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This book contains the papers presented at the Second Annual Harry Steenbock Symposium. The Symposium, and this book, have been entitled DNA Synthesis in Vitro. Knowledge gained in recent years has led to an ill-defined division between in vitro and in vivo studies as applied to DNA replication. Consequently the reader, depending on his particular point of view, will find new and useful information on many aspects of this most interesting subject. We have divided the subject matter into five parts, and these correspond to the sessions of the Symposium. Following many of the papers we have inserted any discussion which might be of use to the reader. The Symposium was supported by funds derived from the Harry Steenbock Symposium Trust Fund of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, made available by Mrs. Harry Steenbock from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Professor Harry Steenbock was a distinguished professor of biochemistry from 1916 to 1956 and is world renowned for his pioneering work in the discovery of various vitamins. Of particular note is his discovery that irradiation of foods with ultraviolet light induces vitamin D activity, a discovery responsible for the elimination of rickets as a major medical problem. The proceedings from the first Steenbock Symposium have been published: H. F. DeLuca and J. W. Suttie (eds.), The Fat-Soluble Vitamins, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1969.