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THE issue of the two index parts of Science Abstracts completes the physics and the electrical engineering volumes for 1933. More than 260 periodicals are dealt with by the editor and his 71 abstractors for physics and 57 for electrical engineering. Each volume has between 30 and 40 more pages than the volume for last year. 5,491 abstracts of average length 0-247 page relate to physics and 3,078 of average length 0-257 page to electrical engineering. In each case the average length is nearly the same as last year. Reference to the abstracts is greatly facilitated by the extensive indexes provided. In the physics volume the subject index covers 208 pages and there is a key to the subject index of 15 pages and an author index of 76 pages. In the electrical engineering volume the subject index has 109 and the author index 45 pages, but there is no key. Each volume seems indispensable to the physicist or to the electrical engineer who wishes to keep himself up to date, but while every member of the Physical Society and possibly of the American Physical Society gets a copy of the physics volumes the Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineer, reported in May last that only 9 per cent of its members subscribed for copies of the electrical engineering volume.
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Science Abstracts. Nature 133, 492 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133492b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133492b0