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ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOCHEMISTRY

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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE PUBLISHED BY 3
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B. L. HORECKER
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J.M. LUCK PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. G. MACKINNEY
E. L. SMITH

August 15, 1957

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

The Editorial Committee of the Annual Review of Biochemistry met recently
to plan the contents of Volume 28 (1959). In accordance with decisions
reached at this meeting, I am now asked to extend to you a cordial invita-
tion to prepare the review desired on Biochemistry of Genetic Factors.

We would like to draw your attention to the widespread demands for reviews
stressing critical evaluation rather than encyclopedic completeness. The
Editorial Committee wishes to extend to you every encouragement to organize
your review on a critical basis, even at the cost of sacrificing many papers
encompassed by the subject of your review. In brief, critical reviews based
upon only portions of the literature are greatly preferred over synoptic
summaries of a multitude of papers.

Volume 27 of the Annual Review of Biochemistry will be published about July 1,
1958. For your information a list of the topics and authors of that volume

is enclosed. We shall eventually inform you of the complete panel of topics
and authors for Volume 28 (1959) with the thought that you may wish to cor-
respond with one or two of the authors whose topics may border upon your own.
All reprints of preceding reviews on the topic that still remain in our files
will be sent to you at a later date,

The amount of space that can be made available for the review will have to

be restricted, unfortunately, to twenty (20) printed pages, including bibliog-
raphy. It has long been our hope that such limitations upon length and
arbitrary assignments of space would prove unnecessary, but experience con-
vinces us that if the Review is to be kept within reasonable size and if a
fair balance is to be maintained among the various subjects included in the
volume, such restrictions are inescapable.

While the Committee is not permitted to give recognition to the generous co-
operation of contributors by the payment of honoraria, it has, however, been
able to continue the policy of providing the contributor with a complimentary
copy of the Review and one hundred reprints of his article.

At a later date, a set of instructions pertaining to the preparation of the

manuscript will be sent to you. The manuscript itself will be due here by
November 1, 1958.

PLEASE ADDRESS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR, ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOCHEMISTRY, AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS.

 

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Dr. Lederberg -2- August 15, 1957

The Conmittee has given careful consideration to the selection of authors and
has sought the advice of others interested in the Review. We realize how im-
portant it is to seek the co-operation in authorship of men of recognized com—
petence and distinction in the fields under review. It will be a matter of
great satisfaction to the Committee and to the readers of the Review if you
will be at liberty to accept this invitation.

Yours: very sincerely,

 

Editor
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Enclosure
SUMMARY
Sub ject: Biochemistry of Genetic Factors

Pages allotted: Twenty (20) printed pages, including bibliography and
illustrations

Date manuscript due: November 1, 1958