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permeability, EKG), with less data being presented on histopathological changes (bone marrow, heart, lung, kidneys). It may also be useful in documenting recommendations for maximum permissible doses and similar applications. Because so relatively few scientists in this country read Russian, much of the literature originating in the U.S.S.R. is virtually inaccessible unless translations such as this are achieved. The publishers and translators are rendering a valuable service in making this work available. It sometimes happens that translations of technical books lose something in translation because of the lack of familiarity of the translator with the technical expressions peculiar to the field in one or both of the languages involved. This problem seems to have been avoided in this volume by having the translation edited by a member of the M.R.C. Group for Research on Bone-seeking Isotopes, which gives the English version an authoritative ring and undoubtedly contributed to the general smoothness with which it does read.