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THIS book is designed, the author says, for both the scientific and the practical man, and its general treatment indicates that the industrial aspect is that mainly envisaged by the writers. But the work merits a much wider circle of readers, and there are few students of marine zoology but will find it of extraordinary interest. Just as the older text-books of chemistry (such as Roscoe and Schorlemmer) gained enormously in attractiveness by their descriptions of commercial processes, so this book will supply material that has so far been sadly wanting, and will “brighten “the academic study of marine biology. Thus the descriptions of pearls, of the pearling industry, of the utilisation in industry of pearls and pearl shell, of the taking and treatment of the precious red coral, of the manu-facture of “pearl essence “from the scales of fishes, of the ruthless and repulsive industries connected with the capture of whales and seals, are interesting in the extreme, and nowhere else have they been done so well.
Marine Products of Commerce.
By Dr. Donald K. Tressler (with collaborators). Pp. 762. (New York: The Chemical Catalog Co. Inc., 1923.) 9 dollars.
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J., J. Marine Products of Commerce. Nature 113, 529 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113529a0
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