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The Historiography of the geophysical sciences is far from developed. This is due in part to the relatively small number of historians of science and to the growth rate of science itself. There are perhaps only several dozen persons today whose professional interests touch on the history of geophysics, or the earth sciences, expeditions and exploration, and the historical connections of these fields with other areas of scientific activity. These persons study a world scientific literature that has been growing since the late seventeenth century at a rate that has produced a doubling about every 10 to 15 years. Within the history of science, the literature of the geophysical sciences has simply not received the degree of attention given some other areas, such as the ‘Scientific Revolution’ of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the paucity of secondary materials concerning the history of geophysics reflects this. It may therefore come as no surprise to discover that at present there is no real consensus within the profession as to the major problems in the history of the geophysical sciences in their historical relationships to general physics and ther other physical sciences.

To the Editor:— I have just returned from a trip to England and Continental Europe, having made the visit as a representative of the American Rheumatism Association. I was directed to invite the rheumatologists of Great Britain and Europe to attend the 1949 meeting of the American Rheumatism Association. I was privileged to go as the American representative to the European Congress held at Copenhagen last September. There is a situation among the physicians of England which has given me no small concern. From my own experience among the English people and especially among the physicians, with many of whom I became well acquainted, I know that a number are suffering from the want of clothing and good food, particularly food in the form of fats, proteins and carbohydrates. After I became rather well acquainted with some of the English physicians, they confessed to me that they were worried over