1170 BOOK REVIEWS
explosion hazards of some 3,550 mixtures of two
or more potentially dangerous chemicals, arranged
alphabetically by chemical name.
5. Recommended System for the Identification
of the Fire Hazard of Materials (N.F.P.A.
704M>—system simplifying determination of a
given material's degree of health, flammability and
reactivity hazard, its reactivity with water, its
radioactivity hazards, and fire control problems.—
H. D. B.
NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIA-
TION. Fire Protection Handbook. 14th ed.
N.F.P.A. Catalog No. FPH-1476. National Fire
Protection Association, Publication Sales
Department, 470 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mas-
sachusetts 02210. 1,300 pp. $43.50.
First published in 1896 and, for many years,
known as the "Crosby-Fiske-Forster Handbook
of Fire Protection," this latest edition will feature
a new and more practical format.
Each of the 131 fact-packed chapters, contained
in 18 specific sections, has been carefully reviewed
by experts and updated to incorporate the latest
data on fire control and suppression. Six informa-
tive appendices have also been included.
The handbook has 790 illustrations, photographs
and diagrams, as well as a 50-page subject index.
Among important additions to the 14th edition
are: new sections on special fire protection prob-
lems and life safety hazards; 14 new chapters on
industrial and process hazards; and a new look
at transportation problems, including a chapter on
urban rail transit systems.—H. D. B.
BOARD ON AGRICULTURAL AND RENEWA-
BLE RESOURCES, COMMISSION ON NAT-
URAL RESOURCES, NATIONAL RE-
SEARCH COUNCIL. World Food and Nutrition
Study. Enhancement of Food Production for the
United States. Printing and Publishing Office,
National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitu-
tion Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418.
XIII + 175 pp. $6.00.
This report is the result of a request to the
National Academy of Sciences, by the President
of the United States, enlisting the aid of the
Academy "in a major effort to lessen the grim
prospect that future generations of peoples around
the world will be confronted with chronic shortages
of food and with the debilitating effects of mal-
nutrition," and requesting that the Academy, in
cooperation with the Department of Agriculture
and other governmental agencies, "make an as-
sessment of this problem and develop specific
recommendations on how our research and devel-
opment capabilities can best be applied to meeting
this major challenge."
The report has two parts. In Part One, the
contents are: Chapter 1—Introduction, 2—
Conclusions and Recommendations, 3—Opera-
tional Strategies for Science in U.S. Agriculture,
4—Technology Innovation Improvement for the
World Food System, and 5—Constraints on U.S.
Agricultural Production and Research: Federal
Regulations and Legislation.
Part Two has five sections. Section 1—Human
Nutrition, contains an Introduction and Chapter
6—Nutrition Research.
Section 2—Natural Resources Base, Input Man-
agement, and the Environment, contains an Intro-
duction, Chapter 7—Land Resource, 8—Water
Resource, 9—Fertilizer Resource, 10—The Clima-
tic and Weather Resource, 11—Energy Resource,
12—Crop and Livestock Production, and 13—
Manpower Education and Training Program.
Section 3—Production of Food and Feed Crops,
contains an Introduction, Chapter 14—Photo-
synthetic Productivity, 15—Biological Nitrogen
Fixation, 16—Crop Improvement, and 17—Forage
and Rangeland Improvement, Harvest and Proc-
essing Technology.
Section 4—Livestock, Poultry, and Fish Pro-
duction, contains an Introduction, Chapter 18—
Reproduction Efficiency, 19—Improved Effi-
ciency of Livestock Production, 20—Product
Quality and Consumer Acceptability, and 21—Fish
Production.
Section 5—Food Science and Technology, con-
tains an Introduction, Chapter 22—Losses in the
Food System, 23—Food Preservation and Proc-
essing, and 24—Distribution and Transportation.
Many chapters have a useful list of selected
references.—H. D. B.
SCRIMSHAW, N. S., D. I. C. WANG AND M.
MILNER. Protein Resources and Technology:
Status and Research Needs. Research Recom-
mendations and Summary. Superintendent of
Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C. 20402. X + 100 pp. $1.75.
This study, funded by the Research Applied to
National Needs program of the National Science
Foundation, and its preparation coordinated by the
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, had, as its objective, "the evalua-
tion of the United States' ability to meet both its