THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1953

Deaths and Funerals

n Stocks

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>High</th><th>Low</th><th>Close</th><th>Net Change</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>156 1/8</td><td>155</td><td>155 1/2</td><td>- 3/8</td></tr><tr><td>22 1/2</td><td>22 1/2</td><td>22 1/2</td><td>- 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>126</td><td>126</td><td>126</td><td>+1</td></tr><tr><td>51 1/4</td><td>50 3/4</td><td>51 1/8</td><td>- 1/4</td></tr><tr><td>25 1/2</td><td>25 1/2</td><td>25 1/2</td><td>+ 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>52 5/8</td><td>52 5/8</td><td>52 5/8</td><td>- 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>F 10 9/10</td><td>10 9/10</td><td>10 9/10</td><td>- 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>pr 41 1/2</td><td>41 1/2</td><td>41 1/2</td><td>- 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>t 24 5/8</td><td>24</td><td>24 5/8</td><td>+ 3/8</td></tr><tr><td>19 1/4</td><td>19 1/4</td><td>19 1/4</td><td>- 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>s 46</td><td>46</td><td>46</td><td>+ 1/4</td></tr><tr><td>69 5/8</td><td>69 5/8</td><td>69 5/8</td><td>+ 3/4</td></tr><tr><td>11 5/8</td><td>11 5/8</td><td>11 5/8</td><td>+ 1/4</td></tr><tr><td>27 1/2</td><td>27 1/2</td><td>27 1/2</td><td>- 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>25 1/2</td><td>25 1/2</td><td>25 1/2</td><td>+ 1/4</td></tr><tr><td>.11</td><td>.11</td><td>.11</td><td>- .01</td></tr><tr><td>ys 14</td><td>13 3/4</td><td>13 3/4</td><td>- 1/8</td></tr><tr><td>.85</td><td>.85</td><td>.85</td><td>+ .03</td></tr><tr><td>20 1/4</td><td>20 1/4</td><td>20 1/4</td><td>+ 1/8</td></tr><tr><td>so 20</td><td>20</td><td>20</td><td>+ 3/8</td></tr><tr><td>19 1/8</td><td>19 1/4</td><td>19 1/4</td><td>- 1/8</td></tr><tr><td>28 1/8</td><td>28 1/8</td><td>28 1/8</td><td>- 1/8</td></tr><tr><td>53 1/4</td><td>52 5/8</td><td>53</td><td>- 1/8</td></tr><tr><td>38 1/8</td><td>37 3/4</td><td>37 3/4</td><td>- 3/8</td></tr><tr><td>45 5/8</td><td>45</td><td>45</td><td>+ 1/8</td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td colspan="4">Total sales (in-<br/>York stocks), 14,741</td></tr></tfoot></table>

Dr. F. S. Hammett

PROVINCETOWN, April 14—A requiem mass for Dr. Frederick S. Hammett, 67, widely known biologist and cancer authority, will be celebrated Thursday at 10 a. m. in the Church of St. Mary of the Harbor.

Dr. Hammett, formerly a teacher at Tufts, Harvard and the University of Southern California, died of cancer at his home here today.

He was formerly scientific director of the Research Institute of Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, and a director of a marine experimental station of that hospital in North Truro.

Dr. Hammett was graduated from Tufts College in 1908 and took his master of science degree at the Rhode Island State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1911.

He also studied at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. degree. He was secretary of the Harvard Graduate School of Medicine in 1917 and 1918, and a member of a number of scientific, scholastic and patriotic societies.

He leaves a wife, Dorothy, and two sons, Frederick Jr., and Richard L. of Riverside, Calif.

Burial will be in Snow Cemetery, Truro.

Mrs. Earl Brown

HAVERHILL, April 14 — Mrs. Lucy (Currier) Brown, 61, a leader in the activities of the Riverside Memorial Church, died today at her home, 473 Groveland st.

Mrs. Brown, wife of Earl Brown, was president of the Berean Class of the church and treasurer of the Riverside Memorial Hall Fund. She was a past president of the Women's Guild and was church treasurer for 10 years.

During World War II Mrs. Brown was a Red Cross worker and had 1000 hours of service with the home service branch of the Haverhill.

Samuel L. Dana

Prominent in Jewish
Philanthropy Here, 83

Samuel L. Dana, 83, prominent in Jewish social service and philanthropic circles in Boston, died yes-

SAMUEL L. DANA

terday at his home, 45 Peter Parley road, Jamaica Plain.

Mr. Dana, a native of Russia, was closely identified with the development of Jewish philanthropies of Boston. For more than 50 years he did volunteer work on behalf of orphaned Jewish children, and pioneered in the adoption of modern methods in child care.

He was active in the formation of the Federation of Jewish Chariities, now the Associated Jewish Philanthropies, and was an honorary life trustee of that organization. For many years he chairman of its real estate during fund drives.

BRYSON—In Newton, April 13. Winifred B. (Roper), beloved wife of Walter F. Bryson. Residence, 585 Centre st. Services at the W. H. Thomas Memorial Funeral Home, 75 Galen st., Watertown, Thursday, April 16, at 2:30 p. m. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend. Calling hours Wednesday 2-5 and 7-10 p. m.

BUCKLEY—In Somerville, April 14. Patrick W. beloved husband of the late Annie (Farrell) Buckley. Residence 85 Lowell st. Funeral on Friday morning from the Frank E. Flaherty Funeral Home, 261 Washington st. at Union sq., at 9:15. Solemn High Mass of Requiem in St. Catherine's Church at 10 o'clock. Relatives and friends are kindly invited. Visiting hours 2-10 p. m. Late member of Mount Benedict Council, No. 75. K. of C. Interment in St. Paul's Cemetery.

BURKE—In Wellesley Hills suddenly April 14. Anna M. (Davis), beloved wife of James D. Burke. Residence 167 Forest St. Funeral from the George F. Doherty Funeral Home, 477 Washington St., Thursday at 8:15. Solemn High Mass of Requiem in St. Paul's Church at 9 o'clock. Relatives and friends kindly invited. Late member of St. Paul's Sodality. Visiting hours Tuesday evening 7 to 10. Wednesday 2 to 5 and 7 to 10.

CALLAHAN—In Medford, April 13. Teresa G. (Shea), wife of Christoph L. Callahan. Funeral from her late home, 97 Ashcroft road. Thursday 8:15. Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph's Church at 9. Relatives and friends invited.

CARTER—In Rockport, April 13. Ruth (Damon), 61 years, wife. William J. Carter. residence, 46 B. F. Funeral Thursday, April 16. Baptist Church, at 11 a. m. Locust Grove Cemetery, Land

CHICK—In Dorchester, April M. (O'Brien) beloved wife. Daniel L. Chick. Funeral st. at Dorchester av., a. m. High Mass of Re Mark's Church, at 9 p. m. and friends inv hours, 2-5 and 7-10.

CONDON—In Hyde Park, William J., of St. John's, beloved husband Condon, 7 Winthrop and beloved father Thomas and Jos. erine Smith and Funeral from Funeral Home, King sq., D. 16. at 9 a. m. Requiem 10 o'clock invited to 10.

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THE LANKENAU HOSPITAL
RESEARCH INSTITUTE

FIDDLERS POINT STATION
SARASOTA, FLORIDA

12/11/41

Dear Charles

The time will surely come when the old ducks; even the decrepit; will be called to replace younger and more active men. I want to be useful. I am 56. My t.b. is only partially arrested. I have days of toxemia. I am woefully short of breath at times; because of slowly increasing fibrosis of my lungs. BUT - I can still use my head in the line which my life work has brought me experience; viz; directing, supervising, and planning laboratory research and routine. At present I can without too much discomfort manage to whack out four consecutive house of tabulating, sifting, and computing data. This is done on a chaise lounge out of doors in the Florida sun. Other hours each day are spent on the bed thinking over the results of this work and planning its significance, and methods for further analyses. I could on a pinch do five hours a day most days; but not all; save in dire emergency. So you see I am still in the market to be useful to my government. I am on call.

This is introduction to the statement that I could be usefully employed in planning, establishing, supervising, and directing the hospital laboratory which will indubitably be a part of the army camp now in process of approval at Venice, Florida, 15 miles south of here. As a Commissioned Officer of the Sanitary Corps. My record should justify an initial Majority. The only drawback is the fact that I would have to be given considerable latitude regarding work hours; which would have to be set by me and irregular because of the variability in my state of physical activness. This should be no real drwaback however because I could from my experience choose subordinates of capability to carry out my demands. Furthermore it is vital to the future that the work we are doing be kept alive; if only as embers; from which a new fire can be built after the debacle. We must in the United States keep constructive work for the benefit of humanity alive; for it has been killed everywhere else.

Now I know from my experience in the last war when I was Secretary of Harvard Graduate School of Medicine that use was made of persons with special capabilities in the manner outlined above. I am sure that such will eventuate in this war so that the older decrepit men will be utilized to release the younger more active ones. Your contacts should enable you to bring this about when the need arises.

We are glad of the news about you and know you will give of your best. We hope being a father will give you as much pleasure as it has us. And we wish you and yours the best of good luck

FSH:bes

MARINE EXPERIMENTAL STATION
OF

THE LANKENAU HOSPITAL
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
NORTH TRURO, CAPE COD, MASS.

July Twenty-Nine

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Dear Charles

I was so pleased to receive your letter that I am sitting right
down to answer it. I have a friend in Washington - T. Swann Harding -
Editor of Scientific Publications of the Department of Agriculture.
He edited the Ag. Year Book and makes quite a little on the side
writing for DYNAM C AMERICA, New Republic, etc. He was definitely
instrumental in helping Joe Berger get his job - and Joe the louse -
has never even thanked him and has dropped him like a hot-cake since
getting established. It is barely possible that Harding might be
able to help you; but of course I can't be sure of that. Anyhow it
would not hurt to drop in and see him; tell your story; and see what
comes of it. Harding was just up here to see me for a week. We are
long time friends.

When I learned of your marriage I was satisfied because I knew that two lonely people had gotten together. That makes a most satisfactory basis for solid companionship. I always thought Tam had a lot of sense and all that you needed was a stabilizer. It is good to learn that things have worked out so nicely. That you are to have an offspring is also good. It is a fifty-fifty proposition though. Half the time you think it worth while; half the time you wonder why in hell you let yourself in for it. At least up to the age of eight years. From then on for a time things run pretty smoothly in general with a youngster. I am not looking forward with keen anticipatory pleasure to adolescence though.

