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Table of Contents

In This Issue

Letters

Features:

The San Andreas Fault
Its significance in California's past and future.
by Clarence R. Allen

Faculty Portrait
Robert F. Bacher, professor of physics, and chairman of the division of physics, mathematics and astronomy

Brain Mechanisms in Behavior
Some experimental observations in the workings of that baffling mechanism—the brain.
by R. W. Sperry

The Next Hundred Years...II
As population increases, the need to obtain more food becomes more pressing. A noted plant physiologist considers some of the ways we might increase our food supply
by Harrison Brown, James Bonner and John Weir

Campus News:

The Month at Caltech

Alumni News

Personals

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