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<h2>Acta Crystallographica Section A</h2><h3>Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography</h3><h3>0567-7394</h3> <h2>book reviews</h2> Volume 38 Part 3 Pages 398-399 May 1982 <h2> Proceedings of the VIth international conference on Raman spectroscopy: linear and nonlinear processes edited by W. F. Murphy</h2> P. Gans Acta Cryst. (1982). A38, 398-399 Proceedings of the Vlth international conference on Raman spectroscopy: linear and nonlinear processes. Edited by W. F. MURPHY. Pp. xxvi + 710. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1981. Price US $86.50, Dfl 177.50. All of the papers presented at the Raman Spectroscopy Conference, which took place in Ottawa, in August 1980, are published here 'in condensed form'. The titles of the chapters in this volume are: Scattering by condensed matter; Applications of Raman and laser BOOK REVIEWS 399 spectroscopy; Raman studies of surfaces; Time dependence of scattering processes; Biological applications; CARS and other high-order processes. The total coverage is comprehen- sive with contributions from almost every important research worker who is active in these fields. If one wanted to assess the current state of the art this would be a good book to browse through, but should it have been published at all? All contributions are printed directly from masters provided (in typescript) by