EDITOR 735 probable, since then the transition to the ground state would be of the M3 type. The half-life of the 620-kev level would then be ^40~2 sec, according to the semiempirical formula of Goldhaber and Sunyar. 5 This would be in contradiction to our coincidence data. Therefore the &\ alternative, shown in Fig. 1, seems to be the most probable.