American newspapers and magazines have been chuckling over claims by the Russian press that Russians invented airplanes, radios and innumerable other mechanical devices. In the official publication, VOKS, circulated by the U. S. S. R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, one Alexander Popovsky1 says that Russian technical thought has often been consulted abroad and insists that the law of conservation of energy, the Voltaic arc, the incandescent lamp, galvanoplastics, Golubitzky's telephone, the radiotelephone, the telegraph and many other Russian discoveries and inventions are all wrongfully ascribed to Germans, Englishmen, Americans and Italians. He asserts that the Giemsa stain was really discovered by the Russian Romanovsky instead of the German Giemsa. He says that the parasite that bears the name of Colonel Leishman was described by a Russian named Borovsky five years earlier than the description by Wright, who gave it the name of Leishmania in honor of