We were in Key West the night of the cyclone tail and did not have
any idea you were there until we got back and found the nice card
from you and your folks awaiting us. We spent the winter in
Sarasota and if everything goes well will be back there before the
first of October. The climate did me lots of good and brought me
back from an almost complete desuetude. We are situated about three
miles out of the city to the Southard on the Bay at Fiddlers Point.
Nice large one-storey house; in a grove of pines, palms, and
oaks. It is an ideal set-up for a winter laboratory and if I can
raise the money to hire even one scientific assistant I am going
to have a little work done. Wish you were scientifically trained.
Might give you a job. But have to have somebody who knows how to
think and work in terms of test-tubes and fiddler c rabs.

This season at the Marine Station is going pretty good. Have a total
of eleven workers. Steve Chapman is back learning to be my understudy.
Donald Rivard also is back. In addition there are the two young lady
statisticians; Professors Walp and Wilson; a gamey young piece from
Wellesley assisting Doctor Wilson; Robt. Schopbach assisting Walp;
A Dr. Barghoorn botanist from Harvard who is going on to teach at
Amherst in the Fall; and a young British imperialist Miss by the
name of Mueller of German descent who can not forget she is a
plutocrat. Her father is Budd Aircraft representative in Gt. Britain.

I suppose you get a saturnine laugh out of the shifts in propaganda
to which the american people are being subjected these days. I have
threatened to have a large white banner strung on the front of my

house with red letters stating; HELP OUR NEW ALLY and underneath
a Soviet flag. But am afraid I would be hustled off to jail; so
have to content myself with a chuckle at the turn of events.

My health is lousier than ever; alternating between taking to my
bed with temperature; and getting up with none. But still manage
to get around and do what work has to be done. It is good of you
to be interested.

Do you ever see Marcantonio. If so give him my sincere regards
and well wishes. We have had some pleasant correspondance.

Well this is about all so give our very best regards to your
family, as always

With friendly greetings

Reprinted without change of paging from the Journal of Heredity, Washington, D. C., Vol. XLII, No. 5, September-October, 1951. (Copyright 1951 by the American Genetic Association.)

J'ACCUSE!
Federal Science and Thought Control

IT apparently is not yet too late to erase from the books that attempt at socialization of science in the U.S.A. yclept The National Science Foundation.

Every young worker in science is aware of the subtle pressure exerted on him to make his research, his conclusions, and his ideas conform to those of his superior. Under pain of not getting published. Or of even losing his job. And every mature, competent, independent-minded creative worker knows the fight he has had to wage to get his work and ideas considered: if he has at any time evidenced independence of spirit and concepts.

One example: the man who made the most outstanding forward step in cancer research in our time was forced to leave the institution where he made his discovery and go elsewhere because as the Herr Direktor said: "He is hard to get along with." Thus the practical potentiality of the finding has been smothered and delayed to application for more than a decade.

Another example: it is essentially impossible to get into print any objection to this attempt at socialization of science under the alias of a National Science Foundation. The Big Shots brook no opposition. Through control of our media of expression.

To what depths of pusillanimous ignominy have our scientists fallen that they allow themselves to be led like the donkey with the carrot. Instead of rising up in loud objection: as has the medical profession against the socialization of their profession. Would that we had like men of guts and courage. Let the chips fall where they may.

The National Science Foundation should be wiped from the books. First because it is an attempt at grab for power by the High Brass

in science. Who as every science worker knows demand obsequious subservience before granting approval of project or funds. And who, if such bowing of the knee is not given, say the project is impractical and the worker unsound. Boy, do I know 'em!

Second, because it is the entering wedge of thought control in science. Which destroyed creative leadership in science in Germany; is destroying such in Russia. But few of the readers of this accusation have not sensed or experienced such.

And third, because no independent creative thinker in science can or will submit to such restrictions upon his explorations into the unknown. Which means creative work and leadership will be strangled for years to come.

The remedy? Write your Congressmen and Senators. Show them that the scientific as well as the medical profession is well aware of the implications of a National Science Foundation. Will have none of it. You may lose your job. You may not get funds for your work. But what profit it a man if he gain the world but lose his soul? By the way —how many of you had the chance to express your opinion on a National Science Foundation in *secret* ballot? I didn't. Did you?

Young and old workers in science who have visited me in this remote and essentially inaccessible retreat have expressed like opinions. But the beliefs herein stated are mine own and not necessarily those of the Institution with which I am connected. Its opinions I do not know. Thus it (and THE JOURNAL OF HEREDITY) is hereby absolved from all responsibility therefor.

FREDERICK S. HAMMETT

Provincetown, Mass.

Sunday January Fourth

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Dear Charles

Apparently our letters of a few weeks ago crossed which leads to
the thought you were thinking of me while I was thinking of you.
Something more than a coincidence. You are probably just at pre-
sent not quite comfortable in mind since you are about to become
a father and the mother of your child is by no means comfortable.
All that I can write to comfort you is that it will soon be over
and that hundreds of thousands of fathers survive and mothers also.
This is not written in a vein of cynicism at all but as a reassurance.
How you will enjoy being a father depends entirely upon your inner
acceptance of parenthood. If you are not a worrier all should be
pretty pleasant; but if your soul is an anxious one you will be
distracted at every sniffle; at every drool; at every loose bowel
movement; and fear the worst. Your days will be periods of distraction
and your nights of wakefulness. And such will be your fate as long
as you and your progeny shall live. But if you realise that the
infant is but a mass of living protoplasm for many weeks; that it
is insensitive to painful consciousness; that its cries and wails
are simply reflexes to uncomfortable but not destructive environment;
then you may glide over the next few years in comparative mental
comfort. I am most glad however that you have work and income so
that added to your parenthood you do not have the anxiety of providing
adequately for the defenseless individual you have sired. I wrie not
of the mother for she is but fullfilling her function; the function
for which she was devised by nature. She will accept this function
inside of herself with complacency and having so done will find
in you the means for the sustenance of that which she was made to
produce. Do not attempt to understand her. You never can. She is
by virtue of her chromosome make-up a different being than you are;
and for which you can never have insight. Your life will be made
more smooth and comfortable if you flatter her when she looks her
worst; if you bring her unexpected gifts of flowers and candy; and
praise her cooking even though it is scorched. She will appreciate a
tender brutality from you; a firm acquiescence in her foibles; and
your obstinate submission to her whims. She is woman and never can
be man. The two are different and ever will be. To me the miracle
of existence is that male and female can live together in seeming
harmony since each is so divergent from the other in point of view;
outlook; aims; desires; and behavior. You cannot make her over; and
she will endeavor to mold you to her form. Being woman she will be
satisfied if you provide food, clothing, shelter, and subservience
for her and her child. For the child is here. You contributed a
few moments of exquisite pleasure to her and an infinitesimal
microscopic part of that which is about to be born. She provided
the blood, bone and sinews of that child; and during the providing
imbued it with all the hormonal, physical, and psychological
attributes. She did this in discomfort and pain. While you - mere
man - went on your way with no more disturbance than emotional. The
child is here. Not yours. It never will be yours except when it
misbehaves or when it needs a pair of shoes. You as male are merely
an adjunct to procreation. Indeed it could happen that you even
might not be needed for such procreation since the cooling of the
eye could result in its starting on to infant without benefit of
sperm. We males are the offspring of females. We are in fact
if not in principle unnecessary - or will be at no great future
time. We males are but buddings from the bodies of the females.
By accident and not by intent did our gestative glands descend
from the abdomen; if such had not happened we too would have been
female. Man is but nothing in the sight of a femaleness. Selah.

I do not know as I have ever been so conscious of helplessness and uselessness as I am at present. While this sense is contributed to and aroused by the fact my physical state confines me to the bed for but three or four hours a day; it is brought to focus by my realization that the human race has just gone completely haywire. To think that man is killing man all over the world; instead of spending his energy and the products of his work in helping man galls me without end. And here am I impotent to be of use; either physically; mentally; or emotionally. Any word I should write against this wave of insanity to destruction would be more noiseless than a fart in a gale of Provincetown wind. And I am so saddened be the exhibition of human stupidity that I am incapable of doing anything save immersing myself into my work of computation of the correlations between the several stages of Obelia development. I feel that this is useless; I feel frustrated; because of what use will such knowledge be in a world whose inhabitants are bent on destruction. Of what matter that I might be able to write the curve of proper development wherein each separate stage melds into the next and from which the influence of each individual step upon the others is known; if mankind leaves for itself only the physically, morally, mentally, and emotionally deformed in which no good growth can occur. My idea of helping through being put in charge of the establishment of the hospital laboratory here was engendered by no desire for self but to be useful; and to have sufficient rank to be able to be useful; but the fact has been born in on me more and more that Florida is not a locality where I can live either in decent comfort or with advantage to my declining health. It is too wet. Since August I have been here and steaming in a succession of rains and dampness which has resulted in my losing my abdominal pouch; weight; and color; and energy. We shall return to P-Town as the lesser of two evils. There at least the damp wetness is not as soaking as here; there at least the house can be kept dry in the winter. I vow that if I went to New Mexico in the desert it would rain and the desert would become a swamp. Since then this is our last winter in Florida and since I am to return to the Cape and since there I have two laboratories; it would seem right and proper that thought should be given to make these useful to the present emergency. I could do testing of substitute diets there from April to December. The old laboratory could house at least 200 breeding pairs of rats; and the new some thousand odd experimental animals. And of course I know how to devise and run and direct such experiments having done suchv for many years at The Wistare Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. It would seem that if the human race is to survive to betterment some work at least such as I am doing should be kept alive. The embers burning if not the flame. And I could in so doing feel that on a fifty fifty chance I was doing something which might help. I am more pleased than I can write at the way Russia has shown the world that a downtrodden people give a chance at self progression can do this and protect it. It shows that a people can be brought to fight for what it believes right. Viva Stalin and what he has done. I hope that in this country we will expropriate all land which the owners have not put into production and give it over to those who will work it. I hope that in this country we will produce and produce and produce so that every man Jack of us can have that which makes the good life. Well this is long enough. I would like to talk with you too; not of dialectic but of reality. Give our true regards to your parents; tell your father that I agree with him utterly that life is a tragedy; and tell Tam to keep her courage up.

