But when last summer the spirit of this new world which has been created by modern science, the spirit of reason, of cooperation, or internationalism, was submerged in the wave of blind nationalism which swept the world back a thousand years towards barbarism, when the crowning glory of science, the objective, impartial search for truth was forgotten, and prejudice and hate alone dictated the words and acts of men, then it was felt necessary to abandon the plans for the RIntgen celebration. But here in America where, let us hope, the spirit and the method of science still find some advocates, it is fitting that on the twentyseventh of March we bring honor and appreciation to the seventy-year-old author of one of the world's greatest discoveries-Conrad Rontgen. R. A. MILLIKAN