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that is not devoted wholly to research. Get me? I had a warm con- 

 versation on the subject with . . . a few days ago and may send you 

 a reflection of (and on) it for the September issue. I hope the 

 Bulletin will continue in professional Opposition to all who feel that 

 the Americax. Biochemical Society ' has no business zvith cthics.' " 



These quotations breathe a spirit of freedom, and show the 

 devotion to high professional ideals, that we want the Biochemical 

 Bulletin to embody andwhich, if our colleagues actively cooperate 

 with US, will always animate it. 



Occasionally we learn that some narrow niinded colleague fails 

 to understand how Johns Hopkins Hospital can have the effrontery 

 to issue a Bulletin of international interest and value. He wants 

 Biochemical BuUetin: to know, as he wamis to the subject, why the 

 Why? Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole,- 



Mass., is so lost to decency as not only to maintain a Biological 

 Bulletin of world wide acceptance, which is bad enough, but also to 

 publish " local stuff " in it, which is worse than worse. Carried far 

 beyond American shores by his merciless inquiry, he would like 

 some one to explain, and that without any evasion, why Dr. B. 

 Moore foisted his excellent Bio-Chemical Journal — one more — on 

 the biochemical public and brazenly as well as successfully issues 

 it " From the Bio-Chemical Department ^ Johnston Laboratories, 

 University of Liverpool." Our narrow niinded c. demands more 

 Information on several such fibrillating subjects, altho the Journals 

 issued by Fake, Skinnem, and Graft, do not excite him. Last and 

 certainly least, as his devastating glance sweeps the journalistic 

 horizon, our narrozv m. c. wants to be " shown" the justification for 

 the feverish zeal and disquieting devotion of the Columbia Uni- 

 versity Biochemical Association — he is impatient to discover the 

 disguised reason for its very evident purpose to be as useful as 

 possible and to do, for the sheer love of it, all the work necessary 

 for the establishment and continuance of the Biochemical Bul- 

 letin on a high plane of active Service in the advancement of 

 chemical biology and the promotion of biological chemistry as a 

 useful and honorable profession, Why all this, he asks peremptorily. 

 why! WHYÜ 