Best regards

RESEARCH INSTITUTES FOR BIOLOGY

Frederick S. Hammett*

Provincetown, Massachusetts

Research Institutes are - or should be - integrated associations of worker, place of work, kind of work, and material worked with - whether this be in a single room with simple tools and ideas, or in a group of rooms with intricate apparatus and complicated concepts. Research Institutes for Biology are such associations where living organisms are investigated by any discipline, whether they be called Cancer Institutes or Genetic Laboratories; Institutes of Anatomy and Biology or Child Development Clinics; Nutrition Laboratories or Institutes of Pathology.

It is good that many such Institutes have been established, and it is good that the many problems therein undertaken have been approached. And the knowledge which has come therefrom is good. My interest for the moment, however, is rather in the mechanisms by which this knowledge has been attained, than in the minutiae of the knowledge itself.

It is good that perfection is unattainable because it allows change for improvement and the exercise of the minds of men as to how such improvement can be brought about. And what I have to say and to suggest in the following paragraphs is made in no spirit of cavilling criticism or with any deprecation of effort and accomplishment; but in a full, rounded and grateful acknowledgment of what has been done in the past, of what is being done in

*Scientific Director The Lankenau Hospital Research Institute and Director Marine Experimental Station of The Lankenau Hospital Research Institute, North Truro, Massachusetts.

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the present, and with complete recognition that human intelligence
being what it is, and human emotions being what they are, no other
than what is now in existence could have been produced. The time
has possibly come however for a little stock taking and estimation
of what might be done, if anything, to increase and consolidate
scientific productivity.

I think it can safely be said that each Research Institute is
the result of the enthusiasm of a single individual - of an indi-
vidual interest - of an individual idea.

Because of this it has happened that there is scattered
throughout the land a large number of discrete groups which -
with the exception of the Government established and supervised
Agricultural Experiment Stations and allied laboratories - have
no common purpose save extension of the boundaries of human know-
ledge - have no coordination of aim or accomplishment - have no
integration of purpose or usefulness.

Another result, which might have been expected from the very
fact that many of these Institutes were founded on a single idea,
is that in not a few the problems which were posited have either
been solved or taken over by others - the proponents of the
problems have either died, retired, or passed on to other interests -
and the buildings and equipment which were gathered together for the
solution of these problems have in all essential aspects fallen into
disuseitude. Much valuable apparatus is lying idle gathering the dust
of inutility. What life there is in these outworn Institutes is
stifled, not so much by the lack of a revivifying idea, as by the

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lack of nourishment for the working out of the idea. The donor of
the Institute is dead, the proponent of the original problem is
dead, the problem itself is essentially dead, but its cold dead
weight is still present, smothering the development in that
particular Institute of any life giving idea which those who are
left behind may have.

My concern, however, is not with the dead, save to point out
that a singly-living Institute based on a single idea and a single
person can no more survive than can a living organism living single
and alone.

The inescapable conclusion is that for an Institute to
survive - and by survival I do not mean merely continuing to
exist; but that in addition it should in this existence be con-
tinually usefully productive - that for an Institute to survive
it is necessary that it not only have a problem of broad base;
but also that it approach this problem by every possible avenue.

It should be possible within the compass of the common and
fundamental properties of living things to attack and solve most
every problem of importance to human welfare and knowledge. This
being granted it might be well to make each of these fundamental
and common properties of living things the broad base for a
research Institute for biology: Institutes might be established
not so much on the basis of disciplines as has been the method
in the past; but on the basis of a fundamental property of nature.
e.g. - thus we could have an Institute of Respiration, and Institute
of Reproduction, an Institute of Nutrition, and Institute of Growth,

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and so on. Institutes wherein these basic properties could be
investigated as processes expressive of all living - rather than
as activities restricted to single forms. Institutes wherein
expressions of these processes would be correlated and integrated
into useful interpretation of general application. Institutes
wherein all the several disciplines are used to provide the
data for the correlations and integrations.

If there were vision enough and courage enough all the ex-
isting Institutes dealing with biological research could be con-
solidated on one or the other of these bases. The progress which
would ensue from concentration of funds and materials to greater
effectiveness, and from the approach to coordinated effort is
incalculable.

Deeper than the fundamental properties of common possession
by living things, however, lies the essence of their expression.

Underneath the expression of living is direction and substance;
the state of substance and form.

There can be no form without substance and direction. There
can be no state of substance without form and substance. There can
be no substance without form and state of substance. There can be
no direction without substance as its medium, form as its carrier,
and state of substance as its activity determinant. The nature of
living resides in these four attributes; - direction - substance -
state of substance - and form.

The basic sciences dealing with these four then are the solid
pillars on which any Institute for Biological Research should be
founded.

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The first of these is Genetics.

Within this science is comprised the forces, the directional guidance, the determination of what course the development of living shall take; what substances shall be used not only to express the progression, but also to compose the material thereof; what state these substances shall have for the activities of living; and into what structural configurations they shall be combined.

That Genetics has so far only provided the evidence of its potentialities and the presumed carriers thereof no more detracts from its being a necessary corner-stone of all biological research, than does the fact that we are ignorant of the nature of electricity detract from its simultaneous use as an explanation and a tool.

Perhaps by giving Genetics its proper place as the one subject concerned with the dominating and essential attribute of continuance, the necessary more may be learned of the materials and mechanisms concerned therein.

The second foundation pillar of any Research Institute for Biology should be Chemistry.

Living substance like all other is composed of chemical compounds, groupings, and derivatives. The reaction basis of living is quite clearly founded in the chemical composition of its substance. How reasonable it is then to expect that all biological investigation should have its roots in chemistry. Surely no interpretation of any biological process is complete until the nature of the chemical participants and determinants thereof is known; assuredly no explanation can be finished until the responsible chemical reactions are set forth.

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The third foundation pillar is Physics.

Within the compass of this science is comprised the state of substance - and the state of substance is most important to living. Permeability, imbibition, selective absorption, adsorption, capillarity, motility, electrokinetics, condensation, potential difference, electrodynamic field, colloid state, viscosity, osmosis, surface tension, H-ion concentration, redox potential, temperature, radiant energy, and the like, are one and all decisive factors and physical factors concerned not only in the acquisition and maintenance of state of substance in living substance, but also in the rate and extent of substance activity.

To not have a Department of Physics as one of the four points of departure for investigation in a Research Institute for Biology is to fail to provide an organizing foundation essential for coordination.

Having established Genetics, Chemistry, and Physics as representing the three basic attributes of direction, substance, and state of substance, the fourth - that of form - must of course be presented by Anatomy.

The form which substance takes in living things, the shape, the arrangement, the juxtaposition, the connections, the extensions, and the compression of substance are the elements of Anatomy.

Within this science is comprised all that is concerned with architecture and structure; all that is concerned with space displacement and configuration as carriers of direction expression.

Necessary indeed as a foundation pillar to any biological Research Institute is Anatomy, for structure is at one and the same

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time the means of expression and the expression of function -
of living.

Prolix exposition is unnecessary. The proposition is almost
self demonstrating, that the simplification of biological research
on the broad base of fundamental and common properties of living
things subtended by the bedrock attributes of direction, substance,
state of substance, and form would consolidate effort which is
now diverse and scattered; would bring order out of what is now
chaos; would provide that coordination between the several aspects
of any given problem which is essential to its true solution; and
would open the path for that integration from which only can come
the wise incorporation of scientific findings into the daily life
of man.

Secondary simplification would be the almost immediate
recession of the flood of unrelated papers and a consequent drop
in number of journals needed for publication of scientific findings.
Indeed the simplification could be extended so that there need
be but eight or ten journals in all. One to cover each of the
general fields which would be hospitable to all work aimed at
evaluation thereof; and one to cover each of the basic attributes
of direction, substance, state of substance, and form.

This is really all that is necessary and sufficient, Whether
or not consolidation will be attempted depends on how far human
intelligence can control human emotions.

