ABSTRACTS OF BIOCHEMICAL LITERATURE 



Department of Biological Chemistry in Chemical Abstracts 



WILLIAM J. GIES 



With the publication of the first number of Chemical Abstracts 

 in Pctober, the writer succeeded Professor Lafayette B. Mendel in 

 the editorship of the Department of Biological Chemistry,^ A plan 

 for the Classification of the biochemical abstracts was inaugurated 

 in the issue of October 20. The Classification is intended to facili- 

 tate access to all the abstracts pertaining to any general biochemical 

 subject in a given issue. The plan has been growing in effectiveness 

 with each succeeding number of Chemical Abstracts. In the issue 

 of December 10 the biochemical abstracts were grouped under the 

 following heads : General, methods and apparatus, bacteriology, 

 botany, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, zoology. 



Dr. C. F. Langworthy, editor of the Department of Nutrition in 

 Chemical Abstracts, having long desired to resign that editorship, 

 retired on October 31. Dr. Langworthy had been the editor of the 

 Department of Nutrition from its establishment and had made the 

 department one of the most serviceable in Chemical Abstracts. The 

 writer succeeded Dr. Langworthy and has beenclassifying the nutri- 

 tion abstracts in each issue in two sections : Normal and abnormal. 



Beginning with the first issue in January, 19 12, the former De- 

 partments of Biological Chemistry, Immunochemistry, and Nutri- 

 tion, in Chemical Abstracts, will be merged in an enlarged Depart- 

 ment of Biological Chemistry under the writer's general editorship. 

 This merger will effect a very gratifying coordination of all the 

 essentially biochemical abstracts in each issue. The abstracts will 

 be grouped in sections, under the supervision of assistant editors. 

 There will also be a comparatively large addition to the number of 

 abstractors.^ 



^Biochemical Bulletin, 1911, i, pp. 141 and 160. 



* The abstractors in each of the three departments under the old regime will 

 continue in practically every case under the new. The names of the abstractors 

 will be published in the March issue of the Biochemical Bulletin. 



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