“…The first such review was on the subject of Environmental Analysis. 1 Other reviews that first year were on the subjects of: Clinical Materials, Foods and Beverages, 2 Instrumentation, 3 Chemicals, Iron, Steel and Non-Ferrous Metals, 4 Atomisation and Excitation 5 and Minerals and Refractories. 6 The first issue of JAAS was special and included a foreword from Professor T. S. West, 7 a pre-eminent atomic spectrometrist who was at the time also the Secretary General of IUPAC.…”