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In the consummation of this plan the writer will have the 

 Cooperation of the colleagues named in the appended list of sections 

 and sectional editors : 



A. General — Prof. Frank P. Underhill, Yale University. 



B. Methods and apparatus — Prof, Stanley R. Benedict, 



Cornell University Medical College. 



C. Bacteriology — Dr. Ernest D. Clark, New York Botanical 



Garden. 



D. Botany — Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, Bureau of Plant Industry, 



U. S. Department of Agriciilture. 



E. Nutrition (Normal and Abnormal) — Prof. P. B. Hawk, 



University of Illinois. 



F. Physiology — Prof. Andrew Hunter, Cornell University. 



G. Pathology'^ — Prof. H. Gideon Wells, University of Chicago, 

 H. Pharmacology — Prof, Alfred N. Richards, University of 



Pennsylvania. 

 I. Zoology — Dr. Ross A. Gortner, Carnegie Institution's Sta- 

 tion for Experiniental Evolution. 



Professor Mendel created the Department of Biological Chem- 

 istry in Chemical Abstracts five years ago and, with the earnest 

 Cooperation of an able corps of abstractors, made the department 

 a great success in every respect. We hope the enlarged Department 

 of Biological Chemistry will fully meet the expectations of all who 

 use Chemical Abstracts. We have accepted our responsibilities in 

 this work in the conviction that the prompt preparation and presenta- 

 tion, in English, of satisfactory abstracts of the entire biochemical 

 literature is a professional and public function of great general use- 

 fulness. We hope that every biological chemist will be a " constant 

 reader" of the biochemical abstracts, and that all biologists will con- 

 tinually avail themselves of the opportunity to obtain from Chem- 

 ical Abstracts the gist of the great mass of biochemical information 

 which is presented on its many pages and which is essential in the 

 development of biological investigation. 



* The former Department of Immunochemistry, edited by Professor Wells, 

 will be merged, with Professor Wells' approval and Cooperation, into the Section 

 of Pathology. 



