EDITORIALS 



A year's experience in the conduct of the Biochemical Bulle- 

 tin has induced us to change our plan of quarterly issue. The 

 manuscript of future numbers will be sent to the printer on the first 



New plan of ^^Y ^^ ^^^^^ natural quarter; the months of issue 

 quarterly issue of will be January, April, July and October; and 



the Bulletin ^^g contents of each issue will pertain to the quar- 

 ter preceding the month of issue. Volume II will close with the 

 July number. 



We congratulate President Taft and the country on the appoint- 

 ment of Dr. Carl L. Aisberg, in succession to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, 

 as Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. Dr. Alsberg's training in 



chemistry, in general biology and in medicine has 

 been unusually broad and deep. His chemical 

 knowledge, his sanitary comprehension, his scientific wisdom, and 

 his zeal as an investigator, have had exceptional fruitage through- 

 out his entire professional career. Admired as a gentleman by all 

 who know him and respected by his colleagues everywhere as a sci- 

 entist of eminent capacity, Dr. Aisberg is also universally esteemed 

 for his habitual fidelity to duty, his moral integrity and his high 

 professional purpose. We look forward with great confidence to 

 a career for Dr. Aisberg which will be distinguished by a patriotism, 

 a zeal in public Service, a personal courage, a common sense, a sci- 

 entific exactness, an aggressiveness in the detection of violations of 

 law, an executive capacity, that will be the delight of all his biochem- 

 ical colleagues and the pride of his countrymen — and in this faith 

 we tender him our felicitation and support. 



As we are about to close this issue of the Bulletin, we learn 

 that the following testimonial (as proposed by Prof. Graham Lusk), 

 which was sent a few days ago (Jan. 21) to about 275 of Dr. 

 Alsberg's fellow workers in the American Physiological Society and 



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