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ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOCHEMISTRY Vol. VI

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The preparation of a preface to each succeeding volume of the Reviete is somewhat more than a routine task of which we may duti- fully but, nevertheless, lightly dispose. We choose to regard it as an occasion to report upon changes in editorial policy, but even more as a pleasurable opportunity whereby we may join with our readers in paying tribute to the writers of these reviews. Their task has called for the exercise of judgment, discrimination, and forbearance under circumstances of unusual difficulty. Year by year severe restrictions have had to be imposed upon the lengths of the various reviews. Many substantial works have had to be placed aside-a circumstance which is trying to an author, if not vexatious.

The tide of papers of biochemical interest continues to rise but only a fraction can be selected for review. Over 10,000 abstracts of papers in biological chemistry appeared in Chemical Abstracts in 1936. The science has lost none of its youthful vigor. Even a casual reader cannot fail to be impressed by its lively activity, by the enthusiasm with which new regions are explored, and by the wealth of discovery which follows upon fundamental investigations in scattered fields.

Perhaps the only change in the composition of the Review to which we need refer is the inclusion of a subject index. A number of circumstances, now past, caused us to doubt the feasibility of includ- ing subject indexes in the earlier volumes, but we trust that the prepa- ration of a cumulative index at a later date may remedy this deficiency.

The policy of including a few reviews on subjects of a timely nature is to be continued. We are glad to publish in the present volume two such reviews-one on the applications of microchemistry to bio- chemical analysis and the other on the biochemistry of fish. Volume

VII will include reviews on insecticides and fungicides of plant originand on chemotherapy.

To those who have been good enough to make suggestions in re- spect to authorship and topics appropriate for review, who have re- minded us of corrections calling for notation among the errata, who have furnished the reviewers with reprints of their published works, or who have assisted in other ways, we express our sincere thanks.

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557.1(058) ANN I

Publisher

California : STANFORD O.P, CALIRNIA., 1937

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viii, 716 hal.: ill; 25 cm

Language

English

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557.1(058)

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VI

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Biological and Agricultural

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JAMES MURRAY LUCK

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