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First of all we are celebrating 50 years of publication of the Journal of Endocrinology.

The Journal was born in 1939, in a period of such international crisis that a certain scepticism about its development might perhaps have been understandable at that time. However, as Lord Zuckerman in his informative and entertaining history of the Journal showed (see volume 100, pp. 1–6), such misgivings were misplaced, and although the Council of Management had resolved to suspend publication after the first volume, the flow of suitable material for publication hardly wavered, and the decision was swiftly rescinded.

Looking now at the first few volumes of the Journal, it is easy, with hindsight, to see why it was bound to flourish. For despite the dire international uncertainties, the Journal of Endocrinology clearly reflected the mood of excitement in our subject: it was a heroic age of endocrinology. The separate identities of the