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ANALYSES OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS, Volume 1, by Jiirgen Angerer, Central Institute for Occupational Medicine, D-2000 Hamburg 76, and KarlHeinz Schaller, University Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, D-8520 Erlangen, 222 pages (including 31 figures, 41 tables, and an address list of Members and Guests of the Working Subgroup “Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials” of the Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area (Chairman: Dietrich Henschler, University of D-8700 Würzburg)), linen, format 245 × 176 mm, ISBN 3-527-260951-1, VCH-Verlagsgesellschaft, D-6940 Weinheim (1985), DM 90.

MUTAGENICITY TESTING IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION CONTROL, Series in Analytical Chemistry, edited by K. F. Zimmermann, Technical University D-6100 Darmstadt and R. E. Taylor-Mayer, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania 16507, U.S.A., 195 pages (including an introduction, references added to each chapter, 50 figures, 34 tables, a good index of 7 pages (in which one misses however arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium and nickel), linen, format 247 × 173 mm, ISBN 0-85312-681-X, Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex PO19 lEB, England (1985), £27.50.

CHEMICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING BIO-AVAILABLE METALS IN SLUDGES AND SOILS, edited by R. Leschner, D-1000 Berlin, R. D. Davis, Medmenham, Bucks. SL7 2HD, U.K. and P. L'Hermite, C.E.C., B-1050 Brussels, 96 pages (including 28 figures, 33 tables, newest literature references, an address list of 40 experts (mainly from governmental and university institutes), but no index), linen, format 228 × 148 mm, ISBN 0-85334-359-4, Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, Barking, Essex IG11 8JU, U.K. (1985), £20.

HEAVY METALS IN NATURAL WATERS (Applied Monitoring and Impact Assessment), by James W. Moore and S. Ramamoorthy, Alberta Environmental Centre, Vegreville, Alberta TOB 4L0, Canada, 268 pages (including 48 figures, 85 tables, references added to each chapter, three appendices on production and uses of metals, on physical and chemical terms, and on common and scientific names of fishes, and an index of 6 pages), cloth, format 242 × 159 mm, ISBN 3-540-90885-4, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg-New York-Tokyo (1984), DM 108, US$40.30.

CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY AND CLINICAL CHEMISTRY OF METALS, edited by Stanley S. Brown, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, U.K. and John Savory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A., 416 pages (including 86 figures, 72 tables, references added to each chapter, and author index of 4 pages, and a subject index of 6 pages), linen, format 235 × 158mm, ISBN 0-12-137520-X, Academic Press Inc. Ltd., Oval Road, London NW1, England (1983), US$38.50.