at this time that a volume devoted exclusively to methods becomes available. In Hormone Assay, Professor Emmens as Editor has enlisted the aid of 17 collaborators, each of them widely recognized in endocrine research, and with assay methodology in particular. Well-recognized and widely employed methods for the greater part are presented in detail. Lesser well-known procedures are outlined as suggestive of ultimate usefulness but for full details one would find it necessary to consult the original papers, references to which are entirely adequate. References to qualitative tests are omitted except in cases when the development into quantitative techniques seems possible. The tist chapter by Professor Emmens calls attention to the need for statistical evaluation of biological or chemical assay and gives details of the various mathe-
159
REVIEWS
named lactogen on p. 507. It would be easier a uniform terminology in future volumes.
for the general CHOH
Ha0
reader
if the editor
LI, Berkeley,
Progress in Biochemistry. By FELIX HAUROWITZ, Professor University, S. Karger, Basel, and Interscience Publishers, xii and 405 pp. Price $7.50.
adopted
California
of Chemistry, Indiana Inc., New York, 1950.
The original German edition of this excellent volume published in 1948 under the title Fortschritte der Biochemie: 1938-1947 was reviewed in Archives of Biochemistry 21, 462 (1949). According to the author, about one-fifth of the original text has been rewritten at the cost of eliminating a report on most of the work published before 1939. The quality of the American edition is the equal of its original. The translation may, however, unfortunately, contribute to increase the inertia of graduate students in using the German language, still indispensable in the sciences. F. F. NORD, Metabolism and Function. A Collection of Papers Dedicated the Occassion of his 65th Birthday. Edited by D. NACHMANSOFIN. Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1950. 348 pp.
New
York,
N. Y.
to Ott,o Meyerhof on Elsevier Publishing
This volume is a bound collection of reprints of papers, the original edition of which appeared as an issue of Biochimica et Biophysicu Acta, Vol. 4 (1950). It contains seven research papers on Muscle, six research papers on Nerve, three research papers on Drug Action, and twenty-two research papers on Intermediate Metabolism. F. F. NORD, New York, N. Y. Hormone Assay. Edited by C. W. EMMENS, Department of Veterinary Physiology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Academic Press Inc., New York, N. Y., Coincident with rapid progress in recent years in 1950. xii + 556 pp. Price $10.00. the purification of hormonal substances and their identification in body fluids, there has existed necessarily a constant demand for quantitative assay procedures. For the most part, assay methods of adequate precision and specificity have been developed. Ordinarily the literature on bioassay and chemical methods for hormones are widely scattered and it is most appropriate at this time that a volume devoted exclusively to methods becomes available. In Hormone Assay, Professor Emmens as Editor has enlisted the aid of 17 collaborators, each of them widely recognized in endocrine research, and with assay methodology in particular. Well-recognized and widely employed methods for the greater part are presented in detail. Lesser well-known procedures are outlined as suggestive of ultimate usefulness but for full details one would find it necessary to consult the original papers, references to which are entirely adequate. References to qualitative tests are omitted except in cases when the development into quantitative techniques seems possible. The tist chapter by Professor Emmens calls attention to the need for statistical evaluation of biological or chemical assay and gives details of the various mathe-