The article THALASSA: A THEORY OF GENITALITY in this issue is the first instalment of the translation of Sándor Ferenczi's Versuch einer Genitaltheorie by Dr. Henry Alden Bunker, Jr., of New York. Shortly before his death in Budapest on May 22, 1933, Dr. Ferenczi authorized the QUARTERLY to publish a translation of this work in instalments and subsequently in monograph form, and entrusted Mrs. Alfred V. de Forest of New York with the reading of the translation. The editorial board is indebted to Mrs. de Forest for her valuable assistance. Through the kind coöperation of Dr. Sandor Rado it has been possible to include in the translation several emendations which the author incorporated in the Hungarian translation of the Genitaltheorie published in 1928.