review surveys developments in the field of gas chromatography since publication of the last review in this series (496) and covers the years 1970-71. Gas chromatography continues to be one of the most active areas in analytical chemistry. A recent report by the American Chemical Society ( 791) is based on the employment specialty choices of 84,925 chemists and chemical engineers who reported to the 1970 National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel, an activity of