Magnus Pyke

Analytical Methods for Insecticides

Analytical Methods for Pesticides, Plant Growth Regulators, and Food AdditivesVol. 2: Insecticides. Edited by Gunter Zweig. Pp. xvii + 691. (New York: Academic Press, Inc.; London: Academic Press, Inc. (London), Ltd., 1964.) 164s.

Towards Food Science

Advances in Food ResearchVol. 11. Edited by C. O. Chichester, E. M. Mrak and G. F. Stewart. Pp. ix + 454. (New York and London: Academic Press, 1962). 103s. 6d.

Research on Food

Advances in Food ResearchVol. 8. Edited by E. M. Mrak and G. F. Stewart. Pp. xii + 437. (New York: Academic Press, Inc.; London: Academic Books, Ltd., 1958.) 12 dollars.Processed Plant Protein FoodstuffsEdited by Aaron M. Altschul. Pp. xv + 955. (New York: Academic Press, Inc.; London: Academic Books, Ltd., 1958.) 26 dollars.The Microbiology of Fish and Meat Curing BrinesProceedings of the Second International Symposium on Food Microbiology held at Cambridge (United Kingdom) in April, 1957. Edited by Dr. B. P. Eddy. Pp. vi + 336. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1958. Published for D.S.I.R.) 45s. net.Bibliography of FoodA Select International Bibliography of Nutrition, Food and Beverage Technology and Distribution, 1936–56. By E. Alan Baker and D. J. Foskett. Pp. xii + 331. (London: Butterworths Scientific Publications; New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1958.) 63s.; 11 dollars.Flavor Research and Food AcceptanceA Survey of the Scope of Flavor and Associated Research compiled from papers presented in a Series of Symposia given in 1956–1957. Pp. vi + 391. (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1958.) 10 dollars.

Four years of planned feeding in Great Britain.

TWO fundamental difficulties beset the scientific distribution of nutrients among the population of a warring nation of forty-seven million people. Leaving aside for the moment the immense practical administrative problems involved, there is first the lack of precise scientific information on a number of nutritional matters, and secondly, when the best scientific judgment available has been adopted, there is the difficulty of finding out whether the distribution of nutrients has, in fact, been effective ; and if it has, whether the health of the people is being maintained on a nutrient provision which is itself based on incomplete scientific data.