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reject the mother liquors, and send us preparations of " tested 

 purity " ! 



The constructive work involved in making the Bulletin a 

 "going concern" has left us httle time or opportunity to mature our 

 plans for strong "reviezu" features in every issue. Steps to this 

 end have, however, already been taken. 



The reception accorded the Biochemical Bulletin has been 

 so hearty and the manuscript for succeeding issues is so abundant, 

 that promise of a successful career for this Journal stimulates 

 thoughts of the possible estabHshment of a Biochemical Review in 

 Charge of a body of editors from the biochemical profession at 

 large. If such a Journal could be established the Biochemical 

 Bulletin would coöperate in the consummation of the project and 

 might thereafter be devoted wholly to local affairs. 



The Biochemical Bulletin is an ardent believer in biological 

 chemistry as a science and an earnest advocate of it as a profession. 

 We favor the continued independent existence of the American So- 

 American Society of ciety of Biological Chemists. Any movement 

 Biological Chemists intended to effect a merger of the American 

 Society of Biological Chemists with any other Organization to the 

 detriment of biological chemistry as a profession would be opposed 

 openly and candidly on these pages. We do not agree with the 

 very recent dictum of an eminent American physiologist that " bio- 

 logical chemistry is an upstart" among the sciences, and that as 

 such it should be adopted into a respectable family and brought up 

 under a new name that would obliterate its past and give it a bril- 

 liant future. Five years ago when the American Society of Bio- 

 logical Chemists was organized, Professor Abel made a satisfying 

 public Statement of the reasons why biological chemists should per- 

 fect an independent professional Organization. We commend Pro- 

 fessor Abel's Statement now to the attention of all who may be 

 interested in seeking the dismemberment of the National Biochem- 

 ical Society. (See the Proceedings of the American Society of 



