Metallurgy

Abstract

THE literature of corrosion is extensive and at the same time widely scattered, so that a student of the subject feels the need of a bibliography more than in most branches of applied physical chemistry. Several attempts at such a compilation have been made, but certainly with less success than in the present work, which is likely to prove of great value to chemists and to metallurgists. At first sight it may be thought that the classification which Dr. Vernon has adopted is not the simplest, since there is no alphabetical index of authors, and the arrangement is one of many sections, each of which covers a definite part of the subject. After using the book for a short time, however, it is found that there is no difficulty in tracing any required paper the author of which is known, whilst a thorough system of cross-references ensures that the papers likelv to have a bearing on any particular question can be traced with little effort. The bibliography has responded well to the test of looking for known memoirs.

A Bibliography of Metallic Corrosion: comprising References to Papers on Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Corrosion (including Methods of Protection) published up to end of 1927.

Greatly enlarged from a Bibliography prepared for the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association and privately issued to its Members. By Dr. W. H. J. Vernon. Pp. xi + 341. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1928.) 21s. net.