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To maintain a really adequate private library is unfortunately beyond the means of many chemists, who depend for their guidance to progress in their science on a carefully selected collection of monographs, summaries and abstracts. Among these signposts none is better known or more appreciated than this series of annual publications which, together with the series of reports on pure chemistry published by the Chemical Society, afford a very comprehensive survey extending to some of the farthest boundaries of the field. The success of such a survey depends in no small measure on the degree to which the contributors, forty-two in number, succeed in presenting a connected story rather than a mere collection of relevant abstracts, and there is evidence of considerable attention having been paid to this fact. On the other hand, a report is not an essay, and it is the business of the reporter to give chapter and verse for his statements, so that the harvest of references to original papers and their abstracts is as rich as ever.
Reports of the Progress of Applied Chemistry
Issued by the Society of Chemical Industry. Vol. 20, 1935. Pp. 819. (London: Society of Chemical Industry, 1936.) 12s. 6d. (to members, 7s. 6d.).
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E., A. Reports of the Progress of Applied Chemistry. Nature 137, 683 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137683a0
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