So Long…

Not So Long Ago

PERSPECTIVES IN BIOCHEMISTRY: Thirty-one essays presented to Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins by past and present members of his laboratory. Edited by Joseph Needham and David E. Green. Cambridge University Press, 1937. viii + 361 pp. $4.75. One of the chief difficulties that confronts the individual desirous of acquainting himself with the recent advances in biochemistry is the complexity of the ...

So-long and welcome.

served as editors with The Journal of Experimental Biology. However, in recent years, the journal has expanded enormously to the point where no single individual could manage the peer review load. Currently, a team of nine editors, led by Editor-in-Chief Hans Hoppeler, oversees the JEB. Charlie Ellington and Bob Boutilier initiated the modern-day editorial expansion and one of the Editors, recr...

Why so long?

lack of attention, rather than from malicious intent. But the rejoinder of, " Oh, I didn't notice that I had invited 20 men and no women " infuriates me (even more so when the guilty party is female), because I know that all of the young women in the field do notice. Almost invariably for every award or honor or speaker slot there are many, many more deserving candidates (including many women) ...

The lyf so short--the craft so long to lerne.

In former days, I am informed that it was the custom in this Council for the Venerable Masterelect to deliver a paper immediately before the Ceremony of his Installation as Sovereign Master. At the meeting last October at which I was elected Sovereign Master, it was proposed and agreed that the salutary custom of giving a short inaugural address would be revived. Medwayosh Council No. 62 is kno...

The art so long to learn.