Annual Review of Biochemistry 1947 [antikvár]

PREFACE With the post war period of rehabilitation slowly in progress the resumption of international co-operation in the things of the mind is both hopeful and encouraging. The background is a world that stubbornly persists in attempting to be more than one world. The foreground is the unity and potentialities of Science as a unifying influence: an adequately verified discovery reported from Addis Ababa is just as meaningful as one from anywhere else; and the mind of man functions through the same kind of a cerebral cortex in the East as in the West. It is good to learn that journals of originál publication, suspended during the war, are gradually being revived. The flow of literature from country to country is rapidly being resumed. International conferences of scholars are again being held and visits of scientists from country to country are again becoming possible. All these, and other, evidences of cultural exchange and international amity in the world of scholarship are of great significance. In this present volume of the Annual Review of Biochemistry it is a pleasure to report that about 25 per cent of the reviews were written by our colleagues abroad, an encouraging approach to the prewar average of about 50 per cent. We regret that a review on the nucleoproteins which we had hoped that Professor E. Hammarsten might prepare did not materialize, likewise one on the waxes by Professors Chibnall and Piper. Publication of papers on chemistry of penicillin will become permissible in September, 1947. This will allow us at last to include the critical review which we have long hoped to publish, now scheduled for inclusion in Volume XVII. We are continually reminded by our colleagues abroad of their very great need for reprints of current papers and of others published during the years of the war. These can be especially useful to the contributors selected for forthcoming volumes of the Annual Reviews. In order to encourage the dispatch of reprints we present on the next three pages the names and addresses of those who are expected to participate in authorship of forthcoming volumes of the three Reviews. We are, as ever, extremely grateful to the many who have con-