Acta Crystallographica

Acta Crystallographica is a new journal of crystallography published for the newly formed International Union of Crystallography by the Cambridge University Press. It is intended to replace former Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie, which between the two World Wars had attracted most of the original accounts of crystal structure analyses. In scope, however, it is intended to be wider, and sets out to reassemble the crystallographic work now scattered through a great variety of journals, and to be the main journal for experts in crystallography the World over. Six numbers are to be issued annually at a moderate cost made possible through subsidies from Unesco, and from numerous research associations and industrial firms in Britain and the United States. The first number, published in March, contains six full-length papers and three short communications on structure determinations of organic and inorganic substances ; together with notes and book reviews. The papers are clearly illustrated, and data and methods are set out in sufficient detail for assessing their reliability. Linked with this new publication will be periodic structure reports analogous to the seven volumes of "Strukturbericht" (1931–39) and also a second revised edition of the "International Tables for the Determination of Crystal Structure" (1935). The editor and co-editors are to be congratulated on so promising a first number of a new scientific journal which is really necessary.