["210", "# DOUBT", "## The Fortean Society Magazine", "Edited by TIFFANY THAYER\nSecretary of the\n**FORTEEN SOCIETY**", "Box 192 Grand Central Annex\nNew York City", "1931 A D = the year 1 F S", "We use the Fortean 13-month calendar", "Membership available to all", "Annual dues $2.00", "Dues in Sterling countries 8/-", "In ENGLAND address", "Eric Frank Russell", "3, Dale Hey,", "Hooton, Cheshire", "In Great Britain, THE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT may be obtained from Markham House Press, 31 Kings Road, London, S. W. 3. The price is £2-2-0.", "In ITALY address:", "Prince Boris de Rachewiltz", "Castello d'Brunnenburg", "Tirolo d'Merano", "(Bolzano) Italy", "For the addresses of Fortean centers in India, the Orient, Scandinavia, Germany, Mexico, South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, apply to the Secretary.", "DOUBT is on sale in principal cities of the world at 35¢ per copy, in Great Britain 2/-.\nAsk your bookseller to get it.", "DOUBT is in principal Public Libraries, and\nmany universities have complete files.", "Ask us for list of back numbers still available.", "All illustrations in DOUBT, unless otherwise credited, are the work of L M F S Art Castillo.", "## OUR COVER", "Not every Fortean will recognize himself as the hub, spokes and motive power of the world, as pictured on our cover, but that is what the design is getting at, as I understand it.", "The individual is the all-important unit. Each is his own universe. Living is the chief of the arts, and the aim of the organization which has nailed this new Jolly Roger to its masthead is to see that opportunity is not lacking anywhere on Earth for individuals to realize their fullest creative potentials as universe builders and movers.", "The design is the symbol of the World Citizens movement, which claims a registration of about 600,000, and more coming in all the time. It was given to me by MFS Crosby. Crosby just before she took off for Delphi, Greece.", "As we go to press, no report of the ceremony in Delphi has reached us, but the intention was to dedicate a footprint, and to dedicate the soil on which the print was pressed, to the ideal of World Citizenship. That was supposed to have taken place May 24, old style, which was June 1, 23 FS.", "If the purity, nobility and inherent grandeur of", "this concept could have been impressed upon the British mind in time, doubtless the coronation would have been called off, as being too provincial, too anticlimactic, too greatly shrunken and dwarfed by contrast, for adults of good-will to stomach.", "It is no more than a petty irony that Garry Davis was pounding on the gates of Buckingham Palace from about May 8 to May 22. He was not trying to tell the Queen about Carese and his footprint in Delphi. Garry lost interest in World Citizenship a long while ago, and the less said about him the better.", "The land surrounding the footprint was bought by MFS Crosby from the Greek Government, if I have my facts straight, and an article exists in the present Greek Constitution favorable to the \"mundialization\" of Greek soil, within reason.", "It's a pretty spot too, called the most beautiful in Greece, 1000 feet above sea level, overlooking the Gulf of Corinth, within sight of Parnassus, just around the corner from the famous oracle: a Minoan city is said to be buried under the footprint: and on this site MFS Crosby means to see erected a building or buildings to be called The World Treasury.", "In Carese's own words: \"... from this beginning the free world may take spiritual and actual form, and a chain of footprints be ceded 'round the globe, which will grow and expand until frontiers are crossed and barriers between peoples abolished. Here in Delphi this World Treasury will be consecrated to the belief that civilization can prosper only when man himself becomes the unit for unity, in a free world.", "\"The National pattern is outmoded. National leaders have failed us. It is for man the world citizen to mould a future nearer to the heart's desire. Men everywhere seek some higher unifying allegiance than any now offered them. Ahead all seems confusion, but—hand into hand, men and women of goodwill may everywhere join our effort. Where there is no vision the people perish. No 'ism' is good enough. What the world needs today is a world ideal.", "\"This effort—be pure and sure—must not be subsidized by one person or one group or one nation alone. It is my hope that the World Citizen, believing in himself, will now come forward to make some offering, however small or great, so that this Treasury of mind and spirit may soon rise as an expression of civilized unity in a free world. All values are acceptable—an ounce of salt or an ounce of gold—your thoughts and reactions will be welcome.\"", "Address: MFS Carese Crosby, World Treasury, Delphi, Greece.", "Several universities in the USA have given to their architecture classes the problem of designing the World Treasury, or if any Fortean architect (such as Frank Lloyd Wright, for instance) has any suggestions, send them along to YS.", "Pertinent to an appropriate design is the detail that Delphi was the headquarters of the Amphytonic League, some 2000 years ago, the first democratic council of historic times, first to draw up a \"document of Human Rights\". Here Socrates declared himself, \"a citizen of the world\".", "Already, this summer, Carese is opening an art gallery in Delphi, and there will be represented all those artists—wild and there—Glasgow, Condon,", "Betty Parson, Steinberg, Dal Austin, Romare Bearden, Pietro Lazzari, Aspro, Nino Marini, Roberto Fossola, Dali, Jacommetti, et al—who have been her friends and colleagues, her court and her confederates, in ever increasing numbers since the days of Le Moulin du Soleil, not far from Paris.", "If you would read more about that Mill, and Carese, and Crosby, the \"4 Z'ARTS\" balls, and the funny world we lived in through the 20s of the \"Christian\" era, read THE PASSIONATE YEARS, an autobiography, by Carese Crosby, from the Society, $5.00.", "As every reviewer of the book has noticed, Carese invented the bra, and founded the Black Sun Press, which brought important experimental literary work to international notice.", "More recently, she has been twice around the world, speaking in five or six languages wherever a radio or a hall was available, to unite Women Against War, and she has made mighty progress.", "In 1950 she sponsored House Resolution 7596, before the United States Congress, a bill which proposed to sell PEACE BONDS instead of \"war\" bonds, and to devote the funds to education, culture and other worthwhile phases of national life. You can guess how far the bill got.", "But Carese is going places in Delphi, and all over the world \"mundialization\" has set in. She herself has mondialized villages in Italy, France and Greece, and other World Citizens have done the same elsewhere.", "If you think the movement is not very significant, not very widespread, not very popular, let this quotation from the Economic Council Letter disabuse you. Douglas Reed, writing in Letter No. 312, June 1, 1953 old style, (Copyright 1953, National Economic Council, Inc.) has this to say: \"World Government is today's phrase, as \"National Socialism\" and \"Communism\" were yesterday's ... (How do you like those for semantics?) ... This will not appear a \"crackpot\" or \"screwball\" scheme to any who consider that it has in forty years grown from something very small to its present shape of advanced realization ... The One Worlders, I estimate, need more vigilantly to be watched than even the Communists; and home defense in the West needs to be directed against them even more than against bombs.\"", "Obviously Douglas Reed is worried!", "## SUPPLEMENTING \"SAUCERS\"", "Follows here, further notices of \"meteors\" to supplement and continue the list begun on p. 206, of DOUBT #40. None of the following uses the terms \"saucer\" or \"disk\".", "1938, Sept. 1. Los Angeles, Calif. observed by MFS Markham.", "1949, Oct. 26, over New York-Pennsylvania.", "1950, July 24, Blackhall Colliery, England. Fireball struck chimney, threw a woman several feet. Described as a \"blue ball of flame.\"", "1950, Aug. 8. L.A. to San Diego, Calif.", "1950, Sept. 20, South of St. Louis, Mo. (\"Exploded over Memphis\")", "1950, Sept. 21. Wyoming and Colorado.", "1950, Oct. 4. Paducah, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., Crawfordsville, Ind., St. Louis, Mo.", "1950, Dec. 13. Meteorite came through roof of car, St. Louis, Mo. Called the first meteorite found there in 25 years.", "1952, June 2, Vancouver, B.C.", "1952, Nov. 13, over British Cameroons, from Yola to Bansa, which is 250 miles.", "1952, Nov. 24, Berwick, England. \"Ball of fire rolling uphill.\"", "1953, Jan. 4, over San Francisco.", "## THIRD DIVISION", "Completing the PICTURE OF THE NEWSPAPERS for the time period covered by the \"saucer\" report in DOUBT #40, here are the celestial phenomena noticed which were called neither \"saucers\" nor \"meteors\" but went largely unidentified.", "1947 = 17 FS", "Nov. 19, over Manitoba, called \"a balloon\".", "1948 = 18 FS", "Feb. 19, over Norton, Kans. \"ball of fire exploded\".", "Feb. 22, Arcadia, Calif. Flash of light and roar.", "July 25, in a Glasgow, Scot. paper, said \"wingless air monster\" seen over Montgomery, Ala.", "Aug. 24, Sweden, \"sky octopus\".", "Dec. 13, off Berwick, England. \"three distress flares\"—nothing found.", "1949 = 19 FS", "Feb. 1, Tiverton, Devon. \"blue-green ball of fire\". April 7, Indianapolis, Ind. \"ball of fire\"—left \"about a ton of black material that has a glassy sheen and is so hard it resists a blow torch and the hardest drill\"—in a back yard. The Indianapolis Star put forward its \"own astronomer\", whom it does not name, who denied that the light was seen or that the stuff fell.", "MFS Setty, of Indianapolis, made a personal investigation and sent us a sample of the material. He cites Mr. Elmsley Johnson, an astronomer, who calls it \"glass slag\". and the Fairmount Glass works, which says it is not glass slag. Damned if I know what it is.", "April 8, Seattle, Ball of fire.", "July 22, Chattanooga, Tenn. Bright object burst into three.", "Oct. 14, Buffalo-Toronto area. \"blinding bluish white blaze of light\".", "Oct. 24, Hymers, Ont. Streak of fire \"performed a loop\".", "Oct. 26, Buffalo, N. Y. Ball of fire.", "Oct. 31, Burbank, Calif. \"weird, comet-like aircraft\".", "Nov. 15, St. Martin, England. \"cloud of smoke descended into the sea\".", "Dec. 12, Victoria, B. C. \"pencil shaped object\".", "Dec. 29, Hamlet, N. C. \"silver sphere\" pursued by pilot.", "Dec. 30, Centerville, Iowa. Long white streak.", "1950 = 20 FS", {"bbox": [1133,

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it is. Document #3142. $3.96 on microfilm."

18 FS. He recommended to the attention of all Fortean the book, *The Wicked Book of Brother Barnabas*, pub'd by Richard R. Smith, N. Y. 1940.

18 FS. He wrote:

"Propound this paradox to the pundits.

"Hydrogen or Helium = Matter

"Matter falls to Earth by Gravity (sic)

"Why do balloons rise against the pull (sic) of Gravity?

"Is the gaseous layer of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide, Argon, Helium, etc. held on the Earth's Surface by Gravity?

"Hunh? Why do balloons filled with Hydrogen and/or Helium defy (?) Gravity (?)

"Ain't Science wonderful? Newton: Einstein: etc.??

"And Time: duration or sequence?

"How God must laugh."

18 FS. Possible influence of cosmic energy cycles on growth, reprinted from *Federation Proceedings*.

Data, mostly from the magazine, *Science*, came in a steady flow, with cryptic critical comment in Hammett's hand in the margins. He was especially amused by Science's new "atomic" and "radiocarbon" clocks and measurements of age.

In September, 21 FS, he wrote:

"Van Bush said on March of Time via John Daly (recently) that Hitler cornered all the heavy water (Deeferim oxide).

"A falsie for we had 10 men here from Norway to see what it did to growth in 1939.

"We—meaning Harry Barbour (Yale Arc) and me.

"Van Bush: Compton: A. N. Richards said my plan (in 1944) to isolate, identify, investigate the cancer producing milk factor (transmissible agent of Bittner) was impractical. Thus possible help delayed for years. Since such study requires a team of integrated workers, ain't science (scientists) wonderful. No integrated work on this lead being done yet, 15 years after discovery."

Cancer was the cause of Hammett's death.

For the delectation of his shade, this datum, from Mitchell: The Washington Academy of Sciences picked (3-14-53) Dr. Harold Lyons to receive its annual award. Dr. Lyons has "rigged a clock mechanism geared to the vibration of atoms, which never vary... accurate to within one part in 10,000,000,000."

## FORTEANA ca 1500 BC

Proudly we present the first Egyptian hieroglyph as translated (transcribed) by Boris de Rachewiltz, as promised. Boris writes:

"I send you some of the promised Fortean hieroglyphs, which I hope will interest you. Others of the same kind will soon follow.

"The transcription I send is from an original papyrus of the New Kingdom that I found among other papers and documents of the late Prof. Alberto Tulli, former Director of the Egyptian Vatican Museum. He brought those documents from Egypt, but his death left them untranslated and unpublished. It is due to the courtesy of his brother, Mons. Gustavo, of the Vatican Archive that I had the opportunity to translate them.

