

itlBR ARYJW 



FOEEAVOED 



The ultimate cause and nature of life processes 

 is a subject so intensely interesting that no fur- 

 ther argument should be necessary to justify the 

 presentation of this booklet to the public. When 

 it is considered that there is not only a dearth, 

 but a total absence in scientific literature of spe- 

 cific suggestions as to how such processes as 

 growth and reproduction might be explained, it 

 appears that any suggestion which is at all rea- 

 sonable ought to be welcome. Nevertheless, when 

 the spirazine hypothesis was first tendered to the 

 editors of scientific magazines in the summer of 

 1926, it was condemned as being unscientific and 

 contrary to known facts, and was characterized as 

 being only one out of a thousand other equally 

 good guesses, although the author has not yet 

 received from the critics thereof a single sugges- 

 tion as to what some of those other equally good 

 guesses might be. 



Finally after the prospects of obtaining publi- 

 cation through the usual channels seemed hope- 

 less, a number of mimeographed pamphlets were 

 prepared and distributed among those who were 

 known to be interested. An abstract notice of 

 them was recorded in Chemical Abstracts, 22, 

 2584 (July 20, 1928). 



