Henry Eyring, President-Elect.

"Physical chemistry is everything that is interesting," so replied G. N. Lewis, the distinguished mentor of Henry Eyring at Berkeley, California, when queried about the content of this scientific discipline. If this definition be correct, then one who follows the profession of physical chemistry must be sort of a "pan-scientist," and for this title Henry Eyring is well qualified. It is entirely appropriate that a scientist of this description should lead the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for this organization, by its very title, must be presumed to be engaged in that broad front of truth seeking and truth dissemination which applies no limiting adjectives to describe the word science. Henry Eyring, the man, is as interesting as Henry Eyring, the scientist. He is a product of the 20th century, having been born a few weeks after its beginning in the little pioneering community of Colonia, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, some hundred miles south of the United StatesMexican border and near the Mexican town of Casas Grandes. Colonia, Juarez, had been founded by a colony of U.S. citizens, including all the grandparents of Henry Eyring, who left southern Utah in search of more land which could be used for ranching. Growing up in such a community, young Henry became a youthful "cowpoke." I have seen the broad range on which Henry, as a lad, "rode herd" on unwilling range cattle, and have listened to stories of frustrating, and therefore memorable, occurrences on this range. But this cattle range was not to be involved in Henry's future. In the words of Robert Burns, "The best laid