This review, covering the period from December 1966 to November 1968, draws extensively from abstracts. Papers which were not published in English, French, German, or Hungarian were reviewed exclusively from abstracts.The procedures reviewed were found to be largely refinements of existing procedures.The trend noted in our previous reviews (30,402) continued: increasing automation (187, 281, 305), the use of computers (99, 433), and more rapid analysis. Fast steelmaking processes,