The chemistry of heterocyclic compounds. Vol. 14. Pyridine and Its derivatives. Part 1. Edited by Erwin Klingsberg. Interscience Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N. Y., 1960. x + 613 pp. 15 × 23 cm. Price $49. Subscription $42

The chemistry of heterocyclic compounds. Vol. 14. Pyridine and Its derivatives. Part 1. Edited by Erwin Klingsberg. Interscience Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N. Y., 1960. x + 613 pp. 15 × 23 cm. Price $49. Subscription $42

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Medicinal Chemisfry. 2nd ed. Edited by ALFRED Recent Progress in Hormone Research. Vol. 16. Edited by GREGORYPINCUS.Academic Press BURGER. Interscience Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Inc., 111 Fifth Ave., Kew York 3, N. Y., 1960 Ave., New York 1, N. Y . , 1960. xiii 1243 pp. viii 608 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $14. 17.5 X 25 cm. Price $337.50. Reports on recent investigations presented at the In the revision of his excellent treatise 011 medicinal chemistry, Professor Burger has eulisted the 1959 Laurentiaii Hormone Conference are grouped aid of 34 contributors. This was done in order to under the main headings: Mechanisms of hormone complete a comprehensive revision before portions action, Peptide hormones, Thyroid hormones, and Hormones and ~iietabolistn. Discussions of reports of the material became out-dated. The expansion of the subject since the first edition of 1951 is in- are included and author and subject indexes are dicated by an increase of 12 new chapters. The appended. book is still designed for the more advanced reader and to point the direction of research needed in Pr6cis de Chirnir Hiologiyue. Yol. 2 . By J. E. medicinal chemistry. The thoroughly splendid COCRTOISand K. PERLBS. Masson e t Cie., development and presentation of the text material 120, boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris 6‘, France, follows the standard set in the two volumes of the 1960. viii 620 pp. 16 X 21 cni. Price 46 first edition which were reviewed in THISJOURNAL, NF. 40, 167,417(1951). A new twocolumn format and Subjects covered in Vol. 2 of this textbook are: slightly larger pages have enabled the increased material of the second edition t o be published in one Lipides, Proteins, and Experimental functional volume. The reference value of the book is en- exploration. A notice on Vol. 1 appeared in THIS JOLRNAL,49, 182( 1960). hanced by the adequate subject index.

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Pharmucology and Therapeutics. 4th ed. By ARTRm GROLLMAN.Lea & Febiger, Washington Square, Philadelphia 6. Pa., 1960. 1079 pp. 15 x 23.5 cm. Price $12.50. Publication of the fourth edition of this book only two years after the third edition indicates the author’s attempt to keep pace with the rapid changes, especially in therapeutics and drugs. Included are new sections on corticosteroid therapy, treatment of cancer, present-day use and understanding of tranquilizers, the newer hormones, and psychic energizers. All the drugs introduced during the two years prior t o the revision of the text are included. Designations of oficial preparations refer to U. S. P. S V arid S . F. S . It is a useful reference and textbook. Oxidation-Reduction Potentials of Organic. Sysfrnis. By W. MANSFIELDCLARK. The Williams & Wilkins Co., $28 East Preston St., Baltimore 2, Md.. 1960. xi 4- 5% pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $13.50.

In referring t o the usefulness of the material in this book, the author states: “It should be clearly understood that when concepts of mechanisms and structures are used the purpose is to provide a neat organizatbn of relations; confirmation of what is predicted by the final equations does not necessarily prove the postulates.” More than 100 tables of data are included in this trustworthy text. Index Chemicus. Edited by EUGENEGARFIELD. Institute for Scientific Information, 1122 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia 23, Pa., 1WO. 131 pp. 21.5 X 28 cm. Paperbound. Issued monthly. Price $250 per year Educational, $500 per year Industrial. A new (Vol. 1. No. 1) monthly index of new chemicals (3518 in this issue) includes listings of chemical names, structural diagrams, molecular formulas, and complete bibliographical references. Indexes will be cumulated quarterly and yearly.

Galenisches Praktikum. By KURT MUNZEL,JAKOB BUCHI,and OTTO-ERICH SCHULTZ. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., Stuttgart. Germany, 1959. 1114 pp. 16 X 24 cm. Price DM 142. The “Galenical Handbook” is a textbook (in German) on pharmacy. It is comprehensive in its coverage of procedures. with many examples of formulations included. The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds. Vol. 14. Pyridine and Its Derivatives. Part 1. Edited by ERWINKLINGSBERG.Interscience Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., Xew York 1, N. Y., 1960. x 013 pp. 1.5 X 23 cm. Price $49. Subscription $42. Part one of a four-part monograph includes: Properties and reactions of pyridine and its hydrogenated derivatives, by R. A. Barnes; and Synthetic and natural soiirces of the pyridine ring, by F.Brody and P. R. Ruby.

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Biochemistry of Plants and Animals. By M. FRANKMALLETTE,PAULM. ALTHOUSE, and CARL 0. CLAGETT. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Ave., New York 16, N. Y., 1960. xiii 552 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $8.50. A broad treatment of biochemistry is used to cover a wide variety of topics in the biological, physical, and agricultural sciences at the elementary level. This book replaces “Introduction to Agricultural Biochemistry” by Dutcher, Jensen, and Althouse (Wiley, 1951).

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Clinical Chemistry. Principles and Procedures. 2nd ed. By JOSEPH S. ANNINO. Medical Book Department, Little, Browu & Co., 34 Beacon St., Boston 6, Mass., 1960. xviii 348 pp. 15.5 X 23.5 cm. Price $8. A textbook for students of clinical chemistry on the basic technical level, the major part of the text (pp. 75-339) is de-roted to specific methods of clinical analysis.

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