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I handed this letter to Gwen, and, after she had read it through very carefully, she questioned h the for her, after the usual practice of a sure she would be no wiser when I had finished, and was dumfounded when she replied: "It looks very reasonable Professor Bjerknes, if I renetic attraction, repulsion, and polarisation, by air vibrations corresponding, I suppose, to certain fixedsier, bodies?"

If the roof of my house had fallen in, I should not have been more surprised than at this quiet remark Howwos, being ignorant of all the great underlying verities of existence"? I promptly decided, on all future occasions, to add to that--"When not brought up by her father" I was convinced that of the attain could be definitely predicted

We had a short note from Maitland written at Trieste He excused its brevity by saying he had been obliged to travel night and day in order to reach this port in time to catch the Austrian Lloyd steaapore, and Hong Kong Fro: MY DEAR DOCTOR: We have just been through the Red Sea, and I kno the real origin of the Calvinistic hell I doith an intolerable fierceness; not a breath stirring, and the therrees F in the shade! It seeh reason must desert us The constant motion of the punkas in the saloons, and an unlimited supply of ice-water was all that saved us Sleep was hardly to be thought of, for at no ti F Apart froe has been exceedingly pleasant I have not solved the atomic-pitch problems, as attendance atelse They seem to eat all the time on these boats At 8 A M coffee and bread; at ten a hearty breakfast of etables and fruit; at 1 P M a luncheon, called "tiffin," of cold meats, bread and butter, potatoes, and tea; at five o'clock a regular dinner of soups, meats with relishes, farinaceous dishes, dessert, fruits, and coffee, and lastly, at 8 P M, the evening ht dishes Five lish people who fill up the gaps between the nuts and sweets! Verily, if specialisation of function astric balloons with a little wart on top representing the atrophied brain structure They run their engines of digestion wholly on the high-pressure system