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It is not unreasonably maintained that the golden days of Golgi morphology were already numbered by the turn of the century. The great flowering of descriptive histology in the hands of Golgi, Cajal, Van Gehuchten, Lenhossek, Held, Retzius, P. Ramon, and others was the kind of phenomenon which can only occur at one stage in the life of a powerful investigative technique. Once the maximal exploitation of its powers had occurred and “the cream was skimmed”, a more realistic assessment of its role in neurologic research was possible. It could then become part of the technological armamentarium available to all investigators and might expect the continued, if less heralded, utilization it had earned.

On 12 July 1902 Arthur Balfour succeeded his uncle Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister. For a decade at least Balfour had been the heir apparent. But what value the inheritance? A fortnight later the new Ministry- suffered a severe and unexpected by-election reversal at North Leeds. The Unionist majority of 2517 at the general election of 1900 was turned into a deficit of 758, a swing of 13 per cent. ‘One swallow does not make a summer’, cautioned the Liberal Review of Reviews.1 But North Leeds was to prove the harbinger of the Liberals’ Indian summer. For July 1902 marks the beginning of the end of the Unionist hegemony and with it that resurgence of Liberalism that was to characterise the Edwardian age. It is perhaps not inappropriate that Balfour, whom his cousin Lord Hugh Cecil was one day to describe as ‘the most unskilful leader (out of Parlt.) since Wellington’,2 should inherit the Prime Ministership in the very month that the great majority bequeathed him by his uncle began to disintegrate.

The author's studies of the weather maps which characterize Indian Summer weather have led him to recognize a type of pressure distribution which uniformly gives several days of weather commonly called Indian Summer. This pressure distribution was described as a more or less stagnant area of high pressure over the southeastern States and a weak cyclonic area passing slowly down the Saint Lawrence Valley. The resulting winds are light, and the moderate chill of the early morning and evening resulting from a fairly well marked diurnal range of temperature is swept away by the genial warmth of the light southerly winds, and by the strong isolation of the daytime.