Abstract
A 1979 survey (1) in the Jianghua County o f Hunan Province produced among 1283 subjects two hemoglobin variants which moved faster than Hb A during cellulose acetate electrophoresis and were classified as Hb J's. One of these was more recently shown to be a new variant; it was named Hb jianghua and has structure 3120 (GH3) Lys→lle. The structural analysis is briefly presented here.