PREFACE 
This document is the eighth 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 seven volumes cover events from February 1975 through August 1982. 
This eighth volume covers events from September 1982 through September 1984. 
During this period, a conplete republication of the revised "NIH Guidelines 
for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules" was issued in the Federal 
Register on June 1, 1983. These appear in this volume. 
Vblumes 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 sane 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 Vblume 5, 017-040-00470-2. Vblumes 6 
and 7 are available fran the Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, National 
Institutes of Health, Building 31, Room 3B10, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. 
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