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Editor's Note: 



When planning the Symposium of which this Monograph is a 

 record, it was my wish to have representatives from the three major 

 sciences which, combined, constitute physiology. Physicists, chem- 

 ists, and biologists were each to make their contribution to the 

 structure of matter. But unfortunately a number of those who were 

 the most interested and willing were too far away to attend. This was 

 particularly true of collaborators among physicists and chemists 

 abroad. 



I attempted to reach our colleagues over-seas, but, out of the 

 chaos in present-day Europe, replies from only two of them were 

 received. These two messages are, each in its own way, exceedingly 

 fine. I am very happy to be able to add them here. The one is from 

 Professor Kurt H. Meyer of the Ecole de Chimie, Geneva, Switzer- 

 land, and the other from Professor A. T. Astbury of the Textile 

 Physics Laboratory, The University, Leeds, England. 



The following is a translation of Professor Meyer's German letter, 

 in which I have made but one change, to convert the personal refer- 

 ence to an impersonal one. 



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