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A NEW JOURNAL devoted to blood, blood groups and blood transfusion is welcome. The Revue d' Hematologie, of which the first number has recently appeared, is the organ of the Research Laboratoryof the French National Blood Transfusion Centre in Paris. It is edited by Dr. Tzanck, director of the transfusion centre, and by Dr. Bessis, head of the research laboratory, with the help of a distinguished editorial committee. This journal will help to satisfy a need which has been felt for some time in Europe. The rapid advance made during the War in the field of blood groups—to mention only one aspect of the subject—has demanded much printing space. Indeed, the advance has been so rapid that by the time papers have been published in English quarterly journals of a general nature, with their long waiting lists, most of the original interest has been lost; for this reason, Nature, the British Medical Journal and the Lancet have borne the brunt of publishing blood-group work in Great Britain, of necessity in a concentrated form. Other rapid outlets are needed for more detailed and technical papers, and French workers in this subject are to be envied in the possession of their new journal. Perhaps the editors will consider publishing occasional papers in English. They have already shown an international spirit, for Sir Lionel Whitby launches the journal with an article on “Stockage et conservation du sang et de ses derives”, and there is also an article by Race, Mourant and Macfarlane on “Travaux recents sur les antigénes et anticorps Rh avec une particu-liere de la theorie de Fisher“. Papers by French authors are: “Les leucoses à plasmocytes” by Lamy .and Willk, “Recherches sur la coagulation sanguine” by Tzanck and Burstein, “Contribution à l'e de la cytologie sanguine” by Bessis, “Immunisation anti-Rh et pan-réactivation des anticorps anti-Rh. Description d'un nouveau test biologique” by Bessis, and also some useful notes on the technique of Rh testing. The Revue d'Hématologie is to appear quarterly and is published by Masson et Cie., Paris, and can be obtained in Great Britain through Messrs. H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., Gower Street, W.C.I; the annual subscription is 450 francs.
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Revue d'Hématologie. Nature 158, 443–444 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158443e0
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