"The present transcription is a part of the Royal Annals of the times of Thuthmosis III (1504-1450 circa b.c.) and the original is in very bad condition. The beginning and the end are missing, its writing (in hieratic) is pale and with several lacunae that I have reproduced in my Hyeroatlitic transcription with progressive numbers. A little comment will follow my translation. Of the whole papyrus (cm. 20 x 18) I have chosen the best preserved and perhaps the most interesting part. But it is up to you to judge it. And now, the

## TRANSLATION

"In the year 22, third month of winter, sixth hour of the day (...2...). The scribas of the House of Life found it was a circle of fire that was coming in the sky. (Though) it had no head, the breath of its mouth (had) a foul odour. Its body 1 "rod" long and 1 "rod" large. It had no voice. Their hearts become confused through it: then they laid themselves on their bellies (...3...). They went to the King ...?) to report it. His Majesty ordered (...4...). has been examined (...5...). as to all which is written in the papyrus-rolls of the House of Life His Majesty was meditating upon what happened. Now, after some days had passed over those things, Lo! they were more numerous than anything. They were shining in the sky more than the sun to the limits of the four supports of heaven. (...6...). Powerful was the position of the fire circles. The army of the king looked on and His Majesty was in the midst of it. It was after supper. Thereupon they (i.e. the fire circles) went up higher directed to South. Fishes and volatiles fell down from the sky. (It was) a marvel never occurred since the foundation of this Land! Caused His Majesty to be brought incense to pacify the hearth (...9...). To write?) what happened in the book of the House of Life (...10... to be remembered?) for the Eternity.

"As you can see from it, flying saucers made their first (?) appearance, in the 22nd year of the Reign of Thuthmosis III, i.e. about 3,500 years ago. The first lacuna of the papyrus is the end of another marvel. I think that this papyrus was part of a book preserved in that mysterious institution called House of Life (of which Sir Alan Gardiner has written) that I am actually deeply investigating. In it magic rites were performed and a special group of scribas was trained. And are some of those scribas to notice the first appearance of the fire circle in the sky. Two things have to be noticed: it left after it a foul odour and it was not making any noise. As its measures were of 1 rod i.e. 100 cubits. As a cubit corresponds to about 20.6 inches we might judge that the fire circle was large and long, about 50 meters. During their second appearance they were very numerous and shining, and fishes and volatiles fell down from the sky? And their movement through the sky, from North to South, was regular, and more than that powerful! Therefore the King thought that the best thing to do was to pacify the hearth of Ammon Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Land (i.e. Egypt).

"The numbered lacunae are of course much longer in the original."

## OUR 99 PER CENTER

For some years the name of J. T. Boulton reposed in unassuming quietude upon the Fortean rolls—a sleeper!—a 'possum!—a Tannhauser in Chips' clothing! He fought no duels, he swam no Channels, he sent us no larvae picked up on a windless day, but—as suddenly as the Ides hit March—he burst his chrysalis and now stands at the head of the class, and the phrase is used advisedly. J. T. Boulton is Head Master of the Creighton School, Carlisle, England.

The first intimation we had of our member's double life came from Russell who culled a page of what he called "Boultonisms" from letters. Here they are, and you may well imagine our amazement.

Genius: the highest human approach to common-sense.

Duty: action not creditable in the commission but discreditable in the omission.

How can one have the right to speak unless one is or has been mad? Unless there is a right to speak falsely, there is no right to speak. If there is a duty to speak truly, it is a duty to be dumb. To write these things I cannot but be naive, cannot but be sophisticated—yet true naivete and true sophistication are one. This is no more than to say that Truth is One and contains All. Nevertheless, naivete and sophistication remain different. For the matter of that, neither of them exist—that's why there are names for them. Anything which has a name does not exist. That is why men had to give a name to it: to *give* it an existence for relative use.

From the vantage-point of love one best sees Hell. From the vantage-point of love one best bears Hell. From the vantage-point of Hell one best sees Love—but cannot bear it. The peculiar and distinctive

feature of the denizens of Hell is their alternate rapt attention and rapt inattention to all heavenly matters; of the denizens of Heaven, their capacity for seeing Hell, and bearing it, and loving it.

Either there is Truth and there you are, or there is no Truth. But if the second conclusion stands it must itself be an impregnable Truth. So that whether there is Truth or whether there is not Truth, there is still Truth.

If spiritual problems ever are solved it is by the realization that they do not exist.

To that, the writer added the explosive observation that, "I am one of the few Headmasters, I should imagine, who have read extracts from Fort at Morning Service!"

YS has not been the same man since.

A little later, MFS Boulton sent us a printed program of the doings of the "Creighton School Prefects' Club" on which appeared the announcement that he would address that portion of his faculty who were members of the Club—on the subject of Charles Fort. That was last December. Since then Brother Boulton set himself to import a dozen copies of THE BOOKS into Carlisle, and YS inquired if the purpose was to incorporate Forteanism into the curriculum, to which the Head Master replied, "I have no scheme for working Fort into the school curriculum. The idea is to have copies for (i) School Library, (ii) distribution to members of top form for reading during their last year ... I rather feel that Fort would not insist on anything further, and might even agree that once he was imprisoned in a curriculum, that would be the beginning of the end!"

Since that is exactly what Fort would have said, the pro-Boulton data keep piling up.

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Besides recommending good books, the Head Master contributes Fortean articles to the Carlisle Journal and other papers, stirring up lively correspondence and controversy upon Fortean topics, and in every other way comports himself in a 99 per cent Fortean manner, a magnificent example to us all.

His most-to-be-copied practice—which YS recommends with all his heart—is the finding of data in books instead of daily papers.

With the following choice selections this introduction to Head Master Boulton closes, but you will hear more of him, much more.

The anomaly of a Fortean viewpoint in the work of Chesterton is exemplified by this quote from *The Everlasting Man*:

> "Professors and Prehistoric Men . . . He produces his little bone, or little collection of bones, and deduces the most marvellous things from it. He found in Java a part of a skull, seeming by its contour to be smaller than the human. Somewhere near it he found an upright thigh-bone, and in the same scattered fashion some teeth that were not human. If they all form part of one creature, which is doubtful, our conception of the creature would be almost equally doubtful. But the effect on popular science was to produce a complete and even complex figure, finished down to the last detail of hair and habits. He was given a name as if he were an ordinary historical character. People talked of Pithecanthropus as of Pitt or Fox or Napoleon. Popular histories published portraits of him like the portraits of Charles the First and George the Fourth. A detailed drawing was reproduced, carefully shaded to show that the very hairs of his head were all numbered. No un-informed person looking at its carefully lined face and wistful eyes would imagine for a moment that this was the portrait of a thigh-bone; or of a few teeth and a fragment of a cranium."

From Commander Campbell's *Scrapbook*, a volume about a thousand things. The book has occasional mild affinities with Lieut.-Commander R. T. Gould's books. Campbell (who is mentioned once in "Doubt") was a Brains-Truster along with Gould.

> "During my five years as a member of the B.B.C. Brains Trust I met nearly every British Scientist of repute. And I came to the conclusion that old Omar Khayyam, the poet, knew what he was talking about, for while I heard 'great argument' I nearly always 'came out by the same door wherein I went'. The predominant impression was that these men of learning seemed to rely on what someone else had said. Sir James Jeans said this; Dr. Bragg said that; Sir Arthur Keith or Sir Arthur Eddington emphasized something or other. It would appear that in their minds there was no room for freedom of thought. For my own part I was glad not to be hampered with all this knowledge, for at any rate I did think things out for myself, and my views were not coloured by statements made by great men.

> "The reason I put forward this criticism is that science makes a complete volte face every few years! It amounts to this, that there is dogma in science just as, unfortunately, there is in religion. If you are a scholar you will get the current doga thrust upon you, but if you are what I might call a freelance, you will be entitled to think out your own scheme of things. This may take you a long way and give you deep satisfaction, even though the professional scientists may label you an ignoramus. It's very possible that was the designation I got in those conclaves!"

Someone, I feel sure, must have already pointed out to Forteans the following lovely passage from Ambrose Bierce's story 'The Baby Tramp' *Can Such Things Be?* (It is very pleasant to think of this 'rapport' between Bierce and Fort!):—" . . . even in Blackburg, where things certainly did occur that were a good deal out of the common. For example, ten or twelve years before, a shower of small frogs had fallen, as is credibly attested by a contemporaneous chronicle, the record concluding with a somewhat obscure statement to the effect that the chronicler considered it good growing-weather for Frenchmen.

> "Some years later Blackburg had a fall of crimson snow: it is cold in Blackburg when winter is on, and the snows are frequent and deep. There can be no doubt of it — the snow in this instance was of the colour of blood and melted into water of the same hue, if water it was, not blood. The phenomena had attracted wide attention, and science had as many explanations as there were scientists who knew nothing about it. But the men of Blackburg — men who for many years had lived right there where the red snow fell, and might be supposed to know a good deal about the matter — shook their heads and said something would come of it.

> "And something did, for the next summer . . . " etc.

## OUR NEW HON. FOUNDER

The Founders of the Fortean Society numbered eleven, on that fateful January 26, 1931, which marked the beginning of the Fortean Era, and the practice has been to keep that number always the same by electing an Honorary Founder to the place vacated by one of the original Founders, or by one of their successors, as occasion arose.

Four of the original eleven have died in the past twenty-two years, and two of the Honorary Founders

also. Whenever the sad necessity occurs to replace one of our confirmed rebellious spirits we study the rolls of the members and the Accepted Fellows with all the diligence and conscience we can bring to the task, seeking to strengthen the Fortean position, at the least, by replacing the qualities we have lost and, if possible, enhancing them.

It is not always possible or even desirable to replace a writer with a writer, or a sailor with a sailor: the woods is as full of writers as the sea is full of serpents, anyway: but when we lost Frederick S. Hammett, the living bridge between Forteanism and capital "S" Science, our foot-in-the-door of Orthodoxy, it certainly was behoofal upon us to find a proper man of science to fill his place if we could.

You will agree, one feels sure, that the aptness of our selection could not be neater, and that the Society is to be congratulated upon the new Founder's acceptance. The new HFPS is Anton Julius Carlson, to whom no further scientific or academical honors, beyond those he has already received, could possibly befall. Now that he has the blessing of the Damned as well, he is indeed a complete man.

This is Dr. Carlson's list of achievements and associations.

A. B. Augustana College, 1898

A. M. Augustana College, 1899

Ph. D. Stanford University, 1902

Research Associate, Carnegie Institution, 1903-1904

National Research Council

Department of Physiology, University of Chicago 1904-1940, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor of Physiology (Emeritus).

**Member:** National Academy of Science
American Medical Association
American Physiological Society
American Institute of Nutrition
American Institute of Chemists, etc.

