PREFACE 
This document is the ninth in a series constituting a "public record" of 
activities in regard to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guidelines 
for recombinant DNA research. 
The first eight volumes cover events frcm February 1975 through September 1984. 
This ninth volume covers events from September 1984 through March 1985. 
During this period, revised "NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant 
ENA Molecules" were published in the Federal Register on November 23, 1984. 
These revised Guidelines appear in this volume. 
Volumes 1 through 5 in this series may be purchased from the Superintendent of 
Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C. 20402, or 
viewed in seme 600 public libraries of the GPO depository system. The GPO 
stock number of Volume 1 is 017-004-00398-6; Volume 2, 017-040-00422-2 and 
(supplement: Environmental Impact Statement) 017-040-00413-3; Volume 3, 
017-040-00429-0 and (appendices) 017-040-00430-3; Volume 4, 017-040-00443-5 
and (appendices) 017-040-00442-7; and Volume 5, 017-040-00470-2. Volumes 6, 
7, and 8 are available from the Office of Reccmbinant DNA Activities, National 
Institutes of Health, Building 31, Rocm 3B10, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. 
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