BIOCHEMICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX 



WILLIAM J. Gl ES 



(Biochemical Lahoratory of Columbia University, at the College of Physicians 



and Surgeons, New York.) 



Biochemical literature is becoming so abundant and comprehen- 

 sive, and so detailed and miscellaneous, that earnest efforts to assimi- 

 late a considerable part of it are apt to induce severe attacks of indi- 

 gestion. Ways and means for rapid and accurate sifting and 

 Classification of subjects, experimental data, conclusions, and theo- 

 ries, gain importance witli the increase of activity, and the growth 

 of interest, in biochemistry. Appropriate year books, reviews, Zen- 

 tralblätter, and especially the Department of Biological Chemistry 

 in Chemical Ahstracts, acquire cumnlative usefulness as biochemical 

 research develops in quantity, variety and extent. 



The writer finds it very desirable to maintain a running, quar- 

 terly, card index of the titles of the papers in the leading biochemical 

 Journals. This index is particularly valuable during the intervals 

 between the publication of indices of volumes of abstracts and re- 

 views. In the belief that it may be helpful to others, a copy of a 

 portion of the index is presented below. Sections of the bibliog- 

 raphy and index will be printed regularly in the Biochemical Bul- 

 letin, if the writer's opinion on its probable general Utility proves 

 to be correct. 



In the appended bibliography, titles are shortened in a free and 

 easy manner, redundant words are ignored, common words are ab- 

 breviated, surnames of collaborators are connected by hyphens, and 

 punctuation marks are omitted, for the sake of condensation. Vol- 

 ume numerals are given in Roman, and the Arabic numerals imme- 

 diately following them, or placed at the beginning of sections, desig- 

 nate respective issues of the volume ; numerals separated by a slanted 

 line indicate month and day of issue. The numeral at the end of 

 each item is that of the initial page of the corresponding paper. 

 The numeral at the beginning of each item indicates sequence in the 



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