On March 31, 1949 at the dedication of Wing R Psychiatric Unit of Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, five speeches were made by five men of science. Paul Weiss, Professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago; Homer W. Smith, Professor of Physiology at the New York University College of Medicine; Howard S. Liddell, Professor of Psychobiology at Cornell University; Lawrence S. Kubie, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene at the Yale University School of Medicine; and Clyde Kluckhohn, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard; each outstanding in his aspect of science, treated the subject of Adaptation. They provided the scientific facts and theory of the subject as known in their own fields, modifying these hard facts with their own opinion to suit this occasion.

They each tried to summarize in a brief and lucid fashion how adaptation on differing levels of life was made. It is always interesting to get a scientist to explain his field of study, but too often their scientific methodology