annotations by threemen, who may have been gypsies, hoaxters, or space people living among men. Castelnau-Barbarens,oar, physics at the University of Michigan, though it does not state whether on nothe was awarded the actual degree. In the academic business, usually the thesis is the thing that comeslast, and is the final step in the awarding of the doctorate degree. Sometimes these doctoral candidatesare deferentially called “Doctor” by their associates, though it cannot be used officially by them. Thiswould seem to be the case of Jessup, who was often addressed as “Dr. Jessup”, but who never used thetitle in correspondence, nor on the covers or title pages of his four books. Very likely Jessup was neveractually awarded the degree.Apparently, his thesis consisted of a report on his research program which (again according tothe book jacket) resulted in several thousand discoveries of physical double-stars “which are nowcatalogued in the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society of London”.The short biography