Figure i. These large sequoias in the foreground as well as 

 the several pines in the background are organisms. The pines 

 are from fiftj- to one hundred years old while the sequoias are 

 not less than five thousand. When Columbus discovered Ainerica 

 these great trees were taller by far than the pines and even 

 towered above the ordinarv forest when Socrates was propound- 

 ing his famous saying, KNOW THYSELF! Published by the 

 courtesv of the United States National Museum. 



