I suggested for one of the first ones, Spectroscopic Properties [Spectroscopic Properties of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds] – because that is one of the main... was one of the main ways of getting information – spectroscopic properties of inorganic and organometallic compounds. And there was one on nuclear magnetic resonance which sprung off separately from that later.

Now, that is still going on, 40 odd years later. It comes out annually and for the first nine years I was it. I was the Editor-in-General for the specialist periodical reports and in the end there were, I think, about getting on for 30 titles so you can imagine you’re getting a volume of 500 or 600 or 700 pages on one aspect, and there are 30 such volumes coming out each year. Clearly, you have to be selective in what you’re doing and what you’re buying and keeping up with.

But those spectroscopic properties were I think... we arranged it according to the wavelength of the... from far infrared and then there was electron quadrupole resonance, electron spin resonance. There was visible spectrum and of course Mössbauer spectra as well... and NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance. So those were the specialist periodical reports which are still being published and the team that I got to start with was in Newcastle because that was in the late ‘60s when the idea germinated first and then I carried that down and it was expanded, the group, when we came down to Leeds.