Abstract

<h2>Acta Crystallographica Section A</h2><h3>Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography</h3><h3>0567-7394</h3> <h2>book reviews</h2> Volume 26 Part 1 Pages 167-168 January 1970 <h2> Liquid crystals. Proceedings of the International Conference on Liquid Crystals, Kent State University, August 16-20, 1965 edited by G. H. Brown, G. J. Dienes and M. M. Labes</h2> E. Segerman Liquid crystals. Proceedings of the International Con- ference on Liquid Crystals, Kent State University, August 16-20, 1965. Coordinated by GLENN H. BROWN, G. J. DIENES and M. M. LABES. Pp. viii + 486. New York: Gorden & Breach, 1967. Price £ 15.5.0d. In the years following the publication of Molecular Structure and the Properties of Liquid Crystals (G. W. Gray, 1962, Academic Press), much important work has been done in this field. There has been a need for an up-to-date, coherent presentation of the properties of liquid crystals, and it was to be hoped that the book under review would do some- thing to meet this need. Although this does indeed give a wealth of information, it does not give the coherent and evaluative presentation that is required. The book is a collection of 30 papers presented at a conference on liquid crystals in 1965, which were