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When 'The Biochemistry of the Nucleic Acids' first appeared in 1950, under the authorship of the late J.N. Davidson, it was a slim book of 163 pages that slipped easily into a coat pocket.It was recognised immediately as a valuable text, that filled an important gap, and was a suitable book for undergraduates and junior research workers.Over the years the explosive growth of knowledge of the structure and function of nucleic acids has necessitated frequent revision.It has expanded to form a substantially larger volume.Despite its size and the fact that it now is written by a committee, it retains many of the virtues of the first edition -good organisation, readability, clarity, usefulness -and at the same time it is modern an up-to-date in its presentation.It still bears many traces of its ancestry, some of which could, with profit, be abandoned.
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