**Past President:**
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Biological Society
American Physiological Society
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Institute of Medicine
American Association of University Professors, etc.

**President:**
National Society for Medical Research
Chicago Committee on Alcoholism
Gerontological Society, Etc.

**Member:** Medical and Research Committee of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis; National Research Council, etc.

**Consultant:**
U.S. Food and Drug Administration; U. S. Public Health Service; O.S.R.D. Lt. Col. Med. Corps, U.S. Army, 1917-1919.

**Member:** Biological and Medical Societies of France, Germany, Sweden, China, and Argentina. American Relief Administration in Europe 1918-19. Lecturer in China in 1935, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation Member, the International Congresses of Physiology in Vienna (1909); Croninge (1913); Edinburgh (1923); Stockholm (1927); Boston (1930); Leningrad and Moscow (1935); Liege and Copenhagen (1950).

Honorary Degrees of M.D., L.L.D., Sc.D., from eight universities and colleges, U.S.A., and Europe; Distinguished Service Medal and Citation, American Medical Association.

**Published:**

Two books: (1) Control of Hunger in Health and Disease.

(2) The Machinery of the Body, and some of 200 research reports.

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FIRST PRIZE

It's that man Mitchell again, with this, from the
N.Y. News, 11-23-52 old style. The Vancouver, B.C.,
Sun wanted to know if any of its readers cared
what was going on in Korea. The ed ran the same
news story verbatim on the front page of his paper
two days in a row and not one reader wrote to
him or called him up about it.

Second place to MFS Sharpless:

In the year 19FS, an amateur astronomer, God-
fried Bueren, in Osnbruck, Germany, ran an ad
in the papers stating that sunspots were "valleys on
the sun's surface which have cooled off enough to
allow vegetation, and consequently the dwelling of
animals and human beings." He offered 25,000
marks to anyone who could prove him wrong.

"Experts" of the Hamburg Astronomy Society submitted their "proof", claimed the money, and when they didn't get it took the case to court. The court accepted their "proof" and ordered Bueren to pay. He is appealing the decision. Philadelphia Inquirer, 5-12-53 old style.

Third place to MFS Clayton, who has been here
before. See the illustration. He writes, "Could this
be referred to as Advertising Cum Laude" (signed)
Jack (Puzzled) Clayton.

The quality of the material among the runners-
up is higher than Mt. Everest, but YS knows you will
top it in time.

Billy Graham, a religious fanatic let loose upon
defenceless enlisted men around Pusan, Korea, was
preaching there at night. "When he called for
sinners to step forward to repent the street lights
failed (SIC) ... and the rest of the meeting was
called off." N.Y. Times, 12-17-52 old style. Cr
Pollard's little flock happily boast that their new
product will rot the bones of entire populations,
make every fetus a monstrosity, and render the
planet uninhabitable "to all higher forms of life".
Some of the rest of us just went to the wrong
Sunday School, I guess.

Analogous is an entry from MFS Steinberg, which
recently been reclassified as "business premises" for
the purpose of determining the rate to be charged
them for electric current. N.Y. Post, June 10, 53 old
style.

Also in vein: the Lutheran church in Harrison,
N.J., where a juke box which plays hymns has been
installed for the deflection of worshippers who visit
the joint when the choir is off duty. Cr Spingola
and Anon. In a photo of the selector printed in

Mechanix Illustrated, Jan. issue, the sex appeal is
added. A good-looking babe has her face against
the thing as her varnished finger nails attempt to
caress Rock of Ages out of it.

MFS Milton Smith found this in the Jan. 7,
Christian Century.

Shortly before Christmas, in St. Stephens Episcopal
Church at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Dr. William G.
Pollard was ordained a deacon in the ministry of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. Dr. Pollard is the
executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of
Nuclear Studies. He will continue in that post, while
serving on Sundays in a church in the community
near Norris Dam. The press reports that from now
on he will run Oak Ridge's research on atomic
energy energy clad in clerical garb, Roman Collar and all.

Smith adds:

Christian Century's editorial spokesman, obviously
a gentleman of the old school and a decent fellow
at heart, proceeds to comment with evident embar-
rassment on the above report. His misgivings will
doubtless be sharpened further by the contents of
today's newspapers. The faithful of the Rev. Dr.
Pollard's little flock happily boast that their new
product will rot the bones of entire populations,
make every fetus a monstrosity, and render the
planet uninhabitable "to all higher forms of life".
Some of the rest of us just went to the wrong
Sunday School, I guess.

In March the Vatican was steamed up by "illicit"
inroads upon its classic racket of conferring orders
and decorations "usually at a price". Acto L'Osserva-
tore Romano these are "fraudulent knightly orders"
and the people who pay for them are "victimized".
Cr Mitchell who heads it, "Look Who's Talking!"

The capital of Greenland, Godthaab, and environs
was quarantined 11-22-52 old style because 3 cases
of polio were diagnosed, "the first three cases to
occur in the colony for years". The first three to
occur since US Army dogs began yanking Greenland
tonsils? Cr Mitchell.

An AP dispatch from Seoul, Korea, Jan. 8, stated
that although "influenza is not now a problem in
Korea, every American soldier and airman will be
vaccinated soon".

One week later, Jan. 15, the Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette printed this plea: "There is no influenza
epidemic in Pittsburgh but there is every reason to
believe one is on its way. (No reason given.) So to

play safe, it might be a good idea to consult your
family doctor about a flu shot." Members will recall
that the Post-Gazette is the crusader who tried to
close the Drosnes-Lazenby cancer clinic and failed to
do so. The clinic beat the rap in court and is still
open and helping people.

A boy *ae* 7 died one minute after an "anti-
tetanus" injection, Wilmington, Calif., July 11, 52
old style. Dr. Harry L. Deutsch of the Coroner's
office explained: "While death from this cause is
infrequent, it is not entirely rare." LA Times.

In Victoria, B.C., 12-29-51 old style, "City authori-
ties" were feeding school children "diphtheria im-
munization toxoid" in caramel flavored candy. We
have not heard if any of them survived. Cr. Bristol

In Tacoma, Wash., 2-8-52 old style, the civilian
defense goons were trying to lure locals into the
service by offering to give them uniforms. Cr. Bristol

In New York City's air-raid drill of 12-13-52, a
man was shot by a policeman for refusing to take
shelter. "The slaying took place after (Caesar) Flores
reportedly lunged at the policeman with an eleven-
inch butcher knife." It was then allegedly discovered
that the man was "an ex-convict". "An investigation
of the shooting has been started by Chief Assistant
District Attorney George Tilzer of the Bronx.

In a whirlwind finish, Mitchell adds:

An explosion in Muncie, Ind., where "a quan-
tity of ethylene gas (is) used in ripening bananas."

A quote in Newsweek, 1-12-53 old style, naming
Dr. R.B.H. Gradwohl of the St. Louis Police Lab.
He says — "the common precipitin blood test can't
distinguish between a man and a chimpanzee."

Morton Feldman of the N.Y. Journal-American,
5-17-53 old style, attributed to "juvenile mischief"
the finding of one-ton boulders on the N.Y. Central
R. R. tracks.

Art Bergmann, writing in Newsday, Garden City,
L.I., points out that a scourge of "fuzzbills" — a bug
which is infesting Suffolk County by trillions, as of
5-9-53 old style — is a brand new species, C. T.
Williamson, head of the Mosquito Control Com-
mission admits they are immune to any known
poison, but he calls them "blind mosquitoes" or "com-
mon gnats". Writes Bergmann: "He uses the term
common loosely, because this type of gnat, as far as
is known, has never turned up to torment anyone
before in the world."

Newsday is a pretty good paper, apparently. Its
district office in Lynbrook was set aside 2-2-53 old
style, and a reward of $1,000, is posted for in-
formation leading to arrest and conviction.

Newsweek, 6-1-53 old style, notices that Dr.
Wallace E. Howell, who was paid $100 a day by
the O'Dwyer administration for trying to make rain
is now working for amusement park owners, trying
to stop rain.

In this connection, MFS Elsender sends a datum
from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 10-27-52
old style. Gordon Clauser, a US airman, flew off
Florida to "seed" clouds in an approaching hurri-
cane, hoping to stop it. Neither he nor his place
has been found.

The INS sent this to Hearst papers, 2-21-53 old
style: "The scientist who built the ... first ...
cyclotron disclosed today that United States nuclear
scientists have produced animals which he said are
'new and different' from any known to man.

“Dr. Alexander Ruthven, former president of the

U of Michigan, declined to elaborate about the
strange new animals he mentioned, clamping a
security lid over that phase of atom research." Which
is the easiest out available, these days, eh?

On the other hand, MFS Bonavia sends a datum
Claude E. Shannon of the Bell Telephone Lab told
folk at Case Inst. of Tech., 4-10-53 old style, that
"One of our leading mathematicians, von Neumann,
has set up an abstract model of a certain machine
... (which) will collect parts from its environment
and assemble them to produce a second machine of
the same type, which then starts collecting parts to
start a third machine, and so on ad infinitum."

Many members sent in the 12th moon of Jupiter,
which — like 3 others — revolves the "wrong"
way. MFS Faulkner wrote to the Times about it.
They printed her letter with pointed excursions.

Also from numerous alert came notes upon the
Abominable Snowman, in connection with the sev-
eral assaults upon Mt. Everest. Col. John Hunt,
leader of the British expedition, which has since
reported success, is quoted as "believing" that the
critter is "some undiscovered creature half-way
between ape and man."

FORTEAN JACK-POT

Merely enumerating the Society's world-wide
strides in the past few months must hearten every
sincere Fortean.

In Delphi, Greece, MFS Caresse Crosby puts her
foot down, and raises a symbol we can admire.

In the academic halls of an English public school,
the Head Master, MFS Boulton, makes THE BOOKS
available in quantity to his upper classmen, and
himself addresses the faculty club of the institution
on the subject of Charles Fort.

Here at home — into a breach we might well
have despaired of filling — steps "Ajax" Carlson,
dean of American scientists, winner of more kudos
from his orthodox colleagues than any other living
man, and now, Honorary Founder of the Fortean
Society.

From South Africa comes the acceptance of Fellow-
ship with us from Justice Leo Greenberg of the
Appeal Court, Bloomenfeld, Named Fellow for re-
jecting, as evidence, testimony taken from witnesses
under the influence of one-called "truth" drugs.

