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AT the annual general meeting of the Biochemical Society held on March 11, a presentation was made by the Society to Sir Arthur Harden, on the occasion of his retirement from the editorship of theBiochemical Journal. The presentation took the form of an inscribed salver, bearing the signatures of all those still living who have served on the Committee of the Society during the twenty-five years of Sir Arthur's editorship. In making the presentation on behalf of the Society, the present chairman of committee, Prof. H. J. Channon, recalled the early history of the Biochemical Journal. Founded by Prof. Benjamin Moore and Mr. E. Whitley in 1906, it was first issued as a private venture from the Department of Biochemistry in the University of Liverpool. In 1911, at the instance of Dr. (now Prof.) R. H. A. Plimmer and Mr. J. A. Gardner, there was formed an organization of biochemists, called at first the Biochemical Club, the members of which soon came to feel the need for a journal to cover the widest interests of the growing science of biochemistry in Great Britain; negotiations were therefore started which led, in October 1912, to the acquisition of the Biochemical Journal by the Biochemical Club, which at the same time changed its designation to Biochemical Society ; the editors appointed by the newly formed Society were Arthur Harden and William Bayliss. Prof. Channon traced the remarkable growth of the Biochemical Journal from its modest beginning to its present position as one of the outstanding biochemical publications of the world, and in thanking Sir Arthur for his great services to the Society he paid an eloquent tribute to his qualities as an editor.
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Presentation to Sir Arthur Harden. Nature 141, 545 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141545b0
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