I. Introduction 548
1. Brief data on the electronic structure of transition element atoms 548
2. Some data on the electronic properties of transition metals 553
3. General qualitative ideas on the electronic structure of crystals containing transition element atoms 566
II. Elementary Electron Theory of Transition Metals 569
4. Band model of transition d-metal crystals 570
5. Model of interacting valence (outer) electrons and electrons of the inner unfilled shells [s–d(f) exchange model] 577
Literature. I 589
III. Properties of spin system of transition metal. 6. Hamiltonian of the electron system of transition metal. 7. Spin polarization of conduction electrons. 8. Indirect exchange interaction between electrons of spin-unsaturated shells via the conduction electrons. 9. Spin-wave theory of ferromagnetic metal. 10. Spin-wave theory of antiferromagnetic metal. 11. Magnetic relaxation and resonance in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic metals. 12. Magnetic scattering of slow neutrons in a ferromagnetic metal. IV. System of conduction electrons in a transition metal. 13. Energy of conduction electrons in a ferromagnetic transition metal. 14. Effective interaction between conduction electrons through the spin waves and the influence of this interaction on the superconducting state. 15. Condition for the existence of a superconducting state in a ferromagnetic metal. 16. Anomalous electric resistivity of ferromagnetic metal. V. Conclusion. Literature, II.