Table of Contents

Letters

Books
The World of Science by Jane Werner Watson
Elementary Seismology by Charles F. Richter

Features:

George W. Beadle
Nobel Prizewinner

The Industrial Minerals
They used to be the poor relations of the mining world. Today they look more like the pace-setters.
by Ian Campbell

Caltech's New Seismological Laboratory
A pictorial record.

Plasma—the Fourth State of Matter
by Gary Boyd, '54

Campus News:

The Month at Caltech

Student Life
Frosh, Frenzy and Ferlinghetti
by Joel Yellin, '61

Alumni News

Personals

Lost Alumni