EDITORIAL 153 



None the less, he told the story over and over again for years 

 afterward to the boys to whom he lectured, as a clever way to keep 

 them in mind of some of the freak features of the globe. 



But the story lost flavor when it was found that the fission 

 theory could not be made to fit the case of the earth and moon 

 {Carnegie Publication No. loy (1909), pp. 77-160; summarized on 

 pp. 127-33 ^^^d 158-60); and it was dropped. We learn, however, 

 that it has broken out again in a new and virulent form in the land 

 that is alleged to have been most queered by the original catas- 

 trophy. 



The Other Dromio 



