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systems they have mainly limited their treatment to the ideal cases that so seldom occur in practice. J. L. Oscarson and R. M. Izatt, in their contribution on "Calorimetry", give most emphasis to descriptions of types of calorimeters, with less attention to the principles and applications of calorimetry, with the result that the chapter is more a list of publications than an aid to the user. The chapter "Differential Thermal Methods", by J. Boerio-Goates and J. E. Callenan, is of very uneven quality. with numerous printing errors (including some in equations), an inadequately researched literature coverage, and not enough references to up-todate monographs and reviews dealing with new techniques and their applications.
These eight contributions together make up a volume in which much of the material is of excellent quality but some is in need of improvement. The editors ought to have paid attention to achieving better coordination between the contributions (and less repetition), ensuring that the same symbols were used for the same quantities throughout, eliminating obsolete units, and above all ensuring appropriate coverage of published work from outside the USA (especially when highly relevant). However. although the volume leaves much to be desired, it and the series to which it belongs should be in every library.