Abstract
IN this second volume, which follows close upon its predecessor (see Nature, 163, 663; 1949), the constitution, occurrence, isolation and properties of several hundred compounds are discussed and documented with a precision and thoroughness (covering the literature up to 1948, inclusive) which leaves little room for comment. Each compound has a separate monograph, and there is an exhaustive subject-index. Dr. Frances Sterrett contributes a sixty-page appendix on the technique of preparing characteristic derivatives of the eight or nine chemical classes which comprise most of the compounds described.
The Essential Oils
By Dr. Ernest Guenthor. Vol. 2: The Constituents of Essential Oils. Co-Author, Dr. Darrell Althausen. Pp. xiii + 852. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.; London. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1949.) 75s. net.
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KELLETT, E. Apiole and Essence. Nature 164, 895–896 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164895a0
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