L. FIELD, California Institute of Technology: Noise generation in plasmas. J. W. DuGEY, Pennsylvania State University: The neutral point theory of solar flares .* The mechanism for the acceleration of charged particles to high energies is explained. This occurs in a "discharge," which is a thin sheet of very lrge electrical current density. It is shown that discharges will occur in the neighborhood of neutral points but not elsewhere. Only very rough numerical