Abstract
W H de Jeu 1980 New York: Gordon and Breach ix + 133 pp price $32
It is to be regretted that the practice is growing, even among those knowledgeable in the field, of writing about liquid crystals as though a single type existed and the two processes for their formation produced similar molecular distributions. The distinction between thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals is not made in the title of this book.