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Recently there has appeared the first number of the new journal, Heredity, devoted, as its name indicates, to genetics (Nature, 159, 599; 1947). In the past fifty years, this science has seen an expanding flow of publications—a flow which the War did little to check. Before 1939 this increase was matched by the increasing number of journals which offered facilities for the publication of findings in genetics; but far from the increase in means of publication continuing, the War has led to a reduction in the number of genetics journals in Europe. The appearance of a new one is therefore particularly welcome at the present time. Heredity is jointly edited by Dr. C. D. Darlington and Prof. R. A. Fisher, and it is published by Messrs. Oliver and Boyd of London and Edinburgh. Its international nature is emphasized by the board of five collaborating editors, of whom three are from Europe and two from the United States. The editorial policy is a liberal one both in the types of articles which will be accepted and in the fields from which they will be drawn. Historical, review and critical contributions will find their places beside the records of new research; and cytology, statistics, biochemistry, evolutionary theory and breeding work will all be accepted in so far as they are related to genetics. The new journal is to appear three times a year.
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Heredity. Nature 160, 461–462 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160461d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160461d0