reported during the past two decades would indicate that it is uncommon, although earlier writers believed that it formed about 10 per cent of malignant neoplasms. In Havens and Parkhill's 1 studies of laryngeal tumors observed at the Mayo Clinic for a period of thirty years, the ratio of sarcoma to carcinoma was 1 to 100. Eleven cases of sarcoma were observed during this period. In a review of malignant tumors of the larynx observed at the Jefferson Hospital since 1930, there were 8 cases of sarcoma and 740 cases of carcinoma, a ratio of 1 to 92. Since Havens and Parkhill's report 7 additional cases of sarcoma of the larynx have been added to the literature, as follows : Baldenweck and Leroux-Robert,2 reticulosarcoma in a woman aged 76 years; Rigby and Holinger,3 fibrosarcoma in a male infant aged 17 days; Gonzalez Loza and his associates,4 fibrosarcoma in a woman aged 28 years ; Ferguson,5 2 cases of fibrosarcoma in men aged 65 and 69 years ; Foster," fibrosarcoma in a man aged 31 years, and Glick,7 rhabdomyomyxosarcoma in a boy aged 10 years.Sarcoma is a disease of adult life and is commoner in men. In the 8 cases which constitute the basis for this report, all patients were Read at the meeting of the Eastern Section of American Laryngological,

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