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THE appearance of the first index volume, covering the whole of the abstracts in pure and applied chemistry issued during 1926 under the direction of the Bureau of Chemical Abstracts, is a notable achievement. Marking, as it does, the completion of the first period in what promises to be a valuable co-operative and unifying enterprise, it represents a definite British contribution to the armoury of chemical knowledge and research. So far as the fields of physical, inorganic and organic chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical technology are concerned, few investigations of real importance, few new facts or measurements, few patents of chemical processes, can have failed to be reported in the abstracts on which this index is based. Since the rate of advance in any branch of knowledge so largely depends on an adequate acquaintance with the experimental results and theoretical views which form the starting-point of any new research, the efficiency of the abstracting and indexing service is a matter which closely concerns every investigator, teacher, and student.
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British Chemical Abstracts1. Nature 119, 805–806 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119805a0
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