These triumphs for the Fortean philosophy, and
the several others noticed elsewhere in this issue
of DOUBT, add up to a pretty total of progress, but
now our cup runneth over. Here is a fall of manna
that will make you turn handsprings.

It is a book — easily the most important book
published since the Fort omnibus, transcending
Korzybski and all the rest in its potentialities and
implications — a MUST book for every Fortean.
It is PRESCRIPTION FOR REBELLION, by Robert
Lindner. The author does not mention Fort or the
Society, but he has put the very essence and epitome
of Forteanism on paper, in a clear, succinct and im-
perative warning to the world that this is the way of
life, the meaning of man, the purpose of existence
and the only hope for civilization.

Dr. Lindner is a psychologist, psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst. His career has taken him from train-
ing under Theodor Reik to the New Jersey Depart-
ment of Institutions, to Post-Graduate School of
Medicine U of Pennsylvania, to the post of Chief of

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the Psychiatric-Psychological division of the Federal Penitentiary, Lewisburg, and on and on.

He has written two other books, but YS had not read them when MFS Wheeler said: "Hold onto your hat — and get *Prescription for Rebellion*." Thank You, Brother Wheeler!

Here are a few gleanings:

"This volume is designed to sound an alarm. It aspires to make a diagnosis of a sickness that debilitates our civilization . . . the idea, in a sense characterizing the time, hangs like a pall over the entire world . . . the idea that the best way of life is the way of adjustment . . . Essentially, this concept enjoins men to conform, to adopt an attitude of passivity and a philosophy of resignation. It requires that each of us make such effort as he can to align his thinking, feeling, and acting with situations as they are presented to him; that he recognize and submit to existing 'realities' ordinarily described as inevitable; that he make peace with things as they are; that he perform such actions and engage in such behavior as will result in the adaptation of his self to conditions; and, finally, that he abride all protest not only as vanity but also as harmful."

That is the disease Dr. Lindner sets out to cure, and if that isn't precisely what we've been up to for the past 22 years, if Fortanism isn't the specific indicated, then YS doesn't know his elbow from second-base. But the beauty of this book is that it will reach the pundits we never could get to. It may save a lot of us from pre-frontal lobotomy. It's going to shake the judges on their benches and bring new hope to thousands of human grubs and slugs.

No fooling, here's the physics that will make the Declaration of Independence *work*.

Buy it! Buy two — send them out for Christmas cards.

*Prescription for Rebellion*, by Robert Lindner, from the Society, $3.50.

## RUSSELL'S BEST

Russell reports thus, on a lecture by Professor W. J. Skinner, lecturer in nuclear physics at Liverpool U., "on the subject of atom bombs, past and present, better and better ones in future, estimated areas of destruction, various possible ways of increasing the number of casualties".

Chairman, at end of speech, "Any questions?"

Me, standing up, "How does the professor know he's sane?"

Chairman, sitting down and ostentatiously consulting watch, "This meeting is over."

Elderly spinster, buttonholing me at exit, "I wouldn't be surprised if you're a communist."

Me, sweetly, "I wouldn't be surprised if you're a virgin."

Russell's second-best is a letter he wrote to Named Fellow Clarence H. Wilcoek, mentioned elsewhere in this issue. When he wrote in N.Y.C. informed Wilcoek of his designation, he wrote to Russell to learn more about us, and this was Eric's reply to him:

"You take me by surprise, like a cameraman recording September Morn. I have had no part of what Thayer has done to you — or proposes to do. Your fate is that of anyone recommended by members of the Society as one who has done something to uphold the Religion of Self Respect. Your least consolation is that it will put you in good company.

As for our activities, we are in a perpetual frenzy of bashing top hats, chipping noses on statues, melting models, painting crossed eyes on photos of the eminent, slicing udders from sacred cows and passing water upon dignified processions. Metaphorically speaking, of course. This makes us Very Evil in the opinion of the orthodox. You are trapped by the fact that the virtuous are admitted by the naughty."

Besides those —

Theft of a lie-detector, from the psychology department of Fenn College, Cleveland, Ohio. *Daily Express*, 3-3-53.

Discovery by Rep. George Bender of Ohio, that as of January, 22 FS, the State of Ohio had never been admitted to the Union. *Liverpool Echo*.

A note in that same paper, 12-30-52: "Germans may now send food and clothing to friends in Britain, by arrangement with CARE a non-profit-making organization set up in the United States."

In this connection we have a datum from MFS Blossom, citing statistics on the town of Kaiser-slautern, in French-controlled Germany. The population increased by 15,000 in the first year after the USA started to make the place a military base. "Three hundred German firms are carrying out the development contracts. US GIs are spending a million dollars a month in the town and the shops are taking in twice as much money as ever before. Twenty-five new stores have opened and three night clubs have been started. One in every 20 inhabitants now drives his own car." *Peace News*.

A headline in the Manchester *Guardian*, 2-6-53. GERMAN AIR-CREWS TO TRAIN HERE

From the *Daily Express*, 12-24-52. The Japanese Foreign Ministry announced that the USA was "lending" Japan the nucleus of a navy, 18 frigates and 50 large landing ships. YS does not know if that was printed in USA papers. If it was, no local member sent it in.

The *Echo*, godluver:

The Federal Investigator for the General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C. told a House committee that US Army officers' homes in Germany were equipped with seven types of glasses — for beer, champagne, cocktails, liquors, and three sorts of wine. Also each home had (or was listed as having) three ham-slicers. No matter how thin — etc!

The Little Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, has abolished admission charges. Patrons pay "whatever you think the show was worth."

Three years ago a Manchester woman was told to go to a hospital for an operation "as quickly as possible". March 24, 1953 old style, she was informed by the hospital that her bed was ready.

A "baby" powder made in Bordeaux, France, is blamed for making 752 children very ill and killing 152, perhaps 50 more. It contained arsenic. The maker was to go on trial for manslaughter, as of 12-2-53.

A tenor singing *Rigoletto* at Covent Garden swallowed his false moustache, but finished the performance. *Echo* 1-1-53.

Thomas Mann, quoted from Vienna, stated that "American democracy is restricting personal freedom and freedom of speech . . . He confirmed reports that he probably would stay for the rest of his life in Europe."

That bubble business reported in DOUBT #39, p. 185, SUDS IN SUSSEX, has now expanded to

six English rivers. Most of it is attributed to the use of synthetic detergents, but one paper mill is still on the pan. We'll watch it, aided by Simpson, Geel, Elsender, Evans and other Forteans the sun never sets upon.

## WE MOURN

Although overshadowed by the death of the Honorary Founder, the losses to Fortanism in the past few months have been especially severe.

Named Fellow Clarence Harry Wilcock, named in the year 21 FS, for refusing to carry an "identity card", was informed of his designation. He replied, "Eric Russell, asking to see the BOOKS. A copy was sent to him, but before he could acknowledge receipt, perhaps before it was delivered, the fighting Yorkshireman had dropped dead at a political debate, Dec. 12, old style."

Since his acceptance of the Fortean honor cannot be assumed, Clarence H. Wilcock will remain Named Fellow, 21 FS.

In Gainesville, Florida, last summer, while YS was on his mission to the Christians of Ireland and Rome, Life Member Guy F. Rogers died. His life-long rebellion entered every phase of existence and his indefatigable pamphleteering and correspondence must forever remain an inspiration to men who would become individuals in spite of all the forces ranked against us. His work will be carried on by his widow, Neil Rogers, no less tireless than he. Read their book—*The Medical Mischief You Say!* — from the Society, $1.00.

In Germany, at Oberkirch (Baden), Dr. Ernst Philipp Barthel died, February, 23 FS. The obstacle of languages prevented the Society as a whole from properly appreciating the independent thought which has marked Barthel's work, but we shall continue to publish pertinent high spots from it, from time to time as they are appropos. We have now in hand short papers from him on—*New Astronomy*, critical of DOUBT #26, *Velocity of Light—a Superstition*, *Three Geometrical Foundations of Astronomy*, *The Three Rotations of the Earth*—with reference to the Drayton problem, *Right and Wrong in Koresh-Neu-pert's "Geokosmos"*.

Frahe Hede Barthel, the widow of the philosopher and physicist, has accepted Honorary Life Membership with us.

Non-member correspondents of marked Fortean tendencies—good rebels all—whose work will continue the battle for them now that they are gone—

C. G. Patterson, editor and publisher of *Free Mind*, a rationalist publication.

Benedetto Croce, whose books were banned by the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church, 1932 old style.

Theodore Schroeder, the attorney-philosopher of Cyril Edwin Mithcinson Joad, head of the Philosophy Department, University of London, best known for his newspaper columns and his work on the BBC as a Brains Truster.

## NEW BOOKS

The past six months has been more fruitful of readable Fortean books than any like period within memory. As you must observe, our space is limited, but as many outstanding titles as possible will be noticed, either here or in the next issue.

After PRESCRIPTION FOR REBELLION, which you simply must read and own and give away for

gifts upon every possible occasion, comes — at long last —

THE BEST OF OLAF STAPLEDON.

Hardly any Forteans will need to be told who Stapleton was, or how eagerly American readers have been seeking any of his work they could find, for lo! these many years. Now you may have the five novels which made him famous, all in one set of covers.

LAST AND FIRST MEN, STAR MAKER, SIRIUS, ODD JOHN, THE FLAMES.

All five in one volume, from The Society — $5.00.

For the information of members who went through the long-wait with us while the Fort omnibus was being indexed and assembled, we whisper that the same man has been instrumental this time in seeing the work accomplished. His name is William Sloane, Honorary Life Member Fortean Society.

## WHOM DO YOU KNOW?

We have not read the text of the McCarran Immigration Act, but suggest that Forteans who are learned in the law take a good look at it. Our curiosity is aroused by the question a reporter put to Winston Churchill the first time he arrived in the USA after the Act became law.

The reporter, acto the N.Y. *Times*, asked the big WC if he had been "screened for pro-Communist, polygamist, or theistic tendencies". The implication is that the Act bars from entry persons who do not worship the god McCarran worships. YS submits that any such statute is *ipso facto* unconstitutional as well as imbecilic.

In Melbourne, Australia, a child entered a poetry contest for juveniles, submitting a verse by Tennyson as original work. It took second prize. Pittsburgh *Press* 4-25-52 old style.

