In the preparation of this Handbook an effort has been made to allow those who did the work to describe, as far as possible, in their own language the work they did. It is therefore, save in the last chapter, a compilation rather than an original production. To avoid overloading the volume with footnotes, full acknowledgement of the material used is made in the Bibliography.

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