EDITORIALS 



WILLIAM J. GIES 



In our last preceding issue we apologized to our subscribers for 

 the unavoidable delay which had characterized the issuance of the 



successive numbers of the Biochemical Bul- 



urt er e ay m L^-pj^^ f rom the besfinning of its career. When 

 the issue of the , ' * . ^ , , , . 



Biochemical Bulletin ^^^^ apology was written we intended to begin 



Vol. IV with the January issue. Further diffi- 

 culties connected with the printing of this number, and the ensuing 

 delay, induced us, on Mar. 15, to send to the subscribers the follow- 

 ing announcement : 



The number of the Biochemical Bulletin now in press is the largest 

 ever issued. It greatly exceeded our expectations in difficulties attend- 

 ing its printing and its size, and unavoidable delay in its publication 

 has ensued. Instead of making this number the January issue, as we 

 intended to do, it will be credited to March and the four parts of 

 Volume IV will continue, as previously planned, to coincide with the 

 calendar year 191 5. This adjustment of our quarterly issues to the 

 conventional Mar.-June-Sep.-Dec. sequence will insure success in our 

 eflfort to " catch up with our schedule," and thereafter to issue the 

 numbers regularly " on time." This change will involve no financial 

 loss to any subscriber. On the contrary, Volume IV will be cor- 

 respondingly larger. 



As we go to press, much of the material originally put in type 

 for this issue, that could not be included here because of the ex- 

 cessive bulk of this number, is in course of adjustment for the June 

 issue, copies of which will certainly be distributed before the end of 

 that month. 



The result of a recent friendly "scrap" in the Amer. Biochem. 

 Society shows that the Constitution of that Organization is not a 



"mere scrap of paper," and that the society's 



Democratic conduct r <• , ,• j. u 11 



. , . form Ol government contmues to be unusually 



of the Amer. ... 



Biochemical Society democratic m character. 



The following is quoted from Article V of 

 the Constitution of the Amer. Society of Biol. Chemists : 



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