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ANYONE familiar with present developments on the academic side of micro-molecular chemistry and physics cannot fail to be impressed by the contributions made to the subject by Prof. H. Mark, now of the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, New York. In this Institute there has been established a Bureau of High-Polymer Research, the business of which is to carry out research on all problems of high-polymer chemistry and to organize and to conduct courses of instruction and also discussions on various aspects of the subject. In order to let the scientific public know more about the activities of the Bureau than would be gleaned by reading papers in the scientific journals, a Polymer Bulletin, issued bi-monthly, has made its appearance under the editorship of Paul M. Doty. The first number gives a brief description of some of the equipment of the laboratory and of the researches now in progress, but not yet published in the usual journals. While this preview of what is to come from the laboratory is of great interest to high-polymer chemists, it is somewhat unusual, and incidentally an interesting experiment, to find an academic laboratory publishing its own 'science news'. Thus yet another publication is added to the list which a busy investigator must scan to make sure that his own work is not likely to be out of date before it is published. In a quickly advancing subject like high polymers, at the present stage the desire to found new journals inevitably arises; the measure of success depends upon what support is given to the venture in its initial stages.
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High Polymer Bulletin . Nature 156, 167 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156167b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156167b0