River Pollution 1-3. [antikvár]

PREFACE Following the appearance of my book 'Aspects of River Pollution', it was suggested in some quarters that Chapters 9 and 10 of that book, reviewing methods of detecting and determining the various forms of pollution and discussing the interpretation of the results, might well form the theme of a separate publication. The present volume represents, therefore, a revised version of those chapters which it is hoped will appeal to all interested in chemical analysis as applied to river pollution problems, sewage and trade wastes. The importance of analysis in helping to safeguard the purity of our rivers can hardly be overstressed. Since the larger work was written, two important practical handbooks on the analysis of effluents have appeared in this country. First, late in 1956, H.M. Stationery Office issued the Ministry's ' Methods of Chemical Analysis as applied to sewage and sewage effluents', a thorough revision of the original edition of 1929. Secondly, in 1958, there appeared for the first time in this country 'Recommended Methods for the analysis of trade effluents' prepared by a Joint Committee of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers and the Society for Analytical Chemistry; these methods have also been published individually in 'The Analyst' from January 1956 to April 1958. Advantage has been taken during the preparation of this book of incorporating the recommendations of these two publications. A bibliography of nearly 600 references has been appended, of which no less than 87 cover work published during 1957 and 1958, but many more would be needed for a complete literature survey. In this connection, it may be apt to point out that the ' Bibliography on water and sewage analysis' by B. H. Weil, P. E. Murray, G. W. Reid and R. S. Ingols, published in 1948 as Special Report No. 28, State Engineering Experiment Station, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., contains 2560 references. This useful and invaluable indexed guide carries the literature up to the end of 1947 but even then does not include every paper on water and effluent analysis. Other first-rate sources of analytical methods are the 'Analyst', the American 'Analytical Chemistry', the excellent 'Water Pollution Abstracts' published monthly for the Water Pollution Research Laboratory by H.M. Stationery Offlce, 'Chemical Abstracts' issued by the American Chemical Society, and