The Editors Notes …

Notes from the Editors

On July 1 of last year, someone in North Andover, Massachusetts flipped a switch, and the APSR, which had used the US mail to communicate with authors and referees for its first hundred and one years, hit the worldwide web. Simultaneously, the official term of duty began for an excited if slightly apprehensive group of nine new co-editors at the University of California in Los Angeles. Since th...

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

Notes on the genus Pileolaria (Pucciniales)

The results showed that Pileolaria terebinthi, type species of the genus Pileolaria is not a hemi–form or brachy–form rust species as mentioned among literature by several authors. Study on miscellaneous specimens collected from Iran and locus classicus of the species, France, revealed that P. terebinthi is an automacrocyclic rust and its aecial state is not uredinioi...

Letters to the Editors.

Letters to the Editors

Trends in fat consumption I read the paper ‘Trends in individual fat consumption in the UK 1900-1985’ by A. M. Stephen and G. M. Sieber (1994) with interest. This is an important subject for anyone concerned with possible links between fat consumption and chronic disease, especially in view of the intense educative activity about dietary fats that is now being encouraged. Try as I may, I cannot...