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Sir Alfrctl Jloiid hns arrircd in Jcrusalciii, and is staying with Sir Hcrbcrt Siiniucl at Covcniiiicnt Housc. A t tlio Ccntcnnry Celcbratioii in Copciiling.cn of tlic Socicty for thc Diffusion of X~nturd Philosopliy, Nick Bohr. On tho iiominntion of tho Dcprtmont of Scicritific und Industrial Rcscarch, Sir J. Broodbank lins bccn nppointctl to tlic cornmittcc of mnnngcmcnt of tlie Low Tumpertituro Stiition for Ilcsearch in Uiochcinistry and Uiopliysics nt Ciimbridgc. Dr. \V. Mnliowcr, for inany years Iccturer in physics in tlic Unircrsity of Jlnnclicstcr, and lntcly cliicf physicist to tho Diinlop RubLcr Co., lins Lccn nppointcd professor of scicncc a t tlic Royal JIilitnry Acadciiiy, in succcssion to Prof, J. Young, who had rctircd. Dr. A. do Mouilpied liud bccn appointed to tlic post, but rcsigncd beforo taking up thc nppoiiitiiicnt. Prof. L. JIrazec, tllc wcll-lcnoiim Ruinnninn pctroleum geologist, lias coniplctcd thirty ycnrv as profcssor of mincralogy and petrography ut tho Unircrsity of Bucharest. Ah, J. T. Wood, n director of Tiirncy Bros., Ltd., lenthcr mnnufncturcix, Nottingliaui, who died on Novcniber 9, lcft ElG,lGO, with nct pcrrronalty ;E13,509. Tho tcstutor left a gift of books to tlic Leatlicr Industries Department of tho Uiurcrsity of Lecds. Tho death is announccd of F. Rnssig, a ~vcll-laiow~i tar tcclinologist, a dircctor of tho Obcrschlcsischc Kokswcrke und Clicinischc Fnbrikcn 11.-C., ant1 of tho Chcm. Wcrko Obersclilcsicn C.ni.b.H., in Kin-tlc11burg.
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I n dcnling wit,li tlie cstinicition of cstrniicoiis stnrcli in iiiiistnril, no rcfcrciicc is mnilc to tlic microscopiciil ~nctliod, \vliicli is pcrlinps, on t,hc ~vliolc, t.lic. Iwst for tlir piiqmse, iiIid is, at nny nitc, onc which is oftcn cniploycd. Tlic scction on noii-glricosidnl bittcr prii
CHEMISTRY AND INDUSTRY 893 tlic book ; h i t evcn tlicse niinierous corrections fail to discount t,lie main criticism which is ndvnnccd. Froin tlic mtlictic point of view the book is distinctly iinattrcictivc, t.hc pnpcr, tlic printing, nnd tlic binding 1 x 4 ng poor. AN INTROUUCTIOS TO ORGASIC CIIE
CHEMISTRY AND INDUS'I'RY ## 449 prcscnt volume. Tlint it sliould h v c rcnched .z second edition of 11,OOO copies since 1920 is n clear indication of a considernble consumptioii and therefore of a favoiirnblc rcccption, ,which, it may be nddctl, is wcll dcscrretl ; for tlic author lins spared no
## RE dinzo-oxido wero received in 1894 by the anme post IIB tho Berichte, i n which the now product wns first descri bcd. Tho nuthor dorotes tlio lnst six chapters of tho work to n discussion nnd revioiv of tho various thcories of tho constitution of dinzo-dorivntivos from GriCss's timo down to