Volume VIII

Houben-Weyl, Die Methoden der organischen Chemie, Third Edition, Four Volumes, 1925-1941 Fourth Edition, Volume VIII, 1952 Volume n, 1953 and subsequent volumes (G. Thieme, Stuttgart). 

Frank C. Whitmore, Editor-in-chief. 105 pages. Volume VIII. 

S. L. Freiss, E. S. Lewis, and A. Weissberger, Technique of Organic Chemistry, Volume VIII, Investigation of Rates and Mechanisms of Reactions, Parts One and Two, Second Edition, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1961. 

I hank C WinrMORF 1 ililor in Chief 105 pages Volume VIII. 

Of the special features included in previous volumes, all have been retained except the collection of later references to preparations in preceding volumes. This will appear again in Volume VIII. A few corrections to some of the earlier preparations are included in the Appendix. The editors acknowledge their appreciation of the help given by those submitting the corrections, and invite any comments on the preparations in any of the volumes. 

The book was a great success, and a few years later Meyler started to publish what he called surveys of unwanted effects of drugs. Each survey covered a period of two to four years. They were labelled as volumes rather than editions, and after Volume IV had been published Meyler could no longer handle the task alone. For subsequent volumes he recruited collaborators, such as Andrew Herxheimer. In September 1973 Meyler died unexpectedly, and Elsevier invited Graham Dukes to take over the editing of Volume VIII. 

Advance in Chemical Physics, Volume VIII Edited by R. Daudel Copyright 1965 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

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