For years Hydrology enjoyed the position of being the largest Section in the American Geophysical Union, and we contributed something like 40 % of the scientific papers in theTransactions. It was a rather comfortable arrangement, because we were numerically dominant in a prestige organization.Starting in January of 1959 something strange started to happen. Our familiar gray publication got a new name and a yellow cover, and there were some articles about outer space. This was not objectionable, because outer space had become a very popular subject in the World, and we took a certain amount of pride in being associated with it. As the months went by it became a bit troublesome, because the publication became larger with almost each monthly issue, and it was becoming difficult to find items about hydrology. Some complaints came along later in the year, and these gave rise to a letter from the President of the Section. We were still getting as many papers dealing with hydrology as ever, he said, it was just that there was more of this new material.