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IT is welcome to have under review at the same time three such excellent books on biochemistry dealing with different stages through which students in this science will he expected to pass.
(1) Outlines of Biochemistry: the Organic Chemistry and the Physicochemical Reactions of Biologically Important Compounds and Systems
By Prof. Ross Aiken Gortner. Second edition. Pp. xx + 1017. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1938.) 30s. net.
(2) Organic and Bio-chemistry
By Prof. R. H. A. Plimmer. Sixth edition. Pp. x + 623. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 21s. net.
(3) Biochemistry for Medical Students
By Dr. William Veale Thorpe. Pp. viii + 457. (London: J. and A. Churchill, Ltd., 1938.) 12s. 6d.
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T., J. (1) Outlines of Biochemistry: the Organic Chemistry and the Physicochemical Reactions of Biologically Important Compounds and Systems (2) Organic and Bio-chemistry (3) Biochemistry for Medical Students. Nature 144, 268 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144268a0
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