Book Reviews PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL- UME I: THEORY AND APPLICATION, edited by Leslie G. Chatten, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 1966. 504 pages, indexed. Price $14.50. The scope of this text can most ac- curately be described as analytical pharmaceutical chemistry. It is the first volume of a two-volume series which is intended as a text for senior undergraduate and graduate phar- macy students. It deals with theo- retical and practical considerations of gravimetric analysis, acid-base ti- trations and pH, precipitation and complex formation, acidimetry and alkalimetry, nonaqueous titrimetry, complexometric analysis, alkaloidal assay, miscellaneous methods, ion exchange, chromatography, and anal- ysis of fixed oils and volatile oils. Vol- ume II will cover the theory and ap- plication of instrumental techniques. This book is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which has been writ- ten by a different contributing au- thor. The joint authorship has an international character with contrib- utors from the United States, Canada, and England. Each of the authors is a teacher of pharmaceutical chemis- try or a related discipline of phar- macy. 831 Considering this organizational ap- proach, the material •vithin the book is surprisingly wdl presented and inte- grated. Only a slight tendency to- ward repetition is evident, and this is often justified for the sake of com- pleteness within each chapter. An ample number of references are listed at the end of each chapter for those interested in further pursuing a par- ticular topic. The reviewer believes that this book provides a significant advance over some previously available under- graduate texts in analytical pharma- ceutical chemistry in that emphasis has been placed on basic theory and applications of specific methods rather than on official assay proced- ures in the official compendia. The text helps to give insights into the of- ficial United States Pharmacopoeia and British Pharmacopoeia assay methods, but only as examples of the basic methods which are described in length. For individuals who have not been directly involved in analytical chem- istry, this book can serve as an excel- lent review and provides the opportu- nity to assimilate new methodology which has been added to the field in recent years.

832 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS This text is recommended as a gen- eral review and reference text for those interested in updating their knowledge of analytical chemistry and analytical pharmaceutical chem- istry.--P^UL TnAu--CIBA Pharma- ceutical Company. OIL, DETERGENTS AND MAINTENANCE SPECIALTIES. VOLUME I: MATE- RIALS AND PROCESSES, edited by Ben- jamin Levitt. Chemical Publishing .Company, Inc., New York. 1967. 280 pages indexed. Price $13.75. This is the first of two volumes deal- ing with all aspects of fats and oils in- cluding raw materials, manufacturing processes, test methods and applica- tions. This volume deals primarily with materials and manufacturing processes, although many formula- tions are included. Volume II will deal with additional applications. After a brief introduction, this book is divided into eight chapters: ani- mal fats and oils vegetable fats and oils fatty acids and alcohols sur- factants production of fats and oils soap manufacture synthetic deter- gents and analysis of oils and deter- gents. Since all of the topics covered in these chapters have already been the subjects of full length volumes, the author could include only a small frac- tion of the information available on each topic. Unfortunately very few references are listed, and many of the classic texts on oils and fatty acids are not mentioned at all. Yet, there is much useful informa- tion in this book, and it should be of value to individuals who are not di- rectly involved with fats, oils and de- tergents but would like a handy refer- ence work on these subjects.--T. KAUFM^N--Drew Chemical Corp. MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS FOR TECnNOLOGISTS, by H. G. Cuming and C. J. Anson. Chemical Publish- ing Company, Inc., New York, N.Y. 1967. 400 Pages, indexed and illus- trated. Price $12.50. This is a most unusual and valuable book for the industrial scientist, but it is not entirely what its title implies. A more appropriate name, which would describe over 75% of the con- tents (and, in my opinion, all of the more valuable material) might be, "A Concise Review of College Mathe- matics for Teehnologists." The value of the book lies in the fact that most of the material (351 of the 400 pages) comprises a lucid and suednet presentation of nearly every important topic in college mathe- matics normally encountered by the undergraduate chemist or engineer, but aimed specifically toward the needs of the adult professional who may wish a relatively painless refresh- er course. I believe that any such person who has studied the topics cov- ered, even several decades ago, will find the book easy to study as well as an excellent reference work. Despite the brevity of most of the topics, all are treated with clarity and vigor, al- though with no attempt to develop