THE EDITOR FINDS The Study of Spontaneous Talk a fascinating experience. How infrequently does the opportunity arise to witness from almost the very beginning the exploration of a true scientific terra incognita! And when this unknown is so familiar in a fragmentary and intensely personal way, the fascination is surely enhanced. The authors describe their data as "at once rare and complicated," and comment that this "precluded the formulation of hypotheses at the outset." They liken their problem to that of "going forth to see what a jungle consists of" rather than "making one's way through a jungle to find a particular village." We have here, then, a record of the stream of discovery paralleling the specific study of the stream of talk.

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