PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
- Chymia. Annual Studies in the History of Chemistry. Edited by Henry M. Leicester. Volume 8. Pp. 180. Pennsylvania University Press. London: Oxford University Press. 1962. Price 40s.
- This volume of Chymia opens with a contribution from Martin Levey, entitled "The Aqrābādhīn of al-Kindī and Early Arabic Chemistry". The remaining nine articles are headed, respectively, "Copper and Copper Alloys in Ancient Argentina" (G. A. Fester) ; "Humanism in Chemistry" (Marie Boas Hall); "Solution Analyses prior to Robert Boyle" (Allen G. Debus); "William Lewis (1708–81) as a Chemist" (Nathan Sivin); "Observations sur la Mine de Fer de Bagory (1767): an unpublished manuscript by P.-J. Macquer" (R. G. Neville); "The History of Acetone, 1600-1850" (Mel Gorman); "From Elective Affinities to Chemical Equilibria: Berthollet's Law of Mass Action" (Frederic L. Holmes); "Humphry Davy's Adversaries" ( J. Z. Fullmer); and finally, "The Develop-ment of Metal Hydride Chemistry" (Eduard Farber).
- A name index is appended.
- Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et de leurs Applications. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (Annual subscription to Great Britain and the Commonwealth, 30s.).
- Tome XVI, No. 3 (July—September), 1963.