“…Several far-infrared spectrometers reaching out to 150 microns wave length have recently been constructed (323,374,446,478,623,653). At the same time there has been an increase in interest in the near infrared (77,501,502) sparked by the new, fast, sensitive near-infrared detectors (76,419,509,510,554). The results obtained in these two regions are assuming enough importance to merit a later separate section in this review.…”