one is quite prepared for his first heading, "Demand for the Abolition of Patents," and is only surprised that the author leaves us in doubt as to whether or not he agrees with it. The heading, "Proposals for Improvement of the Patent System," with which his book concludes, suggests that the anti-trust laws be more vigorously applied, that litigation be expedited and diminished, that patents be better solicited and examined, and that various features of foreign patent practice be adopted. One who is seeking constructive ideas concerning legal or economic aspects of the patent system will find little that is of interest in Mr. Vaughn's book.

Harvard Law Review, Feb. 1926. pp. 413-414.

M. B.

OF GENERAL AND PERSONAL INTEREST.

Mr. Robert W. Wilson, an assistant examiner in Division 21, who was appointed August 20, 1920, from Oregon, resigned February 15, 1926. Mr. Wilson, who was examining Class 19-Fibre Preparation, is going with the firm of Emery, Booth, Janney and Varney in Washington, D. C.

Mr. Aldie R. Greene, an associate examiner in Division 32, resigned February 16, 1926. Mr. Greene was appointed December 1917, from Michigan and he has been examining Class 257, Heat Exchange. He has taken the degree of A. B. from Albion College, Michigan, and the degree of LL. B. from George Washington University. He is going with Mr. Edwin B. H. Tower, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mr. Nathaniel Frucht, appointed February 20, 1920, from New York, resigned February 28, 1926.

Mr.

Frucht was an assistant examiner in Division 46, and had been examining Class 122, Boilers, in that Division. He is going into general patent practice, specializing in patent work involving steam engineering, with offices in this city.

Mr. Paul B. Hunter, an assistant examiner in Division 26, resigned February 28, 1926. Mr. Hunter, who has been examining Class 172, Electricity Generation, and Class 290, Prime Mover Dynamo Plants, was appointed April 1, 1922, from Virginia. He has taken the degree of B. S., Mechanical Engineering, at the Mass. Institute of Technology, and the degree of LL. B. at George Washington University. He is going to practice with a firm of patent attorneys in New York City.

Mr. Millard F. Peake, an associate examiner in Division 37, resigned March 3, 1926. Mr. Peake, who was appointed from the District of Columbia on February 1, 1918, had been examining Class 200, Electricity, Circuit Makers and Breakers. He has the degrees of B. S. and E. E. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and is going with Byrnes, Townsend and Brickenstein in this city.

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COMMENT.

The acting editor spent a great deal of time writing comments, calling attention to important and interesting points in the various articles and making a study of the Report of the Commissioner for the year 1925.

It was, of course, a model piece of work and as he wrote and read what he had written he was pretty well pleased.

Then he undertook to find room for that and the article. Something had to be omitted.

Having been told that articles for the Journal had been