This is the third part of a series of bibliographical surveys of the literature of spectrochemical analysis. The first part (second edition) was published in 1941 and covered the literature for the years 1920 through 1939, with 1467 references. The second part, published in 1947, included about 1044 references with detailed abstracts to articles appearing in 1940 through 1945. In preparing the third part of this series, for the years 1946 through 1950, we found a definite preference among users for the inclusion of abstracts, and, accordingly, this practice has been continued. Part III, then, closely resembles Part II in form, with references and abstracts listed chronologically by year and in alphabetical order of the first author's name in each year. A detailed subject index is again provided and, in addition, an author index is included in the present compilation. A difference will be found in Part III in the spelling of certain authors' names, particularly those of Spanish or Russian origin; the spelling now follows closely that of Chemical Abstracts. |