Speaking to the sophomore class at Fordham, a Roman Catholic college, James A. (remember him?) Farley said, "Politics is still the noblest of careers. It is no place for the timid man, and no place for the corrupt and dishonest." Pittsburgh *Post-Gazette*, 4-22-53 old style.

## FALLS

Some few of the following may have been noticed in DOUBT before. Forgive repetitions, please.

"Small black waterbugs" — no comment on weather at the time — fell in Moultrie, Ga., Sept. 20, 1952 old style. *Cr* Barneson.

All the rest are ICE.

AP reported from London, 11-28-50, that many parts of Southern England were being "bombarded" with ice, see DOUBT #32. "Saucers" mentioned.

A piece hit a lady who got off a tram in Tooting, 12-29-50. "This is the fourth time recently that ice has fallen in the borough."

Chunk six inches square through a garage roof in Wandsworth, England, the Friday 12-1-50.

A "large block" — into Bridge-street, Pinner, England, 3-24-51. "No planes had flown over the district."

["222", "Date indecipherable, but, in 22 FS, \"Four pieces\" crashed through a factory roof at Slough, Bucks.", "A chunk 13 inches long, 6 inches wide, followed by smaller particles, narrowly missed a lady and her child, Whittier, Calif., 1-15-53.", "An \"egg-shaped hunk weighing approximately 50 pounds\" fell at about 10:20 a.m., 2-18-53, Freeport, L.I. Smashed a man's rose trellis. Although he had heard a plane \"an instant before\", Air Force officers said an ice lump that size could not have formed on a plane.", "In April, the Thurs before the 25th, old style, a boy *ae* 5 ate two or three hailstones the size of golf-balls, in San Antonio, Texas. He died in convulsions. A married woman bit into one and vomited. Samples were sent to the State lab in Austin. \"There was widespread speculation that . . . (they) were impregnated with atomic gas or dust from explosion tests in the desert near Las Vegas, Nevada.\" Dallas *News*, credit Bennett.", "Later, an autopsy upon the boy \"mystified\" the medics examining. They sent the stomach contents to Austin.", "A San Antonio meteorologist \"who refused to identify himself\" said that there was \"nothing to this business of bitter hailstones\".", "Ward W. Kelley, called a geophysicist (for 20 years), tested hailstones from the same storm by wrapping them in photographic film, \"no radioactivity,\" said he.", "Austin lab said that a \"routine poison analysis\" would be made on the samples sent them. You wouldn't expect a Texan chemist-cop to defy the Atomic Energy Commission would you?", "One Clifford J. Soderstrom, Wilmette, Ill., read about the case and sent \"some lavender specks\" to Texas. The specks were said to have fallen at Wilmette, in hail, in an \"unusual storm\" about April 18. The San Antonio police laboratory planned a \"cursory\" check of the specks. The quotes on \"cursory\" are in the UP story as printed in the *Amarillo Daily News*, 4-29-53.", "We have no more data about the little boy in San Antonio. Texas is so big, and the child was so Mexican.", "4-29-53, YS observed the air in the vicinity of Third Avenue, between 42nd Street and 54th, to contain many floating strands of what appeared to be grass ash. This was about 6:00 p.m., sky clear, no great wind velocity. The fall had been going on some time because the sidewalks were fairly covered with the stuff. Not solidly covered, but one crushed a bit of it at each ordinary stride. It was so light and fragile that capturing a sample was difficult. A bit of it remains (pulverized). Does any Fortean chemist think he can tell what it was?", "May 15, a man in Ightham, Kent, England, heard a sizz at dusk, and found a 20 oz lump of ice on the ground. A plane had been overhauled just before, and the ice was pale brown, still the geef tasted it! \"Like weak coffee,\" he said. Cr non-member Graham,", "Then came the avalanche — and as we go to press the data is still coming in.", "\"About 50 huge blocks of ice fell\" on cars and car-lots in Long Beach, Calif., the afternoon of June 4. Some were 3 to 4 feet long and damaged autos", "badly. The fall continued for 2 minutes. As one observer observed, if so much ice fell from a plane it would be strewn over a broad area, unless the plane was a helicopter working for Knickerbocker.", "Chunks weighing 25 pounds were picked up, but the larger pieces which shattered were estimated to have weighed 300 pounds or more.", "Vapor trails, as from jets, were seen, reported by MFS Brown.", "Ever see a jet stand still in the air for 2 minutes?", "Ray Miller, writing on the ice-fall in the Long Beach *Tribune*, June 17, quoted Charles Fort at length.", "\"Bluish-green phosphorescent snow that nettled and stung the skin\" fell near Dana, Calif., night of April 8. Dana is near Mount Shasta, so the feature writers thought of the Little People rather than bomb-tests. Meteorologists said there may have been some connection but \"Atomic Energy Commission spokesmen were inclined to shrug off the report.\"", "\"Puckered the mouth like alum,\" said eyewitnesses. \"Our skin erupted into little blisters and bled when scratched.\"", "Asked about that, in Washington, D.C., the AEC said, \"There is no record of radioactive 'fallout' from an atomic cloud doing that.\"", "Geiger counters on Long Island \"cicked\" plenty after rain April 7 and 8. Local \"authorities\" — as of April 21 were doing their best to prove that \"the cloud\" from the Nevada test of April 6 had come East (arriving over L.I. in a few hours) instead of snowing blue-green on Shasta.", "April 25, rain of mud over Long Island, left \"fine red dust\" on cars. Geiger counters counted \"less radioactivity to it than was registered the day before.\" Weather men said the dust had flown on cars in the first place. Pilots said they had flown through a \"dust storm\" over southern Michigan. \"The two angles tied up, and the mysterious muddy rain was explained.\"", "MFS Markham draws inferences from an inferior conjunction of Venus.", "May 1. Rain of \"mud\" or \"sand\" in lower Beaver Valley, Penns. Sun afterward, appeared \"as white as snow\".", "May 2, the *Times*: \"reddish sandy dirt\" fell in Times Square, in \"just a trace of rain\" (May 1). Incoming pilots reported the city \"covered by a dull red haze\" — up to 14,000 feet. The wind had been from the SW at a steady 30 to 40 MPH for several days, acto experts. The red dirt came from Texas, said Ernest J. Christie, US Weather Bureau, and Walter Boehner, forecaster, La Guardia Airport.", "May 5. Carnegie Tech analyzed mud which fell on Pittsburgh, found it only slightly radioactive, and the residue from Erie was \"decidedly so.\"", "Credit for the above, and for other data goes to M. Smith, Millar, Borden, Pfaus, Elsender, Bonavia, Gaes, Mealy, Goeller, Bloch, F. McMahon, Herbert, Raven, Page, B. Goldstein, Bennett, Lavender, L. Keating, Beaudoin, Hibbert, Berger, Gee, Steinberg, Clayton, E. S. Anderson, Gochros, Barnes, Sheeley, Sciaky, Wakefield, Fraser, McDougal, Bump, Latta, Emison, Jacobi, Ritchie, Prentice, Evans, Nelle, Markham, Wyckoff, Sharpless, Holzer, Schneller, Patterson.", "223", "# MORE NOTES of\nCHARLES FORT", "The material on this page and the following comes from the MSS notes of Charles Fort. The notes begin with the year 1800 AD, and we are printing them chronologically, transcribed to the best of our ability. As you have observed from the several we have reproduced in facsimile—life size—the handwriting is difficult, to say the least; many are written in symbols and code, a personal shorthand. Each date is on a separate scrap of paper. They fill 32 boxes. The boxes are in two series, one numbered, one identified by letters of the alphabet. The numbered boxes contain records of non-human phenomena, the others, records of persons. It is our device to alternate the two series so that the printed record is chronologically consecutive.", "The letters BA refer to Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which many US libraries have. The numerals, such as '11 or '64 etc., in connection with BA sometimes refer to volume number, sometimes to year. In applying for this material at your public library, mention that to the attendant and you should have no difficulty.", "Back numbers of DOUBT contain all the notes to the point where we begin below. Subsequent issues will continue them until the 32 boxes are printed.", "## 1866\n### BOX 3 (Continued)", "Mar 22 8:45 PM / Kirkwall, Scotland / met & loud report B Assoc 66/19 See Feb 22, 1867 67-430", "23", "LT p 5", "24", "LT p 10", "Volc Santorin", "Mar 9 LT p 12", "Feb 26 Sun spot", "27 Cor writes in Sci. Sos., 2-94 from Wonston, Hampshire of a large black patch on the sun. Seen at rising and setting of the sun. So extraordinary that passengers of an early morning train opened windows to look out at it, he was told.", "28 Karnter / dust fall of It met 1/39 Quake there May 12, 1867 Z M 2/281", "Mar 1 dust fall Rome Zut Met 5/187", "", "1 Reddish rain or rain charged with reddish dust at Rome La Sci Pour Tous 15-126\n4 9:38 AM Crossed S E part of Australia great Met. BA 66-127", "Mar 5", "", "May 23 Fireballs R J. Jan 1, 1866 Vol I", "June 20", "", "Aug 15", "", "Sept 6", "### Box A (Resumed)", "Mar 7 Mysterious attack in Brooklyn N Y Times (Ed)", "### Box 3 (Resumed)", "9 Shocks Norway La Sci Pour Tous 12-167", "11 12:20 AM / Lubbecke / Great det met BA 66-128", "", "15 11:50 PM Meteor size of Moon BA 66", "19 LT p 9 Supposed quake", "Mar 19 B. rain B. Ayres Field May 5, 1866 Ab. 5 PM Clouds in S W and then sudden darkness \"total darkness—strong wind. Mud, or a rain that was simply mud fell.", "19 Dust. Buenos Ayres. N. Y. Herald May 20, p 11 \"Most terrific phenomenon ever known in that or perhaps any other country (frm B. Ayres Standard) indications storm and then sudden darkness. Darkness so intense that people in streets stood where they were. 5:10 PM high wind dust and inky rain. One man in terror committed suicide. Darkness by masses of dust clouds.", "", "20 LT p 4. Quake at sea.", "Apr 12 4 AM / S. Wales met. BA 68-346", "11 Volipi South Lanara, India F", "20 No metes listed in BA 66.", "21 4 AM near Hoshangabad, Central India, Met train various shapes fifteen minutes Allahabad Pioneer May 14, p 3", "29 London, Sudden drop of 14 degrees of thermometer LT May 2, p 10.", "", "", "", "", "", "### Box A (Resumed)", "May Remarkable number fires U. S.", "### Box 3 (Resumed)", "May 2 Cor. 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