A ScutchingAuthor(s): Eds.Source: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 58, No. 5 (May, 1944), p. 404Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/18079 .

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404 THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY

A Scutching Dr. Alexander F. Skutch has gently remon-

strated our failure to give the scientific names of the birds that played the principal roles in his "Parable for Peacemakers" (The Scientific Monthly, April, 1944). Their names are as fol- lows: The striped flycatcher is Legatus leu- cophaius; the gray-capped flycatcher, Myiozetetes granadensis; and the chipsacheery flycatcher, Myiozetetes similis. The three are members of the family Tyrannidae.-Eds.

Transposition Congratulations on the "new' Scientific Monthly

with only one querulous word. Why continue the annoying habit in the book reviews of indicating the book concerned with a footnote? Everyone has to glance down and back. Since the book is the subject of the review for God 's sake (and mine) put the significant data of title, etc., right at the head of the article.-H. E. Rawlinson.

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Ups and Downs In the January 1944 number there is a very inter-

esting article on the Amazon by Albert F. Kunze in which on page 18 he says " of the newly founded city of Santiago de Guayaquil, situated high among the peaks of the Andes" [italics mine]. The city of Guayaquil has always been practically at sea level, only 30 miles up the Guayas River from the Gulf of Guayaquil, into which it empties.-James Birch Rorer.

Mr. Rorer, who lives in Ecuador, pointed out not only the true location of Guayaquil, but also two other errors to which we previously confessed in this column. We wish that we could send copy to him in advance of publication.-Eds.

Shall We Speak Out? From multiplex experiential fronts We must at times to inner room withdraw And ponder meaning in some hope to see Synthetic bits of universal law.

To oft emerging from that cell to light We bring no message, yet discern the flaw. Upon that page our shadows fell so dark That what we drew but outlined what we saw.

At times the ego merges with the All And lets the light of truth prevail. Then do we feel impelled to sing Or picture nature 's wondrous tale.

In this so strange for those immersed In scientific lore, whose life is spent In analytic test and measurement, Of changing form and planned experiment?

Truth comes in many forms, and beauty too, May peer from graphs and metric formulae. The reach of mind beyond its data soars To make its greatest gains, and we are free To test and seek some more.

Mankind is still emotion geared With hymns of hate and love. Behind the scenes stalk want and fear And over all the crowding sphere The master problem proves.

So therefore build and carve and draw, Deduce, conclude and write as law What seems so clear to you. Fear not to seem beyond the pale For yet no sacred mode prevails To voice a message true.

-John G. Sinclair.

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