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IT is with mixed feelings that we extend a welcome to yet another scientific journal. Enzymologia is edited by Dr. Carl Oppenheimer, assisted by an international group of distinguished collaborators, and bears the imprint of Dr. W. Junk, of The Hague, on its cover as publisher. It is to be an international monthly journal for the publication of researches relating to the enzymes. Two parts appeared, in July and August, containing twenty papers in English, French and German, and it is stated that two further parts are in the press. The subscription price for the volume of about 400 pages in six parts is 15 Dutch florins. We write “mixed feelings” because all of us, including the libraries which are the chief subscribers to the periodical literature nowadays, agree there are already too many journals both to read and to purchase. The advantages to the specialist in having his reading mainly provided for him in one journal are considerable, but against this must be set the inevitable curtailment of his general reading, tending to produce a narrow outlook. Notwithstanding these remarks, it is clear that a welcome awaits a journal devoted to progress in enzyme chemistry, the more especially since this is a field which is due for intense cultivation, leading to marked progress during the next few years. Enzymologia in no way conflicts with the now popular “Ergebnisse der Enzym-Forschung”, which is an annual summary. The issue of the new journal from The Hague is one more example, if such indeed were needed, of the progress of biological chemistry in Holland; the first issue begins appropriately with a contribution from a distinguished Dutchman, Prof. A. J. Kluyver of Delft.
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Enzymologia . Nature 138, 612 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138612a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138612a0