Solid state physics 3. Theory of lattice dynamics in the harmonic approximation by A. A. Maradudin, E. W. Montroll, G. H. Weiss and I. P. Ipatova

On p. 77, Table 4.6 gives data relating to the yttrium and rare earth iron garnets. These data are attributed to Pauthenet, Bertaut and Pauthenet, Rodrigue et al., Geller and Gilleo and to Tebble and Craik. Tebble and Craik refers to a book on 'Magnetic Materials' and therefore is a secondary reference, which, incidentally, contains all the data in this book and then some. None of the data come from the Geller and Gilleo paper. In fact all the 0 K spontaneous moment data come from other papers of mine (not cited) as do the compensation temperatures of Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho and Er iron garnets. The YblG compensation temperature comes from a paper by Henderson and White (not cited). The Curie temperature of yttrium iron garnet also comes from one of my papers (not cited). The remaining Curie temperatures of the rare earth iron garnets do not form a smooth curve when plotted against atomic number and I believe that it is unlikely that they would behave this way. On p. 83, reference is made to the Gilleo (1960) model and also to a 1960 paper of mine in which I used this model. However, subsequent investigation proved that this model was inadequate to describe the behavior of substituted ferrimagnetic garnets and the new model mentioned above was developed (1962). The typography of the book is very good. I have found about four mistakes, none being very serious. The book was originally written to provide a means "of directing the graduate student to the broad introductory treatment which he requires'. With some external aid, this book may serve that purpose.