EDITORIALS 



WILLIAM J. GIES 



Beginning with this issue, the Biochemical Bulletin becomes 

 a monthly. Practically all the many mechanical obstacles in the 

 way of prompt distribution of the numbers in preceding volumes 



Biochemical have been diie to the comparative infrequency, 

 Bulletin: and the corresponding bulk, of quarterly publi- 



Past, present, future cation. We anticipate not only regularity in 

 monthly issuance of the Biochemical Bulletin,, but also contin- 

 ued improvement in the quality of the numbers, and in the timeliness 

 of the personal and professional "news items" that will remain one 

 of the Bulletin's general features. 



Coincident with this change in character, from a quarterly to a 

 monthly Journal, there has been an effective reorganization in the 

 editorial office. A special and systematic effort will be made regu- 

 larly to obtain " news items " from every biochemical laboratory 

 in this country and abroad, in Order that the Bulletin may mirror 

 biochemical events in the most complete and faithful manner, to the 

 credit and advancement of biochemistry. 



The difficulties which have persistently enforced delay in the dis- 

 tribution of the successive numbers of the Biochemical Bulletin 

 made it impossible to publish the first issue of Vol. IV (March) 

 before last June. The June and September numbers of Vol. IV 

 are in press and will be issued together in the course of a f ew days ; 

 the December number is in type and will follow soon thereafter. 

 Instead of permitting the excessive delay in the publication of these 

 back numbers to embarrass our purpose to issue the Biochemical 

 Bulletin monthly, beginning with Vol. V, we have adopted the 

 unconventional plan of going ahead promptly with the new program 

 and adjusting affairs on the old schedule as soon as possible. 



Our subscribers will find that the delayed issues are among the 

 most important in the series, and that the contained papers suffer 

 little, if any, from the enforced postponement in their publication. 



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